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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3h

The direct address straight to the camera at the end of this is 100% right out of professional wrestling. Finally.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 5h

No Nobel Prize for people who cause shit like this

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

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.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 6h

During the arguments, the justices and attorneys were candid about the political dimensions of voting lawsuits — a sign of how extreme election challenges have become in the Trump era, that old-school Republican voting suppression can be acknowledged frankly.
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Election Denier Tries To Make It Easier For Candidates To Challenge Voting Rules

Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL), who voted in 2020 to overturn the presidential...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

This morning, Trump declared that the mayor of Chicago, Democrat Brandon Johnson, “should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!”

“Governor Pritzker also!” Trump added.

If you think these threats are just bluster, consider that Comey was arraigned today—a longtime dream of Trump’s.

As troops invade Chicago, Trump threatens to jail the mayor and governor

"What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?"

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6h

Since taking office, President Trump has used his cryptocurrency to accept billions of dollars from foreign entities. Here's our bombshell exposé of a land deal that Hunter Biden pursued in Romania in 2017.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

yday, when an attorney said 'conversion therapy' falls below professional standards, Justice Alito was like 'but can we trust those standards? the medical consensus used to be pro-eugenics'

like....bruh that injustice is not a license for more injustice, actually
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The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · Jun 22

“…Therefore we need not expect to have better states until we have better men; till then all changes will leave every essential thing un-changed.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

JB Pritzker's forceful, defiant response to Trump's threat to jail him confirms the points I tried to make in the piece and thread below about the role of conflict and attention in the public battle over Trump's authoritarian takeover:

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 7h

in the Bible it says to help people only if they have papers and a Cigna plan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Half the Answer #38: Caitlin and Trent talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for freedom of the press, and the scammy nature of our president and his public statements.

Half the Answer #38: Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions

Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for free speech a...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 9h

"Education Wars": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and @jackschneider.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #37: Education Wars

Trent and Caitlin speak with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider about their recent book The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. They discuss the faulty beliefs and logics that lea...

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 1d

The great @jsweetli.bsky.social joined @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I on the program to discuss mass shootings, MedBeds, media framing, how people from Long Island looked at Donald Trump prior to 2015, and so much more.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Half the Answer #38: Caitlin and Trent talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for freedom of the press, and the scammy nature of our president and his public statements.

Half the Answer #38: Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions

Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for free speech a...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Aug 14

Half the Answer #27: Caitlin and Trent check in with Hagen Blix about the ways we talk about AI, the most prominent angle its critics take, and the angle that’s often missing. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #27: AI as a Political Project

Caitlin and Trent check in with Hagen Blix about the ways we talk about AI, the most prominent angle its critics take, and the angle that’s often missing. When AI is advertised as a tool for generatin...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Aug 2

"Civil Rights Under Trump": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @joshuaerlich.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #24: Civil Rights Under Trump

Caitlin and Trent chat with civil rights lawyer Joshua Erlich about the state of civil rights under Trump. What civil rights has this administration targeted? How are they achieving their goals? Is th...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13d

Half the Answer #35: Trent and Caitlin talk with politics blogger and podcaster Ed Burmila about the centrist arm of the Democratic Party and its zombie-like shuffle through our dark era of authoritarian overreach. Who is failing us, who is trying something else, and what tactics seem promising?

Half the Answer #35: Chaotic Neutrality in the Democratic Party

Trent and Caitlin talk with politics blogger and podcaster Ed Burmila about the centrist arm of the Democratic Party and its zombie-like shuffle through our dark era of authoritarian overreach. We ask...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18d

"Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, Free Speech, and Whitewashing in the Media": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @marisakabas.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #34: Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, Free Speech, and Whitewashing in the Media

Trent and Caitlin check in with independent journalist Marisa Kabas about media and public figures’ reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, their impulse to valorize and whitewash his legacy, ...

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 7d

I discuss the authoritarian fallout from Charlie Kirk's murder with @liberalcurrents.com

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Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 17h

Big if true

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 23h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23h

“First of all, is there a tape that has audio and video of the transfer of the $50,000?” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked Bondi, referencing reports that such a recording indeed exists.

“You would have to talk to Director Patel about that,” Bondi replied.

“No, I’m talking to you.”
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country at the direction of leaders in President Donald Trump's administration.
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ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely correct down the line

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 1d

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

From Wikipedia:

Charles I was accused of treason against
England by using his power to pursue his personal interest rather than the good of the country.
• 266) The charge stated that he was devising "a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people". In carrying this out he had "traitorously and maliciously
levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented", and that the
"wicked designs, wars, and evil practices of him, the said Charles Stuart, have been, and are carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will, power, and pretended prerogative to himself and his family, against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation."[266]

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