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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 16/07/2026

One hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is. prospect.org?p=141052

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/07/2026

ICE will keep murdering random people until Democrats stop criticizing them is... well... quite a take.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Run ads pointing out that 4 Justices of the United States Supreme Court would have disallowed this goal.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Great USian State Fair

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

For the First Time in Two Decades, Decisions on the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Outnumber the Merits Docket

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The hood is fully off Alito “None of the..statements by..[Trump were] overtly racial..all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justification” Kagan’s reply “The evidence..includes statements..so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print”

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This whole tournament is an argument against blood and soil nationalism, EMBRACE IT

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The checks and balances of the U.S. government worked well in theory… until all three branches went down at once

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We're headed toward a Congress where like 40 states send a single-party delegation, indistinguishable from just electing everyone at large and a population-based replica of the Senate. Thank you, John Roberts, for ushering in this nonsense era.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

House Republicans refuse to vote on a Senate-approved deal to fund DHS, extending the partial shutdown that has wreaked havoc on air travel

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House Republicans Reject Senate DHS Deal, Prolonging Shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson blamed Democrats, who control none of government, for derailing efforts to fund DHS.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026

Powell: "Both supply and demand for workers have come down very very sharply over the course of the past year due to immigration policy largely"

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We need to stop treating Trump’s interference in midterms as a hypothetical. He’s already interfering with the vote, as I told @briantylercohen.bsky.social. ICE terrorizing blue cities, DOJ demanding voter rolls, FBI seizing ballots all intended as voter suppression www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNfH...

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Justice Department issues GRAVE THREAT ahead of election

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Jeffrey Epstein died on August 10th. In the Epstein files, there is what appears to be a draft DOJ press release announcing his death that is dated August 9th. (It’s here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

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Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention

Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back to Minnesota to reunite with her father

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Sounds like Donald Trump wants to take away your guns.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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Mark Lazerus @marklazerus.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Op-ed by the mayor of Minneapolis in today's Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2025

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2025

Republicans don't need a single democrat to keep the government open. If the government shuts down, it's because republicans want it to.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

1. He can fire all the prosecutors he wants but still a long way from getting a conviction without evidence. We'll see. 2. He's getting crazier by the hour now, isn't he? This is on top of talking about re-invading Afghanistan and no one is allowed to criticize him on TV...and that's just today.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I think we have to withhold prayers until God starts doing what we want. He’s a fiend for prayers and I think he’s just used to getting them. Cut off the supply and draw him out

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Albert Pike wasn't just a random Confederate general but an active leader of the anti-Catholic Know Nothing party who advocated deporting free Black people from Arkansas, attacked his commanding officer in the Mexican War, & was arrested for insubordination, corruption & treason by the CSA as well!

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

It’s wild to think that Biden had the economy on track to pull off a soft landing, which most economists thought was nearly impossible, and then Trump decided to mess that all up because he wanted to play strongman

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

For 50 years GOP has employed 3 big scams: *deficits pose dire threat only when Dem is in WH *tax cuts for rich pay for themselves *safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three New piece from me newrepublic.com/article/1976...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This was the logical next step, if you’ve been paying attention.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2025

one thing that is important to emphasize at that this is just republican governance at work! this is what happens when you give republicans power in washington!

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Wife: Jesus Christ did you eat the ENTIRE half a cheesecake that was left over from dinner? Me: I struggled mightily with that and my stomach should not digest it because that would be a bad choice

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

id like a centrist to tell me what the common ground is that im supposed to find with these people, what exactly is the centrist compromise to this

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Predictably, as media and Democrats become more desensitized to Trump’s authoritarianism, he is becoming more comfortable resorting to “arrest and prosecution” as his first response to any political challenge

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

She's no mote responsible than the other 49. She's just better at branding her terrible world view as a less terrible world view. A vote is support and she's supports this as equally as all the other votes, it's a binary yes/no, don't believe her bullshit.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2025

[whispers provocatively] the 1850 fugitive slave act is the model: reactionaries have the right to extend their authority across state lines, and their opponents have to actively assist them

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and put the assets up for auction. The proposal is unlikely to generate much revenue for the government; there is almost no private-sector interest in the mail trucks, and used EV charging equipment — built specifically for the Postal Service and already installed in postal facilities — generally cannot be resold.

“The funds realized by auctioning the vehicles and infrastructure would be negligible. Much of infrastructure is literally buried under parking lots, and there is no market for used charging equipment,” Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s vice president for government relations and public policy, wrote to senators this month.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 17/06/2025

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

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