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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 4h

this is blood libel gutter racism of the kind that you only encounter if you or your staff are spending a lot of time in online spaces that are avowedly white supremacist

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Speaking at the Univ of Mississippi in Oxford, Vice President JD Vance claimed that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice,” adding that “Christian civilization ended the practice.”

JD Vance talks Israel, abortion, AI and immigration at Ole Miss Turning Point rally

Thousands packed Ole Miss’ pavilion as Vice President JD Vance took unscripted questions on faith, policy and Trump-era politics.

www.clarionledger.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Immigration is the most important issue facing your country

Immigration is the 14th most important issue facing you personally

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.

Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

why doesn’t stuff like this ever happen in my back yard

Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 1d

@darthbluesky.bsky.social Thank goodness you're here, I need your advice. My neighbor, Max, is continually violating our privacy and spying on us in our backyard. I finally caught him in the act. How do I approach this situation?

Max. I can't remember what kind of dog he is, but he's not a lab. Just kinda looks like a tan lab. He's peeking over the backyard fence and into our yard. I have no idea how he's doing it. I'm picturing six other, smaller dogs underneath him.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“The virtual disappearance of the House for most of three months...is looking more and more essential to the authoritarian project of a movement that pleaded for a “red Caesar” to crush “woke” liberalism with unchecked executive power.””

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down

From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.

www.inquirer.com

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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, look: everyone lies. To tell a lie is a completely human thing. There are tons of different lies people tell and we all just sort of accept it and move through the world. Most of those lies are social lubricants.

Right-wing lies, however--from Elon to Mike Johnson--purely psychotic.

Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 2d

I'm torn. I hate the Dodgers because of what they've done to baseball, but I feel weird rooting for the Blue Jays.

I almost think the Dodgers need to win to demonstrate how completely corrupt MLB is, but I hate it.

Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 2d

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

if you want to stay on twitter for some reason it's whatever i guess but you have to accept that people are going to call you a shitass baby brained coward and you can't bitch about it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 4d

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void

The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

www.whatimreading.net

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Border Patrol has a rancid culture, and a dark history

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 3d

This is actually kind of outstanding. It should embarrass everyone on the right once they get in to discovery and the trial.

Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 3d

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.

Texas attorney general sues Tylenol company over autism claims

This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

The campaign to label art "too woke" or "too liberal" has dark historical echoes. In my op-ed, I draw the parallel to Nazi Germany's "Degenerate Art" exhibitions and the Soviet doctrine of "Socialist Realism." When a government dictates what art is acceptable, we are on a dangerous path.

Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History

"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."

time.com

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

Just the weakest people ever

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

WELKER: Why is the president setting trade policy based on a TV ad he doesn't like?

BESSENT: This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens. It's psyops

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 5d

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 6d

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

Another example of Big Tech’s favourite line, “Move fast and break things.” The things they’re ok breaking evidently include airplanes in flight full of people.

A sane system would be regulating all the stupid, dangerous stuff like this. But Big Tech says that’s “anti-future,” right?

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d

A Palo Alto company has launched more than 4,000 of its "smart" balloons. Looks like one of them smashed into a United 737.

Everyone was OK, but the pilot did tell passengers, “The aircraft has collided with an object and a window in the cockpit has shattered"

www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...

Silicon Valley startup admits its balloon may have struck United jet, forcing emergency landing

A Silicon Valley company says one of its “smart” weather balloons may have struck a United Airlines flight, cracking the cockpit windshield and injuring a pilot.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House.

Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators

The agency denied making

gizmodo.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 7d

Politics is the art of making people care. Effective movements *shift the polls* by framing issues as moral questions.

If the fascists can make people care about conspiracy theories like QAnon, we can make people care about freedom and democracy.

(George Lakoff wrote several books on this.)

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 7d

I LOVE A Christmas Carol and usually watch a couple iterations of it every year.

This will be utter dreck and an insult to Dickens.

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 8d

Johnny Depp will reportedly play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s EBENEZER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, with Andrea Riseborough (Possessor) also attached to star in the film.

‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ – Ti West Directing Dickens Tale With Johnny Depp as Scrooge

While Robert Eggers plans his own dark take on A Christmas Carol starring Willem Dafoe, Deadline reports that Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is taking his own crack at the classic tale. Johnny Depp will...

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