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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Democratic Party doesn’t stay normal lowercase-d democratic party in this scenario. It’s somewhat unusual that they’ve remained one as long as they have already.

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

biden and lula both entered office without majorities sufficient to actually pass any real agenda; this is the root reason why both failed (well, lula might pull it out, but it'll clearly be phyrric). this should be motivation to lock in for midterms so the next dem president can actually govern

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The shameless gaslighting is almost as bad as the lawless hackery

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A particular annoyance of mine—which is extremely obvious if you’ve read a book in the last decade but less so if your exposure to the Civil Rights movement is Twitter screenshots of Tumblr posts—is that “[Southern] white moderate” and “[Northern] white liberal” were not identical categories to King

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We literally have a whites only refugee program and yet it’s offensively woke to draw any conclusions from that

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a central (and often ignored) point about the vibecession. It wasn't "econometrics (economy good) loses to personal experience (bad)." It was "personal experience (economy good) loses to perceptions about the broader situation (bad)"

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A useful way to think about it is to imagine a republican candidate saying one thing that you liked, agreeing with you on exactly one issue. That would totally work, right? Donald Trump announces he’s for one thing you are also for and then you vote for him. See how stupid it sounds.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the first thing Democrats should do in 2029 is to tax the sale of voting dual-class stock according to its percentage of the total control of the corporation rather than its book value

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Democracy is bad, we should have an autocracy instead" isn't the incidental outcome of other inchoate populist impulses. It's what they sincerely and consciously believe, it's a real ideology and they know symbols matter as a reenforcing affirmation of a polity's governing ideological commitments.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“why do you refuse to respect right wing scholarship?!” i demand, waving around the chart i made up

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i see a lot of debate around this issue that takes it for granted that supporting trans rights (especially in the sports context) will hurt you electorally. it’s worth highlighting that that’s just not what the data shows.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your family is psychically vulnerable to President Carter’s wandering spirit. He can enter minds and infect them with thoughts of solar panels. To prevent this you can make or buy a specially designed net to ensnare his ghost, and it’s also a piece of art that brings both protection and beauty.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13/09/2026

“The Ivies produce as many mediocre people as intelligent people” is one of those truths that the US culture can’t handle. We have too many prominent alums, and too many desperate parents hoping those schools will make their kids lives easy. But the results are clear— all kinds of mid wits

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Great conversation with @thomaszimmer.bsky.social about fighting the far-right in Germany, the rest of the Europe and the United States. newrepublic.com/article/2152...

Thomas Zimmer lamenting hard center-left political parties keep making the same mistakes in Europe and in the United States.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

those who trade their liberty for cheap gas shall have neither liberty nor cheap gas

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My impression is this is pretty typical, and its another thing that persuades me that... to be honest... The Cosmopolitan Way Of Life is simply superior. The people throwing the authoritarian temper tantrum are simply those ignorant of its benefits.

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Big Dog on the Space Cat @derekcarrsopp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Blake Butera told me batters keep eating his closers so I asked him what he does and he said he just gets another closer and I said it sounds like he’s feeding closers to batters and then Screech started crying

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wederer.bsky.social - Winner of the EOE #P0P1 Challenge 🏆 @wederer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My great uncle was a jesuit priest in remote India in the 50s, and he wrote a book about his time there. There was a tiger causing problems near the villages, and he had no luck hunting it with his rifle. So an elder in the village - one of the only people who knew how - set up The Great Tiger Bow.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is the most quisling shit I’ve seen in a while. genuinely remarkable that you could culture war people into actively cheering for their own autonomy and dignity and privacy being stripped away.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026

the tide is turning folks. it’s a month late and a trillion dollars short, but it’s turning. even Trump can’t stop it

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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 05/09/2026

“Steinem made my life better. Yes, my life as a cis hetero male. I couldn’t have my career and my life without the professional women I’ve learned from, worked with, and worked for.” — Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Ditto.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

He ran the kind of government that US centrists fondly envision, and as a result, he was a total failure, everyone hated him, and no one will miss him.

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Former UK Prime Minister Starmer Steps Down From Parliament

Former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is leaving British politics after deciding to step down as a member of Parliament.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Life hack: When writers suck, do not read them. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-can-ig...

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You Can Ignore the Bad Pundits

One easy trick to make yourself smarter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it’s deeply embarrassing that they keep trying to come up with a comprehensive definition of “wokeness” when the actual definition is “lib shit that annoys me”

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/08/2026

Google did not have to change Google Maps to comply with Trump's order. This is a choice they are making, pretending that they are removing themselves from controversy while actually inserting themselves in the centre. There are any number of procedural hurdles they could invent to slow-walk this.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

when centrists tell you that we shouldn't pack the courts, what they are actually saying is "black people shouldn't be allowed to vote."

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The default judgment rural voters will make when this happens is that it must be the Democrats' fault. But that isn't written in stone. Which is why Dems must do something they never do: Go to rural America and attack Republicans. Not just listen and express empathy, but ATTACK.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Again, this is newsworthy, but only because it shows (1) the deeply unpopular President of the United States is badly out of touch with the actual concerns of voters and (2) he is also quite fucking insane.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Yell at me for being a doomer but I mean, of course they're falling for the Piker thing. Of course they're going to fall for the next thing. Of course they're going to be scared off of any major reforms or accountability. The media hasn't changed, Dem leadership hasn't changed, it's all the same!

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One thing that makes this administration particularly dangerous is that it is filled with people who, like the president himself, have committed very many obvious crimes in the last 18 months and who know that the only way to stay out of prison is to stay in power.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 27/08/2026

Hot take, the exact opposite (taking yourself very seriously but not the work) is the exact problem with our politics

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of the ongoing dynamics over the next few years is going to be Democratic leadership staking out positions on Israel that are wildly unpopular with the base of the party and then being shocked when it continues to be a salient issue in primaries.

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