@jillybean86.bsky.social
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Reminds me of how the Koch brothers funded the “grass roots” tea party.
September 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reminds me of how the Koch brothers funded the “grass roots” tea party.
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Here is a map of stations who will not carry Kimmel tonight. Anyone in these areas should contact the stations and boycott the advertisers who advertise on the Trump Regime approved alternate broadcast. Nexstar and Sinclair are afraid of Trump’s FCC. Make them afraid of their viewers.
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
September 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here is a map of stations who will not carry Kimmel tonight. Anyone in these areas should contact the stations and boycott the advertisers who advertise on the Trump Regime approved alternate broadcast. Nexstar and Sinclair are afraid of Trump’s FCC. Make them afraid of their viewers.
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
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Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
September 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.
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People mistakenly believe monopolies are invincible. But the same forces that make them appear invincible, are also their Achilles heel.
Bring down the #Sinclair censor machine!
#JimmyKimmel
(via @nycjayjay.bsky.social)
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-brought...
Bring down the #Sinclair censor machine!
#JimmyKimmel
(via @nycjayjay.bsky.social)
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-brought...
September 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
People mistakenly believe monopolies are invincible. But the same forces that make them appear invincible, are also their Achilles heel.
Bring down the #Sinclair censor machine!
#JimmyKimmel
(via @nycjayjay.bsky.social)
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-brought...
Bring down the #Sinclair censor machine!
#JimmyKimmel
(via @nycjayjay.bsky.social)
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-brought...
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Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.
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While Republicans are endlessly lecturing everyone else about civility and respect, part of civility and respect is following rules and norms, but the median American is 38 years old and in their lifetime Republicans have never let rules and norms stop them from doing what they wanted to do.
🚨 John Thune just hit the nuclear button.
The Senate is voting NOW on whether to change the rules and vote on nominees in blocs, rather than individually. The goal is to speed up Trump's nominees. It needs a simple majority to succeed.
The Senate is voting NOW on whether to change the rules and vote on nominees in blocs, rather than individually. The goal is to speed up Trump's nominees. It needs a simple majority to succeed.
September 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
While Republicans are endlessly lecturing everyone else about civility and respect, part of civility and respect is following rules and norms, but the median American is 38 years old and in their lifetime Republicans have never let rules and norms stop them from doing what they wanted to do.
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Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
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In no manner was Charlie Kirk a Great American. He was, basically, a trolling white supremacist, anti-LGBTQ college drop-out influencer who profited from division and hate.
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
In no manner was Charlie Kirk a Great American. He was, basically, a trolling white supremacist, anti-LGBTQ college drop-out influencer who profited from division and hate.
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Remember how Maxwell told Blanche that members of Trump’s current cabinet had been clients of Epstein’s?
Here’s Tom Barrack, current Ambassador to Turkey and major player in MAGA politics.
This story is only getting started.
Here’s Tom Barrack, current Ambassador to Turkey and major player in MAGA politics.
This story is only getting started.
Welp. Here is a car bought by Epstein for Dershowitz, and more significantly a Rolex watch for Tom Barrack with emails concerning a meeting with Barrack at Epstein’s home.
Reminder that Tom Barrack was the chair of Trump’s second inaugural campaign, just this past January AOT.
Reminder that Tom Barrack was the chair of Trump’s second inaugural campaign, just this past January AOT.
September 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Remember how Maxwell told Blanche that members of Trump’s current cabinet had been clients of Epstein’s?
Here’s Tom Barrack, current Ambassador to Turkey and major player in MAGA politics.
This story is only getting started.
Here’s Tom Barrack, current Ambassador to Turkey and major player in MAGA politics.
This story is only getting started.
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Note, this is exacerbated by the fact that they have a SEPARATE story "Social Media Falls Into Well Worn Grooves After Charlie Kirk’s Death" that ignores all the eliminationist language coming from the right, starting with Elon.
From Maggie Haberman and her editors at NYT, a serious failure to meet basic journalistic standards in reporting. The implication here is that Trump's "grief," "shock" and "furor" somehow justify telling a long stream of lies, and make correction unnecessary. This is rubbish.
