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MAGA's peak of masculinity, the strong man, then manliest of the men, looks fucking awful. His greasepaint is so messily applied and hilariously dark. This is your guy? Really? 🤡 And what is going on with Zuck's eyes here? Is that a wrinkly white halo of bad concealer?

Trump in orange greasepaint, and Zuckerberg with white halos around his eyes. They look ridiculous

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...

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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 29/09/2026

Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Republicans want people to use more gasoline, no matter what it costs them, so that fossil industry profits will rise. No, really. This is not a culture war. That’s why they’re making cars burn more gasoline.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Of course there’s something bigger going on here.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Tech journalists do even the bare minimum of work in assessing the credibility of your sources challenge.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Republican majority rejected....

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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nirvana's album "Nevermind" was released 35 years ago today, 8 months after Bernie Sanders was first sworn into Congress, and it has passed nearly as many bills into law as he has since then.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 24/09/2026

It becomes a signal of ingroup membership to repeat it and not question it. Like a thousand other ingroup signals. were so tired.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 24/09/2026

If someone discounts real protections because she’s a conventional liberal who won’t deliver their preferred confrontation, they’re measuring signaling over substance.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 24/09/2026

But it gets ship of thesesused from “I want her to fight more visibly” to “she doesn’t fight,” and then “she has never done anything for us.” And then mindlessly repeated by other trans women who should not be attacking their own like this.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 24/09/2026

She helped get legal protections enacted, sponsored legislation against the trans panic defense, and worked against federal attacks on trans healthcare. Those are concrete contributions.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 24/09/2026

The common claim that Sarah McBride has done nothing for trans rights is flatly false and its getting very tired that people keep spreading that disinformation.

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Deep State Nepo Baby @ambiguouswoman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bernie’s bill sucks and would strangle important research and I’m still blaming goddamn Sam Altman for it because he’s one of the biggest culprits of pushing the doomsday scenario. What if we just held companies accountable for doing shit that is already illegal?

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nobody should get special dispensation on crank behavior because they are part of a marginalized community, in no small part because it's also a huge component of affinity fraud.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/09/2026

something I am completely over is the idea that people are obliged to unilaterally practice charity or lack of hostility to the point of silence when the same principle is not respected w/r/t them the same people who want us to shut up about the lesbian bar insanity say they want to kill liberals

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Rep. Scott Peters @repscottpeters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Science shouldn’t be political. Researchers need stability to develop the cures and treatments patients rely on. President Trump’s repeated attacks on research funding will lead to fewer scientific breakthroughs happening in America. In San Diego, it means fewer jobs and more economic chaos.

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If Schumer or Jeffries or Hochul or any other NY Dem attended an event with Donald Trump like this and said this quote the DSA would light DNC headquarters on fire.

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Mike in the Box @mike-in-the-box.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mamdani refuses to condemn Trump's banning the press from the White House. He's effectively breaking the press' picket line. Mamdani said he's willing to let Trump rename Penn Station after himself, because he wants Trump's money. This is a lot of things, but it sure as hell is not domination.

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Mike in the Box @mike-in-the-box.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Am I missing something here? Mamdani gave Trump a microphone, which Trump used to tell his disgusting lies about the "fake news." Even Fox News stopped platforming Trump's lies, in solidarity with CNN, MS Now, and Politico. But Mamdani was happy to step in and help him out.

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B Lanson @blanson100.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gas prices last night. So. much. winning.

Gas station with prices of 5.69 regular and 6.19 diesel.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21/09/2026

I'm utterly tired of people cheering for their own annihilation under the guise of "asking for better"

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At this point this is an every election thing and its absolutely had diminishing returns every cycle since 2016

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you ignore that Dems voted 206-2 & 47-0 against the trans athlete bill & attribute a post by some rando as the position of the Democratic Party you are a fucking dishonest hack

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Again, if you ever forget how truly, truly stupid Trump is, wait like 24 hours, because he will absolutely remind you.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

they're fucking heroes and it brings tears to my fucking eyes to think about it and it makes me mad as hell that people ignore and minimize what they have accomplished for us in that nightmare of a year 2025

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If the Democrats were going to throw us under the bus, it would have been this session. I was expecting it to happen. I was watching and waiting to get legislated out of fucking existence for most of 2025. But they did not fold, they stood for my rights to the last, they killed every single attempt

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That so many people don't factor recent performance into their thinking as they attack the Democrats' messaging on trans rights can only indicate they haven't fucking been paying attention, which is depressing and somewhat sickening given the circumstances

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B Lanson @blanson100.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We will continue to push betting during all games & matches, encouraging fans to gamble via ads throughout commercial breaks in games, we will overlay odds on screen now for parlays, & promote betting apps non stop We can’t imagine that this is contributing to anyone becoming addicted to gambling

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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

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Effy, Demon of Corn, Wheat, Spelt, and Rice @mseffy.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

Wow so you're telling me that the eight second long clip by the "smoothgroin" guy was clipped dishonestly?

