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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's hard to imagine a world where Big Trouble in Little China was immediately and overwhelmingly successful (and didn't eventually become a cult classic.) But in the decades since its release, it's revealed itself to have much more staying power than its stiff-lipped adventure peers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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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 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
While the world burns, and you pay more for everything, your tax dollars become the royal family’s wealth. Because it pays to be a Trump, especially when the whole world knows daddy's a crook.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415
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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
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Dan Stirk @jdanielstirk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social, there’s some asshole on here stealing your bit
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the more interesting thing about this article, which was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others, is that it was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The thing people should know about ZZ Top is that those early records, like Tres Hombres for example, are the gold standard for how rock records should sound. Immaculately recorded records, true auteur stuff, albums that set out to be exactly what they are
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sorry, but I don’t buy the argument that had the Biden admin tongue washed legacy media they wouldn’t have ratfucked him. If you believe that you haven’t been paying attention to the last decade plus.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026
Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 02/08/2026
Just over 60%, thank you so much! Please donate or repost if you are able to. I really appreciate it. When you live outside the Acela corridor, you basically don't exist to Democratic establishment, sadly.
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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Always worth pointing out in observations like this is that the MSM takes their editorial choices from GOP leadership so make their choices on what to cover based on what the GOP wants the press to cover.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In short, there are valuable lessons we can learn about drones & interceptors & magazine depth & mine-sweepers, etc. But the key lesson is: no amount of tactical excellence can salvage strategic incompetence. Who lost the Iran War? The American voter did, that damn fool. And he ought to feel it.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party.

The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/07/2026
“I live next to people who vote for Trump and smoke cigarettes outside my window while listening to Frank Sinatra too loud, that’s just called living in the real world, where other people exist.” www.liberalcurrents.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Such Thing as Society
Today it is not revolutionary communists but so-called conservatives who wish to trample on human individuality in service of dreams of a remade society.
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
tbh the problem with healthcare policy is just that healthcare is expensive to provide, and will only get more expensive to provide in the future as better therapies come out, the population ages, and the number of people who can pay into the system decreases.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Against the background of this limited industrial policy, a growing chorus of commentators has started to notice something significant is happening with services — especially healthcare — as a force unexpectedly reshaping the supply side.

Conor Sen, writing in Bloomberg, argued that with the labor force barely growing, today’s labor market story isn’t about a market propped up by healthcare gains, but rather that the demand for healthcare services is pulling more labor in from a fixed pool, producing employment declines in other sectors. On this view, it’s the unstoppable force of an aging population meeting the immovable object of Trump Administration immigration policies that is pulling workers out of the rest of the economy.

Karthik Sankaran, writing in the Financial Times, took the argument further, claiming that US excess healthcare spending — roughly $1.5 trillion per year (at around 5 percent of GDP) above what peer countries spend for comparable or better outcomes — is the “dark matter” of global trade imbalances. This rising demand, combined with the profitability incentives of layers of insurers and administration, has created a massive and inefficient non-tradeable sector that raises the real exchange rate, inflates employer costs, and makes American exports less competitive. This in turn reinforces the difficulties US domestic manufacturing faces in terms of capturing the aggregate markup produced by large US fiscal deficits.

These are two different problems. Domestically, healthcare is distorting labor markets. Internationally, healthcare costs may well be distorting the terms on which the US trades with the rest of the world, to the detriment of domestic and global manufacturing structure. Neither dynamic is being managed since the current system has no mechanism for planning around any of this — supply chases demand based on profitability and regulatory constraint. The result is a sector that grows steadily, but by accident rather than by design.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
as someone from a country with multiple annual heat waves if you're mad at Mamdani for that super boilerplate statement on energy saving, you better get cracking on fixing climate change pronto, because you're really not going to enjoy the way advisories are phrased in hot places
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A very shrewd and insightful take on what happened in the NYC primaries. I really recommend it. theconnector.substack.com/p/new-yorks-...
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New York's Hollow Party Wars
What last Tuesday's primaries tell us about weak Democratic institutions, organized challengers, and the limits of low-turnout victories.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.
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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 30/06/2026
You can’t reconcile Slaughter and Cook. It’s just the Supreme Court saying “we don’t want to mess up the world economy, but trust us, we’re principled interpreters of the Constitution.” My latest in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...
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Slaughtering the Administrative State
The Supreme Court's Cooked reasoning on independent agencies.
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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Reminder: it is still *illegal* in the UK to rip a legally bought and owned CD to MP3 on your computer. But Google will likely convince the UK govt that every creative endeavour should be available for it to remix and regurgitate, entirely for free. One rule for the public; another for megacorps…
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roko’s modern basilisk @girlpython.northsky.social · 26/06/2026
this is also true of media consumption and culture more generally from roughly the same period, TV is centralized in a way that will likely never be replicated
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 26/06/2026
A lot of people assume that the housing market circa 1975-2005, when urban housing was cheap even without new development thanks to rapid sprawl and white flight, is the natural state of the world and not an historically anomalous period shaped by housing and transportation policy choices.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Update — a top Trump aide set this in motion, as White House tries to get third-party candidates out of tight races. James Blair asked RFK Jr. to call the Iowa candidates because Blair heard they respected him, according to two people familiar with the matter. with @iarnsdorf.bsky.social
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A friendly empirical note for those losing it over progressive primary wins: ideological positioning barely explains Democratic vote shares since 2006. Turnout explains a lot. The party can run to the center all it wants. It won’t help if the base doesn’t show up.
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Two scatterplots titled “What Drives Democratic Success in House Elections? Analysis of U.S. House Elections (2006-2024).” Each plots the Democratic share of the two-party vote (ranging from about 46% to 56%) for individual election years, with blue points marking years Democrats won a House majority and red points marking Republican-majority years.

