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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 7h
Two authors are suing Los Angeles over the LA Public Library’s cancellation of a Read Palestine Week event meant to share Palestinian stories. Libraries censoring authors who write about Palestine sets a dangerous precedent that we must oppose.
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‘Dangerous precedent’: authors sue LA library over cancelled Palestine event
City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.
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Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tilly Norwood has been tried by kangaroo court & executed for putting fentanyl in baby formula in Ohio
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/08/2026
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
alternet.org
Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'
The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am in the kitchen, firing up the Mr. Coffee Wife comes in. Wife: "well that's nice I'll take a cup" Me: *starts sobbing* Wife *running over*: "What's wrong?" Me: "You don't understand. I have no choice." Wife: "What do you mean?" Me: "Coffee has gone woke, honey, don't you get it. It's WOKE
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 24/09/2026
Gavin Newsom, who has spent the past year courting billionaires and the right wing, is "a political juker — an advocate for nothing but his own ambitions as the Democrats’ best boy," writes @soleilho.com. www.coyotemedia.org/what-is-the-...
coyotemedia.org
What Is the Point of Gavin Newsom?
You can’t build a movement around a person whose only commitment is staying uncommitted.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You cannot engage with Gavin Newsom in good faith, because what faith can you have in a shell of a person who so baldly pursues wealth, power, the next shiniest thing?" www.coyotemedia.org/what-is-the-...
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What Is the Point of Gavin Newsom?
You can’t build a movement around a person whose only commitment is staying uncommitted.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i'm sorry but i find it deeply reprehensible that there is a concerted campaign to downplay the struggles trans people face.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is an attack on public education, on public transportation, on everyone who worked on Fair Share, and on the will of the voters.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
motherjones.com
Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
San Frans Opera demanded a 5-year wage freeze for its musicians while the General Director's salary jumped from $424k to $729k. 30 minutes before opening night, the orchestra packed up and walked out to join the picket line for the first strike in the opera’s 100 year history.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court
The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"You should be allowed to kill your children" is a bedrock conservative principle.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gotta also make sure that Trump can give Cabinet posts, ambassadorships, and federal prosecutor slots to people he likes to watch on his TV. It’s worked out so far for them!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
John Cornyn and George W. Bush are teaming up to make sure that Donald Trump gets the cronies, mediocrities and ideologues he wants in lifetime appointments to the courts.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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NDP @ndp.ca · 19/09/2026
A strike is by definition a labour disruption. Liberals are going after the right to strike.
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pee or ¬pee @baroquemindvirus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wish he’d mackle most
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Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Left Millions of Children out of Child Tax Credit Expansion, Failed to Address Inequality | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Census figures released today show after-tax income inequality stands at its widest point in at...
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Ian, in the Year of the Bean🫛🫘 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I actually think America was pretty united after 9/11, and I also think that was bad because the things we united around were bad. It's why I think values of bipartisanship and civil discourse are not ends unto themselves -- you can have a society that is both united and profoundly sick.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
this is a man so hollow, pathetic and power hungry that he is actively trying to ingratiate himself with neo-nazi groypers who think he is a race traitor
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026
As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/09/2026
Josh Turek in Iowa now takes the strongest anti-trans stance of any Democrat yet. “Josh opposes taxpayer-funded sex changes, and anyone who says otherwise is lying,” said Hannah Goss, a spokeswoman for the Turek campaign. This would include Medicaid and adult care.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Promoting this talking point in any way is so violently irresponsible.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
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Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.
Richard Hanania: The point of a game like Grand Theft Auto is to identify with the character.

By making a female character, the new game will be promoting autogynephilia.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, and if they make her bisexual then the game won’t necessarily be unhealthy.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
are you aware that multiple formal bodies have declared it a genocide? you doing a little napkin math here is very clever and all, but if you would like to respond to the point: that no one "invented" anything and are supported by the UN, B'tselem, Israel physicians for human rights, amnesty intl
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
i have a lot more respect for guys who just deny it's a genocide. "invented a genocide in their imaginations?" - even if you (based on what i do not know) disagree it's a genocide multiple organizations including the main association of genocide scholars have said it is. that's not imaginary
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 25/08/2026
Really excited to hear about this from the Jeffries apologists who yesterday told me his meeting with Kushner was no big deal even though House Dem leadership was clearly doing damage control over it.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
After new polling shows Democrats in all six of the first 2028 primary states overwhelmingly in support of sanctioning & cutting weapons to Israel, Hakeem Jeffries elevates one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in Congress to lead the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee:
Moskowitz personal account tweet:

Thank you to 
@RepJeffries
 and 
@RepGregoryMeeks
 for this important responsibility to help lead Democrats policy in the Middle East and North Africa on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Quoting of his official House account:
I’m honored to be named Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.

At a moment of enormous change across the region, I’ll work to strengthen America’s relationships with Israel and our Gulf allies, expand regional peace, advance American diplomacy, and ensure our foreign policy is grounded in strength, security, and reality. I’m ready to get to work.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There are already plenty of stupid morons in academia but what the racists are demanding is that being a stupid moron should itself be a recognized academic discipline
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I really do not understand the purpose of this. No one is asking for this.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The left does not need to pursue its own exoneration in this moment. There is no reason to indulge the fantasy that we governed the nation during these recent, disastrous years, or that our country's brief flirtation with racial justice was an unthinkable disaster with countless innocent victims."
organizingmythoughts.org
Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious
Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I had some feelings to express about the "Woke 1" discourse.
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Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious
Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/08/2026
We need @markey.senate.gov in the senate — it cannot be moulton. It cannot be moulton.
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