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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21d

Trump: I am invading blue cities and launching a holy war to destroy opposition organizations.

Hakeem Jeffries: The legislation Trump introduced in Congress is NOT bipartisan!

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 21d

The Republican budget bill continues the attack on the healthcare of everyday Americans.

And is a dirty piece of legislation.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21d

To protect free speech, the regime must arrest everyone who is mean to the president.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21d

Deputy AG Blanche: RICO is available to all kinds of organizations committing crimes and committing wrongful acts… So is it sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner and accost him with vile words?

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 21d

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21d

The majority of Americas do not like Trump’s authoritarian project. It would be cool if Democrats and media elites acted like it!

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21d

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21d

Republican Party (1865): We are a revolutionary party which will reconstruct the republic if need be to create a multiracial democracy.

Republican Party (2025): We are a revolutionary party which will reconstruct the republic if need be to destroy multiracial democracy.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21d

Serious question: did Bari Weiss have a single thing to say about the Melissa Hortman shooting?

So many of the right-wingers who are aghast about the response to Kirk’s death were silent—or mocking!—towards the assassination of the Speaker of the Minnesota Senate House.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 22d

oh no, on CBS no less

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21d

Guys thank you for allowing me to fly you to my private island. Have fun but please respect my boundaries vis a vis minors trafficking. That’s just for me, sorry. Help yourself to ANYTHING in the fridge tho

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21d

Kash Patel says the FBI has NO information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors to anyone other than himself.

SEN. KENNEDY: "Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to?"

PATEL: "There is no credible information, none ... that he trafficked to other individuals."

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404 Media @404media.co · 21d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

Here’s what Democrats need to be saying about the Trump regime’s attack on the rights of the political opposition:

The Trump administration want to make it so they can never lose elections—no matter what happens with the cost of living. They want to make it illegal to oppose their corruption.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 22d

at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms.

this is not hyperbole. it's right here.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22d

Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22d

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22d

WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

Freedom of speech is about doing racism. Criticizing the government is illegal now—that’s hate speech.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22d

Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

Unfortunately I followed every word of that my choom

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

Republicans: We intend to use the full power of the federal government to wage a holy war against the “domestic terrorist network” of progressive organizations.

Democrats: We want to engage in bipartisan negotiation.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22d

Schumer on government funding: "Our position remains this: We want to keep the government open by engaging in bipartisan negotiation where we can address some of the grave harms Donald Trump has caused to our health care system and help Americans with the cost of living."

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 22d

Charlie Kirk was a notorious antisemite. Kirk said "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them...the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22d

Candace Owens is live on Youtube right now and seems to be winding up to blame Israeli PM Netanyahu for Charlie Kirk's murder. More than 170k people are watching.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

The Trump regime is trying to create a one-party state where it’s illegal to speak out against them, and they can’t lose elections.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

Trump is an authoritarian. The version of democracy we had before is over.

There is still hope: dictatorships end, often before they get too entrenched. Democracy can come back stronger and better than before.

But, we’re never going back to what we had before.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22d

Genuinely feels like a tipping point for American democracy, if we can keep it.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 22d

I don’t think it’s good that someone in Congress is advocating for the breakup of the country

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22d

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

Democracy died in oligarchy.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22d

Legs are coming

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23d

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats to @jerusalem.bsky.social and @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev for all their work making sure liberals stay on this man’s website. I hope you’re proud of yourselves!

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23d

Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.

A screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) with the caption “This is a massive problem.” It is a quote tweet of Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog), who wrote: “Anyone who’s been in the trenches fighting these trans militants knows that they are inherently violent. On a level far beyond any other political or ideological faction. Deranged, deeply hateful, angry at themselves and the world. Suicidal. The threat they pose is very serious. …”

A screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) with the caption “Seems likely.” It is a quote tweet of Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics), who wrote: “I am now 100% confident that Charlie’s assassination was carried out by a radical left wing transgender terror cell. Let’s get into the evidence…” Beneath that, a tweet from Brooke Singman (@BrookeSingman) is shown, saying: “EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner, sources tell me. The individual, who is a male transitioning to a female, is fully cooperating with the FBI. Sources tell me the FBI had texts and other communications between Robinson and the individual that helped FBI authorities solidify that Robinson was indeed the shooter.”

A screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) with the caption “Terrorist cell.” It is a quote tweet of End Wokeness (@EndWokeness), who wrote: “Multiple trans people in the area posted on September 9th that ‘something big will be happening to Charlie Kirk tomorrow.’” The tweet includes a short video clip featuring a man in a dark shirt turning to look back while standing among other people in what looks like an office or police station setting.

A screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) with the caption “Disturbing.” It is a quote tweet of Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo), who wrote: “Unmasking ‘Luna’: How I found the evidence confirming that the Charlie Kirk assassin suspect’s alleged lover is trans, anti-Christian and on hormones. Suspect Tyler Robinson allegedly killed Charlie while he was answering a question about trans shooters.”

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