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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social

I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.

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mare-p @mare-p.bsky.social

You'd think....

aug 27, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
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DarLee @thedlee.bsky.social

But, but, but..Biden's mental state! And Obama...and Putin...and whatever dog Trump decides to wag.

aug 25, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kirk Murphy 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❌👑 @kirkmurphy.bsky.social

Tomight npr.org found several minutes for an ATC host to chat re GLP-1 agonists (shown to significantly reduce risk of heart attack [even before weight loss] & more recently risk of multiple cancers) as instruments of intersectional oppression. Obvs far more important that calling out police state.

aug 26, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 1 • view
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Lisa @fleurdelisa27.bsky.social

I’m disappointed by a plethora of awful things lately and this is at the top of my list.

aug 26, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social

Corporate media has promoted and protected Trump for many years and will continue to do so. They are owned by rich men who believe a Trump regime will be good for them.

aug 25, 2025, 9:11 pm • 15 2 • view
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salestes.bsky.social @salestes.bsky.social

Threats, extortion, and bribery is all Dictator Don knows.

aug 25, 2025, 9:33 pm • 4 0 • view
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Sherrerd @duerpress.com

"seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs"--- ---Not when there are profits to be made by normalizing it all.

aug 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 8 2 • view
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mickey23.bsky.social @mickey23.bsky.social

Tell that to the Legacy Media, not one has been truthful about the situation America is in. They are complicit in the lying, delusional world of Trump.

aug 26, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 1 • view
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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social

👏👏

aug 25, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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moominpapa.bsky.social @moominpapa.bsky.social

On the other hand, how many times during that 4 decades did Cracker Barrel change its logo?

aug 25, 2025, 10:01 pm • 9 0 • view
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Pocket Pancakes @rudedawg.bsky.social

The hard-hitting information we all need. Uhm, what did the old one look like?

aug 26, 2025, 10:49 am • 3 0 • view
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Luci-Lu @obdami.bsky.social

Yeah, a couple at least

aug 26, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 1 • view
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social

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Federalist No. 69 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 @mexi-dutch.bsky.social

One would think so… 🤯😤

aug 25, 2025, 11:41 pm • 3 0 • view
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Lu 💙 @luful.bsky.social

Attempted in Los Angeles and DC neither has worked so far!

aug 25, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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Craig Sicknick @jan6risingvoice.bsky.social

Not with our current corporate media who do Trump's bidding.

aug 25, 2025, 11:31 pm • 9 1 • view
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Lolo #Resistance #AngryAmerican @loloatlarge.bsky.social

F E A R.

aug 25, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Andrew Lindsey @andrewlindsey.bsky.social

It's almost like the executives and shareholders have given the editorial boards their instructions.

aug 25, 2025, 8:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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crusadermdd.bsky.social @crusadermdd.bsky.social

Instead, @nbcnews.com does a story on putting Trump’s face on Mt. Rushmore. Mainstream media is failing us and is a disgrace

aug 25, 2025, 10:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social

It would seem so.

aug 25, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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KG @kathygilbertnet.bsky.social

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flyflicker.bsky.social @flyflicker.bsky.social

If you were in the news business for that long, and didn't learn the difference between "news" and "opinion/analysis", that's just sad.

aug 26, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Beard of Pittsburgh 💜😎 @beardofpittsburgh.bsky.social

The media may want to make a little mention of his physical & mental deterioration.

aug 25, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Casey MacIntyre @caseymac.bsky.social

It’s easier to lick the king’s boots.

aug 26, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social

It’s more profitable

aug 26, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Casey MacIntyre @caseymac.bsky.social

That, too.

aug 26, 2025, 4:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Not *that* old but definitely in the way @oldandintheway.bsky.social

I think at first it seemed impossible to believe Now? Now there are too few people with a platform and the guts to use that platform for the kind of rabble-rousing truth telling we need to hear

aug 25, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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Anti-SS 🍺 🍻 @antiss.bsky.social

Concept ...

aug 25, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 1 • view
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Eat the Rich 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @sburr741600.bsky.social

They’re waiting for the invasions of Canada, Greenland and Mexico. Then, and only then will they use their precious ink.

