KingFarouk

KingFarouk

@kingfarouk.bsky.social

Retired professor, Cambridge PhD, specializing in rhetoric of violence in right wing religious movements since the 70s. And a tiny Pomeranian. 💙👽Blue wave forever.

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Congressman Bill Foster
@repbillfoster.bsky.social

Under this administration, scientists have been ignored, discredited, and dismissed. It's no surprise they would leave the U.S. This loss of talent and expertise will devastate our global leadership and competitive edge.

nature.comExclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drainA trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

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Machine Pun Kelly
@kellyscaletta.bsky.social

This seems to have some First Amendment Issues.

Andrea Devon@andreadevon.sheshed.rocks

Authoritarians hate laughter and now in Texas, they want to jail you for it. The Texas House just passed a bill that could land you behind bars for posting political memes without a government approved disclaimer. One year in prison. For a meme. Yes, really. #MomSky dailypost.ng/2025/04/30/a...

dailypost.ngAnger as US state passes bill to criminalise political memes, offenders risk jail termThe Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at criminalizing political memes. The bill, HB 366, would imprison offenders for a minimum of

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win.

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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

as @jacobbacharach.bsky.social says "the defenders of Western Civilization have never encountered it"

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social

man I'm not even conservative and I could give you a better list than this. where's Borges? where's Wolfe? where's Herbert? Dostoevsky is arguably the greatest novelist in history, and "right winger" fits him better than anything else

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now? This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"'When we saw that the police wasn’t helping us, every able-bodied man in the neighborhood, with or without a gun, has stood guard and has been standing guard ever since,' said Dominic Brewton Jr., who runs a maintenance and repair company in the town..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

washingtonpost.comNeo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch.Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.

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Brian Tyler Cohen
@briantylercohen.bsky.social

"I’m old enough to remember what happened the last time the GOP tried cutting healthcare to offset tax cuts for the rich. In 2018, they attacked the ACA. That November, they lost the House by the biggest margin in modern US history. That’s the sleeping giant they’ve awoken by attacking Medicaid."

open.substack.comRepublicans play dumb on Medicaid cutsThe GOP is engaged in bad-community-theater levels of disingenuousness.

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Mindcite💥
@mindcite.bsky.social

Dear Speaker Johnson and Elon Musk: When will Republicans also demand "work requirements" for presidents⁉️ Asking for every American taxpayer who didn't have the government fund over $10 million in golf trips this month while "DOGE" was slashing government spending. #USDemocracy #DemVoice1

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Moments after vowing no cuts to Medicaid, Mike Johnson says he supports work requirements for Medicaid

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Anonymous
@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Zelenskyy calls for the creation of a #EuropeanArmy: “We must build the armed forces of Europe, so that Europe’s future depends only on Europeans,” the creation of a unified European force outside of NATO comes after the US elected a Russian asset making it no longer reliable or to be counted on.

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Andrea Chalupa
@andreachalupa.com

The grief and anger I feel over the Tulsi Gabbard confirmation. Ukrainians and Syrians are some of the most vulnerable to her Kremlin disinformation. Gabbard is to foreign policy what RFK Jr. is to healthcare.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo
@digitalwarrior.bsky.social

1/8 The ZEIT ONLINE German-language newsletter just dropped a chilling assessment of America under Trump. The message? Chaos, destruction, & lawlessness—by design. Trump isn't governing; he's dismantling. And no one seems willing to stop him. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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Ivan Nevarez 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🫘 ❌👑
@ivannevarez.bsky.social

Replying to @ebharrington.bsky.social

It was eye opener to learn voter turnout piecharts have looked about the same for the past several decades of elections....roughly 1/3 of eligible voters pick candidate1, about 1/3 pick candidate2, and 1/3ish don't vote. It's the small differences in the margins that determine who wins.