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we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent
www.kqed.org/news/1205620...
www.kqed.org/news/1205620...
Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post | KQED
What is a “groyper?” The term began trending on Google in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death. Kirk, the right-wing podcaster and Turning Point USA co-founder, was fatally shot last Wednesday during...
www.kqed.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent
www.kqed.org/news/1205620...
www.kqed.org/news/1205620...
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Super proud of the team for pulling this together in just a few days. Always insightful to hear from @aidanwalker.bsky.social
we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent
www.kqed.org/news/1205620...
www.kqed.org/news/1205620...
Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post | KQED
What is a “groyper?” The term began trending on Google in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death. Kirk, the right-wing podcaster and Turning Point USA co-founder, was fatally shot last Wednesday during...
www.kqed.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Super proud of the team for pulling this together in just a few days. Always insightful to hear from @aidanwalker.bsky.social
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Frank Kendall wrote that he’d been told by organizations and law firms that they want nothing to do with him — because he dared criticize the actions of the current president.
And he warned of the dire state of democracy in a country where that could happen.
www.rawstory.com/trump-retrib...
And he warned of the dire state of democracy in a country where that could happen.
www.rawstory.com/trump-retrib...
Ex-Air Force chief reveals shocking retaliation as he defies Trump effort to silence him
The leader of President Joe Biden’s Air Force slammed the Donald Trump administration Monday after he found himself blackballed for speaking out.Frank Kendall wrote in the New York Times that he’d bee...
www.rawstory.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Frank Kendall wrote that he’d been told by organizations and law firms that they want nothing to do with him — because he dared criticize the actions of the current president.
And he warned of the dire state of democracy in a country where that could happen.
www.rawstory.com/trump-retrib...
And he warned of the dire state of democracy in a country where that could happen.
www.rawstory.com/trump-retrib...
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“I have lost count of how many of my fellow national security professionals have told me they are grateful that I have spoken out, but in the same breath say they are afraid to do the same.” - Frank Kendall, former Air Force Secretary, describing being blacklisted. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
Opinion | Fear Comes to America
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“I have lost count of how many of my fellow national security professionals have told me they are grateful that I have spoken out, but in the same breath say they are afraid to do the same.” - Frank Kendall, former Air Force Secretary, describing being blacklisted. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them access to lawyers. A federal judge said there's evidence what they're doing is illegal.
Federal judge orders stop to indiscriminate immigration raids in Los Angeles
Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them access to lawyers. A federal judge said there's evidence what they're doing is illegal.
n.pr
July 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them access to lawyers. A federal judge said there's evidence what they're doing is illegal.
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July 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Please join me @velshimsnbc.bsky.social 10a-1p w/
@raskin.house.gov
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
John Harwood
@deanobeidallah.bsky.social
Ken Rogoff
Jim Blackburn
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
@jimacosta.bsky.social
@jenrubin.bsky.social
@julierovner.bsky.social
@profzeke.bsky.social
#Velshi
@raskin.house.gov
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
John Harwood
@deanobeidallah.bsky.social
Ken Rogoff
Jim Blackburn
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
@jimacosta.bsky.social
@jenrubin.bsky.social
@julierovner.bsky.social
@profzeke.bsky.social
#Velshi
July 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Please join me @velshimsnbc.bsky.social 10a-1p w/
@raskin.house.gov
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
John Harwood
@deanobeidallah.bsky.social
Ken Rogoff
Jim Blackburn
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
@jimacosta.bsky.social
@jenrubin.bsky.social
@julierovner.bsky.social
@profzeke.bsky.social
#Velshi
@raskin.house.gov
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
John Harwood
@deanobeidallah.bsky.social
Ken Rogoff
Jim Blackburn
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
@jimacosta.bsky.social
@jenrubin.bsky.social
@julierovner.bsky.social
@profzeke.bsky.social
#Velshi
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SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way?
HEGSETH: What is that based on?
SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you
HEGSETH: What is that based on?
SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you
June 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way?
HEGSETH: What is that based on?
SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you
HEGSETH: What is that based on?
SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you
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"Mr. Secretary, you're either feckless or complicit." Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dodged many questions during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
June 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Mr. Secretary, you're either feckless or complicit." Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dodged many questions during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
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Today I filed a federal lawsuit against Alina Habba and DHS Agent Ricky Patel for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and defamation. They abused their power to violently arrest me at Delaney Hall despite being invited inside. No one is above the law.
June 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This is my current favorite. It’s extreme, but it speaks truth.
June 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is my current favorite. It’s extreme, but it speaks truth.
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Memorial Day reminds us to honor Americans’ past sacrifices by standing up for democracy now, writes Drew Faust, a former Harvard president: “We are not being asked to charge into a hail of Minié balls and artillery fire, but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats.”
Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
At a time of national crisis, Memorial Day reminds us to honor past sacrifices by standing up for democracy.
www.nytimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Memorial Day reminds us to honor Americans’ past sacrifices by standing up for democracy now, writes Drew Faust, a former Harvard president: “We are not being asked to charge into a hail of Minié balls and artillery fire, but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats.”
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Given that the US economy is already suffering because foreign tourists are too afraid to visit our fascist country, this isn't "joking," it's stupidity.
May 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Given that the US economy is already suffering because foreign tourists are too afraid to visit our fascist country, this isn't "joking," it's stupidity.
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"Think of how much money we are making by letting our soybeans rot instead of selling them to China. We are going to be so rich!"
May 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Think of how much money we are making by letting our soybeans rot instead of selling them to China. We are going to be so rich!"
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Navy Cancels 56-Year-Old International Seapower Symposium Due to ‘Unavailable Funding’ - USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
Navy Cancels 56-Year-Old International Seapower Symposium Due to ‘Unavailable Funding’ - USNI News
THE PENTAGON — The Navy is canceling its biennial International Seapower Symposium due to “unavailable funding,” the service confirmed to USNI News Thursday. The chief of naval operations has hosted t...
news.usni.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Navy Cancels 56-Year-Old International Seapower Symposium Due to ‘Unavailable Funding’ - USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...
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This Will Not End Well
April 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This Will Not End Well
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That fear you have, that maybe even small decision to limit what you say or where you go, even for US citizens, it means we’re living under authoritarianism.
We're going from "foreign tourists afraid to visit the US" to "US citizens afraid to go abroad because of what could happen when they return to their own country"
April 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
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I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
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U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland ruled Wednesday that the government violated a 2019 settlement agreement when it deported the 20-year-old man, a Venezuelan native identified only as Cristian in court papers.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
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#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
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Judge rules the Trump administration violated a 2019 settlement in deporting a man to El Salvador
A judge nominated by President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to facilitate the return of a man deported to El Salvador despite having a pending asylum application.
apnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland ruled Wednesday that the government violated a 2019 settlement agreement when it deported the 20-year-old man, a Venezuelan native identified only as Cristian in court papers.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
apnews.com/article/trum...
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
apnews.com/article/trum...
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In case you hadn't noticed:
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In case you hadn't noticed:
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Senate Democrats are urging the Social Security Administration’s inspector general’s office to investigate the impacts of the U.S. DOGE Service’s dramatic restructuring and sweeping cuts to the government agency.
Senate Democrats seek answers from inspector general on Social Security cuts
The letter sent to the inspector general’s office is part of a broader Democratic effort to defend the agency from what they describe as a reckless government downsizing campaign spearheaded by Elon M...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Senate Democrats are urging the Social Security Administration’s inspector general’s office to investigate the impacts of the U.S. DOGE Service’s dramatic restructuring and sweeping cuts to the government agency.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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