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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 3d

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Jamelle Bouie Says Your Fear of Trump Isn't Helping. Plus, Humphrey Bogart’s Betrayal. | On the Media | WNYC Studios

Jamelle Bouie doesn’t mince words; lessons from Casablanca.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 3d

@jamellebouie.net on why Hegseth/Trump are attacking the military. @onthemedia.bsky.social

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 7d

I spent the afternoon sitting in the parking lot that is the 10 listening to the Ezra Klein/Ta-Nehisi Coates podcast and it’s pretty staggering: a literal hour of centrist White liberal not hearing what Black people have to say.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 4d

Totally.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 7d

Showing up to work to avoid a shutdown is apparently a minimum threshold Republicans can’t be bothered to meet.

Photo of the House Chamber where Republicans are absent.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 7d

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

(a person in an inflatable unicorn costume to be clear)

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can now pick up a @mplsforthemany.com “Rank 3 for Change” lawn sign at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social or Bench Pressed in S Mpls

Front yard with three lawn signs: Omar Fateh for Mayor, Jason Chavez for city council, and a “rank 3” sign for Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, & Jazz Hampton. A “Jacob Must Go” sign is visible in the background, inside the porch.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 7d

Lol

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 7d

After Trump says he’ll turn US troops on blue cities as a training exercise, I can’t wait to hear @amyklobuchar.com talk about the price of beef.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 14d

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18d

Disney: capitulating right away when the core idea of your major franchises is creative resistance.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 18d

This is the resolution that every Minnesota Democrat in Congress except for the principled CD5 Rep. Ilhan Omar approved

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18d

The bill declares that Kirk "engaged in respectful discourse," "always sought to elevate truth," "was a model for young Americans," "worked tirelessly to promote unity," "was a defender of life and liberty."

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 18d

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Bishop Talbert Swan @talbertswan2.bsky.social · 20d

Caucacity is spending eight years calling the nation’s first Black president, 'Barack the magic Negro,' ‘boy,’ and ‘tar baby,’ his wife a 'gorilla in heels,' because you have free speech…

…but now wanting to fire everyone who calls a deceased racist a racist.

Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 19d

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Senator Says Meeting Between Kennedy and His C.D.C. Director Was Recorded, Then Backtracks

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 19d

I shirt I want to make:
Fascism is bad, actually.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 19d

Classic Republican values: Markwayne Mullin accusing fired CDC director Dr. Susan Monarez of being untruthful while lying that a meeting in question was recorded (it wasn't). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/p...

The Fired C.D.C. Director Testifies

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 21d

Wow, McSweeney’s just laying out all the bad-faith scapegoating going out right now. So many receipts.

How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left

If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24d

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 26d

dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 29d

That sounds like a fun job: carlemuseum.org/about/work-v...

Director of Education

DOE

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 6

So if Trump was an undercover Epstein informant, that means he worked for Robert Mueller and was part of the deep state.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Love me some naomikritzer.bsky.social: "Becka Thompson is currently serving on the Park Board and is in my opinion the single worst person currently holding public office in Minneapolis." naomikritzer.com/2025/09/04/e...

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · Aug 20

RFK Jr only cares about proving the cause is vaccines.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Aug 20

Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

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