The Spotlight Operator
@spotlightoperator.bsky.social
Here at the Theatre Politic, our tech team loves to spotlight the good, the bad, and the fuckery. #Resist
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Greetings from up here in the chilly tech booth at the Theatre Politic. Our Technical Director, Robert Bee, and the whole team up here are BirdApp refugees and would like to continue spotlighting the resisters, truth tellers, scholars, journalists, and expose fascist Fuckery ✅
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Maybe they wouldn’t have had time to do this if Illinois state police weren’t helping them protect their facility in Broadview?
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Maybe they wouldn’t have had time to do this if Illinois state police weren’t helping them protect their facility in Broadview?
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Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
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This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution.
Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution.
Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.
By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
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When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And…
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
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📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
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“60 Minutes paid me a lot of money”
In an edited-out part of the Trump interview Trump brags about extorting CBS for millions for… editing out a part of Kamala’s interview.
(He also makes it clear new CBS chief Bari Weiss is in his pocket) #RIPCBS
In an edited-out part of the Trump interview Trump brags about extorting CBS for millions for… editing out a part of Kamala’s interview.
(He also makes it clear new CBS chief Bari Weiss is in his pocket) #RIPCBS
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“60 Minutes paid me a lot of money”
In an edited-out part of the Trump interview Trump brags about extorting CBS for millions for… editing out a part of Kamala’s interview.
(He also makes it clear new CBS chief Bari Weiss is in his pocket) #RIPCBS
In an edited-out part of the Trump interview Trump brags about extorting CBS for millions for… editing out a part of Kamala’s interview.
(He also makes it clear new CBS chief Bari Weiss is in his pocket) #RIPCBS
🛑ALERT🛑
1/10
While stock market crashes, the GOP is quietly pushing a bill to gut Medicaid.
It’s not a side story — it’s the main event.
They’re cutting care for millions to fund tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Sound the alarm. Talk to people.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
While stock market crashes, the GOP is quietly pushing a bill to gut Medicaid.
It’s not a side story — it’s the main event.
They’re cutting care for millions to fund tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Sound the alarm. Talk to people.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
April 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🛑ALERT🛑
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1/10
While stock market crashes, the GOP is quietly pushing a bill to gut Medicaid.
It’s not a side story — it’s the main event.
They’re cutting care for millions to fund tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Sound the alarm. Talk to people.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
While stock market crashes, the GOP is quietly pushing a bill to gut Medicaid.
It’s not a side story — it’s the main event.
They’re cutting care for millions to fund tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Sound the alarm. Talk to people.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
April 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
1/10
While stock market crashes, the GOP is quietly pushing a bill to gut Medicaid.
It’s not a side story — it’s the main event.
They’re cutting care for millions to fund tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Sound the alarm. Talk to people.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
While stock market crashes, the GOP is quietly pushing a bill to gut Medicaid.
It’s not a side story — it’s the main event.
They’re cutting care for millions to fund tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Sound the alarm. Talk to people.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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Here's your Fraud and Waste, DOGE.
April 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Here's your Fraud and Waste, DOGE.
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Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸
April 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸
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5:50 pm PST:
Japan’s banking sector in free fall.
Complete meltdown across all major financial institutions with 14-17% drops not seen since 2008 financial crisis.
Japan’s banking sector in free fall.
Complete meltdown across all major financial institutions with 14-17% drops not seen since 2008 financial crisis.
April 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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5:50 pm PST:
Japan’s banking sector in free fall.
Complete meltdown across all major financial institutions with 14-17% drops not seen since 2008 financial crisis.
Japan’s banking sector in free fall.
Complete meltdown across all major financial institutions with 14-17% drops not seen since 2008 financial crisis.
April 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
5:50 pm PST:
Japan’s banking sector in free fall.
Complete meltdown across all major financial institutions with 14-17% drops not seen since 2008 financial crisis.
Japan’s banking sector in free fall.
Complete meltdown across all major financial institutions with 14-17% drops not seen since 2008 financial crisis.
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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
cbsn.ws
April 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I find it outrageous as well.
April 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I find it outrageous as well.
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I posted the video over 2 years ago. People thought he was bluffing I guess.
April 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I posted the video over 2 years ago. People thought he was bluffing I guess.
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We’re going to die
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We’re going to die
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Here's MAGA hero Andrew Tate—who just dipped back into the U.S. to allegedly sexually assault his girlfriend before returning to the foreign country where he stands accused of Rape.
You can't find a MAGA anywhere who'll criticize this man.
MAGA is a sick, violent, abusive cult.
You can't find a MAGA anywhere who'll criticize this man.
MAGA is a sick, violent, abusive cult.
March 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here's MAGA hero Andrew Tate—who just dipped back into the U.S. to allegedly sexually assault his girlfriend before returning to the foreign country where he stands accused of Rape.
You can't find a MAGA anywhere who'll criticize this man.
MAGA is a sick, violent, abusive cult.
You can't find a MAGA anywhere who'll criticize this man.
MAGA is a sick, violent, abusive cult.
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Rep. Tim Burchett says NPR and PBS must be defunded because "they literally hate this country": "They hate everything it's about. They hate our patriotism. They hate our Lord."
March 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Rep. Tim Burchett says NPR and PBS must be defunded because "they literally hate this country": "They hate everything it's about. They hate our patriotism. They hate our Lord."
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People in even super-deep-red districts are catching on to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s robbery of the American people.
This is getting good.
This is getting good.
March 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
People in even super-deep-red districts are catching on to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s robbery of the American people.
This is getting good.
This is getting good.
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This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Bluesky says it is now sending referral traffic through its "go" subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track the traffic coming from the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
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A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.”
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.”
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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This is literally just corruption.
March 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is literally just corruption.