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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · Mar 18
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4m
I figure I need to reach about 100 new subscribers. That won’t cover all of the cost, but it will come close to covering the gap. I’m happy to report that since Labor Day, when I started this campaign, 76 new subscribers have joined the EB! Only 24 more to go!

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16m
Trump benefits from the appearance of good intentions, but when you strip away the facade, and see that the “crimes” in question are not crimes but identities, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that what we are seeing is a massive crime wave.
With ICE, Donald Trump is leading a crime wave
After all, dictators are criminals.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 33m
Sounds like America.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 34m
Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 34m
Is this making America great again? There is no honor here. No justice. No decency. No law. Just force.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18h
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 10h
“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
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CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings
The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 42m
“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 56m
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h
As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.
AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots
Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1h
The Trump admin. rescinded layoffs of hundreds of scientists that were told they no longer have jobs on Friday, another indication that the Trump admin has zero clue about who does what. Hundreds of others remained fired and the dismantling of public health continues.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h
Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 17h
Government’s shut down. Federal workers aren’t getting paid — some even being fired.
MAGA Speaker Johnson just canceled House votes for yet another week.

And this guy’s out golfing.
You can’t make this 💩 up.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23h
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h
seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back
Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit." Someone named Manny replies: "@grok why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1h
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Republicans just announced their intention to cheat — but there's still a way to fight back
This week, House Speaker Mike Johnson said there would be no votes next week. (That’s after canceling votes this week.) The White House, meanwhile, said it has begun mass firings of federal workers be...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16h
This putz has never walked a crowded street. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h
Thanks!
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h
Wow!
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ProBon @probon.bsky.social · 22h
Meanwhile the world has stopped buying American orange juice.
It now trades at 43% of the price it went for when Trump took office.
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Candidly Tiff @tify330.bsky.social · 20h
Thanks for taking the time to chat with me. We are now on Day 11 of the Shutdown, the House is out again next week, and there is no end in sight. Dems are holding the line.

Read my thoughts in the article and subscribe.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23h
15. Many thanks to Tiffany for her time and insight, and many thanks to you for reading this thread. It was brought to you by the supporters of the EB. The full article is free, but please consider supporting this work with a subscription or a tip. Thank you.
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Hakeem Jeffries: 'Republicans have zero credibility, zero'
The Democrats' message is breaking through, says Tiffany Carlock.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22h
I'm trying to reach 24 new subscribers. That will get me to my goal of 100 new subscriptions since Labor Day. And that will *probably* cover the gap I'm going to face. I know you've been meaning to. Now's a great time! Just $6 a month (save 17% for the year). I'm sooo close! Join me! Links below.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22h
1. I buy my health insurance through Connecticut’s health care exchange. This picture is taken from my monthly statement.
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Death "Antifa’s girlfriend" Car @lovebethandrobots.bsky.social · 18h
As a god-fearing, tax-paying American I simply should not have to know who Jack Posobiec and Benny Johnson are.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22h
As you read this, remember how much their world is awash in lies. They say they will stand firm on something, but that will change as the lies change. www.alternet.org/trump-qatar-...
'Where I draw the line': MAGA furious over Trump allowing foreign military base on US soil
Conservative hard‑liners erupted in outrage Friday after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greenlit plans for a Qatari air force facility on U.S. soil, accusing the administration of “enabling foreign co...
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