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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 12h

This is just straightforwardly the type of tyranny the Bill of Rights is meant to stop.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

it is wild how much people just lie lol

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 20h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 7h

Unpopular but correct take

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 19h

Hate speech rules are dangerous precisely because the powerful will insist on classifying criticism of them as 'hate speech'.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 20h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 7h

The attorney-general of the US is openly saying they intend to murder anti-fascist protesters

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13h

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

In some ways this is the government now

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

A really weird subplot to the Bari Weiss thing is the degree to which she was able to secure these sort of opportunities for herself even in cases like hosting the view where it makes no sense

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 7h

And of course Charlie Kirk’s doxxing org was directing the harassment

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 15h

A national political party could just send a bunch of electeds to Portland for a weekend to look around, with cameras following them. I mean, national news outlets could also do this, but OK.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

On Bari Weiss, Dec, excellent:

"The Free Press is not dedicated to truth and objectivity, as Bari so often claims. It's dedicated to *telling you* it's dedicated to truth and objectivity to hide the reality that it's dedicated to the agendas of the people who fund Weiss."
@publicenlightenment.com

Bari Weiss: Brought To You By Billionaires™

When you see The Free Press, you know it's some billionaire mess.

www.publicenlightenment.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, Congress had the opportunity to ask Attorney General Pam Bondi anything and didn't ask a single question about NSPM-7 👍

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

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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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

the UK is insane and the fact that everyone sees this as some minister making a bad call rather than the entire system failing to guarantee free speech is equally insane

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 1d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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