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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The denaturalization push against Ilhan Omar is so much worse than even previous abuses of federal authority and investigative power. It’s not just that it’s a targeted investigation, but that it’s an effort to achieve something that could NEVER possibly be legitimate.

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Do you need a nice little cry? Here you go.

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Vance used a gun to force the teller to hand over all the $$$, an action some criticized as a bank robbery." It's dire that NYT can't clearly identify the plain meaning of events and utterances. Everything is an unproven mystery. Nothing is certain. Who's to say if a rising sun signals morning?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

it has been so hard for democrats to understand this is what people want to hear and not "i seek bipartisan solutions with my friends across the aisle." no! we want to hear how youre gonna fuck up nazis and misogynists and homophobes and bring us into the goddamned star trek future

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026

I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

This photo says everything about why Trump keeps hiring unqualified worshipful young women (who look like his daughter)

Pic of Trump boarding Marine One with Natalie and Katie absolutely beaming at him

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

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The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?

Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don't know that it makes him presidential material but Ossoff's ability to just be honest about how much of a pile of shit these people really are should be a model to the party.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

OSSOFF: Mike Collins called for killing immigrants by throwing them to their deaths out of helicopters. I'd like to hear if Mike Collins stands by that statement. Do you still believe in the extrajudicial killing of immigrants? MIKE COLLINS: *changes topic*

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

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Brandon 🦬 @brandonmarchand.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Is giving up 29+ points in 80% of your games bad? It’s weird to feel this bad about a 3-1 Josh Allen team…

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Brandon 🦬 @brandonmarchand.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So we fired McDermott because he was a bad coach. And now we give up 30 points basically every game. The bend but don’t break defense wasn’t fun but it was certainly better than the bend and break defense we have now…

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Brandon 🦬 @brandonmarchand.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Sega Genesis was my first gaming console, so when I took my son to the Lego store and saw they had a Genesis set, I had to buy it (he got a Bluey set with Bluey and Rusty). I love that the game was Sonic 2, as that had a LOT of playtime for me back then, and that there’s a Sonic hidden inside.

Image of Sonic hidden inside the console

The compete set, which looks like a small Sega console with two controllers. It has a Sonic 2 cartridge in it. You can easily remove the top to see the Sonic image underneath.

Pretending to play it with my son while watching a YouTube video of someone beating Sonic 2. The video is showing Sky Chase Zone with Sonic standing on top of a plane piloted by Tails.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"the twisted smile on the corpse and the video with the joker bragging that he committed murder raises serious questions about what role the joker played in the smilex gas attacks" - senate democrats

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Brandon 🦬 @brandonmarchand.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I liked the Rincewind series but the Guards books are really making me love Discworld. “Men At Arms” is probably my favorite Discworld book so far. Excellent story and a real page-turner.

The Discworld book “Men At Arms” by Terry Pratchett

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Brandon 🦬 @brandonmarchand.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I liked the Rincewind series but the Guards books are really making me love Discworld. “Men At Arms” is probably my favorite Discworld book so far. Excellent story and a real page-turner.

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

Friendly reminder that the newspapers ran this as a thing that was real

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

file this under "no, theyre not super geniuses plotting like ozymandias." theyre idiots. we lose to them too much, but they are idiots.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Remember that Republicans believe that the first spike there, caused entirely by Putin's invasion of Ukraine, is actually Joe Biden's fault while the second spike there, caused entirely by Trump's war on Iran, is also Joe Biden's fault.

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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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

incredible style and artistry on this double bird. never seen someone execute it quite like this

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Brandon 🦬 @brandonmarchand.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is there any good reporting or analysis on whether Ukraine bombing the Yandex data centers has impacted activity on American conservative sites.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Every word of this from @drewmagary.bsky.social. Democrats will likely retake Congress, but what they do next is an open question. That's why it's important for us all to press Democrats -- right now -- to commit to an aggressive agenda of oversight and accountability.

As desperate as Republicans are to hold onto power, the Democratic establishment is even more rattled. An oil slick like Schumer sees his GOP chums on the other side of the aisle get marginalized by an interloper (Trump), and now fears a similar interloper on his side doing likewise. The Schumers of the DNC fear the likes of Zohran Mamdani and AOC (even as she's gone about sanding down her politics over the last eight years) far more than they fear Trump. So if they wrest control of Congress a month from now, their priority won’t be to reform a brazenly corrupt Supreme Court, or to punish Trump and his many accomplices for their endless crimes, or to finally cut off aid to Israel, or even to force an end to that shitty war in Iran. All they’ll do is sit on their candy asses and wait around for the next election. Then they’ll tell you the best way, the most responsible way, to express your anger at their indifference is to continue voting for them.

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

Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"

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

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/10/2026

So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“I would like an award for my great humanitarian endeavors so that I can return to my work of building concentration camps for children”

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

another one of those situations where Trump has so thoroughly positioned himself as anti-virtue that celebrating anything good or anybody who has lived a good life can be interpreted "sending a message to Trump"

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

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

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

He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

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✨ Laas ✨ @whatabossislaas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Stormy put up this piece of paper at the game last night and at first I thought it was a meme but turns out it’s a political statement on Vancouver BC’s already ridiculously expensive housing market??? #Canes

STORMY NOT SOPHISTICATED ICE HOG, BUT EVEN STORMY KNOW:
THE ALLOWANCE OF FOREIGN INVESTORS IN METRO VANCOUVER MUST NOT ONLY BE MET WITH STEEP ANNUAL LEVIES IF PROPERTIES ARE LEFT UNATTENDED, ALONGSIDE BRITISH COLUMBIA'S 20% FOREIGN PURCHASE SURCHARGE, BUT THE 2027 EXPIRATION OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN BUYER BAN REPRESENTS A FULCRUM POINT IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET THAT COULD HAVE GENERATIONAL RAMIFICATIONS IF NOT REENACTED.
ALSO, OINK.

Stormy the Ice Hog waving creepily from the jumbotron

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers

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