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@andycrain.bsky.social
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Restaurant owner. Flaming liberal. Packer, Nuggets, Badger, Bucks fan. Follow-back boy. Thought follower. Recovering lawyer.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
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andycrain.bsky.social @andycrain.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
@greazywil.bsky.social Loved your Behind the Bastards show on Phil Spector. One point on Spector getting out of contract with Leiber and Stoller because he was under 19. They should have known better, because that was their defense in the lawsuit when Johnny Otis tried to get credit for Hound Dog.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
CBP And ICE Rampant Criminality And Corruption Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that one of its own agents or officers was arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. From 2005 to 2024 - 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents were arrested. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/01/2026
Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro
Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.
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Charles Rock...Politics, Religion, Other Stuff @charlesrock.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
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Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!
Robin saying, "The Immaculate Conception is when Jesus was concei--"

Batman, slapping him across the face, yells in reply, "MARY!"

This image has been around for a while and, sadly, I do not know who created it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It also means (@lollardfish.bsky.social has ably written about this) that you as a parent are forced to concentrate on and narrate your child's difficulties just to get them what they need, which is damaging to your child and your relationship with them.
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I Shouldn’t Have to Dehumanize My Son to Get Him Support
Instead of focusing on the challenges facing disabled people, we should emphasize goals.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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andycrain.bsky.social @andycrain.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The podcast Behind the Bastards has a really good new episode on Peter Thiel's sermons on the Antichrist. Peter has clearly done too much hallucinogenic tea. A small clarification to @iwriteok.bsky.social: The New Testament was written in Greek. A few Aramaic words are are used, and one sentence.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.
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andycrain.bsky.social @andycrain.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So, the government will freaking buy beef to lower prices, but it can't just lower tariffs to achieve the same thing? apnews.com/article/beef...;
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Trump suggests US will buy Argentine beef to bring down prices for American consumers
President Donald Trump says the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#Pinks #ProudBlue If you need someone to blame, look in the mirror! This is in his own words - weak as he says! #ThisIsTrumpsShutDown
“A government shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. 

A shutdown means the President is WEAK!”

- Donald Trump
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Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Opinion
Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk
By Maureen Dowd
April 30, 2016
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
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Ohio police find raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop
When an officer took the pipe away, the raccoon pulled out another.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/05/2025
The quantity of UK goods exports is lower now than in 2016 or 2021. The UK is the only country in the G7 that has this record. #Brexit
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
No need to ask, he’s a Smoot operator.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/03/2025
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
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Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"Have you said thank you even once?"
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2025
every major streaming service should be $10. they have all gotten too greedy and must be destroyed
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net · 07/12/2024
hundreds of Syrian army personnel chanted "The Syrian people are one", after they defected and refused to point their weapons at the people of #Suwayda, who returned the favor by welcoming them, providing them with food, and not harming them.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 25/11/2024
The Twitter vs. Bluesky argument often centres around politics but for me this is way more important. De-prioritizing links, "link in bio" BS, and all the other ways Twitter, FB, IG, TikTok, etc., try to wall off their platforms is so antithetical to the idea of an open and connected internet.
Nov. 24, 2024 tweet from Elon Musk admitting the Twitter/X algorithm downranks posts with links in them and suggests users get around it by keeping links out of their main tweets and then replying to their own tweet with a link if they must
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America 4 All — A4A @america-4-all.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
Rage against the machine
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/11/2024
New book on democratic backsliding finds that it's been misunderstood: "Backsliding is less a result of democracies failing to deliver than of democracies failing to constrain the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders." www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
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Misunderstanding Democratic Backsliding | Journal of Democracy
If democracies did a better job “delivering” for their citizens, so the thinking goes, people would not be so ready to embrace antidemocratic alternatives. Not so. This conventional wisdom about…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
To those still wondering why we lost a close election and what group Dems might have reached better, I say this: All this handwringing ignores the fact that more people voted for the convicted felon, sexual assaulter and insurrectionist. Our problems run deep. Half the voters made an INSANE choice.
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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is a great figure. For all the doom & gloom about climate inaction, we have made a big dent over the past 25 years. What started out as 3.5-4°C increase by 2100 is now down to 2-3°C. Of course, more work is urgently needed but this is progress! We don't let up now. h/t @hausfath.bsky.social
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andycrain.bsky.social @andycrain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Trump will nominate his horse for the Senate.
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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
One thing I am really mourning was Harris’ genuinely good plan for home-based long term care. It would have made SUCH a huge difference for so many people.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
trump is going to be able to appoint at least two more Supreme Court justices. FIVE total, who will rule (literally!) for generations how do we live through this?
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
WI matters. A lot. Especially this year. And it has a fascinating history. Great piece by my colleague, co-author, great historian Nancy Unger "How Wisconsin Became the Ultimate Purple State" 🗃️https://time.com/7093734/wisconsin-purple-state-history/
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How Wisconsin Became the Ultimate Purple State
The Badger State offers a unique window into the cause and effects of national trends and shifts.
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KamalaHQ (automated mirror) @kamalahqrepeater.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Campaign '24

Kamala Harris: "Expand Medicare to cover in-home health care"

Donald Trump: "Hitler did some good things"

Which Message Will Resonate with Voters?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
A soldier, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, was murdered at Ford Hood. Trump had the family to the White House, and offered to cover the costs of the funeral. When he got the bill, he refused to pay: “It doesn’t cost $60,000 to bury a fucking Mexican!” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Survey of Economists: Inflation, Deficits Will Be Higher Under Trump Than Harris. (Wall Street Journal-unlocked) Via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241014-top...
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andycrain.bsky.social @andycrain.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
I believe he is free; I'm not sure about "clean."
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 18/09/2024
The thing few pundits want to say is that, of all possible sets of policies, the total combination of monetary and fiscal policy that U.S. has pursued since March 2020 has produced probably something in the top 5% of possible economic outcomes given the circumstances. A massive success.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
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