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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23h

White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.

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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 21h

I can believe Andrews getting 45% but it isn’t gonna be a 1% race

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NITA moment: CTA and Metra are joint releasing information "you can take either of us to get here" about an event

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Plus Osborn and (see the replies) Talarico bsky.app/profile/purr...

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our side is finally taking the “don’t tell no lies about us, we won’t tell truths about you” approach and it’s about time

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mamdani should just continue implementing this while they appeal

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent ad, had not seen it. Thank you for linking

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember all these memes lol

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Talarico needs a modified version of this for Paxton’s pedo plea deal

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Do Republicans have agency” is the simplest way to test someone’s ball knowledge and most of our elites and media give the wrong answer every day

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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TashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You all gotta see this

Zuri sleeping in her cot with one ear jauntily folded up, one eye creepily peeking open, and her tongue dangling out from the side of her mouth ridiculously draped onto the side of the cot like a soggy bacon strip

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 22/09/2026

NIMBYism destroys your commercial property tax base: “Occupied space has climbed in parts of Dallas, Atlanta and Miami along with growing populations…On the flipside, Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland…are among the metro areas where vacancies continue to grow.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

holy shit can we do this for the Sunday shows too

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is 100% pure uncut reactionary fear of the newcomer disguised in a purportedly-leftist wrapper, and we must wholly reject it out of hand. America welcomes the newcomer, no matter where they are from or where they choose to live.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“The only costs going up faster than housing are electric and the gas pump and your biggest issue is which team a 14-year-old gets to play volleyball on? Kids should be able to play sports with their friends, we have real problems to address” should be a slam-dunk message

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What can you even say at this point #COYS

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026

Everything's falling into place

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I want to believe in Mathys tel but he ends up creating more unnecessary culdesacs than 1950s urban planners #COYS

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

”choices were made” is the diplomatic way to sum up a lot of this 😅

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Ben @809explorer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

that refrain is part of the original song that plays through the whole ad (Come Down by Anderson Paak)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

the reason my likely presidential candidate tier list has two people at the top - Ossoff and AOC - is that they are by far the most effective messengers of I Am Fucking Furious And There Must Be Consequences, which is the most deeply held conviction of the Dem base

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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if you ever wonder how Americans became the richest major country on the planet but most of us still feel so poor, looking at what we spend on cars — not just directly but in tax money for infrastructure and space in the built environment — is the answer.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality

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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026

A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 07/09/2026

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026

i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism

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