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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

Actual thought crimes. For not revering Little Brother, as far as Big Brother was concerned.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

“The State Department said Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was killed while speaking at an Utah college campus on Sept. 10.”

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 13h

But what are his redeeming qualities?

Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 13h

He's a sadist, a narcissist, a psychopath-sociopath (ASPD), a Machiavellian, a killer of innocent Venezuelans, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, an adjudicated rapist, an authoritarian, a serial adulterer, an insurrectionist, a decades-long cocaine and Adderall abuser, and a protector of pedophiles.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jim Leighty @jdleighty.bsky.social · 18h

The book, Copaganda by @equalityalec.bsky.social goes into detail about this type of deceptive reporting. Great book that shines a light on the practices used to shape false narratives.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 17h

As the 1st part in a series about the failure of many liberals to grasp how repression works, I wrote up my recent reflections on a somewhat hidden underbelly of what we are seeing with ICE and other far-right attacks: emboldening predatory behavior. equalityalec.substack.com/p/something-...

Something that scares me

and other thoughts

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19h

Janet Mills has announced a run for U.S. Senate. If elected, she would be 85 at the end of her first time.

If you care about democracy, generational renewal, and leadership that actually serves working people—You should want new leadership in Graham Platner.
open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...

79-Year-Old Janet Mills Launches Senate Run—Why We Must Choose Graham Platner Instead

U.S. Marine Veteran Graham Platner (41) represents a new hope and the voice of the American people—it's time to elect him as our next U.S. Senator from Maine

open.substack.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

bit.ly

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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 1d

They're not stupid, they are LYING! They want their brain-dead followers to believe any and all opposition to Trump and their policies is being manufactured.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 2d

From what we know of the callous inhumanity of many cops, it very well could've happened to anyone.

Fact is, though - it happens with PREDICTABLE frequency, FAR more often, to people of colour. Particularly Black men & women.

Because to cops...

BLACK LIVES DO NOT MATTER.

It's a fucking fact.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Mark Sumner 🇺🇦 @devilstower.bsky.social · 2d

No nation in this history of the world has even been better prepared for becoming a police state. For years, half of all scripted dramas on American television have been about police or military police. And police are the heroes of every one. …

America has a police problem.

In a police state, political power, policing authority, and military action have no clear boundaries.

www.unchartedblue.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 3d

Another one for the "And they'll know we are Christians by our love" files.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 3d

Are you fucking kidding me.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 3d

Share wide and far! (Make sure to read until the end of the thread.)

David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 3d

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Pop Quiz!

Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?

The history, and the Constitution itself?

Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans want to make your health insurance premiums to skyrocket while wiping out federal resources for preventing communicable and eradicated diseases

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not aware of any foreign-run military bases in the U.S. However (of course), the U.S. has 800+ military bases all around the globe.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 4d

The Moodies rank as one of my all-time favorite bands. And John Lodge is/was terribly underrated as a bass player.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band

The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedelia

www.theguardian.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 5d

Trump signed an EO to combat "anti-Christian bias."

This week ICE shot a Christian Pastor, David Black & not one MAGA politician, pundit, or person has bothered to condemn it. Instead they celebrate it.

It was never about anti-Christian bias—it was always about fascism masquerading as Christianity

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 5d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 6d

That is pretty rad.

An M.C. Escher-Inspired Series by Parth Kothekar Distorts Perspectives With Single Sheets of Paper

Harnessing the captivating power of pattern and mathematic principles, Parth Kothekar cuts meticulously deceptive works from single sheets of paper. The trippy pieces are inspired by the iconic optica...

www.thisiscolossal.com

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