It's too long a story to explain how I know this, but I once found out that the FBI made challenge coins about how they tried to force Apple to break iPhone encryption. Challenge coins celebrating shitty behavior is deeply a part of FBI culture. RE:
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Sam (@samd.bsky.social)
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Literally last week every MAGA idiot around was insisting, loudly, how terrible it was that the Biden admin pressured YouTube to remove COVID misinfo, even as YouTube said it ignored the pressure. Those same folks will either be silent or cheer this on: RE:
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He already defunded you. You don't need to keep debasing yourself, [@npr.org](
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As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this i...
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Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social)
I'm basically an opinion writer, but I'm pretty sure I have more experience doing actual news reporting than Bari Weiss, and I would never suggest ...
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Win or go home baseball playoff game with one team starting a pitcher with 14 total games played in the majors and the other with 4 total games. Should be fun...
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Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)
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I find this attempt to rewrite history to absolve the media of its failures problematic. We can't get better coverage if we won't acknowledge how the media failed. And this [@politico.com](
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Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social)
I don't think that is an accurate characterization of how it went down. Sure, the media reported what Trump said, but as far as I'm aware nearly ev...
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Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests. RE:
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Shawn Musgrave (@shawnmusgrave.bsky.social)
Like Mahmoud Khalil's case, Mario Guevara's shows how courts will let the Trump administration use facially legal, bureaucratic mechanisms in uncon...
Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. [@politico.com](
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Shipwreck (@shipwreck75.bsky.social)
President Trump says he is meeting today with Russ Vought, OMB director and "of PROJECT 2025 Fame," to discuss cuts to "Democrat Agencies."
Never should have stopped calling these guys weird. They're so freaking weird. RE:
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
Ted Cruz just posted a video montage with photos of every Democratic senator altered to make them wear sombreros and mustaches. It’s set to the s...