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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

COHEN: “Federal workers earned that pay, and the law makes it clear they’re entitled to it.”

US Rep. Steve Cohen rips into Trump for threatening to withhold back pay from federal employees who are working through the #republicanshutdown

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks, New Yorker

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Academic Anarchy🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 16h

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 15h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 16h

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17h

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then, well, 👇🎯

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3242):

"a cleansing"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Chase Middaugh @chasemiddaugh.bsky.social · 16h

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
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Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18h

What could possibly go wrong, you ask? 🤔

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 22h

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Chase Middaugh @chasemiddaugh.bsky.social · 18h

Two Years After 10/7
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Two Years After 10/7

An illegal military occupation, a yet expanding genocide, and what must happen to ensure peace and justice going forward

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19h

I wrote about Weiss' hypocrisy when it came to @elivalley.bsky.social back in 2019. I think it really says a lot about how little integrity she has. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Not all cases of campus censorship are created equal, apparently.
With so much going on right now in the world, you would think that there'd be less focus on a handful of college students at one campus or another protesting a speaker.
At very least, you might expect that instances of conservatives shutting down progressive speakers would be discussed with the same regularity as those about liberals.
Instead, readers are treated to a full-on case of free speech hypocrisy.
One example of this involves progressive Jewish political cartoonist Eli Valley's recent trip to Stanford University.
Days before his scheduled appearance, the Stanford College Republicans posted flyers around campus containing some of Valley's work alongside clippings from Der Stürmer, a Nazi-era German newspaper known for publishing vicious anti-Semitic propaganda. The group acknowledged that it did this in retaliation because posters for one of their events were covered up by posters of the group sponsoring Valley's appearance.
The groups bringing Valley to campus, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, took some of the blame for the backlash. In an op-ed for The Stanford Daily, the groups apologized for including Valley's work, which is meant to be a grotesque and provocative political criticism, without the proper context. In response, The Stanford Daily published an opposing op-ed comparing Valley's work to the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels, writing, "To apologize for the flyers but insist on continuing with the event is equal parts absurd and appalling."

This seemed like precisely the kind of campus controversy that would grab the attention of Weiss, Stephens, and the rest of conservative media: Here was a student group trying to intimidate a speaker out of appearing on campus as scheduled. On the principles of free speech and academic freedom, taking a stand for Valley seemed to be the obvious call. Instead, Weiss praised the article calling for Valley's cancellation on Twitter, thanking its author.
"Bari Weiss's attempt to get me de-platformed at Stanford, and her smear that my celebration of non-Zionist Jewish culture, politics, and art is tantamount to Nazism, should put an end to the myth that she is interested in a free exchange of ideas," Valley said in a Twitter direct message.
"She is interested [in] silencing the Left and in mainstreaming far-right ideology."
Valley's view of Weiss is in line with her own history of activism and protest against pro-Palestinian Columbia University professors during her time at the school. Far from a proponent of across-the-board freedom of expression, she and the Times' other columnists have been extremely selective about which stories get heard.
The idea that no-platforming and other efforts to control campus speech are tactics carried out primarily by students on the left is almost undoubtedly the result of outlets like the Times' opinion section giving such incidents excessive amounts of coverage -- while essentially ignoring the many examples of conservatives trying to shut out speech they don't like. You're unlikely to read Bret Stephens' take on the efforts of conservative students to use the court system to cancel a panel discussion about Palestinian rights at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. David Brooks isn't likely to weigh

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 19h

Can someone please ask @AGPamBondi if ICE is now staffed by extremists organizations like Proud Boys, 3%ers, and the former Identity Evropa & League of the South. What about those who participated in the January 6th insurrection?

Many people are saying this is true.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19h

will never get over the Washington Post Editorial Board recommending confirming Pam Bondi

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Pam Bondi
Florida's former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

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Chase Middaugh @chasemiddaugh.bsky.social · 19h

Absolute insanity www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas national guard troops arrive in Chicago amid Trump’s crackdown

Military presence comes after judge declined to block troops from entering, following lawsuit filed by city and state

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.

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Chase Middaugh @chasemiddaugh.bsky.social · 20h

Two Years on From Oct. 7, Victims’ Family Members Slam Netanyahu For ‘Prolonging’ the Suffering
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Two Years on From Oct. 7, Victims’ Family Members Slam Netanyahu For ‘Prolonging’ the Suffering

I spoke to two Israeli men who suffered extreme loss on Oct. 7 – and their support for peace and forgiveness moved me.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20h

The aspects of Trumpism where he has the upper hand over his own side's policy-demanders and is able to blow them off when he doesn't want to run political risks on their behalf tend to be under-discussed in progressive circles.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 20h

The president of the United States is either a liar or out of touch with reality. Maybe both?

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 20h

Trump tells Canada’s prime minister that DC was a “raging hellhole” but claims that his crackdown fixed it.

TRUMP: “There is no crime in DC… no one’s being shot.”

There’s evidence that Trump’s crackdown helped curb crime — but it’s not true that it’s gone.

Example: this headline today.

Local Crime & Public Safety
Three people found fatally shot in D.C. in three days
Three youths, one with a gun, took a moped in broad daylight on Capitol Hill.
Today at 2:01 a.m. ET

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20h

Now he’s mad at Fox and claiming approval ratings that don’t exist. Fascinating.

The image is an X post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump
) from today, stating: "Why is FoxNews and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, Healthcare? The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN. It will be very unfair, in the future, when they don't have 'TRUMP' to fight for them. Therefore, we should fix it, NOW! I'm watching this Interview. It just doesn't end. Fox should either get on board, or get off board, NOW, but at this point, it just doesn't make any difference to me. They suck up the Ratings because of us, and then spin them in the Democrats' direction. They refuse to put up Polls that correctly show me at 65% in Popularity, a Republican RECORD, but if I have a fake bad 'Poll,' many of which are done by Fox (One of the worst 'Pollsters' out there is the FoxNews Poll), they put them up immediately, and with gusto. Republicans are so tired of this fight with Fox always trying to be so 'politically correct!' Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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Chase Middaugh @chasemiddaugh.bsky.social · 20h

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me (yet sadly not even remotely surprised) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US supreme court poised to overturn Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’

Ruling in favor of Christian legal group could undermine care and rights for LGBTQ+ youth across the country

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

MAGA: “why didn’t Biden release the files and why didn’t you guys call for it?!”

America: “Because we assumed the justice dept was doing their job. But you all demanded it and now Trump is panicking…. So uh, ya now we def want to know why he’s panicking.”

See? Easy!

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