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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4h

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

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Nandaskind @nandabel23.bsky.social · 1d

A imprensa não crítica suficientemente esse prêmio como deveria. Sai uma matéria aqui outra ali, mas a maior parte festeja sem pensar. Há poucos dias a Global Sumit Flotilla havia postado sobre o médico Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans love to make up conspiracy theories of child trafficking to hide the fact that they are the biggest supporters of child trafficking in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 9h

Holy shit Matt Stoller is a public embarrassment. Anyone that follows @dieworkwear.bsky.social knows that he frequently promotes US-made manufacturers. Matt is a weird, lying asshole and it amazes me that people still give him a platform

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 9h

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9h

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“.. a nagging worry is beginning to grow louder on Wall Street: What if these kinds of collapses, capable of taking bonds from par to cents on the dollar in a matter of days or weeks, are not an aberration after all?” 👀

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

Neither want him released because neither want the occupation to end. Simple as this.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

It is entirely rational on Israel's part and the PA doesn't want him released either

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 9h

sounds bad

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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

To to return to my point, the Palestinian can't return to his village because he's not a Jew, the Palestinian can't get citizenship because he's not a Jew, the Palestinian can't live in certain places because he's not a Jew, the Palestinian isn't protected from displacement because he's not a Jew.

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belugatooth.bsky.social @belugatooth.bsky.social · 6h

WTF?! From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - The Week in Breakingviews WTF?!

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - The Week in Breakingviews: Changing prime ministers reut.rs/3KKDyuU

Breakingviews - The Week in Breakingviews: Changing prime ministers

Welcome back! Can you name the G7 country that gained a probable new prime minister this week, and the other that lost its newly installed leader after less than a month? Investors are paying close attention to the turmoil at the top – perhaps too much. As always, email me with any ideas or feedback. And if you’re not already a subscriber, sign up for a free trial of Breakingviews here.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 8h

One way we learned this in Minneapolis was when Chief Arradondo campaigned against a ballot amendment in uniform and mostly got treated as if that wasn’t him doing politics.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 10h

so it seems Saleh was killed (possibly executed) by an Israeli-armed/backed militia. We've known that Israel has been doing this. The goal: fomenting a civil war between Palestinian factions. Inevitably Israel will "intervene" to quell the clashes. Another tool in its genocidal arsenal.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 15h

Out of most categories of reporting, I think “political reporting” has remained really homogenous, which explains some conventions. (To add, political reporting remains prized and reliant on access. I think the whole category should be upended — everything is politics!)

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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That Darn Jess @handle.invalid · 15h

Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).
That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive.
They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.
So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 15h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

“America First.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Revista Fórum @revistaforum.com.br · 14h

Setur assinou protocolo a empresa Dakila, que defende a existência de Ratanabá e caminho subterrâneo até a Turquia

Governo Tarcísio fechou parceria com criador de Ratanabá, o homem do ET Bilú

Setur assinou protocolo a empresa Dakila, que defende a existência de Ratanabá e caminho subterrâneo até a Turquia

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