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@blueontario.bsky.social
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"If objectivity means that I treat evil ideas the same as I treat just ones, I have no time for it." -Malcolm Foley www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/…

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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt @jjj123-05.bsky.social · 23h
I imagine there's a parallel universe where they blame the rise of Jim Crow on how they hanged high-ranking Confederates and made them into martyrs.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 04/10/2026
Several people in prominent positions in the DHS and DoD publicly state they do not believe the earth is old enough to agree with this dating. It's no wonder they're not interested in preserving it.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
@crampell.bsky.social tears apart Trump’s promise of $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms, noting they already control the White House and Congress and could send the money now if they wanted to.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you think things are tight now, wait until the Big, Ugly Bull take effect. You have no idea what’s coming! #momsky#sheshed
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a good thing fur Russians that Moscow and other Russian cities don't have rivers running through them.
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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Eternally grateful for the opportunity to continue doing something so ridiculous.
Screenshot of a list of the 810 songs I played by request this year on the Fenway organ (DM me if you need a text version of the list to be able to read it).
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miss andry @defnotadino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
reminder that we did this in the 70s and everyone hated it so much we went back to changing the clocks
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Its astonishing how much of American conservatism boils down to the vague but intense paranoia that somehow someone somewhere is getting something they dont deserve at your expense
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"They're struggling to find a remedy." The remedy is in the Constitution. It's called impeachment.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah, so what happens with our only job growth when a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts begin to kick in?
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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"This law threatens that independence. It also puts us at odds with our partners at NPR, the Associated Press, and others who will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico.’” current.org/2026/10/wbhm...
current.org
WBHM leader leaves due to conflicts with university licensee
William Dahlberg said the “nail in the coffin” for his decision to leave was the expectation that the station follow the state's new Gulf of America law.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨William Lawrence for Congress yard signs are back in stock! Pick up yours at our office 3024 E Michigan Ave between 1 and 8pm on weekdays or request a sign at the link below.
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People shrug off these kinds of comments as doomerism. It's not doomerism to point out that the arsonists who chose this version of America are still among us with a nearly full can of gasoline and a full pack of matches.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation.
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Waycool Jr @waycooljr-62.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As someone in the industry, I can tell you they still believe it is Biden's fault, but that recovery is just months away.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
normatively it is treated as aggression in left spaces to say that this is sick behavior. i do not care. it is sick behavior. anyone not on the internet twelve hours a day knows this, and anything you have learned by watching pales in comparison to the fact that you have forgotten this.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
journalofdemocracy.org
Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Eboneezer Goode - FDT - Trump Broke America. @egoode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was the first Republican Wannsee conference … there will be more.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So infuriating to think back to the Rufo et al. CRT and DEI and Claudine Gay witch hunts and their protests that it wasn’t about racism, and then fast forward to today where he’s struggling with “the Indian Question” along with a literal publisher of fascist material—but it doesn’t even register.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech
The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
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depose schumer @glosson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i keep saying this and no one listens
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Send me to jail.
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is as deep as Nazi ideology was.
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Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In many red states, it's simply a question of whether you can get Trump's endorsement. So we wind up with idiots like Eric Schmitt, Tuberville and Darline Graham, if she wins I mean, Georgia Republicans nominated Herschel Walker because Trump told them to, for G-d's sake. And he almost beat Ossoff
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had avoided learning too much about the Cornell case but finally read Kate Manne's piece. I haven't taught in a college classroom in eight years but it all came back so vividly. So many women asking if they could close the door, they wanted to tell me something.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing
slate.com
It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?
How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The doubling down on his BS...
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a quick reminder that the Republican Party has no redeeming qualities.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 28/09/2026
$24.49 a gallon for gas in Noatak. I don’t know how anyone can afford that. Alaska families are being crushed by the unaffordable cost of living, and Dan Sullivan keeps on voting for the war that’s making everything more expensive. Alaska needs change.
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Same as it ever was.
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Party of Fiscal Responsibility™
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Never. Period. But I don't think the people who elected this regime thought there is any difference. Banality, etc.
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Andrea Löw @andrealoew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vielleicht erinnert die internationale Berichterstattung die CDU daran, dass man mit der AfD keine gemeinsame Sache macht? Und dass es ohnehin unglaublich beschämend ist, so mit der Erinnerung an den Judenmord umzugehen?
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Outrage as East German town bans Holocaust ‘stumbling blocks’ | CNN
There has been outrage after a small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of the ...
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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, the force is always there, waiting.
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You Can't Govern Unless You Win @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mr Xi, would you like to buy the rest of an F-35?
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Peter Kaufman @inklake.com · 27/09/2026
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SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was registering people to vote at an event yesterday, and a boomer woman came over to proclaim that while she used to be a feminist, it's no longer necessary because women won the fight and now have it better than men; no longer do we face harassment at work. And we can get credit cards.
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Roldy @alwaysroldy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So was it wrong for the admin to gut those things already? If you can’t say that, why would anyone trust that you will say it in the future?
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