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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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bobbyroberto.bsky.social @bobbyroberto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching the Pats, down 28-3, Bingo, got"m right where we want them. Can't believe they fell for it
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...
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You Have to Call Bigots What They Are
Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
While the he wrecks the economy, military, alliances, & trade partnerships established over many decades, old out touch billionaire Trump is at his golf resort with Natalie focused on new hair styles, ballrooms, triumphal arches, & his latest schemes to profit off the presidency.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Literally nobody, including MAGA, had any ideological commitment or pre-existing policy goal of picking a fight with Canada. This is all happening solely because the crazy old man randomly blurted it out. And that makes it worse. There's nothing to negotiate, no aim to satisfy. He's just insane.
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Tomorrow’s Affairs @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Rather than making #America more indispensable, Trump has driven its allies towards the opposite goal: learning to live without it tomorrowsaffairs.com/how-trump-tu... #Trump #NATO #MarkCarney #IranWar‌
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How Trump turned American power into American weakness
Rather than making America more indispensable, Trump has driven its allies towards the opposite goal: learning to live without it
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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It really shouldn’t be a footnote, even after all this time, that the entire purported justification for these self-destructive tariffs is that the president is stupid, and his party refuses to stop him.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Is “Woke 1” in the room with us or is a convicted rapist the President, with a cabinet full of mediocre white people, institutionalizing racism across the federal government?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's remarkable that you have not just incredibly stupid people like this. But whole movements based on this stupidity. Having your currency as a global reserve currency means that the whole global economy is structured to your advantage and most hard constraints that everyone faces you don't.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.
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Millionaires tax surges past expectations, once again
The voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row.
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The President of the United States continuing to bring the full force of the federal government down on a guy *everyone knows is innocent*, just like he did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others, is absolutely 1,000% impeachable IMHO. This is just straight up tyranny
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
From page full of headlines about things going to hell in Iran.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026
New in PN: The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme "The result is a regime that is constantly tripping over its own bloated mushroom-like appendages — and a global order in which absolutely no one can trust that the United States will do tomorrow what it promises today."
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The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme
Trump has made the word of the US government worthless.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
it's so funny that people will forever write articles about this guy like he has a "philosophy" or "thoughts" -- he's an angry frightened child who has moods. oh is he skeptical? oh has he grown skeptical? get the fuck out of here
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
IR 101: The primary reason for trade agreements & all the other international treaties/organizations is not really the <content> of the policies, but rather the reduction in uncertainty <about> & credible commitments <to> the policies.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The proper response to anyone pushing this is -- you know this is pathetic, right? We don't do this shit with actually popular presidents, much less the shitbag no one likes.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So much winning…. Make it stop already! FT: After more than a century the US is on the verge of losing its place as the world’s leading agricultural exporter. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The fall of America’s farm superpower
The US is on the verge of losing its status as the world’s leading agricultural exporter
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Every and any vote for Todd Blanche is a vote for grown men fucking underage girls with legal impunity. This is a sentence that contains no hyperbole and that is nonetheless shocking and debilitating to write. That's how depraved this administration is.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
All the salad apocalypse chatter reminds us that the normal work of government to maintain the commons—good roads, regulations, food inspections, public health etc—is what allows economies to prosper and businesses to plan and compete and make money
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s impossible to move the debate forward when one side is committed to upholding a disinformation-fueled, dehumanizing false reality that leads to the state-sanctioned street killings of innocent people. There are not two sides to this particular story. Full stop.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
16 July 1903 | Pole Edmund Wojciechowski was born. A lawyer. Son of the President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski. Arrested in connection with the refusal to expel Jewish lawyers from the Warsaw Bar In #Auschwitz from 15 Aug 1940. No. 2297 He perished on 23 February 1941.
