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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/05/2026

In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.

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Jayme @hancockjayme.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026

I'm willing to believe that they decided it on 1st amendment grounds that a state cannot regulate talk therapy, so long as it also prohibits the current Texas mental health care ban on providing care to trans kids. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/02/t...

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Paxton: Licensed Texas counselors can’t give trans care to kids

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion that says that a 2023 law that bans gender-transitioning medical care to minors also applies to mental health care.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

When his day comes, just remember this.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/01/2026

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/01/2026

Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:

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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Racism and sexism are when the black lady tells you exactly what the white guy psycho is going to do and the white guy psycho ALSO tells you exactly what he is going to do and you decide the woman is lying and the man is just joking.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 20/12/2025

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

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The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party

The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

US bailing out the Argentine peso, bombing Colombians, plotting regime change in Venezuela and expropriation of the Panama canal, beefing with Brazilian exporters, destroying its own supply chains in Mexico, disappearing American Latinos into Salvadoran concentration camps

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

the basic story here is simple: just over a decade ago the media frantically covered a story about the Obama IRS targeting conservatives. now, it looks like the Trump administration is doing everything conservatives pretended Obama was, and it's a non-story.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/10/2025

The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong. Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽 www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

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Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

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How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M

Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Every group underrepresented in academia is underrepresented because that group is statistically less likely to be qualified for professorship. Except for conservatives, who are the victims of unseen systemic bias in hiring.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

American civil service workers dedicate their careers to serving their country, many of them foregoing more lucrative opportunities. Likening them to Nazis is part of the needless cruelty that will produce a vengeful backlash

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva has died. That's two House Democrats this year who have died in office this year - Grijalva and Turner, both of whom were battling cancer in 2024 and ran anyway.

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