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dwheron.bsky.social @dwheron.bsky.social

You would think!

aug 25, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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mrxexon @mrxexon.bsky.social

You have to explore worldwide media to get any real answers about what's going on in the US in this day and time. Fascism can NOT rise without the help of legacy media. Those that have laid down with fascism to control the narrative ? We'll see you after the revolution...

aug 26, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
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thegrayghost5.bsky.social @thegrayghost5.bsky.social

If the Media weren't such COWARDS, you would be correct 👽

aug 25, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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MrRellSmooth @mrrellsmooth.bsky.social

If only several media outlets had not already bent the knee to stroke the ego of the idiot in charge

aug 26, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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SisterSue @sistasue.bsky.social

And yet, nothing. Silence is complicity

aug 25, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 1 • view
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NurseGenius @nursegenius1019.bsky.social

His lack of fitness for duty should be a screaming headline every day.

aug 25, 2025, 10:36 pm • 5 1 • view
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social

You’d think!

aug 25, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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guatucan.bsky.social @guatucan.bsky.social

No news outlet is actual news anymore (in the US) all they do is propaganda and puff pieces

aug 25, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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MsTeeTracey @tee-tee.bsky.social

That’s crazy talk. They’ll just let us know when the nukes start flyin’.

aug 26, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
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David270NZ @david270nz.bsky.social

presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

aug 26, 2025, 7:08 am • 10 4 • view
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SirBusterGoodpup @sirbustergoodoup.bsky.social

Media is too chickenshit scared of TacoBelle. Media needs to band together and GET IT RIGHT FOR ONCE!

aug 25, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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jonathanmlewis.bsky.social @jonathanmlewis.bsky.social

US Daily News Orgs: "Meh." The Daily Blab: "Fascists on the March! Proud Boys Are Deputized! Military is Going Along! There Are No Guardrails Except for the American People. The Constitution is Toilet Paper!"

aug 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 4 0 • view
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pat2000np.bsky.social @pat2000np.bsky.social

You would think….

aug 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 2 0 • view
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MKS2351 @mks231951.bsky.social

You are so absolutely right. Where are the front page stories, the lead reports on the news?

aug 26, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Voice of the Dogs @cekiritz.bsky.social

Seems like.

aug 26, 2025, 4:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Pamela Fiore... and live alone in the bee-loud glade @pfiore8.bsky.social

for me, it was Jake Tapper. I never thought Tapper was especially talented, but certainly a regular guy, right? until that fucking book, going so far to suggest congressional hearings on Biden admin how many others didn't we see coming? and perhaps still obscuring who they are

aug 26, 2025, 11:18 am • 0 0 • view
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flying saucer @bkv63.bsky.social

Military state, they’re not police.

aug 25, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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bebe1960.bsky.social @bebe1960.bsky.social

You'd think, but here we are with the media aiding and abetting a criminal takeover from a convicted criminal child rapists

aug 25, 2025, 10:46 pm • 4 0 • view
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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social

Since the largest media companies are now owned by oligarchs or hope to be, no such luck. The call of authoritarianism is coming from inside the house.

aug 25, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Tony Sarabia @ruraltony.bsky.social

Instead NPR will be doing a segment about what really is the crime rate in DC😑

aug 25, 2025, 8:53 pm • 14 2 • view
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Stine Paulsrud Haugen @stinemor76.bsky.social

Watching CBS Chicago now. That's how it should be done!

aug 25, 2025, 8:51 pm • 9 1 • view
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Lee K @bselected.bsky.social

Blue State Govenors are calling out tRump for calling on National Guard to police States. They are forming a coalition. "Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern." Chris Armitage ·

aug 25, 2025, 10:23 pm • 33 8 • view
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icunurlildog2.bsky.social @icunurlildog2.bsky.social

