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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️@blackjew.bsky.social |
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Jordan (He/Him) - Expert on MA politics. Progressive. Recovering Executive Director. Now consulting. I care deeply about Judaism and being Jewish. Profile Pic - Black man dreadlocks and beard. Wearing black jacket over black shirt Tax the Rich
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority rejects science, history and reality itself. Editorial from Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧪
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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Some editorial boards understand what’s really at stake. READ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Mike Caulfield
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
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The press keeps saying there's no hook to turn Project 2025 into a daily story. But if the below is true here's a hook... Trump denied knowing the people behind Project 2025 and here he is caught pledging to bring one into his admin. How is that not a breaking story?
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L O L G O P
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In focus groups, people hate it. But don't think Trump will do it. That's the work.
www.patreon.com/posts/freedo...
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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I understand what's at stake. I don't think it's clear that staying the course is less risky than making a huge change. Examples of this type of changing the ticket close to elections are not successful ones. Also while he's running this is the only story for the media. Either is uncertain outcome
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Patrick Reinsborough
@giantwhispers.bsky.social
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If you live in N. America, food you eat is probably grown in the orange “major heat risk” strip in California's Central Valley. The heat threatens crops, farmworkers & our entire food system. This is our planet at 1.2 degrees of warming yet California is STILL approving new oil wells. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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They got the day wrong... Among obvious other horrific things
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Steve Benen
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It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice.
What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Jessica
@jewishreader.bsky.social
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Much the same way we work our asses off to understand where they're coming from, and they could give less of a shit about considering our perspective on anything, ever.
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Criticizing journalists is not only not illiberal, it's necessary. Arguing that the press shouldn't exist or should be restrained by the state (which is the Trumpian position) is illiberal.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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okay that's it, fuck it, i've seen one too many of these craterbrained "criticizing journalists is illiberal" takes and i can't fucking take it anymore. it is not in fact a violation of Liberal Fundamentals to tell journos that they fucking suck when they manifestly fucking suck. next question
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Very funny that the Times was so certain about the panic they were causing that they set up a little live update election-season scoreboard for it
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Jenét Morrow
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
@blackjew.bsky.social
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Manufacturing Consent
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Thicc Semper Tyrannis
@scriban.bsky.social
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NYT says their performance on Threads today was an aberration, & not indicative of deeper problems they've had with social media. Unfortunately, that hasn't satisfied many observers whose concerns are growing louder. The stakes are too high. For the good of the news, the Times should step aside
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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In the wake of the British and French election results, expect a wave of concerned editorials about how the right must moderate its extreme positions and rhetoric if it wants to appeal to the majority hahahahahahahahahahaha
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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Project 2025 is the closest to a Republican Party platform. And it's entirely about how to use the executive office to wield authoritarian power to control people's lives; to create concentration camps for brown people who they will assume are immigrants; and control over people's sex lives
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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Where is the wall to wall outrage and coverage of a major political party having no policy solutions for health care, housing, education - except for stopping to fund it, transportation or climate change. Where is the @nytimes.com editorial bemoaning that?
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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The Republican party went into the last election with no party platform. Today it's ideas are using the executive office for and authoritarian takeover and real puposeful human cruelty. The closest out has to governing ideas is the horror of Project 2025. I have her to see front page news about that
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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“[T]he spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed.”
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers
@clbergpowers.bsky.social
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This is also part of how the actual differences between parties are hidden/undermined. If the federal gov actually passes policies/funding to feed your family and your GOP governor refuses it on your behalf, you're not getting it. Who did what can feel pretty irrelevant. Your kids are still hungry.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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Their whole model is rage clicks. Cancel your subscription to the @nytimes.com, including their word games.
