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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 11h

I hope mainstream news outlets will grow some journalistic spine and not sanewash this sentence, and maybe evven opt to quote directly. My hopes have rarely been realized.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 16h

Once upon a time, right-wing hacks at least TRIED to sound less obviously racist.

billboard @billboard.com · 18h

House Speaker Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Super Bowl Slot a ‘Terrible Decision,’ Offers 82-Year-Old 1980s Country Star As Better Option

House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime booking a 'terrible decision,' suggesting an 82-Year-Old 1980s country act instead.

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슈마리집사 @anari.lostineconomics.com · 1d

빤쭈 벗;은 일등 신문. 화이팅!

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yami @koalkoal.bsky.social · 2d

글쎄 제사준비를 남녀노소가 다같이 한들 제사가 즐겁지는 않을것. 제사 행위 자체가 이미 유통기한이 끝났음. 원래도 일부만 하던 거고.

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 1d

"Not a both sides thing"... because rightwing violence is far more prevalent and deadly, and the pattern makes sense?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!"

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/business/793...

A photo of Bari Weiss over a headline: "Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed"

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

NPR could easily fill a desperately needed public service for trustworthy legacy media, and likely easily meet its own small dollar fundraising goals after having its federal funding pulled, by simply describing things as they are. But instead they choose to do whatever this is.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 1d

매년 할로윈과 크리스마스마다 자기 집 외벽에 엄청난 라이트쇼를 (근처에 라디오로 BGM도 송출) 만드는 한 양덕, 올해 할로윈은 #케데헌 테마로 장식.
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K-Pop Demon Hunter Halloween Projection Mapping Show 2025 | House Light Show Mashup

YouTube video by Jingles On Juniper

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 2d

Rightwing political violence, incited from the very top. Do not let it be framed otherwise.

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 2d

To the millions of Texans who keep voting for the R(eich) party: what the f**k is wrong with you

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 2d

Good summary of what the unhonorable six of the SCoTUS have done so far. Let‘s be real: “unitary executive theory” is fancy talk for “we LOVE autocracy.” Too bad the article doesn’t mention the word Kavanaugh Stop.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse

As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences

www.theguardian.com

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 2d

Insert the words “without presenting evidence, which may amount to war crime“ in the headline and you would have moderately decent journalism.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word

That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

www.inquirer.com

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 3d

This is the organism that is running the US now, controlling a reality TV star in the Presidential seat and backed by other acolytes in the Congress, Supreme Court and media industry. Yes everyone has immature moments in their teens, but this is peak weird.

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 7d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards

Script:

An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang

Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes

mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past

and assembled from all over the world

Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution

to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen

in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light

[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]

WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity

which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen

who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth

[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]

with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around

[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"

in this endless, silent void.

[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]

"… I want a pasty.”

[ends]

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 4d

Dear every journalist ever: a legitimate gov action is characterized by accountability. Unless evidences are provided, what factually remains is just the killing part. In such a case, Hegseth should be covered just like another garden-variety mass shooter.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Breaking News: The U.S. struck another boat in the Caribbean, the U.S. defense secretary said, killing four men he accused of drug running, without offering evidence. He said he directed the strike on President Trump’s orders.

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says

It was the fourth strike in the Trump administration’s legally disputed campaign targeting suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 4d

More of this, for every ethnicity please. Yes, including 'whites.'

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From the illinois community on Reddit: A Citizen of Chicago calls out the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, he goes on to shame him and makes a very powerful point by asking how his ...

Explore this post and more from the illinois community

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 4d

We can fund health care and keep the government running, or we can shut everything down to raise prices on people.

To me, that’s a pretty easy choice.

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 4d

Dear every journalist ever: a legitimate gov action is characterized by accountability. Unless evidences are provided, what factually remains is just the killing part. In such a case, Hegseth should be covered just like another garden-variety mass shooter.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Breaking News: The U.S. struck another boat in the Caribbean, the U.S. defense secretary said, killing four men he accused of drug running, without offering evidence. He said he directed the strike on President Trump’s orders.

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says

It was the fourth strike in the Trump administration’s legally disputed campaign targeting suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 4d

연합뉴스가 이진숙의 언론플레이를 증폭해주는 사이버렉카여서는 안되지 않을까. 실제는 이런 것:

법원은 체포영장 집행의 적법성을 인정하면서도, 조사가 충분히 진행돼 더는 체포상태를 유지할 필요는 없다고 판단했다 (한겨레)
www.hani.co.kr/arti/society...

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Nakho Kim @capcold.bsky.social · 5d

Abuse of power. These people should have their faces printed on posters all across every groceries, restaurants, and every other businesses of good conscience, and should be denied service.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

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