While I understand reporters want to keep their access to the WH, it blows me away they all just let him say that they're fake news, 97% news is negative against him and that the media is mean to him, when all they do is kiss his big fat tush.

aug 26, 2025, 1:04 am • 4 0 • view
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Ole Badger - 🇺🇸 🚫 🤴 @nekron999.bsky.social

Too busy kissing the ring

aug 26, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social

Unfortunately the MSM morphed into a reality television cartoon of itself.

aug 25, 2025, 10:33 pm • 3 0 • view
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James Shea @daredevil-one.bsky.social

When I was a reporter, I prided myself on protecting the poor and voiceless. Today's press is about clickbait and driving traffic. The old scream at you editors who came up in the 60s and 70s are long gone.

aug 26, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities @bonstrous.bsky.social

sure would be. if legacy and big media weren't 5, maybe 6, billionaires in a trenchcoat

aug 25, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Susan Hudak Cohen @halushki.bsky.social

Yes…we’re waiting….

aug 26, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
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meganrothery.bsky.social @meganrothery.bsky.social

Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️‍🩹🤍💙

aug 26, 2025, 6:49 am • 0 0 • view
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AhOui Keep me off yer stinkin lists @unimpressedlately.bsky.social

Pish tosh if there's no parade it's invalid AND there are a lot of end-of-summer sales that are far more important I am screaming inside 24/7

aug 26, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social

We Europeans knew this the moment JD Vance said Europe’s biggest enemy was “within”, all the while Russia was conducting crimes against humanity and thus proving Vance wrong.

aug 25, 2025, 9:07 pm • 25 3 • view
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Eddy St Clair @eddystcclair.bsky.social

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G-Barb @wilycyotee.bsky.social

The legacy media is not in it to help save our democracy. They are there to spread lies, ignore what's going on & placate the wannabe dictator cuz it helps them make more money! It is all about the greed, not ethical reporting of what is happing or doing what is morally right!

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Teseida @kevinhewett.bsky.social

universal suffrage democracy only works if the population is educated. we got fascism behind it. bet. #geniocracy #PolitburoNow #DemocracyFail

aug 26, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
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StLuGal @stlugal.bsky.social

Depends on who owns the news, though, doesn't it? If they same oligarchs turning us into a military state are the same ones whose interest it is in that people don't notice then things would go as they are currently are, imo.

aug 25, 2025, 8:51 pm • 48 7 • view
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Chuckanutter @speciatedtwit.bsky.social

Didn't Bezos say his paper's opinion page would focus on personal liberties? Surely they're hammering this like a jackhammer. Just checked and I see one piece on fantasy football and, holy shit, George Will is still alive? Megan McArdle? Ok, I'm out.

aug 26, 2025, 3:53 am • 12 1 • view
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social

My hometown newspaper abandoned national news a couple of decades ago. It's mostly sports. Its readership is mostly Trumpy. My hometown alternative webzine also went hyperlocal, and mostly publishes puff pieces about local restaurant offerings. I've written for both. Not recently.

aug 25, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 1 • view
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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social

But I thought you said you were in the news business for 4 decades.....

aug 25, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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patlalaver01.bsky.social @patlalaver01.bsky.social

@cnn.com @nytimes.com are no longer the font of information and Reporting. They are too afraid to stand up for themselves. So they're leaving it to a bunch of gray hair Old hippies to work it out.

aug 27, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
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Welsh rarebit @welshrarebit.bsky.social

I keep thinking back to that 70s movie "Network." Seems like turning news broadcasting into a branch of entertainment finally had consequences.

aug 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 8 1 • view
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Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social

SCOTUS, POTUS, DOJ, AG, DoD, Senate GOP, Speaker, House GOP, and their minions are all playing fast and loose Calvinball with the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Rule of Law, the separation of powers, our international reputation and the honor of our country! SAD! #ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸

