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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · 14d

Wow.
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. MILITARY RESCUED SURVIVORS BY HELICOPTER AFTER THURSDAY STRIKE IN CARIBBEAN AND IS NOW HOLDING THEM ON A NAVY SHIP, FOUR SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL REUTERS

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 17d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · 21d

2.5 years after a $787M settlement, the righteous winner, Dominion Voting Systems, has been sold to a Republican operative clearly sympathetic to the fantasia perpetuated on Americans that the election was stolen, and the owners/losers who helped spread the lie are set to own a piece of TikTok
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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · 22d

Bonkers this went live on NYT.
Peace Prize nominations CLOSE ON JAN. 31. That's never changed.
Moreover, several countries were involved in this pact, even if led by US. (Clinton didn't get one for Oslo, remember)
Netanyahu said he nominated DJT for Abraham Accords, not clear if it was by Jan. 31

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22d

The Times out of the gate with the fantasy take this morning.

David E. Sanger
David E. Sanger has covered five American presidents and frequently writes about superpower conflict, the subject of his latest book.
Published Oct. 8, 2025 Updated Oct. 9, 2025, 1:33 a.m. ET
President Trump is at the brink of the biggest diplomatic accomplishment of his second term — a cessation of the brutal war between Israel and Hamas - and on Wednesday evening he made clear he was eager to fly to the Middle East to preside over a cease-fire and welcome hostages who have spent two long years in underground captivity.
For Mr. Trump, success in this venture is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker - and a pathway to the Nobel Peace Prize he has so openly coveted. By chance, the winner for 2025 is scheduled to be announced just hours before he may be departing to take his victory lap in Egypt and Israel.
Much could go wrong in coming days, and in the Middle East it often does. The "peace" deal Mr. Trump heralded on Truth Social on Wednesday evening may look more

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · 24d

New hot allegation from Republicans: Spying/tapping of phones through time travel.

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Oct 1

"We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers"

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ALT: a black and white photo of a person holding a guitar

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 27

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SNL returns in 1 week after a Sept. of Kirk, Kimmel.
SNL's 3rd ever show had Larraine Newman playing Squeaky Fromme a month after Fromme & Sara Jane Moore (whose death was learned this week) shot at POTUS Ford.
To quote Lou Reed: Those were different times

As Trump blasts late-night TV, reaction of the 1st president satirized by SNL is a glaring contrast | CBC News

Donald Trump, who hosted Saturday Night Live twice before becoming president, has consistently complained about his treatment on the sketch comedy show. The show returns next week, and Trump's aggress...

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 24

Imagine if Atlantic said to CSNY May '70 after Kent State, "We can't release Ohio right now. Might upset Nixon admin & haters of campus leftists."
Bogdanovich's Targets, with an assassin character, was released by Paramount August 1968, per imdb.

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 17

Markwayne Mullin's blatant, sleazy lying before Senate health committee was something to behold.
Tried to browbeat Susan Monarez by suggesting there was a recording of her meeting with RFK and others.
Then outside committee told reporters he was mistaken in his recording claim.

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 15

It took a few days, but were some rumblings last week. I'm sure it'll pick up now www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

As Democrats press White House on deadly boat strike, Republicans sit on their hands

A week after the Trump administration killed suspected drug dealers in international waters, Democrats have some pointed questions. GOP senators do not.

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 15

Trump's angling for a Nobel, may have to settle for an ICC warrant if he keeps it up (with the bombing of boats)

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 15

Just nonsensical.
Repeats the 300,000 drug deaths claim.
Says the waters have gone from "hundreds of boats" transporting drugs to "none."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Sep 14

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just a baffling writeup. As written, person appeared to do all the right things and wasn't aware of any shooting plans.
We're supposed to be upset because they ID/dress a certain way?
"Folks, might want to check if you have any 1975-78 Lou Reed tunes at home - coz he lived with a transgender!!"

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hey Brendan Carr, sounds a bit "out of line" to me.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Sep 10

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We need to make the same thing happen this time.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · Aug 29

Contrary to the assertions of the "it's a trap!" crowd, Donald Trump's use of the military to intimidate and control Americans is unpopular -- and his approval on handling crime is underwater.

www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...

Trump’s military occupation of American cities is unpopular. The media is trying to manufacture consent for it.

Donald Trump’s military assault on America’s cities has been denounced by legal and national security experts as an “authoritarian power grab” that is “dangerous for liberty” and “an absolute seizing control of our country through our own military used against us” in an attempt to “dominate” the American

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · Aug 22

The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, right now. www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...

DEVELOPING: The FBI Is at John Bolton’s House

In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor.

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Aug 20

Remember that time in Trump 1.0 when he blasted Post reporters for claiming in a book he speculated about moats, if possible, near border wall, but, oops, the book was by Times reporters?
Had forgotten that gem myself.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Aug 14

Anon. Euro official on Trump.
As Billy Bragg sang in Goalhanger, 'Trying to pin him down is like nailing water to a wall'

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Aug 11

Jeanine Pirro has long been concerned about random violent D.C. crime.
Who can forget all those times she slapped down her Fox colleagues for spreading lunatic theories about Seth Rich?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 23

Turns out one of the Americans the Trump admin took back in the prisoner swap with Venezuela is a mass murderer!

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DAHUD HANID ORTIZ >
Perpetrator of triple homicide in Madrid included in group of political prisoners repatriated by US from
Venezuela
Dahud Hanid Ortiz landed Friday in Texas from Caracas, where he was sentenced to 30 years for a crime committed in the Spanish capital in 2016

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Chris Iorfida @iorfida.bsky.social · Jul 17

Absolutely egregious CNN keeps booking Chad Wolf

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Jul 15

Mike Waltz claims he doesn't know that Israeli settlers killed an American citizen in the West Bank.

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