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Wiley Nickel @wileynickel.com · 11h

I’ve seen this movie before — and I didn’t like the ending. NC Republicans gerrymandered me out of my seat and cost Democrats control of Congress.

Now they’re coming for Don Davis. They couldn’t beat him at the ballot box, so they’re going to cheat. That’s not democracy — it’s rigging the system.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

TONIGHT @ 7:00pm:

Our Time Has Come
Rally Livestream on IG + YouTube

Feat.
Attorney General Tish James
Rep. Nydia Velázquez
Rep. Adriano Espaillat
CM Chi Ossé
@kristengonzalez.bsky.social
Lina Khan
Natasha Cloud
The Kid Mero

MC'd by @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Big colorful graphic of Zohran smiling that says, "Our Time Has Come: Rally Tonight" and a list of speakers.

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 13h

Small detail re: the former station reporter now FPropagandist who complained NPR "inserted" the word racist into a headline. I was an NPR correspondent covering race. I had to fight tooth & nail to call objectively racist things racist.

I was also told that systemic racism was a "contested topic"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

John Oliver is good at his job

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 11h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 10h

How are they gonna get back to the moon this way???

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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 10h

Is she kidding? What does abusing their right to protest even mean?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10h

Which is pretty telling, since Oliver's comments about Reingold's "reporting" shows how bad she is at reporting, in part by ignoring facts that contradict the false narrative she's trying to sell.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

I've done a lot of reporting in Louisiana, and talked to many defense attorneys there. Can't tell you how many times some horrible problem in that criminal justice system was addressed only because a relevant case was finally heard by a black judge from one of the "opportunity districts."

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13h

How many times do I have to catch traditional media outlets using our reporting without credit before we're credited as a news outlet?
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate that the Post quickly rectified this situation and added a credit that we did this story first.

The American Prospect first reported on the Labor Department’s comments that immigration policies are endangering the food supply and that American workers are unwilling to take agricultural jobs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 11h

I bet they really, really, really could not care less.

Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 11h

Trump 2.0-like!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 12h

New - Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden
By Aaron Blake @cnn.com

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

‘Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden | CNN Politics

If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.

www.cnn.com

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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 12h

He definitely won't be happy about this picture.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 14h

Lots of system glitches with this crew.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

NYT wrote a 2,400 word story abt Todd Blanche without mentioning that he personally ordered the arrest of Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social, and as such is deeply implicated in @replamonica.bsky.social case.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

The front page of a NYT story, titled, "Part Enabler, Part Buffer: the Bind of the Justice Dept's No. 2"

A picture shows Blanche partly visible behind a journalist's raised hand.

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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social · 15h

This will Streisand effect the protests and finally give the MSM a reason to cover it heavily. Love it!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18h

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 17h

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17h

Superb & eviscerating take on the situation at CBS by John Oliver and @lastweektonight.com. As I’ve noted, the new billionaire owners create a mirrortocracy, pretend it’s a meritocracy & hire a mediocrity to get there. But it is not about innovating & supporting journalism.
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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