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B 🐝 @bpjohnson82.bsky.social · Mar 4
Bringing this back. We are here. youtu.be/CpCKkWMbmXU?...
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
YouTube video by Big Think
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mikesington.bsky.social
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz reveals in his phone call with Trump, the sick, twisted Trump compared the operation in Minneapolis to the military operation in Venezuela.
January 29, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. The $35 million for marketing is 10 times what some other high-profile documentaries have received.”

@nytimes.com #$AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
January 28, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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eileen4ever.bsky.social
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
Cumulative US measles cases As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year. Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026. 2026 478 cases 2025 2253 cases 2024 283 cases 2023 63 cases Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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atrupar.com
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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mgrady69.bsky.social
Measles. No longer eliminated.

Another great achievement brought to you by MAGA
eileen4ever.bsky.social Eileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 1d
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
This is the immigration expert at the Cato Institute. (As in “even the conservative Cato Institute…”)
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d
My new analysis: The administration misleads and ignores courts most often in immigration cases. In fact, a majority of the instances identified in a compilation by @justsecurity.org were about immigration. When deportations are on the line, expect them to lie to courts. www.cato.org/blog/admin-m...
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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protecttruth.bsky.social
The problem of our time is that oligarchs have figured out how to use control of modern media to manipulate public opinion and corrupt democracies from the inside
jayrosen.bsky.social Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d
From @status.news in their review and comment on Bari Weiss after her meeting with all hands today:

"installed by Ellison not primarily to strengthen their journalism... but to steer CBS News into waters more favorable to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement."

That's pretty much how I view it.
January 28, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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jamellebouie.net
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
We are all mourning the accelerating Jeff Bezos demolition of the @washingtonpost.com

WaPo editors put this sanewashing on the #FrontPage of WaPo today.

“softer tone”
“shifts on”
January 28, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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ilfps.bsky.social
This morning, we delivered a letter signed by 45+ pro-public school organizations to Governor Pritzker calling on him to act on his values and commit to opting Illinois out of a new federal school voucher program championed by the Trump administration. #NOvouchers4IL
Coalition Urges Gov. Pritzker To Say No To Federal School Vouchers - 1/27/26 Press Conference
YouTube video by Illinois Families for Public Schools
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January 27, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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russfeingold.bsky.social
I voted against the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and I was pleased to speak with Ta-Nehisi Coates @VanityFair about the mood surrounding that debate.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.
One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona
The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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rogergathmann.bsky.social
It must be really hard to have spent so much time, so much money on education, so much networking, to finally arrive at CBS news and they appoint the stupidest person in public life to be the boss. It is like appointing RFK Jr. Dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical school.
January 27, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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jamellebouie.net
basically a collection of weiss's friends and pet projects
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
The new CBS contributors:

Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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ashleypopoola.bsky.social
COOKED!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on Alex Pretti: "I'm looking at that whole situation. I love everybody. I love all of our people. I love his family. And it's a very sad situation."
January 27, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
Yes. You are correct. "We are making CBS more conservative" would be too obvious. "I am blocking the endorsement of Harris" (Bezos) cost the Post about 10 percent of its audience immediately (and more in the long term.) And yes, authoritarians rely on allied media to be circumspect.
curtnaus.bsky.social Curt N @curtnaus.bsky.social · 1d
I mean as soon as they said that they’d absolutely lose a huge % of readers immediately.

Reports I’ve heard from much more press-restrictive countries are that much of the constraints are done in a subtle manner. The illusions via plausible deniability are incredibly valuable to authoritarians.
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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zeteo.com
SCOOP: ICE Has Failed to Disclose Info About 8 Immigrants’ Deaths, Defying Congress

Trump has ICE detaining more people than ever. The agency keeps failing to report information about immigrants’ deaths in its custody, writes @justinglawe.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/ice-immigr...
SCOOP: ICE Has Failed to Disclose Info About 8 Immigrants’ Deaths, Defying Congress
Trump has ICE detaining more people than ever. The agency keeps failing to report information about immigrants’ deaths in its custody.
zeteo.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Heads up, Iowa.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
I reached out to Raygun to confirm if they were told directly that ICE was expected in Des Moines today.

Response from their owner, Mike Draper:
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
Having lived through this at the Post, these people refuse to say, "I want to make this news outlet more conservative." So we get lots of lip service about new ideas, innovation and reporting. But Bari Weiss runs a website! It breaks very little news, and all of that is anti-left.
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d
Part two of three, with Bari Weiss announcing a CBS News masthead, promoting a new bench of contributors, and promising "to invest even more in revelatory journalism:"
January 27, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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mikesington.bsky.social
“I know I’m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t.” Cruel and heartless Megyn Kelly shows zero compassion for Alex Pretti, blames him for his death.
January 27, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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foxylustygrover.bsky.social
I CANAE BREATHE!!!
Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’ Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy
January 27, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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duckworth.senate.gov
Too many have died. Trump can fire or demote whoever he wants, but the buck stops with him.

There must be accountability for everyone involved.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Inside The Washington Post, the frustration with Jeff Bezos cannot be overstated: “I was just thinking the other day that I wished MacKenzie [Scott] had gotten us in the divorce," one staffer wrote in Slack messages obtained by @status.news.

Much more here: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 AM