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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BRETT KAVANAUGH: "Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?" Just saying... if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that's just me.
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awesomecosmos.bsky.social @awesomecosmos.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Me, seeing that op-ed and who wrote it: “I gotta get to Bluesky and see what Courtney has to say.” Thank you for exceeding expectations
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Sirius B @aowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey @oagmaryland.bsky.social what are doing about this flagrant disregard for the law & the environment? Ben Flahart’s farm has repeatedly caused major fish kills in the last year *after* being under a settlement agreement to reduce pollution. If you can’t act what is the point of voting for you?
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Nearly 11,000 fish die downstream from embattled Maryland dairy farm
Environmental regulators say a dairy farm won’t stop dumping manure into a beloved northeast Maryland stream. This week, thousands of fish died downstream from the farm.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 01/10/2026
There’s this weird phenomena that, best I can tell, is only on Bluesky, but is people certain that “no one told Harris and Walz to stop saying ‘weird’, that’s a myth.” It’s not, and there’s named sources in CNN articles about, from August 2024.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The height of COVID was an incredibly stressful time with a lot of individual & ambient cultural trauma attached to it and, also, at the same time, many of the people who are most vocally Not Over It and never going to Get Over It were basically asked to care about other people & be bored for a bit
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/07/2026
As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We have a real crisis of masculinity in this country. It's apparently a problem across the political spectrum. Like what the fuck is this shit? No, you're not a man because you have a Nazi tattoo and are misogynistic. That just makes you an asshole.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

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The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy
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Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right
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Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights. Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them, through shame, intimidation, threats, discrediting, the obscene legal instrument known as a nondisclosure agreement and a system too often run by men for men at the expense of women and children. That is to say, rapists count on getting away with it because of a system that hands them power and steals it from their victims. They count on a silencing system. On profound inequality.

Which is what makes rape such a peculiar crime: it is the ritual enactment of the perpetrator’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, buttressed by the circumstances that puts and keeps each of them in those roles. It’s driven by the desire to use sexuality to cause physical and psychic injury, to dominate, to celebrate the rapist’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, to treat another human being as a person without rights, including the right to set boundaries, to say no and to speak up afterward. A society that perpetuates and protects this desire and arrangement is rape culture, and it’s been our culture throughout most of its existence.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Twitter bros 4 platner are handing it to bluesky right now lol We aren’t sorcerers! We just don’t fuck with Nazis. People still on Twitter are hanging out in a literal Nazi bar and should have some self respect and leave. They don’t have to come here! Just leave the Nazi bar.
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1) God this sucks. Awful.
2) Bluesky was right, I was wrong.
Hat in hand.
3) Maine voters did send a really strong message they wanted a populist, pro-working class
candidate to take on Susan Collins.
Seems like Troy Jackson checks all those boxes?
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
On a purely political level nothing has made me more convinced that Obama was a uniquely brilliant generational politician than seeing all the Obama speechwriters and strategists be some of the dumbest goobers I’ve ever seen
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
and there we go. again, all this could have been avoided by the simple rule of 'don't support a candidate with a Nazi tattoo'. Not a challenge! www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
politico.com
Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.
politico.com
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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awesomecosmos.bsky.social @awesomecosmos.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@rachelreidwrites.bsky.social I know you don’t post on Bluesky much, but just in case you check here, thought you might want to know your reach is even greater than you realize😄
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The New York Times is playing the Republicans’ theft of Black political power — the return of Jim Crow —primarily as a sporting event. “Bullish Republicans are back in the game,” writes NYT.
“10 Days That Shook the House Map and Democratic Confidence”
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awesomecosmos.bsky.social @awesomecosmos.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Agree. And Sanders and the lefty bros have never grasped that economic policies are not going to win over the non college educated white people in the general election who vote against their own economic interests because they hate women and people of color more.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
IMO this is actually why Sanders lost two primaries more than nefarious action from the powers that be. You’re not going to be the democratic nominee if you just hand wave away issues like race, gender and sexual orientation and think economics is a fucking silver bullet
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/04/2026
Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/03/2026
Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Someone or someones made $580,000,000 in exquisitely well-timed oil trades that took place 15 minutes before Trump's dubiously optimistic post about the negotiations with Iran. Gift link ⤵️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Traders placed $580mn in oil bets ahead of Donald Trump’s social media post on Iran talks
Thousands of Brent and WTI contracts changed hands 15 minutes before president’s message on Truth Social
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
20 years ago Massachusetts won the right to regulate greenhouse gases at the Supreme Court. Now we're challenging Trump's EPA for trying to erase that protection. We led then. We're leading now. We'll win again.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/03/2026
Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Trump is in serious trouble. His war is deeply unpopular. He's now in the toilet on the economy, immigration, and national security. His public standing is getting close to being broken in an irreparable way, akin to Bush after Iraq and Katrina: newrepublic.com/article/2074...
newrepublic.com
Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We're not really getting 100 States, or 1000 Representatives, or 100 Justices. But there are things that are feasible, & Democrats (& democrats) need to make this stuff central, not saying its too technical/boring & promising Magical Unicorn Policies that can't get through our current institutions:
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
they didn’t do it with CA, but are now toying with the idea that the constitution means “Republicans get to gerrymander but Democrats can’t”
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Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Hey @theatlantic.com somebody hacked your account and posted some wild nonsense. Just a heads-up FYI you should change your password.
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localswampgay @localswampgay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
Tweet that reads Leo Xander
@STALLEON
Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V
- it is bigger
than the car
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The pattern is they fire a ton of people, say they made a mistake, and then selectively rehire back only the most mediocre white men. This is why Black women's unemployment has spiked, the federal government used to be the largest employer of Black women until these monte carlo firings
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Post-Punk Dad (edited) @shoegaze.dad · 21/02/2026
Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers
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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
1/ Okay, now I’m mad. Any Supreme Court in our nation’s history before John Roberts would have upheld the lower courts’ injunctions blocking Trump’s tariffs & not issued a stay that let Trump wreck the economy and break the law for over a year. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
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The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This. Today's ruling is primarily a multidimensional failure of the judicial branch, not really its robustness in the face of authoritarianism. This should never have been a SCOTUS case in the first place, & it shouldn't have taken over a year to get here.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
With every overperformance, it only seems likelier that Democrats will retake one or both houses of Congress by a decent margin. It's important that they run on a clear promise to hold Trump and his goons accountable, so they can hit the ground running in 2027 with a mandate to do so.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The way forward for Dems is to abandon the "turn-the-page/turn-the-cheek ethos" and replace it with "proud accountability for enemies of democracy," says @brianbeutler.bsky.social. Post-Trump era must be about accountability, not hollow reconciliation. www.offmessage.net/p/immigratio...
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Immigration, Fascism, And The Politics Of The American Creed
We have to protect what's best about America from ALL threats, not just the easiest scapegoats.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 04/02/2026
We're accustomed to viewing SCOTUS rulings as supra-political, but now that the court has lost legitimacy, they no longer are. They're just ordinary politics. Our system makes those decisions harder to overturn, but we have to start *viewing* them as vulnerable to *make* them vulnerable. 2/3
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever
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