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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6h
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Sam Forstag @samforstag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning, Kalispell.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you're looking for how to crush the regime in battleground states and take back Congress, here's the messaging that works. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Democrats need to win. Here’s the message our research says works
Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing priorities
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#MorningVibe Gloria Steinem redefined equality, giving voice to millions & reshaping feminism. Her journalism, advocacy, & relentless drive for human rights laid the groundwork for generations of progress. A true icon of justice. May her memory be a blessing.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
An amazing human. Like no other
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
Did you catch that the Trumpies want to permanently end appliance efficiency standards? They have saved US consumers billions of dollars over the years, but they are a mild inconvenience to the makers of less efficient appliances, so.
utilitydive.com
DOE wants to ‘permanently end’ appliance efficiency requirements
A proposed rule would create an “obstacle course of restrictions” bogging down the Department of Energy’s appliance efficiency program, a consumer advocate said.
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Headed there tomorrow and hoping to bike the town!
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Inhumane. Pure evil. Maybe we should oust the electeds that gives this guy such powers
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/08/2026
You’ve got to be shitting me. We’re spending $20 MILLION of our tax dollars on stun gloves. And we’re supposed to pretend this will cut down on lethal force AND that ICE has good judgment? This is going to lead to more abuse, not less.
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s working beautifully in Australia. They get 3 hours/day!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Translation: "Let's retraumatize these unimaginably brave women who were raped as girls by forcing them to speak to yet another man (who will deny the crimes committed) in order to have more power to strip all women of their rights. So I can greenlight it and pretend I care about women."
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Vote these monsters out! #ICELawlessness
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So maddening and absurd.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/06/2026
One of the great themes of Our Era is right-wingers emerging from their media bubbles to try to grapple with the actual world & discovering that the world does not in any way conform to the fantasies they developed in those bubbles. Many such cases.
insideclimatenews.org
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi - Inside Climate News
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/07/2026
The safety data sheets (SDS) for multiple Rhino Linings products reportedly used during the recent renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool warn that their uncured components are “toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects.”
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Safety Sheet for Reflecting Pool Material Warns of Toxicity to Aquatic Life
Document warns that uncured coating materials may be harmful as questions continue after several ducks were found dead
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2026
Girl, yes 🔥 Let’s believe. Rising Dem star and our future president.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Who attacks a turtle sanctuary?
theguardian.com
Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon
Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
You’re always welcome back in our fine City!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/06/2026
Here @paulwaldman.bsky.social suggests the novel strategy of trying to tarnish the brand of the Republican Party. Why this isn't the foundational goal of all Democratic Party communications has been an infuriating mystery to me for 20+ years now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
"They Think You're Stupid"
Democrats need to worry less about how voters feel about Democrats and more about how voters feel about Republicans.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
One year ago.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
These people are just evil.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The US is hosting the World Cup and just turned away Africa’s top referee at the airport 3 days before kickoff because of where he was born. Omar Artan had a valid visa. He had a historic assignment. They didn’t care. Disgraceful. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/211508/...
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Top African Referee Barred From Entering the U.S. For World Cup
Omar Artan was set to become the first Somalian to officiate a World Cup match. He was denied entry to the United States on Monday at Miami International Airport.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 02/06/2026
If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week.   We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...
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A Question of Margin
And there's so very little.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
SCDP Chair Christale Spain delivered powerful testimony at the hearing regarding Republicans’ effort to redraw congressional maps in the middle of an election year, reflecting on her mother’s experience living through Jim Crow in South Carolina “We cannot go back.” #scpol #scdems
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Santa Marta is the way. Yeah France
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A real banger from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...
This is a president who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago. He rarely meets people where they are. Trump holds the occasional rally, but he does not move through the world the way most presidents have. More so than most who have held the office, he lives inside a bubble.

Some of this is vanity. Some of it is laziness. But some of it, I think, is fear. Trump is afraid of the world. Which in a way might mean he is afraid of the world he has helped build.
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just wow
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/04/2026
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."
publicnotice.co
Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC
The racism is not subtle.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/04/2026
Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."
theguardian.com
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We need every Democrat in Congress to have as much 💥🔥💥🔥💥 in them as Rep Kamlager-Dove (D-CA)‼️ Wait for it‼️🔥💥🔥💥
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David Doniger @daviddoniger.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oil companies are making windfall profits of $30 million EVERY HOUR because of the Iran war... and now the Energy Secretary's oil company reports paying NO TAXES! subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Oil company founded by DOE chief Wright paid no US taxes last year
Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This may be the stupidest climate denial talking point of all time
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Gallain gave a keynote at Mountain Towns 2030 in Breckenridge last fall - I bet the organizers there could help you out, since you've both been keynotes? Chris Steinkamp? Just an idea.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We fought and lost a war in Iran so that both the Iranians and the Russians could make far more money from oil—the Iranians from tolls, the Russians from higher prices and the end of sanctions. That isn’t just strategic defeat; it’s self-destructive foolishness at a level unknown to military history
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amycil.bsky.social @amycil.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We all need a laugh right now
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