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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/08/2026

Where is the evidence that Trump actually wants to rebuild US manufacturing, and how is destroying solar power in the US going to achieve that? It’s stunning how media normalizes and whitewashes Trump‘s efforts to destroy the US.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

"As they start preparing for the massive reconstruction project that faces them, Democrats should learn this important lesson from McConnell: while the public may recoil at certain kinds of substantive radicalism, they will barely notice procedural radicalism." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction

He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.

The Population Forecasts Are Grim. Theyre Still Too Optimistic.
By Lyman Stone

It's difficult to articulate the extent to which Somalian immigrants are a *unique* problem.
Other immigrant groups may not always have stellar outcomes, but there are almost none who as persistently have the absolute worst outcomes in every country they move to as Somalians.

FWIW I think attacking IVF really is a massively losing political position, and I say that as someone with serious moral concerns around
IVF.
I think if you must attack IVF, you would argue against discarding embryos as a form of Nazi eugenics, not on the basis of personhood.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/05/2026

governor brainworms

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Jared Polis is so completely full of shit. His commutation of Tina Peters' sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech. What a joke. What an insult to the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. What an assault on free and fair elections. An embarrassing profile in cowardice.

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Alex Charner @alexcharner.com · 16/05/2026

The KKKourt is hard at work

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Since Callais came down, Democracy Docket has published 81 pieces of redistricting content: 74 news stories 4 analysis pieces 3 op-eds I challenge you to find another news outlet with more detailed coverage. Support independent and pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Kennedy's goal here is consistent with all of his other policies aimed at undermining proven health interventions: he believes the people who benefit from them are defective and he wants them culled from the population. It's comic book villain logic, specifically Viltrumite logic.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The language of "and it creates backlashes" is, once again, to minimize the agency of those who organize and participate in illiberal countermobilizations.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Examples, please.* *And no, please don't bring up Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" comment from a decade ago, unless you discuss the whole speech in context.

I think the worst part of that is a kind of condescension or disconnect between these liberal elites and the common man, regular people.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/05/2026

cool

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

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Alex Charner @alexcharner.com · 27/04/2026

This is who she has always been

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Jim Yale @jimyale-art.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Sofi Centurión Japanese watercolor and gouache on paper

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Suzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 🖋 📖 #greenwitch #books #learning #reading #stephenking #truth #facts #sciencefiction #peace

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Yeah, fighting for democratic principles by letting people who are hostile to democracy hold power indefinitely would be disastrous for democracy. The media pretending not to understand this gives away the game.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If Republicans are really upset about gerrymandering, then they can join Dems in doing something to end it on both sides. Rep Jamie Raskin tells me he'd be "delighted" to work with Rs on future bills (epic trolling here): newrepublic.com/article/2093...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/04/2026

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center

I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway. My newsletter.

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How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals

News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2025

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

and yet the intensity of reporting around trump and affordability has not reached 1/10000th the intensity it had under biden. the msm is not emphasizing this issue and its because theyre trying to help trump and the gop.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Wisconsin already has among the harsher rules in the country — since many people who're not presently in prison are barred from voting because they're on parole and probation. Roughly half the states in the nation allow anyone not in prison to vote, including recently in neighboring Minnesota:

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Minnesota Is Restoring the Voting Rights of Tens of Thousands - Bolts

Editor’s note (March 3): Governor Tim Walz signed House File 28 on March 3. Elizer Darris has thought many times about how it must feel to hold one of the... Read More

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER EUROPE Thousands of records are being brutalized with margins never seen before allover Europe from West to East In 3 centuries of world climatic history there had never been anything remotely close to this. Wait for MANY posts. Most extreme day the world has ever seen

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I fear it's being overlooked that next term, the Supreme Court will likely strike down: •what's left of the Voting Rights Act •all bans on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors •the last remaining pillar of McCain–Feingold's campaign finance reform ... while upholding bans on trans student athletes.

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