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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

How do I make Justice Kavanaugh watch this?

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating.

And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 21h

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

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

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

Important

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17h

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

If you see these men doing any policing of/interacting with protesters at Broadview, please send us a message

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Some of the Illinois Department of Corrections SORT team we saw at the Broadview ICE protests Friday and Saturday.

five cops with large seven point stars and SORT patches, militarized gear

SORT officer sullivan in olive gear with arm patch he is eating a snack and looking at his phone

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 17h

No American who cares about their rights should ever watch @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy or any other program on their network again, save @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. Weiss will make CBS the most destructive force in American media by using their credibility to launder maga propaganda.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 18h

Threatening to falsely arrest and criminally charge an American citizen for exercising their fundamental rights is at a minimum, harassment, which is an actionable tort in state court. This incident is part of a much larger partner of lawlessness which must be brought before the federal courts.

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 18h

Every American should be taught this in school. Columbus was a genocidal monster even by the standards of his day. The fact we hold him as a heroic figure with a holiday is embarrassing. Granted, the Trump admin would claim the Spanish Crown was “woke” for holding Columbus accountable for his crimes

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 18h

If Mamdani wins, he direct NYPD to notify every officer who said they would quit that they have 24 hours to follow through on their resignation or be fired. He should treat their statement as a resignation and also an action of insubordination undermining public confidence in law enforcement.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 21h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 18h

Threatening to arrest and drag you handcuffed to a courtroom is a clear violation of your 1st amendment rights. Contact an attorney and file a federal tort claims act notice. 90 days after that you can file suit. The Trump admin must be held accountable for every civil rights violation.

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 1d

Sally Jenkins is very thin-skinned and sensitive about her hot takes. She said she’d never seen anything offensive that Charlie Kirk said and this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social was right to praise him. People responded with countless examples of Kirk’s bigotry so she blocked them.

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone and says 911

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone and says 911

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regulators1788.bsky.social @regulators1788.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo should come home to Chicago and lead a march of thousands of people to the Broadview ICE facility. After leading the masses in prayer, he could walk to the door and request he be given access to minister to the huddled masses being held there. Trump would call him an antifa terrorist.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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