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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5h

If DOGE really wanted to achieve efficiency in government...

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5h

The people who accused Obama of rounding them up and putting them in concentration camps now get to LARP their dark fictions into reality—with someone else getting locked up by jack-booted thugs

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 13h

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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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 18h

First they came for the airports...

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

trib.al

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 1d

The real problem, says the US Attorney who resigned after Trump blocked her prosecution of Eric Adams, isn't that Trump has turned the DOJ into an arm of his vengeance or favor, depending on his whim, but ... law schools canceling Ilya Shapiro 🤦‍♂️

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Danielle Sassoon is right to call out universities for using “security” as a convenient justification for shutting down controversial speech. The notion that conservatives are the main victims of this practice is delusional, though. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story.

www.nytimes.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 1d

The perfect response to MAGA's favorite left-wing hack (who isn't yet running a federal agency)

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Stoller seems like someone who is constantly at war with himself, and winning.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

Stoller really seems like a normal and well-adjusted guy

Matt Stoller @ @matthewstol...14h S
Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you talk about your left wing views. You're slime.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

And if you think you're safe on the left, you're not.

The right has been pushing that calling them "fascist" should be illegal / somehow punished.

With SB 771 they'll be able to sue platforms for aiding & abetting intimidation/violence based on political affiliation for allowing you to post that.

California Code, Civil Code - CIV § 51.7
Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976.

(b)(1) All persons within the jurisdiction of this state have the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against their persons or property because of political affiliation, or on account of any characteristic listed or defined in subdivision (b) or (e) of Section 51, or position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics. The identification in this subdivision of particular bases of discrimination is illustrative rather than restrictive.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 3d

“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
— @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 4d

"Bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.... America must not become a nation of onlookers. It must speak up and act."
- Rabbi Joachim Prinz (b. 🇩🇪 1902) to the March on Washington, 1963

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Use Android. Sideload banned apps. Free your mind. 🤖

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 6d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Habet corpum optimum
(He has the best body)

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 5d

They really are just using big words to confuse him now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

The Spice must flow 🪱

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6d

McCormick spice company has a $140 million tariff problem www.thebanner.com/economy/mcco...

McCormick spice company has a $140 million tariff problem

McCormick & Company, a spice giant based in Hunt Valley, said in an earnings call Tuesday that it anticipates $140 million in annual costs associated with President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

www.thebanner.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

Can't wait for them to dust off "Arbeit macht frei" to jazz up their ICE camps

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

Markey: Republicans are trying to distract Americans with old emails from the Biden Administration while Brendan Carr is turning the FCC into the Federalist Censorship Commission

a man says " finally yesssss " in front of a back of house logo

ALT: a man says " finally yesssss " in front of a back of house logo

media.tenor.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

Sean Davis: as someone whose family has been here for hundred and hundreds of years, it's so frustrating to see illegal immigrants getting their day in court before The Federalist

What a perfect blend of xenophobia, victimhood and legal bullshit: The Federalist just didn't have any legal claim

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

a black and white photo of two men with the caption i 'm shocked shocked to find that gambling is going on

ALT: a black and white photo of two men with the caption i 'm shocked shocked to find that gambling is going on

media.tenor.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6d

You're telling me the Dems are failing to rise to the moment? Why, it must be a day.

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

This hearing is a missed opportunity for Dems. Instead of either detailing how 🐘s have jawboned tech companies not to moderate content, or debunking 🐘 jawboning claims, they're fixated giving the gov't more power to break up media, which would likely change little and give 🐘s more leverage

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

Blackburn: Tourists aren't coming to the US because they're fearful of crime, not of the Administration (detaining its critics, refusing entry based on social media posts, etc)

meanwhile, in the real world...

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

Bemoaning concentration in broadcast media is peak Zombie Democrat Media Policy

The real problem is, obviously, that the FCC has broadcasters by the balls, and Don Carleone has weaponized that leverage to make broadcasters "an offer they can't refuse, as Cruz understood
thehill.com/opinion/civi...

thehill.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

This hearing is a missed opportunity for Dems. Instead of either detailing how 🐘s have jawboned tech companies not to moderate content, or debunking 🐘 jawboning claims, they're fixated giving the gov't more power to break up media, which would likely change little and give 🐘s more leverage

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

So half of the 🇪🇺 right was fasc all along

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d

The Federalist wasn't censored for their content. Google simply requires moderation of hate speech *in user comments,* which The Federalist refused to moderate (or move to a separate page

www.techdirt.com/2020/06/16/n...

No, Google Didn't Demonetize The Federalist & It's Not An Example Of Anti-Conservative Bias

So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge. The story was a bit confusing. To be clear, …

www.techdirt.com

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