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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 7h

I ❤️ NY

Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 8h

ICE stepped up activities in NYC today and New Yorkers were not having it.

(Seen on @keithboykin.bsky.social threads)

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 12h

One “blessing” to the public of Trump having no conscience and no sense of right and wrong is that he’ll openly announces his most corrupt actions. No need for a Woodward and Bernstein to dig up the scandal when Trump boasts about it on national TV.

Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 12h

The fact that he demands payment is outrageous enough, but even more shocking is that he sees the U.S. Treasury as his.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is incompetent in many ways. But he is a world-class expert at ripping off people, including American taxpayers, and getting away with it.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 13h

Every Democrat or never-Trump Republican who lives in a Congressional district with a Republican representative should call on the member to step up to the plate. They should either sign tje discharge petition, or pay a political price for not signing it.

Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 13h

Wouldn’t it be better great if just one Republican member with cojones stepped up to sign the discharge petition for a vote on the bill to release the Epstein files?

Any one of them could be a MAGA hero.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 13h

Every Democrat or never-Trump Republican who lives in a Congressional district with a Republican representative should call on the member to step up to the plate. They should either sign tje discharge petition, or pay a political price for not signing it.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 13h

Trump took a wrecking ball to the White House, just as he has done to the U.S. government.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 13h

Wouldn’t it be better great if just one Republican member with cojones stepped up to sign the discharge petition for a vote on the bill to release the Epstein files?

Any one of them could be a MAGA hero.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 1d

A perfect metaphor for what he is doing to the country.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

The editorial decision to put a huge photo and story about Charlie Kirk’s memorial last month above the fold on page one, while today burying a weak story on the largest US political protest in more than a half century is disgraceful. Heads should roll at the New York Times.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

They will be judged very harshly in the future, when it becomes obvious that they censored a huge story and therefore accelerated the slide toward autocracy.

Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece, but sadly the Philadelphia Inquirer buried coverage of #NoKings on page 4. The protests will be much less effective if the press fails in this way.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

The editorial decision to put a huge photo and story about Charlie Kirk’s memorial last month above the fold on page one, while today burying a weak story on the largest US political protest in more than a half century is disgraceful. Heads should roll at the New York Times.

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

A month after New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger exhorts investigative reporters and editors to cover political strongmen like Trump without fear or favor, his paper buries coverage of the largest US political protests in more than a half century. #NoKings

www.nytco.com/press/ag-sul...

AG Sulzberger Urges Journalists: Keep Reporting Without Fear or Favor | The New York Times Company

Speaking at the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization’s 50th anniversary celebration on September 15, The New York Times Publisher and Chairman AG Sulzberger addressed the “anti-press playb...

www.nytco.com

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

Scanning @brianstelter.bsky.social 's list of standout papers, as well as the longer Freedom Forum gallery, it's clear that a substantial number of small papers outreported and showed better news judgment than the @nytimes.com and other of the nation's largest and presumably best newspapers.

Why?

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Bkatzenberg @katzpie.bsky.social · 2d

Boston Globe top of fold first page

Picture of front page of newspaper showing large crowd with flags at no Kings protest

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

This is how today’s front page should look

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 2d

Can anyone explain why the New York Times, the supposed “newspaper of record,” would have a policy of burying coverage of protests against Donald Trump? This isn’t the first time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

I know you all know what deranged, vile, propaganda nonsense this is. But for the record:

Leaders of the regime are declaring the opposition party and all forms of political dissent as illegitimate - and large swaths of the population to be dangerous terrorists. This is incredibly dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 4d

Boomer blaming:NYT does horseshit reporting to try divert attention from class inequality to generation issues www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... It also LIES. Boomers experienced a quarter century of wage stagnation and high unemployment in 70s and 80s. The problem is the rich, not boomers

Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers

www.nytimes.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 9d

Checking in from hellhole central where 50K people are running through our beautiful city to roaring cheers from the crowd. #chicago

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10d

Portland 🔥

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Harry Gural @harrygural.bsky.social · 10d

Portland protesters - more animal costumes please! Brilliant!

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