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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10h

This is why I'm saying to be careful what you say online. By all means, oppose this administration vocally, loudly, and publicly. Just don't snitch on yourself in the process.

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Texas AG Announces Undercover Operations Into “Antifa,” Cites “Transgenderism”

The move echoes a push by the Trump administration to weaponize counterterrorism tools against left-leaning groups.

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Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 9d

This was recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein show the other day. I was halfway through the book and didn’t yet see why he was recommending it as especially relevant, but I finished reading it tonight, and it’s pointedly relevant. A must-read: The Sirens’ Call (2025) by Chris Hayes. 1/

The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes book cover. Black letters on a gray background. Each letter in the author’s name and title of the book has neon green streaks guiding the reader’s attention to a focal point, the subtitle printed in significantly smaller black text at the center: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource

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Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 3h

“If Democrats sit this debate out, Miller has calculated, Trump's deceptions can flood public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.” — Greg Sargent

Quote from the article by Greg Sargent:
“Miller plainly believes there's a latent majority out in the country that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism. If Democrats sit this debate out, Miller has calculated, Trump's deceptions can flood public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.”

Quote from the article by Greg Sargent:
“What's notable, in one sense, is how badly this project has failed. Despite months of effort, Trump and Miller have not come close to manufacturing the sense of fear or trauma out in the country they'd hoped for. But in the nascent Pritzker-Newsom
understanding, assuming this will all take care of itself-that voters will resist Trump-Miller agitprop without prompting-is insufficient. We've learned, hearteningly, that majorities seem to harbor a deep attachment to liberal rights and liberties, one that instinctively recoils at masked kidnappings, at hypermilitarized vehicles on urban boulevards, at the trappings of totalitarian dictatorship. But this must be activated. That takes conflict and controversy-powerful imagery and language that rivets attention.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.

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Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoyed a few chuckles reading this.

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

This entire administration is the embodiment of the Underpants Gnome business plan from South Park www.splinter.com/trump-and-th...

Trump and the GOP Float a Great Idea to Get Annihilated in Virginia Elections

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 1d

“Is America Contagious?”
Discussing global politics
Article by Anna Merlan, journalist and Mother Jones contributor

Quote from the linked article:

“The scholars I spoke to agree that the spread of far-right populism is, to some degree, organic, as such ideas pick up genuine popular support across countries. But it is also highly coordinated, with clear and deliberate cooperation among self-described anti-globalist groups who are working together to create an increasingly illiberal world.
There are now versions of America's annual CPAC gathering in Australia, Brazil, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Paraguay, Poland, and South Korea-an irony, considering that far-right movements often position themselves as anti-globalist and concerned only with their countries' own self-interest. (The effects can be unintentionally hilarious: CPAC Hungary, for instance, proclaimed itself to be ‘the epicenter of the global fight against globalism.’)”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Our dementia-addled President In Name Only hacks it up on the golf course again this weekend while rage-boy Gestapo Miller seethes and plots the 4th Reich.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

A pretty good possibility is that he causes massive civil disorder in the US and implodes the whole administration in a ball of fire when it turns out America in 2025 is not, in fact, Germany in 1932. I think he could even get jailed for his troubles. Or worse.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

He's not a historian, he's not even a competent demagogue, he's just a sneering brat who spent his entire life fantasizing about being the guy who gets to say things like "We will crush the radical communists and restore our fatherland." He thinks it's a cheat code around having to do politics

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

Trump could have entered office, engaged in some corruption, let the GOP cut taxes for him, and played golf for four years, and left in 2029 a rich man.

But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.

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Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 4d

“Trolling the American people with the idea that Congress has no power and Russell Vought is running the government to destroy it is an odd choice for a president who is already deeply unpopular.”

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

October 3, 2025

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-...

October 3, 2025

Although President Donald J.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 7d

Rest in peace Jane Goodall you made this world a better place

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 8d

swelling words
the apogee
of silence
a sky a canvas
ask rothko

#Photography Mary
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angelusmerula.bsky.social @angelusmerula.bsky.social · 8d

That was a silence for the Ages

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8d

The US military’s top brass were silent as the secretary ordered a return to the “highest male standard.”

Hegseth uses extraordinary meeting to fat-shame generals

The US military's top brass were silent as the secretary ordered a return to the "highest male standard."

www.motherjones.com

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 8d

Wrote about today's fundamentally weak fascist spectacle www.splinter.com/sleepy-trump...

Sleepy Trump Declares War on America

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 9d

It offers lots of valuable insight and long term food for thought throughout. Ultimately, he identifies a problem and ends the book with a where might we go from here position, suggesting a solution. I’m not persuaded by the end of book suggestion. Still a wonderful read. sirenscallbook.com /2

The Sirens' Call is a new book by Chris Hayes

Learn more about The Sirens' Call, order a copy, and submit your proof of purchase to gain access to a virtual event between author Chris Hayes and Andrew Marantz.

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Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 9d

This was recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein show the other day. I was halfway through the book and didn’t yet see why he was recommending it as especially relevant, but I finished reading it tonight, and it’s pointedly relevant. A must-read: The Sirens’ Call (2025) by Chris Hayes. 1/

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16d

Tylenol is about to be rich from the Fed govt after the ABSOLUTELY for certain lawsuit

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20d

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

Map Regional Public Health Coalitions
Northeast Public Health Collaborative states shaded in blue
West Coast Health Alliance states shaded in yellow
Updated September 18, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18d

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Image of the book's cover. It is a plain cover simply with the words "On Freedom" and "Timothy Snyder"

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Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 18d

The Tim Nichols article was published in the Atlantic at 10:00 AM ET yesterday.

Later that same day, “Trump announces new deadly strike on suspected drug boat in Caribbean” was published in the Guardian at 20:22 EDT*

*EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) is just another way of saying ET (Eastern Time)

Trump announces new deadly strike on suspected drug boat in Caribbean

President says US military carried out strike ‘on my orders’, killing three men he said were carrying illegal narcotics

www.theguardian.com

Marvelous Hebden @marveloushebden.bsky.social · 18d

“Perhaps Trump’s people are watching too many Tom Clancy movies, but he cannot legally send the Navy out onto the world’s oceans as though they are seagoing sheriffs with satchels full of death warrants.”
— Tom Nichols, international affairs specialist and retired U.S. Naval War College professor

A Rogue Nation on the High Seas

Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.

www.theatlantic.com

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