The Mean Progressive
@themeanprogressive.bsky.social
I’m mean to fascists. Otherwise, I’m lovely.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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a note from @lawdorknews.bsky.social to @npr.org:
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
December 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
a note from @lawdorknews.bsky.social to @npr.org:
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
The GOP fight over bigotry isn’t a fight at all. Their entire platform is still very much wrapped up in every type of bigotry imaginable. The problem is that some of the GOPers who fail to be straight, white, fake Christian men have suddenly noticed. And they’re bummed.
"the vice president is neutral on bigotry" is damning on its own as a headline, IMO, but still underplays just how much of what he said was actually pro-bigot
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The GOP fight over bigotry isn’t a fight at all. Their entire platform is still very much wrapped up in every type of bigotry imaginable. The problem is that some of the GOPers who fail to be straight, white, fake Christian men have suddenly noticed. And they’re bummed.
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FYI northside of Chicago, fed chopper flying northbound across Lake Michigan, maybe some more ICE bullshit incoming @unraveledpress.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
FYI northside of Chicago, fed chopper flying northbound across Lake Michigan, maybe some more ICE bullshit incoming @unraveledpress.com
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
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The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released.
“Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?”
flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...
“Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?”
flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...
NEW — I wrote about Beker Rengifo, a Montana resident from Venezuela who was taken by ICE on Thursday after a routine traffic stop, and how local law enforcement is working with the feds to ensnare people with legal status.
ICE abducts Montana resident with legal humanitarian status
Beker Rengifo is the latest victim of Trump's reckless and illegal war on migrants.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released.
“Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?”
flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...
“Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?”
flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...
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The US military continues to obey clearly illegal orders from this criminal administration, committing murder on the high seas at Trump’s command. More than 100 people murdered now.
There should be much more outrage at this White House crime spree.
There should be much more outrage at this White House crime spree.
December 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The US military continues to obey clearly illegal orders from this criminal administration, committing murder on the high seas at Trump’s command. More than 100 people murdered now.
There should be much more outrage at this White House crime spree.
There should be much more outrage at this White House crime spree.
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Every gift continues to power people-first, fact-checked journalism across Mississippi.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
THANK YOU! Because of your generosity, we officially closed our latest match.
And the impact doesn’t stop there! Your donations are still being TRIPLED as we move on to the next match.
Every gift continues to power people-first, fact-checked journalism across Mississippi.
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And the impact doesn’t stop there! Your donations are still being TRIPLED as we move on to the next match.
Every gift continues to power people-first, fact-checked journalism across Mississippi.
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My incredible wife @pollymosendz.bsky.social’s mom, a fiber artist from Ukraine, runs a small business making handmade textiles and jewelry. She makes lovely things, and if you’re still in need of gifts, I hope you’ll check out the shop. www.etsy.com/shop/Silkand...
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My incredible wife @pollymosendz.bsky.social’s mom, a fiber artist from Ukraine, runs a small business making handmade textiles and jewelry. She makes lovely things, and if you’re still in need of gifts, I hope you’ll check out the shop. www.etsy.com/shop/Silkand...
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In new public remarks, Putin notes that Trump’s new strategic plan for US foreign policy aligns with Russia over NATO allies.
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
In new public remarks, Putin notes that Trump’s new strategic plan for US foreign policy aligns with Russia over NATO allies.
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To be more clear about a key thing here:
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Exonerees Sound the Alarm on New Florida Law Allowing Death Sentences by Split Juries - Bolts
Herman Lindsey braced himself for news that he would be sentenced to death as he sat inside a courtroom in Broward County, Florida in 2006. A jury had convicted Lindsey... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
To be more clear about a key thing here:
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
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Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98.
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98.
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
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Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
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Wrote a letter to Republicans and Trump supporters. If you are one, I hope you read. If you know one, I hope you might send this to them.
The People in Charge Think You’re as Bad as Them. Will You Let Them Be Right?
My reflections on a growing trend I find very disturbing — Vice Signaling:
The People in Charge Think You’re as Bad as Them. Will You Let Them Be Right?
My reflections on a growing trend I find very disturbing — Vice Signaling:
The People in Charge Think You’re as Bad as Them. Will You Let Them Be Right?
Forget ‘virtue signaling.’ We need to talk about the Trump administration’s vice signaling.
zeteo.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wrote a letter to Republicans and Trump supporters. If you are one, I hope you read. If you know one, I hope you might send this to them.
The People in Charge Think You’re as Bad as Them. Will You Let Them Be Right?
My reflections on a growing trend I find very disturbing — Vice Signaling:
The People in Charge Think You’re as Bad as Them. Will You Let Them Be Right?
My reflections on a growing trend I find very disturbing — Vice Signaling:
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"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE
With ICE targeting vendors and fear rising, community groups are organising fast to keep New Yorkers working on the streets safe
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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CONFIRMED: Progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas has won an at-large seat on the Houston city council, beating moderate former councilmember Dwight Boykins.
(Campaign was rocked earlier this year when Boykins said his website platform was generated by AI after Salinas accused him of plagiarism.)
(Campaign was rocked earlier this year when Boykins said his website platform was generated by AI after Salinas accused him of plagiarism.)
December 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
CONFIRMED: Progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas has won an at-large seat on the Houston city council, beating moderate former councilmember Dwight Boykins.
(Campaign was rocked earlier this year when Boykins said his website platform was generated by AI after Salinas accused him of plagiarism.)
(Campaign was rocked earlier this year when Boykins said his website platform was generated by AI after Salinas accused him of plagiarism.)
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“It’s a made up term, ‘AFFORDABILITY’ — the economy’s strong. Everyone’s fine, from the billionaires all the way down to the poor, poor millionaires who we’re praying for every night.” #SNL
December 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“It’s a made up term, ‘AFFORDABILITY’ — the economy’s strong. Everyone’s fine, from the billionaires all the way down to the poor, poor millionaires who we’re praying for every night.” #SNL
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"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
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"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
This US citizen went on his lunch break and ended up in a chokehold by a masked federal agent and detained, video shows | CNN
Mubashir had just stepped outside into the snowy Minneapolis winter weather to take his lunch break when he says he saw a masked federal officer running toward him “at full speed.”
www.cnn.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
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2/ I'm praying for the families of those killed and all those injured and impacted by this senseless act of gun violence.
It doesn't have to be this way in America.
It doesn't have to be this way in America.
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
2/ I'm praying for the families of those killed and all those injured and impacted by this senseless act of gun violence.
It doesn't have to be this way in America.
It doesn't have to be this way in America.
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what left victories in local elections can mean: local officials in different cities feeling empowered by each other boltsmag.org/new-jersey-c...
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
what left victories in local elections can mean: local officials in different cities feeling empowered by each other boltsmag.org/new-jersey-c...
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2/ And in the mayoral runoff in Pflugerville, the Dem-backed candidate Doug Weiss leads 55% to 45% so far.
These are the two elections on my guide of December races: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
More when we know the final results!
These are the two elections on my guide of December races: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
More when we know the final results!
December 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
2/ And in the mayoral runoff in Pflugerville, the Dem-backed candidate Doug Weiss leads 55% to 45% so far.
These are the two elections on my guide of December races: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
More when we know the final results!
These are the two elections on my guide of December races: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
More when we know the final results!
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Election returns are coming in from Texas (yup, it’s Election night).
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Election returns are coming in from Texas (yup, it’s Election night).
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
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"They said they weren’t sure why ICE would want to build a facility so close to a community so opposed to it.
"Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...”
www.notus.org/immigration/...
"Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...”
www.notus.org/immigration/...
ICE Wants to Build an Oregon Detention Facility. Contractors Say Construction Plans Are Alarming.
“How many of their own standards are they going to waive away?” one contractor told NOTUS.
www.notus.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"They said they weren’t sure why ICE would want to build a facility so close to a community so opposed to it.
"Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...”
www.notus.org/immigration/...
"Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...”
www.notus.org/immigration/...