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B Lanson @blanson100.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"See? Both parties are the same—& corporate establishment shitlibs will be the only ones who get sick, & the only ones affected👏 I work to defeat Dems, & the GOP gaining power as a result is their own fault I relish these victories. My moral clarity shines bright, I am righteousness—defeat Dems!"

EPA plans to scrap Biden-era rules that limit power-plant climate emissions "part of...the largest derogatory announcement in US History"

The rollbacks are made possible by voters giving the GOP the presidency, Senate, and House, and Supreme Court.

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B Lanson @blanson100.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Voters decided to touch the stove (again) in 2024, giving the GOP total control of the Presidency, Senate, House, & judicial appointments (But they're furious at Dems for not pressing magic buttons, stopping the GOP from using the power they gave them) Stoking voter anger helps the GOP, every time

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026

a few things about white Evangelical Texas Christianity I think you probably don't know, that I think are necessary to understand the Talarico situation I'm just going to describe the belief structure as I understand it, from direct experience with my family.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 12/09/2026

The Becerra misrepresentation wasn’t an anomaly. A check of all 27 Democrats on Erin Reed’s list reveals a pattern: fabricated citations, truncated quotes, erased pro-trans votes, and reckless advice. The guide: www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guid… 🧵👇

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

pls find my edits attached thx

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

black people & women are inherently political; having black women on ESPN was therefore definitionally extremist

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Obama's crucial decision was not to defend DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) in United States v. Windsor in 2013. Roberta Kaplan gives him full credit.

It is almost impossible to overstate how important this decision was for our side
—or how brave President Obama had been to make it. It is extremely unusual for the
government to decline to defend federal laws, especially when doing so might come at
a political cost. In all the back-and-forth with the DOJ, I had remained cynical. I knew
what I thought the administration should do, but I never dreamed that they would ac-
tually do it.

But this ended up being an important lesson for me. In the incredibly fast-paced
world that we live in today, with instantaneous news feeds, tweets, and Facebook
posts, it is all too easy to fall prey to cynicism, to assume that everything that is done
by the president or his administration is part of some Washington, DC, inside game
and is not based on principle or policy. And while I generally am allergic to making
direct comparisons between the LGBT civil rights movement and the African Ameri-
can civil rights movement, given their stark historical differences, I think it is no co-
incidence that it was, in fact, three African American men—President Barack Obama,
Attorney General Eric Holder, and Assistant Attorney General Tony West—who made
the decision not to defend DOMA. How could they, in good conscience, sit down and
write a brief claiming that gay people are not discriminated against? Or that being
gay has anything to do with one’s ability to contribute to society? Or that gay people
can choose not to be gay? Or that gay men and lesbians have so much political power
that they don’t need to rely on the courts to enforce their constitutional rights? Gay
people clearly needed the assistance of the courts to obtain their basic civil rights, and
these three courageous men were not willing to argue otherwise.

https://wwnorton.com/books/then-comes-marriage/

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think some of the more godawful political takes/discourses on here for the past few days can be attributed to the fact that a massive victory for the Democratic Party is mere weeks away and people whose whole personality is hating Democrats are preemptively bitter because they can feel it coming.

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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pink received so much hate in tge past several days for standing up for her community, my community. Because, apparently, hate has no limits when the target is the ✡️ people & the vast majority of you good hearted people choose silence. Today, on the begging of our new year, Pink spoke out.

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B Lanson @blanson100.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Gosh, those prices that just went up for no gosh darn reason!" The NY Times, framing Trump's actions (which caused prices to skyrocket!) as having nothing to do with HIM And the GOP, who controls what can come to the floor & holds the majority—where's their responsibility in this? None, right?🙄

NY Times headline: "High Prices Spoil Trump's New Push to Save GOP Majority. Gas prices are high, mortgage rates are climbing and inflation remains well above target, complicating the president's midterm appeal."

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I always have to remind folks like that that they can hear the dog whistles and have agency. The majority of non white voters got it right without excuses.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 10/09/2026

As Rustin argued in "From Protest to Politics," moral protest alone doesn't build lasting power—governing coalitions do. Letting reactionaries win doesn't spark progressive breakthroughs. It just destroys the political terrain you need to extract anything at all.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 10/09/2026

This holds true historically, too. Letting reactionaries win has never catalyzed progressive leaps. Civil rights wasn't won by sitting out to teach Democrats a lesson. Organizers knew right-wing victories shrink the room to organize, litigate, and apply pressure.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 11/09/2026

Letting Paxton the Actual Literal Child Abductor and Trans Child Killer win does not help trans people, nor will anyone in the ratfucking media industry say "if only Talarico had been more pro-trans". Sorry. I wish the world were better. But we've *been here*.

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