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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16h

Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region. One day in the life of the Ukrainian marines of the 36th Marine Brigade, who defend the city from the Russian occupation army.

📹:@Liberov

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Wicky @vigeo93.bsky.social · 6h

Russia turning the world into a hellscape. Arm Ukraine.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 16h

👀 The popular VK app has been blocked in Belarus.

"Based on a KGB request, access to the resource has been restricted."

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8h

He also rightly pointed out that when the KY legislature passed the ban there was only one trans athlete in the whole state--a seventh grader kicked off the field hockey team she started www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Kentucky’s lone transgender athlete can’t play on the team she helped start

Fischer Wells helped start her school's girls field hockey team in Louisville. Then the state banned all transgender girls from playing. She's the only one.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 8h

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 8h

WH allows criminal bribe anonymity

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 10h

To be clear:
These donations are bribes, made anonymously to conceal Trump’s corruption.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 8h

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Wicky @vigeo93.bsky.social · 7h

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

This man was part of a coalition of Reagan-era apartheid apologists who opposed U.S. opening talks with the African National Congress which he called a terrorist org. He has been a right wing activist for decades. His son was part of the Jan 6th mob and was convicted (later pardoned by Trump). 1/

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16h

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

projects.propublica.org

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

This really was one of my main takeaways

Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 7h

I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Threatening to arrest governors for seditious conspiracy. Getting dark fast.

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Wicky @vigeo93.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks Kate. Attentive-and scared. But I won’t back down. This is a fight for America.

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Kate, CA @jitina.bsky.social · 4d

High-Tech Politician Zohran Mamdani Rises in NYC Mayoral Race, Dubbed “Internet Mayor”

Shows new political trends in the digital era.

Highlights the growing role of social media and young generations in politics.
www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor

Mere months ago, New York’s mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.” He spoke to WIRED about building a social media machine, Big Tech capitulation, and learning from Eric Adams.

www.wired.com

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Kate, CA @jitina.bsky.social · 3d

Trump administration authorizes military strike on Venezuelan “drug submarine”
www.ft.com/content/d6d7...

FirstFT: US flight cancellations rise as government shutdown enters third week

Also in today’s newsletter, German calls for a Europe-wide stock exchange and Trump considers Venezuela land strikes

www.ft.com

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Kate, CA @jitina.bsky.social · 2d

Media & Staffing Updates
Journalist Kate Talerico has joined the San Francisco Chronicle to cover Oakland, Berkeley, and the East Bay—part of the paper’s effort to strengthen local coverage.
www.sfchronicle.com/about/newsro...

Kate Talerico joins S.F. Chronicle to report on Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay

Talerico will join an expanded team covering the East Bay and Tri-Valley area.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 12h

See, you damn *elites* wouldn't understand what it's like for a country boy like Graham. He didn't have no "Exeter"--that boy had to scrape by with Hotchkiss. His daddy wasn't no CEO, just a lawyer, son of an iconic NYC modernist architect. Boy came up hard, nothing to sit on but Saarinan chairs...

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

wait, graham platner's "oyster farm" _only_ supplies his mother's restaurant and two other places?

Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 1d

The three locations where he sells his oysters (they all look like pretty nice places to visit)

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12h

This is what oligarchy looks like:

Trump gave corporate America a $920 billion tax break.

Now, corporations like Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google & Lockheed Martin are returning the favor by giving Trump $300 million for a fancy ballroom.

That’s a pretty good return on investment.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 12h

Josh Marshall; gift link.

Civic virtue is incredibly important. People who study crime say: most people don’t commit crimes not because they’re scared of punishment, but because you just don’t do that. Imagine how awful it would be if that weren’t true; if we couldn’t rely on people’s decency.

Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites

Members of America’s founding generation had an ambivalent and evolving understanding of...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12h

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren Warns Banks Against Lending $20 Billion to Argentina

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) told the biggest banks in the country not to finance a $20 billion loan to Argentina, citing the financial risk the facility would pose both to depositors and

www.wsj.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12h

Secretary Bessent already spent $20 billion bailing out Argentina — now he wants Wall Street to kick in $20 billion more, possibly guaranteed by taxpayers.

The big banks need to reject this deal.

Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for Trump’s political favors.

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 12h

Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12h

Hey folks:

Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning.

You can catch it here:

m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

Dr. Joanne Freeman

Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...

m.youtube.com

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Wicky @vigeo93.bsky.social · 9h

Re-elect Sherrod.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 12h

Just a reminder that Jon Husted has spent the year voting to give tax breaks to billionaires and also voting to raise your health care costs.

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