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Bill Corcoran

@billcorcoran.bsky.social
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Ran a thing called Beyond Coal Campaign, consultant for creating climate good trouble, Zen student. May all beings live in peace, free from greed and hatred. Just my opinions, man.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3h
See this ICE agent? He’s a holding a *military assault rifle.* And according to a witness, that‘s the agent who shot a man **while the man was in his car with his 5-year-old kid.** Also, I’m no expert, but i’m pretty sure it’s bananas to hold your phone in one hand & your ASSAULT RIFLE in another
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 5h
I mean why bother with all of this? Why even bother with the pretense of art and media? just hook an electrode up to the dopamine center in your brain and keep pressing the button like you're a rat in a fucking skinner machine. Go sit in a dark box hooked up to hoses forever
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 2h
that post making the rounds reminds me I already wrote USE THE WONDER OF AI TO NEVER SPEAK TO YOUR KIDS AGAIN www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again
AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3h
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
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Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 3h
On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2h
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 53m
What else could the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee possibly do?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Ossoff: "I absolutely believe that Mike Collins would have been among those standing in the schoolhouse door ... Here in Georgia, where we are so proud of our legacy as the cradle of civil rights, I'll be damned if I'm gonna let a man like Collins win this race and represent GA for the next 6 years"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2h
ICE prevented a woman I know from seeing her kidnapped uncle in a hospital in New Jersey for EIGHT DAYS last month. The uncle cannot read or write, and they forbade hospital staff from even telling her what was wrong with him. ICE are death squads.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3h
Press conference in the Bronx after the ICE shooting - - @cndelarosa.bsky.social speaking
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 3h
this, by the way, should be table stakes for any Democrat seeking office from now until the Republican Party has been completely destroyed and our political, government, and media ecosystems rebuilt and reformed so they no longer advantage far-right fascists
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
i genuinely want nothing more in the world than to see ossoff eviscerate vance on a debate stage
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h
It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis. 
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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 3h
Can we ban Anthropic’s sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our climate and our health?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 4h
Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h
i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 8h
Pull that blanket up tighter around your neck, Kevin
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 10h
Is Amazon adding AI-generated subtitles to our novels now? Because "Appleseed: A Sweeping Johnny Epic – Climate Change and Manifest Destiny Across Multiple Timelines from the 18th Century to a Post-Apocalyptic Future" is fucking incomprehensible slop.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 10h
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 11h
The Justice Department has assigned its civil rights division to investigate Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who outraged President Trump four years ago after her testimony before Congress. FREE NYT GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
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Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division Is Investigating Star Witness Against Trump (Gift Article)
It was a highly unusual move by Justice Department leadership to direct a case that appears to involve accusations of lying to Congress to a division that normally focuses on civil rights abuses.
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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 12h
Good question! They seem to think of life as a texture-free world of tasks, inputs, and outputs. Information over embodied experience; efficiency over emotion. Walking around half-dead.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h
Ken Paxton told Washington lobbyists he would support cuts to federal benefits according to leaked audio. "Making some reasonable cuts to mandatory spending — you’re gonna have to do it. Or there is no solution. That’s just the reality. We have to suck it up." www.texastribune.org/2026/10/08/k...
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Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio
In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...
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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 15h
We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...
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The Naked Gun (1988) @thenakedgun1988.bsky.social · 14h
Yes, he's in the intensive care ward at Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shades of the Bay Area Council’s campaign against the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail which also involved 1000s of form emails from “community members”. How many of these were faked too? The Bay Conservation & Development Commission didn’t ask & violated their charter to approve the closure.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This was a pretty small protest, but it honestly seemed incredibly effective. I don’t think that they’ve done this before, the only time I’ve been to a protest at this building was on a weekend. I really don’t think these workers liked being shamed!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Costa Rica It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Attractive, medium-sized crested woodpecker of humid tropical lowlands. 📸: @zoonaldo
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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Saw Phil Hartman many times at the Groundlings. Brilliant performer. Just solid night after night. Thanks for bringing back good memories.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The top three stories in tonight’s newsletter really say it all jessica.substack.com/p/congressio...
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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Now I can only see the brave soldiers at Iwo Jima pulling the flag down.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One less-discussed effect of mass UAV use is that they have dramatically lowered the threshold for armed action. 45 MQ-9s and it's a collective shrug.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026
BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The measles surge that RFK Jr happily drove has infected at least 50 pregnant women in PA "Doctors in outbreak areas are making changes to how they care for pregnant patients & their babies, offering a glimpse of what may be in store across the nation as cases spread" 19thnews.org/2026/10/penn...
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What Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak could mean for pregnancy care across America
It's raising new questions about immunity testing before pregnancy, early vaccinations for babies and the many complications that could rise from infection.
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Ivan Moore @alaskasurvey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: ALASKA US SENATE SURVEY RESULTS Mary Peltola continues to lead Alaska's pivotal Senate race. Alaska Survey Research October 1-3, 2026 N=1,512 likely Alaska voters MOE (weighted): +/-3.0% Methodology: Text-to-online + ASR Survey Panel 🧵1/10
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
these facts are damning enough but the one that stuck out to me is that the DOJ civil rights division—once one of the most sought-after legal jobs in America—now has a more than 50-percent hire rate.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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