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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4h

Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” guy, dined with Holocaust deniers, and said, “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” The Young Republicans chat isn’t a coincidence. It’s a culture.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 2h

I've said it before, but once upon a time Bezos was known as a no-nonsense, bottom line businessman. Prior to 2024, his only instruction to the paper's management was "Make a profit."

Perhaps he now sees the Post as a loss-leader? Its losses create more gains elsewhere?

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Dumb Beezie @dumbbeezie.bsky.social · 1h

Blocked someone who said we need to come together, I’m not fucking around. You guys come together and send me a homing pigeon later or something

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 5h

I asked Border Patrol why they used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics, highlighted this morning by @paleofuture.bsky.social. You're not gonna believe this but they did not answer my questions: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Border Patrol won’t say why it used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics

The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.

www.motherjones.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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jbargarden @jbargarden.bsky.social · 4h

Great interaction!

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5h

Antisemitism is such a serious issue to MAGA that they insist you only hire professors from the "I love Hitler" group chat.

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jbargarden @jbargarden.bsky.social · 5h

Saying treat me like a “kike” is not an argument against antisemitism.

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jbargarden @jbargarden.bsky.social · 5h

The US Border Patrol’s Facebook page posted a video featuring the banned lyrics from Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.”

“Jew me, sue me, everybody, do me kick me, k*ke me.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 1d

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 8h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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jbargarden @jbargarden.bsky.social · 12h

Crusty gnome

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 23h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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BlueUtah 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰 @blueutah.bsky.social · 20h

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grantee.bsky.social @grantee.bsky.social · 1d

Pass it on.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

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John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People

The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 21h

I love books! But I'm 1,000 times more likely to undergo an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind procedure to make me forget I ever heard about Nuzzi's relationship with RFK Jr. than I am to read her book.