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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two panel verticle meme.

Panel one: Shows a border wall stretching from one verticle edge of the photo to the other in a box above the photo is a legend which reads, "Reject Modernity".

Panel Two: Shows a 19th-Century style drawing of immigrants on a ship as they pass the Statue of Liberty into New York Harbor. The legend above it reads, "Embrace Tradition".
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The state of Nebraska has released data on the 1st few months of Medicaid work reporting requirements Over 1,000 people have lost/been denied coverage Vast majority are losing not bcuz they aren't working but bcuz they can't get thru the red tape My new blog: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/30/n...
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Nebraska Releases First Data on Medicaid Work Reporting Requirement: As Expected, Coverage Losses Start to Mount Due to Red Tape
At a recent Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting, the state of Nebraska, the first in the nation to implement what will soon be a mandatory Medicaid work reporting requirement (WRR), shared the first d...
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.
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bh @bhanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You’re always the best, Ladybird Diner #LFK
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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great endorsement of the product, "yeah it makes everyone lose basic skills to be a functioning person but who cares?"
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A government of hotdog men
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Upcoming 5-4 Supreme Court decision stating “this is fine, actually.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Transparently bullshit political talking points have real-world consequences www.the-express.com/news/us-news...
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Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this seems bad. unless you were rooting and hoping for a new Gilded Age, then everything is going according to plan
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We Need To Talk About Kevin @kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch
ALT: Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the idea that the white house belongs to the president is so obviously contrary to the entire history of the building that it is laughable that ANYONE would take it seriously!
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
sometimes, late at night, I'll look up at the stars and wonder if you're also stealing lawn furniture.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12/03/2026
America will continue punching itself in the face until morale improves.
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The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought
Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
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Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
A unique public-private endowment has long shielded Nebraska's cultural scene from federal budget cuts. But a massive state deficit is putting its future in jeopardy.
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This unusual, Johnny Carson-backed fund has helped Nebraska arts survive — until now
A unique public-private endowment has long shielded Nebraska's cultural scene from federal budget cuts. But a massive state deficit is putting its future in jeopardy.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Look, the story tonight is that president IS UNDERMINING the upcoming election rhetorically NOW. An election that is a threat to his power. And that work is intended to open his field of action for undermining the election in OTHER ways.
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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
There is no middle when the other side would rather kill than compromise
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bh @bhanson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wilmer Sandpaper
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So bottom line: if you drink water from a treatment facility built in last 50 years, if you drive on roads or bridges that need repair, if you live in a flood zone, getting any Fed grant to support this stuff will now depend on your officials’ fealty to the crown.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For this new OMB rule I had mostly been thinking of "grants" in the science and arts sense but as OMB defines it I gather also includes a lot of what until now has been considered routine transportation, education, and healthcare transfers to to state and local government.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 08/07/2026
The appalling reality of the cheating machine is that students will cheat if they can use it, and then fail any exam where they cannot. Nobody benefits from this except for the people who negotiate enterprise AI accounts for universities.
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Kansas City Royals @royals.com · 08/07/2026
A run for the ages. 🔥
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/07/2026
Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number theonion.com/landlord-forced-to-rai…
Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Now we appeal the Balogun suspension in the Northern District of Texas
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bh @bhanson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
imagine trying "I know I've been gone four months but I'll explain when I'm back" if you were a shift worker at Arby's
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.
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