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Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

every sycophantic senator who brought up the national security aspect of the arch and ballroom should be publicly shamed and shunned for the rest of their lives never a moments peace for this

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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 13h

I guess helping rebuild local businesses after a major hurricane is also grounds for deportation

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social thinks we should "turn the page" on these guys even though they're literally doing "show me your papers" shit after raiding the house of someone he works with. Every day. Who has the same job as him.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026

This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Where’s James Talarico?” they screamed when he took 12 days off the campaign trail due to the flu. Yet they remained silent when Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) was absent for four months and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) missed more than three months.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

A *few* of them have shown *some* willingness to do this lately. El-Sayed, for instance, will occasionally say "why is the media so obsessed with [silly Piker story or whatever] rather than Americans suffering under tariffs." They need to coordinate & amplify each other on that stuff.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

Adding: this will be *doubly* true if Dems win big in 2028 and are in a position to impose some accountability. The whole RW media blob, the NYT, the Atlantic, all the Very Serious outlets filled with Very Serious People will be scolding them to calm down, don't dwell on the past, look forward, etc.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

when democrats pander to anti-trans panic they are telling people to stay home and not vote. demoralizing your vote with moral cowardice.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

at one point segregation and anti miscegenation laws polled off the charts in south carolina. should we have been ok with a democratic candidate who said black people were less than human so we can "win first"? no? then why the fuck is it ok to do this against trans people? hint: it isnt.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

80% of the country is pissed off about something and they're blaming GOP incumbents for it, the worst possible strategy for a Dem challenger is to tell the base "I don't share your values" while also telling swing voters "I'm so out of touch I think 'men in women's sports' is a real concern."

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is a good ad. but this is also how democrats should be talking about republicans not just in october but all the time.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

theres this mindset that because people just start paying attn to politics in october, you hold fire until then. no, you lay the groundwork for the october push all the rest of the year.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

if someone says it is raining when they are standing out in the sun, this is a lie. if someone does this on a regular basis, they are a liar. calling them a liar is factually based. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I Completely Agree, Coach!

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes”

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"LOLLL THERE GOES THE DUMBASS WHO SAID CORPORATIONS CAN TALK LOL"

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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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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there’s no reason for the death penalty to exist

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/10/2026

again, this is why i argue it's not a gaffe, they are going forward as if it weren't debunked & they always intended to

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this man would be floored by the "the surgeon is the boy's mother" riddle

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026

a whole lot of republicans pretending to be democrats showing themselves today with their support of a bill that takes money away from young black workers and gives it to rich white men!

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

YES BECAUSE THE OFFICIALS IN THE BOOTH REFUSED TO OVERTURN CALLS MADE BY THEIR FELLOW OFFICIALS AND I'M STILL MAD ABOUT IT

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Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This may be unfair, but I'm morbidly interested in whether certain Cornell faculty are as worked up about this as they were about the encampments

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Xeynon @xeynon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of people listen to country, but a lot of people don't. There's a big overlap between the people who do and the type of people who get big mad that America isn't a monoculture and not everyone looks, talks, thinks, or acts like they do. Their music being ignored reminds them of that.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

good start, but everybody at CNN, MSNOW and Politico should be burning every WH source they have

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/09/2026

We're going to see more of these bogus stories trying to rehabilitate the image of DOGE bros who happily did massive damage. The premise of "oh we really thought we were helping" is a lie.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

we attacked iran because trump wanted epstein off the front page. this is the result. he caused all of this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At least some members of the Supreme Court will say "yes, this is what the founders wanted. They wanted the President to have the power to use his public office to punish his political enemies. That is what the revolution was for."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

4) The kind of funny accounting that can crash markets. www.ft.com/content/7f11...

1. Meta pioneers residual value guarantees ...
2. Broadcom brings the structure to AI chips ...
3. Nvidia takes residual value guarantees to a new scale ...
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As their AI spending plans begin to outrun their cash flows, tech companies have become more focused on managing their balance sheets in order to keep their investment-grade credit ratings and maintain access to the deepest pools of low-cost corporate debt.

Overall, Morgan Stanley analysts have tallied more than $3.1tn in off-balance-sheet commitments and credit support by seven hyperscalers and chipmakers.

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