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I’m an editor at TPM. signal: johnalight.99 email:
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Bryce Covert
about 20 hours ago
Dean Fuleihan, who Mamdani has picked as first deputy mayor, held the same role under de Blasio and was the one who wrangled the money out of Albany that made universal pre-K possible
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani picks Bill de Blasio veteran for top deputy
He named Dean Fuleihan as first deputy and Elle Bisgaard-Church as chief of staff.
https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-picks-bill-de-blasio-veteran-for-top-deputy
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑
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Two ways to read that - 1) the instinct to cave is strongest with the departing generation; or 2) the retiring members are taking the heat for non-retiring members who agree with them but are scared of being primaried
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TPM
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At TPM's 25th anniversary event, staff and alums reflected on 25 years of US politics, and how we always believed the fringe extremists were the driving force of the American right rather than the titular Republican party. Read
@joshtpm.bsky.social
ky.social's
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Watching the History of TPM and Its View Over the Horizon from the Far Seats
I want to thank everyone who came out for our TPM 25th...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/watching-the-history-of-tpm-and-its-view-over-the-horizon-from-the-far-seats
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southpaw
6 days ago
Bill Ackman to *holds earpiece* continue living in Chappaqua.
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David Dayen
6 days ago
I think deep down he likes when Republicans lose. It feeds his ego
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Taniel
7 days ago
JD Vance's half-brother has lost by an overwhelming margin as he tried to become the mayor of Cincinnati. Democratic incumbent Aftab Pureval wins reelection.
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Bill Grueskin
7 days ago
There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.
www.cato.org/commentary/q...
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One of those where the subhed undercuts the hed.
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Allegra Kirkland
7 days ago
Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it.
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What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we-lost-when-conde-nast-unceremoniously-shuttered-teen-vogue
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David Kurtz
7 days ago
Former Teen Vogue politics editor Allegra Kirkland pays homage to ... what ... OUUUUCH:
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"What stings the most is the loss of one of the only publications that allowed young people to share their own stories and took them seriously as political actors." Former Teen Vogue Politics Director
@allegrak.bsky.social
on the loss of the publication in a disintegrating media landscape.
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What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we-lost-when-conde-nast-unceremoniously-shuttered-teen-vogue
7 days ago
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Josh Kovensky
7 days ago
This is the first time I've seen someone suggest so clearly that the Venezuela military buildup is at least partly linked to the belief that Maduro teamed up w Biden to steal the 2020 election
youtu.be/71EB1dgvRwU?...
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Nobel Prize Winner María Corina Machado on US Strikes, Venezuela's Maduro | The Mishal Husain Show
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
https://youtu.be/71EB1dgvRwU?si=qFUwzd8sKvzil9wZ&t=1804
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Allegra Kirkland
8 days ago
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
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Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”
https://www.thecut.com/article/teen-vogue-folding-into-vogue-com.html
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My friend
@andrewjparsons.bsky.social
on what it is like working in an industry that is clearly experiencing a bubble. His experience was in podcasting, but there was a lot of this in digital journalism over the last two decades — all abruptly ending in recent years.
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Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside
I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watching-the-podcast-bubble-burst-from-the-inside
11 days ago
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Layla A. Jones
11 days ago
"It is not a coincidence." The Trump admin is stalling the rollout of a new race and ethnicity policy. Experts warn the delay could interfere with the 2030 census, ultimately helping the GOP in high-stakes fights over redistricting.
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On Project 2025’s Recommendation, Trump Admin Targets New Census Initiative With Widespread Potential Impact
Quyen Dinh didn’t even remember that, in 2024, she was selected as...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-redistricting-census-spd-15-voting-rights-race
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Andrew Parsons
11 days ago
I wrote a thing
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Allegra Kirkland
11 days ago
Slow Burn producer
@andrewjparsons.bsky.social
saw his show become a hit + a boom in podcast investing By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped"
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
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Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside
I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watching-the-podcast-bubble-burst-from-the-inside
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Eric Michael Garcia
12 days ago
As a teenager pissed off about politics,
@talkingpointsmemo.com
became my go-to website. Really grateful for
@joshtpm.bsky.social
and
@allegrak.bsky.social
for letting me take part in the 25th anniversary retrospective on how the internet changed media.
