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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 08/10/2026

New from me for MS NOW (part of deal with 50+1): Republicans have a bad candidate problem. Democratic candidates are viewed more favorably than Republicans in every Senate battleground, sometimes with a net gap (fav - unfav) up to 20 points higher (Paxton v Talarico) www.ms.now/opinion/ken-...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 08/10/2026

Perhaps relevant to current handicapping: In 2018, voters who decided who to vote for at the very last minute were the most Democratic group in the electorate

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are Senate polls understating Republican support? Are Democrats really surging in KS/AR/SD? I show evidence that they are actually closely tracking Trump approval, including in red states. Thanks to @gelliottmorris.com data for hard baseline: samwang.substack.com/p/despondent...

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Despondent respondents?

Senate polls pass one smell test for accuracy.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the anger over the plan to fight antisemitism is particularly amusing because both the fringe left from today’s protest & the Fox News right are angry over increases funding for the PATH (Partners Against Hate) program - although they are upset about different partner groups.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

just recorded this and proceeded to close more tabs than i ever thought possible

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026

As always with Rs, the sense is not so much that they deny the physical phenomenon of climate change as the presence or absence of the phenomenon simply never enters their thinking. They interact with it *purely* as a partisan matter, something libs care about. No awareness of a world beyond.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“last year, Stephen Miller asked the bureau to allow agents to go undercover in his Virginia neighborhood's political activist group, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.” www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...

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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say

Stephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 23h

Pinehurst Station cost less than the three new parking garages that Sound Transit is currently building in Sumner, Kent, and Auburn but we don't talk about that

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ummm

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Umm the story actually includes super good prevalence data, how dare you

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

lmao the piece literally argues children are the problem for wanting positive relationships with their parents

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gorgeous framing of the idea that the increase in divorces in the 70s and later was not obviously a huge net good for society as well like no no you're right, before the 70s marriages were perfect, totally equal, the lower rate of divorce was definitely not due to massive structural disincentives-

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do Trump aides take three days to debate whether he means to destroy blue cities or prevent Iran from doing so, too? I mean, he literally did set out to destroy Los Angeles. He used paramilitaries, not nukes. But he did set out to destroy it.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everyone relax, former Seattle police chief Shon Barnes has landed on his feet. (And I'm not just talking about the $750,000 or so he received as a goodbye present). finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

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MissionRT Names Dr. Shon F. Barnes Head of Public Safety Programs and Strategy

MissionRT (Mission Ready Technologies) today announced that Dr. Shon F. Barnes, former chief of police in Seattle, Washington, and Madison, Wisconsin, is joining the company as Head of Public Safety P...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026

as longtime readers know i am a longtime hegseth hater, but i think bouie is right here to note that hegseth's remark that "trannies" are out of the military is, by itself, an impeachable offense obviously much else besides, but i want to dwell on this

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Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026

why does he always stand so weird though

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Guys, can you believe this? A MAN made LUNCH for his OWN KIDS so they wouldn't STARVE AT SCHOOL! The craziest thing about it was his wife was RIGHT THERE! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids

Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

me to those two chucklefucks after the piano drops

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WWE Triple H in the Ring

ALT: WWE Triple H in the Ring

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

surprised they even know what a stone cold stunner is

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

lmao

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

trying to get jamelle in particular fired is funny because even if you succeed he's going to start a $2M/year substack

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

incredible this will get little to no coverage

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's on top of Barnes' $60,000 moving stipend (he rented an apartment here while his family stayed in their permanent home in Illinois), and $3,000 recruitment bonuses for Barnes and another deputy chief because Barnes hired some people. By my calculation, $216,000 is more than $30,000.

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New Police Chief Shon Barnes Accepted $50,000 Hiring Bonus Created for Rank and File Officers - PubliCola

SPD says the city offered Barnes the bonus, first approved in 2022 to boost police officer hiring, “as part of…

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ALL these bonuses are wild, but the police bonuses—which weren't for performance, but merely for accepting highly compensated positions here—were just astonishing amounts of money. But the Seattle Times is not going to criticize cops the way they criticize Sound Transit.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

The people's game will always belong to the people. This summer, it belonged to the bodega owners, cab drivers, line cooks, and every New Yorker who welcomed visitors from around the world to experience the World Cup in our own backyard.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wanted to include THE HEAD IN THE DOOR but the website didn’t have it for some reason rkhub.site/albums9

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have seen this floating a bit and I cannot stress enough how much I doubt the NFL wants Watson front and center on anything

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Got mine last week!

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So glad the Seattle Times is still funding this pointlessly sexist shit Horsey, and I can't emphasize this enough, is INCAPABLE of being normal about women

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Seattle officially joins the ranks of top cities

It is nice to see my hometown get placed right up there with New York City, London and Paris.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there literally is no system that is abuse proof, so at a certain point you’re just against the abstract concept of authority or power in general. I think about this when it comes to ALPRs for traffic enforcement. Like if you want to have laws at all, you have to give someone power.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bracketing for a moment whether it *works* or whether Meta can be trusted, this does strike as obviously the most appealing and genuinely useful application of the technology for people in their actual lives.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you take the other side of any of those arguments you are implicitly accepting that there is a real debate here. there is not. the world's richest man let food grain aid rot on shelves for basically no reason that is even remotely defensible.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sound Transit actually led with this

Pinehurst: Say hello to new connections

Whether you're heading to a morning tee time...

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