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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026

the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption

Within hours, the White House agreed the patient surveys painted a clear picture, the people said. In an internal call, the White House aides approved statements from the public health agencies for public release — though they still only identified Taco Bell as linked to the outbreak, without naming Taylor Farms specifically.
Taco Bell moved first, releasing a statement. While it did not explicitly name Taylor Farms it said it believed "public health is a shared responsibility among restaurants, their suppliers, and authorities, and we are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests."
The agency updates on the outbreak were finally posted after 10 p.m. New York time - hours behind schedule - and also omitted directly naming Taylor Farms or saying if the company would recall products.

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William J. McGee @wjm-air.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Recently @ashleynowicki.bsky.social & I wrote a paper (link below) noting Trump's 100% tax cut for billionaires buying private jets. Now Trump brags about a friend "buying a very expensive private plane" tax free "that he didn't need." Every working person in America should watch this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The actual enshittification of government

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/07/2026

What this guy doesn't get is that people want someone who *leads* and has real beliefs, not someone who decides what policy to support based on sketchy polling. Also, even if Dems did/said this, MAGA would brand them as the opposite anyway. It's a stupid strategy that we already know doesn't work.

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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 14/07/2026

There is no good reason to pretend the gambling industry unleashed by SCOTUS in 2018 is anything other than a cesspit of human greed and human misery. Govts exist to regulate such things, except in the U.S. apnews.com/article/phil...

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Bryce Harper says FanDuel used his Cameo video as VIP reward without consent in a gambler’s case

Philadelphia Phillies All-Star Bryce Harper says FanDuel SportsBook had “no right” to use its logo on a Cameo video he made.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I just submitted my comments on OMB's proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance (aka the shitty grants rule). Close to 300k public comments now, which is an astonishingly large number for a proposal that is pretty technical "inside baseball."

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

What I would ask of everyone at the table is simply that they respect the diversity of America and the wisdom of trying to compete effectively across this vast and varied land rather than trying to cancel each other. And I would urge people whose passion in life is shifting public opinion rather than responding to it to find a different line of work than electoral politics.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Democrats stop granting the premise of Ronald Reagan's shabby talking points about government & taxes it's been 50 years already challenge

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Reagan project was to utterly dissolve society and render us atomized consumers. And it has worked so well that even many democrats have begun parroting its talking points and adopting its methods, often without realizing it.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/07/2026

there are very few jobs in the world where you can disappear for weeks without providing an explanation, and "member of congress" should not be one of them, imo

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/07/2026

NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thomas doing the unannounced meeting in Congress yesterday with "nobody" too. Would not be surprised if they are preparing/negotiating a successor.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As Kagan sharply points out, Kavanaugh's opinion simply transforms Thomas' dissent in that 2001 case into controlling law of the land. She highlights how radically the newer justices have changed campaign finance precedent. Whole thing feels like a farce. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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flaunt the point, the analysis gives pride of place to JUSTICE
THOMAS’s dissent in that case; if only the rest of the majority had been there to join him! See ante, at 23. Today’s
decision thus can join the parade of those recently overruling established law because of a new majority’s new outlook
on a consequential matter.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

from Justice Kagan's dissent

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

John Roberts in Slaughter and Cook: “it’s ok to fuck with consumers, but not my personal stock portfolio!”

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hey remember the super important principle of Stare Decisis?

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Todd Phillips @tphillips.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Cook and Slaughter opinions, released together, show just how political the Supreme Court is. As Kavanaugh's concurrence in Cook makes clear, the Court treats the Federal Reserve as special for no reason other than its own policy preference.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Can’t wait to hear the independent agencies we care about doctrine

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Roberts' core holding is that (a) the Federal Reserve is special because of history, and (b) Trump did not allow Lisa Cook to exercise her statutory right to dispute the charges against her. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Having rejected the Government’s view that the courts
are to play no role in assessing the validity of a Governor’s
removal, we may decide this application on narrow
grounds. No matter the precise definition of cause, or the
scope of our review of any such determination, the President failed to afford Cook the procedural protections to
which she was entitled by statute. Without such protections, she could not properly dispute the charges the President laid against her. We thus need not address Cook’s constitutional due process argument, for the statute alone
makes it unlikely that the Government will prevail on appeal as to the validity of the procedures used to fire Cook.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, 6-3, overrules Humphrey's Executor, giving the president broad firing powers over the leadership of federal agencies and limiting Congress's power to limit presidential firings. In a 5-4 decision, however, the court said the Federal Reserve is likely different.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Reflecting Pool contracts are just one example of a massive increase in “urgency” exception spending this year exempted from normal review. In a normal year, this would be $3-6 billion. So far in 2026, it is $28 billion, mostly in homeland security. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...

graph showing annual spending that are exempt from normal federal contracting processes

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Joe Wrote @joewrote.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

good morning

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

KBJ dissenting in Wolford (decision invalidating Hawaii law that creates a presumption of no firearms on private property w/o property owner's consent): "Today’s decision makes one thing clear: The Court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law."

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

lmao

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23/06/2026

The growing wave of progressive populists understand that raising taxes on billionaires is overwhelmingly popular — 77% of voters support doing so, including 71% of Independents and 65% of Republicans.

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Taxing Billionaires Is the Easiest Way Democrats Could Gain Voter Trust

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

5. Cronyism: The guy who looks like a crook is, in fact, a crook, who previously pled guilty to bribing a member of Congress and campaign finance violations. He has given Trump hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2020. Trump gave him a no-bid contract. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...

guy with purple suit, dyed hair, pencil thin mustache and cigar with buxom real housewife of crooksville lady

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The conservative legal movement is pissed because the 5th Circuit can't take the lead in creating a new nondelegation doctrine subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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E&E News: Supreme Court rebuffs bid to curb EPA climate authority

In declining to hear the case, the justices sidestepped a broader fight over limits on the power of Congress.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2026

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

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Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune

Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

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Aaron Miller @aaronmiller.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Corruption has to be a redline. Thou shall not pass. If we have to burn a few of these Dems at the stake to move forward, great. That will pull a ton of independents along with it, if they believe it's about stopping corruption and not about tribalism/partisanship. Nobody likes corrupt politicians.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.

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American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Met Gala, Kentucky Derby, and Miami Grand Prix are all this coming weekend — with hundreds to thousands of private jets expected to fly in. In a must-read paper, @wjm-air.bsky.social & @ashleynowicki.bsky.social explain how the ultra-wealthy flying private further congests airports👇

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