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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 13d

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14d

Mockler: We can look at the acceleration of the radicalization of young men through a few frameworks. There's the covid pandemic, which had people isolated, had a bubble around themselves, and a lot of young men got sucked down these algorithms, I've seen it happen to my close friends.

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Rebecca Richardson ❌👑 @rarichardson.bsky.social · 15d

Perfect

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 17d

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CascadiaPNW @cascadiaresistance.bsky.social · 18d

The SS have swastika tattoos on them. Wish I could say I was shocked, but considering the fact that we are under a fascist regime and they openly do Nazi salutes, use Nazi dog whistles and practice Nazi ideology , it isn’t surprising at all. What is surprising is how many don’t see it. #ice #fascism

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23d

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Rebecca Richardson ❌👑 @rarichardson.bsky.social · 26d

Our pediatrician told us there are 2 active measles cases at Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville. Neither the Florida Department of Health nor the local health department are sharing this information with the public.

Vaccinate your kids.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28d

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

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Rebecca Richardson ❌👑 @rarichardson.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’m about to be so insufferable 🧨

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Aug 12

How quickly America moved from "we're going to remove immigrants with criminal records" to "citizens need to stay inside if they don't want to get arrested."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 31

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · Jul 26

When you strip away humanity

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Jul 25

“You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

www.theguardian.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jul 25

This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you aren’t already following @rachelwells1.bsky.social, who reports on reproductive health from Tennessee & scooped the story about the woman who was denied care for a pregnancy because she was unmarried, you’ll want to follow her immediately!

Rachel Wells @rachelwells1.bsky.social · Jul 20

UPDATED: The woman at the center of my reporting speaks out. For the first time, she shares what it felt like to be denied prenatal care simply for being unmarried.

wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...

#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg

Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried (Updated)

The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with

wellsrachelm.substack.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 21

JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔

Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Jul 17

actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · Jul 11

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

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miss veryvery @missveryvery.bsky.social · Jul 9

Listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social on Behind the Bastards' Adolf Eichmann episodes and getting so depressed.

“The first major arrest and deportation of French Jews in World War II was the Green Ticket Roundup. Eichmann and Danaker both helped to organize this scheme by which almost 7,000 foreign-born Jews living in France were sent to summits by mail ordering them to visit a local immigration office for a review of their visas. Anyone who showed up, as around 3,700 men did, was arrested and deported immediately.

Now, again, you'd never see anything like this, whereby people who are attempting to maintain their legal status, even though they're foreign-born people who have immigrated, would be asked to show up at the immigration office and then arrested as soon as they show up trying to comply with the law. That would never happen here, right?”

From Behind the Bastards: Part Three: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself, Jul 8, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000716298674&r=1822

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Jul 5

“I haven’t given up on America. I’m just not sure yet if America has given up on itself”
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Opinion | I'm proud of America — and ashamed of what's happening to it

A new poll showed fewer Americans than ever feel “very” or “extremely” proud to be Americans. That got me thinking about my own sense of patriotism.

www.msnbc.com

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