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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 1d

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.

People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.

Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6d

Last night, my team filed a motion to defend voters in California.

DOJ sued 8 states. My firm has filed to protect voters in all 8 states.

We will never back down from the fight to protect free and fair elections.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12d

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.

My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.

I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 6d

Twitter is an angry place; Bluesky is romantically moody.

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you, I can’t believe we’re playing the “well you can still post whatever you want on social media” game - which by the way have you seen TikTok lately? Give me a break Tom

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 8d

Nobody has time to sit and debate semantics when the point is, this administration is acting fascist. There are several parallels to 1933 Germany. Again, you’re blunting the severity of the situation when you start squabbling about can and can’t be called fascist.

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 8d

No. That’s stupid af. I’m going to call something fascist if it looks akin to 1933 Germany, in which there are many parallels between that and this administration. Calling it for what it is doesn’t mean people accept it or won’t oppose it.

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 8d

This is such a dumb argument. The admiration is acting fascist. Idk where the line is when you finally determine a regime is fascist. But this fight over semantics is distracting from the point

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, but he’s just distracting from the point of the original thread

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 9d

I guess but a lot of people get their news outside of tv/cable news networks

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 9d

Calling it out ≠ accepting it and/or giving up

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 9d

I read recently his approval is at 47% or something like that - too high imo

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 9d

What’s your end goal by fighting about the semantics of fascism though? Feels like you’re just trying to downplay the severity of the situation we’re in, which is quite irksome

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 9d

🙃

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 9d

I’m still sitting here flabbergasted the administration’s approval rating is as high as it is… per the polls

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 12d

I have been riding the DC metro, alone, since I was in middle school, and brought my children on it when they were even younger

Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 12d

Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:

"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."

[Her daughter is 22]

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12d

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 12d

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 13d

I hope that's all it is 😓

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 13d

He's telling generals that he's declaring war on American cities and that they will be expected to support his illegal campaign. This is the worst thing Trump has done as president.

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MJ @lkpolicynerd.bsky.social · 15d

This article was in such bad faith I can’t believe it. Failed to mention J6, categorized Mangione as a leftist with zero evidence to support it, and how can you write right wing extremism has plummeted when the state is just doing the right’s bidding through “legal means” — real trash piece

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