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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.

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BCP Curt @bcpcurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is insider trading an "official act of the presidency"?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

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Loren King @lorenking.org · 05/10/2026

Once you look past superficial appearances, rambling blog posts, earnest fan fiction, and their own self-lionizing, what has always struck me with so many of these TESCREAL dudes is their profound intellectual laziness. Not true of all of them, certainly, but definitely true of the most vocal ones.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pete Hoekstra must be expelled immediately.

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Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The hard part about housing policy discourse is that there has genuinely been movement at all three levels of government, beyond what I could have hoped for back when I started on the file, but that it doesn't come close to meeting the scale of the problem.

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Leafs deciding to market themselves by having Nylander say “it’s always about the fuckin Leafs” is the first good thing they’ve done in my entire life

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We? Bitch YOU do the messaging for Democrats, and it’s always “be more like Republicans.”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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BCP Curt @bcpcurt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Washington Post has become a joke and their Opinion section is especially responsible for that decline.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I almost spat out my soda laughing at this. Like rats deserting the sinking MAGA ship.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since 1981, Democratic presidents have overseen the creation of 3 times as many private-sector jobs as their Republican counterparts. Excluding Reagan, the net private-sector job growth of the past 3 GOP presidents is zero.

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BCP Curt @bcpcurt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I look forward to reading the Supreme Court's decision where they twist themselves into knots trying to explain how paying people for their votes is an "official act" of the presidency

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BCP Curt @bcpcurt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And put the digital services tax back in place while we're at it. It's insane that we backpedaled on that to begin with.

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BCP Curt @bcpcurt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Honestly: Export tax on natural gas, electricity, aluminum, and fertilizer until mid-November.

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i don't think it was chiefly or just the inconvenience, but that they couldn't buy their way out of the safety measures and restrictions everyone else faced (they actually could, but not everyone and not every restriction)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bullies are finely tuned to the margins of permission, and they tend to be whiny babies who operate within those margins. They’re cowards, bullies, who prefer beatings to fights. Offer them a fight. Or wait until everyone else is gone and they come for you. www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...

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Soon You Too Will Be A Commie

Accepting a bully's framing won't save you a beating. Why solidarity is the best way out.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

if people are gonna criticize you no matter what, you may as well do the right thing not the wrong thing, my god

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Canadian Blood Services supply drops nearly 20% since June, well below its summer dip, prompting call for urgent blood donations. Organization says it has only limited days of several blood types now on hand. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca @canadaslifeline.bsky.social

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Canadian Blood Services supply drops nearly 20% since June, prompting call for urgent donations | CBC News

Canadian Blood Services is appealing for people across the country to donate blood, saying its supply has dropped significantly in the last several weeks.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24/07/2026

You ever think about how all this is happening after Orban lost in Hungary

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Musk's immense wealth has for years been based mostly in investors believing that he's a genius who will, someday, do something that generates an incredible amount of value and the dissonance between this belief and his ongoing failure to do so can only go so long before it must be resolved

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party.

The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.

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Blake Murphy @blakemurphy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Love being 20 minutes in and still not a competitive swing. Feels like watching the Jays. (Boooo)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/07/2026

the maine election is, unfortunately for susan collins, now a referendum on her voting for brett kavanaugh and to give ICE tens of billions of dollars with no strings attached, and no amount of Susan Collins Is Very Concerned posting is going to change that

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When people say that there is a bias against conservatives in places like the Times that reflects their failure to understand that the Times (like many university spaces) lowers standards to represent right-wing views for purposes of intellectual diversity.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

The Parties used the existence of federal litigation as a means of conferring legitimacy upon a course of action that they were unwilling to subject to judicial review.
The context of the "settlement," the relationships of the people involved in negotiating and approving it, the ethical implications of their conduct, and the Parties' swift efforts to
dismiss this case after the Court raised fundamental jurisdictional questions all support this conclusion. Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs acted in bad faith.
See Sofaly v. Portfolio Recovery Assocs., LLC, 155 F.4th 289, 295 (3d Cir. 2025) (monetary sanctions were proper under the court's inherent power where the lawyers acted in bad faith and committed fraud on the court by using "their clients to bring
contrived lawsuits"). That finding is enough to invoke the Court's inherent authority. See JTR Enter., LLC V. Columbian Emeralds, 697 F. App'x 976, 986 (11th Cir. 2017) ("The key to invoking a court's inherent power to sanction is a finding of bad faith.") (citation
omitted).

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