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A bizarre PR exercise at the White House today as the Trump administration handed right wing influencers binders with curated redacted versions of Jeffrey Epstein related files previously released by the FBI years ago. The previously released volume can be found here: vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epst...

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Trump's Tate brothers envoy is specifically designed to reframe Romania, the EU and the UK as under "woke"/Soros control. Consider these events against the backdrop of a contested Romanian election with outsized Russian influence ops. The undercurrent is chilling. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

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At the newsletter right now: Republicans just dropped their first open attack on women's right to travel. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

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A statement from a spokesperson for The New York Times on White House press coverage:

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"The White House's move to handpick favored reporters to observe the president —and exclude anyone whose coverage the administration may not like— is an effort to undermine the public's access to independent, trustworthy information about the most powerful person in America" via NYT Communications

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Images of Leonard Peltier's first days home. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Am I unraveling or did Elon Musk post 14 American Flag Emojis at 2:14PM ET on Saturday? Was this a nod to David Lane's 14 words? In any other timeline I'd say I'm over thinking this, but with the current march towards fascist oligarchy I'm unsure...

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In today's fresh hell unlock: the new head of USAID purportedly stormed the Capitol on January 6th. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Today the Associated Press, the Nation's premier news gathering agency, was barred from a White House event for continuing to call the Gulf of Mexico by it's accepted name. www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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19 year old DOGE teen, Edward Coristine's anonymous image board contained urls referencing child sexual abuse and the KKK. Edward Coristine is now a “senior adviser” in the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

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According to the National Nature Assessment, a landmark global scientific report that Donald Trump just ordered be killed: "Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is declining faster than at any time in human history." A tiny sample of the Trump/DOGE cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

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"He is our fragile orange flower and couldn’t bear seeing his dream of Black erasure rebuked. ...So he hightailed it home before the cameras could catch him. After leaving, to make himself feel better, he banned the penny" 🔥🔥 📝 by @edgeofsports.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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“On Wednesday, Musk shared a faked video claiming USAID had sponsored celebrity visits to Ukraine. Darren Linvill of Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub told NBC News the video was manufactured Russian propaganda.” @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social on the origins of right’s USAID attacks

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Mike Benz, the Alt-right YouTuber & brains behind the Censorship Industrial Complex is back — and his conspiracy theories are informing — or justifying — Elon Musk’s anti-USAID crusade. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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“[Mike Benz] picks a villain, pretends it has ties to the CIA or some 'deep state' and acts as if he has inside knowledge when he’s really just decontextualizing public content” @noupside.bsky.social for @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social's 🔥piece on the Musk/USAID standoff www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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1:19PM ET, the very moment the US economy began to feel Trump's tariffs... SHOT CHASER

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One of the secondary signs of authoritarianism (after the attack on reality and fact) is to target and criminalize the speech of dissenting views. Often the attack on trust and attack on dissent happen concurrently. It’s been less than a week since inauguration.

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"One way tickets" "Clean out Gaza" With support from the Trump administration Israel is laying the framework for another Nakba, this time ethnically cleansing the entire Gaza strip. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/w...

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On October 5, 1938, Nazi Germany's Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidated all Jewish passports in Germany. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"There are gay, lesbian & trans children in Democratic, Republican & independent families, some who fear for their lives ...people who pick our crops & clean our office buildings ...they may not be citizens ...I ask you Mr. President to have mercy." Bishop Mariann Budde youtu.be/31ylIPemGlE?...

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It sure looks like Trump just "Hawk-Tuahed" his supporters. If any other celebrity did this it would be shameful, but the fact that incumbent president just did this makes me ashamed to be American.

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Bookmarking this for the next time someone tells me trans activism in the US is too confrontational

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"Early reports suggest the deal looks similar to what has been on the table for months, raising the possibility that if the Biden administration had followed through on its tough words, a deal could have been reached earlier, saving lives." www.propublica.org/article/bide...

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Journalist Anas Al-Sharif removes his helmet and announces a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. His voice steady as his fellow Palestinians lift him into the air in celebration. For 15 months, the Al-Jazeera correspondent has reported on the genocide of his people in Gaza.

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This evening the S.E.C. filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk for deceptive positioning leading up to April 2022 when Musk announced he amassed a controlling stake in Twitter. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/t...

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Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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"In asserting himself as the most powerful troll on earth, Musk is doing nothing to protect women or girls. Rather, he seems to be trying to show that the world is his plaything." - @michellegoldberg.bsky.social on Elon Musk's deceptive "grooming gang" posts. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/o...

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"I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now" - @AnnTelnaes anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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In recent years I've become horrified by the way we have been captured by the algorithms in our pockets. "Content slot machines," as so poignantly illustrated in this must-read opinion piece by @chrislhayes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...

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While select criticisms of TikTok can be valid, the partisan pearl-clutching over Bytedance's capture of American's data is a red herring when you consider how US-based Data Brokers make over $200 billion per year selling your data to ANYONE willing to pay for it. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...

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“[Elon Musk] is creating a very threatening environment for government institutions that we rely on to reveal wrongdoing when it happens. It is going to break our system of accountability and checks and balances.” - Danielle Brian, of @pogo.org www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/t...

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@ronanfarrow.bsky.social reports on how the Trump Administration could use phone-hacking software to surveil citizens and target vulnerable groups. “Every single person should be worried,” a privacy expert said.

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Why did FBI outrageously designate the animal rights/enviro movements the #1 domestic terror threat? In part b/c FBI relies heavily on industry front groups for its "intelligence," as reflected in this doc re receiving "valuable" intel from notorious industry front Center for Consumer Freedom #FOIA

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As we veer into an abyss of online misinformation the role of adversarial journalism becomes all the more important. Here are some of the best journalists on Bluesky, please give them a follow! go.bsky.app/VXSpoC2

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The combo of bird flu and RFK at the wheel is terrifying farce I really hope we can avoid www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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🧵 Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Joins with Defense Community Leaders to Call on Biden to Commute All Federal Death Sentences www.nacdl.org/newsrelease/...

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Through litigation FOIA locksmith @jasonleopold.bsky.social has gotten the DNI to release previously classified memos outlining Putin's decades-long campaign of targeted assassinations. A must read: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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