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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 2d

One thing to take from this is that legacy media’s attempts to win back GOP audiences have utterly failed. If those attempts have also eroded trust among Dems and Independents, then they’re a massive own-goal.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It's like when they say, "equal opportunities, not equal outcomes."

They have no idea how incredibly radical it would be to take that seriously.

Similarly, giving "equal scrutiny" to both parties would *revolutionize* political media. It would be unrecognizable.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

i think the key to understanding a lot of establishment discourse is that basically only the left and liberals are capable of being viewed as subjects capable of judgement which is why GOP rule is essentially treated as a force of nature

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 3d

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza; 40% now say Israel is committing genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I wish the 40% number were higher but this can hardly be dismissed as a tiny fringe of the community.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 6d

Many such cases

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 6d

43% of Democrats (52% of 18-29 voters) say foreign policy and Israel will play a role in their vote in the 2026 primaries. (81% say the economy and healthcare, of course.)

80% want to reduce support for Israel
74% want an arms embargo
72% say it's a genocide
65% want sanctions

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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 6d

Many people in this country seem to believe that you should be able to export as much as you want to the rest of the world but the rest of the world shouldn’t be able to do the same

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Joni Ernst: "Unfortunately, our farmers do need that assistance. They don't like it. They consider it welfare. They want trade, not aid. So we really need to see some of these new markets opening up around the globe ... but if there's anybody that can make a deal, it's President Trump."

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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 6d

I think this supports the conclusions of most of the research in this area, but I do wonder if this changes now that the range of possibilities of what can happen to immigrants in this country has widened under this fascist administration

The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 6d

NEW IN TSQ

Jihye Park and Rene Rocha show that restrictive interior immigration enforcement does not encourage self-deportation among undocumented immigrants and thus functions "less as an empirically grounded policy intervention and more as a form of symbolic politics."

Read more: bit.ly/3KD1OPn

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 10d

The Home Secretary just told people seeking safety "your only route into the UK should be a safe and legal one".
She's right.
Everyone should be able to seek sanctuary safely. But it's her Government that refuses to create safe routes - forcing people to risk dangerous ones.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11d

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11d

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11d

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe I’m helplessly naive here but I think the role of someone like Coates is not to say what seems most likely to get a Democrat elected, but to say what’s true.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12d

I guess my point here is that MAGA has become totally unashamed to admit that they are racist, but somehow the rest of society has become ashamed to call them racist. Which gives them this incredible advantage of being able to express openly racist ideas and never be called on it

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 12d

Ask Matt Walsh what the Founders and the first oh 200 years of America thought about Catholics. Total bigoted dumbass. Shame that Dearborn Michigan sided with him in protest.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16d

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 16d

Just wait: Tylenol's gonna pay Trump $10M, and he's gonna come out next week saying that actually it's Advil that causes autism.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16d

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence

President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 17d

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin

Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 22d

In the end Kirk said so many horrific things Coates couldn’t even fit them in one article

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve had plenty of critiques of the aid industry over the years, including in a forthcoming article in terms of its role in migration. But destroying USAID is one the cruelest and most brutal political acts of my lifetime

Bearing witness to the harm caused by Trump clawing back billions in foreign aid

Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, says the Trump administration has created “waste and inefficiency” through dismantling USAID, the exact opposite of its inten...

www.msnbc.com

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 24d

had a guy tell me on fb that the dude wasn't racist and that all those quotes were 'taken out of context'

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 27d

It is simply false that the left commits more political violence than the right and in fact the opposite is true

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

nij.ojp.gov

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