@daniel-48n.bsky.social
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The right-wing bullshit machine is operating at full steam & across all cylinders today, strategically framing the horrific ICE killing of a MN woman to defend/bolster their political aims. For exampe, Trump's message (below) will shape how his supporters (willfully mis)interpret the video evidence.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The right-wing bullshit machine is operating at full steam & across all cylinders today, strategically framing the horrific ICE killing of a MN woman to defend/bolster their political aims. For exampe, Trump's message (below) will shape how his supporters (willfully mis)interpret the video evidence.
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The U.S. government bans 5 people from the country, alleging “Murthy-style speech suppression.” Masnick: “So the State Department is citing a case that disproved government censorship as evidence of government censorship. That’s not even creative lying — it’s just citing your own loss as precedent.”
Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship www.ms.now/opinion/marc...
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The U.S. government bans 5 people from the country, alleging “Murthy-style speech suppression.” Masnick: “So the State Department is citing a case that disproved government censorship as evidence of government censorship. That’s not even creative lying — it’s just citing your own loss as precedent.”
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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let the gourd times roll
October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
let the gourd times roll
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Reminder: Donald Trump is a vulgar bigot and a reprehensible human being. He is unworthy to serve in any high office in this country, let alone its highest.
Trump’s AI Brain Rot
Plus: Trump’s increasingly dumb, and undoubtedly painful, global tariff loop.
www.thebulwark.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reminder: Donald Trump is a vulgar bigot and a reprehensible human being. He is unworthy to serve in any high office in this country, let alone its highest.
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The Republicans have won votes using a kind of radical authenticity, where they are perceived as saying what they mean (even if it isn’t true). And yet some Dems are still trying to figure out how to say what some imagined swing voters want… rather than finding their own authentic message.
My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe.
Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.
Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
September 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Republicans have won votes using a kind of radical authenticity, where they are perceived as saying what they mean (even if it isn’t true). And yet some Dems are still trying to figure out how to say what some imagined swing voters want… rather than finding their own authentic message.
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The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025
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Again I ask - Sunday shows why?
BASH: He's asking his AG in a public way to go after his political enemies. You're okay with that?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: What we know is President Trump is very open and transparent with the American people and he speaks his mind. That's what his supporters love about him.
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: What we know is President Trump is very open and transparent with the American people and he speaks his mind. That's what his supporters love about him.
September 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Again I ask - Sunday shows why?
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In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders."
We're about to find out whether that's true.
We're about to find out whether that's true.
Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders."
We're about to find out whether that's true.
We're about to find out whether that's true.
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Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
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Normalization, normalization, normalization
is the name of the game. NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL
is the name of the game. NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL
right now, when the detention capacity for ICE is relatively small, as is the number of troops deployed domestically, the stuff trump is doing is easy to dismiss as simply aesthetics. buts it’s important to realize that the difference between it and full fascism is just scale, and scale can be built
August 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Normalization, normalization, normalization
is the name of the game. NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL
is the name of the game. NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL
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The president is lying
It’s not hard to say.
It’s not hard to say.
Trump: "The numbers are worse than they ever -- don't let anyone tell you they're not. The whole statistical charts they made, the whole thing is a rigged deal. They got rid of the guy because he didn't want to do the numbers the way they wanted to and they put their own numbers out."
August 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The president is lying
It’s not hard to say.
It’s not hard to say.
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@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."
August 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."
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Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.
August 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.
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And Senate Republicans are about to confirm him to a life appointment on a federal appeals court.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
Emil Bove misled lawmakers in his confirmation hearings for a federal judgeship when he denied targeting prosecutors who refused to go along with his dismissal of corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Bove misled lawmakers about his actions in NYC mayor case, evidence suggests
The details from a whistleblower complaint emerged hours before a final vote on Bove’s nomination to a federal judgeship.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
And Senate Republicans are about to confirm him to a life appointment on a federal appeals court.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
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The US satire cartoon show South Park secured a five-year deal worth $1.5 billion with Paramount Global. They began their season with this clip, challenging Trump to sue them.
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The US satire cartoon show South Park secured a five-year deal worth $1.5 billion with Paramount Global. They began their season with this clip, challenging Trump to sue them.
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Bongino, an influencer-turned-FBI-director, understands that one of the two sources of his power lies in his audience... and his ability to reflect back to them what they either believe or want to believe about the world. The other source of his power is his alignment with Trump. So he's caught.
Things are going great when the deputy FBI director is concerned about the effects of the bureau's actions on his podcast audience www.wsj.com/politics/jus...
July 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Bongino, an influencer-turned-FBI-director, understands that one of the two sources of his power lies in his audience... and his ability to reflect back to them what they either believe or want to believe about the world. The other source of his power is his alignment with Trump. So he's caught.
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My college basketball coach, Tara Vanderveer, had a saying: “The repetition of error shows a lack of intelligence.” I just don’t understand how folks in media keep falling for the same tricks, over and over again… except that they never acknowledge and reflect upon how they’ve been used.
The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...
All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?
slate.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My college basketball coach, Tara Vanderveer, had a saying: “The repetition of error shows a lack of intelligence.” I just don’t understand how folks in media keep falling for the same tricks, over and over again… except that they never acknowledge and reflect upon how they’ve been used.
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It is not original to say but it is deeply troubling that Trump regularly lies about things are easily disproven, such as the price of gasoline or his conversation with Zelensky in 2019 that led to his impeachment, and, I assume, thinks there will be no consequences for doing so.
Trump blatantly lies about what he said during his shakedown call with Zelenskyy in 2019 (there's a transcript!)
July 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It is not original to say but it is deeply troubling that Trump regularly lies about things are easily disproven, such as the price of gasoline or his conversation with Zelensky in 2019 that led to his impeachment, and, I assume, thinks there will be no consequences for doing so.
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Last month, Noem issued a directive that DHS grants and contracts over $100,000 had to be approved or denied by her office
So this is directly on her no matter how they may try to spin or obfuscate
Craven. Incompetent. Dangerous. Deadly
federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-...
So this is directly on her no matter how they may try to spin or obfuscate
Craven. Incompetent. Dangerous. Deadly
federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-...
July 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Last month, Noem issued a directive that DHS grants and contracts over $100,000 had to be approved or denied by her office
So this is directly on her no matter how they may try to spin or obfuscate
Craven. Incompetent. Dangerous. Deadly
federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-...
So this is directly on her no matter how they may try to spin or obfuscate
Craven. Incompetent. Dangerous. Deadly
federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-...
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New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
www.publicnotice.co
July 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
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This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
July 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.
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This is Nick Begich (R-Alaska). If he votes for the bill,
37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare.
27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance.
578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.
37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare.
27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance.
578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.
July 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is Nick Begich (R-Alaska). If he votes for the bill,
37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare.
27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance.
578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.
37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare.
27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance.
578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.