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Replying to @alexwinter.com

It’s an unpalatable truth, but Meta, TikTok, and hopefully it goes without saying, X, aren’t sustainable to rely on for political amplification, cultural promotion/marketing or community organizing. It’s long past time for new platforms/means and to move on.

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Most direct threat to NATO from Russia ever?

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social

It seems that after Zakharova’s statement that European factories producing weapons for Ukraine are potential military targets for Russia, the question of such a strike should no longer be "will it happen?" but rather "when will it happen?"⤵️

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Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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My god, this is an outrageous, loathsome ICE policy. Can you recall another regime in history that used public marking and tracking to single out a minority group?? JD Vance—who helped lead the demonizing of Haitians in Ohio—has this young man’s death on his hands too www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.comHaitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitorPierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.

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There's no other explanation for this deployment than to see them as his Praetorian Guard, who will keep him in power, possibly past 2029. Also, MAGA likes seeing troops in the streets and minorities menaced. Also, when debunking don't serve the lie up first!

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social

President Donald Trump sent thousands of National Guard to Washington as what he has said is an effort to get tough on an epidemic of crime. They seldom actually fight crime. Soldiers have been involved in about 1.3% of the city's criminal cases since they arrived. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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This is absolutely bananas. Trump says we’re suspending exercises with South Korea because of his “really good relationship” with Kim Jong-un. North Korea is nuclear-armed, threatens South Korea, and is actively helping Russia wage war against Ukraine.

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Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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How it started How it’s going Reports of Trapped sailors getting rotten meat on the ship and trying to jump overboard reminds us of the report that Hegseth spent millions on lobster, steak, crab for him and his buddies back at home

This is EVERYTHING!!!!

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social

If I achieve nothing else in life, if I ever go tragically or just banally, please make my legacy to KILL DEAD the construction where reporters unintentionally help spread lies by putting the lie first. TRUTH FIRST. Even when you're debunking.

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Investigations into sex trafficking under President Trump have stalled, and prosecutions have declined. Factors driving this include staffing shortages, funding cuts, immigration enforcement, and growing distrust of gov't among victims. This comes after he pledged to crack down on sex trafficking.

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social

President Trump administration's pledged to crack down on sex trafficking. Instead, investigations have stalled and prosecutions declined because of staffing shortages, funding cuts, immigration enforcement and growing distrust of the government among victims. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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NY Times should give him another op-ed explaining how he is just a smol bean centrist

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to pull the company out of California starting October 1. Paramount will stay if AG Rob Bonta agrees to settlement talks over the lawsuit seeking to block the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

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This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

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The COVID Lab leak theory debunked by Paul Offit 1. Started in the Hunan wholesale seafood market (Southwestern section). The first few cases were there and spread out. 2. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is 9 miles away from that seafood market, on the other side of the Yangtze river. 🧵

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The president is a money laundering pedophile and adjudicated rapist who supports wife-abusing men for Congress but 34% of Americans don’t care because they’re bigots.

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You know it’s bad when even MAGA isn’t buying Trump’s bullshit anymore. Everyone is hurting. These folks voted for Trump three times, and they’re ready to tap out.

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It's insane that inventory trends look like this and the market is like "eh, the President says it will all work out".

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

HFI: “.. We are ~47 million bbls below 2023 levels. And WTI traded around $80/bbl back then, and we are at sub-$75 today.” ⛽️

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The American Dream has become an American Nightmare. It’s too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.

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The election EO appeal is about whether the fedl gov’t can change the rules of voting shortly before the midterms & whether SCOTUS will apply its own precedent consistently. Understanding the arguments is essential to understanding the outcome, so I parse them here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

open.substack.comTrump's Executive Order on Voting: Blue State Attorneys General, and Some Retired Judges, Weigh InSunday night in The Week Ahead post, we discussed the Trump administration’s effort to push ahead with implementation of an executive order that would give the federal government greater control over ...

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This is a new view of the bulldozed White House complex. The criminal monstrosity subhuman filth won’t stop until he destroys everything, makes me sick to my stomach.

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The problem with this framing is that it isn’t a question of whether he will or won’t, as if it’s some future event. The coup is *already underway*. POTUS has usurped Congress’ war power, its spending power, its tax power. He dissolves agencies Congress created. He overrules state govt at gunpoint.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social

I don't know how you look at everything Trump's been doing to mess with the election and think anything other than that he's trying to rig it. But whether he will succeed is a different matter, as Bob Kuttner reports. prospect.org/2026/07/28/t...

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In 2032, if nothing is done to fix Social Security…👇 Social Security will face an automatic across-the-board benefits cut, by 22%… Meaning: the average person on benefits will see a cut of around 450-500 dollars month! Are you READY?!