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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · Dec 15

In response real lovers of free speech should attach the adjective rapist to Trump as often as possible. Streisand the heck out of this settlement by rapist Trump with craven ABC.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Dec 15

All the ‘Free Speech!’ centrists, leftists-turned-conservatives, Intellectual Dark Web types will have nothing to say about this dangerous and authoritarian trend. (They’re too busy policing placards at campus protests.)

Trump and His Picks Threaten More Lawsuits Over Critical Coverage

The small flurry of threatened defamation suits is the latest sign that the incoming Trump administration appears poised to do what it can to crack down on unfavorable media coverage.

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1h

US manufacturing jobs are crashing, US farm exports have collapsed - and China is doing great with their worldwide exports 8.3% higher than a year earlier, at $328.5 billion, surpassing economists’ estimates.

Trump is MCGA- Making China Great Again.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2h

China's exports to the United States fell 27% in September from the year before, as a truce between Beijing and Washington unravels and both sides hit out with new tariffs and other retaliatory measures.

China's exports to US drop in September, while rise in global shipments hits a 6-month high

China has reported its exports to the United States fell 27% in September from the year before, even though growth in its global exports hit a six-month high.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 5h

Worth remembering that when National Guard was mobilized in the South, it was based on explicit demand BY Southern Governors to send them, since those Governors did not want to enforce court orders themselves.

www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10h

The destruction of federal statistical agencies and attacking all other sources of data has the purpose of allowing politicians to lie with abandon.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10h

This is nothing more than a ceasefire and hostage-prisoner swap- with Hamas & Israel both ready to go to war again

"Mr. Netanyahu vowed that Hamas would be disarmed...Either it will be achieved the easy way, or it will be achieved the hard way,”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Israel and Hamas Were Not Ready for a Comprehensive Peace Deal, Mediator Says

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10h

Ceasefires negotiated under Biden saw 135 hostages released.

Trump after nine months negotiated the release of 48 more hostages - a fraction of the hostages released under Biden.

Difference is Trump is pretending this is a final peace when almost no other details have been agreed on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Rep. Van Orden: "Listen, at this point the Nobel Peace Prize does not deserve Donald Trump. It's just shocking and so in your face. I mean, this guy has done more for world peace in 9 months any any president in history. Period. And it should be recognized. But unfortunately he's not a globalist."

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 11h

A Cuomo mayorship will be four years of this, excusing Trump's terror campaign against NYC residents, the suppression of Dem opposition politicians (who are Cuomo's enemies as well) and Cuomo serving the interests of his billionaire donors.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

The US has the highest pedestrian death rate, far higher than other high-income countries around the world

Most of increase is in urban areas with best explanation - although not only one - is that big SUVs are making any accident more deadly

www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-so...

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Emphasize: Trump convicted not for paperwork error - but because falsification of business records was in furtherance of crime of paying Michael Cohen for his paying off Stormy Daniels- a crime that Cohen was convicted of with Trump as unindicted co-conspirator.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

What was Trump convicted of? Details on the 34 counts and his guilty verdict

Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Here's what to know about the charges.

www.cbsnews.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump desperately wants to both get revenge on his enemies and argue his CONVICTIONS BY A JURY are somehow the same thing as what he is doing.

But the absurdity of the cases he is filing just emphasizes the difference with the real crimes he committed.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James

It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprisingly, Thiel like no doubt much of the billionair class thinks any obstacle to evading taxes and hiding their money is a key indicator of the coming Apocalypse

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel is at the core of tech oligarch circle- with his creepy spytech company Palantir now a key government contractor -and his belief system is a bizarre synthesis of Atlas Shrugged, Nazi philosophy via Carl Schmidt, and endtimes belief in the AntiChrist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

So the Ministry of Joy is now suppressing content showing brutality by the regime.

Nothing Orwellian here having the techlord handmaidens doing this kind of censorship

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

But it is Trump who is abusing prosecutorial power over an over again to target not real crimes but just concocting stories to attack political enemies.

There is not some "escalation" or "both sides" politicizing prosecutions.

Trump is a criminal and was found to be one by multiple juries.

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Trump whines about unfair prosecution, but New Yorkers have applauded a former Democratic State Assembly Speaker being indicted and multiple former Democratic Governors and Attorney Generals being forced to resign because of corruption and sexual abuse allegations.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

One thing Cuomo's mealy-mouthed response should remind the media of: Trump was not taken down by Tish James & Manhattan DA because he's a Republican, he was taken down because he was corrupt and sexual abuser, just as Cuomo was taken down because he was corrupt and a sexual abuser.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

GOP has proven their belief in "states rights" is a farce.

Will they trash all of "originalism" to bend the knee to Trump?

Judge Perry ruled Texas troops could not be sent to Chicago citing Hamilton that such an idea would be "preposterous"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

I meant to say "or name Tish James" but little question Cuomo is thrilled James has been indicted, since he shares Trump's grievances that she dared to investigate them both.

It was James who released report on Cuomo's sexual harassment that forced his resignation
www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/n...

‘I believe these 11 women,’ Letitia James says as she reveals the report’s findings. (Published 2021)

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Cuomo will not attack Trump or Tish James by name because he will be Trump's agent in NYC.

As Mamdani says, this is mealy-mouthed platitude by Cuomo, not a challenge to rising authoritanism.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Dems need to make it clear that no deal will happen until everyone furloughed or RIFed is guaranteed their jobs back.

Fight for jobs and health care - that is the winning message to the public.

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Cuomo just has contempt for New Yorkers, assuming they will believe his constant stream of lies.

But probably has the proper level of contempt for the media, which he assumes will mostly repeat his lies without fact checking them.

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 2d

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

This is a twofer for the Trumpists- it bails out their local plutocratic allies running Argentina at the same time it bails out the US plutocrats who had invested in the rightwing Argentina regime's failed economy

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Soldiers and civil servants aren't getting paid- but investor friends of the Trump administration just got paid bigtime with the Argentinian bailout
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

I did not have frog costumes becoming the iconic symbol of resistance to Trump 2025 on my bingo card.

But Trump deserves a farcical ridiculous picture next to his entry in history so I am good with this.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Great editorial detailing all the corrupt dealings Trump has made to increase his own political power and serve his own personal financial interests in various corporate deals that he has manipulated using government power

lasvegassun.com/news/2025/oc...

It’s official: Trump is a communist

What happens when companies know that their market access depends not on efficiency or innovation, but on keeping the president happy? They self-censor, shareholders suffer, innovation grinds to a hal...

lasvegassun.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

If upheld on appeal, this seems like MAJOR victory restricting wide ranging ICE raids that arrest people without warrants.

Immediate impact is on Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Kentucky but the principle should extend nationwide.

missouriindependent.com/2025/10/10/f...

Federal judge rules against ICE in the warrantless arrests of 11 KC-area workers • Missouri Independent

The decision has implications affecting the treatment of immigrants suspected of civil immigration violations in six midwestern states

missouriindependent.com

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