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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 12h

Also, the flawed Athenian democracy literally fell because a bunch of xenophobic dipshits insisted on unrestrained power for their homeland and had contempt for and felt free to abuse allied states. All while facing the challenge of another, even more authoritarian power.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone who listened to In the Dark is intimately familiar with Flowers’ story. This is so very sad.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's so funny that the people who worship him the most are the ones he fucks over the hardest: cops, troops, farmers, etc. Better vote for him 3 more times you stupid motherfuckers.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is preposterous as it is monstrous Pike survived the execution procedure and now her lawyers, unable to reach the governor or state AG office, are rushing an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court in their *car* seeking an order to get her medical care

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He sure as hell did all he could to keep innocent people in prison, even when the DA offices that won the convictions said they should be released. www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2020...

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Missouri Attorney General’s Office pushes to keep innocent people in prison

Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This Eric Schmitt thing is a reminder that even now we can occasionally have nice things.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, said the use of federal funds for the ads could be an ‘abuse of power’ and ‘an impeachable offense.’ He urged Congress to demand a reimbursement for the spending.”

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is it, man. This is the good stuff.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh this is phenomenal

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At my Wits' End @witsendfr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Of course Norris has never made a bad mistake. He's just been repeatedly let down by physics, tyres, wind direction, and cosmic alignment. The championship contender with a spotless record—if you ignore the record. 🏎️🙃 #LandoNorris #F1 #GridTalk #SelectiveMemory #Formula1

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Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Lando Norris says Franco Colapinto should be banned for causing Baku accident

World champion Lando Norris calls for Alpine's Franco Colapinto to be banned for causing an accident at a restart at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will never get over how incredibly stupid this is. Do they not know what risk pools are? Do they not know what insurance is???

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.

"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No words, except for Go Vote.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Lizzieeddy @lizzieeddy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“The most important reason not to build the arch, of course, is that it is ugly and un-American. It is fascistic bombast, a militaristic yawp in front of a cemetery that is meant to be a place of respect and rest for the dead and quiet reflection for the living.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

washingtonpost.com

He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.

A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/09/2026

We cannot let history forget what happens when a federal government uses law enforcement to terrorize innocent people.  And let me say to any agent or administration official who thinks we've forgotten or that their cruelty will go unchecked: Illinois remembers.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How can anybody vote for her? I mean, seriously. What a liar and a fraud. This is brutal.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is literally the status quo. We've had exactly this for decades.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It...uh...is not meant to be a competition

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, I saw a clip yesterday of him saying something to the effect of "I'm keeping it running, so I should get to put my name on it" Right, right, that's why it's the Kennedy-and-Nixon-Ford-Carter-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Biden Center

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, all his businesses failed. But I do wonder how someone this stupid continued to be in a position to have new businesses to drive into the ground. Now he's just selling his power. But who was having conversations with a guy this dumb in the 80s and 90s and then writing him a check?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026

Australia Bans AI Music From Charts theonion.com/australia-bans-ai-musi…

“Real AI music fans don’t care about the charts. Or the music. Or anything really.”

Maurice Atkins, Tuber Peeler

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trump’s sweaty desperation was on full display in Dallas. I’ll give you $5k if we win, this criminal conman said. “Cheat like hell,” this enemy of democracy said. What pleasure it will be when this poisonous creature is gone.

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Such a good essay! Very much worth your time!

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

👀👀👀

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh wait, someone has thought of this before!

18 U.S. Code § 597 Expenditures to influence voting U.S. Code

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Calling the Trump Admin the Second Redemption isn’t a metaphor. It’s literally true (but also still a metaphor too).

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I can’t believe Trump calling the Iran war “small potatoes” after 18 U.S. service members have been killed and hundreds more injured isn’t a MUCH bigger story in the news.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026

Wowww. A federal prosecutor in Minnesota was going to bring charges against ICE agent Castro for shooting Sosa-Celis, but Blanche’s DOJ blocked it. Castro was let out of prison by Gov. Abbott last week in defiance of state prosecutors extradition warrant. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...

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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections

A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026

NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.

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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pete Hegseth has failed in every mission except one: keeping his job. But firing or forcing out everyone else in the Pentagon will not make Pete Hegseth into the secretary of defense America and its men and women in uniform need. Me on Driscoll's resignation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches Off the Rails

The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is the latest sign of severe dysfunction in the Defense Department.

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The mother of a USNA midshipman was detained by ICE AT HER GREEN CARD INTERVIEW and is now being held in a concentration camp and I find it insane that people don’t understand how THAT is a bigger national security threat than any undocumented immigrant.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Personally I don’t think you should be able to speak about universal healthcare when you clearly don’t know what it is or how it works.

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asj626.bsky.social @asj626.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yet another example of a Republican politician treating voters like absolute morons.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Grotesque

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