For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?

Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.

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Mainstream media have had a subtle RWng bias & party status hierarchy for generations--treating GOP as the high status emperor party, Dems as the chambermaid party--catering to emperor, praising his new clothes/MOUs--& belittling the chambermaid party for even tiny or imaginary flaws.

Why Mainstream Media is So Right Wing Biased and How to Chang

I just did a Twitter thread a few days ago, on why mainstream media is so Right Wing biased. Rather than keep this information just on…

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"Debates over World War II became popular at Heritage, with a lot of “rehashing and going through who was the bad guy and who were the good guys,”" Also, sounds like a lot of anti-Semitism at the Heritage Foundation. Maybe Trump's task force on anti-Semitism could look into this!

(The nazis were the bad guys) (Still are)

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

"Debates over World War II became popular at Heritage, with a lot of “rehashing and going through who was the bad guy and who were the good guys,”" Also, sounds like a lot of anti-Semitism at the Heritage Foundation. Maybe Trump's task force on anti-Semitism could look into this!

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

See you in court, creep.

MPR News@mprnews.org · last wk.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

People are dragging this post but she's actually correct. 51% of Republicans (and 67% of all registered voters) supported Kamala Harris's views in 2024. Democrats are the policy mainstream. But raw issue preferences aren't how many people choose. They choose by what they see in media.

Jessica Tarlov@jessicatarlov.bsky.social · last wk.

Your average Republican is pro-IVF, skeptical of six week heartbeat bills, against deporting productive, law-abiding immigrants, and for gay marriage.

Trump's least popular policies like eliminating the Education Dept, reducing fuel-efficiency, & pardoning J6 participants are in the three issue areas where Trump’s own supporters were worst at attributing his policies to him (52-54%). Public ignorance, not unpopular views is Dems' biggest problem.

Trump's 2024 margin in PA? 44,292 votes.

Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · last wk.

🚨 NEW: Over 48,000 #PENNSYLVANIA residents have lost ACA healthcare coverage so far this year...and the remaining ~430,000 are looking at 17% rate hikes for unsubsidized enrollees next year: acasignups.net/26/07/27/202...

There's a lot of focus on democratic resilience from civil society actors at the moment, and rightly so, but I'm concerned there's not really a shared definition of what democratic resilience is, and often appears to fall back on a few ideas that I think are questionable.

Wilton Park@wiltonpark.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 'Democratic resilience and social cohesion should be understood as matters of national security.' 📝 Read the full report from our recent event exploring new approaches to countering extremism and protecting the democratic order. 👇 🔗 https://ow.ly/QUeP50Zs2X7

Ppl of T's personality type do not grieve the loss of other ppl. Claiming that they do, based on statements by their allies, is pretending T is someone he is not even close to being.

Trumpism is comprised of no shortage of incompetents, but the Project 2025 stuff cleverly ensured that corporate power and christofascism grabbed as much territory as possible, knowing even an ideal Dem admin could only claw back 40-50% of the "territory gain" recovery will take generations

In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press

Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion

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Why media focus on the cognitively impaired old guy in the foreground, rather than the smarter ppl carrying out Project 2025 quickly & efficiently in the background.

Peter Collinson@petercollinson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Money: focus on the rodeo clown grabs more eyeballs. They know their audience will react to what Trump said rather than analyze and understand why he said it. Also because the oligarchs who own the media seek to misdirect our attention from the actual ring leaders.

Trump is declaring Arizona a permanently Republican state because Republicans won Republican primaries. That is the cognitive baseline we are working with. The man running a war, gifting Saudi Arabia nukes, and hiding Epstein files cannot follow how elections work.

In addition to being morally abhorrent, this is both factually wrong as to the people who ICE has killed and legally wrong as to when lethal force can be used.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

We're throwing away everything that makes the U.S. great bc Americans don't want to believe that propaganda can sway elections--that it's a problem for the nation to be drowning in lies that persuade voters to elect dumb con artists who throw out everything gd that we have. bsky.app/profile/upin...

Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems@upine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Most media & social media consumed in the U.S. are Right Wing. Sinclair alone covers 40% of households. RW media keep repeating pretty lies about T/GOP & ugly lies about Dem/minorities til the lies wear a groove into ppl's brains. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...

Steven Miller says Trump has officially told law enforcement to find, arrest, prosecute and jail left wing political "terrorists" operating in country E-mail/Call Dems running in midterms, your district, state.. "Races with suspicious results DEMAND PAPER BALLOT RECOUNTS PRIOR to CONCEDING...."

One of the hardest thing I've tried to get US government officials to understand over the past 15 years, including when I was an Army civilian, is that Russian doctrine is explicit that they take no physical actions until they have set the intellectual/conceptual theory via influence operations. 1/

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3w ago

like I dunno, if I were a strategist in a functional opposition party I might pay smart and creative people to make viral TikTok and Instagram videos pointing out Republicans are illegally turning U.S. local broadcast TV into a right wing propaganda machine but that's just me

New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."

Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction

He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.

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We’ve opened the strait that was never closed, ceasing a ceasefire for a war that was never a war, stopping Iran from charging tolls because tolls are illegal, all so Trump can charge his *own* tolls because *his* tolls are legal. This will hurt affordability which is a hoax anyway

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w ago

A 20% charge would work out to about $32 million for a fully-loaded very large crude carrier at current oil prices. That’s far higher than the tolls that have been charged by Iran, which have previously been described as reaching $2 million www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

$81 billion in tariffs you paid given to companies.

US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal

Government had been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffs

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The polar opposite reactions here to the deaths of Sam Neill and Lindsey Graham are such a reminder that we all have a choice whether to live our lives in a way that brings joy or misery to those around us. I think if you’re remembered fondly as Sam Neill is today, you’ve pretty much won at life.

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

🧵 So Farage is preemptively attacking the Commons standards committee in what's a great example of the weaponisation of the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt against institutional authority to avoid accountability. The sort of thing Russia did against the OPCW, or Trump does with "fake news media"