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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 18d

This is as bad as it gets.

@ninaburleigh.bsky.social has maybe the most frightening column Ive read yet.

Kegseth. Rivers of blood!

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War and Rumors of War

What is Pete Hegseth Up To?

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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 6d

COURIER's @ninaburleigh.bsky.social dissects the Marvel-like imagery the Trump admin is using to showcase its assault on American cities — and how right-wing media is helping the admin pull it off.

The Insurrectionist Acts

Donald’s Diversionary Crackdown

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · 6d

With the shutdown, DC Christofascist insider and transparent seaworm Vought is having his day in the sun. We discuss him here.

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Freak of the Week: Russell Vought

The Transparent Seaworm

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GLEN JACKSON @glenjackson.bsky.social · 7d

In recent days, the spectacle of state power abusing American citizens has reached critical mass.
Coast to coast, masked thugs are dragging Americans off by their clothes and hair.
Peaceful protestors branded as “terrorists” are being shoved into unmarked vans.

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The Insurrectionist Acts

Donald’s Diversionary Crackdown

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · 6d

With the shutdown, DC Christofascist insider and transparent seaworm Vought is having his day in the sun. We discuss him here.

Freak of the Week: Russell Vought www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-t...

Freak of the Week: Russell Vought

The Transparent Seaworm

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Jun 16

Today, @BasedMikeLee is blaming “Marxists” for the horror movie-worthy door cam image of right-wing assassin Vance Boelter in latex mask, a cenobite from the series Hellraiser. I take apart what's wrong with that in the latest Freakshow.

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A Monster in Minnesota

Another Episode in the All-American Horror Show of White Christian Nationalism

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Jun 10

Going live on Chicago radio in a minute or so talking about the Texas Chain Saw Misogyny tactics against women.

Join me this afternoon at 3PM CST for an interview on Joan Esposito: Live, Local & Progressive. You can tune in live at tunein.com/radio/WCPT-8...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Jun 10

now HERE is some responsible reporting: www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown

After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Jun 10

Stephen Miller, Freak of the Week, Any Week! www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-t...

Freak of the Week: Stephen Miller

Behind Miller's Anti-Immigrant Agenda

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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · Jun 5

"Since so many of the abuses emerged from the test kitchen of woman-hating that is the Lone Star State, I call this Texas Chain-Saw Misogyny," writes @ninaburleigh.bsky.social in this week's American Freakshow.

Ladies, Please Step Out In the Parking Lot to Die

Texas Chain-Saw Misogyny

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · Jun 10

Absolutely must watch for anyone interested in @gilduran.com or @jennycohn.bsky.social intersection of religion, science, Epstein, Mountainhead & techbro wankery.

A conversation w English majors

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Live with Nina Burleigh

A recording from Nina Burleigh's live video

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · May 13

"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · May 13

As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.

According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.

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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · May 14

"The gilded plane ... seems to have woke the gag reflex of some leading MAGAs ... [But] no hint of outrage ruffles the alabaster brow of the nation’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Pam Bondi," writes @ninaburleigh.bsky.social in this week's American Freakshow.

A Thousand and One Nights of Grift

Is this the $400 million plane that broke the camel’s back?

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · May 14

Could it be that colossal baksheesh is what it takes to cure the so-far incurable Obama Derangement Syndrome, the racist mind-virus behind the MAGA fever that turns Trump into a hallucination of white Jesus?
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A Thousand and One Nights of Grift

Is this the $400 million plane that broke the camel’s back?

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Apr 29

The sad childhood and adolescence, the slow physical decline, and now death by suicide of Virginia Giuffre – if it means anything, and it should – reminds us that the myth of the naturally pliant woman is evil and damaging.
In the latest Freakshow
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Epstein, Trump, and the Myth of the Happily Transactional Woman

On the Death of Virginia Giuffre

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Joe Conason @joeconason.bsky.social · Apr 16

TODAY'S MUST READ: Our friend @ninaburleigh.bsky.social asks why @realbillmaher.bsky.social -- and men like him -- are so untroubled by #Trump's vile attacks on women.

Trump's War Of Aggression Against American Women

Last week, HBO comedian Bill Maher waxed effusive about Trump’s graciousness and charm at a White House dinner the president hosted for him, Kid Rock, and UFC head Dana White. On his Real Time show, M...

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Apr 28

thanks Joe!

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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · Apr 21

"These [far-right] men have been licking their chops for more than a decade for a chance to conclave and install a man more of their ilk," writes @ninaburleigh.bsky.social.

The Far Right is Coming for the Vatican

JD Vance and the End of the Pope Francis Era

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · Apr 21

Ah, it was a knighthood.

“A Supreme Court justice should not accept a knighthood, let alone from a far-right, monarchical, foreign religious-military order,” said @alexaronson.bsky.social”

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Justice Alito’s Royalist Cosplay

He’s hanging out with Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis and donned a Savoy-blue wool cape to become a Constantinian knight.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · Apr 25

@ninaburleigh.bsky.social had a terrific live interview today w author of Opus @garethgore.bsky.social.

Want to know more about the extreme right Catholic sect running Leonard Leo, Supreme Court, DC and HD Vance - listen to this podcast - then read the book

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A recording from Nina Burleigh's live video

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Apr 28

IS there a Silicon Valley titan who is not a sick, lonely freak? Zuck doesn't want to miss out on the "Submissive schoolgirl" sex chatbot market.
Also, the WSJ has been ON FIRE with this coverage. (last week the Musk baby mamas)
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Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children

Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Apr 2

fun

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The Five 8 @thefive8.bsky.social · Apr 2

Outrage as sport. Nina Burleigh joins The Five 8.

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When Will MAGA Wake Up? & Trump's Resentments Explain Policies, with Nina Burleigh

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Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social · Apr 2

And he's headed back to Mar a Lardo tomorrow.
Ka-ching! Another $14 million .... while Social Security gets crashed for cost cuts.
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Freak of the Week: Donald Trump

Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Golf Trips Explained

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