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CJ @cj1956.bsky.social

100% correct. The world knows it already.

aug 25, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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knox377.bsky.social @knox377.bsky.social

💥💥💥💥

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BB79 @beachbums79.bsky.social

The " press" is doing exactly what their owners tell them to do. Murrow Cronkite and Pyle been dead a long time now. All the Presidents men had their One moment and thats gone.

aug 26, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Heliant @heliant.bsky.social

They still refuse to believe it. I’m not even looking at the headlines of the WaPo or NYT anymore. I just come here to see what’s trending. It’s all I need to know. And to see if he’s dead yet.

aug 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 4 0 • view
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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social

Very little coverage in Europe either Mark. There's a closed MSM news agenda now.

aug 26, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Apple @hardciderblues.bsky.social

We are left with Bagdad Bob Journalists.

aug 27, 2025, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Paint it Blue @kimberlysaysnope.bsky.social

It's ALMOST as if his donors that want protected tax status are in charge of the headlines...

aug 26, 2025, 8:34 am • 1 0 • view
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Podici @podici1.bsky.social

Or as Joe Kahn would put it, “A bold innovation which Democrats say violates certain Constitutional norms.”

aug 26, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
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godhatesyeast @godhatesyeast.bsky.social

no society has ever been failed by an institution more completely than the american people have been failed by the collaborationist court media

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Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social

The NYT is too busy reporting on half a workday of this

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TekNeex @tekneex.social

Woodward et al would be *fucked* in 2025.

aug 26, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
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10smomaz.bsky.social @10smomaz.bsky.social

No shit! Might be nice if the MSM who helped get us here would be honest about the dangers of where we are now!!

aug 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 9 1 • view
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Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social

They’re complicit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

aug 25, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social

I remember when the press was OUTRAGED by the faintest hints of authoritarianism in, say, the elected government of Nicaragua in 1984. But, you know, Nicaragua's a big, powerful country, unlike the small, minor, sparsely populated USA.

aug 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 3 0 • view
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Goldie Golden @goldiegolden.bsky.social

Ya think ?🤔

aug 26, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
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Momzilla @momzilla43.bsky.social

You’d think so, right?

aug 25, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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JTMLX @jtmlx.bsky.social

At least a few.

aug 26, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Nik Loo @jtbeep.bsky.social

BUT DID YOU SEE JOE BIDEN TRIP ON THE SIDEWALK???? 👀🙄

aug 26, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
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Axon @axonsongs.bsky.social

Doesn't test well with desirable demos.

aug 26, 2025, 6:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Visible Music @visiblemusic.bsky.social

He has lied for a living his entire life. We need a full time fact-checking crew to monitor the lies and respond with factual truth - and a media outlet to display it. It would generate high ratings.

aug 25, 2025, 8:54 pm • 18 4 • view
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JeannetteBlue @jeannetteblue.bsky.social

The MSM is not working for the majority’s interests. They are consistent in producing propaganda for a ruling class.

aug 26, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Princess on the Porch @ilovemytwodogs.bsky.social

Don't you think most people, besides MAGA, know by now that he's a compulsive liar and nothing he says is true? We're far beyond fact checking.

aug 26, 2025, 2:23 am • 4 1 • view
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Visible Music @visiblemusic.bsky.social

not really, no. It would be great for everyone to have a source of truth. Fact-checked data, clarified 'opinion' and supported TRUTH

aug 26, 2025, 2:26 am • 3 0 • view
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MAGA Can’t Surf 🌊 🏄 @spacemonkeygleek.bsky.social

40% of Americans avoid any news at all costs …

aug 26, 2025, 6:54 am • 1 0 • view
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Princess on the Porch @ilovemytwodogs.bsky.social

I wonder why?

aug 26, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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MassDisillusioned @massdisillusion.bsky.social

exact opposite of how billionaire broligarchs feel?

aug 25, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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MassDisillusioned @massdisillusion.bsky.social

much like justice system professionals feel.

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beckyb0324.bsky.social @beckyb0324.bsky.social

I’m not in the news business but I would think it would be front page news.

aug 25, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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a-701.bsky.social @a-701.bsky.social

Imagine if Biden or Obama had said they wanted to be a dictator. Fox News would find a way to slow Earth's rotation so that they could have more hours in each day to rabidly rant about it. Donald says it, and it's: "WOOO!! WE LOVE DICTATORS!!!"

aug 26, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 1 • view
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Liz Miserables @lizmiserables00.bsky.social

Ya think? And yet we’re getting stories about Amazon’s Labor Day sales instead.

aug 25, 2025, 11:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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gr8sasa.bsky.social @gr8sasa.bsky.social

☝️TRUTH!

aug 25, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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kag772244.bsky.social @kag772244.bsky.social

Yep. Nothing to see her.

aug 26, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
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PeteSig 🇨🇴 🇸🇩 🇦🇺 @padreilpadrone.bsky.social

The Murdockroaches and their ilk are all behind the Trumpster lickin' their slobbering lips!

aug 26, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
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MrsBlocking 📎🖇️📎💚💙 ❌👑 NO DM:s!! No 0 poster! @mrsblocking.bsky.social

In which newspaper?

aug 26, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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lohphat @lohphat.bsky.social

Because the billionaire-owned MSM is in on it.

aug 26, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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nancybern18.bsky.social @nancybern18.bsky.social

Glad to hear from someone who was actually in the news business who will share their thoughts and experiences in regards to what is happening now. 🙏🏻

aug 25, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Comedian Tiffany Norton ✨👄✨ @tiffanynorton.bsky.social

Or longer than a 1 minute radio conversation

aug 26, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
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alixoside.bsky.social @alixoside.bsky.social

Exactly! Where the hell is MSM?

aug 26, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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AugustWest @gendisdain.bsky.social

One would think.

aug 25, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Frank Zupan @fzupancle.bsky.social

As long as the headline starts "Trump says..." they'll publish pretty much anything after that.

aug 25, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕫 💙 🌊 @yammz.bsky.social

Haven't seen any papers headlining Our town could be next. With preparation guidelines, possible closings, road blocks, no knock door busting. ALL TV news should be blasting the possibilities. It IS going on so it IS the story to tell.

aug 25, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jerelle @shankhead.bsky.social

Trump has eliminated nearly all the journalists who try to do their jobs properly and with integrity. NBC abd ABC are next in his crosshairs.

aug 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 2 1 • view
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David Butler @dvdbutler.bsky.social

The media is treating all of this and everything else as simply another trending issue and it’s because they’re also crabs in slowly boiling water they don’t realize what has changed.

aug 26, 2025, 9:28 am • 3 0 • view
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🐸🍄🐢 Ima Jerk 🐝🦋🐞 @imajerk.bsky.social

When does the “Oh shit” moment happen for them? Will it ever happen?

aug 25, 2025, 10:45 pm • 4 1 • view
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Kathy @ktaffy.bsky.social

Every damn day!

aug 25, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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christopezemole.bsky.social @christopezemole.bsky.social

It’s insane Mark. Hopefully Theo Vonn and Joe Rogan do it justice.

aug 25, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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🌮MaryCate🌮Is🌮Pissed🌮Off🌮 @marycateismary.bsky.social

Please tell me you’re watching Nicolle Wallace right now.

aug 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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salestes.bsky.social @salestes.bsky.social

I am! And I do, every afternoon I possibly can!!

aug 25, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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🌮MaryCate🌮Is🌮Pissed🌮Off🌮 @marycateismary.bsky.social

🙌

aug 25, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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BlueSparkler2 @sparklerblue2.bsky.social

They are too fucking lame. They’re too busy trying to grab their own headliner… for themselves.

aug 25, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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ByrneBabyByrne @itsmesb.bsky.social

