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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 1h

These dudes are living in the 18th century and trying to drag the rest of us back with them. Why on earth does NYTimes waste so many resources on this junk? The rage clicks can’t be worth it.

Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 1h

This is not a, “Wow, this dude is crazy!” takedown. This is a, “He may be extreme, but he makes some good points!” piece. It’s dripping with homophobia disguised as religious conviction.

Who decides what makes God angry?

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 1h

Why on earth is @nytimes.com allowing Douthat to mainstream this guy and his ideas? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 2h

Is that… is that a BACKBONE I see?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Discount Goebbels: Don't call us fascist.

Also Discount Goebbels: Can I introduce you to my buddy who thinks the Nazis were the good guys?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 12h

He seems nice.

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 20h

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino: "We need reasonable suspicion to make an immigration arrest. Notice I did not say probable cause, nor did I say I need a warrant? Perhaps you look panicked when you see a Border Patrol agent. Perhaps you look scared ..."

So they scare people and then can arrest them.

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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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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 12h

Jack is a Nazi, and has been committing voter fraud.

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 12h

100% “Don’t believe your lying eyes!”

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 13h

Literally: pictures or it didn’t happen.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly, one of the best signs I've seen is the White House issuing press releases saying, "please clap."

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 13h

Literally: pictures or it didn’t happen.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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NEVER TRUMPER @jennyfmtheblock.bsky.social · 17h

Regarding Stephen Miller~

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 17h

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 13h

This is what propagandists do, not journalists.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 17h

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 17h

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 13h

I’m ok with that.

Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 13h

Well played.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13h

How it started How it's going

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 1d

This is the fear.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Miller has a real theory of the case: A latent majority out there can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism with enough numbing agitprop. Polls show majorities reject the autocratic abuses but Miller plainly thinks voters in the middle lack conviction about any of it.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

that is quite a lot of cameras, and the most horrifying part is that the number of cameras is not the horrifying part

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

open.substack.com

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 1d

The absurdity doesn’t stop. bsky.app/profile/vanh...

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

not only is the whole "the left is organizing against us" thing just bullshit for suppressing speech and dissent, its also hilarious because if you've spent 10 seconds on the left you can see there isnt the power to organize a bake sale let alone an antifa plot to take down the govt

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSSSS!!! That was my exact reaction!

Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 2d

Everything that's wrong with legal journalism in one New York Times headline and pie chart.

If all these "legal experts" are so shocked by the threats to the rule of law, maybe they're not the experts we should be asking in the first place.

All of this was foreseeable. Many forecast it.

NYT headline: "Bow to the Emperor: We asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency."

Pie chart showing over 50% of surveyed legal experts saying that Trump's second term has posed "much more threat" to the rule of law "than I expected."