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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 12h

First Henry Kissinger and now this.

This prize is legendary.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Kai David @kaidavid.bsky.social · 1d

People in the Epstein files praise person in the Epstein files

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 10h

Feel like people have still not digested the whole "the entire government is controlled by a small cabal of child sex traffickers" thing being true.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · Jun 8

"LASD gangs have been involved in assaults, the creation of false evidence, and even murder. Now, with the help of the brave journalist Cerise Castle, the story can be told."

youtu.be/VoF8RmohTB4?...

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2d

Following the cops because they won’t tell us where they’re taking her.

The Los Angeles Sheriff Department is a domestic terror organization.

Google: “LASD gangs”

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · 7h

“He was cursing. He was getting in my face, pointing and referencing me as ‘boy’ several times,” said Gomez, a Black Latino man.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 11h

Did you ask Modi if he funded Pollievre’s leadership campaign? Canadians would like verification.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Jul 4

Historically, perhaps the most important question deciding the fate of democracy has been: Will mainstream conservatives and centrist elites hold the line against the extreme Right - or give themselves permission to accommodate and support the extremists as a way of consolidating their own power?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Jul 4

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · Jul 4

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 12h

Curious how many Democrats are going to claim they support No Kings and then walk back to the Congress and continue sabotaging impeachment efforts.

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 9d

Yet another Nazi-Satanist. It’s an endless parade lately…

Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 9d

Candiani "accepted that he had a tattoo on his chest bearing the neo-Nazi symbol "88" - code for the phrase "Heil Hitler".

He also admitted applying to join a right-wing extremist group, Active Club, but said he got "cold feet"."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Satanist' actor guilty over right-wing documents

Declan George Candiani is found guilty of collecting information likely to be useful for terrorism.

www.bbc.com

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 21h

This was a lot of fun. Tune in for a longer chat about Andy Ngo, where Mike and I try to explain his schtick and the ways other right wing influencers have sought to emulate his “anti-antifa” formula

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23h

Half the Answer #41: Caitlin and Trent speak with Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden about the infamous right-wing "busybody journalist," online political influencer, and professional victim Andy Ngo. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #41: Andy Ngo and the Portland Mythology

Caitlin and Trent speak with Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden about the infamous right-wing "busybody journalist" Andy Ngo, his work demonizing Muslim immigrants in grad school, and his transition...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 3d

And in the case of the Minnesota murders, the inversion of reality couldn’t be more stark: The killer was a classic far-right domestic terrorist who was directly inspired by Donald Trump.

www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

The suspect in the shooting of 2 Minnesota lawmakers had a 'hit list' of 45 officials

Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. He appeared in federal court after being charged with murder.

www.npr.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

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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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Heritage president Kevin Roberts, in a truly revealing passage of his Foreword to the Project 2025 policy agenda, states that the project of “dismantling the administrative state” is not about the actual size of government at all:

The goal is to cut “the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

DAILY MEMO: ICE Raids San Fernando Valley Kidnapping At Least 20 People and More 🧵 2 parts

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