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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31m

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30m

Not a subscriber, so I can't read this. But I'd be pretty surprised if Madison and Marshall said the president should declare a fake drug emergency to unilaterally impose tariffs, then leverage those tariffs to bully other countries for personal grudges and pressure prize committees to honor him.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 45m

Like many originalist things, a jumbled mess of an essay. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The Supreme Court should listen to the founders on tariffs

James Madison and John Marshall would say Trump’s tariffs are legal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30m

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 40m

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 35m

Two of the three people mentioned in the top headline are right-wing pollsters. I was in middle school chorus with one of them. We wore cummerbunds.

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 49m

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 50m

Opposing fascism is a basic obligation in a free society (and even unfree societies can oppose fascism).

Labelling opposition to fascism "terrorism" is a clear marker of where you stand.

And as the article says, letting this frame stand means giving up effective tools to oppose rising fascism.

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1h

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1h

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 53m

Peter Thiel is such a devoutly unhinged liar that mentally or morally normal human beings have real trouble grasping that he never, ever means a single thing he says, so it's helpful when he throws in one that's so blatant as to give the whole game away www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Screenshot of text:

Thiel had kinder words about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to the recordings, calling the entrepreneur, who has recently praised Christianity, one of the “smarter, more thoughtful people,” he knows.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

Great point here. This is why Stephen Miller goes on Fox News to propagandize. He knows his host won't bother him with niggling facts like these.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1h

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

this really is all just about resentment over obama being given the prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1h

All of this is objectively true. Stopping cancer treatment alone should’ve sent people into the streets. The USAID pullback is global murder. Just because a bunch of stupid Americans debase themselves fawning over a senile fascist doesn’t mean the rest of the world has to play along.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has done more to harm peace and human progress than anyone else this century. He's demonised the world's most vulnerable people, undermined global law & order, waged war on science & medicine and is dismantling his own democracy.

He's in 8,249,937,355th place to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

Why should Fox Business care about Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize? No reason except that Trump wants it and the Fox anchor is deeply committed to him. That’s it.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

The right’s Nobel obsession is useful because it is inexplicable as anything other than trying to make Trump personally happy. 95% of all Trumpworld obsessions have the same root (2020 election, James/Comey) but rarely is it so hard to retcon a justification for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1h

so it goes... another day, another example of elon musk being inexplicably let off the hook for crimes

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars who study America are saying they won’t visit because it’s too risky.

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

www.salon.com

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.bsky.social · 13h

It was a glaring departure even in the moment. Right or wrong, the story of Biden's political career was generally to place himself in the center of wherever the party was moving ideologically. But on I/P, his own worldview was so rigid that he stubbornly stayed the course as the party moved away

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

We talk a lot about AIPAC and “the Israel lobby” but when it came to Israel, Biden had a genuine ideological commitment to the “hug Bibi” strategy even as others in his party didn’t like it.

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 15h

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 3h

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 17h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

No fucking way Ro hitting up the InfoWars guy. Didn't he blame 9/11 on "the Jews"

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 17h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 10h

Ian Carroll is an antisemitic propagandist and Pizzagate believer. Astronomically bad judgment on Ro Khanna's part.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 17h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 10h

This is the man Ro Khanna is platforming discussing Pizzagate on Joe Rogan in March of this year.

Post of Ian Carroll, the guy in the video, discussing Pizzagate in 2025

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