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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

sincerity is important here - when I see Gavin Newsom talk about how much Republicans suck, I don't think he actually believes it, I think he's playing a game will Ossoff do everything that needs to be done to impose consequences on these people? I don't know but I do believe he hates them

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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There’s always a tweet, episode umpteen

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Im a tired Democrat and it makes me feel something to see someone hate these fuckers like I do

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He’s done a great job of building a constituency this year, so now there are people who want him to run and win. No one else has really done that. Pritzker maybe. Not Shapiro. As for Gavin and Ragnar, people just want them to go away.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's like Ossoff and El-Sayed are in a competition to see which one can most brutally disembowel their GOP rival. Hot Jewish guy and hot Muslim guy tag-teaming against white supremacy: This is the America I love.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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

I needed something else to be deeply sad about this morning

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

I seem to remember that Eugene Deb’s was a big advocate of boys playing in girls sports

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Yhodah @yhodah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yields up, oil shut in in the gulf, decreased flow in the strait, increasing war in the Middle East, increasing war in Europe, increasing war between the United States and Canada, massive inflation, increasing mortgage rates, decreasing home values, measles, the plague, what’s bad that I am missing?

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is excellent publicity for New York's mayor. As long as the all-or-nothing demagogues on both sides of Israel-Palestine -- those who make a shared future for the great mass of sane Arabs and Jews impossible -- feel betrayed by Mamdani then de facto, the man is about where he ought to be.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I guess high squishiness rating. Beyond that I don’t want to think.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026

ROFLMAO!! I *knew* it would come to this.

Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani SLAMS Abdul El-Sayed for campaigning with Obama.

She says Abdul is complicit in genocide.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I grew up around NYC, lived and worked in it before moving to the Bay Area. NY is still home even though I’ve been here more than half my life, owned a home for 25 years, worked and retired— I still feel like I’m just visiting. It’s a very intangible thing whether you really feel part of a place.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I keep hoping we’ll be eaten by a giant space goat and put out of our misery.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

these fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Same here. They were worldview shaping in the way Peanuts was. And there were things we learned about—vaudeville, old Hollywood, that didn’t come from anywhere else. And they were just on, w/o having to hunt them down on an app. And the best are rank among the greatest comic shorts ever made.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@crabapplejones.bsky.social TCM has already changed in the last few yrs. A narrower rotation of titles repeated more often over the course of a few months. I assume they’re no longer pulling titles from some other studios—titles I know they used to show that haven’t shown up in a few years.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TCM ran a bunch of Chuck Jones last wk. WB has restored the cartoons beautifully, and they look incredible now. Aside from all the other things, I fear for the classic WB content—restoration, preservation, availability. Or will more stuff just disappear because it doesn’t fit the streaming algos.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Will you have a gift shop and an overpriced cafe? I don’t go see any art unless there’s a gift shop selling magnets and postcards.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This guy: American hero. The question, as Ed Wasserman writes, is whether today's media would be willing to run a story of this magnitude while under assault from the Trump administration. Like, maybe the Times would, and it's no angel here, but what about networks controlled by Trump allies? HERO.

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Daniel Ellsberg’s dark chronicles of courage and foreboding

The famous whistleblower's posthumous memoir recalls moments of triumph amid moral failure.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

West Coasters add $2 to that gas price. Close to $7 in the Bay Area for regular

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

McGovern was the anti-war peace candidate. Church led the investigations into CIA illegal activities. They weren’t Manchin.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

McGovern, Church, Baucus, Daschle, Conrad, Bob Kerry, Melcher, Mansfield, Burdick, Heitkamp, Tim Johnson, etc. All Dems from plains and upper West, and not ex-Confederates. The way things are now was not always the case. Can change again.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FT or WSJ reported that Nvidia is seeking to create insurance contracts to spread the risk on the loans made to startups to buy their chips. Essentially the same kind of socialization of risk credit default swaps were in the mortgage crisis.

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

7 IPOs postponed or canceled just in Sept. AI buildout spend is now more than the railroad and internet buildouts combined, a lot with circular financing.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have one house.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's wild how the Republicans constantly cosplay as the party of Ball Knowers and yet they don't know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes. Republicans' knowledge of sports doesn't extend beyond keeping that one trans student off of the badminton team at North Dakota State

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barryrossnick.bsky.social @barryrossnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And if you haven’t seen this yet—best ad of the year bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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