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Josh Marshall
12 days ago
oh God, this is like that scene in all the presidents men when woodstein spent a couple hours asking a random lady’s opinions abt watergate in her apt and then finally realize she’s not the woman who works at CREEP.
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Caitlin Gilbert
13 days ago
I’m crying
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Bill Grueskin
13 days ago
This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn. Scoop via
@maxtani.bsky.social
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
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emptywheel
13 days ago
My contribution to TPM's 25th Anniversary edition: One reason we bloggers don't have the oomph we used to is bc of Trump's trolls.
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Without Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump
On July 8, something happened to Donald Trump that I’ve not seen...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/without-online-trolls-there-would-be-no-donald-trump
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TPM
14 days ago
@joshtpm.bsky.social
spoke to Brian Morrissey of the Rebooting podcast about 25 years of
@talkingpointsmemo.com
and weathering the headwinds of digital media Check it out:
open.spotify.com/episode/3eHv...
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Talking Points Memo's small-boat strategy
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3eHvt04rQ7FHU48NvVU24B
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Ana Marie Cox
15 days ago
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
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Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patron-supported-journalism-cant-be-the-future-of-news
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Allegra Kirkland
15 days ago
@kellyweill.bsky.social
talks abt how coverage of the far right + Internet trends was often siloed outside politics verticals "'Extremism'" suggested that our subject matter was somehow divorced from meaningful power, even as politics grew visibly more extreme"
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What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-its-like-to-watch-an-internet-based-ideology-break-containment
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Adam Klasfeld
18 days ago
Essayli is one of several Trump-installed U.S. Attorneys without Senate confirmation or judicial approval in jurisdictions where judges are reviewing whether they're serving unlawfully. Two, Essayli and Habba, are monitoring polling sites in Nov., along with 2020 election denier Harmeet Dhillon.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
18 days ago
Spoke to two of Jack Smith's top deputies about the launch of their new firm this week. Read:
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As Trump wields his power, Jack Smith and his top deputies step back into the spotlight
The man who brought two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump wants to testify publicly, as two of his top deputies set up a law firm to take on public corruption issues.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-flaunts-power-jack-smith-top-deputies-step-back-spotlight-rcna239629
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If anyone speaks the words "woke right" to me I will immediately vomit. This is a warning.
18 days ago
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DOJ showing up in NJ ahead of a tight governors' race and after a very stop-the-steal coded request from the state GOP, which asked for the administration to “oversee the receipt and processing of vote-by-mail ballots” and “take steps to monitor access to the Board of Elections around the clock.”
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Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California
In response to requests from state Republican parties, the Department of Justice...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/justice-department-announces-plans-to-monitor-polling-sites-in-new-jersey-and-california
18 days ago
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Trump keeps teasing that he might invoke the Insurrection Act. But his government is stretching the law to such an extent that doing so might not get him much more than he's already gotten.
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Trump Isn’t Waiting For The Insurrection Act To Turn The Military On American Citizens
President Trump teases his backup plan to use the military against Americans...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-military-national-guard-insurrection-act
18 days ago
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Marisa Kabas
18 days ago
“I stuck with my newsletter in order to stay in journalism. I didn’t have any other marketable skills. I had to keep writing to make sure I could keep writing.” For the
@talkingpointsmemo.com
25th anniversary, I was asked to write about going independent and the future of journalism. Read here:
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Journalists Became Personal Brands. That’s Not Necessarily a Bad Thing.
At the very start of the second Trump administration when multiple explosive...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/journalists-became-personal-brands-thats-not-necessarily-a-bad-thing
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Josh Marshall
18 days ago
Come see!
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/talk...
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Talking Points Memo is doing a fun series about the last 25 years of digital media
To celebrate its 25th anniversary this year, the political news and commentary site Talking Points Memo is running 25 pieces on the history of digital media. Eight of the pieces are published so far —...
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/talking-points-memo-is-doing-a-fun-series-about-the-last-25-years-of-digital-media/
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ryan cooper
25 days ago
"Access to news and information has become a luxury good, no different than the comfortable seat you must pay to access on an airplane."
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DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good
Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good
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David Dayen
25 days ago
I was pleased to be asked to participate in TPM's 25th anniversary. My story is about paywalls and the privatization of news. The average news consumer today has more available to read than at any time in human history, yet less ability to understand what’s really going on.
