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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11h

The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h

Struck me at the end of Trump's first term, post-impeachment, that even when he got bipartisan support (like for CARES) he didn't invite Dems to the bill signing.

I think about this bc there's a kneejerk political media instinct to ask Dems how they'll unify the country and it's getting very silly.

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Julie O @julieolig.bsky.social · 2d

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 6d

We waited 20 years for John Bolton to be punished for telling lies about Iraq.

Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7d

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 7d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 26d

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 26d

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26d

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 26d

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts

Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26d

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 26d

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...

www.cnn.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 26d

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...

www.cnn.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29d

The Trump ethos is very much ”foreigners suck, go USA,“ so proTrump people will cheer any sneering at or insulting of foreigners, whether they are allies or not, because they have such a juvenile concept of the world.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29d

Some of us do.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Sep 23

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 15

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 15

Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 13

But don’t call them Nazis.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 13

Moore: I take real pride that when I look at my team, these are subject matter experts..

Trump doesn’t have that. He has sycophants who go into cabinet meetings and spend three and a half hours telling him how good he is instead of actually educating him

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Sep 12

WSJ: SHOOTER IS A TRANS ANTIFA

*shooter is in fact a cis groyper*

WSJ: A young man's descent from model student to suspect.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 12

“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 8

I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 6

The FBI uses a lot of shitty people as cooperators and informants but Trump is a great example of someone they wouldn’t use — a pathologically narcissistic braggart who could never keep a secret or maintain focus. It would be like asking the Trix rabbit to wear a wire.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

in which Mike Johnson claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Sep 5

Couldn’t get a more clear example of Wilhoit’s theory of conservatism: “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · Sep 4

The "from my cold dead hands" crowd wants to ban people from owning guns

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Aug 29

Vaccines were nice while we had them, everyone start loading up on flintstones vitamins, the government recommended alternative to penicillin and medical treatment of internal bleeding

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