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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 11h

That’s wild! It’s so close to here, relatively speaking, but I had no idea.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

Step 1 of the plan:

Turn the justice system into a political witch hunt operation that punishes critics for free speech and immunizes loyalists for actual criminality.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 11h

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her.”

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 11h

132 This is such a clever premise. A present-day true crime podcast investigates the disappearance of a marine biologist and her whales back in 1986. Cox interweaves that story with two separate adventures of the Enterprise crew, one mid-TOS and one movie-era, all connecting eventually. #booksky

Book cover: Star Trek: Lost to Eternity by Greg Cox

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 17h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 12h

Aw, do the poor little masked hooligan human trafficker coward babies need an invading army from another state to protect them from strongly worded criticism?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

No, I'm tired of the silence over 5,000 trans service members and their families being kicked out. I'm tired of the silence over the demonization of the trans community. I'm tired of trans youth being attacked. If you want stack up your Democratic campaign record against mine, I'm here. Go ahead.

DemtotheBone @demtothebone.bsky.social · 13h

This is an example of why Progressives cost Democrats elections. Tom gets to choose what he writes about and you rip him for not discussing something unrelated and off his topic. This is a sad but persistent habit of certain liberals. It is a losing play. Pontificate elsewhere. Dear God, indeed.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 13h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 13h

131 After already falling in love with Haynes’ women-centered reimaginings of Greek myth, now I find out she used to be a standup comedian! In this BBC radio series, she turns those comedic skills to celebrate great authors and thinkers of antiquity, and it’s marvelous. #booksky

Audiobook cover: Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics series 1-4

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13h

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 16h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 14h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Natalie Portman with a shaved head in the film V for Vendetta, which is a movie not real life, gazes at the masked anarchist revolutionary V, who again, is not real life but based on a comic book character.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 20h

Portland police warning someone (maybe someone who works for ICE) if they drive into the crowd of protestors they will be arrested.

Person says "I'll take care of it."

What does that mean? They think they abide by a lawlessness higher than the law?

Kudos to this cop for protecting protestors. 🔥

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 14h

Are all the Antifa proconsuls supposed to announce themselves too? Because that’s gonna take a while.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 15h

This is not a photo of protestors in Portland “ICE fishing”, as clever as that sounds.

I can’t find the photographer so far, but it’s been online since at least 2013, and those are Toronto cycling cops, not American ICE agents.

Note the uniforms, shorts, bikes, and lack of masks.

Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 1d

Ice Fishing in Portland

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 14h

What, are we going to need Schindlers and Sugiharas in order to take a freaking flight out of the country?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15h

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving.

Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 14h

Also, I feel like I should watch that, because I haven't. Would you recommend it?

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 14h

I think we're narrowing down the telltale traits of Antifa Hair!

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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