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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 13h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

"Trump is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders..."

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Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

Trump didn’t just instruct his cronies to look into Letitia James to see what they could rustle up. Instead, he twisted the entire federal government into a shape designed to produce the criminal indictment he demanded. Be shocked, if you still can be.

The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare

This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14m

"Information shapes perceptions, drives alliances, corrodes trust, and determines the resilience and power found in democracies." Why does Putin understand and exploit this better than we do?

Putin’s Bots and Drones Target Trust

And the American media ecosystem leaves us vulnerable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2d

Gift link to this analysis by a former corruption prosecutor regarding Tom Homan’s alleged acceptance of a bag containing $50,000.
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Opinion | I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags. (Gift Article)

An apparent cash handoff is yet another star in the Trump administration’s constellation of ethics problems.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6h

Love this so much
📸 Respective Collective

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11h

Work harder and die

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14h

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Watch the full interview with @repstansbury.bsky.social and subscribe to support independent media: youtu.be/6wnLcjuE0cc

WHOA: Trump pulls INSANE stunt to bury Epstein files

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

@repstansbury.bsky.social: "This is gangster activity. The president is trying to shield pedophiles by calling and threatening members of Congress. We need more members of Congress, whether it's the Epstein files, the shutdown, health care, democracy, the rule of law, to just fucking do their jobs."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 7h

Given what we're watching in Portland...

Here's information on attacking dictator-types with humor and mockery.

It's been branded "laughtivism."

And the Portland frog is showing how it works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elql...

Pushback Politics Part 2: The Power of Humor

YouTube video by National Council for History Education

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

The only way we save our country is through our numbers.

Trump and MAGA don't have the majority, not even close.

Overwhelm them with numbers. Resist everywhere. They are too reckless, incompetent, and self-destructive.

Also, divide and conquer. Many fissures, especially around Epstein.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
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Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h

Once they understand that it is an unelected bureaucrat carrying out a coup, who knows.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18h

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
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No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

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