The left panel, “Closing the Partisan Turnout Gap,” plots vote share against the Democratic-to-Republican turnout ratio. The points trend upward: as Democratic turnout approaches Republican levels (ratio nearing 1.0), Democratic vote share rises. 2008 sits highest at the top right (ratio ~1.0, ~55.5%), while 2010 and 2014 sit low and left (ratio ~0.91, ~46-47%). All years show a ratio below 1.0, indicating Democrats consistently turned out at lower rates than Republicans. (2006 and 2024 are excluded for lack of turnout data.)

The right panel, “Strategic Party-level Ideological Positioning,” plots vote share against party positioning on a liberal-conservative scale. The points trend downward: Democrats performed better when positioned further left. 2008, 2006, and 2018 cluster at the upper left (more liberal, ~54-55.5%), while 2010, 2022, and 2024 fall to the lower right (more conservative, ~46-49%).

A note beneath the panels explains the turnout ratio is drawn from L2 voter files and that ideology is measured with a composite of established scores (CFscores, DW-NOMINATE, DW-DIME, Hall-Snyder, GGUM, Shor-McCarty), citing Bonica, Rhee, and Studen (2025).
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“This isn’t about any individual story,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who said the project took her two months to complete, told me. “This is about the whole corpus of how they’ve covered trans issues over time.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds
A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Clarifying Choices for Democratic Voters — Fight & Ideology Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/clari...
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Clarifying Choices for Democratic Voters — Fight & Ideology Edition
There was voting in New York state today and I had to...
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20/06/2026
Interesting. Btw who’s the current president
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Trump administration is dismantling and destroying the Department of Education without Congressional approval, causing harm to educators, students, and families. This must end now. www.kxl.com/bonamici-ann...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/06/2026
the feminist reading of "the patriarchal bargain" is a way of imposing feminist thinking on women who endorse patriarchy. "they're just trying to bargain for the best position they can get with the implacable evil." it refuses to take seriously the woman who says "the man ought to have headship"
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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
For the prophesy to be fulfilled, they're gonna have to find intelligent life up there on the moon, and we shall see The Canterbury Tales shoot up to the top of the best-seller list and stay there for twenty-seven weeks
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/06/2026
the extent to which ""leftist"" thought leaders are adopting far-right language about hr ladies tells you a lot about what noosphere they're stewing in
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I keep having to be reminded that a core tenet of Trumpism is intentionally telling impossibly obvious lies, and enjoying making everyone else deal with them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/05/2026
Trump skipped his son’s wedding then did nothing all weekend but post A true poster
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 25/05/2026
Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/05/2026
"We want accountability for the crimes of the Trump administration. We want accountability for the murderers of Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, accountability for the men and women building concentration camps, accountability for the crooks and billionaires looting our country blind."
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Prosecute These Corrupt Bastards!
We can and must prosecute the degenerate officials and corrupt oligarchs and brutal thugs who would destroy our Constitutional system.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Jeff Bezos paid $0.00 in income taxes in 2007 and 2011, years when his net worth was $4 billion and $18 billion respectively. Otherwise, he pays an income tax rate of about 1%. More people should know this! www.propublica.org/article/the-...
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2026
Whitehouse: "If you look at all the Court's elections decisions, every one has the effect of helping the GOP. If you look at all their regulatory decisions, every one has the effect of helping the fossil fuel industry that funds the GOP. You can predict with perfect certainty what happens."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Why are oil prices not higher? In short, America’s selling while China ain’t buying" "the US has responded by cranking up exports, while China has slashed imports" www.ft.com/content/ae62...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:
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227. "We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This"
The Supreme Court has not only accelerated the race to the partisan redistricting bottom; it is directly responsible for the chaos we're seeing on the ground.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.
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