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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
this iran humiliation is revealing so much about the US. you can actually see how military coups happen, why there's a 25th amendment, why wars should ever be wages at the whim of one guy (especially a world-class idiot). the rot and the sclerosis are now apparent to anyone who wants to look
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Any serious Democratic candidate for 2028 must commit to pardoning these guys on day 1.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 29/06/2026
Textbooks should be updated to reflect the three official branches of the federal government: the nine-man council of wizard elders, the Federal Reserve, and a senile real estate developer with with unfettered rule over everything else.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As violent crime in America falls, especially in urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, homicides perpetrated by police officers skyrocket and American police establish themselves as the most violent part of US society. It seems to be a function of the legal doctrine of impunity.
economist.com
American police killings are rising, even as murder rates fall
More aggressive cops are less restrained
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/06/2026
musk is *uniquely* dependent on the federal teat to a degree that’s unusual even by the tech billionaire class, which is why a democratic house should make him public enemy number one: he’s a very big target who is extremely vulnerable, and they should make an example out of him
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
ICE is evil. Full stop.
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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Begging Democrats to resist the urge to bash Trump from the hawkish right, which only reinforces the very stupid discourse that enabled this very stupid war in the first place.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We live in an age of wonders which our government is inexplicably trying to destroy.
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Early Research Suggests a Path to Predict and Prevent Lung Cancer
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
How about this explanation… even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways, and they know they’ll never be able to compete with that, and that their money will be worth less and less over time.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
there's clearly a massive scandal in these GJ transcripts. And the public deserves to know what it is.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 13/05/2026
I'm not so sure it's unwitting tho
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
anyone willing to tolerate MTG is showing they view her absolutely vicious persecution of the trans community as a minor character flaw
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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The WNBA consistently has the best politics of any American professional sports league
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Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections:

Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again."

Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m
Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired."

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He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m
Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions."

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Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately.
"The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hakeem Jeffries can force an impeachment vote same day. If he refuses, any House Democrat can force the same vote, just a few days later. That's the only way to force an immediate debate on whether the danger Trump put us all in is tolerable. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
offmessage.net
Republicans Chose Armageddon Over Checking Trump—They Just Got Lucky
It can not be bygones and quiet relief. Democrats must try to remove Trump from power, even if Republicans block them, because he's shown he'll hold the whole world hostage.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Folks, the oracle is telling me if I attack Iran “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again".
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/03/2026
over and over again, outright paid anti-trans activists are quoted in the Times as "concerned parents" or "concerned doctors". these are people who are paid to advocate against trans rights, and they are constantly white-washed by NYT news reporters.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
All these pictures people are taking of un-masked ICE agents chilling at airports are useful, because later the identifying details like tattoos can be compared to photos of masked agents once they go back to committing human rights violations in the streets.
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Seems like ICE agents have been ordered to go unmasked at airports. So, a good time to photograph as many of them as possible, so details like tattoos or how they arrange their pouches or patches can be matched to faces later after masked abuses.
nymag.com
ICE Agents Are in Airports Now. Do You Feel Safer Yet?
Federal immigration agents have been spotted at American airports after President Trump ordered their deployment amid TSA staff shortages.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna
In the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model."
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We obviously need Trump to be removed from power. Short of that we need the world to know that the majority of American citizens, and their representatives in the opposition party, can see that this is madness and are trying to stop it. www.offmessage.net/p/no-quarter
offmessage.net
No Quarter
And not one more inch.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Senate comity is going to destroy our country. These people are all in a little club together, and they care more about each other than they care about the people they serve.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
One aspect (among many) of this war that concerns me is the Islamophobic racism of the war’s supporters in congress and the media is somehow more callous and virulent despite low public support for the war.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 04/03/2026
Pete Hegseth is absolute scum. This is a flat-out war crime.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2026
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/03/2026
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apocalypse is this? polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/02/2026
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
i'm older than the DHS and have never seen it do anything good for The Average American (whatever that means) in my entire life. i have seen it be a big racism lever that every administration loves to pull like that dril tweet tho
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2026
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Dems so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package” newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
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