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@callyson.bsky.social

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Longtime CA/originally PGH/now NV Leader @SwingLeftReno Politics/fashion/art Fights for American democracy NO DMs unless I know you IRL -- others will be deleted #Resist #Steelers #VoteBlue

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · Sep 9

I did a thing. Hope others find it useful...because we sure AF can't trust the legacy media to deliver the news about what's going on:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Substacks & Podcasts Worth Following

docs.google.com

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

Very necessary timeline cleanse:

Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 6h

Morning Kitten

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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 1h

Truth be told, he hates everything good. It's war on all of it.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald.

I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

"If MAGA’s Mike Johnson says those of us who are determined to stand up for the First Amendment, healthcare, immigrant neighbors, due process, equal protection under law, public health, and the Constitution hate America, then we are in good company:"
open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...

Good Company

MAGA's Mike Johnson calls those who challenge authoritarianism "anti-American." He's not the first.

open.substack.com

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

That rumor was started by MAGA fascists, who are scared because they know they're in the minority & most Americans oppose them & support democracy
MAGA fascists are the ones who hate America, & more & more of us actual patriots see that
We'll be happy when we save & improve our democracy
#NoKings

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

For once, SCOTUS administered some justice
Suck it, Alex Jones
PS:
"Jones' lawyers...warned if the case was not put on hold, 'InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed'"
"Destroyed? That must be rough!"
Repoters @ CBS, NYT, WaPo, &etc:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

Trump "is trying to seed a panic about «antifa,» one which, if it succeeds, brings the media and the result of us along as collaborators in authoritarian regime change...[panics] are a form of deliberate politics based upon scripted lies. And we need this truth:"
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The Truth about Panics

One is being generated right now

open.substack.com

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h

"To put that in perspective: 97,000 is the sort of figure you’d expect to see from a mid-size regional paper like The Minnesota Star Tribune or The Seattle Times. Not from a globally recognized newsroom with multiple Pulitzers...Once a D.C. powerhouse with national ambition, it’s now in retreat"

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h

Trump Is Now Begging Dem Leaders to Let Him Send in National Guard
Donald Trump pleaded for governors to “beg” him for help
“I want them to admit they have crime...
I want them to say we have a problem, could Trump bring in the troops and solve the problem”
newrepublic.com/post/201731/...

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h

The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends
...also, see my pinned post for good Substacks & podcasts:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

So what can be done? First of all, average voters, activists, elites, and left-leaning politicians need to adjust their media consumption. CBS News and the Post, in the midst of Trump attempting to become America’s dictator, have intentionally shifted their coverage and leadership to be more favorable to him. Move on from those outlets. You can keep subscribing to the Post or watching 60 Minutes for the occasional big investigative story they break. But outlets such as The Guardian provide comprehensive daily news coverage that isn’t trying to appease Trump. Add those to your daily or hourly news consumption, and drop outlets or at least sections (Post Opinions) that aren’t fully committed to defending democracy.

Second, we need a change within the media itself. Many left-leaning outlets have traditionally offered alternative framing of the news, but not an alternative agenda. So those outlets cover the same stories as the mainstream media but with a more liberal perspective. That’s not the right approach for today. The mainstream media is failing (intentionally) in what stories it chooses to cover and how much: i.e., agenda setting. They are refusing to offer coverage (or the volume needed) on stories that make Trump look like the authoritarian that he is. So liberal outlets should not just offer opinion pieces and analysis of the events that traditional news outlets are covering but should also have their own agenda for which events are worth covering and how much. Pro-democracy news organizations should be ones that editorialize more in favor of democracy; they should also be ones that cover threats to democracy more rigorously than other outlets.

Third, people in the anti-Trump camp should embrace a certain kind of media criticism. While CBS and the Post are intentionally moving right and are probably fine with losing some anti-Trump consumers, I’m not sure that the rest of the mainstream media is in that same place. They want to appear neutral but not lose audience share. So they are susceptible to being influenced and shamed into more honest journalism.