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Mike Caulfield
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They don't want Biden in, as a person who used to specialize in research on this they want to prep a narrative for the fall of a technically illegitimate election. It's not a move to stop it, it's a move to delegitimize.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
@blackjew.bsky.social
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I think of @parkermolloy.com's substack uplifting GLAAD and Media Matters study that found at the time: that 66% of @nytimes.com articles about anti-Trans bills failed to quote a single Trans person, and 18% of them quoted dangerous misinformation about Trans people without fact-checking
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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The NYTimes' presidential political coverage is just self-important internet trolling; it's like if the comment section of a local news article were given millions of viewers.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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The @nytimes.com has used Trans peoples' safety and ability to thrive cynically to get hate clicks. They have attacked efforts at equity and inclusion. Before that, it was their climate change coverage. Man bites dog with outrage to sell advertising.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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I keep saying it. The @nytimes.com model as exemplified by its political coverage, editorial, and comments from their management is to troll its readers for outrage clicks. Only liberals, centrists to center leftists read the NYT. They want clicks by telling you what you believe is dumb.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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Climate change is REAL, even as we all and our governments continue to act, buy, move around like it isn't.
www.wired.com/story/hurric...
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Phil Lewis
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The Texas parole board has unanimously recommended a pardon for ex-Army sergeant Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder for the 2020 killing of Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster
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Chris Hayes
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An under-noticed aspect of Project 2025: criminalizing porn.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREC29gH/
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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I am trying to Google your references and can't (thanks Google) seem to find a simple explainer. You don't owe me the time but if there is a place you would suggest pointing people in the direction of to understand what happened to the SNP, I would appreciate it.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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To watch @BBCNews coverage and be on Twitter you would think Reform Party and Independents were going to form a majority government together. Rather than Scottish National Party cratering, Lib Dems and Greens winning big and Sinn Féin currently 3rd largest party as of now
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T.C. Aurelius
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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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I think it was Biden people partially to get it out of the way. Also there is a bunch of evidence that voters are making up their minds now.. Certainly that was the theory of Obama reelection who started their ads in May considered early at the time.
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Brooke Binkowski
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This is Stephen Miller's law firm. They're also currently repping a TV reporter suing CBS-LA for being anti-white, which as a former CBS-LA reporter I think is absolutely laughable. But they're trying to create still more legal precedent for a racist takeover, it's clear
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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But the media, including BBC, is so obsessed with right-wing parties/politicians that they miss actual stories and interesting trends. I think it's because covering the fear of corporate power and loss of opportunity and how that gets wrapped up in racism would make their rich owners mad
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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The BBC was in one constituency where the party in power, Conservatives lost 22% from the last election - that happens when voters are pissed. Labor stayed the same, Reform Party captured only 15% of that loss Lib Dems and Greens captured 7%. That is the more surprising part. #UKElections2024
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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It's not actually interesting that English conservative voters upset at their party went for a more right-wing hate party. It's more interesting that it hasn't happened that much. Unlike France or the US whose similar parties have been captured by racist extremes #UKElections2024
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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It's not actually interesting that English Conservative voters upset at the party went for a more right-wing hate party. It's more interesting that it hasn't happened that much in England. Unlike France or the US whose similar parties have been captured by racist extremes. #UKElections2024
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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It is sad to see BBC is like US Coverage that, obsesses about the personalities and the thoughts of the most right-wing people and never mentions, interviews, or cares about the policies of leftists or their electoral successes. #UKElections2024
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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Watching the BBC for UK Election Results and it's telling that ALL the coverage is talking to Conservatives and talking about "success" of Reform Party. Even though they are only slated to have basically no impact with 13 seats. Meanwhile Lib Dems upped their seats as did Greens.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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Not so easy building a multiracial democracy. Good thing Germany doesn't have a horrific recent history that this story would make even more alarming.
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Vince Mpls
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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Kansas City having VAR so high you can't have a real line. A ref who has no business doing international games are all so CONCAF y you would figure that's who was in charge. But all of this is besides the point Gregg Berhalter teams don't score goals and lose games #USMNT
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Kevin M. Kruse
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“What makes you so confident you should be president?” is an actual question a reporter shouted at the incumbent who just warned about a reckless court decision that imperils democracy
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BlackJew 🏳️⚧️
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The Supreme Court has enshrined the very essence of their supremacist idea captured by Wilhoit's Law “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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Radley Balko
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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction
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