They were strategic enough to infiltrate the media first

aug 26, 2025, 6:52 am • 0 0 • view
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Aussie Opinion @aussieopinion.bsky.social

It's only been 7 months and your Country looks like a 3rd world dictatorship. I fear it is to late - your media and politicians have little influence now.

aug 26, 2025, 1:36 am • 4 1 • view
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Pocket Pancakes @rudedawg.bsky.social

If Trump told you he ended 10 wars, would you have asked him to name one?

aug 26, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Cinders @suzannedspain.bsky.social

Absolutely! What's wrong with the News?

aug 25, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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JoeyTheHepcat @joeythehepcat.bsky.social

Nah, they’re all competing to be head of propaganda They have no interest in real news, you know, like the death of American democracy

aug 26, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
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Johnny Killoran @johnnykilloran.com

the news business on actual news:

F. Murray Abraham's character in INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. Text dialogue reads,
aug 25, 2025, 11:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jameslet @jamesh1977.bsky.social

Other than a few standouts, they can’t now. They are afraid of either Trump or their editors and proprietors. And then there’s the group that just don’t want to criticise him. He’s great for business and they got a tax cut.

aug 25, 2025, 8:55 pm • 3 0 • view
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Kats Peterson @katskitchen.bsky.social

Or - now I know this is crazy-talk, but hear me out - practice some journalistic pushback!

aug 26, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
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MidwestSkatePunk @midwestfolkpunk.bsky.social

The US has ALWAYS been a police state.

aug 27, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Coldwar1.0Survivor @coldwarsurvivor.bsky.social

Fascism kills the free press and the USA has none left

aug 26, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jeff Carter @radio-pinecone.bsky.social

Can we stop it? “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. … reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed - … Against stupidity we are defenseless.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945) "On Stupidity" - Letters and Papers from Prison

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aug 26, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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DeeJay 🇨🇦🦫 @charmjarm.bsky.social

Always baffles me when I see groups of people afraid of just one. Makes no sense.

aug 25, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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RealityChik @realitychik.bsky.social

Sounds like a reasonable and modest request. Question: Do journalists from big mainstream press feel any guilt at all for working at companies with little credibility and as town criers for Trump? Drinking the koolaid for the money more important than truth? I don’t rely on any of them anymore. Sad.

aug 27, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Back Up Account @sisterswendy2.bsky.social

Same vibes with our media. 🤬

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aug 25, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 1 • view
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CarlPorterRoberts @carlporterroberts.bsky.social

Please, just don't ever say again that maybe you don't know much. Thanks.

aug 25, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Joe Muñoz @lamontjoe.bsky.social

The media loves the stench coming from Shitler's ass.

aug 25, 2025, 9:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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bluestatedon.bsky.social @bluestatedon.bsky.social

But that would require guys like these to actually give a shit.

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aug 26, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lynn Crosby 🇨🇦 @lynncrosby.bsky.social

We need to start really going after the media — start shaming, boycotting, going after their advertisers. I now assume they’ve got people on the list if they’re not calling all this out every damn hour. Unfair? Then prove me wrong and do your jobs!

aug 26, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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AlexJChambers @alexjchambers.bsky.social

It would be if mainstream news wasn’t up chump’s ass.

aug 25, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 1 • view
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Bill B @ldroadie.bsky.social

No part of any msm group has the cajones to print something like that. "Baseless" is the most harsh word they use. I'm even surprised at that...

aug 26, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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concernedcitizen71.bsky.social @concernedcitizen71.bsky.social

They took the newspapers first

aug 25, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. @mirimg.bsky.social

You would think.

aug 26, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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thejanetplanet.bsky.social @thejanetplanet.bsky.social

If only we still had honest journalism.

aug 25, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social

niemanreports.org/netanyahu-vs... Guess where it's coming from? 'Netanyahu has put disproportionate energy and time and effort' into swaying media coverage - Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

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aug 25, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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❤️🤍💙 Lisa (SoldierGirl) @soldiergirl.bsky.social

