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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 9h

It is not easy for someone else to become The Main Character in the age of Trump, and yet Sally Jenkins is giving it her all.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 10h

Jesus fucking Christ that is bleak. Stay safe man.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 11h

It’s perfect.

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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.social · 12h

Incredible framing by the paper of record of yet another unconstitutional budget runaround of Congress.

NYT headline: Trump Says He Will Pay
Troops Despite Government
Shutdown

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 12h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 13h

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 1d

Had dinner tonight with a friend who’s a middle school teacher in the southwest. They told me schools now have trainings for when ICE agents sweep through schools to take children, and it’s worse than active shooter trainings, because it’s the government kidnapping children.

This is where we are.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Punchin Nazis. You?

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

I spent the afternoon upgrading an xfinity modem and I feel like destroying fascism might be easier.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

Journalist, podcast creator, and Punk Planet founder Dan Sinker's I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!: Terror, Truth, and the Editor Who Took on the Klan, a narrative account of crusading journalist George Dale, who faced off against a powerful, ascendant Klan movement in 1920s Indiana, and who serves as a model of journalistic integrity and defiance in the face of fascism, to Eric Kerl and Katy O'Donnell at Haymarket, at auction, by David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah. Congrats Dan!

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

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

Irish News: "Palestinians return to ruins as Gaza ceasefire holds."

The Gazans who survived have no home, no work and nothing left of their cities. They rely on our direct donations.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her children and rebuild. And to others. ❤️

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Also a great option! Maybe the best option.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Other platforms, like Ghost and Beehiiv, may also do this, and if folks have details for that please tack them on. There is simply no excuse to stay on Substack. You know what they stand for.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

I get that switching platforms can be a pain in the ass, but there’s help. Buttondown, for example, will do all your migration for you. For free. buttondown.com/features/con...

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Please tell me you got an inflatable frog costume Dan.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Just waiting on today's baggie delivery.

Piles of folded ICE whistle zines and a box of orange whistles

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Saturday morning craft project

A red table is covered with numerous printed zines, in Spanish , about using whistles to warn about ICE and a pair of scissors

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

“When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” Benioff continued. “That’s how it used to be.”

He's too young to remember, but back in those good old days, SF cops routinely terrorized LGBTQ people for asserting their rights.

Pretty disappointing, Marc.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Who would YOU have given the Nobel Peace Prize to and why would it have been a Palestinian journalist?

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Lotta people warning me about fascism while still getting that Substack coin.

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