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Kim Kaufman
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Former Treasurer KPFK, Pacifica's Los Angeles radio station. I care about media and education
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Is this for real????
distillsocial.bsky.social Distill Social @distillsocial.bsky.social · Nov 3
The USDA, under the Trump administration, sent a notice warning grocery stores not to offer special discounts to families struggling with the lapse in SNAP funding — a stunningly heartless move in the middle of a crisis the administration itself caused.
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Let them eat marble toilets... while we party on with our tax cuts that Medicaid and SNAP benefits paid for.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Nov 1
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Nov 1
Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This seems to be the point: the rules don't apply to the king. And too bad for all those unworthy people who work for wages instead of having lucrative grifts. And flaunting it to let everyone know he doesn't care about you unless you're a fellow grifter.
tusk81.bsky.social Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Oct 1
“… the swanky addition to the White House is moving forward even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are either furloughed or forced to work without pay.”
October 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Silence, Fear, and Charlie Kirk: The Good Germans Question for America cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/19/s...
Silence, Fear, and Charlie Kirk: The Good Germans Question for America
Historians have long asked a haunting question about the rise of authoritarian regimes: How did the “good Germans” let it happen? How did ordinary people who loved their families, went to work each…
cloakinginequity.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I thought they wanted women to have more babies. Weird.
September 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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adambonin.bsky.social
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Feb. 4, 1939 February 4, 1939, Page 1 BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany. Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence." As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today. What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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bindiatthebeach.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Trump is the crazy. Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, et al., are the cunning.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 17
The sheer speed with which Trump is implementing the autocrat’s playbook is a key differentiator. This incremental approach leaves citizens in a state of ambivalence. Trump's speed might be a kind of silver lining. www.thebulwark.com/p/crazy-or-c...
September 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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mjszabo.bsky.social
I’m looking to talk to people who were either at the Charlie Kirk vigil in Huntington Beach on Sunday night. Or, if you have thoughts about that or an earlier gathering at the pier that apparently drew White supremacists. This is for a Daily Pilot story. Feel free to comment or reach out. Thanks!
September 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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busbyj2.bsky.social Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · Aug 28
CDC director called Louisiana Senator Cassidy today before she was asked to resign by RFK. Louisiana folks need to be calling Cassidy's office and asking that he demand RFK to resign.

Make RFK Jr a problem for Trump and he gets dumped overboard.
August 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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butterflygirl24.bsky.social
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
August 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
This is what Trump's Solicitor General told the Supreme Court about Maxwell last month. Unless it's withdrawn, this is the official position of DOJ and the United States.
August 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Probably only will eat white bread.
August 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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sillymickel.bsky.social
check the thread. we've been discussing that here ... on Bsky at #TruthWarriors ... and all over the internet ... Spoutible, Substack, etc.

you'll get all the references & sources you need.

Kamala won in a landslide.

check out #TruthWarriors

and this:

bsky.app/profile/sill...
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
NY Times and Democracy Docket cover the same hearing. Notice the difference in framing.

This is why -- right now-- we need independent, pro-democracy media.
August 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Where oh where is prisoner Ghìslaine Maxwell?
brucelcarter.bsky.social Galveston @brucelcarter.bsky.social · Aug 2
7pm cst….not in BOP custody
August 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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brucelcarter.bsky.social
Supposedly Maxwell has been moved from maximum security prison in Florida to minimum security prison in Texas…but the Bureau of Prisons website says she is ‘not in BOP’ custody…so where the hell is she?
If she is released in Texas, she won’t be rearrested…she can fly to Europe.
August 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
And it's how countries become failed states.
August 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Where's Ghislaine?
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 1
NBC News: Ghislaine Maxwell was ineligible to be transferred to a minimum security prison camp — like the one she was transferred to in Texas — because she is a convicted sex offender, according to the Bureau of Prison's own designation policy.
August 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Where's Ghislane????
brucelcarter.bsky.social Galveston @brucelcarter.bsky.social · Aug 1
As of 5:00 she is still not listed.
August 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Wut?
brucelcarter.bsky.social Galveston @brucelcarter.bsky.social · Aug 1
The Bureau of Prisons website says (as of noon) she is not in their custody.
August 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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brucelcarter.bsky.social
The Bureau of Prisons website says (as of noon) she is not in their custody.
August 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.
July 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
States with two Democratic senators voting NO: California. Shame on @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Jul 31
States with two Democratic senators voting YES:

GA
HI
IL
MA
MD
MN
NM
RI
VT
July 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Do Vance and Stephen Miller first.
nicsigni.bsky.social Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · Jul 23
back from vacation (a week ago) and about to make it everyone’s problem
Painting of a woman at a table looking at another woman who is holding a serving tray. My caption “can I get you anything else?” “A new president and another coffee would be great.”
July 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM