Ben Silverstein ❌👑
@bensilverstein.bsky.social
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I like burritos, dislike fascism, and do digital at
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Kyle Griffin
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Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files. In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
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Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/24/epstein-files-release-trump-doj-timing
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"We have to make redactions to protect witnesses" ... Also bad actors already got access to the private DOJ website with all the witness information?
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Doghouse Reilly
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“bad actors gained unauthorized access to a private DOJ website” is not the kind of thing you want to say when a lot of your work has to do with witnesses, confidential informers, and undercover agents…right?
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Any candidate doing this sends a message, but having an exciting candidate with great content make this move also has an important fomo impact - Get off that site people, and come over here where the cool kids are and the Nazis aren’t.
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This man regularly sends innocent people to torture prisons.
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Ashton Pittman
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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Aaron Fritschner
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Think I have conclusively demonstrated that the search tool for the limited release Epstein Files published so far by the Justice Department does not work
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ICE is refusing to release a US citizen despite extensive documentation of her citizenship. Presented with her birth certificate, they called it a fake and transferred her from Maryland to Louisiana.
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_693c9355e4b018dc36f254c0?origin=home-latest-news-unit
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Eli Valley
6 days ago
"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"
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Laura Bassett
6 days ago
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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Time traveling to 2021 to tell the QAnon people there’s gonna be a Trump-Kennedy Center
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It’s a little on the nose for the guy kicking millions off SNAP to announce the first annual Hunger Games
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Erin Reed
6 days ago
1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:
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Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nationwide-trans-youth-care-ban-imminent
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ceej
7 days ago
I think every grandpa should be allowed to get on tv and yell for an hour
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Millions of Americans are going to see their insurance premiums double because of Trump and he’s doing a primetime infomercial for Trump RX
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Trump is bragging about creating peace in the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years with the Gaza ceasefire. This is today:
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...
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Updates: Israeli attacks wounds 11 Palestinians in Gaza City
Israel has continued to launch attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire with Hamas, injuring at least 11 people
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liveblog/2025/12/17/live-another-gaza-home-caves-in-as-israel-keeps-blocking-shelter-supplies
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🤡 is delivering his 2024 stump speech.
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Parker Molloy
7 days ago
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
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Eric Michael Garcia
7 days ago
Only THREE Democrats vote for Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill banning gender-affirming care for minors. All of them come from districts that voted for Trump: -Vicente Gonzalez
#TX34
-Henry Cuellar
#TX28
-Don Davis
#NC01
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
7 days ago
Total victory on this issue; members of Congress will again have the right to conduct surprise inspections of ICE detention centers.
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Aaron Rupar
7 days ago
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly
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Indivisible ❌👑
8 days ago
No network should give its airtime to political propaganda with no news value that we know will be full of lies (like "the economy is good").
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In this rural diner, voters who’ve just lost their health care all share the same concern: why aren’t health insurance companies giving jobs to talking animals
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
8 days ago
Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders." It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
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The Tennessee Holler
9 days ago
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.
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molly conger
10 days ago
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
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Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/two-survivors-of-brown-university-attack-escaped-other-school-shootings
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The House has gone a little crazy with the reprimands lately, but calling for the destruction of an entire religion (genocide, I believe you call that), would warrant some action in a normal legislative body.
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The Associated Press
13 days ago
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
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Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. U.S.
https://bit.ly/48M0eTQ
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
14 days ago
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Greg Pak
14 days ago
This monstrous racist runs a racist propaganda site called Twitter. If you're still on Twitter, you should either delete your account immediately, OR you should be posting five times a day telling people on Twitter to delete their accounts and move to Bluesky or Mastodon.
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Seth Cotlar
14 days ago
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
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Spencer Ackerman
16 days ago
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
https://www.forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
21 days ago
The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.
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I listened to a ton of First Aid Kit, REM, Beck, and Daisy the Great this year, and its easy to share that without doing free advertising for a corporation that chooses to recruit for ICE.
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It’s kind of a buzzkill when “ICE Propaganda” squeezes intro your top genres because Spotify keeps runnings ads for Trump’s brutal secret police force. Maybe this year let’s skip sharing our Wrapped and urge our followers to Cancel Spotify instead.
indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
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Jordan Uhl
22 days ago
Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
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Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "ICE is reportedly increasing its presence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to target Somali communities."
The Trump administration's plan to increase ICE's presence in Minneapolis and St. Paul has sparked concerns among local leaders and residents. Critics argue it amounts to racial profiling, violating d...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRx6CRtkhZ3/
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Aaron Rupar
22 days ago
credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH "Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ in Anti-Immigrant Tirade
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/02/us/trump-ukraine-putin-news?unlocked_article_code=1.508.le-T.0BOmkrDT1UV9&smid=url-share
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑
22 days ago
republicans who think you have a safe seat: no you don’t
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The New York Times
22 days ago
Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
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Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.
https://nyti.ms/4oyDLPP
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It’s kind of a buzzkill when “ICE Propaganda” squeezes intro your top genres because Spotify keeps runnings ads for Trump’s brutal secret police force. Maybe this year let’s skip sharing our Wrapped and urge our followers to Cancel Spotify instead.
indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
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There's a non-zero chance Pete Hegseth believes the world was black and white until the 1950s
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
about 1 month ago
The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.
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Dag.
about 1 month ago
Makes sense. She usually has plans on January 6th.
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
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Too many Dems see these votes as some masterful Republican trap they can't get out of when they're really an easy opportunity to highlight the dumb crap Republicans are spending their time on instead of addressing the cost of healthcare and groceries.
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