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Cancel the Washington Post and NY Times and support independent journalists who actually care about democracy and holding truth to power No Kings Reposts ≠ Endorsement
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 5d
This is perfect!

It is weird. That’s from when people were losing their minds about people telling Dems they should talk like normal people and mobs were arguing against it. You helped prove my point. Thank you!! Haha.
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Oedipal Arrangements 🇵🇸 @6to12elbow.bsky.social · 6d
Lmaooooo fuckin weirdo
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 7h
Has Trump paid E Jean Carroll any of the money he owes her?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h
Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”
Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills
A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.
www.orlandosentinel.com
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 14h
ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h
I was trying to be generous, but you’re probably right. :)

I’d love for @oliverdarcy.bsky.social to do it! Now I’m sooooo curious what the number would be.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 8h
the entire clip is essential -- her critique is broad and damning
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 19h
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 10h
#NowPlaying “Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo” documentary.

This documentary was hard to find for years, but it got uploaded to YouTube today.

RIP D’Angelo
Devil's Pie: D'Angelo 2019 documentary
YouTube video by Madnouz
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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 8h
This is the most amazing pushback ever.

She is 100% right and it is totally nuts to suggest that the Republicans never argue with each other.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attributed the destruction of our economy to Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 19h
Highly recommended. I didn’t know much of anything about her at first; turns out I could have saved myself some research time by just waiting for this video
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 9h
Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h
That’s what I’m wondering. Apart from the clique, semi-snobby national or dc reporters who is actually asking for this book?

If Oliver asked 10 randos on the street (not on x or social media but on the actual streets :) ) who Olivia Nuzzi is I’d guess less than half would even know who she is.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h
Im genuinely asking this - who is this book for?

Do enough people *really* care about her reported phone sex affair with RFK Jr. that she can sell enough books to cover production costs? A long feature in Vanity Fair or NYT magazine, sure, but a book? Really? I don’t know.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h
Experts claim it’s hard to say.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h
Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 8h
my god
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
Value-neutral, numerical balance is not even a journalistic virtue, as the Free Press seems to think. But the thing is, they don't even follow *that* kind of balance: www.thebulwark.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance
The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.
www.thebulwark.com
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h
Facts don’t really seem to matter anymore. Most things are just running on vibes at this point. And, most of the vibes aren’t good.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h
A judge issued a protective order against a Republican congressman from Florida on Tuesday, forbidding him to contact a former girlfriend who in court proceedings said he had threatened her with revenge porn after she broke up with him.
Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Representative Cory Mills
Representative Cory Mills’s former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 8h
AGAIN? The timeline remains off by five months (Smith wasn't made Counsel until 11/22; didn't return from Europe until 1/23)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 23h
Kernen just trashing democrats and guests who worked for Joe Biden this morning on cnbc. So crude & classless. It’s really unbelievable @cnbc.com allows him to be so f’ing rude and downright classless to guests. Can’t wait until he retires.

And hes loves to ignore the deficit swelling under Trump!
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 23h
The double stanard is amazing.

I’m old enough to remember journalists (tapper may have been one?) running multiple A block stories literally asking if Hunter Biden should be allowed to sell paintings under his own name while his dad was the POTUS and then chastising him for doing so.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 23h
Do it out in the open and the press barely lifts a finger to question it. The trumps & kushner got alot, what did America get? Wild.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d
The UAE bought $2B of Trump’s crypto — and gets computer chips

Saudi Arabia gave Kushner $2B for a new Trump Tower — and gets weapons

Qatar gives Trump a private jet and a $5.5B real estate deal — and gets US military protection

This is how bribes work.
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Quid Pro Presidency
Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits fro...
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