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California forever ☀️🏝️💙/ IVF twin mom / If you also despise Roberts’ corrupt-bought-stolen Supreme Court, we can be friends / f*ck fascism ✊ / “the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page” 🌎🙌🧳

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans inferring that IVF is somehow unethical is infuriating for IVF moms like me. Like hey bro, take some vitamins for your prostate cancer and call it “ethical radiation”. Slate piece by Mary Ziegler & more on RRM below👇 slate.com/news-and-pol...

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 7m

I honestly can’t believe the Media™️ forgot about this vile Trump post bsky.app/profile/chri...

Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 21d

#WarCrimes #Genocide #Trump #Israel
Trump shared disgraceful AI video of 'Trump Gaza' 2/25

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 14h

I have been waiting for this @ninaburleigh.bsky.social piece on Laura Loomer, and it did not disappoint. Excellent piece.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever wondered What Happened To The Internet? Well, the gang from Wow If True ( @amanda.omg.lol and @isabel.kim) joined me for a collab episode to dive head first into enshittification and the history of our online world!

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 5h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

“Peace” update: “5 killed by IDF in Gaza despite ceasefire…”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4h

"The Pentagon is not merely tightening a policy. It is attempting to redefine journalism as a narrow privilege granted on condition of obedience: The government decides what reporters may seek before they seek it, and punishes them for seeking anything else." www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous

Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

www.thebulwark.com

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 4h

Trump did the same thing with immigration

He called Mike Johnson and killed the bill that Republicans had already negotiated-because it would help Biden

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 24m

“He’s such a good boy.” 🤢

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 47m

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 42m

Let’s make a deal with the most corrupt president in U.S. history— Donald Trump.

🔥 HOT MIC: Indonesia’s president straight up asks if he can meet with Eric and Don Jr. You can’t make this up.

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 34m

Yep. 🎯 They don’t want free speech they want THEIR speech.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 39m

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’

You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 40m

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 47m

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

Is it...requesting content moderation?

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 49m

So Apparent Again Yesterday: Joe Biden Is A Real Man. Donald Trump Is Not: A historic ceasefire in the Middle East yesterday, and Trump uses the occasion to lie, to hurl personal insults at his predecessors, and to make the whole day about himself. Joe Biden, on the other hand, congratulated Trump…

So Apparent Again Yesterday: Joe Biden Is A Real Man. Donald Trump Is Not

A historic ceasefire in the Middle East yesterday, and Trump uses the occasion to lie, to hurl personal insults at his predecessors, and to make the whole day about himself. Joe Biden, on the other hand, congratulated Trump and put the focus on Israel and the Palestinian people. Biden did what real men do. Trump did what cowards do.

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 38m

Any Chapman U bashing is like a hangover IV to this OC gal. 🔥

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 45m

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

They're delegitimizing themselves in substance by subverting the Constitution and aiding the establishment of a lawless autocracy. But they're further delegitimizing themselves because they really don't understand, and can't even halfway convincingly mimic, how the Court is supposed to function.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 2d

A fair, and damning, indictment of the SCOTUS majority.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Their opinions are poorly written, when they even bother. Their rationales fail to hide their overt partisan bias even when ways of doing so are available. Their oral arguments are cringe-inducing. They might seem sober adults compared to the freak show in the White House, but only by that low bar.

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 56m

Freedom of the press is in the First Amendment for a reason. Read the whole piece👇 www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Thomas Jefferson, no fan of the press himself, once wrote that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press,
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that cannot be limited without being lost."
He knew a free and fair press is an essential safeguard to a functioning democracy.
So now, how will the American people find out what is being done at the Pentagon in their name, with their hard-earned tax dollars, and more importantly, the decisions that may put their sons and daughters in harm's way? With no reporters able to ask questions, it seems the Pentagon leadership will continue to rely on slick social media posts, carefully orchestrated short videos and interviews with partisan commentators and podcasters.
No one should think that's good enough.

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 56m

Freedom of the press is in the First Amendment for a reason. Read the whole piece👇 www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1h

"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.

A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

Isn’t this the same deal Biden and Harris brokered before they left office?

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2h

Behold the National Neckgina.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1h

The NYT blithely tells us that SCOTUS may be about to strike down the use of race in redistricting decisions, which will result in...

...the use of race in redistricting decisions.

What the NYT *means* to say is SCOTUS is about to forbid *stopping* MAGAs from using race in redistricting schemes.

Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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