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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

LOL! 🎯

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4h

"In unison."

Amen.

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Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h

so instead progressives ignore racism and misogyny while the establishment campaigns with the cheneys and ignores aoc. thats how we get trump term 2 in many ways.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h

heres one reason why democrats dont want to invest in media, but the host here is absolutely right cc @senategabe.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

‘Such Bullsh*t!’ Furious Podcaster Scorches Stunned Cory Booker for Appeasing Trump

Booker found himself stunned into silence as he faced an unusually blunt accusation that some of his past votes were a “capitulation” to Trump.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13h

here's cory booker @booker.senate.gov absolutely crapping the bed when given mild and correct criticism over his votes for trump nominees while claiming to be a leader of the opposition against fascism. kudos to the @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social podcast

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13h

this is what happens when your whole bubble is created by fox news. americans dont like monarchy. we've built our cultural identity around opposition to monarchy for nearly 250 years. donald trump is not going to get americans to suddenly be pro-monarchy.

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Michael Gatton @mgatton.bsky.social · 10h

Remember when "block grants" were all the rage among the right because state and local gov'ts know best how to solve their own problems?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

CNN: Are you okay with the president's threat here about pulling more federal funding from NYC if Mamdani is elected?

MIKE LAWLER: This is obviously a moment where New York needs to also work with the federal government. You gotta work with the administration.

Michael Gatton @mgatton.bsky.social · 11h

What Dems like Booker don't or won't understand is that you cannot tinker your way out of the economic inequality and poverty that are endemic to American capitalism. It takes bold and sweeping change, which they will not support.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12h

Lindsey Boylan was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and is now supporting Zohram Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 15h

NC is changing its district maps for the fourth time since the 2020 census. Each redraw has disenfranchised voters.

The state’s top GOP legislators said their planned action follows Trump’s “call urging legislatures across the country to take action to nullify Democrat redistricting efforts.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

On Sunday, I visited DEAR NEW YORK, Brandon Stanton's "love letter" to the city he's been documenting for years as "Humans of New York" for their family reception with student artists.

It's a gorgeous exhibit that's transformed Grand Central Station. See it before 10/19!

Zohran and Brandon standing in Grand Central Station. Brandon has his arm around Zohran's shoulder showing him the exhibit.

A group photo with Zohran and Brandon sitting on the floor with a dozens of students around them.

Zohran and a student artist admiring a photographer.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Michael Gatton @mgatton.bsky.social · 1d

It has judicial validity in that the SC has declared him immune from prosecution so he can do literally anything he wants if he can make even a weak argument that he is acting in his core capacity as president. Any and all crimes are covered.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

and now mamdani is going to go on fox news.

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

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Michael Gatton @mgatton.bsky.social · 1d

This is Hannibal Lecter level treatment of mostly innocent people. "The cruelty is the point."

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

What can we do about mainstream media moving right? 1. Give up on some outlets (CBS) and embrace others (The Guardian) 2. Get alternative media to cover more hard news 3. Browbeat outlets into using their agenda-setting and framing powers better. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 2d

It's a negotiation strategy to ask your opposite number to abandon what leverage they have in exchange for an empty promise. It's not a *good* strategy, but it is *a* strategy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

"To try to win the support of Senate Democrats, Republicans have suggested they’d promise to *hold a vote* on extending the ACA subsidies after the government reopens, which is very different from actually extending them." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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

This press release from a North Carolina GOP figure portrays the current redistricting wars as something *Democrats* started in Calif., ignoring the fact that this all began with the Trump White House and first unfolded in red Texas.

According to them, Republicans are once again The Real Victims™

House Redistricting Chairmen Brenden Jones (R-Columbus) and Hugh Blackwell (R-Burke) said, “We’re stepping into this redistricting battle because California and the radical left are attempting to rig the system to handpick who runs Congress. This ploy is nothing new, and North Carolina will not stand by while they attempt to stack the deck. President Trump has called on us to fight back, and North Carolina stands ready to level the playing field.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

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