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Elon is fighting to pay $2K in child support for 3 kids, getting sued for custody by another mother of his child, is estranged from another daughter… And this is who the party of “family values” is turning the keys to the country over to?

submitted 4 hours ago • 60 comments

Following Trump’s new Executive Order re: the S.F. Presidio, here’s a shareable link to an unrolled version of my highly sourced thread about the Tech Bros’ plan to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. The MSM has yet to connect these dots, & it’s driving me crazy! skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Elon Musk is the Mike Lindell of Trump 2.0. He’s an upgrade in terms of star power and wealth, but just as conspiracy-addled, overly online, and completely ignorant about how government or society functions.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Let’s go!!! 🇺🇦 Pro-Ukraine protest outside the Russian embassy. ✊

submitted 9 hours ago • 23 comments

Hit them where it hurts. All European funds should divest from companies that enable dictators.

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On some level, Andrew Cuomo abused all New Yorkers with his corrupt and evil and self-serving ways. He’s trying to do it again and we won’t let him.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

A new piece co-authored with my esteemed friend and colleague @saladinaldronni.bsky.social for The Counter Extremism Project The Islamic State in Puntland, Somalia "Africa is slowly developing in to the new epicenter of ISIS’s global terrorist operations" www.counterextremism.com/blog/islamic...

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

New, from me: Unpacking the Friday night news: The military purges have begun - why do they also include lawyers? A Judge is allowing the dismantling of USAID to proceed. This reflects a pattern where Judges are ignoring the broader democratic risks. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now. Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November. If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

The weaponization of US technology companies means we should treat our dependence on them as a national security threat ↘️

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 1 day ago • 911 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 228 comments

One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users. Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Actually, it's more horrifying but yes

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They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

The Extremists Pamphlet from the @aflcio.org about right wing extremism, its socially backwards agenda, close relationship to corporate interests, and how collective civic action can help oppose it. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

It's so weird how the party that likes to claim their opponents are radical Maoists or Stalinists are engaging in purges of the military, the Justice Department, & dozens of other federal agencies at a scale that is far far far beyond anything any incoming administration in US history has ever done.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Found myself thinking today about this Twitter thread I wrote up in 2018 meditating on the possibility that the party of Lincoln & Douglass, the party that saved the union & refounded it on the principle of equality, might end up replacing the Constitution with white nationalist authoritarianism.

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

A pundit tried to argue with @jamellebouie.net just yesterday that Trump isn’t trying to resegregate the bureaucracy. But this stuff would make Woodrow Wilson proud.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

submitted 20 hours ago • 90 comments

60 organizations across #LosAngeles come together to form the Community Self-Defense Coalition. “You will not come into our community without facing an organized resistance. We’re going...to surround [ICE] and not allow them to kidnap our people." boyleheightsbeat.com/community-se...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm on the lookout for a talented reporter to come and work with the team at @bylinetimes.bsky.social as we continue to grow. Please get in touch at [email protected] if you're interested

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

This is why we need independent media outlets funded by the public. Our Byline Times story is still available to read despite attempts to suppress it.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 15 hours ago • 93 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

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For more than 20 years I been proud to call myself a University of Alaska alumnus. No more. I ashamed and embarrassed by this cowardly dictum. Note the opening sentence violates section 2. #UAF #Alaska

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 21 hours ago • 115 comments

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submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

Wrote a little something in the mighty @rollingstone.com about #TeslaTakedown. In anticipation of our upcoming second weekend of protests! Join or create an event for ANY day and ANY country at Teslatakedown.com. Download our flyers and background to get informed and get involved!

submitted 21 hours ago • 46 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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1378 fired. alaskabeacon.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

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⚡️Russia wants to declare 'victory' over Ukraine on Feb. 24, Ukrainian intel claims. According to the Ukrainian military intelligence, Russia aims to sow despair among Ukrainians, destabilize the situation in the country, and discredit Ukraine among its allies.

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Meanwhile, not only is Bannon doing a Nazi salute at CPAC (to raptorous applause), but Musk is waving a chainsaw on stage. Politics as a pro wrestling show, somewhere along a continuum from Caligula to Hitler. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

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Within his first month back in power, US President Donald Trump has repeatedly taken Russia's side on a host of issues. But Trump’s world moves fast, and it’s hard to remember everything. So here’s our recap. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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