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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.

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SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We will allow non-Minnesotans to post one (1) piece of unsolicited advice about what we should be doing right now upon evidence that you have made at least a three-figure donation www.standwithminnesota.com

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

One reason I think Platner needs to go is that at some point we're going to have to do an aggressive denazification of the entire political system and the party leading that effort cannot be caught handing out indulgences.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Dems *can’t* fold. Not anymore. Folding and getting nothing is a tacit admission that the shutdown and what pain it caused is all on us. We are in this now, and we’ve got to see it through.

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Randal Cooper passed the bar exam in Middle-Earth @fancycwabs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Democrats should make a show of donating money to food banks in their districts “to offset the harm caused by the Republican shutdown.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The way we avoid having to do all of this again in 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 years is by imprinting a generational memory of, "oh, the last time they did that, all of the top guys - I mean, the ones who survived - went to prison for the rest of their lives, and had their property seized."

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smurfsup | aka the sentient backpack @smurfsup.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Another 🎯 from PJ Guy’s story: The power of *mental rehearsal*. Don’t just “rehearse your anxiety”. Instead imagine yourself acting — somehow—in that situation Reality unlikely to unfold like your imagined scene — but that’s not the point. *Actively create a cognitive picture of yourself acting*

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Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I really don't think Jewish leaders appreciate how quickly the political ground is changing around Israel. Elliot Cosgrove's Shabbat sermon — where he said Mamdani trying to reassure Jews was an implicit confession that they had something to fear from his mayoralty — really drove this home.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Let me put it this way: Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian immigrant with a green card who worked with deeply unpopular groups. My median follower is a white guy with a 401(k) who was born in this country. We all need to be a little braver than we have been; we can afford it.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Reports that ICE is on the Boston College campus currently

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bnr18.bsky.social @bnr18.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

"No voting on who gets to be people."

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I do not care who you are or what position you hold. No one bullies our children.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

i expect the democratic party to display partisan solidarity from top to bottom, and i expect this in direct proportion to the power am officeholder has

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

great point Harmeet, just the one q: who won the Battle of Thermopylae?

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 03/09/2025

i do think people — national security reporters in particular — should think a little bit about what it means that pritzker apparently already knows what the plan for the texas national guard in chicago is, regardless of whether it actually happens or not.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Trump et al. have basically created a zugzwang situation for left/liberal Jewish academics and students, forcing them to choose between tolerating actual instances of antisemitism they encounter vs. Trump co-opting their legitimate complaints as a pretext to stifle academic freedom and cut funding

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Shykin @shykin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

Employment jelly, repost for a job you'll love and deserve

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

like for every centrist pundit that says, "oh, you learn to live with this in your replies": what do you think this does to your soul

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

the american mind cannot comprehend the kobayashi maru

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2025

"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13/08/2025

The problem with any instinct to flinch from the need for a post-MAGA campaign of structural reforms — a reconstruction, if you will — is that Trump and MAGA are working to force an illiberal reconstruction on Dem-led communities and institutions right now, in plain sight.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Everything i have ever played or watched is telling me we need to destroy this thing

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/07/2025

Went here and everyone knew you

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The thing that basically everyone left of center gets wrong, from the Abundance Bros to the DSA left, but the far right understands deeply and intuitively, is that politics is about social dynamics and peoples’ emotional states far more than it is about anything material and measurable

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It should be quite clear to everyone by now that this is patently illegal, economically terrible, politically indefensible, on and on. Just horrible in basically every way. But I'll never get over just how nationally *embarrassing* this is.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/06/2025

To be fair to the Democratic Party freaking out of about Zohran Mamdani, it has never before had a previously unknown brown man with a foreign-sounding name and a gift for political communication rise to national prominance while defeating an incumbent backed by big money and the party's elites.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/06/2025

Alright everyone. Republicans are going to force a vote on their gender affirming care provision even though it violates Senate rules. They’ll need 60 votes to keep it in. Now is the time to make your voice heard and ask your Senators to stand on the side of health care freedom.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The thing about Corrie ten Boom and her family was that their “Hiding Place” work was a later, secondary add-on to their primary Christian vocation of forgery. They were devout, evangelical (Dutch Reformed) forgers & frauds who created IDs for those the state had deemed non-persons.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I will vote in 2028 for whoever vows to bring these villains to justice.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 27/06/2025

And when the fifth circuit decides that the order is valid because it's staffed with fanatical incompetents, and scotus refuses cert, we'll have the ✨ delightful✨ situation where your citizenship status might change depending on what state you're in, just like in slave days! Aah, the nostalgia!

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

packing the court is the minimum

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

One federal judge in Texas used injunctions to stop every single progressive policy during the Biden administration and NOW the Supreme Court is concerned with injunctions. The faith remains very bad.

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I do believe some of these people are genuinely worried. I also believe it's OK to say "Your worries are not valid, because they are not based in reality and we don't have to humor you." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

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Mamdani’s Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

2) "It's Mamdani's job to prove to Jews that he's not antisemitic" is a demand that's designed to be impossible to fulfill. Imagine yourself to be accused of having a FEELING, with no evidence. You can deny it all you want, but people who don't want to believe you will remain invested in the lie. >

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 25/06/2025

“AOC+3” is a dog whistle for the fact that @aoc.bsky.social reads fanfiction send skeet

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I am weeping

As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The other lesson is that the Bernie wings and the Warren wings must run with each other, not against each other. The reality is we are basically the same wing. Cannot let the narcissism of small differences destroy us—it helped us lose the 2020 primary and the Philadelphia mayoralty

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This thread is a really solid breakdown on navigating the difference between intent and impact when using rhetoric that’s both/either ambiguous and inflammatory, depending on your lived experience

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23/06/2025

If your Cuomo calculus is that you can forgive sexual misconduct for a competent mayor, I’d just ask you to consider that he won’t be a competent mayor either.

There's the time he set up a commission to investigate corruption in New York state government, then obstructed its operations and investigations. There's the time he stacked New York's top court with conservatives who would go on to prevent Democrats from drawing a more favorable congressional map. There's his steep cuts to Medicaid and the MTA, the latter helping to cause the MTA's notorious "summer of hell." There's his deeply corrupt economic redevelopment in Buffalo, termed the Buffalo Billion-which resulted in the corruption convictions of top Cuomo aides until the corrupt Supreme Court overturned them.
There's his deadly policy of forcing
COVID patients into nursing homes, and the subsequent coverup. There's his sexual harassment of over a dozen women, and the subsequent coverup.
And, in my opinion worst of all, there's his role in brokering Republican control of the New York State Senate for a decade.
Don't fucking vote for this guy! He is the closest thing to a Democratic Trump there is (though incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running on an independent ballot line in November, bears a passing resemblance himself, mostly for his tendency to say off-the-wall shit.)

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