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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 2d

Guys, I'm starting to suspect conservatives weren't worried about ideological indoctrination in public schools, so much as the kind they don't like

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 2d

ya think

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 2d

It is culture war. Last I checked, no one’s ability to feed their families rested upon whether or not trans women can compete in women’s sports or change clothes in the women’s locker room except for (maybe) a tiny percentage of the tiny percentage of people this legislation seeks to regulate.

Why Democrats are losing the culture war

I have a few thoughts on Democrats Are Losing the Culture War by Justin Vassallo for Ruy Teixeira.

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 4d

TIL that Pam Bondi once lobbied for Qatar. According to a Senate Judiciary Committee report: “As a FARA-registered lobbyist, Bondi lobbied Congress on behalf of Qatar, earning $115,000 per month.” And, apparently, she declined to include that fact in her Senate confirmation paperwork.

Pam Bondi Is a Piece of Work

And it’s clearer than ever that she sees her job as covering for and protecting criminals within the Trump regime.

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 4d

"One likely reason for anti-monopolism’s resurgence is that it is offers another way to attack Trump’s conflicts of interest and link them to his failure thus far to tackle exorbitant costs."

This is from May

Have Democrats Caught the Anti-Monopoly Bug?

Since the failure of “Bidenomics” to win popular acclaim, the Democratic Party has been torn over how to navigate a populist electorate and reform capitalism.

www.liberalpatriot.com

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 4d

In my township in the past six months, multiple non-chain restaurants have shuttered, as well as a grocery store and a specialty food store - businesses that had been here decades. Construction projects are going well past delivery date too. And it’s generally a prosperous area.

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 4d

The end game here is just "no restaurants." There aren't, like, restaurant fairies who will keep the whole thing afloat. Just people doing jobs that we are worse off without.

Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 4d

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, George Soros. The "Snowball" of the little Animal Farm authoritarian drama unfolding in Washington right now.

Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 6d

Billionaire Sir Chris Hohn’s foundation has stopped giving to US charities as Trump's EOs have targeted non-profits’ tax-exempt status and Trump accuses donors like George Soros and Reid Hoffman of funding “domestic terrorism.” Smaller charities' funding was already short www.ft.com/content/b87f...

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 5d

I literally just read that for the first time and it absolutely wrecked me

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 6d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 6d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 5d

Almost every study finds that a greater number of Republican states are net recipients of federal dollars than Democratic states. open.substack.com/pub/cathyrei...

Does MTG know she’d be the woman in the national divorce?

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 6d

Billionaire Sir Chris Hohn’s foundation has stopped giving to US charities as Trump's EOs have targeted non-profits’ tax-exempt status and Trump accuses donors like George Soros and Reid Hoffman of funding “domestic terrorism.” Smaller charities' funding was already short www.ft.com/content/b87f...

Home - Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

FT.com

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 8d

@radleybalko.bsky.social

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 8d

Yep

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myself11.bsky.social @myself11.bsky.social · 9d

It’s a two fold win for the oligarchs. They make money off the outrage while distracting how they are robbing people blind and making their lives worse

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 9d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8d

heart warming: california to prove it can be governed by an egomaniac woman just as easily as an egomaniac man

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 9d

If you want to know what is actually happening and what actually matters, ask people who are invested in knowing.

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 9d

The WSJ’s reporting is good because its audience makes or doesn’t make money depending on its accuracy and usefulness. The taco truck reporter’s audience similarly demands useful, accurate reporting so they can get tacos.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 9d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

Remember how the Trump administration raged about "transgender mice" because of studies involving transgenic mice?

Well, the woman who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote her thesis using transgenic mice.

Early life and education

Brunkow was born in 1961 in Portland, Oregon.[2][3] She graduated at St. Mary's Academy in Portland in 1979.[3]

Brunkow received a BS in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983.[4] She received a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991, where her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.[5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).[1]

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 9d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 9d

"The main goal of the right is to defeat the left, while the main goal of the liberal center is something like 'make the world a freer and more prosperous place.'” @mattyglesias.bsky.social was cooking with this one.

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 10d

"The administration’s assertion that Portland is in a state of revolution musters a total of four episodes of threatening behavior by protesters to justify this claim."

Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 10d

Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 10d

I wish this woman were leading CBS News

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 10d

Tech Speedrun this week:
📱 TikTok sale
💰Amazon got hit with a $2.5B FTC fine
🛡️ Gavin Newsom helps to protect abortion seekers
📍 ICE bought new surveillance tech

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 10d

I still think about that exchange. It remains one of the most startling examples of sheer indifference to journalistic integrity that I've come across. That's the team that will now run CBS News. Surreal.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 10d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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