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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 7h

Damn, you're right

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote this in 2023 and two of the three gutter racists featured herein have been fully rehabilitated in right-wing circles. (One works for a U.S. senator!)

www.thedailybeast.com/the-right-ne...

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8h

The Young Republicans institutionally denounced the Hitler-praising, ferociously antisemitic and virulently racist messages in their leaders’ group chats, calling for resignations.

The VP of the US says it’s “pearl clutching” to care and changes the subject.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 8h

Pete Hegseth to the U.S. military:

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 8h

Still blows my mind that "New York, New York" was written in 1977.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and
social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing
their jobs. The Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Debbie Brockman, the WGN producer who was violently detained by Border Patrol agents in Chicago while on her way to work, has hired a law firm and "intends to pursue all legal avenues" over her arrest -- which resulted in no charges.

peopleslawoffice.com/statement-on...

Statement on Behalf of Debbie Brockman, WGN Employee Assaulted by Federal Agents | People's Law Office

Debbie Brockman, the WGN employee who was physically attacked and arrested in Chicago, Illinois by federal agents on October 10, 2025, would like to

peopleslawoffice.com

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 13h

Non-zero chance that at least a few Jan. 6 insurrectionists received presidential pardons and now work as part of the president's lawless, masked secret police force.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of the J6 groups came down, btw, based on FB's own calls, because of calls for violence within those groups. That got reframed as "anti-conservative censorship".

What apparently happened here is that Laura Loomer got upset about some groups she thought needed to come down & DOJ made requests.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 19h

“All of the sudden I am really enjoying cancel culture.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

"A video appeared to show several masked gunmen, some of them wearing green headbands resembling ones worn by Hamas, shooting with machine guns at least seven men after forcing them to kneel in the street...spectators cheered 'Allah Akbar,' or God is Great, and called those killed 'collaborators.'"

Hamas deploys fighters as hostages released, in show of strength

Hamas deployed fighters in Gaza on Monday as a release of hostages seized in the October 7 attacks was under way, Reuters footage showed, in an apparent show of strength by the militant group which President Donald Trump says must disarm.

www.reuters.com

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas is executing people in public, apparently with Trump's greenlight because he thinks they're fighting "crime."

Trump suggests Hamas has approval for internal security operations in Gaza

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Hamas had been given a greenlight for internal security operations it is conducting in the Gaza Strip, saying the group wants "to stop the problems" and "we gave them approval for a period of time".

www.reuters.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

The alt-right won.

Steven Miller is in the White House, the administration is making segregation great again, their “intellectuals” are hanging out with Atlantic authors, and secret police are kidnapping brown kids.

This is the future they hoped for.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

The place was historically horrible enough to be called "the Tombs" but it still doesn't deserve to be named after Bernie Kerik.

Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 1d

"Kerik's professional biography is long, fascinating, and so chock-a-block with outrageous and alarming episodes of moral failure that his life takes on a sort of mythic scale, a tall tale of rolling skullduggery." - @nickpinto.bsky.social

hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

hellgatenyc.com

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

When they have a really egregious error, TFP's standard practice is to challenge the person who pointed it out to a podcast debate.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 2d

He literally only cares about this because the conspiracy people (who he helped promote all these years) now focus on Israel

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Ben Shapiro and other MAGA elites are *shocked* that the gutter racists they allied with during the War on Wokeness are also antisemites.

But instead of reflecting on their own culpability and gullibility — they're inventing phrases like "woke right" and "conspiratorial right."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.

Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.

Me, in @msnbc.com:

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

*rehabilitated by substack

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

so glad meritocracy is back with a vengeance

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

But Hunter Biden's laptop

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

You can bribe the president with $2,000,000,000 but he'll apparently still do that dipshit Alpha Male move where he suddenly yanks your arm in a handshake.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump greets the delegate from UAE, which put $2 billion into Trump’s crypto company: “They got a lot of cash. Unlimited cash.”

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

kinda says it all, doesn't it

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