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Maddow: I enjoy Bluesky very much. I do not enjoy any other social media platforms at this point at all, but Bluesky is different and I don't have any connection to them at all other than the fact that I'm a happy user there

IMO, huge opportunity lost if Dem leadership does not coalesce on Mamdani. It would be incredibly stupid to fail to capture his appealing platform, communication skills, relatability, energy, social media savvy. He is an antidote to tepid leadership tepid and idea/vision sclerosis.

AIPAC Toxicity Syndrome paralyzes Democratic Party Leadership. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

1930’s Germany was a bad time in history, in 2024 history seems to be repeating itself. Once again the world is fighting fascism and Democracy. We cannot let the mistakes from the past ever happen again.

Tulsi is a serious threat to national security

They have to be “in person” to inhale the fascist pheromones

This is what politicization of the Justice Department results in.

You cannot be serious...but it's Trump.. so yes, this is also a thing now. And let me guess, he somehow profited from the pins. #GiveMeABreak #Pinks

“Only the best people”

Viola Liuzzo - She was shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in 1965 while transporting marchers from Selma to Montgomery. Her murder was a direct result of her involvement in the civil rights movement. This was our sister. She was a mother of five children. 😪🙏🏽🕊 (cont)

Exactly this. Once you cave to the bully, they keep going.

Dear Department of Homeland Security: I gave this request almost a full second's worth of consideration, and my answer is an unequivocal no. I would have answered sooner, but I was laughing.

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

This is unAmericanAF Trump: I read someplace that the networks were 97% against me. They're 97% against, they give me only bad press. I would think maybe their license should be taken away

Farmer speaks out at GOP Rep. Alford's town hall: "Agriculture has taken a heck of a hit. Trump is not helping the farmer. When are you gonna stand up for us instead of kissing his ass for these trade deals?"

Trump: The networks have to show honesty and integrity Q: Who determines that? Trump: The people decide that's why I'm president Q: So that means you decide? *Trump ignores*

Fascist playbook, page 13. Horrific.

Professionals warning us about what Trump is doing and they are worried! l.smartnews.com/p-6f6F8BW0/t...

Correct, because at our current point on the value chain a large number of workers need a level of education that makes them susceptible to the Woke Mind Virus

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

This is awful! This would be like if the US criminal justice system were almost entirely based on arresting young Black men that are innocent, then putting them in jail for a year pre-trial where they're subjected to sexual violence and assault and saying "Just plead guilty and we'll let you out!"🤡

Dr. El-Deiry just presented at RFK Jr.’s ACIP goat rodeo. I condemned his presentation to the fires of hell, but I was not aware that 75 of his pubs were flagged for data irregularities. This tracks.

They will still find a way to ignore it

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

I don’t know how to talk to people in my mentions saying weird shit like this. I spent the evening dodging pepper balls fired by ICE and coughing on gas, bro. The police are well aware of the situation and probably jealous of the thugs who were attacking us.

I got tossed around, agents ripped my press credentials off, and shot me in the nuts if you are wondering how it’s going. After a rest we are back.

You're being rage baited into a culture war, because the ruling class knows they’d lose a class war.

"Sorry I'm late. I had a lot to learn." I love the spirit of this. I feel that it's important to welcome and include newcomers to the resistance movement. Resistance is not like the fandom of an indie band. No need to prove that we're cooler than the newbies. No need to shame or disrespect them.

NBC News - “The U.S. added just 22,000 jobs in August, confirming dramatic slowdown in the labor market” And from the article - “On Friday morning, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said U.S. economic data would get better after staff changes.” Because the economy will improve after we fire staff

If you voted for Trump for economic reasons, you got got.

It's ironic to see Disney capitulate to Nazis when anti-Nazi films were the only thing that kept the studio alive in the 1940s. Maybe they should watch some of their own films.

"We have investigated ourselves and have found that we did nothing wrong. ... Also, we fired the people who recorded us doing wrong." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Pence: "State ownership of business is very common in China & Russia. Taking a percentage of sales of Nvidia, taking a percentage of stock of Intel is inconsistent w/ free market principles, and I think it's taken our country to a very perilous place and I think we need to resist that very strongly"

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

Folks just ignore reality

None of us are going to get out of the responsibility to define ourselves for ourselves. I, too, wish there was a manual. There isn’t. Nor any one person with all your answers. It’s just me in here, and it’s just you in there. We can belong to one another, but we can’t fix each other.

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

youtube.com/watch?v=DpZ-... the fact that the US said they would maintain control of the planes’ systems - ya - nope. They could cause a plane to fall out of the air with the push of a button or a few keystrokes. Can’t be trusted. Ever.

He was drawing a line-a line between who gets to belong and who gets erased. WHO IS US???

When Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt stood before the National Conservatism Conference earlier this month and declared, "America doesn't belong to them-it belongs to us. We can no longer apologize for who we are," he wasn't just making a rhetorical flourish.

7/ Authoritarian legalism is the shared tactic. In Moldova, oligarchs try to bend courts to their will. In America, a corrupt Supreme Court hands Trump shadow docket victories with no explanation, while GOP legislatures pass voter suppression laws and gerrymanders to lock in power.