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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 4h

And if you think you're safe on the left, you're not.

The right has been pushing that calling them "fascist" should be illegal / somehow punished.

With SB 771 they'll be able to sue platforms for aiding & abetting intimidation/violence based on political affiliation for allowing you to post that.

California Code, Civil Code - CIV § 51.7
Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976.

(b)(1) All persons within the jurisdiction of this state have the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against their persons or property because of political affiliation, or on account of any characteristic listed or defined in subdivision (b) or (e) of Section 51, or position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics. The identification in this subdivision of particular bases of discrimination is illustrative rather than restrictive.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 2d

“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
— @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 3d

"Bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.... America must not become a nation of onlookers. It must speak up and act."
- Rabbi Joachim Prinz (b. 🇩🇪 1902) to the March on Washington, 1963

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 4d

Use Android. Sideload banned apps. Free your mind. 🤖

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 5d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 4d

Habet corpum optimum
(He has the best body)

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4d

They really are just using big words to confuse him now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 4d

The Spice must flow 🪱

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

McCormick spice company has a $140 million tariff problem www.thebanner.com/economy/mcco...

McCormick spice company has a $140 million tariff problem

McCormick & Company, a spice giant based in Hunt Valley, said in an earnings call Tuesday that it anticipates $140 million in annual costs associated with President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

www.thebanner.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 4d

Can't wait for them to dust off "Arbeit macht frei" to jazz up their ICE camps

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Markey: Republicans are trying to distract Americans with old emails from the Biden Administration while Brendan Carr is turning the FCC into the Federalist Censorship Commission

a man says " finally yesssss " in front of a back of house logo

ALT: a man says " finally yesssss " in front of a back of house logo

media.tenor.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Sean Davis: as someone whose family has been here for hundred and hundreds of years, it's so frustrating to see illegal immigrants getting their day in court before The Federalist

What a perfect blend of xenophobia, victimhood and legal bullshit: The Federalist just didn't have any legal claim

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

a black and white photo of two men with the caption i 'm shocked shocked to find that gambling is going on

ALT: a black and white photo of two men with the caption i 'm shocked shocked to find that gambling is going on

media.tenor.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5d

You're telling me the Dems are failing to rise to the moment? Why, it must be a day.

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

This hearing is a missed opportunity for Dems. Instead of either detailing how 🐘s have jawboned tech companies not to moderate content, or debunking 🐘 jawboning claims, they're fixated giving the gov't more power to break up media, which would likely change little and give 🐘s more leverage

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Blackburn: Tourists aren't coming to the US because they're fearful of crime, not of the Administration (detaining its critics, refusing entry based on social media posts, etc)

meanwhile, in the real world...

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Bemoaning concentration in broadcast media is peak Zombie Democrat Media Policy

The real problem is, obviously, that the FCC has broadcasters by the balls, and Don Carleone has weaponized that leverage to make broadcasters "an offer they can't refuse, as Cruz understood
thehill.com/opinion/civi...

thehill.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

This hearing is a missed opportunity for Dems. Instead of either detailing how 🐘s have jawboned tech companies not to moderate content, or debunking 🐘 jawboning claims, they're fixated giving the gov't more power to break up media, which would likely change little and give 🐘s more leverage

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

So half of the 🇪🇺 right was fasc all along

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

The Federalist wasn't censored for their content. Google simply requires moderation of hate speech *in user comments,* which The Federalist refused to moderate (or move to a separate page

www.techdirt.com/2020/06/16/n...

No, Google Didn't Demonetize The Federalist & It's Not An Example Of Anti-Conservative Bias

So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge. The story was a bit confusing. To be clear, …

www.techdirt.com

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

"We have heard the tired slogan that riots are the language of the unheard. But violence is the language of the unhinged"
- Sean Davis, The Federalist co-founder

huh. somehow, I don't recall him saying that about the January 6 assault on the Capitol or the whole "Hang Mike Pence" thing

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Eugene Volokh, Republicans' witness: FCC Chair Brendan Carr was probably trying to coerce broadcasters not to host Jimmy Kimmel.

To put it mildly!

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Cantwell: "Protecting the First Amendment does not mean protecting harmful hate speech"

Yes, actually it does. The Supreme Court has been clear: hate speech IS protected. But also private companies have a 1A right NOT to host hate speech, which Republicans are trying to force them to host.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

LIVE: Senate Republicans continue to claim that the Biden administration "censored free speech" in 2020 (when Trump was President) while ignoring what even Ted Cruz called "mafioso" tactics the FCC is using to coerce broadcasters to silence speech
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/10/shut...

Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Shut Your App: How Uncle Sa...

www.commerce.senate.gov

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Hitler started by jailing the opposition* not by building death camps. So please stop dismissing comparisons to fascism as hyperbolic.

*This included my great-grandfather, a communist. Growing up in the long, dark shadow of the Third Reich, I've always feared it 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 happen here.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 5d

The central figure in Trump's push to silence Kimmel et al is now in full damage control, trying to rewrite the history of what just happened, while offloading onto Democrats blame for his unconstitutional campaign of censorship.

Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social exposes all of Carr's lies:

Another Carr Wreck

How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

pressingissues.org

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5d

"we are not at peace with Russia, either"

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 5d

Russia is waging a campaign to "unsettle" citizens by flying drones into European airspace, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned today.

Von der Leyen warns of Russian ‘hybrid warfare’

Europe has to change its mindset to tackle the threat from Moscow, Commission president says.

ow.ly

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 6d

Rep. Josh Schriver, the Republican currently pushing to ban porn in Michigan, used his email to register for account on the adult site Fling, the “world’s best casual personals for adult dating, sex, and swingers.”

Mr. "The Mouth and Anus Are Not Sex Organs" may have some explaining to do.

Michigan Republican pushing pornography ban linked to porn site, records show - Detroit Metro Times

A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid t...

www.metrotimes.com

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