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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · Mar 18
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d
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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 2d
“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h
Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h
Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."
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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 4h
Someone who thinks that dagging children from their homes in the dark of night & zip tying them, assaulting priests, & violating American's rights....makes "jesus smile" is someone who is a bad person, not an "avenging angel".

Those who join ice are abusive cowards.

#Pinks
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
Don’t trust your lying eyes.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
A real headline from the AP.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h
Any resistance must face the reality of what has been lost and what is in the process of being lost as a consequence of this.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h
No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 6h
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 6h
Trump benefits from the appearance of good intentions, but when you strip away the facade, and see that the “crimes” in question are not crimes but identities, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that what we are seeing is a massive crime wave.
With ICE, Donald Trump is leading a crime wave
After all, dictators are criminals.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 6h
Sounds like America.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h
Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 7h
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 6h
Is this making America great again? There is no honor here. No justice. No decency. No law. Just force.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 16h
“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
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CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings
The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h
“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d
As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.
AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots
Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h
The Trump admin. rescinded layoffs of hundreds of scientists that were told they no longer have jobs on Friday, another indication that the Trump admin has zero clue about who does what. Hundreds of others remained fired and the dismantling of public health continues.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 7h
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 23h
Government’s shut down. Federal workers aren’t getting paid — some even being fired.
MAGA Speaker Johnson just canceled House votes for yet another week.

And this guy’s out golfing.
You can’t make this 💩 up.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h
seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back
Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit." Someone named Manny replies: "@grok why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 7h
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Republicans just announced their intention to cheat — but there's still a way to fight back
This week, House Speaker Mike Johnson said there would be no votes next week. (That’s after canceling votes this week.) The White House, meanwhile, said it has begun mass firings of federal workers be...
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