Pam Vogel
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as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time
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Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
August 14, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
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👀 Right-leaning podcasters call out the Trump administration’s 2016 election claims as a “distraction” from Jeffrey Epstein
Right-leaning podcasters call out the Trump administration’s 2016 election claims as a “distraction” from Jeffrey Epstein
Following weeks of outrage from right-wing media over the Trump administration’s handling of files relating to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently de...
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July 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
👀 Right-leaning podcasters call out the Trump administration’s 2016 election claims as a “distraction” from Jeffrey Epstein
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"Good fucking riddance," Lander says of Andrew Cuomo, who was trailing behind Zohran Mamdani tonight
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"Good fucking riddance," Lander says of Andrew Cuomo, who was trailing behind Zohran Mamdani tonight
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Matthew GERTZ has a good thread reminding us that Pirro is actually a bigoted nightmare so it’s actually not as funny as you might think that she’ll be the U.S. Attorney
Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration.
She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."
Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."
Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
Trump just appointed Fox host Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Yes, Jeanine Pirro.
May 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Matthew GERTZ has a good thread reminding us that Pirro is actually a bigoted nightmare so it’s actually not as funny as you might think that she’ll be the U.S. Attorney
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Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration.
She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."
Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."
Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
Trump just appointed Fox host Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Yes, Jeanine Pirro.
May 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration.
She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."
Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."
Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
May 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
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Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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The single most clarifying piece of journalism about Russell Brand that I've encountered is this video from @abbierichards.bsky.social. She charts Russell Brand's political evolution through his video content, and shows just how profitable a right wing grift can be.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4g...
Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift
YouTube video by Media Matters
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April 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The single most clarifying piece of journalism about Russell Brand that I've encountered is this video from @abbierichards.bsky.social. She charts Russell Brand's political evolution through his video content, and shows just how profitable a right wing grift can be.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4g...
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Al Green once told me: "Only God knows what he will do when he believes that he has no one to answer to. Right now, he knows that we are there, but if we don’t do our duty, the president will do unthinkable things.”
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Al Green once told me: "Only God knows what he will do when he believes that he has no one to answer to. Right now, he knows that we are there, but if we don’t do our duty, the president will do unthinkable things.”
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one thing i think people have slept on a bit is that before and during his first term, trump clearly watched a ton of fox news. but in the years since he's been marinating in even more crazy fever swamps and he's now the oldest president ever elected. we're gonna have a lot more events like today's.
January 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
one thing i think people have slept on a bit is that before and during his first term, trump clearly watched a ton of fox news. but in the years since he's been marinating in even more crazy fever swamps and he's now the oldest president ever elected. we're gonna have a lot more events like today's.
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1/ Trump’s executive order banning trans people from serving in the military isn’t about “readiness” or “lethality.” It’s about cruelty. And right-wing media wasted no time celebrating the ban with some of the most vile rhetoric imaginable. 🧵
January 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
1/ Trump’s executive order banning trans people from serving in the military isn’t about “readiness” or “lethality.” It’s about cruelty. And right-wing media wasted no time celebrating the ban with some of the most vile rhetoric imaginable. 🧵
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Great illustration from the Heritage Foundation about how the push to defund the Department of Education is at its heart an attack on organized labor. The word "union" gets mentioned 22 times in like an 800-word blog!
January 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Great illustration from the Heritage Foundation about how the push to defund the Department of Education is at its heart an attack on organized labor. The word "union" gets mentioned 22 times in like an 800-word blog!
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Buried lede: could end HIV if they charged $50 per dose and not $42,000
This drug is the 'breakthrough of the year' -- and it could mean the end of the HIV epidemic
That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.
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December 12, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Buried lede: could end HIV if they charged $50 per dose and not $42,000
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The Fox News write-up of Kimberly Guilfoyle getting nominated to an ambassadorship does not mention her work for the network, possibly because her departure came after she was reported for sexual harassment with Fox paying a reported $4 million settlement.
December 11, 2024 at 1:44 PM
The Fox News write-up of Kimberly Guilfoyle getting nominated to an ambassadorship does not mention her work for the network, possibly because her departure came after she was reported for sexual harassment with Fox paying a reported $4 million settlement.
