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junlper.beer
libertarianism has always failed
September 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount.

This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.

Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🔦 Yale Donated $1M to Friends of the IDF, Funding Soldiers Behind Gaza Atrocities

The Endowment Justice Collective (EJC) has revealed Yale University donated $1,000,000 to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in its 2024 tax filings – the largest such donation by any U.S. university…
September 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
'Trump Says' or 'White House Says' instead of telling the truth. The hallmark of bitchmade journalism
September 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Or you can just get The Onion.
September 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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theonion.com
Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
September 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...
➼ Disney+, Hulu Bundle (with ads) is going up by $2 — from $11 a month to $13 a month. Note: The price of the Disney+, Hulu Premium Bundle (no ads) is not changing. Currently: $20 a month. ➼ Disney+ Premium (no ads) is going up by $3 — from $16 a month to $19 a month. Note: The price of Hulu Premium (no ads) is not changing. Currently: $19 a month. ➼ Disney+ (with ads) is going up by $2 — from $10 a month to $12 a month. ➼ Hulu + Live TV (with ads) is going up by $7 — from $83 a month to $90 a month. Note: This plan is a bundle that also includes Disney+ and ESPN Select (all with ads).
September 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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piccone.bsky.social
EAGLES BLOCK THE FIELD GOAL [AGAIN] TO WIN THE GAME

JORDAN DAVIS!

MERRILL REESE AND MIKE QUICK ON THE CALL!

#FlyEaglesFly
September 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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freedom.press
Mario Guevara is here legally and is not facing any criminal charges.

He is being thrown out of the country for nothing but reporting news.
US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice
Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petition
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Remarkable judicial order in Trump NYT lawsuit - tl;dr, this is a lot of PR garbage, not a complaint, please re-file something serious. t.co/Ca48rtRLjp
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.5.0.pdf
t.co
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens?

I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees.

🤔

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
The raid swept up 475 people, most of them South Korean citizens, agents said. No Hyundai employees were arrested, the carmaker said. LG Energy Solution, the battery manufacturer, said 47 of its employees were detained. A majority of the arrested South Korean workers were not direct employees of Hyundai or LG but were subcontractors, according to industry officials familiar with the project. The LG employees arrested were helping oversee the factory’s construction, and had arrived in the United States with visas or under a visa waiver program, the officials said. Steven Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations for Georgia, said during a news conference that some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents were also detained in the raid and would be released.
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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abdulelsayed.bsky.social
Trump, RFK Jr., and Oz want to use AI to deny your grandma healthcare.

What could go wrong?
September 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.

As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.

See this:
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 31
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.

Dems should polarize this debate to the max.

Thoughts on this here:

newrepublic.com/article/1998...
September 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “I don’t know if Speaker Johnson misspoke when he said Trump was an ‘informant’ for the FBI — but if it’s a hoax, why was Trump an informant for a hoax?” 🤔 🎯

#TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp
September 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.”

He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
August 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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cplourde.bsky.social
“And *that’s* why we Republicans are keeping it secret, because it would hurt the super-villainous Democrats … and we can’t allow that.”

No-one on earth has less respect for MAGA’s intelligence than MAGA leaders.
August 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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repgregstanton.bsky.social
Unconscionable. After years of selfless sacrifice, Trump tells transgender servicemembers: ‘no retirement, no respect.’ Service should be honored—not erased. We must stand up for ALL those who have served this country.
Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for group of transgender service members
The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to force them out with no retirement benefits, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
So woke of her. I thought fuck them if they can’t take a joke was their motto: "ICE Barbie Lashes Out at ‘South Park’ After It Tore Her Apart" www.thedailybeast.com//petty-ice-b...
ICE Barbie Lashes Out at ‘South Park’ After It Tore Her Apart
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made her criticism despite saying that she hasn’t watched the show.
www.thedailybeast.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
goodoneshow
Bill Burr
August 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
bizarre, almost tankie-esque argument from Tooze in here. basically saying Trump can't be fascist because America has always been fascist. glib and also self-contradictory adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
You are far more tempted to make the absurd Trump=fascism equation, if you start from a silly and simplistic account of “liberal reality”. If instead, we start from the position that modern power - both the capitalist and other kinds - have never had a straight-forward relationship with the rule of law, that idealized models of “regulation” are just that, idealized, that the line between regulation, government and goverance is always blurred, which is why the terms are blurry, then at any given moment the real question is how this awkwardness is being managed. What are the tools? What are the “discourses” and justifications? What passes for a deal and what does not? In this regard, 2008 was indeed a historically significant moment of exceptional governance. To call the “deals” done at that moment merely “useful” rather understates their significance. In political terms, it was clearly a moment of unhinging. But again, by fixating on the exception we should not delude ourselves about the norm. The Trump administration’s governance by bullying is clearly a departure in style, tone and ferocity. But at the same time, it is very much part of a piece with the increasingly crude style of “lawfare” and ad hoc deal-making that characterizes much of American corporate, business and public life today. This extends from the high-stakes divorce to “creditor on creditor” violence and the myriad out of court settlements, which is where so many disputes are “settled”. Isn’t this what high stakes lawyering in the United States today very often consists of? Does the invocation of “law” in the US today not come with a connotation of menace, threat, extortion, ruinous and arbitrary fees, obscure deal-making, hidden clauses, life-ruining nuisance suits, and bizarre somersaults from the freedom of speech to accusations of terrorism.
August 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
I think Orwell put it best www.orwell.ru/library/essa...
It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not. Remarks like ‘They can't run me in; I haven't done anything wrong’, or ‘They can't do that; it's against the law’, are part of the atmosphere of England. The professed enemies of society have this feeling as strongly as anyone else. One sees it in prison-books like Wilfred Macartney's Walls Have Mouths or Jim Phelan's Jail Journey, in the solemn idiocies that take place at the trials of conscientious objectors, in letters to the papers from eminent Marxist professors, pointing out that this or that is a ‘miscarriage of British justice’. Everyone believes in his heart that the law can be, ought to be, and, on the whole, will be impartially administered. The totalitarian idea that there is no such thing as law, there is only power, has never taken root. Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory. An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. The familiar arguments to the effect that democracy is ‘just the same as’ or ‘just as bad as’ totalitarianism never take account of this fact. All such arguments boil down to saying that half a loaf is the same as no bread. In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions. The belief in them influences conduct, national life is different because of them. In proof of which, look about you. Where are the rubber truncheons, where is the castor oil? The sword is still in the scabbard, and while it stays there corruption cannot go beyond a certain point. The English electoral system, for instance, is an all but open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways it is gerrymandered in the interest of the moneyed class. But until some deep change has occurred in the public mind, it cannot become completely corrupt. You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery. Even hypocrisy is a powerful safeguard. The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig, whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures of England. He is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality and illusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtle network of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in its familiar shape.
August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
mbfarley.bsky.social
It's weird how some people forget that when the Democratic electorate had a chance to make VP Harris their nominee in 2020, nearly no one wanted her. She dropped out before the CA primary after seeing her polling numbers because she was going to get crushed in her home State.
sundaedivine.lol 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · Jul 31
Kamala announced she’s not running for president. Amazing show.
sundaedivine.lol 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · Jul 31
My Apple Watch entered “cardio” mode the moment they announced Kamala is the guest tonight. She rocks.
July 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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krauza.bsky.social
Imagine you've planned and saved for months to take your family on that dream vacation. You buy amusement park tickets. Then, you go to buy the flights, except, all of a sudden...the price has skyrocketed. Why? Because your airline knows you just purchased those tickets. That's surveillance pricing, and it's exactly what Delta bragged to its investors about using.
July 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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granuailynn.bsky.social
If anything comes of it, I'm sure he'll use the same excuse as last time he sent his colleagues p*rn w/o warning
okcfox.com/news/local/p...
'Pretty graphic': Oklahoma lawmaker confirms Ryan Walters sent him pornographic images
A group of lawmakers receive an email with graphic images attached.
okcfox.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM