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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 24m

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 1h

Shades of the Aurora, CO Tren de Aragua origin story.

Similar scapegoating there by another neglectful landlord.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1h

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact my electric bill just went up 20%.

Every company in existence can keep trying to squeeze more blood from the stone that is the pocketbook of the American consumer, but this trend of price increases across the board is unsustainable and will lead to recession and collapse of our economy.

Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 2h

With Republicans in charge, a couple in Salisbury, Maryland will pay $1,100 more per month for health care.

We can't afford to live like this.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 51m

The entirety of the Trump content mill is 90s drama-style cliffhangers. If things are open and shut, there's no reason to listen to tomorrow's podcast. The door must be left open to a larger cabal who ultimately will never be found, because the cabal isn't real and their failures are their own.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 56m

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 57m

The No. 1 rule of the right since Trumpism is the "official narrative" of anything cannot possibly be true. Nothing can ever be enough. When they cuffed Epstein, for example, which proved a global cabal of elite pedophiles, they were upset because they weren't eating babies.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1h

Like, the right wing got about as much as they could have wanted with the real story here; Kirk was murdered by someone who decided Kirk was too transphobic to let live.

So they're making it about Israel instead?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 53m

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 56m

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 44m

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 38m

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 30m

They SERIOUSLY think the vast majority of Americans will see this as patriotic and wonderful, including fellow republicans who are not hardcore maga. They truly believe that what they think gives them orgasms is what sane people like, too. They are deluded. No good true Christian GOP will like this.

Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 1h

why does DOJ DHS GOP MAGA will think this cruelty & VIOLENCE against normal sleeping citizens is something to celebrate? Because THEY sadistically LOVE this, and because they WANT the USA to be a dystopian tyranny that they control. And NO it won’t only affect poor brown people, they hate YOU too.

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 35m

@maddowblog.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com

Brit academics keeping track of Trump‘s authoritarian actions from day 1 of his second term here.

www.trumpactiontracker.info?

www.trumpactiontracker.info

Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 36m

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 1h

I think he’s confusing the super bowl with the Hee Haw reboot (which thankfully is a actually a thing)

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead

www.mediaite.com

Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2h

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1h

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions?

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

www.thenation.com

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 1h

It’s not to late to demand Nobel give Gator Guy a prize this week.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1h

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1h

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Colin Oreilly @colin0reilly.bsky.social · 1h

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 1h

ALERT: Not everything is terrible!

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Resister @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social · 13h

Those MAGA motherf*ckers are misreading where the US armed forces are going to land in the coming conflict.

Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 16h

Oregon’s National Guard General: They’ll defend America and protect protesters.

That’s leadership we need more of. 🇺🇸

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 1h

why does DOJ DHS GOP MAGA will think this cruelty & VIOLENCE against normal sleeping citizens is something to celebrate? Because THEY sadistically LOVE this, and because they WANT the USA to be a dystopian tyranny that they control. And NO it won’t only affect poor brown people, they hate YOU too.

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

For the record, he has a JD, was a constitutional lawyer for the ADF (rightwing group behind 303 Creative, the Colorado gay cake case, and current conversion therapy one), and was even dean of a law school that never opened (shady).

But also? Claims to have no idea how laws or constitutions work.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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