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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s video of the incident

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 7m

Remember, you paying exponentially more for electricity so that the oligarchs can spew A.I. bullshit trained on copyrighted data at your cerebral cortex all day to distract you while they empty the US treasury is the price we all must pay.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 11h

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Data Centers Are Already Increasing Your Energy Bills. We Have the Receipts.

Electric bills are going up around the country and some of those increases are due to an outdated practice that requires consumers to pay billions for tech giants’ grid connections. Our new analysis t...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Murray: "If House Republicans were here, I'd make sure they understood over 3/4 of the families on the exchanges actually live in R states. And I'd make sure they understand the 10 states where families will face biggest average premium increase hikes when the ACA credits expire are all R states."

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

Has anyone asked PenFed, Navy Federal, or USAA about this?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21h

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

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Meade @mattaponi.bsky.social · 22h

The public needs to see this data…sure sounds like everyone was clearly involved in this coup…

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The FBI analyzed Republican lawmakers' phone records during Jan. 6 probe, GOP senators say

Republican senators said that the analyzed info included participants, dates and times for calls around Jan. 6, 2021, but that no content of the conversations was reviewed.

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 22h

"Bucking tradition" sure is a supplicant way to say "illegal."

Trump defunds public media & they respond by framing him like a tough-guy maverick willing to innovate, exactly the kind of coverage authoritarians demand.

NPR @npr.org · 22h

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 22h

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 1d

Allies are a good thing when resisting a Junta taking shape before our eyes. Full stop.

The sign of their sincerity will be whether any of them actually use their platform and their oversized sway over young fasc-curious males to make amends.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 1d

Narrator: The president wants to take over American cities with the military

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Q: "Do Democrats not have reason to be concerned that there are long term plans by this administration to keep the U.S. military or National Guard in American cities?"

Leavitt: "You guys are framing this like the president wants to take over American cities with the military."

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 1d

NEW: ICE is attacking journalists in Chicago, and the @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social is fighting back.

"Journalism is not a crime," @jschleuss.com told @axios.com.

The 1st Amendment makes press freedom a cornerstone of our democracy, and we will fight to defend it.

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"Journalism is not a crime": Chicago reporters sue Trump over violence at ICE protests

Press groups say Trump's agents used force to silence reporters.

www.axios.com

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI should be sued into oblivion

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d

OpenAI claims companies must opt-out of having their copyrighted characters & content appear in Sora

Legal experts say studios have grounds to sue:

“They’re setting up this false bargain where they can do this unless you opt out. And if you don’t, it’s your fault. That’s not the way the law works"

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 1d

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 1d

Presented without comment.

Cover of Devo's album "Q: Are We Not Men?"

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.bsky.social · 1d

I always think of this quote (from They Knew by Sarah Kendzior) when people say this.

"'nobody saw it coming' is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody"

Text from "They Knew" by Sarah Kendzior:

As I wrote in Hiding in Plain Sight, the oft-recited claim that
"nobody saw it coming" is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody. In the United States, "nobody" historically included women, immigrants, poor people, and anyone who is not white. People dismissed as nobody are those most likely to be affected by a terrible situation and therefore the most likely to warn about it in advance. "Somebody" is a similarly convoluted category. For centuries, to be somebody in the United States meant to be a wealthy white man or to be treated like one. This idea of "somebody" is baked into the founding of the country, in which only white male landowners were granted the right to vote. White, land-owning men who deviated from the establishment were often punished for their efforts: castigated as troublemakers or conspiracy theorists. The goal was to reduce them, at least in their ability to gain institutional support, to the status of "nobody."

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 1d

Outspoken propagandist

Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 1d

CBS has finally turned away from Edward R. Murrow's charge that TV news should aim to educate & enlighten.

It will now be only wires & lights in a box, designed to entertain, amuse and insulate the public from a nasty & mean oligarchic reality

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 1d

Much of corporate media now is now becoming a means to the ends of oligarchy. Profits will flow elsewhere from having Ellison's CBS News turned into a relentless divisive propaganda mill to make public opinion. That will be the metric, not whether CBS news itself makes money.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 3d

It's not a coincidence that AI appears now, as western capitalism transitions to a fascistic political norm. Fascism generates kitsch. Fascism is philistine. Fascism relies upon plagiarism. Fascism is bankrolled by monopoly. AI is monopoly committing theft to produce kitsch consumed by philistines.

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

AI is the new aesthetic of fascism

white house tweet quoting JD Vance saying we do not ask permission from far left democrats before we deport illegal immigrants " over a Ghibli style pic of him and trump

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 3d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4d

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 4d

This is by definition a form of terrorism

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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