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

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/03/2026

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/01/2026

They hate us so much but we love each other more

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later.

“They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.”

Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 17/12/2025

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/12/2025

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

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NPR @npr.org · 16/11/2025

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

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Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

having goals gives you clarity. right now the dems' goal is "win more seats in the midterms" and that gives them clarity of purpose; unfortunately, it is actually extremely damaging to spend 2 years of spreading authoritarianism stepping out of the way because you think it'll help you next election

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If you want to remember how to properly hate GWB, please read REIGN OF TERROR by Spencer Ackerman bookshop.org/p/books/reig...

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Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2025

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.

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beccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

in like 20 years all these sports betting ads are going to be viewed the exact same way as smoking ads from the 50s

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

they have to tell this lie about harris running too far left because they're not allowed to say "look, we will not run on the left regardless of electoral performance because our rich donors pay us not to"

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Tommy Tuberville blocked military promotions for months while his party was in the minority and he can’t read or write

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 11/02/2025

lmao, love 2 construct a society where basic factual knowledge of the world is fully controlled by radically politicized corporations

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I am hoping this this year's Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show starts a trend of Pulitzer Prize winners getting that gig, and next year's halftime show has Robert Caro debuting the first chapter of the final volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography which would then hit stores the following day.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is an argument for civil disobedience, not against it.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Lessons to be learned: 1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration 2. Centrists gain nothing 3. Far-right wins more power

German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses
Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off.

In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the poll-leading Christian Democrats, pushed a series of measures tightening borders and accelerating deportations through Parliament this week. He did so with help from the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD — parts of which have been classified as extremist by German intelligence agencies.

On Friday, the gambit ended in a crushing legislative defeat for Mr. Merz, dissent in his own party and jubilant claims of new legitimacy from the AfD, a chain reaction that could rattle Mr. Merz’s comfortable seat at the top of the polls.

Mr. Merz’s willingness to rely on support from the AfD, broke a taboo in German politics that had endured since the end of World War II.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

this is severe, untreatable, terminal lawyer brain. so many legal academics act like the constitution is not a vessel intended to secure actual human rights and dignity, but a mere matter of intellectual curiosity, meant to be batted around like a cat with a toy

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

You amazing beautiful and incredible humans. Thank you to everyone who showed up, to everyone who donated hats and time and to everyone who donated online. Today you helped us give out 78 tents in the wake of that fire. Fires are indiscriminately devastating, and we keep going because of you ❤️

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

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When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

on a plane seated next to a flight attendant who's watching flat earth videos on tik tok. not inspiring a lot of confidence

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.

Tweet from Alex Press: “NYPD literally locking arms to protect Amazon’s operations lol”

5-6 NYPD officers locking arms with signs from striking Amazon employees are seen in the background.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...

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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline

Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you believe political power should be wielded to harm those who are not sufficiently loyal, you are not a "bulwark" against the fascists, you are the fascist.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

good enough time as any to tell the story how how Scrubs might have saved my life. when I was 15 I wasn't happy with my weight and was pretty close to losing my spot on the crew team: I was a coxswain (little guy who yells and steers) and weighed more than most of the rowers. Not ideal. 1/

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