msbitty
@msbitty.bsky.social
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Why the fuck is the media normalizing Democratic lawmakers being held hostage by police or being locked in the House chamber?
Texas Democrat Nicole Caillier is locked in the house chamber right now and won't be allowed out until Wednesday unless she signs over her freedom to have police escort ⤵️
Texas Democrat Nicole Caillier is locked in the house chamber right now and won't be allowed out until Wednesday unless she signs over her freedom to have police escort ⤵️
August 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Why the fuck is the media normalizing Democratic lawmakers being held hostage by police or being locked in the House chamber?
Texas Democrat Nicole Caillier is locked in the house chamber right now and won't be allowed out until Wednesday unless she signs over her freedom to have police escort ⤵️
Texas Democrat Nicole Caillier is locked in the house chamber right now and won't be allowed out until Wednesday unless she signs over her freedom to have police escort ⤵️
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This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew.
They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.
August 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew.
They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
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Orwellian.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision
Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
www.wsj.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Orwellian.
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I've lived in D.C. for the better part of two decades. Nearly my whole adult life. Something folks aren't talking about--a giant elephant in the room--is the amount of "brand protection" going on right now.
I don't mean fear of Trump or political persecution, although those can overlap.
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I don't mean fear of Trump or political persecution, although those can overlap.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I've lived in D.C. for the better part of two decades. Nearly my whole adult life. Something folks aren't talking about--a giant elephant in the room--is the amount of "brand protection" going on right now.
I don't mean fear of Trump or political persecution, although those can overlap.
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I don't mean fear of Trump or political persecution, although those can overlap.
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BREAKING: Texas Republicans release their proposed congressional map that could add 5 new Republican seats and set off a consequential redistricting battle between red and blue states over control of the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm elections.
From: @jenrice.bsky.social
From: @jenrice.bsky.social
Republicans Release Proposed New Texas Congressional Map, Could Add 5 GOP Seats
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
BREAKING: Texas Republicans release their proposed congressional map that could add 5 new Republican seats and set off a consequential redistricting battle between red and blue states over control of the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm elections.
From: @jenrice.bsky.social
From: @jenrice.bsky.social
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss' Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism will be out in Sept: bit.ly/4oilqIc
July 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Cynthia Miller-Idriss' Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism will be out in Sept: bit.ly/4oilqIc
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New, from me: Luke Farritor joined DOGE, answering the call of his "biggest hero" Elon Musk.
His story reveals how the combination of know-nothing libertarianism combined with the political power of Silicon Valley is destroying our government. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doges-will...
His story reveals how the combination of know-nothing libertarianism combined with the political power of Silicon Valley is destroying our government. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doges-will...
The Acolyte
A profile of one DOGEr tells us much about a broader movement
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
New, from me: Luke Farritor joined DOGE, answering the call of his "biggest hero" Elon Musk.
His story reveals how the combination of know-nothing libertarianism combined with the political power of Silicon Valley is destroying our government. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doges-will...
His story reveals how the combination of know-nothing libertarianism combined with the political power of Silicon Valley is destroying our government. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doges-will...
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More than a dozen children and adults had died from hunger within 24 hours, as of Tuesday.
Aid groups say that they have supplies to support, but that Israeli forces are preventing them from entering Gaza.
Palestinians have been gunned down and killed at the US-backed Israeli aid sites.
Aid groups say that they have supplies to support, but that Israeli forces are preventing them from entering Gaza.
Palestinians have been gunned down and killed at the US-backed Israeli aid sites.
“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say
"People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."
www.motherjones.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
More than a dozen children and adults had died from hunger within 24 hours, as of Tuesday.
Aid groups say that they have supplies to support, but that Israeli forces are preventing them from entering Gaza.
Palestinians have been gunned down and killed at the US-backed Israeli aid sites.
Aid groups say that they have supplies to support, but that Israeli forces are preventing them from entering Gaza.
Palestinians have been gunned down and killed at the US-backed Israeli aid sites.
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This guy had served less than 2 years of a 30 year sentence for murdering three people. The State Department refuses to say whether he will now be set free.
We are condemning non-criminal immigrants to gulags, and then trading them for violent criminals who are coming back to the US.
We are condemning non-criminal immigrants to gulags, and then trading them for violent criminals who are coming back to the US.
July 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This guy had served less than 2 years of a 30 year sentence for murdering three people. The State Department refuses to say whether he will now be set free.
We are condemning non-criminal immigrants to gulags, and then trading them for violent criminals who are coming back to the US.
We are condemning non-criminal immigrants to gulags, and then trading them for violent criminals who are coming back to the US.
