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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5h

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

www.theguardian.com

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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.bsky.social · 4d

What a disappointment

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Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”

The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 5d

JD Vance's Big Lie about undocumented immigrants and health care has been debunked a million times in a week.

I unpack the deeper message of this lie.

Vance is betting MAGA would rather lose their own health care than see a single immigrant get it.

www.salon.com/2025/10/03/j...

JD Vance's shutdown bet: MAGA loves racism more than health care

The vice president's argument assumes it’s better for millions to lose coverage than for one immigrant to gain it

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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.bsky.social · 6d

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US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh comedy festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 6d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7d

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.bsky.social · 7d

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 7d

For a former National Guard major, the chance to lecture hundreds of generals and admirals summoned for the occasion proved irresistible, writes @eliotacohen.bsky.social:

Pete Hegseth Is Living the Dream

A man who retired as a major lectures hundreds of generals about the need to meet his standards

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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.bsky.social · 8d

I think it is time to relaunch the bone spur ethos instead.
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Hegseth reiterates 'warrior ethos' in address top US generals

The defence secretary outlined his vision for the Pentagon, which includes implementing “high and gender-neutral” physical fitness standards.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10d

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse.

Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences.

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10d

Add Theo Von to the list of Trump-supporting comedians who are finally realizing that this brutal deportation campaign is indeed what they voted for.
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MAGA Podcaster Rips DHS for Including Him in Their Deportation Video

Theo Von is pissed that the Department of Homeland Security used a clip of him in a video about mass deportation.

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 11d

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.bsky.social · 11d

Time to outlaw the "fa", maybe?

Mare @mareonline.nl · 11d

De meeste extremisten met radicale ideeën zetten nooit de stap naar geweld. Het is belangrijk om te weten wat deze mensen tegenhoudt, betoogt Bart Schuurman, hoogleraar terrorisme en politiek geweld. ‘Ik snap totaal niet dat politici het over Antifa hebben. De dreiging komt van extreemrechts.’

Wie zijn de extremisten die géén geweld plegen?

De meeste extremisten met radicale ideeën zetten nooit de stap naar geweld. Het is belangrijk om te weten wat deze mensen tegenhoudt, betoogt Bart Schuurman, hoogleraar terrorisme en politiek geweld. ...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.bsky.social · 13d

What could go wrong

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 13d

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 13d

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.com

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 13d

Three top Italian officials in Giorgia Meloni’s government helped a Libyan warlord escape justice earlier this year and concealed secret meetings about his case from parliament, according to a report to the legislature summarizing the prosecution’s case.

3 top Italian government officials accused of helping Libyan warlord flee justice

Italy’s parliament will vote on Tuesday on whether two ministers and a cabinet secretary can be prosecuted over the case.

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Spinoza.it @spinozait.bsky.social · 14d

Meloni: "Israele a Gaza ha superato il limite". Che evidentemente era di 19.999 bambini uccisi.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14d

MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience.

His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way."

His followers won't hear it from a woman.

www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...

Don't worry — Erika Kirk will never replace her husband

She can't replicate his brand of gutter misogyny

www.salon.com

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we wrote about the pseudoscience underpinning yesterday's chaotic, bizarre, disturbing autism announcement at the White House www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Bonkers Wellness Myths That Fueled Trump’s Autism Announcement

Tylenol, folate deficiency, and other still-undetermined “environmental factors” were all to blame.

www.motherjones.com

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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.bsky.social · 17d

Can we please stop using this toxic rhetoric of stardom in academia?

European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 17d

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20d

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.

This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie

Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...

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