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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 8h

Look, I'm glad people are finally taking infectious disease seriously? It just kinda feels like a lot of us are "taking it seriously" in the most self-destructive way possible.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 4h

It is really so wild to see folks whose whole experience of conflict is getting powerful institutions to resolve friction for them.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 4h

Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. Prosecute anyone involved with ICE.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4h

If a guard yanks clothes off a trans woman–to satisfy his curiosity or to mock her–cis women are in danger too. I'm cis. I was misgendered most of my life. In public bathrooms, women screamed for cops. I was almost fag-bashed twice. Abusing any woman opens that door. We're all in this together.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 5h

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 6h

they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 10h

An important component of how republicans maintain narrative control is through Orwellian choices for naming their ideologies. "originalism" is historical revisionism. "pro-life" asserts that women's lives have less value than their unborn children. "conservatism" dismantles the status quo.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12h

People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.

abcnews.com

Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 9h

The structural trends towards the assimilation of non-Black nonwhite communities into whiteness are real, but have we considered that the white nationalists really fucking hate that shit and have blown it up at the first opportunity?

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 14h

Alito's book consists of speeches he gave over the years so there is little in there that hasn't already been discussed and pored over by those interested in it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

"You can't fire the president." Actually you can. You voted the wrong way on that, too.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14h

The thing about this stuff is that I don't care. I don't care if it is legal or constitutional or whether his arguments or good or not. This is very obviously bad for society so it needs to stop. I am guessing there is a legal audience for whom this sort of rebuttal to the rebuttal....

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

Wow four stories about Trump doing something far more objectionable than the Biden garbage comment all written with a more neutral and less negative tone than the Biden garbage story. It's interesting evidence! bsky.app/profile/arye...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 17h

Calling people too uptight about rape in the context of a high profile one then collapsing into a blubbering heap at a joke about violence toward them is a perfect summation of the Alpha Victim mindset

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 17h

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 22h

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20h

all iran needs to do in order to compel the withdrawal of high-end military assets thousands of miles away from the front line is to raise the prospect of an airbase raid by irregulars with drones

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

Trans people have been warning y'all for years that they were perfecting tactics on us to use on everyone else. The reporter of this piece, Christina Jewett, contributed to that too. She helped fuel the moral panic over puberty blockers in trans youth. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

nytimes.com

Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is concerning enough that I'm going to ask about this or similar policies/practices before agreeing to speak to ANY journalist on or off the record. if you can't promise me in writing that this isn't happening, that's the end of the conversation.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]

theunpopulist.net

A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

huffpost.com

The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe if we ever get a functioning CFPB again we can set about banning undisclosed GenAI imagery in real estate listings

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apricity @elusiveapricity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tillis confirmed them! Now that Tillis is retiring, he is trying to save the remnants of what is felt of his dignity. It is not working. Tillis will go to his grave attached to Trump's ass.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 05/10/2026

Reporters learn literally any word but "clashes" challenge

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Ellory @thelocalmuffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm horrifically disappointed to see people hopping into a harry potter art trend after all the heinous garbage jk rowling has done to multiple communities Not so friendly reminder that she's using this as free advertising and you ARE supporting her indirectly for this.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun fact: The right wing most voted federal deputy in Rio de Janeiro state was implicated in a scandal where people who received donated organs tainted with HIV due to incompetent testing that gave false negatives.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not the most important reason, but a good reason justices and lower court judges should serve fixed finite terms is to shut down this absurd race to the bottom. It's only the last vestige of shame that's stopped us breaking through 30 to have 20-somethings on the bench and that'll go soon enough.

politico.com

Trump is putting a generation of young judges on the bench — for life

Trump has nominated at least 33 people in their 30s to lifetime federal judgeships.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since)

My YIMBY take: Every trans 18 year old who is stuck living w unsupportive family should be able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space w transit on a min wage job. (+raise the min wage). Build so much housing that that is the norm. Same for others stuck in bad situations

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

see this is the thing about "high trust," it's this attempt to find a way of speaking "nonpartisanly" about the actual magic beast of modernity, "free and equal citizens"

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