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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/...
washingtonpost.com
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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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I read your article.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
An email to a sociopath about how he supposedly asked Bill Gates this question is not remotely an indictment of vaccines. Vaccines help eradicate illness, child mortality, and poverty, they do not eradicate people. Please don't promote this.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Sounds like they should all give up their seats since their wins were obviously fraudulent then.
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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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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If he doesn't like upside down flags he should have seen the Alito residence while Biden was in office.
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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."
fortune.com
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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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
You're entirely wrong. Both the NY Times and Bellingcat have released verified photos, videos, and breakdowns of each stage leading to and after the execution of Pretti.
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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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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I'm sure your snarky opinions on Bluesky are helping the homeless way more than this, but still. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/19/g...
gov.ca.gov
Governor Newsom provides communities $52 million to build housing and infrastructure, address homelessness | Governor of California
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Yet here are the bills he signed: AB 82, Protecting Health Data and Safety; AB 678, Ensuring Safe and Inclusive Housing; AB 1084, Streamlining Access to Accurate IDs; SB 59, Safeguarding Transgender Privacy; SB 450, Protecting LGBTQ+ Family Rights; SB 497, Strengthening Transgender Shield Laws
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Come on. He is what he is but why make things up?! Musk actually left CA because he didn't get what he wanted from Newsom and the housing/homelessness crisis started long long before he was in office
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Californian here who would vote for him if he's the candidate, as would many others. Lots of professional posturers say all the right things in podcasts but can't govern and can't deliver. Holding power in the midterms is critical and he nearly single-handedly gave us that.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Lol, he blocked me for this... which also seems like hyseterical nonsense. Newsom's strategy may have single-handedly safeguarded our chances at winning the House in the mid-terms. No idea what he's doing with these bizarre podcast appearances, but the podcasts are not policies.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is completely hyperbolic nonsense and not in any way aligned with reality.
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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...
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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
Lol, okay. You hang on to that.
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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 · 01/01/2026
There were two impeachment attempts and both failed in the Senate. A separate impeachment effort on just emoluments violations would also have failed. There were multiple lawsuits which failed on procedural grounds. This is not a “Dems didn’t try” issue.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Yeah, I’m responding to the idea that Dems should have acted further on emoluments. Impeachment is currently the only remedy and we didn’t have the votes in the Senate (and big yes on the clowns and rule of law). But legislation would allow for different legal actions and options for prosecution.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
There were multiple lawsuits against Trump that were dismissed on procedural grounds bc of this. The only other mechanism is impeachment.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
That's not correct. Enforcement of that clause legally requires additional legislation.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
There is no mechanism to address violations of emoluments clause in the constitution. Requires a new law by Congress, would not have made it through the Senate.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
brennancenter.org
The Emoluments Clauses, Explained
The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ensure effective enforcement.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
How were they "half-assed?" The unprecedented TWO impeachments against were sound, had the votes, and were vigorously pursued. Impeachment is serious and if any Repub Senators had a conscience we never would have had Trump 2024. Insane to lay that failure at the feet of Dems.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
What are you talking about? He was impeached by Dems twice during that period and was let off the hook by Senate Republicans.
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anasterad.bsky.social @anasterad.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Closing hospitals AND repealing Carter's Mental Health Systems Act all but ensured a rising homeless population and the reliance on prisons and emergency rooms to treat severe mental illness. Deinstitutionalization was underway long before Reagen, but ultimately this is a policy fail his admin owns.
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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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