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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 7h

It was a national crisis if a 19 year old at a fancy college moved to cancel a paid gig for a comedian.

But it's... just a Wednesday when the effing president literally decries freedom of speech while arresting people baselessly across the country.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7h

Forget Republicans - how do you think any so called impartial reporter from traditional corporate media outlets would have reacted if an 80 year old Democratic President was talking about taking "the freedom of speech away" from people in America?

Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 7h

Dementia

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Wannabe Dictator

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Sad

but

Dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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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

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · 7h

Can't wait for CBS, under its new leadership, to report on the President saying "we took the freedom of speech away."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 7h

Dementia

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Wannabe Dictator

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Sad

but

Dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 9h

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 10h

No, progressives aren't pushing degrowth.

Read our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social's latest in @theslingutah.bsky.social!

www.thesling.org/the-hollowne...

The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective - The Sling

While degrowth as a framework has been around for a while, its extremely limited presence in the zeitgeist is a relatively recent phenomenon. Modern progressives are not anti-growth; they simply recog...

www.thesling.org

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 10h

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 11h

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 11h

As a rule, most of the positive takes I have consumed about the possibilities of AI the past couple of years are from the authors of Abundance (Ezra and Derek).

We've long argued Abundance is a way to get the center-left to support pro-AI rule/norm breaking.

And AI... sucks? wapo.st/4o18DIU

Analysis | Americans have become more pessimistic about AI. Why?

Four theories to explain the surveys that keep showing sour public opinion about AI.

wapo.st

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

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 this guy speaks again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 12h

While the FAA is, by its own admission, overworked, understaffed, and working with outdated technology, its also opening the door for drones and uncertified eVTOLs to flood our airspaces.

Who asked for this? From our @kjboyle.bsky.social

The Trump Administration is Deregulating our Airspace. Who Asked for This?

Drone and eVTOL companies have spent big money lobbying with Trump-adjacent firms.

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 12h

Remember, too, that Sen. Mike Lee wanted (but failed) to sell off millions of acres of public lands -- lands owned by the American people.

"Permitting reform" is simply a different mechanism for Lee to achieve the same objective: The plunder of America's cherished public lands & environment.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14h

The opponents of wind and solar and climate action in general sure do love permitting reform

www.eenews.net/articles/mik...

Lee hasn’t met with House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), who has been helping lead the push for a permitting overhaul and amending the Endangered Species Act.

A lot of Lee’s time has gone to helping craft the Republicans’ party-line budget bill, which is expected to include provisions to promote fossil fuel production and roll back Biden-era regulations.

Lee has deemed the idea of expanding renewable energy sources like solar and wind power at the expense of gas and coal “very disturbing.”

This weekend Lee made clear he also supports the sale of some public land to build housing. He called Democratic attempts to thwart such efforts “disgraceful.”

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 12h

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats.

Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 16h

Important story!

Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 1d

White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies.

Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6.

Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 1d

White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies.

Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6.

Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda undermines the idea that she is somehow a moderate center-left person EXCEPT for Israel and pretending lefty campus disdain for her is a 1st Amendment issue.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Draw on your own experience:

Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does?

I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#AZ07

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

"AI is not just a technology. It is a social problem. There is zero reason to allow it to run us over without a plan to mitigate its completely predictable negative effects." Another must-read banger from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 1d

Bombshell non-response by Bondi. A yes or no Q as to whether she has seen —or the FBI has found— photos of Trump w/scantily clad very young women (author Michael Wolff has discussed multiple times on-air that he's seen them).

Bondi attacks Sen. Whitehouse, never answers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 2d

Hi @anguskingiii.bsky.social, your top supporter @senangusking.bsky.social just voted with Trump again - despite admitting to reporters today that Rs aren't negotiating to save health care

Mainers will suffer big time if Rs get their way. You know that. So does he

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 2d

Angus King says that he might switch his vote from YES to NO on the Senate CR, due to how the GOP is refusing to lift a finger on healthcare.

Honestly, a part of my cynically wondered if his original YES vote was to allow him to switch to NO later in order to give Dems the appearance of momentum.

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