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Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

7 of the Biggest Lies So Far From Trump’s Homeland Security Mouthpiece Tricia McLaughlin’s job is to defend Trump’s violent, masked immigration agents kidnapping people off the streets. That means a lot of lying.

7 of the Biggest Lies So Far From Trump’s Homeland Security Mouthpiece

Tricia McLaughlin’s job is to defend Trump’s violent, masked immigration agents kidnapping people off the streets. That means a lot of lying, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.

Read:
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Trump is “taking notes from dictators”: @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, a member of the House Oversight Committee, joins The Weeknight to call out Trump’s fear tactics.

Have YOU registered for our Maynard Regional Training Series? At @tcuschieffer.bsky.social, Oct. 9-10, learn from experienced journalism leaders like Maynard Institute Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives Felecia D. Henderson @newsgirl84.bsky.social. Register today! mije.org/programs/for...

Selective Compassion: The Hypocrisy of American Mourning I keep seeing waves of posts mourning Charlie Kirk, framing his death as the silencing of a man “simply exercising free speech” or “speaking truth to power.” Others add the sentimental refrain: “he wa...

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Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

Amazing how we couldn’t do what Brazil did: Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

The language of war turned inward—rhetoric of a thug in office. A head of state bragging about “deportations in the morning” isn’t a leader—he’s a domestic terrorist in a suit, the festering carcass of American rot, animated by cruelty and parading the stench of collapse as if it were providence.

The Beautiful America Within Reach Imagine an America where greed and money are not the engines of society, where we stop mistaking the hoarding of wealth for the measure of a person’s worth.

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Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary.” To claim condemning wrongdoing is “anti-Semitic” is to claim Judaism would remain mute at & allow for horrific violence against others. I cannot imagine a more anti-Semitic idea than that.

“Any persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social breaks down the 14th amendment to a far-right child of immigrants who refuses to believe immigrants are Americans.

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Mehdi Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts The president has tried to shut down questions around the Epstein investigation. But what about his own friendship with the late sex offender?

For Zeteo, I broke down the decades-long Trump/Epstein relationship, with receipts.

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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

“They are cheating!”: Texas is beginning a rare mid-decade push to shift its congressional districts ahead of the midterms, a high-risk move with White House backing. @repjasmine.bsky.social joins The Weeknight to respond.

Something Old, Something New And a special discount for you!

My brains is cloudy, my soul is upside-down. So I put together six of my favorite articles I wrote on American autocracy in 2016-2017 and six from 2025. Come explore! No paywalls!
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This is just sick.

via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon

What could possibly go wrong here?

Weak shit. Do better.

“When we would do these hearings over the years on Israelis & Palestinians... you wouldn't hear from any Palestinian voices.”

@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social & @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss the lack of Palestinian voices heard in Congress, amongst Democrats & Republicans.

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really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

The richest 1% ($916,900 and above) will get an average cut of $68,430. The poorest 20% (up to $27,000) will get a whopping cut of $30.

But wait—incredibly, it gets worse.
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California expands historic commitment to local journalism fellowships ______________________________________________________________________________________________ California expands historic commitment to local journalism fellowships Media Release July 1, 2025 Califor...

GREAT NEWS! California expands commitment to local journalism with a $15 million allocation!

“This funding strengthens the people and organizations anchoring local journalism in communities across California." - @reynoldspost.bsky.social

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DOJ was broken before Trump got in. It is, in fact, *how* Trump got in: DOJ started investigating him in 1973 but refused to prosecute, instead maintaining a decades-long corrupt collaboration. Beware any podcaster/pundit/pol who told you to trust DOJ over the past decade. That was a propaganda op.

If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.