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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 12d

For a very fancy, special occasion lunch in NYC, would you do the Russian Tea Room, or The Modern at MOMA? Or any other suggestions? Libi isn’t on this app so she won’t see.

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 20d

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 20d

I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

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ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 21d

BREAKING:

HUGE ENDORSEMENT FOR ANDREW CUOMO

Woody Allen sitting on a chair. Caption reads

“Yes, I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote for Cuomo”

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 20d

we (left of center pundits) are going to have to live here with one another (conservative pundits), believing what we believe (that we should get paid large sums of money), disagreeing in the ways we disagree (without them sending their rabid horde of followers to kill us).

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 21d

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

X post by Milo Yiannopoulos: "28 pilots have been suspended or fired so far after I made their airlines aware of gruesome remarks made about Charlie Kirk’s death. Of the big three, Delta has the biggest problem by far; United the smallest."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22d

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults:

Cuellar
Davis (NC)
Gillen
Golden
Lee (NV)
Min
Perez
Vindman

Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22d

Liu Bei represents the Democratic establishment, slowly killing the peasants who rely on them for protection in a vain attempt at reestablishing a regime that was already dead anyway.

The person Tarik is talking about is Cao Cao.

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 21d

So I guess American Tik Tok won’t show that stuff anymore and in exchange Trump and his friends get ten billion dollars. Great work.

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 21d

There were a few people on China from the jump, but for every other Democrat, banning Tik Tok only gained any kind of political salience after every teenager in America started seeing videos of Gaza on their phones.

Bibi asked Biden to do it, publicly! And Biden said that’s why he did it, publicly!

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 21d

Conservatives in academia don’t think academia is too liberal. Rather, conservatives see the things that are foundational to academia as liberal themselves.

So, the only way to get liberalism out of the academy is fundamentally change what the academy is, means, and does.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 22d

the impunity with which they rapaciously devour stuff for themselves is well understood. the reaction, however, can't be well since there are no rules anything goes i guess. there have to be rules and one big one needs to be rich fuckers need to stop stealing your shit right now

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Cardboard Revolution Games Co-op @cardboardrevolution.com · 23d

The bulwark is a YouTube channel filled with ex-Republicans and some current Republicans who hate Trump and they are starting to sound more like radical marxists than the pod save Bros.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 23d

only the right wing is allowed to attack its opponents in any way and on any terms they see fit and simultaneously only the right wing is allowed to claim victimhood

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22d

Liu Bei represents the Democratic establishment, slowly killing the peasants who rely on them for protection in a vain attempt at reestablishing a regime that was already dead anyway.

The person Tarik is talking about is Cao Cao.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 22d

the president is clearly mentally going or perhaps even long gone. the bench is a despicable bunch of negative-charisma creeps. the sounds they are making, in the aggregate, do not sound like the sounds people effectively winning make

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 22d

at some point i have to take some small solace in the fact that there seems to be a lot of desperation in the regime. for all the talk of a chicago invasion that's been quietly tabled. they're shrieking about a new crackdown now but it's still true that theyre incompetent and increasingly reviled

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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 22d

"Isn't this all Kayfabe!" Also can't stop thinking of the Ganz tweet:

John Ganz
@lionel _trolling
X.com
left wing intellectuals on right wing intellectuals: wow look at all these fun weirdos, i am gonna make a special scrap book of their ideas...omg do i have a crush?
right wing intellectuals on left wing intellectuals: look, these guys are all jews
8:44 AM • 3/28/19

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 22d

Perfect example of the bankruptcy of libertarianism as a freedom ideology when the workplace is deliberately carved out as space for the boss’ domination

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Rand Paul: "People say, 'Oh, people have a right to say things.' Well, actually they don't necessarily have a right to say things. Many people have in their contract what we call a morals clause ... I think it is time for this to be a crackdown on people."

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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 22d

The follow-up post is the best part.

A reply saying, "Edit: I just discovered Malcolm X was a member of the Nation of Islam rather than a Christian. Will keep this in mind in future."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22d

there is nothing here that ben shapiro hasn’t said before. racism is fake, black people are ungrateful, etc.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22d

Shapiro doesn't realize it, but he makes a great implicit argument in favor of Afro-Pessimism when he talks about what he thought the "promise" of Barack Obama was:

Yes. And the reason is: The implicit promise of Barack Obama was the worst conflict in the history of America — which is the racial history of the United States, which is truly horrifying. That in his person, he was basically going to be the capstone of the great movement toward Martin Luther King’s dream.
And when, instead, things seemed to move in the opposite direction, which was: Well, you know, it turns out that Black people in America, they’re inherently victimized by a white supremacist system that puts Black people underfoot. And: My son could have been Trayvon.
And people on the right saw that as, like: Well, but that’s not true. You are an upper-class Black man who is living in the White House, and unless your son was mistaken for a prowler going around at night in a neighborhood, then, no, that actually wouldn’t happen to your son. In fact, you have two Black daughters, and that stuff has never happened to them.
So the sort of pre-Michael Brown in Ferguson — the idea that when the president went out and he said that people wouldn’t just make this up. And it turns out, actually, that a lot of it was made up.

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22d

I no longer think this is true

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 22d

Klein explicitly says his project is to dishonestly portray the true nature of the right for his readers in hopes that helps foster some common ground to heal our nation. This didn’t work for Obama and it’s not gonna work for him.

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22d

God bless America.

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22d

They could (and probably will) haul staff from nonprofits and advocacy groups into congressional hearings. They could revoke nonprofit status.

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22d

I don’t think this is true. They’ve done some (certainly not all) of what they can do with federal grant money, but they haven’t tried to go after private funding for these organizations.

They could try to get them unbanked. Name Open Societies a terrorist organization and seize their assets.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22d

We’re already living through Trump’s crackdown on the left. Troops to cities, ICE targeting, mass firings, higher ed, media, science, etc.

They don’t have some big cards they’ve been holding back.

They do, however, constantly try to pretend they have more to scare people into acting as if they do.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23d

If you're writing about how Stephen Miller's going to use this as a pretext for going after the left I think it's incumbent on you to say how he plans on doing that. Otherwise it's just scaring people into submission before he's done anything.

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