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Bob Roth

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Co-creator/showrunner The Ghost and Molly McGee, Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures. he/him

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Bob Roth @automaticgravy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nice to see The Ghost and Molly McGee on this list. We’re in some very good company! www.tvline.com/2249694/best...
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10 Best TV Shows Like Bluey - TVLine
These 10 charming TV shows like "Bluey" are full of imaginative adventures and lovable characters.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A White House press that got very comfortable a few years ago framing questions around the president's age still isn't posing questions about this president's obviously crumbling mental state.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As a Jewish person who has long been concerned about antisemitism, I think it’s fucking bananas that Republicans’ biggest donor is a neo-Nazi and that’s not really a political scandal—but we’re constantly talking about whether my friends on the left have a problem.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AOC: Let’s put a data center in each one of Donald Trump’s golf courses. Let’s put one in New Jersey on his golf course. Put one in Mar-a-Lago. The only reason I don’t say put one on the White House lawn is because he’ll be out of there soon. If he loves them so much, he can have them.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/08/2026
"Musk’s meddling in the site’s algorithm to suppress certain kinds of posts and elevate others is well documented. So if your anti-fascist posts on X are still getting views, it’s either because these posts are so toothless as to escape Musk’s notice, or because they are in fact useful to him."
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It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X
Yes, I'm talking to you. 🫵
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is not just about rewriting the past; it's also an effort to make any future effort to hold this administration responsible for its brazen criminality seem like more "weaponization of the justice system"
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It’s crazy to me this isn’t a daily refrain from Democrats.
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Democrats should spend every single waking moment characterizing Stephen Miller's position on asylum claims as the position of an out-of-touch extremist, because that's exactly what it is. Most Americans view immigration as a net-positive. Treat this view with the contempt that it deserves.
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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When you're saying "we didn't always agree on things" you're talking about a woman's right to choose, that elections shouldn't be stolen, that immigrants deserve dignity and that genocide is wrong. We're not talking about things like "Industry" is a good HBO show.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Something about seeing a flood of articles positing that Democrats will suffer lasting damage for forcing an abuser out as Republicans stand by all of their creeps feels a little upside down world.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Recall that “you’re not allowed” doesn’t mean you will be jailed or sued or prohibited; it means that other people will exercise their First Amendment rights in response to yours, to express their views and defend their neighbors. But that violates Free Speech Culture.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's easy to shrug off the idiots claiming that the incredibly accomplished politician Spencer Pratt was cheated out of a rightful win in Los Angeles. But they're going to make these same claims in November, so we need to carpet bomb this conspiracy out of existence right now.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There are many in the fallen world of American politics who are more mendacious, more corrupt, more self-aggrandizing. But no one -- and I mean no one -- is as empty, soulless and craven as this man.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
OMB is run by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought. Did you know that the Director of the OMB can be impeached? Congress has historically supported science—it’s why they keep rejecting Trump’s budget cuts. Vought is trying to do an end-run around Congress. There’s an easy fix for that.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
I don’t think you could convey modern conservatism in any sort of essay or book as accurately as you could just showing people this image
CPAC tweet about not inviting Elmo to CPAC
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net. The Trump administration is not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. They are revolutionaries undermining the constitutional order. Any competent response from Democrats needs to face this reality squarely.
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The press continuing to take anyone in the administration’s word for it is journalistic malpractice.
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Bob Roth @automaticgravy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I wrote both of my senators, my congresswoman, Schumer, and Jeffries about this today. This kind of crap will how a profoundly devastating effect on our country.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...
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Paramount is apparently trying to suppress copies of "Only in Monroe" from appearing on other social platforms by filing frivolous copyright notices, even though the show was produced by a public access TV channel and doesn't use their intellectual property...
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@MichelleKinney
Happened to us at The Mayday Network as well — this is insanity.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
this is happening
Chris Van Hollen pointing out that a man pardoned by the president went on to molest two children and said he’d 
pay them off from the new 1776 slush fund
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/05/2026
the Colbert cancellation is a labor issue, to my mind. Colbert’s show employed hundreds of union employees working nightly. Byron Allen’s non-union show costs CBS nothing (literal zero), and costs Allen very little as well since comics provide their own material for a nominal fee and exposure
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump’s deal to drop suit against IRS creates $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
The deal, laid out in a document signed by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, grants a commission broad authority to distribute the money, drawn from taxpayer dollars.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
New York Times, July 6th, 1936.
"I am not among those," he declared, “who find any inconsistency between a sound, aggressive Christian nationalism and a sound, aggressive Christian internationalism."
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What’s the point of electing democrats who do shit like this
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In the now all-too-common category of things that are completely unsurprising and yet utterly shocking, Republicans have completely memory-holed the killings of the Hortmans and shootings of the Hoffmans in Minnesota. As far as they’re concerned it just never happened.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/05/2026
The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. trib.al/xaPuJZc
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Deranged Trump Rants Edited Out of 60 Minutes Interview After Shooting
CBS news didn’t air some particularly troubling rants from President Trump in its interview following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
All part of the GOP economic program: redistribute income up. If you aren't part of the 1% and you still vote GOP, you're a mark.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If Jake Tapper & Ali Velshi can read Trump's unhinged post live on television, print-digital outlets can surely include the text within news stories. Sanewashing this insane & threatening message is journalism malpractice.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Donald Trump claims we don't have enough money for childcare, Medicare, or Medicaid—then requests $1.5 trillion for war. Remember that.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.
Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors
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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
freestyle diplomacy & wild ultimatums? The @nytimes.com is dancing around Trump's incompetent warmongering with cutesy headlines like these. Can't help but thinking if it was Obama or Biden, the headlines would be stark & to the point with words like chaos, erratic, miscue even failure.
Wild Ultimatums and ‘Bombing Our Little Hearts Out’: A Portrait of Trump at WarStandoff With Iran Raises Fresh Doubts About Trump’s Freestyle Diplomacy
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Candy is being crushed at heretofore unseen levels.
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