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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 38m

Artists are just grist for the techbro mill.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Whitehouse: "The supposed contribution made to me by some Epstein person is actually not true. It's false. So, weird when an AG of the US comes to the Judiciary Committee & makes false allegations about a senator - demonstrably false - rather than answer a simple Q: Is there a picture, or no?"

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 44m

That’s not real, is it?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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colara1999.bsky.social @colara1999.bsky.social · 2h

Americans are being walked into accepting dictatorship rule by this MAGA regime. Something they would have never accepted previously. This was MAGAs plan all along. They want to dominate Americans, North Korea and Russian style.

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 1h

Yes

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
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As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Rob Jacobs @robjake.bsky.social · 6h

How can the USA spend nearly twice as much per capita on healthcare and still not have universal coverage? It's a massive con trick.

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 2h

Nothing about this movie romanticizes leftist revolutionary movements. If anything it shows just how much that shit sucks. It's why there aren't many IRL

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2h

Wow:

Matt Gaetz says politicians at an AIPAC reception had to wear QR codes around their necks and go around and introduce themselves to potential donors. AIPAC members would scan the QR code to donate if they liked them.

If true, AIPAC is literally buying US politicians like groceries at a store.

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"At my first AIPAC reception, you had to wear a name badge with a QR code, talk to donors, and if they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot."
@mattgaetz on the surreal, humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 2h

If every Democrat who gets in front of a microphone refers to Trump’s dementia* for days (weeks, months), it would become a consequential story. Democrats should start rumors: People in Trump’s inner circle are concerned. Judicious rat-fucking.

*dementia is handy, but other things would work, too.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

Right? Was thinking maybe I’d wait to watch at home rather than sit in a theater for 3 hours. But now …

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A Dead Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 2h

Conservative backlash might just make me shell out for a ticket and get over my years-long aversion to movie theaters.

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 2h

Just moving forward with his cognitive impairment as a statement of fact instead of a question

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Are we going to talk about Trump’s dementia now? Or is Jake Tapper still going to pretend his text interview with Stephen Miller was really with Trump?

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

Jake Tapper is a goddamn disgrace. A text interview with Trump he can’t prove wasn’t catfishing? If CNN still cared about journalism, Tapper would be out on his ass.

Lawrence O'Donnell Shreds CNN and Jake Tapper for Conducting an Interview With Trump Over Text | Video

Lawrence O'Donnell ripped CNN Monday for promoting an interview with President Trump over the weekend that was conducted via text.

www.thewrap.com

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