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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 19h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 19h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sorry this is crazy

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 17h

What happened next Jack?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 20h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 21h

Thank God the National Guard will defend us from… [checks notes] … a guy in a dinosaur suit singing a song in the style of Barry McGuire

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 21h

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact: Cicero IL is where Dr. King's Chicago Freedom Movement was met with white protest in 1966. Now it's 89 percent Latino. The arc of the moral universe bends, that's for sure.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 22h

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

Image of a very short Miller talking to a blond woman as they walk on grass

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 22h

This is really beautiful.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

www.dataandpolitics.net

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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paulcaris.bsky.social @paulcaris.bsky.social · 3d

The ominous spectre of "a carnival barker with an ugly comb-over." I guess we're better off not knowing the future. (Too bad the comments aren't included. I'm sure there would have been one from that clown joedavola. Because he clearly had a policy of, "No JW article without a comment.")

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Never will I ever.

bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 2d

You didn’t actually have to do this shit.

11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social · 2d

TONIGHT: @stephruhle.bsky.social sits down with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to talk his NYC mayoral campaign, why he thinks a Zohran Mamdani victory would lead to a Trump takeover, and more.

Tune in at 11pm ET.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 2d

The flash apparently official. CBS News died at 1pm central standard time, 2pm eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago.

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Nell Scovell @nellscovell.bsky.social · 2d

"The Voting Rights Act is the most important piece of legislation in American history... It is the thing that makes this country a democracy instead of a white, male, apartheid state.

But Chief Justice John Roberts hates it. He has spent much of his career trying to destroy it."

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

It's the first Monday in October which means the Supreme Court is back in session. Here's my preview of all the cruelty and evil they will visit upon us this term.
My *cover story* in @thenation.com :)

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

www.thenation.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

APROPOS OF NOTHING: bsky.app/profile/prem...

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

NEW inside CBS—

Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off.

“If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.

‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’

Bari Weiss is expected to be announced as editor-in-chief of CBS News, as employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias, more censorship, and lower editorial standards.

zeteo.com

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 3d

By all evidence, our elite-formation machine is completely broken. Anybody working out how to get a new one?

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 4d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

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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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like an ICE poster

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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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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3d

How humiliating.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hello, fellow cadets

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 4d

Does no one remember when Bill O'Reilly challenged Obama like Vance challenged Joy Reid? "Why do you feel it’s necessary to fundamentally transform the nation that has afforded you so much opportunity?” Where is your thank you, sir? www.salon.com/2014/02/03/f...

Bill O'Reilly's toxic buffoonery: Fox News remains alive and well - and dangerous - Salon.com

Ailes and O’Reilly channel the white backlash in a country trying to become a multiracial democracy. That’s scary

www.salon.com

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

All of my friends and colleagues are writing much needed books on Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism.

But what did I write? A book called "A Beautiful Year."

Because beauty matters. Because seeing Jesus differently matters.

Coming November 4. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 5d

I knew him. And that makes me very sad. I think it’s gonna be a long long time.

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