Here’s how to do it. When their coverage is criticized, mainstream editors and reporters will quickly cite stories and paragraphs that portray Trump negatively. This isn’t hard: Trump is one of the most dishonest and unethical politicians in American history. Of course news outlets can find some stories they have done that are critical of him! What these reporters are ignoring is that the headlines, social posts, and first few paragraphs of their pieces are often framed in ways designed not to offend conservatives. They want to cast themselves as not liberal to conservative readers but claim to liberals they are taking on Trump. We can’t let them have it both ways. NPR, the Times, and other outlets should be flooded with criticism of not the stories they select to cover, which are generally fine, but the tone and tenor of them, which often goes out of its way to cast Trump as acting presidential in the same way that George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden did.

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h

"lawyers who were so fed up with their firms’ capitulation that they got up and left their six- and seven-figure salaries behind...many of them ending up at organizations that were expressly devoted to fighting the fights that their former firms wouldn’t"
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newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Lawyers Who Gave Up Big Money to Fight Trump

The president’s attacks on Big Law might have accidentally done what nothing else could: make highly paid attorneys stand up for what they believe in.

newrepublic.com

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h

This is a great idea!
#NoKings

mbrooks64.bsky.social @mbrooks64.bsky.social · 1d

This week, instead of "goodbye" when ending a conversation, "No Kings"

Let 'em know you are going and that you'd like them there too

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h

How Crypto Became a Trump Trade
It’s primarily a vehicle for crony capitalism
Chinese must be having a good laugh: They took Trump’s measure and he came out looking very, very small.
But what caused this quick, abject retreat?....Bitcoin fell 20 percent and smaller, less liquid tokens fell even more

Also, it just so happens that Trump himself holds an estimated $870 million worth of Bitcoin, so he suffered large personal financial losses from the crypto crash.

This was the largest one-day crash crypto has experienced so far. My question, however, is why the prospect of an intensified trade war caused a crypto crash.

Oddly, I’ve seen almost no reporting about this issue. There has been a lot about the way the crypto crash was magnified by forced sales: Many crypto investors are highly leveraged, and there were many forced liquidations — with widespread speculation that one or more “whales,” that is, major players, may have imploded. But why did a threatened trade war cause crypto to fall in the first place?

The answer, I believe, has little to do with economics and everything to do with politics. These days crypto derives its value largely from the support of politicians and government officials — in particular, officials who can be bribed. As a result, at this point crypto is largely a Trump trade. And crypto fell because the backlash against the potential trade war threatened to weaken Trump politically.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

Per an email from @aaronparnas.bsky.social...
Apparently, at the Gaza summit, Indonesia's President asked Trump if he could meet his son Eric?
I'm sure it's because of Eric Trump's expertise in...what, exactly?
The grifting continues...

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

Poor little Donald
He's being treated very unfairly

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 18h

I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

For (at least) the third time, the Democrats are going to have to fix FEMA after Republicans destroyed it.
See: George HW Bush & Hurricane Andrew, W & Katrina, and now Trump/MAGA & Texas + this shit (for starters):

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

“You come for me, you better come for all of us…You see, I’ve learned to stand on the shoulders of my ancestors who came before me and who’ve weathered the storm…they survived. And if they survived, so can we!"
Donald the Terrible thought this bad-ass was going to give in to his bullies?

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

Yet again:

ICE is not protecting us
ICE is threatening us
Abolish ICE

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 15h

How does one distinguish between Trump‘s feds and common rapists?

Trick question, I reckon?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

Shorter MAGA Mike Johnson:
“Stop being MEAN to me just because I want to sit by and let King Donald destroy American democracy! MOM!!!"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

They're afraid
They know there are more of us than there are of them
They know they're on the wrong side of history
They know their fascism is wrong

We are powerful
We're on the right side of history
We're for democracy & freedom
We're for truth, justice, & what should be the American way

#NoKings

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."

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

"The Pentagon Press Association is calling Shitfaced’s little book of rules 'unprecedented message intimidation'”
The White House press corps could learn from the PPA FFS:
www.wonkette.com/p/only-one-n...

Only One Network Has Signed Hegseth's Knob-Slobbing Journalist Pledge, Three Guesses

Not. Even. Newsmax.

www.wonkette.com

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

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