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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For a very clear comparison, emulating Magyar would be removing all the MAGA justices and judges from Federal Courts in the first 100 days. That is the scale of democratic chemotherapy we are discussing.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

most vindicated little kid opinion is that construction vehicles rule just drove past a backhoe and went hell yeah

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AdmiralPaco @admiralpaco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Among my favorite books are Ender's Game and the Ender's Shadow series by Orson Scott Card. But because of his homophobia, notably his financial support of that cause, I haven't purchased a book by him in fifteen years. The books I read of his are still good though. Please don't buy them.

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AdmiralPaco @admiralpaco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The last few weeks I have run across Pro Palestine protestors vilifying Brad Landers for not being sufficiently pro Palestine and now the ADL vilifying Mamdani's antisemitism strategy. But its the way Zionists responded to Brad Landers and Pro Palestine movement to Mamdani that I want to comment on

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/10/2026

>there was a bluesky popularity contest >>I scored higher than AOC this is the worst thing that has ever happened to me

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/10/2026

nevermind it's fine. nice, even.

screenshot showing i scored #69 (nice) in the popularity contest

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nah man if Ossof's response on the Laken Riley Act vote is anything other than "i regret it for the rest of my life and am dedicating my career to undoing that harm and ensuring ICE is crushed" then he's out for 2028, full stop.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fundamentally Jews being safe in NYC has *nothing inherently to do* with Palestine. Israel's genocide of Palestinians is a contributing factor to the rise in antisemitism, but that could end and there would still be antisemitic violence and harassment. Gotta disentangle them.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And yeah, sometimes Jewish communal establishment organizations say "oh well if you really cared you'd stop criticizing Israel," they are wrong and you can tell them to fuck off. Doesn't lift the responsibility to actually protect Jews. People deserve safety even if their leaders are racist morons.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

sorry, i don't yet understand what happened on the plane to Israel either but if your kneejerk is that this is a perfidious Israeli false flag you are just absurdly cooked and you need to change your life

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is exactly one large, well funded organization in NYC that makes me feel unsafe specifically as a Jewish person, and it’s the ADL

•@NYCMayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy finally landed and only confirms what we already knew: this mayor does not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of which were related to Israel.
After throwing out the IHRA definition on his first day in office, nine months later, his signature strategy still refuses to replace it with any working definition of antisemitism. He has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to Jewish New Yorkers.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Significant numbers of leftists think Mayor Mamdani has betrayed the left by putting out an anti-antisemitism plan at all, and groups that claim to fight antisemitism like the ADL are giving Mamdani zero credit because he has not suddenly endorsed Zionism, and I am caught between and I am tired.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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AdmiralPaco @admiralpaco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bin Laden's expected outcome reads like Imperial Japans belief of how America would respond to Japan bombing Pearl Harbor

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The Vampire LesMak @lesleynope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The woman carrying the baby and food in the Giants game clip that went viral has written the full story of her marriage and what happened in the stands that night. If you’ve commented or shared any of the clips you also need to read and share her story themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The forthcoming report from the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights affirms what we have long said about the Trump Administration using antisemitism as a pretense for its crackdown on higher education.

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Bipartisan federal commission plans to rebuke White House antisemitism strategy

Unanimous report says the administration's crackdown rested on a tenuous legal theory and details cuts to the Education Department office that handled most post-October 7 antisemitism complaints

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bypassing Congress to levy massive fines on universities while cutting funding to the very office responsible for protecting Jewish students and faculty shows it was never about Jewish safety, but about using that safety as a weapon to carry out their anti-democratic agenda.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks

Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The whole point of calling this agency the Office of "Remigration" is to deliberately signal to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US policy. Some thoughts on this whole worldview below. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tapping the sign

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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AdmiralPaco @admiralpaco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Combining two of my favorite things: baseball and niche historical events

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AdmiralPaco @admiralpaco.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We have had lots of labor-saving inventions that have freed up enormous amounts of time. We also have a tendency to fill up our time with more work. And we have a tendency to forgot what our ancestors had to deal with as far as the amount of labor they engaged in for activities that tech does now

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Politics is fundamentally about telling a story, because stories are how people understand the world.

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AdmiralPaco @admiralpaco.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I blacked out the name as I don't want to put the individual on blast, but I have some commentary on this rationale: their argument is basically the same as "Stalin/Hitler united their countries and made them strong/do you know how bad it was pre Stalin/Hitler?"

Referring to Mao Zedong, posts in order.
(China) Could have done better with a better domestic leader, but I think failing to understand how much life absolutely sucked before him will prevent you from understanding the somewhat complicated attitude a lot of even quite educated and well informed Chinese people have towards him.

personally while I don't dispute that Mao had a lot of horrible policy (both in terms of human rights and basic competency, I think "Mao bad" is a thought terminating cliche that doesn't address how he was an instrumental figure in turning around the fortunes of Chinese people

Ofc I admit to being biased as my grandparents were born into crushing rural poverty and saw their own fortunes as well as those of the people around them turn around with the party, even though they had their own ups and downs with the party themselves.

May this is less "Mao not bad" and more "I need peole to understand just how bad the before-Mao times were" + the fact that he was instrumental in putting China on the path to not being a poverty stricken war-torn hellhole, and that's not something every country has managed to get out of

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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AdmiralPaco @admiralpaco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Congressional compensation is something I have given a lot of thought to and this generally lines up with my thoughts. I also think after the leave office former reps/senators need to be barred from being compensated as lobbyists or working for companies that benefited from their legislation

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

brief meta Thing I Have Learned From Accidentally Accumulating Followers: if you are going to do a multi-tweet thread try to make individual tweets RTable without full thread context

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s not great. The ADL has more or less decided that antisemitism is fine as long as it’s not antizionism and antizionism is always antisemitism and it’s just depressing as fuck.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For most people on here (and generally left of center) this is a problem because they get falsely accused of antisemitism for anti-Israel sentiment but for Jews it’s a major fucking problem as we face dramatically increased antisemitism, including, sometimes, from people opposing Israel.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

yeah the basic issue is that to avoid upsetting the Trump administration, every organization combatting antisemitism has decided that literally only antizionism is antisemitism

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

my dream is to one day see Sam Alito’s seat filled with the wokest rainbow-haired trans lesbian puppygirl imaginable

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026

this, I think, is the actual centrist position on trans people in sports in this country I want a world in which trans kids play sports and everyone is welcoming and lets them be themselves and maybe a lot of the country isn’t there yet, but they also simply have other priorities in their lives

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