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Trump has now named at least 10 high profile administration roles to be filled by Project 2025 contributors
Tom Homan
Brendan Carr
Stephen Miller
Karoline Leavitt
Russ Vought
John Ratcliffe
Pete Hoekstra
James Braid
Peter Navarro
Monica Crowley www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
Tom Homan
Brendan Carr
Stephen Miller
Karoline Leavitt
Russ Vought
John Ratcliffe
Pete Hoekstra
James Braid
Peter Navarro
Monica Crowley www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
The Trump administration personnel with ties to Project 2025
Though President-elect Donald Trump tried throughout the 2024 campaign to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation-led initiative Project 2025 -- a sprawling right-wing plan to remake the federal...
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December 4, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Trump has now named at least 10 high profile administration roles to be filled by Project 2025 contributors
Tom Homan
Brendan Carr
Stephen Miller
Karoline Leavitt
Russ Vought
John Ratcliffe
Pete Hoekstra
James Braid
Peter Navarro
Monica Crowley www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
Tom Homan
Brendan Carr
Stephen Miller
Karoline Leavitt
Russ Vought
John Ratcliffe
Pete Hoekstra
James Braid
Peter Navarro
Monica Crowley www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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if i were a democrat politician i would spend all day every day pointing out that 9/11, the iraq war, the housing collapse, the great recession and covid mismanagement all happened under republican presidents
November 27, 2024 at 1:44 PM
if i were a democrat politician i would spend all day every day pointing out that 9/11, the iraq war, the housing collapse, the great recession and covid mismanagement all happened under republican presidents
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Nancy Mace is a "huge attention getter, so this is part of her attention-getting fetish," says Rep. Maxwell Frost of Mace's bigoted attack on Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
"I just don't understand why bathrooms are top of mind for her, why she's thinking about … going to piss and shit." t.co/sBd6rX3NP3
"I just don't understand why bathrooms are top of mind for her, why she's thinking about … going to piss and shit." t.co/sBd6rX3NP3
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/mike-johnson-mace-mtg-mcbride-bathroom
t.co
November 19, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Nancy Mace is a "huge attention getter, so this is part of her attention-getting fetish," says Rep. Maxwell Frost of Mace's bigoted attack on Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
"I just don't understand why bathrooms are top of mind for her, why she's thinking about … going to piss and shit." t.co/sBd6rX3NP3
"I just don't understand why bathrooms are top of mind for her, why she's thinking about … going to piss and shit." t.co/sBd6rX3NP3
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once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed
First quote in this new @politico.com story is from RI's Dem committeeman Joe Paolino: "The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’
Recriminations over Kamala Harris’ defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.
www.politico.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:31 AM
once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed
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kicking off a new era of transparency in the govt by hiding the report detailing the alleged sexual assault of a minor by the attorney general nominee
November 15, 2024 at 2:16 PM
kicking off a new era of transparency in the govt by hiding the report detailing the alleged sexual assault of a minor by the attorney general nominee
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Pete Hegseth is an anti-Muslim bigot who has warned followers about the Muslim birth rate in states like Michigan; criticized the election of Muslims to public office; and praised President Donald Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
Pete Hegseth's book includes complaints about “Muslims’ birth rates,” praise for “crusaders who pushed back the Muslim hordes”
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November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Pete Hegseth is an anti-Muslim bigot who has warned followers about the Muslim birth rate in states like Michigan; criticized the election of Muslims to public office; and praised President Donald Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
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It feels really good to be here. It's so important for journalists and researchers to have a platform like this one.
@mmfa.bsky.social is on Bluesky, and I hope you'll give us a follow ⬇️ bsky.app/starter-pack...
@mmfa.bsky.social is on Bluesky, and I hope you'll give us a follow ⬇️ bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 14, 2024 at 7:22 PM
It feels really good to be here. It's so important for journalists and researchers to have a platform like this one.
@mmfa.bsky.social is on Bluesky, and I hope you'll give us a follow ⬇️ bsky.app/starter-pack...
@mmfa.bsky.social is on Bluesky, and I hope you'll give us a follow ⬇️ bsky.app/starter-pack...
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New: A fringe commentator — whose account endorsed threads praising Adolf Hitler and pushing claims about a “Jew World Order” — recently said that she’s “part of” and “working with” Trump’s transition team to help close friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism...
Close RFK Jr. friend whose account promoted “Jew World Order” conspiracy theory says she’s “working with” Trump’s transition team
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November 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM
New: A fringe commentator — whose account endorsed threads praising Adolf Hitler and pushing claims about a “Jew World Order” — recently said that she’s “part of” and “working with” Trump’s transition team to help close friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism...