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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/u...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

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shanley @shanley.com · 02/04/2026

Pretending that forever war in the Middle East isn't bipartisan is so deeply deranged. Embarrassing. Connect one line to any two dots.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

One thing not getting enough attention now that the U.S. has admitted to exterminating hundreds of elementary school girls is that many very powerful people lied about it.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 02/03/2026

This is a widely accepted norm journalists are taught to convince themselves they believe in, but it's not at all obvious why a publication should have to publish an op-ed merely because it represents the president's point of view. That's a media market and branding decision major papers have made.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Even taking this at face value, there is no way to turn current ICE & CBP into "immigration enforcement that is lawful, reasonable, and effective." You can't "commonsense reform" an agency full of people who gladly masked up to murder people, kidnap children, teargas daycares, and invade consulates.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/01/2026

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 24/01/2026

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Here’s the thing: none of it actually matters to them and they’ll have different grievances next week. You can’t gotcha them

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"Depends on the Narrator." The "narrator" is supposed to be you, @nytimes.com, narrating the factual truth here, instead of regurgitating a deliberate falsehood as if it was a different legitimate perspective on the truth.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Insane to rollout your billionaire-backed "ditch the trannies and fuck the planet" think tank the same week the most influential voices on the right are calling for transgender people to be locked up and subjected to Nazi medical experiments

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Democracy dies with billionaires buying the media so when the fascist President tells a lie so blatant it can't be massaged into truthiness the newspapers say the actual facts merely "paint a contrasting picture."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is absolutely real. Not shopped. You can check it out for yourselves. They are celebrating. If ANY Dem in your district or state running for office mentions working with Republicans or across the aisle, do not vote for or donate a nickel to them. They are not on your side.

Derrick Van Orden saying YES to 17m lost Healthcare 18m lost school meals and 3 m lost food assistance

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Any Dem focusing on talking about tax cuts for the rich now instead of "President threatens to arrest Democratic Nominee for Mayor of NYC while celebrating opening of Florida Concentration Camp" is not paying attention and is not fighting for you and your safety.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

📢 GIVE PEOPLE SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR AND THEY WILL 📢

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Clearly it's time to force the SC to deal with the implications of its actions. If there aren't nationwide injunctions anymore, fine. Get into every 5th Circuit district court that ever issued one and get to work.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 27/06/2025

Pack the Court. If we are serious about the defense of these rights, we pack the Court. Simple as that. They pack it back, we pack it again. We do it until we reach consensus on long-term reforms to the judiciary. I don't know what it's going to take for people to get it.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

this has to end. these people have to go. let the people who have to try to live in the future you ghouls created try to navigate it. youve done enormous, unfathomable damage already. retire

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The centrist, moderate, safe, poll-tested position here for elected officials and pundits is to blast the Trump admin using every argument they can. Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

if the Democratic party had an ounce of sense they would realize that this is the future and throw all their weight behind it. but Schumer et al would rather lose than see even a moderate left win

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

One reason the Democrats are not inspiring much confidence as an “opposition party” is that their leader supports a fascist crackdown by his own political opponents because it aligns with his personal support for an apartheid foreign government.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Two stories today about different people wrongly thrown off Social Security, one marked dead, the other seems to be because he was born outside the U.S. on a U.S. military base. First effects of DOGE on SSA. This will get worse. www.wkrn.com/news/nationa... www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 08/11/2024

I wrote about the election. More to come. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As far as Democratic professionals are always concerned, the way forward is clear. The party, we’re hearing already, needs to moderate. Never mind the fact, and it is a fact, that the Harris campaign hewed to the political middle with extraordinary discipline. One of the campaign’s most visible surrogates in the last weeks of the campaign was Liz Cheney, who appeared with Harris in an October event at the birthplace of the Republican party. At the lone vice-presidential debate, Tim Walz signaled his agreement with JD Vance so often that their friendliness was lampooned by Saturday Night Live.

The two most visible breaks the campaign made from the Biden record were a commitment to a lower capital gains tax hike that Biden had proposed and a promise to name a Republican to the cabinet. On immigration, Harris castigated Trump repeatedly for torpedoing a restrictive immigration bill authored by the Republican senator James Lankford of Oklahoma. On foreign policy, she rebuffed demands from progressive activists on Gaza, reasserted Israel’s right to defend itself and committed to making our military the most lethal in the world. And the campaign also went out of its way to convince Americans that Harris herself would be willing to use deadly force if threatened ⁠– Americans heard much more from the campaign about her being a gun owner than about the possibility of her becoming our first female president.

There are a few available excuses for this – it could be that Harris was a uniquely bad candidate or that she was unconvincing in her moderation given previous stances she’d taken. But Harris’s loss should be processed within the context of a checkered political record that Democratic moderates should, at some point, be asked to answer for. The path to the political center is not untried and untrodden.

Barack Obama came to the White House in 2009 with a governing majority that included moderate Democratic senators from states like Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and North Dakota. The simple answer to the question of why Democrats failed to codify abortion protections under him, a topic of some discussion in this election, is that 15 years ago, the Democratic party included many more pro-life centrists. In 2007, the House’s centrist Blue Dog caucus ⁠– not to be confused with the also centrist New Democrat Coalition ⁠– had so many potential candidates that it instituted a cap ensuring its ranks could comprise no more than 20% of Democrats in the chamber.

That wound up being wholly unnecessary: over the course of Obama’s presidency, the years immediately preceding Trump, moderate Democrats were obliterated in races across the country, both federally and at the state level, for reasons that the party and centrist pundits refuse to grapple with seriously to this day. However reliably tacking to the center might have worked as an electoral prescription in the Clinton era, it clearly offers diminishing returns now. The Democratic party is not being doomed by an unwillingness to run moderate presidential campaigns or because the party is putting forward aspiring Squad members as candidates in Kansas. A growing number of American voters, especially in the places where Trump has done best, are looking at moderate Democratic candidates and moderate Democratic campaigns and choosing to vote for the right.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 13/09/2024

They will not stop for any reason. We know this. Eleven killed in Pittsburgh. Deadliest attack on Jews in American history. Nothing changed. 23 people killed in El Paso. Deadliest attack on Latinos in American history. Nothing. 10 killed in Buffalo. Nothing.

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