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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Signing off, indefinitely. As Chris Geidner says, take care of yourselves, and each other.

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.

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Dan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tyler Owens with all time teach tape for Special Teams players at every level of football.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think part of it is that with everything Trump and the GOP are doing every strategic decision seemingly takes on heightened importance, which drives people crazy.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So very stupid

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw a few groups hanging out in Anacostia Park to make sure that families picnicking, playing music and hanging out in the middle of a nice Saturday afternoon weren’t major criminals or something. (Some even offered them food from their spreads)

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 13/09/2026

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, DHS posted a contract notice most people will never see. ERO ONE would give ICE the military intelligence apparatus that ran the war on terror, aimed at people in the U.S. I did this job for 20 years. Here's why it could be the next chapter of the deportation engine.

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OP-ED: The $100 Million Hole in ICE's Deportation Machine

A procurement notice describes the one capability ICE doesn't have yet: a standing near-real-time intelligence enterprise to turn its surveillance into target lists.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The easiest way to explain the future of US governance for your lifetime and mine is that Trump has taken us from “easy” to “difficult” permanently

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So this is true, except that he’s probably right: if the GOP somehow won majorities in both houses they’d keep more-or-less letting him do whatever he wanted (including spending money without appropriations and ignoring laws), whereas a Dem Congress wouldn’t

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Paradoxically, Bibi is in the running too even though he got everything he asked for in the short run. But as they say, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Paradoxically, if I understand correctly, the literal raison d’être of Anthropic’s “alignment services team” is that it’s super important that AI’s be trained to have ethics or they’ll go off the rails and kill everyone, so he sort of has to believe that to have a job

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It would be interesting to see how many (if any) white South Africans were admitted as refugees literally anywhere else on earth this year.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t know why I found this so funny, but I needed the laugh

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The thing with sports gambling is that seeing something on the lines once in awhile was fun it was like “oh here’s what Vegas thinks” but as soon as it became 51% of the fucking thing it ruined the entire enterprise

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On Germany: something I can’t stand is the idea that the Left and the Green parties haven’t offed arguments about the cost of living. They have! It’s just that they haven’t offered *hate*. The AfD have offered hate, that is their most passionate offering, that is primarily why they are thriving.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One way to see how awful slavery was is to recall that life in the early 1800s was grim and yet even then slavery was uniquely & unspeakably abhorrent. It was shorthand for the worst possible treatment imaginable *by enslavers themselves*, even as they justified/defended the Peculiar institution.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026

the way this article gives no details about the abducted driver or their condition or wherabouts feels deeply, casually cruel

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Northern whites wanted Southern whites to be amenable to reason and compromise. They were so uncomfortable with what they would have to do if it wasn’t true (keep occupying the south and suppressing its insane racist/authoritarian tendencies), that they stipulated that it was so & tried to move on.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Many of you have been asking what you can do to fight the Trump Administration’s depraved war on immigrant kids — like the ones separated from their families and held in federal detention that I’ve been highlighting in my recent videos from 201 Varick Street.

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Revealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custody

Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m with you on this, but I also didn’t love the finger prick. On that score, the new technology where they measure your blood iron levels from the outside with one of those finger squeezing light things is cool

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

they don’t even try to hide the fact that this is not about women’s sports this is about crushing anyone who doesn’t conform to their particular view of gender and what they actually want is to never see the wnba or its fandom ever again

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fun/interesting thread on two things that I knew little about

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Trump’s example and the resulting perception that corruption is endemic / widely practiced will make the problem much worse. On this score, Matt Yglesias was right back in 2016 (now paywalled): www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

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100 days to save the Republic

The transition period is the last best hope to avoid the systemic corruption of American institutions

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When I worked in a closed restaurant kitchen, our boss explicitly said that the less the customers saw of us the better. He wasn’t wrong.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Important to note that "consensual, mutually beneficial exchange" is basically "having an economy".

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wait, the official US White House website is featuring an arcade style game in which a cartoon white man in a suit chases cartoon black and brown people, eats/destroys them, and changes them into orange-clad inmates!?!

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Patricia Zengerle 🎃 @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So … a few years ago, the architect of the Capitol built a few plastic ramps at the reflecting pool so ducks could get out. Some Republicans objected to the “use of taxpayer dollars” (which was maybe $20). www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/u...

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Duck Ramps Appear at U.S. Capitol, but Not Everyone Is Pleased (Published 2017)

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this is kind of stunning tbh

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nb, it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to them, but they don’t realize it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You’re 100% right, but also we need people not to throw in the towel because of the threat of fascist intervention

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Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The most essential virtue of democracy is that it provides a way to remove people from power that doesn't require killing them first. The latter mechanism ensures rule by the most violent: a gangster state. Given the choice of being ruled by idiots or gangsters, give me the idiots every time.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Same, frankly for using efficiency without scare quotes.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For many years, ICE didn't have its own medical claims processing for detainees, running 3rd party medical bills through the VA's system. Last year, right-wing influencers convinced the Trump admin to abruptly cancel this contract. With no replacement, ICE specialized medical care has gone unpaid.

ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.

Hospitals and ambulance services told the Chronicle they are owed millions of dollars, while many detainees have had appointments for lifesaving medical care delayed or canceled. Medical providers say they have continued to provide care out of moral obligation, although some observers worry that fear of nonpayment could deter them from offering services to detainees.

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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ossoff invoked Natalie Harp as a means to characterize Donald Trump as not wanting to do his job. This was not an attack against Natalie. El-Sayed invoked Usha Vance to turn the bigotry within JD Vance's family that *JD* was willing to campaign on against him. This was not an attack against Usha.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Time for Apple Maps and Google to issue another update

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New twist on the Purcell principle: if election rules have to change too close to an election, courts just have to put the election off a few years.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It sucks, but on some level it's because Biden denied it and Trump actually touts it, so now the only conflict is political (is this good or bad) and not conspiracy-coded (is this happening or not)

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, it’s not like the WHCA took everything that Biden or Obama said at face value…

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The thing is, Ed’s good at not just voting, but giving a shit and using his platform to draw attention to BS that’s happening. I wish he were younger, but for blue state senators we want more than just votes

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