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Margaux NH @margauxnnh.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent discussion. Banalization of evil by mass media is perfect diagnosis. Christian nationalist grifters stole mass media back in early radio days.!!

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · Sep 2

The silver lining to his staffing government with Fox News blowhards and other assorted dipshits and cretins is their incompetence executing his fascist agenda

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Sep 2

this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · Sep 2

NOW: Another grand jury refusal — this time a woman accused of threatening President Donald Trump.

Judge Boasberg said last week the threats appeared to be the "rantings" of a woman with no ability to carry them out. A D.C. grand jury apparently agrees. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

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Margaux NH @margauxnnh.bsky.social · Aug 30

NH residents also deserve the ability to choose vaccines for themselves and their families #nhpolitics

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 29

Blue states can also buy vaccines in bulk and distribute them via their chief medical officer or via doctors, says @sbagen.bsky.social.

The idea would be to make vaccines available to all, including those restricted under RFK lunacy.

Great stuff from Sam here:

newrepublic.com/article/1998...

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Margaux NH @margauxnnh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Purple states with red governors can join this too. #nhpolitics

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 29

Blue state health officials can create a group similar to AG's association. Or Govs can jointly release a statement committing to vaccine science.

That would be powerful: Blue states collectively standing up for public health while Trump/RFK destroy it.

newrepublic.com/article/1998...

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just think, if we privatized Social Security, the average retiree could pay over $100k to Wall Street over their lifetime cepr.net/publications... That's pretty damn MAGA!

Donald Trump Wants to Take Your Social Security to Give Even More Money to Wall Street

Trump’s “Trump Accounts” plan would privatize Social Security, driving up costs and boosting Wall Street profits.

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · Aug 15

Conservatives spent decades warning against a government para-military organization that would come for their guns and free speech.

Now Trump and Republicans have created the perfect force to make that nightmare a reality: ICE.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 8

I'll be going LIVE with Rick Wilson in about 45 minutes to discuss my lawsuit against the DOJ for the Epstein files training videos. This'll be our first time chatting, believe it or not! Hope to see you there! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

LIVE SOON: AG and Rick Wilson on Epstein Lawsuit

Starting Aug 8 at 5:00 PM EDT

open.substack.com

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Margaux NH @margauxnnh.bsky.social · Aug 8

Great chat! So glad I found it while it was live!

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Margaux NH @margauxnnh.bsky.social · Jul 21

@muellershewrote.com Another of my parasocial podcast friends appreciates your work!

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

Maybe instead The Times should be digging up the spreadsheet that counts mentions of Trump in the Epstein files with real reporting:
The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI
www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI

Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

www.muellershewrote.com

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · Jul 20

I can attest. As can the popularity of Pedro Pascal, who just radiates love of buttered toast and is thirsted for by all

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · Jul 19

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

Screenshot:

No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.

[photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 16

In a major precedent setting move, a Canadian federal judge blocked the deportation of a nonbinary US citizen because the Canadian immigration office failed to adequately assess the conditions for LGBTQ people since Trump took office.

archive.ph/Q722T

Screenshot of a news article from The Globe and Mail with the headline: "Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts." The article is written by Marie Woolf and was published in Ottawa 4 hours ago, with an update 3 hours ago. The website navigation bar includes links to Home, For You, Canada, World, Business, Investing, and Personal Finance.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Jul 3

We all can use this Independence Day to rouse our fellow Americans from their stupor, recall for them the offenses of our modern tyrant, and summon them to embrace the spirit of the Declaration (“We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Check out the Declaration’s list of grievances

It’s time to recapture our freedoms.

open.substack.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · Jul 2

The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE.

We all must speak out against these chilling tactics.

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Jun 25

"Women often don’t even get first acts, and men like Andrew Cuomo, always the complicated hero in their own stories, feel entitled to at least five."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/down-goes-...

Down Goes Macbeth of Manhattan

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · Jun 25

52 years ago today, June 25, 1973

With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a huge coverup of Watergate & much more.

Telling the truth matters.

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Margaux NH @margauxnnh.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 24

The fifth set of Byrd droppings is out

Dems win on the sale of public lands: Rs may not sell of our public lands!

Other huge victories in this area around making oil and gas leasing, mining, pay-to-play for oil and gas exports, and NEPA compliance

ENR and Senate Budget Dem staff crushed it

Provisions Continue to Violate the Byrd Rule in the Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

www.budget.senate.gov

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Listen to Allison and me chat about reconciliation and our many Byrd bath victories!

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jun 24

NEW: @dgcomedy.bsky.social and I kinda lose our minds today if I’m being honest. Plus, I get to talk with @bbkogan.bsky.social about budget reconciliation, and @annabower.bsky.social joins me for good trouble. News, with swearing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Byrd Droppings (feat. Anna Bower; Bobby Kogan)

Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 06/24/2025 · 57m

podcasts.apple.com

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Margaux NH @margauxnnh.bsky.social · Jun 24

Love you both @dgcomedy.bsky.social . Great interviews today, @bbkogan.bsky.social had needed answer to “What are the Dem Senators doing”?

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 22

Very pleased to see the Senate parliamentarian rule that a provision radically restricting injunctions against the executive branch—specifically targeting civil rights litigants and lawsuits against Trump—CANNOT be passed through reconciliation. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

More Provisions in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Are Subject to Byrd Rule, Parliamentarian Advises | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

www.budget.senate.gov

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Jun 22

You cannot say you are for democracy and rule of law but give Trump a pass on constitutional and War Powers Resolution requirements. You cannot. The essence of democracy and rule of law is to uphold both despite an outcome you like.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 20

Trump tells reporters that Tulsi Gabbard is wrong about the Islamic Republic of Iran building a nuclear weapon.

She has two choices now as far as I’m concerned: she can either amend her testimony before congress where she stated that the Islamic Republic was not building a nuclear weapon or resign.

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Joan Resnick Ehrlich @jremmc.bsky.social · Jun 14

"American multiculture" is what this country was built on and by who. It's who we are and will always be. A melting pot of every culture into one united country. We must keep that, from those within and without who want to tear that away from us.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · Jun 14

America is embroiled in a culture war. The MAGA monoculture thinks it is dominant - with an authoritarian president acting as its culture warrior, the personification of MAGA’s “retribution” and “vengeance.”

Today, the American multiculture stood its ground - and stood up for its values.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jun 14

Maybe if the right ever acknowledged right-wing political violence there would be less right-wing political violence.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jun 14

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

RF @zerodice.bsky.social · Jun 14

Shooters were dressed like law enforcement and this is exactly why I’m pissed about ice officers wearing masks, driving unmarked cars and not being identifiable when they terrorize communities

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