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I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.

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Geo, a private prison company is reopening and expanding a massive immigrant detention center in Newark, where it will hold and process people from New York City and across the Northeast who have been detained by ICE, @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports.

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Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

submitted 5 hours ago • 110 comments

there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

submitted 5 hours ago • 370 comments

The Trump administration is importing human traffickers and rapists while deporting war veterans

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Once again, just like with Musk and Twitter, these fucking idiots don't understand what was already happening, rip it down, and then try to rebuild the same thing, but way dumber, because they can't understand nuance and complexity.

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The moment in the cabinet meeting where RFK Jr, acting as the actual head of HHS was asked to respond to a deadly measles outbreak caused by vaccine refusal was one of those out-of-body, waking nightmare moments of the Trump era.

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the entire framing of this suggests that musk is the superior in the room

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I think if I had this much leverage I would demand more than "Let's reassert what the law already is." The demand should be to eject Elon and his teens from the government. They're enormously unpopular what's the problem

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Letter from 21 legacy US Digital Service staff who resigned, saying they can no longer work for DOGE. "We will not use use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize American's sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

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The reason they use thinly veiled euphemism for racial sterilization is that the press will run the thinly veiled euphemism and never have the temerity to come out and say they’re pushing for the mass extermination of Black people through sterilization.

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First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that’s infected more than 120 people apnews.com/article/meas...

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There are many actions you can take to support and expand public libraries where you are: www.librariesforthepeople.org

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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

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Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

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In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

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The destroying of local media outlets and then the purchasing of legacy media by billionaire ghouls has put the country in deep peril all so people like Bezos can buy their 87th yacht or something.

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The obvious move here would be for Democrats to have townhalls in key Republican districts to call out these cowards running and hiding from DOGE cuts.

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Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

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The cynicism of the anti woke bullshit of the past decade was transparent the whole time but it’s still worth noting how quiet the defenders of the enlightenment are now

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Well, here’s the thing - if you can’t get a guarantee that the money will get spent, what’s the point of making any kind of deal on the budget? No point in making any kind of agreement that you know won’t get honored.

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I remember at the height of covid, an interview with a nurse who said she couldn’t count the number of dying patients asking for the vaccine.

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I'm seeing a lot of talk about the importance of candidate recruitment... Here's a thread of some REALLY WILD instances of elections going unopposed that I've reported in the past, to show you how big a trend this is.

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"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.

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Wow those nonconfrontational savvy behind-the-scenes negotiations to address the White House blackballing the AP really paid off huh

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this was a ridiculous notion the minute @brianstelter.bsky.social posted it. but its the mindset you get when one of the most visible media reporters is firmly in the tank of the msm. and yes, brian sees my posts but he doesnt respond to left of center criticism.

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Maybe if their access is removed, more beltway media outlets will stop treating this fascist White House with kid gloves.

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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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Your periodic reminder that Democrats voted unanimously in favor of Marco Rubio being Secretary of State.

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The part about Musk’s acolytes refusing to identify themselves to people they were interviewing within government offices is just beyond surreal.

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bari weiss once again proving that she believes in absolutely nothing. also, in the piece itself, hanania says that all of this is a reaction to "wokeness." it's a great example of how backlash narratives can work to obscure agency.

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You really have no idea where this corporate press release will end up, I encourage you to read the whole thing www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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It is way too on the nose than trump is starting his second term to try to shake down Ukraine… again

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Man, aren’t Democrats so glad that someone who constantly provides the most clear and straight forward cases against Musk and Trump isn’t the ranking member of the oversight committee!

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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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…

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The House Budget has huge Medicaid cuts, may vote as soon as next week. Medicaid provides health care for 80 million Americans, low-income people, families, children, pregnant people, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Cutting health care for more tax giveaways to the rich. TELL THEM NO!

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Take a look at how Democratic voters viewed the party during the first month of Trump’s first term vs. now, in his second term February 2017 — Democrats approve of congressional Democrats 59-31 February 2025 — Democrats disapprove of congressional Democrats 40-49 A 37 point swing.

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i don't think reading this to yourself does justice to how bad it is. read it out loud. you'll immediately notice how stilted and uncomfortable the prose is, like someone struggling to articulate an actual thought

submitted 8 days ago • 441 comments

That LGB without the T thing isn't working out, bro

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

My thought is that we can beg, plead, and lecture Democrats in Congress as much as we want. Until we demonstrate the kind of people power they can't ignore, they'll listen to their pollsters, not us.

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He has gotten better at alliance building since 2020, so I'd add, "enrich myself and my cabal of global ethno-fascists, who all enrich me."

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Well 12 days later and they’ve walked it back.

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we need an associate to join the firm as soon as possible. various reasons inc. half the fed gov't being fired. employment, civil rights, a bit of suing Elon Musk, some other stuff. Virginia bar required. I'll get around to posting something formal but email me a resume if you want to apply.

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Bronx bodegas are selling "loosie" eggs because of soaring prices www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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