Ain't that the truth!!

aug 25, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 1 • view
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Lisa Craig - Proceed in working trot @dqscribbler.bsky.social

MSM: "Thank you for your input. Your opinion is important to us. Your comments will be managed by a chirpy-voiced machine, which should assist you in understanding precisely how little effort will be expended to ship it directly to the Trash folder at the end of the universe. Good bye!"

aug 26, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tom Kessenich @tomkessenich.bsky.social

Sorry Mark, I was only in the media for nearly 3 decades. Feels like a good time for someone to write a book about how old Joe Biden is again.

aug 26, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social

Sure seems like it Mark. But corporate media have already bowed down to Trump. They can no linger be trusted.

aug 25, 2025, 9:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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jcools.bsky.social @jcools.bsky.social

YES!!! Hello MSM, are you out there?!

aug 25, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stellalaella @stellalaella.bsky.social

You would think a normal person might agree, but we prefer to cower to the stinking mess.

aug 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 4 1 • view
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SD Maxwell @mrsjones2025.bsky.social

Yes!

aug 26, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
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John.Sullivan @friggingrump.bsky.social

You indicated the problem in your first sentence, the news "business". Concern over the bottom line completely eliminated any sense of serving the public long ago, just like it has with most of our elected representatives and most of the people all around us. Greed is a good thing?

aug 26, 2025, 10:16 am • 0 0 • view
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SavvySuzy @savvysuzy.bsky.social

Not to the Oligarchs. Their goal is to lie profusely to confuse and cover up

aug 25, 2025, 10:43 pm • 4 0 • view
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sandraeb.bsky.social @sandraeb.bsky.social

It’s what happens when the oligarchs take over the media

aug 25, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Diane Tucker @dianetucker.bsky.social

Ditto

aug 25, 2025, 11:34 pm • 3 0 • view
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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social

I never realized that Second Coming type is reserved for the actual second coming.

aug 25, 2025, 8:54 pm • 3 0 • view
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dreamchaser4ever.bsky.social @dreamchaser4ever.bsky.social

Not when Trump controls the media

aug 26, 2025, 7:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Jay from Quahog @jaywilliams.pro

this is what the billionaires that own the media want they change the narrative ANY TIME They WANT

aug 25, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matt Clay 🇨🇦 @mattclay.bsky.social

It's a project that's been in the making certainly since Reagan and his war on drugs which was the justification for supercharging police budgets and exploding the prison population.

aug 26, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dory Girl @dorygirl.bsky.social

No kidding!

aug 25, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social

Yep Even 1 sentence

aug 26, 2025, 1:18 am • 11 1 • view
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StephanieLS @speshel1.bsky.social

You’d think so, but they’re afraid to be sued.

aug 26, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view
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okieme.bsky.social @okieme.bsky.social

The news business today…not even close to the way it was. At the time its needed most.

aug 26, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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🌑🌒🌓🌔 Carrie 🌕🌖🌗🌘 @foxmooncrystals.bsky.social

You would think!

aug 26, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
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ElderlyWhiteHippie @cynthianevil.bsky.social

I think the crumbling of institutions and people I respected is the most disheartening thing for me. I *knew* Trump was awful and would do terrible stuff. I naively thought there were prominent people and institutions that would stand up. I was wrong about so many things.

aug 26, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 0 • view
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John @grownjohnboy.bsky.social

It would have been in amidst Mr. Jacob. Today in this pay to play society what is not newsworthy is a matter of who pays to smother a real story. But you all heard about your preztater pulling out his Sharpie to make burning a flag an offence with a year in jail.

aug 26, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Running Strong @75andrunningstrong.bsky.social

Rupert Murdoch is Trump's biggest promoter through his hideous Fox lies outlet

aug 26, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social

#Respect

aug 25, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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$80 Guitar @80dollarguitar.bsky.social

1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.

aug 25, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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katzilla01 @katzilla01.bsky.social

