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A Techdirt troll was pointing to this news today as evidence that Trump's plans are popular. But his policies are equally as unpopular. Seems pretty clear people hate Trump's policies AND HATE THAT THE DEMS DON'T SEEM TO BE ACTING WITH ANY SENSE OF URGENCY TO STOP THEM. RE:
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Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social)
bleak https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021?mod=hp_lead_pos7
Seems bad that the head of the DOJ's "civil rights division" is cheering on Elon Musk using SLAPP suits to silence non-profit media orgs. But what do I know? But tell me again how MAGA is the "free speech" party. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreie3lx5zxycdfun7bil5j7ieekig6jqj26wuifh5szhxqc4hz7wndy
I have joked that part of the point of Techdirt is as a commitment device to guarantee I can never run for any office. But I've written 52,589 articles (and counting) on Techdirt and imagine the poor fools who would be tasked with reading them all if I did... RE:
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Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt. ...
Wait. Marc Thiessen has never heard of batteries? And he's still employed by the Washington Post? RE:
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and...
I will just note a bunch of people are tagging Marc Elias into this thread probably not realizing he blocked me *years* ago, so he won't see any of it. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Here's what the article says:
DHS continuing to make it clear that it will go to extreme lengths to make sure that Kilmar Abrego continues to suffer, rather than have DHS admit it fucked up in shipping him to a Salvadoran torture camp. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
DHS Declares Abrego ‘Will Never Walk America’s Streets’ Hours After Judges Order His Release Here's how you know the Kilmar Abrego Garcia c...
There's a lot in this piece, but I'll just note that I did call out that I was skeptical that Elias Group was the right firm for [@mmfa.bsky.social](
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Media Matters for America (@mmfa.bsky.social)
Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
 ) to use for this situation, and some of the details in the article seem to suggest I was (unfortunately) correct. RE:
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kate conger (@kateconger.com)
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organi...
Kudos to James for standing up like this and saying he will not participate in anything Columbia does following the university's capitulation. RE:
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James Grimmelmann (@jtlg.bsky.social)
In light of Columbia's capitulation to the Trump regime's illegal and extortionate demands, I have resolved not to write for Columbia publications,...
I get that people are stressed out and concerned and I appreciate people being privacy aware, but I fail to see how me trying to make sure that people who ordered our game receive our game is such a horrific breach of proper behavior. Am I missing something? https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreift3mn36ofjbwkbowq7qdmhiboi4bzpjqp5s35y3u2he452zuig6i