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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 22h

DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 1h

Media "fact-checks" have ALWAYS been poor, going back to egomaniac Bill Adair insisting the Ryan plan didn't abolish Medicare (it did).

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 1h

No matter how thoroughly the legacy media debase themselves to please Trump, he will always be ungrateful, and he will always demand that they bow and scrape even more

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1h

lol

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 8h

Trump's orders and offers have started to fail: Hegseth's journalist loyalty oath, even Kristi Noem's airport propaganda video. Some universities for sure will take Trump's offer (though it will be challenged in court). But people have started saying no. That's a good thing. (h/t @robertkelchen.com)

Major airports refuse to air Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

Airport spokespeople say the decision was made because the message blaming Democrats for the government shutdown violates the Hatch Act.

www.msnbc.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h

My kids are 11. I’ve thought about scenarios like this a lot, & wondered what it will be like in 2-3 years. I’ve considered having them carry copies of their birth certificates in their school backpacks.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been really shocked how many people on here didn’t know any of this

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Morgan Haye @morganhaye.bsky.social · 21h

This guy just stole $20B to bail out his friends who own Argentinian debt and is shutting down government in order to cut healthcare for Americans.

Un-American is the most polite thing you can call him.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 9h

We must stop RFK

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Since the Alien Registration Act of 1940, every noncitizen has been required to carry their documents with them at ALL times. That applies to every green card holder, every tourist, every foreign student, etc...

No admin in the modern era has EVER tried to enforce this law.

(e)Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 9h

It's just wild that several right-wing Trump-allied orgs refused to sign.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Solidarity is the only way

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Solidarity is the only way

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 9h

Damn smart, really spot on piece here by @Reed Galen.bsky.social. I’ve only been a Democrat for 4 months, this piece nails the elitism of the establishment left.👇

Reed Galen @reedgalen.bsky.social · 17h

I listened all 71 minutes of Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates' podcast so you don't have to. Takeaway: No one should be surprised establishment Democrats are losing ground if Klein is their 'spiritual guide.' My latest, up now. open.substack.com/pub/reedgale...

Between the World and Ezra

His Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates Explains It All

open.substack.com

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DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans are a violent terrorist cult.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 9h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans are a violent white supremacist cult.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

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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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 15h

President Trump was just caught on a hot mic talking with the president of Indonesia.

He may have been talking about his business interests in the country–which would be exactly the kind of conflict of interest we’ve been warning about for years. 🧵

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 14h

Yup, I've been saying the same to everyone since Friday afternoon. Lost $50K Thursday and Friday combined, regained half of it today, all because of a couple tweets.

norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1d

This headline is obviously ultra-simplified but at some level it's correct, my retirement account is at the mercy of the stupidest, most gullible prats (acting collectively on the belief that everybody else is stupid) in the world

CNBC Headline: Dow futures jump 400 points after Trump says China situation ‘will all be fine’

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 14h

Here's a piece that looks at post-truth politics from the cognitive and emotional level, if you want to keep going on this topic www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-t...

In today's world, we need real stories, not just facts | Op-Ed

Human beings want their explanations of the world to feel real. Yet that desire for authenticity, for something that feels true, can be easily exploited.

www.seattletimes.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 16h

Politics has shifted from a battle of economics into a battle of epistemologies.

Our divisions are extrinsic versus memetic more than they are liberal versus conservative.

Authoritarianism is politicized apophenia. This is why it's so hard to argue with Trumpers. They don't believe in logic.

Trump super fans are impossible to argue with because they don’t actually believe in logic

The far-right worldview is incomprehensible until you realize that devotees believe truth flows from authority rather than reality

plus.flux.community

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DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans are a violent terrorist cult.

Scott Sakiyama @scottsakiyama.bsky.social · 10d

Same guy this morning ran into a protestor and told him he would slam him to the fucking ground.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10d

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

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DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 14h

Red America is a shithole.

NPR @npr.org · 15h

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

n.pr

DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 14h

This is true, but I also thi k this coverage hurts him with the public. It's transparently selfish and self-tarnishing. A small thing, to be sure. But reminds he's craaaaaazy.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.

Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.

Me, in @msnbc.com:

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 15h

I think the main barrier to honest, direct coverage from the mainstream media in Trump 1.0 was professional norms/reflexive both sides-ism. In 2.0, that's still a factor, but a bigger barrier may be ownership. Reporters/editors know that many media owners are wary of too much anti-Trump coverage.

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