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startribune.com
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
If a conservative anywhere has to hear, encounter, or be subject to judgement based on an opinion they disagree with that’s maoism but if conservatives use state power to prosecute, defund, or censor you that’s fine because they’re just entitled to do that for reasons
January 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
If a Democratic president had done something like this, Fox and the GOP would have turned Adriana Camberos into a household name à la Willie Horton or, yes, Hunter Biden.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
January 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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georgehahn.com
I didn’t go to journalism school, but I’m pretty sure news organizations aren’t supposed to “be the news.”
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
You know, if this is okay—the President can take funds and park them in a foreign slush account—then we really don't need a wealth tax. The next Democratic President can simply seize money from right-wing billionaires and park it offshore, free from "seizure" by Congress and the courts. 🤷‍♀️
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7d
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Just spitballing here, but I think the founders probably wouldn't have approved of a President putting the entirety of a highly militarized federal government on a war footing against a state because he didn't like how they voted in the last election. But I'm sure John Roberts knows what he's doing.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8d
Trump just posted that the "day of reckoning & retribution is coming" in Minnesota.
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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brennancenter.org
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
tfirwin.bsky.social
so fucking true!!
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11d
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
Eagle Ed Martin & @EagleEdMartin X.com A confident America! •8 Jesse Kelly • @JesseKellyDC •4h Colonization is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world and the only reason most don't know this is because they were educated by communists who hate Western civilization. x.com/billnehr/statu...
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"any criticism of the election can lead to a minimum sentence of three years in prison, and even the death penalty"

Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Not for the people’: Myanmar junta prepares for elections designed to legitimise grip on power
Elections will be first since military seized power in 2021, but analysts say vote is far from a step toward democracy
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
LOL at Cory Booker putting the 60 Minutes story up on his YouTube channel. Paramount won't dare take it down

youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Dear Media,

When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?

Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
“The Free Press”

www.wsj.com/business/med...
CBS News pulled a planned "60 Minutes" segment on ar El Salvador maximum-security prison where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, last-minute decision that drew a rebuke from one of its high-profile correspondents. Sharyn Alfonsi said in a Sunday email to fellow correspondents including Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper that she learned Saturday that new CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss "spiked our story." Alfonsi said the last-minute change was, in her view, a political decision, rather than an editorial call, accordin to the email, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "The 60 Minutes report on "Inside CECOT" will air in a future broadcast. We determined it needed additional reporting," a spokesperson for CBS News said in a statement. Over the course of this weekend, Weiss made the decision not to run the piece as planned, according to people familiar with the matter. "Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. is factually correct," Alfonsi wrote in the email. If the standard for airing a story became the government agreeing to be interviewed, she wrote, the network would cede editorial control. "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state," Alfonsi wrote. CBS parent Paramount PSKY 0.31% A purchased
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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lisa-catara.bsky.social
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination

Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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johnbisognano.com
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
tfirwin.bsky.social
more of these public/private partnerships to address market failures in public health, please!
F.D.A. Approves Two New Drugs to Treat Gonorrhea
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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forbes.com
Airlines love President Trump’s deregulations—but consumer advocacy experts warn passengers are getting the short shrift.
For Airlines, Trump’s Deregulation Is Gift That Keeps On Giving
Airlines love President Trump’s deregulations—but consumer advocacy experts warn passengers are getting the short shrift.
www.forbes.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
Cheaper for Big Oil to buy Congress than to pay taxes. Let alone pay for the harm of their pollution.
American Big Oil Pays More in Taxes Abroad
A new report details how fossil fuel lobbyists have won huge U.S. tax giveaways.
inequality.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM