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I no longer use Twitter but please connect with me on BlueSky at the same handle.

Joined March 2014
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I'm no longer using Twitter. Please connect with me on bluesky! Handle: jmilchen
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The Trumpers are literally erasing the existence of non-white people from history. Substituting weasel words for accurate descriptors of Trump's regime (white supremacist, racist) to describe them is aiding oppression. #reporters @lbaldor @TaraCopp apnews.com/article/dei-purge…
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Negativity was rewarded under Biden while Elon was promoting Trump and dangerous conspiracy theories. Negativity and dissent will be buried while Trump is in office. Controlled dissent and propaganda is Musk’s version of “free speech.”
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🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS John Bolton implies that when Bashar al-Assad loses total control over Syria that Tulsi Gabbard will be exposed as a paid asset. 🚨
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This is a script from the private equity playbook applied to a country. Load the country with a staggering amount of debt. Guess who owns the debt? The wealthy. Then, trigger a default. The debt holders end up controlling the entity while asset prices plummet. The wealthy buy more assets very cheaply. We’ll be back to the Sharecropper System in no time.
📄 NEW: “Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse” The election is top of mind, but the debt ceiling remains an existential threat to the global economy — and Thiel’s network is signaling US debt default in Q1 2025. The dollar and your savings are at risk. washingtonspectator.org/pete…
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A Trump-appointed judge declared it illegal to update overtime pay standards, as the Biden Administration proposed. As a result, corporations will continue deprive many workers of deserved overtime pay. @GregTSargent covers what most media have ignored: newrepublic.com/article/1886…
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Once they’ve set up these camps and the process for detaining large numbers, these will be used for far more than simply migrants that have committed ‘crimes.’ This isn’t a slippery slope. We’re barreling down hill to widespread oppression and human rights abuses.
For-profit concentration camps.... Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities nbcnews.com/politics/immigra…
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The “Moderate Republican” is just a stand in for “donors.” They have to pretend it’s an actual demo of voters they are chasing- it isn’t
The Liz Cheney strategy currently looks a lot less like something done in the best interests of winning and a lot more like a purely ideological choice.
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Students are having their votes massively suppressed by the DeSantis Regime at the biggest school in Florida of over 50,000 students. This needs to be a national news story. This is blatant election interference by @RonDeSantis and his appointed minion @OCFElections
The lines to vote at the University of Central Florida are 2 to 3 hours long and have been for the past week. Meanwhile, at other early voting locations with older populations it’s 10 minutes. ⁦@OCFElections⁩ is suppressing the youth vote. This is election interference.
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Spoke to @KyivIndependent about the Musk-Russia story. Hard to over-estimate the size of the danger Musk poses to the West as a US defence contractor, Trump booster, and social media mogul who seems to have been flattered into asset status by Putin. kyivindependent.com/who-is-s…
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Huh. I somehow hadn't thought about this. Why is Polymarket advertising to Americans, who can't legally use its services?
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MSNBC host Michael Steele is right. 👇🏽
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I've criticized NY Times for repeatedly #sanewashing Trump's fascism and instability, so credit where due as NYT met the moment with their prominent and compelling multimedia editorial today.
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As someone who has been a journalist for almost 40 year, working as a senior writer at the New York Times, Newsweek, etc, the decision by @WilliamLewis, a Murdoch alum, to cripple the @washingtonpost by abandoning endorsements, is one of the most craven actions I've ever seen../1
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The Kelly comments about Trump praising Hitler are the most inflammatory but isn’t a more important takeaway from his @nytimes intvws that Trump really really wants to use military vs US citizens since Trump is explicitly talking about doing just that? nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/po…
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🚨Maj Gen (Ret) Paul Eaton is NOT holding back. He directly calls on Generals Jim Mattis and Mark Milley to stop whispering to Bob Woodward and speak out publicly. Our nation is on the line, and it's time to tell the truth—Trump is a domestic enemy and a fascist to the core.
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Two of America's most senior generals, who worked closely with Trump (his own chief of staff and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff), say they believe he is a *fascist* These remarks should dominate the news headlines till Election Day. But they won't. Our media is broken. zeteo.com/subscribe
Trump’s own chief of staff, retired general John Kelly, agrees that Trump is a fascist.
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A billionaire blatantly breaking election laws to get his preferred candidate into power is the sort of crime that law enforcement should address immediately, rather than giving it a chance to work first and prosecuting only if it fails.
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"This is not a humanitarian crisis, Kate, and I'm going to say it very clearly for your viewers to hear: This is genocide [...] Media agencies will have reckon with their major role in the genocide." -- Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan to CNN
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