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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm writing something about this but a major flaw of the right-wing movement is the clear and obvious belief that racism, homophobia and misogyny are *correct*, but unpopular. so the most "forbidden" voices are obviously *right*, but voters aren't ready for it yet. This whole thing is an example.

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White Plains Rich @whiteplainsrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She can't tolerate living with this lying philanderer, but wants you to spend the next six years with him. If that isn't the essential essence of the GOP, I don't know what is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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As She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for Him

In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the thing about the contortionist moral history of the american new right is that they want to claim western modernity as their intellectual property but do not like the moral philisophy of western christianity. they also cant claim enlightenment secularism, which they associate with liberalism

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There was no 'Woke 1.' Everyone saying there was is falling for a conservative framing of the past that justifies their turn to authoritarianism and fascism.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.

WNBPA
A MESSAGE FROM
WNBPA PLAYER LEADERSHIP
To everyone who loves this game: The WNBPA represents 200+ individual people with different lived experiences, cultures, lifestyles, and opinions.
We embrace justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change.
Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns.
Support the Players. Support the Fans. At games, notify security if you witness hateful, violent, or abusive behavior. Online, report abusive posts and drown out the bots and bad actors. At home, tell your elected officials to strengthen Title IX.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Watching in real-time as the right wing media machine's attempt to hijack the WNBA spotlight to push anti-trans hate morphs into an effort by a bunch of men to bash the WNBA by mocking the player's athleticism (comparing them unfavorably to eighth-grade boys) and gender presentations.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 08/07/2026

if you only looked at the use of “working class” by people who opine on the democratic party’s “need to win back the working class” you would never suspect that every historically feminized profession is working-class

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

June 25 marks the 150th anniversary of Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. No matter how you think about it, you're probably wrong. I received a Pulitzer for "Custer's Trials," yet no one's asking my opinion. That should tell me something. Still, here's how to understand it. 1/🧵

The 7th Cavalry Memorial and gravestones at the Little Bighorn National Monument, from the National Park Service's website.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Well, gee. My pleasure. And thank you. Let me ask this, then. What is your general advice for us on the shorter and/or thicker side of the great spectrum of human variability?

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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Gift link to the Times story/obituary: Gordon S. Wood, Pioneering Historian of Early America, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/b...

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Gordon S. Wood, Pioneering Historian of Early America, Dies at 92

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Academic research means reading 1 article, which leads you to a book and 6 other articles, which lead you to 17 articles and 4 book chapters, and oops now you’re an expert in the 1990s feminist criticism of Taylorist management philosophy, a thing you didn’t know existed until 3 days ago.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Excerpt from the book How Democracies Die.

"America's democratic norms, then, were born in a context of exclusion. As long as the political community was restricted largely to whites, Democrats and Republicans had much in common. Neither party was likely to view the other as an existential threat. The process of racial inclusion that began after World War II and culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act would, at long last, fully democratization the United States. But it would also polarized it, posing the greatest challenge to established forms of mutual tolerating and forbearance since Reconstruction."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

And yeah, it's this piece, out this morning. "The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money...."

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

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Jason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Please to report that we collected another data point yesterday and this still holds true.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US. Motherfucker WHAT??

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2026

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

one of the defining features of the last 25 years is a merging of ideologies between european reactionaries (core belief: anti-semitism) and american reactionaries (core belief: anti-black racism). produces sometimes hilarious results like marco rubio championing "western civilization"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Frederick Douglass’ words are evergreen.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I want to make sure you know who I'm racing for...I'm racing for an American people who stand for love, for acceptance, for compassion, honesty and respect for others...for everyone out there caring for others, protecting their neighbors and meeting people with love... – Jessie Diggins, Minnesotan

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Many of us are exhausted having worked to learn the truth of our own history on our own, but also having to learn the history of American white people that most white ppl refuse to learn. That is partly why when you say “why are you surprised” it’s so annoying. Believe me, we are not surprised!

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Stopped in the Richmond Target this evening and shared it with the descendants of African slaves, Asian refugees, English settlers, and Hispanic immigrants - all doing that most American of activities: last-minute Christmas shopping. That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Incredible we built a society where tens of thousands of people are forced to live in this misery just because the wealthiest people in America want more parking and because left-NIMBY cranks still won't let go of their housing Lysenkoism which insists that new housing causes gentrification.

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In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

May the United States be inscribed for a good year in the book of life. A year of empathy and community. A year of peace.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.

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On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Buffoonery aside, I think a lot of Americans can't process that multiple generations of Germans renounce and revile past actions rather than treat them as an aspect of of their culture that must be maintained.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It’s probably bad that the future of America’s government pivots on a fight between Lex Luthor and the Joker

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Quite apart from today’s very somber news I’m truly baffled that anyone thinks Joe Biden’s age is going to be any kind of issue in the 2028 primary campaign.

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Anita @anitastar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Issues: - tugboat, which wasn’t attached, & only 1, not 2 - possible NYS pilots - how boats dock at Seaport Excellent thread x.com/johnkonrad/s...

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Risk assessment failures of the privileged who don’t want to accept any risk using their social capital to eek out the cultural power to externalize their risk aversion to poorer people is kind of the whole ball of wax. Fix that maybe.

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