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Billie Jean Sweeney

@billiejsweeney.bsky.social

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Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her. billiesweeney.com

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@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:10 AMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

The nyt role in promoting racism deserves more attention. They led the torch and pitchfork mob against Claudine Gay. They partnered with a eugenicist for a vacuous Mamdani hit piece… and continue to wage a vendetta against him. They’ve promoted neo-segregation and asked “Did D.E.I. Go Too Far?”

@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:33 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Jeffrey Peters is preparing a story on how Musk’s Nazi salutes are “not so simple” to figure out.

@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:14 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Lmao, the propagandist Jesse Singal talking about “breaking” propaganda

@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:14 PM

Lmao, the propagandist Jesse Singal talking about “breaking” propaganda

@bgrueskin.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 5:59 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."

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Jesse SingalO @jessesingal

1/ For the last 80 minutes I've been on a fascinating Twitter Spaces (or whatever they're calling them now) with Rhein Amacher, who broke the Talarico story. I was on the call when everyone found out the hospital was flatly denying it. Some interesting nuggets: 8:24 PM • Oct 11, 2026 • 329.2K Views
@mtsw.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:35 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Republicans are openly cheating across the country in this election cycle because they believe if they win, they won't face any consequences for the cheating and also know from experience that if they lose they also won't face any consequences for the cheating.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:43 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

@schooley.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:58 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.

washingtonpost.comElon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegallyInvestors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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@froomkin.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:18 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

presswatchers.orgThe world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press WatchOur top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:57 PM

Lol

@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:55 PM

lol

@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:42 PM

The nyt has been laundering and lifting racism for some time

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@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:33 PM

Jeffrey Peters is preparing a story on how Musk’s Nazi salutes are “not so simple” to figure out.

@nberlat.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:56 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

wrote about Ossoff and El-Sayed calling the Nazis out as Nazis, and how this is a major change from the D party tradition of catering to white identity. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/democrats-...

everythingishorrible.netDemocrats Suddenly Are Willing to Call Nazis By NameConsensus white supremacy is looking wobbly.
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@gastropoda.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 7:13 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Again: Great reporting. & one more reason to make a trip to MPLS -- the city that fights back.

AAaron Rupar@atrupar.comOct 12, 2026, 7:11 PM

"What Metro Surge showed the world is that people do not want to watch their neighbors be brutalized, shot, and torn from their homes, and no amount of Trump posting on Truth Social is ever going to change that"

publicnotice.coTrump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.We love our Somali neighbors.
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@justinbaragona.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 7:08 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Hmmmm, wonder why Katie Miller deleted this tweet?

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@davidcorn.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:09 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

A delusional wannabe autocrat who believes he is an autocrat.

@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:03 PM

Lol

@kattenbarge.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:51 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

I saw an early screening of the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary, and he's calling it a "hit piece" because it's a damning compendium of some of his most egregious manipulation and cruelty. My question is whether the Ellisons will spike it before it ever gets to HBO.
spitfirenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

spitfirenews.comWhat the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary revealsPlus, a post-screening Q&A with Ashley St. Clair.
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@chadstanton.blacksky.appOct 12, 2026, 7:45 PMReposted by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

“Trump is a coward who is weaponizing his DOJ to fuel hate and intimidate his opponents with baseless attacks like these, just like he’s doing with Rep. McIver, Lisa Cook, and Tish James,” said Pressley, who is also Black. “We stand with you, Congresswoman Omar.”

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