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NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
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The Trump administration possesses large amounts of information about Epstein’s corrupt and depraved dealings with unidentified members of the global elite, and Trump and his top advisers—with active GOP acquiescence—are now all in on the elite cover up. https://trib.al/gKgjT1m
July 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Trump administration possesses large amounts of information about Epstein’s corrupt and depraved dealings with unidentified members of the global elite, and Trump and his top advisers—with active GOP acquiescence—are now all in on the elite cover up. https://trib.al/gKgjT1m
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Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
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I explore why liberals fell for the heterodox movement’s “free speech” ploy in my latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review
Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”
www.bostonreview.net
July 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I explore why liberals fell for the heterodox movement’s “free speech” ploy in my latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
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Every time Donald Trump tweets something fake and desperate read an article about Epstein. You will have a PhD in Pedo Studies by the end of the week.
The current president who is also a convited felon is posting fake videos of a former president getting arrested because he is trying to distract from his friendship and involvement with his child sex trafficker best friend.
July 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Every time Donald Trump tweets something fake and desperate read an article about Epstein. You will have a PhD in Pedo Studies by the end of the week.
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You can talk about being family friendly, and offer money for people to have more kids, but you can't really build a thriving and attractive society via authoritarianism. People who know better, who value freedom, with options - they will leave.
💥Viktor Orbán’s demographic strategy is a disaster. Over the past decade, 37.8% of Hungary’s population decline was due to emigration to other EU countries. Hungary is losing the competition to retain its own citizens while birth rates tank. Read Direkt36's in-depth article on @vsquare.bsky.social👇
Inside Viktor Orbán’s Failure to Achieve His Demographic Goal - VSquare.org
The Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has als...
vsquare.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
You can talk about being family friendly, and offer money for people to have more kids, but you can't really build a thriving and attractive society via authoritarianism. People who know better, who value freedom, with options - they will leave.
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He is 82 years old
July 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
He is 82 years old
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In new CBS poll Trump clocks in at an ugly 42%-58% (-16). This is a 22!!!!!!! point drop from early February when he came in at 53%-47% in this poll. Six months in the American people are not buying what he's selling. 1/
July 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In new CBS poll Trump clocks in at an ugly 42%-58% (-16). This is a 22!!!!!!! point drop from early February when he came in at 53%-47% in this poll. Six months in the American people are not buying what he's selling. 1/
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Exclusive: Millions in disaster relief funds diverted to build "alligator alcatraz" showpiece gulag talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...
Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Exclusive: Millions in disaster relief funds diverted to build "alligator alcatraz" showpiece gulag talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...
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Can everyone share this?
July 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Can everyone share this?
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NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
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I would like exactly the opposite of this
please hate republicans more, they are bad people who must be driven from power and from polite society altogether
please hate republicans more, they are bad people who must be driven from power and from polite society altogether
NEW: Democrats and Republicans will play *together* in tonight’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game — which they say helps keep the little bipartisanship left in Congress alive
“We all have to do hard things,” one lawmaker said, “we can’t keep hating each other”
www.notus.org/congress/con...
“We all have to do hard things,” one lawmaker said, “we can’t keep hating each other”
www.notus.org/congress/con...
It’s a ‘Horrible Time’ in Congress. But at Least There’s Softball.
Lawmakers playing in the Congressional Women’s Softball Game are doing their best to put politics aside.
www.notus.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I would like exactly the opposite of this
please hate republicans more, they are bad people who must be driven from power and from polite society altogether
please hate republicans more, they are bad people who must be driven from power and from polite society altogether
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When the media describes this as "a spat," they're LYING to you. Rosie O'Donnell is a morally serious person. DJT is a moral imbecile.
Rosie O'Donnell is saying what the media should be saying 24/7.
Rosie O'Donnell is saying what the media should be saying 24/7.
@thefarce.org made a YouTube of the TikTok that Trump got all you to ignore with his tweet threatening to revoke Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship.
This is a strong moral critique that proved prescient. This is what he is trying to suppress.
www.youtube.com/shorts/D7an2...
This is a strong moral critique that proved prescient. This is what he is trying to suppress.
www.youtube.com/shorts/D7an2...
What Rosie said about kids dying in the Texas floods that Trump doesn't want you to hear
YouTube video by L O L G O P
www.youtube.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When the media describes this as "a spat," they're LYING to you. Rosie O'Donnell is a morally serious person. DJT is a moral imbecile.
Rosie O'Donnell is saying what the media should be saying 24/7.
Rosie O'Donnell is saying what the media should be saying 24/7.
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 AM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Gut-wrenching read. Mom abducted at work by ICE. Kids left at home.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
Horrifying ICE story in the Santa Barbara Independent (led by Publisher Brandi Rivera, my friend, colleague and new president of @aanpublishers.bsky.social). The Independent is a vital, long-time, truly local and connected news source in Santa Barbara.
www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids
"I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.
www.independent.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Gut-wrenching read. Mom abducted at work by ICE. Kids left at home.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.
15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”
Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.