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DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good
Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good
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Nick Pinto
22 days ago
"Why were we so cold-hearted as to demand the equivalent of a cup of coffee each month for full access to our website?" My
@hellgatenyc.com
colleague
@maxrn.bsky.social
on why, in an era of "free" journalism, a low-dollar paywall might not be such a bad idea.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
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The Future of Local News Is Making People Pay For It
You can leave journalism altogether or you can take the longest way...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-future-of-local-news-is-making-people-pay-for-it
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Max Rivlin-Nadler
22 days ago
For
@talkingpointsmemo.com
on building
@hellgatenyc.com
: Is the cure to local news starting really small, building up subscribers day after day, & breaking stories, until one day everyone has health care, good salaries, and no threat of being laid off??? MAYBE!
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The Future of Local News Is Making People Pay For It
You can leave journalism altogether or you can take the longest way...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-future-of-local-news-is-making-people-pay-for-it
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A Bush-era story I had never heard before about Pat Fitzgerald, James Comey and TPM.
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The Pat Fitzgerald and James Comey Relationship and a Funny TPM Story
Here’s a funny little nugget about the Pat Fitzgerald/James Comey relationship. You’ll...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-pat-fitzgerald-and-james-comey-relationship-and-a-funny-tpm-story/sharetoken/d9050452-b7d1-44a2-8486-ad7687f22dca
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"Never over the course of our long history has a President attempted to pass off such ordinary circumstances as an emergency justifying the domestic deployment of military forces.” The 9th circuit is starkly divided after some of its judges upheld Trump's military crackdown.
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Dissenting Judges Voice Dire Warnings for the Country As 9th Circuit Denies Rehearing of LA National Guard Stay
The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear a panel’s...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dissenting-judges-9th-ciruit-en-banc-national-guard
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Jason Linkins
21 days ago
somehow you just knew that the Paul Ingrassia discourse would eventually include teacup parenting
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Embattled Trump Nominee Paul Ingrassia’s Mom Tried to Meet With Lawmakers Who Criticized Her Son
Donna Gallo Ingrassia demanded meetings at the Capitol Hill office of Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia in late June to defend her son.
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/paul-ingrassia-donna-ingrassia-raskin-garcia
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"It made perfect sense for news outlets to preserve some of the specialness of what they write by putting the most important stuff out of the reach of the ordinary reader. But withholding access, bit by bit, has turned the fourth estate into a gated community." -
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DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good
Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good
25 days ago
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Allegra Kirkland
26 days ago
To celebrate making it 25 years in this generally cursed industry, TPM asked 25 writers we admire to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Introducing 💻 Pivots, Trolls and Blog Rolls 💻 Take a break from the abysmal news to check it out!
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Extremely excited about this series TPM is doing in concert with our 25th Anniversary, reflecting on 25 years of digital journalism .. the good, the bad, the awful, and where we are now. Our first two essays are out. We’ll be publishing 25 over the next month.
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TPM
26 days ago
For our first essay,
@espiers.bsky.social
writes about starting Gawker, the heyday of blogging, and how blogs changed her worldview: “There were people I started out reading whose views I began to reject, and some of which I eventually found abhorrent.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
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What Made Blogging Different?
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-made-blogging-different
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TPM
26 days ago
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from
@jeetheer.bsky.social
to
@anamariecox.bsky.social
—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read
@joshtpm.bsky.social
's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls
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The Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech Business
I want to begin this introduction to our 25th anniversary essay series...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-original-sin-of-digital-media-was-the-belief-that-digital-journalists-were-part-of-the-tech-business
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The story of NSPM-7 and its many tendrils continues not to get enough attention.
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Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-talk-treasury-secretary-declares-new-war-on-terror-against-the-left
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The plan seems to be to keep shooting the hostages (in this case, important government services) until the public prevails on Dems to do something about Vought shooting hostages. It's convoluted, and seems to depend on the public thinking the shutdown CAUSED these layoffs, which it didn't.
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5 Points on the Trump Admin’s Threatened—And Real—Government Shutdown Layoffs
In an effort to try and make good on their threats and...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5-points-on-the-trump-admins-threatened-and-real-government-shutdown-layoffs
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If Trump has ICE to brawl in the street on his behalf, does he still need the Proud Boys? The Proud Boys are wondering that too.
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In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’
To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-new-trump-era-the-proud-boys-are-not-apologizing-anymore
28 days ago
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28 days ago
NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...
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