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altnps.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
Surely Antifa’s Tier One special forces staged a covert raid on this congressional office. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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lincolnproject.us
Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves.

The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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mclem.org
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Newsom reveals what Trump discussed with him the night before he federalized the National Guard in Los Angeles:

How original the “Newscum” nickname is

How many MAGA hats he sold

The debate with Kamala Harris
August 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
"Meet the 30-Year-Old Far-Right Provocateur Nominated by Trump to Investigate Jack Smith"

Paul Ingrassia, who has defended Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate and was only admitted to the bar last year, is Trump's nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel.
Meet the 30-Year-Old Far-Right Provocateur Nominated by Trump to Investigate Jack Smith
Paul Ingrassia, who has defended Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate and was only admitted to the bar last year, is Donald Trump's nominee to run the all-important Office of Special Counsel.
zeteo.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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arthurdeodat.bsky.social
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June 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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kurtandersen.bsky.social
Trump and his Republican Party are reckless un-American anti-constitutional radicals, the very opposite of conservative. His breakup with the Federalist Society makes it official, confirmation that Trump and his GOP are a cult of cruelty, chaos and corruption. Conservative in name only.
May 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
up to #2 among most-read @theguardian.com commentaries today:
ranking of commentaries on Guardian opinion page today
May 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.

And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.

And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
"Do look up: how science and international cooperation closed the ozone hole" | Really important editorial in @nature.com (w/ a nod to @ghostpanther.bsky.social): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Do look up: how science and international cooperation closed the ozone hole
Forty years ago this month, scientists reported that human activities had punctured Earth’s protective ozone layer. What happened next offers a masterclass in international science-diplomacy.
www.nature.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Find someone who looks at you the way Vladmir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman look at each other
#Saudis #Russia #Authoritarians #PetroStates #ClimateVillains #ScienceUnderSiege
photo of Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman and Russian dictator Vladmir Putin staring lovingly into each other's eyees
April 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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wigu.org
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Worth being aware, if you aren't already, of the 100-mile border zone loophole that allows that federal government to stop and interrogate anyone, without probable cause.

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
April 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
American Lysenkoism
eric-reinhart.com Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this?

Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..
March 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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annackramer.bsky.social
The National Weather Service just indefinitely cut a big swath of weather balloon launches across the US

Forecasters say this will immediately degrade the accuracy of predictions and make it harder to give plenty of warning for extreme weather. My latest for @notusreports.bsky.social
The National Weather Service Is Slashing Critical Data Balloon Launches Due to Staffing Shortages
Launches in Nebraska, South Dakota and other states — that are key to accurate forcasts — have been suspended indefinitely.
www.notus.org
March 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
whether you like AOC or not, that's a fucking bar

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acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 20
AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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kwcollins.bsky.social
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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fiona-webster22.bsky.social
A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth.

An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.

No pay wall.
America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
theconversation.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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zachrunsthings.bsky.social
Trump accomplished in a mere 6 weeks what Biden couldn’t do in 4 YEARS. Take that, libs.
aaronparnas.bsky.social Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · Mar 10
For years economists told us that the country would face a recession under President Biden. It never happened.

Just six weeks into Trump's term, however, we are now on the verge of economic turmoil.
March 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.
March 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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simulatedchollas.bsky.social
A scam built atop an accounting gimmick wrapped in bullshit: Why visiting Fort Knox is not about selling gold but is about buying bitcoin
February 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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normative.bsky.social
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
okwonga.bsky.social Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Feb 23
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
okwonga.bsky.social Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Feb 21
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM