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They like Trump and want to help him
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3h
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants "on a massive scale." The man identified as the suspect was said to have worked with the C.I.A. and fled Afghanistan in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a program born after the sudden fall of the Afghan government in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces and the o Taliban took control of the country. The suspect received asylum from the U.S. government in April, according to three people with knowledge of the case who were not authorized to speak publicly.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
> @samsteindc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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grimalkina.bsky.social
There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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quantian.bsky.social
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco. An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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johnjharwood.bsky.social
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
ryan lizza is asking you to decide if you’re normal sick or willing to pay for this shit sick
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
a conspiracy theorist was elected to Congress and became blackpilled by actually seeing how washington works
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d
In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
There is no "plan to save the world" or insane 4D chess game being played.
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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kiaspeaks.us
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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wrenispinkle.bsky.social
Jealous girlfriend meme with Donald Trump smiling at Zohran Mamdani and Stephen Miller looking jealous
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
the son he always wanted
Donald loves Zohran
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
GIANT FLASHING RED AUTHORITARIAN ALERT

apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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zacheverson.com
"Yet hundreds of German liberals were sentenced to long prison terms on charges of treason because they revealed or denounced in the press or by speech the Army’s constant violations of the Versailles Treaty."
September 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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zacheverson.com
"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
600 Americans were fired in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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raphae.li
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
“Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.”

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. "Baby, don't worry," he said. "It's not a worm. ." A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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christineloriol.bsky.social
I haven’t been over this one since reading it in July25.
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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miriamelder.bsky.social
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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tullamore-jew.bsky.social
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
"Holy shit, it is all starting to fall into place!!" captioning a cork board with pictures of trump and epstein on it with one straight thread connecting them.
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22d
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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goodlawproject.org
Question for The Times.

Given undocumented immigrants are being given hysterectomies and then deported by ICE when they complain would you still call Donald Trump a "feminist hero"? www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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drwambsgans.bsky.social
This is important context from Julie K. Brown.

With alt text.
julie k. brown @jkbjournalist Dershowitz, who helped Jeffrey Epstein get this sweetheart deal, knows full well that there were almost three dozen dozen girls, ages 13 to 17, who were named in a list that accompanied this plea deal. The final plea PAPERWORK was manipulated to pick just one victim -- and his lawyers made sure they chose the oldest one so that it didn't look so bad. But the girl who came forward first to police was 14 -- and the list of other victims attached to that deal included many young girls.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM