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Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 1m

Got proof? Didn't think so.

Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 1m

A creative, illegal solution.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 6h

This is a great read, and talks about different frames the media uses to report on protests.

“…according to the study, that “annoyance” framing increased over time — newspapers were more likely to frame a protest as a nuisance in 2007 than in 1967.”

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this.

It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.

"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...

www.niemanlab.org

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 5h

Out, out, damn spots!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

www.publicnotice.co

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Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 6m

Cynthia?

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4h

This is what the footage is from.

Creating Content in Broadview

Tear gas looks cool as hell on camera

www.turtlediaries.net

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3h

🆕 : As federal funding faces threats, state and local finance is taking on new significance.

In a new brief, Oskar Dye-Furstenberg explains how the municipal bond market works, its limitations, and potential reforms.
https://bit.ly/3KLDBqt

Image of a person sitting on a train looking out the window, next to a quote from the Roosevelt Institute “While the municipal bond market is a core tool of financing public infrastructure, progressives ought to be attentive to its limitations and adverse consequences. Discussing the preferential tax treatment of municipal bonds, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that ‘a fair and effective income tax and a huge perpetual reserve of tax-exempt bonds cannot exist side by side.’” from the article titled 'Financing State and Local Investment: Uses and Limitations of the Municipal Bond Market.'

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

When Trump says he’s cutting “democratic programs”, he’s referring to the ACA, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, social security…

His pitch to the base is, “I’m taking things you depend on because they were championed by people you don’t like…and giving you nothing from the people you do like.”

Winning.

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

I guess we're greeting new Bluesky users? Hello, I went undercover in the far-right in 2020/2021, and now a bunch of the people I knew are in the administration.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4h

I have spent the last couple of years writing about the Young Republicans. Here is some of my work.

Undercover With the New Alt-Right

For 11 months, I pretended to be a far-right extremist. I discovered a radical youth movement trying to infiltrate the Republican Party.

www.thenation.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3h

California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January.

The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.

Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.

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

In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin

Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

“Arizona is considering suing for taxation without representation if you don’t seat Adelita Grijalva.”

Speaker Johnson: *continues to cover for Pesophiles*

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Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 17m

Work to keep the Epstein files buried.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 3h

@actorsequity.bsky.social and @afm-union.bsky.social Local 802 Broadway workers have risked their health so the show could go on.

Stand for a healthier Broadway—sign the petition to demand the Broadway League pay their fair share for health care and give workers dignity and stability on the job.

Stand United for a Healthier Broadway

If you love going to the theatre, then you're familiar with the "the show must go on" mentality that has persisted within the theatre industry. For generations, that phrase has been a plucky, pull-...

actionnetwork.org

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Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 18m

I hate kings. It's right in the name.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

If Trump can cause as much mayhem and suffering as he’s doing every day, I can at least keep writing and talking about how horrific he is, every day. After all, I’m 10 days younger than him. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-aging-trumps-aging

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Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 19m

I thought he was pervert mike.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 2h

Every day that Republicans keep the government shut down sends a clear message.

The GOP would rather fight tooth and nail to give billionaires a handout than save health care and lower costs for working families.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Shaheen: "That's the kind of rhetoric that was used against people who were marching for civil rights, students' rights, women's rights, people who were marching against the war in Vietnam ... it's one of the things that makes this country great and different from Putin's Russia -- peaceful protest"

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2h

We’re LIVE on Day 16 of this shutdown.

We need to get out of this shutdown and address the health care crisis.

Mike Johnson and John Thune: Work with us.

LIVE: Shutdown Day 16

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Raskin: "There's a regime of fear that has come down on the Republican Party. They've looked at what happened to Liz Cheney, to Adam Kinzinger, to Mitt Romney, to others who have taken on the president. They insist on absolute 100% loyalty above everything else."

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Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 22m

🤷‍♂️ I'm an electrician. I can keep the lights on.

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 2h

The story fits a familiar pattern: The Trump family appearing to leverage the power of the presidency for self-dealing. But it's failed to get much coverage in the national media.

National news media outlets nearly silent on alleged Trump family self-dealing pharmaceutical scheme

Major cable and broadcast news outlets seem to have largely ignored a Wall Street Journal report that Donald Trump Jr. stands to potentially benefit financially from a deal between BlinkRx and the gov...

www.mediamatters.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

This is why farmers are saying MAGA = “Make Argentina Great Again”

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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