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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 16h

Mentally I’m watching PREDATOR 2 at the movie theater in SCENES FROM A MALL.

Moviegoers lined up outside a shopping mall movie theater. The marquee reads “Predator 2, Godfather 3 and Rocky 5”

Close up of the move theater marque which reads “Predator 2, Godfather 3 and Rocky 5”

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 15h

sorry dude I have bad news

The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 15h

In a functional democracy with a media ecosystem mobilizing to defend the republic this would be #FrontPage news.

POTUS refuses to answer - or is ignorant - to the significance of suspending habeus corpus.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 20h

When Women Were Dragons came out in 2022. A simpler time, really.

I said this then, and I mean it even more today - wherever Dr Ford is now, and whatever she is doing, I hope she is having a wonderful day. She deserves it. My god, she did her best to save our country. We all have to do our best.

Book dedications bot @dedication-bot.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill #books #literature #dedication

For Christine Blasey Ford,
whose testimony triggered this narrative;

And for my children—
dragons, all.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 20h

Solidarity Against Sadism

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall

Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 20h

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Twin Cities Toilet Paper Reviews @twincitiestoiletpaperreviews.com · 20h

I only rate toilet paper

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20h

"Mother Jones has substantially more paid subscribers than Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, so perhaps someone should put us in charge of a TV network."

The latest from @monikab.bsky.social:

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

www.motherjones.com

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 20h

HUGE shout out to the Star Tribune—the leading news media source for the upper midwest—for hosting an expensive summit today at the Walker Art Center with such bold panels as ... 'The Future of the Republican Party'.

Great work!

www.startribunecompany.com/services/nor...

North Star Summit - Star Tribune Company

Our Events Our EventsNorth Star Summit North Star Summit OCT 7, 2025 – from 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM SOLD OUT Join UsSessionsSpeakersSponsorsLocationContact Join Us Be informed. Be inspired. Be…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic is edited by a former Israeli prison camp guard and has a senior columnist/contributor who is accused of writing secret speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN.

The state of the elite US media when it comes to Palestine.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

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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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 1d

As goes Minnesota ...

All the CBS/Paramount/Weiss talk reminds me so much of when New Times took over Village Voice and City Pages, installed a grossly unqualified junior editor, and within like a few months the TC publication was unrecognizable

www.twincities.com/2007/04/14/f...

From ‘alternative’ to ‘template’?

Not many of today’s newspaper editors would give their staff the afternoon off to take in a movie. But former City Pages editor Steve Perry did just that one afternoon in the fall of 2005, di…

www.twincities.com

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so funny that NPR is like, we lost all federal funding, and still does shit like this.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 2d

Note that Max Tani is posting a transcript of this 9am meeting at 9:34am, if you want to know how the leak situation is gonna be, lmao.

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 2d

International politics, including U.S. politics, makes a lot more sense by replacing the names of countries with funding sources

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Ohh

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 2d

this is not surprising at all to anyone who has worked in news media at any point in the last 20 years

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

i can't even make a joke. unprecedented levels of cringe.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna open an art gallery but it’s just all of the old fake movie posters from Chuck E. Cheese.

Chuck E. Cheese parody movie posters for INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, BATMAN, BEETLEJUICE, BEVERLY HILLS COP, GONE WITH THE WIND, JAWS, TOOTSIE, THE WIZARD OF OZ and CROCODILE DUNDEE.

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 3d

The revolution already happened bad news you lost

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

People keep waiting for "the thing," some kind of bright line that makes it all clear. There's already blood in the water. Clarity isn't coming anytime soon.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 3d

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 3d

TONIGHT!

Incredible discussion of copaganda with @equalityalec.bsky.social @mollypeonies.bsky.social and Henn prosecutor Mary Moriarty at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

Serious a can’t miss discussion:

www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/37121...

Book Talk: Copaganda | Moon Palace Books

Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

www.moonpalacebooks.com

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 3d

I’m old enough to remember the stupidities around the Iraq War that lead to a million people being killed and literally nothing has changed in news media

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

There's nothing new under the sun

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

There's nothing new under the sun

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 3d

As a fan of your work, my honest question to you would be: what would it take to change your perspective from ‘these are mistakes that keep happening for hundreds of years’ to ‘this is the exact role of media’?

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 4d

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:

Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 3d

One of the craziest parts of American authoritarianism is that, in absolutely true American fashion, everyone is acting like it’s the first time authoritarianism has happened. Like there hasn’t been 100+ years of bad faith leaders, goon squads, economic chaos, media disinformation, etc.

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