gladesman.bsky.social
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When Trump rants about "free speech," what he really means is that he wants to censor anyone who points out his lies.
European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA.
In the US, he is attacking news orgs.
European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA.
In the US, he is attacking news orgs.
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
When Trump rants about "free speech," what he really means is that he wants to censor anyone who points out his lies.
European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA.
In the US, he is attacking news orgs.
European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA.
In the US, he is attacking news orgs.
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The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.
Donald Trump Jr-backed start-up scores $600mn US federal government deal
President’s son’s fund 1789 Capital poised to capitalise from father’s administration
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
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/5 I’m old, and fat, and slow, and live a mostly complacent and banal life, so maybe it’s more appropriate to put it less dramatically: I am prepared to accept substantial unpleasantness and hardship rather than submit to fascism.
September 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
/5 I’m old, and fat, and slow, and live a mostly complacent and banal life, so maybe it’s more appropriate to put it less dramatically: I am prepared to accept substantial unpleasantness and hardship rather than submit to fascism.
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.
August 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.
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MAGA screamed for years about the weaponization of government, only for Trump to take a whole-of-government approach to prosecuting a political opponent based on allegations that are completely absurd. I'm not sure what it will take for Dems to stop fetishizing bipartisanship and actually hit hard.
Important: Note that Trump just posted documents plainly given to him by administration agencies as part of his quest to show Schiff merits prosecution. This is an open flaunting of the use of agencies to gin up pretexts for prosecuting enemies. (cc @donmoyn.bsky.social @emptywheel.bsky.social)
July 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
MAGA screamed for years about the weaponization of government, only for Trump to take a whole-of-government approach to prosecuting a political opponent based on allegations that are completely absurd. I'm not sure what it will take for Dems to stop fetishizing bipartisanship and actually hit hard.
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They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation
July 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation
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At its crudest, most sociopathic formulation, rule of law exists so society doesn't blow its top off at bullies who are never punished.
June 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
At its crudest, most sociopathic formulation, rule of law exists so society doesn't blow its top off at bullies who are never punished.
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Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.
May 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.
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Op-ed: #Florida black bears deserve protection, not a trophy hunt from FWC. www.naplesnews.com/story/opinio... via @humanesociety.bsky.social
Black bears deserve protection, not a trophy hunt | Opinion
A brand new poll shows that a supermajority of Florida voters, 81%, do not want a bear hunt
www.naplesnews.com
May 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Op-ed: #Florida black bears deserve protection, not a trophy hunt from FWC. www.naplesnews.com/story/opinio... via @humanesociety.bsky.social
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Is killing #Florida bears a good way to control them? (Not just no but HELL no.) www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/05/18/i... via @orlandosentinel.com
Is killing Florida bears a good way to control them?
Next week in Ocala, state wildlife commissioners will consider rules for the first hunt in a decade.
www.orlandosentinel.com
May 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Is killing #Florida bears a good way to control them? (Not just no but HELL no.) www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/05/18/i... via @orlandosentinel.com
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people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
May 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
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An official with the union that represents Weather Service employees said the office in Jackson, Ky., was one of four that no longer had a permanent overnight forecaster.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
After Cuts, a Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
An official with the union that represents Weather Service employees said the office in Jackson, Ky., was one of four that no longer had a permanent overnight forecaster.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
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It's even worse than this! "No one can be deprived of liberty without due process of law" goes back to Runnymede, far predating the United States. (and further: the barons who wrote the Magna Carta also believed they were merely enshrining in writing rules that already existed since time immemorial)
The U.S. is 250 years old. We should not have to constantly relitigate incredibly basic shit like “everyone is entitled to due process” or “presidents must obey court orders” like these are new or unsettled questions.
May 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It's even worse than this! "No one can be deprived of liberty without due process of law" goes back to Runnymede, far predating the United States. (and further: the barons who wrote the Magna Carta also believed they were merely enshrining in writing rules that already existed since time immemorial)
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NEW: Judge Hannah Dugan files a blistering motion to dismiss the baseless charges against her. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/in-defense...
In Defense of Judge Hannah Dugan
Judge Dugan has pled not guilty, and her team of lawyers has submitted a motion to dismiss the charges against her.
www.muellershewrote.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
NEW: Judge Hannah Dugan files a blistering motion to dismiss the baseless charges against her. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/in-defense...
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No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice - something I’ve done twice this year without issue.
May 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice - something I’ve done twice this year without issue.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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The plan is to break the parks, claim they must be privatized, take them from the American people and give them to their friends.
Update: the Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Park System by $900 million, about one third of its budget.
Please read/share if you love your national parks!
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.
They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.
They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...
May 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The plan is to break the parks, claim they must be privatized, take them from the American people and give them to their friends.
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Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.
Why did Tommy Tuberville vote in Florida if he lived in Alabama?
Election records show Tuberville voted in Florida after he says a homestead exemption puts his residency in Alabama.
www.al.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.
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Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.
April 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.
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It is not a “news distortion review”
Stop stipulating to the accuracy and good faith of a bunch of lawless thugs who have repeatedly made their dishonesty clear.
Stop stipulating to the accuracy and good faith of a bunch of lawless thugs who have repeatedly made their dishonesty clear.
FCC chair says 'all options" open in CBS '60 Minutes' news distortion review reut.rs/3EDw4Hs
FCC chair says 'all options" open in CBS '60 Minutes' news distortion review
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said Monday "all options remain on the table" in the agency's ongoing investigation into a "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
reut.rs
April 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It is not a “news distortion review”
Stop stipulating to the accuracy and good faith of a bunch of lawless thugs who have repeatedly made their dishonesty clear.
Stop stipulating to the accuracy and good faith of a bunch of lawless thugs who have repeatedly made their dishonesty clear.