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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 15h

Don’t give them any ideas.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

www.propublica.org

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 15h

Speaking as a long-time centrist, what in the absolute hell are they talking about? The center of what exactly? They ran so far to the right that they went right of the edge.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

"To Trump, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like." -Jake Lundberg
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump

Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.

www.theatlantic.com

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said that so many times. I can say after so many years of hearing Reagan, Bush, and younger Bush all described in the same terms as Trump, I pretty much tuned out the Democrats for years. I think that was a big reason people have tuned out the warnings about Trump because they heard it forever.

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 1d

I like that option.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

"Give Donald Trump this much: He has never tried to hide his malice, his lawlessness, or his desire to inflict pain on others." -
@peter-wehner.bsky.social

Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open

It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

And this is it's so important to reject nihilism about freedom and voting. This is gonna be tight.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The Emerson poll has always shown Sherrill doing a bit worse than the others, which have her up 4-8 points.

BUT the last round of polls in the 2021 gubernatorial race had the Democrat up 7 and he won by 2.

It's fair to treat this as a toss-up right now, so Democrats need a huge GOTV effort.

Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 2d

👀 NJ GOV RACE: Emerson College has Mikie Sherrill (D) at 49% and Jack Ciattarelli (R) at 48%, with just 3% undecided

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

The Great Gatsby is about the ills of greed and immorality, a not-so-subtle statement that “the American dream” is futile.

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

Le Duan to Mao, 1971:
"We want to smash the U.S.-Japan alliance as well as the alliance between the U.S., Japan and the regional bourgeois class. We have to establish a world front that will be built first by some core countries and later enlarged to include African and Latin American countries"

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 4d

I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed.

Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 2d

This part!

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 2d

I responded to her before I saw this. I normally ignore people like them, but I’ve had one to many person try to kill people’s hard-won joy lately.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 2d

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.

Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes

Kevin Roberts denounced the “venomous coalition” that has criticized the former Fox News host.

www.politico.com

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pretty much in “gather rosebuds while ye may” mode. The destruction of the East Wing is fueling it even more.

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly not enough to keep her from being a miserable person.

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t know this person’s situation. You don’t know the events in her past year. Nor do you know of what this person does in the way of charity and helping others. But you still felt the need to try and shame her to make her feel worse. This doesn’t make you a good person or help anyone. Bravo.

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 2d

She seems like a treasure. And yes, I agree with @tacothecat.bsky.social. Do it.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3d

Independents blame Trump and the GOP for the shutdown by a 2:1 margin.

Trump’s approval with people under 30 has completely cratered.

63% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s management of the federal government.

#GOPShutdown

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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 5d

NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among...
White Americans +13 | -3
Hispanic Americans -12 | -34
Black Americans -31 | -70
today.yougov.com/politics/art...

A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump among U.S. adult citizens, and among white, Black, and Hispanic Americans."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 3d

Unbelievable. Especially from a guy who invited the Saudi Air Force to train on our bases resulting in one of their pilots killing three of our naval aviators in Florida in a Al-Qaeda backed terrorist attack and then without learning from that offered to build Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

www.404media.co

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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