Black and white portrait of a young man in a suit and tie.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Harris County DA Sean Teare: “The tactics of every LEA I’ve ever worked with in no way resemble what ICE is doing. Either they are completely untrained, or intentionally putting themselves in situations where they can justify firing into cars.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So much ink spilled over Trump saying 20% Hormuz toll, even calculating out hypothetical effects. It’s just the president losing a war he started, feeling embarrassed, having no idea what to do, going “They’re doing what? Yeah, well, I’ll do that bigger!” Not policy, not strategy, throwing a fit.
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
REMINDER: The answer to “do ships sail?” is based on shipping companies going “will this be profitable given current risks and insurance cost?” and insurance companies going “will underwriting this be profitable given the risks?,” not the US president telling them to sail, even if he does so loudly.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As for the political message, it's a simple one. Trump started a war really no one wanted or supported, cost the American people hundreds of billions of dollars and then managed to completely fuck it up. Stupidity, incompetence, failure: rinse and repeat (like Trump does).
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How could Vance possibly know this? What absurd toadyism.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Why didn’t we send Joy Behar then?
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
omg ffs we just want healthcare
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
One thing that should be very clear now, is that every one of Trump's claims in the last two months that an agreement with Iran was close, imminent, just around the corner, and that Iran had been militarily defeated and desperate for a deal....was made up. All were lies, every one.
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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's wild that the media isn't 24/7 in on the entirely self-inflicted nature of this. It's not even like Trump is following some long held Republican orthodoxy. It's because he did insane shit that no one wanted.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
here's what i wrote
More so than most of his predecessors, Trump strained against the limits of the presidency. He never understood that the office was bound by higher law — that his power wasn’t absolute. He never understood that he was an officer of the Constitution and a servant of the people; he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.

It was because of this fundamental misunderstanding — itself tied to his bottomless solipsism — that Trump tried to twist and turn the presidency into an extension of his ego. To the extent he failed to accomplish this, it was only because he was stymied by those around him — officials who chose to honor their commitment to the Constitution over the interests of one man. Those same officials now warn that if he is given another term in office, he will rule as a tyrant.

America got lucky. It won’t get lucky again. Free of the guardrails that kept him in place the first time, affirmed by the Supreme Court and backed by allies and apparatchiks in the conservative movement, Trump will merge the office of the presidency with himself. He will shake it from its moorings in the Constitution and rebuild it as an instrument of his will, wielded for his friends and against his enemies. In doing so, he will erode the democratic assumptions that undergird our current constitutional order. And he will have the total loyalty of a Republican Party that itself is twisting and abusing the counter-majoritarian features of the American system to undermine and unravel democracy in the states it controls.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 26/05/2026
These fucking demons told me that my neighbor wanted to eat my dog and now they want to talk about social trust evaporating
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The only Iran deal Trump is looking for right now is one that will convince anyone outside his cult that he didn’t lose and get humiliated because of stupidity & hubris. Whatever that looks like he would do in a second. The problem is that Iran isn’t cooperating. So here we are.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There was no “weaponization” of the Biden Justice Department. There are no “victims” who deserve “compensation”. The $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund is not a settlement. Everything about this heist of tax dollars is a lie and a fraud. presswatchers.org/2026/05/news...
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News headlines adopted Trump’s deceptive framing of his new $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund | Press Watch
Weaponization was not a Biden thing. It's a Trump thing.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It’s not just handing out cash to insurrectionists. It’s part of a project that started with the mass funding of ICE to use stolen public funds to create spoils for loyal foot soldiers that exist beyond any accountability. It’s how these things work and it will grow as the economy craters.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump keeps hoping someone else will bail him out of his Iran disaster. Xi Jinping was only the latest to rebuff him. The trouble is, no one can end this but Trump. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran...
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No one is coming to bail Trump out of his disastrous war
He's the only one who can end this.
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Look at that headline and then remind yourself it’s all self inflicted. So stupid. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s China summit shows toll of a difficult year for the president
A year ago, Trump promised a new era during the first major foreign trip of his second term. On his recent visit to Beijing, the war with Iran and economic strain clouded his diplomacy.
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