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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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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Who is the last person in the world who should get a $158 million contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children? How about an ex-ICE agent accused of sex trafficking? And yet in the Trumpian news cycle, it's a minor story. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Ex-ICE agent’s group awarded $158 million to represent migrant children
The Trump administration gave the contract to Our Rescue, which former agent Tim Ballard left in 2023 before being accused of sex trafficking.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Congrats again to everyone who pretended there was a “better deal”
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Remember when the GOP was supposedly the party of family values, national security, and fiscal conservatism? Apparently none of that was grounded in moral conviction, economic policy, or patriotism, it was all just posturing to provide cover for nihilism, opportunism, and corruption.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement. And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent. www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...
axios.com
U.S. cities step up security measures amid Iran tensions
FBI director Kash Patel instructed federal counterterrorism and intelligence to "mobilize all assisting security assets needed."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 28/02/2026
To our troops serving abroad, including 100+ CalGuard soldiers and airmen currently deployed in the Middle East, California is praying for your safety and your families. God bless our service members, who don’t choose the wars but forever carry their consequences.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/02/2026
This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine. Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/01/2026
"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
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This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/01/2026
"This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime," Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, told MeidasTouch in an interview released Sunday. "It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime."
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Trump’s economy is the ‘least conservative’ in a lifetime, top economist warns. ‘Our kids will feel it in a set of lost opportunities’ | Fortune
The University of Michigan’s Justin Wolfers sees Trump’s economy set to derail growth for a whole generation.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 20/01/2026
Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
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KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
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Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Before you say “Those people are just hypocrites,” it’s more than that. This isn’t just it’s-ok-when-my-side-does-it partisanship. The people who used to be so worked up about the dangers of government tyranny are not just silent right now, they’re positively gleeful about what’s happening."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/01/2026
So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well. I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III. (Gifted.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit
His irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Yes Really genuinely was an expert He was able to keep every opposing perspective in mind and knew the history and the characters My father was chief of staff of the senate foreign relations committee when biden was the junior senator and i saw him speak w other senators He was really impressive
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is the message.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Five years ago, Donald Trump instigated a violent insurrection in the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election. The fact that the GOP coddled him, protected him, renominated him, and now support him in office, is a stain that will never be erased.
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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Just a quick reminder that Jack Smith had 86 witnesses lined up ready to convict Donald Trump, and every one of them were Republicans
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
“Absolutely not.”
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
Smith testified about his investigations into Trump during a closed-door hearing with members of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Thanks so much for giving Senator Kelly a platform, haters! He's making gorgeous use of it and looking pretty fearless too.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/11/2025
Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o... Gifted article Please read
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Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
There is not one face of the Democratic Party. Tonight proved there are many faces, but each with a commitment to fight back against the reckless failure of the Trump regime and actually serve people. Thank goodness.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.
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Steve Pierson @bluesboysteve.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
You know what to do Cali! Vote YES on Prop 50 TODAY. 🗳️🇺🇸 Drop your ballot in a drop box or a voting center and make sure all your friends are doing the same! #yesonprop50
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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
What the Russian and American governments have in common is they don't so much govern as produce content in place of governing.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/10/2025
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/10/2025
The MAGA right is so desperate for left-wing violence that they're making it up. Read about it in the latest edition of False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025
I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/10/2025
"In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves." prospect.org/politics/202...
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House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies
President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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The Mask Is Off: MAGA’s “Pedophile” Crusade Was Always a Lie
The Epstein files prove it was never about protecting kids—it was about defending Trump at all costs.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent."
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.
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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
One of the most prescient articles I've read in a while - almost 30 years old, but could have been written last week. A warning about the tech libertarians, from 1996. "Cyberselfish", by Paulina Borsook: 1/5 www.motherjones.com/politics/199...
Highlighted text from article: "These are the inheritors of the greatest government subsidy of technology and expansion in technical education the planet has ever seen; and, like the ungrateful adolescent offspring of immigrants who have made it in the new country, they take for granted the richness of the environment in which they have flourished, and resent the hell out of the constraints that bind them. And, like privileged, spoiled teenagers everywhere, they haven’t a clue what their existence would be like without the bounty showered on them."
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Apparently, the testimony of 40 minors was not enough to convince then U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta (later a Trump appointee) to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein. This is one of the biggest cover-ups of our generation. @oversightdemocrats.house.gov won't stop until the truth comes to light.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This is amazing.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Our legislation to ban federal & local law enforcement from extreme masking (SB 627) just received final sign-off from the Senate & is on its way to the Governor. Law enforcement wearing ski masks isn’t normal. We don’t need or want secret police in California. Enough.
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