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MGJKteachingnow @nonat3.bsky.social · 15h

our constitution allows peaceful protest to protect us from fascist fucks

pastor sues trump admin for being attacked by ice

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15h

I am simply begging everyone to at least *try* not to be an easy mark

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

She knows how to sell a product, but that product is not "news"

She's not afraid to take on a mob, but that "mob" is "most Americans who are not billionaires she constantly flatters"

She's an entrepreneur, if that's a synonym for grifter.

Imagine being "amazed" at the hostile reaction to all that

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 16h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Maga figures back Bukele’s call for Trump to crack down on US judges

Experts say El Salvador president’s intervention comes as Trump is employing tactics used by autocrats abroad

www.theguardian.com

Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall

The populist right offers a solution in the form of turning back the clock. Macron and his counterparts need to find a different answer fast, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 18h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

That's how it starts. And thanks to computers, the internet, social media, search engines and AI, it's so much easier to compile a register of 'undesirables' than it was in the 1930s - or 1950s, or 1970s. You aren't just on a watchlist: you're tagged and cross-referenced to the *nth* degree.

Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

I think Mabel's vote is being coerced.

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 1d

The Ocean County (NJ) Visibility Brigade is ready raring to go for #NoKings next Saturday.

Be brave! Speak out now before it’s too late!

KEEP USA KING FREE hanging on a pedestrian bridge over the Garden State Parkway in Ocean County New Jersey.

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marcy and the banshees🦇 @beneprism.rip · 1d

This type of atheist is why I always feel like I have to emphasize that I'm "not that kind of atheist", which is a shame. My atheism is sincere and long-held and not something I'm ashamed of, and I feel like I can find common ground with believers on the subject of secularism and humanism.

🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 1d

An altered tweet not by @graybee:
Every lifelong atheist I've ever met is "these ontological claims seem very weakly supported" and every adult convert is like "the creeds of all Abrahamic faiths are de facto hate speech, as demonstrated by Richard Dawkins, and this means we again need to persecute the Jews."

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm afraid so. But you can tell yourself that it's a typo, as I do.

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

The idea of a modest, restrained upper class has been more legend than actuality for decades, I'm afraid. But if it existed once, somewhere, why not again? And why not in Boston?

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

'moderate bullshitting and charity'

sounds like an upper class all right

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but that's 39 in female years

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 68, but I tell myself it's a typo

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

Do those guys still have asbestos?

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 1d

'unprecedented' doesn't mean 'admirable'

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marcy and the banshees🦇 @beneprism.rip · 1d

People don't go out naked in Minneapolis because if they did their dicks and/or tits would fall off

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 1d

this goes hard.

this is a different religious leader from the one who was hit by a pepper ball btw i believe (a Rev Black?)

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 1d

Rev. Black (the pepper ball target) is Presbyterian.
Father Dowling is Catholic.
Both are acting on solid social justice principles as laid out in both the Old and the New Testament.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 2d

This is a little performative for most Protestants and it is Extremely Not for most Catholics.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Some clergy are begging to be allowed closer to the detention center to perform communion.

"You are preventing our religious freedom," someone in the crowd shouts.

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