We don't have a "free press" anymore.

aug 26, 2025, 12:11 am • 6 1 • view
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Sailor63 @sailor63.bsky.social

The so-called “free press” has turned into cowardly fools. Where is Katherine Graham and Ben Bradley when we need them?

aug 26, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rajarooni @jat1955.bsky.social

Mark, you should write many guest columns. Thanks.

aug 25, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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glsmd.bsky.social @glsmd.bsky.social

Pritzker calling out MSM right now!

aug 25, 2025, 9:01 pm • 40 4 • view
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Stine Paulsrud Haugen @stinemor76.bsky.social

Rightfully so

aug 25, 2025, 10:19 pm • 13 0 • view
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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social

Well the folks who own the news agencies now weren't either spineless or completely in with the fascists. So seeing headlines about it are not very likely.

aug 25, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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Concerned (Half-)Human Being @humanexistence.bsky.social

yes I would like to point out the exceptions

aug 25, 2025, 9:32 pm • 13 1 • view
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Sarcasmo Ultra BLAM! @sarcasmoultrablam.bsky.social

The entire media is either gagged or too cowardly to report what everybody can clearly see. A dementia addled felon is building the tracks to a permanent autocracy,using Hitler's tactics to achieve it. While he's too befuddled to know his DOS vs the Governor of Michigan, racism and misogeny rule.

aug 25, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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Major Manliness @majormanliness.bsky.social

I've never been in the news business...but I fully concur and agree...more so with said state being *supposedly* the most powerful in the world and the leader of democracy and the free world. Anyway, gotta go read up on "important" news like some blond chick with jeans and golf...or something. 🤮

aug 26, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
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JBlanchard @jbatnc.bsky.social

Not if you’re part of the coup.

aug 25, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mary, Mother of Jesus @ismisa.bsky.social

They are terrified. I think it's hilarious that Corporate USA is terrified of the Administration while we are out fighting it. We don't need Legacy media anymore. They are shills for the Ruling Class. We can take care of this. I believe in people power.

aug 27, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
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Ed Yetagain @edyetagain.bsky.social

The lede graf will be about her emails.

aug 26, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
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Just Elizabeth @justelizabeth.bsky.social

The present day media is the mouthpiece for the oligarchy.

aug 25, 2025, 9:01 pm • 10 1 • view
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LegalEaseHilary ❤️🫂🇺🇸🐶✡️💙🏳️‍🌈☮️🇺🇦 @legalstuffhilary.bsky.social

It does seem like it would be worth a mention…or an entire headline.

aug 25, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cammie @cmikesf.bsky.social

Right!

aug 25, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social

In recent days I’ve noticed more and more international media dropping any pretense and just bluntly stating what’s happening here, e.g.

aug 26, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Nan 🗳️💙🪷🗽⚖️🇺🇸 @nanettejean.bsky.social

NO KIDDING‼️

aug 25, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Quinn 🇺🇲 Release Epstein Files! @quinnq.bsky.social

Every day. Please.

aug 26, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Deep Blue 🌊🔥💙🔥🌊 @deepdownblue.bsky.social

MSM is MIA.

aug 26, 2025, 12:43 am • 2 1 • view
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MichelleJ @michelle5651.bsky.social

You would think so; yet, here we are. We are all in danger!!! 🤬🤬🤬

aug 26, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
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O'BrienP 💙 @obrienp.bsky.social

AGREE!👊

aug 25, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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867-5309 Democracy Matters @jennie30041.bsky.social

Oh Mark, if only you had 10 decades then maybe you'd have some clout.😘

aug 27, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
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This Pope is a Dope 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 @deploribusunum.bsky.social

Also A bit of reporting on the Gaza genocide would be appropriate

aug 25, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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ChicagoGreg’sFreedomfest🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @housegeekchicago.bsky.social

Cowards

aug 26, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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amdjerz.bsky.social @amdjerz.bsky.social

@nytimes.com

aug 26, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view