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Trevor WH 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 he/him @elvis15.bsky.social · 4h

Your message would be better perceived without AI.

Close up of the AI image showing the usual poor AI translation of the keywords used. "Authornation" and "dynamise" stand out before the text turns to alien gibberish.

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Josh Levinger @jlev.online · 4h

I'm sure your document is great, but please don't use AI-generated images if you can avoid it. Use a Canva template, or pay a human artist.

Not only did it mess up your text and look cheap, but it's part of the fascist descent that we are trying to stop. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

newsocialist.org.uk

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 7h

“What can we do?” - Share Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline with Congress

Tell them: Read it. Act on it.

Call, write, email—then send this link ⤵️
steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerating-authoritarian-dynamics, or a pdf of the report (available online)

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Project Now @nowproject.bsky.social · 4h

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 4h

Police just detained two protesters.

One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Woman dressed as Statue of Liberty wearing an American flag cape is arrested by Broadview police with assistance from Illinois State Police.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 6h

French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre knew what made fascists tick.
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"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge,” Sartre said. “But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Fascism, as Robert O. Paxton writes in The Anatomy of Fascism, “is an affair of the gut more than of the brain,” a phenomenon of “mobilizing passions” reaching a fever pitch that turns otherwise reasonable people into delusional, dangerous fanatics yearning for the void, for fascist movements – anywhere they are found, or have been found – want nothing more than the end of all things. It is a movement of death and destruction, of all-consuming nihilism. It is a movement that seeks to dismantle love and human connection wherever it is. It is an assault on what it is to be a human being. Nothing about fascism is natural. In fact, Paxton cites a number of intellectuals who in the 1930s dismissed fascism as a most unnatural phenomenon.

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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 6h

$40 billion could provide more than a year of affordable health care for millions of Americans.

Instead, Trump uses your taxpayer dollars to bail out his “favorite president” in Argentina.

U.S. support for Argentina could hit $40 billion

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an additional $20 billion in private-sector loans for Argentina could effectively double the value of a U.S. rescue plan.

www.nbcnews.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"

Swastika” Flag In Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) May Be An “optical illusion” and “easy to miss”

The weird story about an aide to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) having a flag in his Capitol Hill office with a swastika on it, has just gotten weirder.

Multiple sources tell Fox – including those investigating the issue – the flag in question is an American flag – but with a swastika embedded into the ink or weaving. And here’s the strange part: the swastika is not obvious to the naked eye. But is more visible when captured on video or by a still photo.

One source described this as an “optical illusion.” Another said the swastika was “easy to miss.”

Fox has learned that dozens of Congressional offices received these American flags from an undetermined group who brought them around Capitol Hill early in the year. One office tells Fox that the swastika on their flag was clear, so they tossed it out. But the flag in the office of Taylor was not visible until captured on camera.

It is not known what group brought the flags around. That is under investigation. The US Capitol Police are also conducting an inquiry. Fox is told that that the group brought the flags to multiple offices. At issues is if the group knew the swastika was embedded into the flag. It is also unclear if this was an effort to covertly deliver American flags to lawmakers with swastikas on them. Or, if this was an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn’t obvious to the naked eye.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 4h

Trump campaigned on “releasing the Epstein files.”

Then the FBI found his name and picture all over the files, photos and videos—now they’re keeping it under lock and key.

What else is in there? Who else are they protecting?

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Congressman Bill Foster @repbillfoster.bsky.social · 4h

Working families are reaching their boiling point. Republicans need to cut their vacation short, come back to DC, and extend ACA tax credits before premiums skyrocket.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3h

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 23h

Trump’s Department of Education has hired at least “nine people from the America First Policy Institute,” which “released a policy paper in 2023, titled ‘Biblical Foundations,’ that sets out [AFPI’s] objective to…’plant Jesus in every space.’” 10/8/25 … 1/

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3h

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14d

The US Department of Education “in partnership” w/ America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Moms for Liberty, TPUSA, Heritage, etc. recently launched a new civics education coalition.

AFPI’s team is led by Katie Gorka (Sebastian’s wife) & by Erika Donalds of Moms for Liberty infamy. 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h

5/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h

4/ “Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice, who is now with The Heritage Foundation’s political advocacy arm, told ProPublica: ‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 10/8/25 www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h

3/ “U.S. Department of Education, AFPI, TPUSA, Hillsdale College, and Over 40 National and State Organizations [Including Moms for Liberty] Launch America 250 Civics Coalition” 9/17/25 www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

U.S. Department of Education, AFPI, TPUSA, Hillsdale College, and Over 40 National and State Organizations Launch America 250 Civics Coalition

The U.S. Department of Education, alongside the America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA, Hillsdale College, and more than 40 leading national and state-based organizations today announced th...

www.ed.gov

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h

2/ “Moms for Liberty, Education Department launch program to report teachers who promote diversity” 2/27/25 www.salon.com/2025/02/27/m...

Moms for Liberty, Education Department launch program to report teachers who promote diversity - Salon.com

The department has created a tip line for people to report schools accused of promoting DEI policies

www.salon.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s Department of Education actively collaborates w/ Moms for Liberty. Asked “what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told ProPublica: “‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Risharde Funches @ultimatelando.bsky.social · 5h

Just need ONE reporter to say 'As Speaker of the House, don't you think that you should be more aware of things going on in the country?'

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 4h

A journalist should ask why he seems so uninformed about what's going on in the country as he is supposed to be the leader of the House.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4h

I understand publishers wanting to do publicity aimed at an audience that is most likely to buy a particular book (I think Justice Jackson's publisher took a similar approach), but justices are also supposed to be non-political public figures & maybe their media outreach should reflect that.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

… turned down requests from actual Supreme Court reporters?

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4h

Just for the record, although I am not really on board with asking justices for interviews to give them free book publicity, I did ask to speak to Barrett and got a swift rejection from the publisher.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 11d

Amy Coney Barrett did a big sit-down interview with Baseball Crank over at the National Review, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but she actually has my sympathies for having to force a laugh after Crank opened their conversation with this

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3h

Treasury's Bessent confirms American taxpayer funds being used to buy troubled Argentine pesos, as administration bails out ideological ally during government shutdown: "Treasury has not disclosed how much it has spent purchasing pesos or whether it will do it on a schedule." Via Reuters

www.reuters.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

WHOA. The AP reports that in the latest strike on a boat alleged to be carrying drug smugglers (which has never been proven), there were actually survivors, and they've been rescued.

The Pentagon has yet to formally acknowledge they have survivors in custody.
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US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean, AP sources say

The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

“It’s unmoored to reality,” he said.

“I expected there were documents like this, but seeing it in print is nevertheless shocking. Our government is being driven by nonsensical dreck from dark corners of social media.”

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News

The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...

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