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Elon Musk is pulling up the very ladder he climbed to his perch. Gee, I wonder why you do that. See @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/environment/...

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Media outlets need to be very nimble if they seek to serve as official propaganda outlets for the Trump dictatorship.

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Apparently Nate Hochman, whose neo-Nazi DeSantis fancam I wrote about for @liberalcurrents.com back in 2023, is now a policy advisor for MO Senator Eric Schmitt. If you don’t recall, Hochman was fired by the DeSantis campaign for making the vid pic’d below. www.liberalcurrents.com/desantiss-na...

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This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.

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In just one night on the job, Jason Voorhees has raised the profile of camp counselors. But many camp counselor say Voorhees has murdered their friends.

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Each thing is dumber than the last.

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This makes almost all of the good Fleetwood Mac songs priced out of what the average American family can afford.

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Sounds like a topic discussed in a previous #NeonLiberalism episode!

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The president wants to ensure the children have less toys.

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When I starting studying, I had no idea that I would become a professor during a time in which knowledge itself would be attacked so directly. I also had no idea how much linguistics would help me process these attacks. Thanks @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentnelson.bsky.social for having me!

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@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social & I have been speaking with some wonderful people recently; much knowledge. Our newest #HalfTheAnswer presented by @liberalcurrents.com was with the great @evanurquhart.bsky.social; we discussed trans rights across US society, mainstream media representation and more.

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Today @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com interviews @whstancil.bsky.social. Hoping to get my essay on media and society out this week so we can make it a theme.

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Really wonderful chat between @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @whstancil.bsky.social on the newest #NeonLiberalism presented by @liberalcurrents.com about what role the media plays in managing and curating public opinion and so much more.

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Absolutely a manufactured disaster by this administration; last time we had anything like this it was as the world was battling and reconciling COVID.

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Important to read to be sure. Just validates what many thought or figured by one way or another.

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I talked about how Bukele was persecuting the free press, specially the newspaper @elfaro.net in my lastest appearance in QAA podcast. I also talked about how Maurício Funes, a left winger, was persecuted for sponsoring a gang truce, something Bukele also did. open.spotify.com/episode/107a...

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The US eradicated the screwworm, a livestock-killing parasite, back in the 1980s. Now it’s staging a comeback

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I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

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"The way I think you fight the moral panic is to hold up examples of trans leadership." www.liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswe...

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The Oklahoma City immigration raid last week is a bright warning light. At some point, someone is going to be shot and maybe even killed in one of these raids. And I think we need to prime our imaginations for what could come if that happens. Read me at @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Lol. Of course he does! America’s government is openly aligning with German rightwing extremists – who love to snuggle up to the Trumpists. Frankly, they deserve each other. And there is no better way for them to tell the world who they really are than through this MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists.

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Rubio's (now dead) mother via Time Mag (2/7/13): "Don’t mess with the immigrants, my son. They’re human beings just like us" Rubio now: Nah, I've got a new BFF: "Marco and Stephen have worked really closely on immigration and it might be a perfect match" www.axios.com/2025/05/02/s...

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"Ex-prosecutors say that Bondi and the justice department’s willingness to make personal loyalty to Trump paramount damages the rule of law." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is impoundment, it is illegal, and that should be in the headline www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

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this is legitimately evil

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This is good obviously.

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Wonderful stuff here

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This sort of unambiguous, unapologetic pro-immigration message is so much more effective than unconvincing hemming and hawing about how actually Democrats would do a better and more effective job of being anti-immigration.

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The National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of top researchers and clinicians tasked with guiding the direction of federally funded cancer research — has been entirely disbanded. I hope no one at risk of cancer voted for Trump...wait. www.splinter.com/national-can...

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This vote is scheduled for just over two hours from now, so make sure your senators hear from you ASAP.

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Everyone's focussed on the "fewer dolls" line, which yeah you should be, but the thing that's also striking is how much Trump just doesn't get trade. Yes, China made a lot of money selling us stuff, but guess what? The way it works is that in exchange for all that money we got a lot of stuff!

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“I am saying it clear and loud. To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” Mohsen Mahdawi said.

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Maria Bartiromo breaks news to her viewers that GDP contracted in the first quarter and it sounds like she's announcing the JFK assassination

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Welcome to a Mid-Week Meltdown edition of the MAGA Minute! Today, Mr Trump says “Blame Biden!” Expect similar Wednesday messages until 2039. #RadioFreeAmerica #MAGAminute

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"I could"

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Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

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In a lawsuit filed on Monday, a coalition of labor unions, non-profits, and local governments have sued Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the heads of nearly two dozen federal agencies, arguing federal downsizing without Congressional approval violates the Constitution. www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

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TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

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“The signatories of the Declaration and the framers of the Constitution all envisioned a free, democratic, and commercial society whose authorities were subject to the rule of law and who engaged in a high volume of international trade.” www.liberalcurrents.com/unfit-to-be-...

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1/3 of Americans supporting gulags tracks though; so long as their loved ones aren’t there, they can stay blissfully naive and pretend not to understand the pain they’ve helped to inflict on others with their choices and beliefs.

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Literally so stupid.

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Why they even put cameras and mics in front of him boggles the mind. Nothing but lies and propaganda come from his mouth.

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A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl. www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

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I lost a close college friend, a cousin, and three whole extended families from my coming out facebook post

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An exporter of straw and hay reports 68 blanked sailings after Trump’s “Liberation Day” China cancels 12,000 tons of pork A pulp/paperboard exporter reports cancellation or hold of 6,400 metric tons A grass seed exporter says 8 loads were canceled by Chinese customers www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...

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“60 Minutes” blasted its parent company for currying favor with the Trump administration in its Sunday night broadcast, firmly standing by its former executive producer who resigned last week.

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Pritzker is very good at this and 'gets it' in a way so few others do, but he also demonstrates how this is not at all a leftists vs. moderates thing. Policy-wise, he's basically a dead center median Democrat. But that's not what this moment is about, a constitutional crisis is not a policy debate.

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