At the White House, Trump’s Grief and Shock Turn to Rage Over Charlie Kirk
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Note, this is exacerbated by the fact that they have a SEPARATE story "Social Media Falls Into Well Worn Grooves After Charlie Kirk’s Death" that ignores all the eliminationist language coming from the right, starting with Elon.
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Reminder that Trump initially only ordered flags flown at half-mast for JOHN LEWIS for one day and only then after HOURS of silence and public pressure, while K*rk is getting FOUR.
www.axios.com/2020/07/18/j...
www.axios.com/2020/07/18/j...
Trump orders flags to half-staff in honor of John Lewis after hours of silence
Lewis, 80, passed away a on Friday night.
www.axios.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reminder that Trump initially only ordered flags flown at half-mast for JOHN LEWIS for one day and only then after HOURS of silence and public pressure, while K*rk is getting FOUR.
www.axios.com/2020/07/18/j...
www.axios.com/2020/07/18/j...
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YOU. HAVE GO TO BE. FUCKING. KIDDING ME.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
YOU. HAVE GO TO BE. FUCKING. KIDDING ME.
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It was never a good slogan or a good idea.
Every single candidate has to be vetted, because there are plenty of Dems who will more than happily carry water for the worst people without a second thought.
Every single candidate has to be vetted, because there are plenty of Dems who will more than happily carry water for the worst people without a second thought.
I think it's safe to say we're done with "vote blue no matter who." Between Democratic leaders *already* eschewing this rule with Zohran Mamdani and Democratic governors now lining up to praise Charlie Kirk, it has clearly run its course.
September 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It was never a good slogan or a good idea.
Every single candidate has to be vetted, because there are plenty of Dems who will more than happily carry water for the worst people without a second thought.
Every single candidate has to be vetted, because there are plenty of Dems who will more than happily carry water for the worst people without a second thought.
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It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.
These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
September 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.
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🧵 For Trump's admin, influencing its citizens with a bot network seems becoming an ordinary routine.
Today's US is one of the first G7 powers that uses bots domestically outside of an election cycle—what for a long time used to be exclusive to authoritarian states.
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Today's US is one of the first G7 powers that uses bots domestically outside of an election cycle—what for a long time used to be exclusive to authoritarian states.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🧵 For Trump's admin, influencing its citizens with a bot network seems becoming an ordinary routine.
Today's US is one of the first G7 powers that uses bots domestically outside of an election cycle—what for a long time used to be exclusive to authoritarian states.
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Today's US is one of the first G7 powers that uses bots domestically outside of an election cycle—what for a long time used to be exclusive to authoritarian states.
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Wow. The US Energy Department has withdrawn its scam climate report and disbanded its „Climate Working Group“ in order to dodge a law suit against the scam.
They must have realized that this scam report by a few „climate skeptics“ is indefensible nonsense.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
They must have realized that this scam report by a few „climate skeptics“ is indefensible nonsense.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: DOE says it dissolved research group that wrote its controversial climate report
The department said the end of the Climate Working Group means environmental groups' complaint over alleged Federal Advisory Committee Act violations is no longer valid.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Wow. The US Energy Department has withdrawn its scam climate report and disbanded its „Climate Working Group“ in order to dodge a law suit against the scam.
They must have realized that this scam report by a few „climate skeptics“ is indefensible nonsense.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
They must have realized that this scam report by a few „climate skeptics“ is indefensible nonsense.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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The media coverage treating Kirk like some kind of Hamilton is concerning. Did you ever watch Kirk “debate?” That’s not what it was—it was thinly veiled hate speech and harassment. Kirk didn’t deserve to die over being who he was—he also doesn’t deserve valorization as some perfect citizen.
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The media coverage treating Kirk like some kind of Hamilton is concerning. Did you ever watch Kirk “debate?” That’s not what it was—it was thinly veiled hate speech and harassment. Kirk didn’t deserve to die over being who he was—he also doesn’t deserve valorization as some perfect citizen.
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Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson.
Here's a few of those things
Here's a few of those things
September 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson.
Here's a few of those things
Here's a few of those things
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
reut.rs
September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?