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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is a bully, and if he smells weakness, he'll attack harder. You have to stand up to a bully and fight back ... even punch him the nose if that's what it takes. He'll back down to fierce opposition. Take away his toys, and don't cower when he throws a tantrum. He breaks the law because he can.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 4h

Another absolute banger from Brian.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7h

This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".

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43rd State Blues @43sbdotcom.bsky.social · 4h

Wow! Great article — I recommend all y'all read it, especially Democratic candidates and politicians. This is how we fight for our future...!!

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h

The concept of equal rights, equal opportunities, and economic fairness is "woke," and the radical right has been at war with it for decades. They really want to undo all the progress of the last century, and they're perfectly willing to lie, cheat, and go outside the law to make this happen.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4h

The pre-Trump GOP was mostly tilting at windmills. But the fact that their underlying goal (unravel the New Deal) was bad and unpopular doesn't discredit extreme tactics per se. For instance, what if the goal is "rein in or deny legitimacy to Trump's government"? www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...

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David Kissling @xtdave.bsky.social · 5h

This is tough because 'federal employees without guns' are a Democratic constituency who would suffer losses during this, but it is the right thing to do

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Shoshie Rules @shoshierules.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent writing by Brian Beutler... Time for Dems to step it up...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4h

Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...

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The New Radicals

Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 6h

"If Trump wants to insist on the right to make unilateral war, and spend tax dollars on campaign aids, and ... govern like a king, such that he will veto a budget that requires him to faithfully execute the laws, let him shut down his own government." Ds should "refuse to fund illegal activity."

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 6h

Don't let the headline fool you. The radicalism Brian is calling for is actually carefully calibrated. "15 years later my view is that Democrats should conduct themselves a bit like Republicans did in Obama’s first term." Just 'a bit like" shouldn't be too hard to pull off.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

“The term ‘enabling legislation’ is meant to evoke Hitler’s transformation into a dictator. Not because I think Trump is Adolf Hitler (though he is capable of evil on that scale), but because the delegation of power Democrats have accepted is analogous to how Hitler consolidated his.”

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 8h

Procedural hardball is disruptive, but makes perfect sense from a radical perspective. The whole question is whether there’s a good basis for radicalization. Given [gestures everywhere] the answer’s clearly yes. www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...

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The New Radicals

Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 8h

Engaging in procedural hardball may also help get the word out about why that is needed. Media will cover it as a scandalous man bites dog thing - “Why are Dems acting like GOP now??” Giving them an opportunity to have their message heard-we are doing this until GOP renounces antidemocratic tactics

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The New Radicals

Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone who dislikes Trump knows why, but it's important to know what made people who gave him a second chance after the insurrection regret it. We don't want to talk ourselves into the idea that it's always bad to move fast, unilaterally, unless that's true. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Democrats Are About To Learn The Wrong Lesson From Trump’s Failure

He was done in by malice, incompetence, corruption, and pathological vanity, not by his willingness to act before he could be stopped.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11h

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 30th 2026 (Medium), in 03:08 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 13h

I don't think Katie Britt went slackjawed because she was mortified by Eric Schmitt's sloppiness. I think she (like all Republicans) knew the hearing was meant to generate propaganda and lawfare and she was crestfallen to see it come apart. Reporters should ask her if she knew the ambush was coming.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DOGE was substantively horrible, but only a small part of the story. It's also the only part of the story most Republicans would want to keep, because they supported the objective and the methods, and were willing to take the hit. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus Christ dude

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The lesson of the last 20 months isn't and can't be that taking needed action before you can be stopped is a recipe for political failure. It only looks like that if you don't have deeply held, non-negotiable commitments. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Ron “Catering Cart” Mexico @blobfishissexy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And the second derivative is that each of these things was done in order to change the subject from Epstein

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Democrats Are About To Learn The Wrong Lesson From Trump’s Failure

He was done in by malice, incompetence, corruption, and pathological vanity, not by his willingness to act before he could be stopped.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You may have seen that WSJ story confirming indications that Trump intends to escalate the war in Iran after the midterms. Change the subject, give brute force one more go, etc. That’s not the whole story. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dems can’t get a handle on all that by agreeing to pass a full year budget coauthored by (hopefully) lame-duck Susan Collins… www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But there will also be election-theft shenanigans, and Supreme Court shenanigans and impoundment shenanigans, all geared toward stealing as much power for Trump from the new Congress as lastingly as possible. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Prepare Yourself For A Lame-Duck Session From Hell

In defeat, Republicans will try to arrogate as much power to Trump as they can. Democrats can’t play along.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For one thing, Trump is gonna try to get Dems to help fund the war through September. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics

Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 26th 2026 (Hard), in 05:32 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just inject this into my veins: Beutler presents a succinct and cogent overview of the consultant-industrial complex that's stifling Democratic politics. Their meddlesome, proven-loser horseshit is the single largest source of my anxiety and despair at the moment.

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Frontline Democrats Are Not Beautiful And Unique Snowflakes

Inside the mailbag: Jared Golden ... Mike Johnson ... Iran War

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

“Sure, it’s true that many Black people have reclaimed the word. But the lawsuit is about non-Black Tesla employees and managers abusing Black workers — including allegedly hurling the slur at them in ways that don’t sound like anything resembling gestures of ‘respect and endearment.’”

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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances

An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hanania has gone out of his way to try and persuade the mainstream media types and readers he wants to woo that he is no longer a racist. I don’t buy that, but he is at least putting on *the act.* So it’s extremely telling that this is how he continues to talk about women, rape, and even Epstein.

This manifests in Hanania's contempt for victims of rape and trafficking and his repeated support for age-gap relationships, even those that would constitute statutory rape in many jurisdictions. When The Bulwark broke news on Monday that Gen-Z looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular had been accused of rape, Hanania sprung into action discrediting the allegations. On X, he posted
Women who claim to be sexually assaulted or raped and then continue associating with their alleged attackers deserve zero sympathy.
They re either
1) liars; or
2) making it impossible to differentiate between real and fake allegations, hurting other men and women and society as a whole
A sane legal system would take this into account and not trust such women in criminal or civil lawsuits. They should also be socially stigmatized as bad people.

It's no mistake that this is all entangled with Hanania's horrific defenses of Jeffrey Epstein and the abuses on his private island. Hanania has posted that "Hating Epstein represents the essence of antisemitism. The resentment of mediocrities, conspiracy thinking, and chud moralism."
He went so far as to baldly assert that some of the women not only had it coming but even benefited in the end from Epstein's systemic rape operation:
One of the Epstein "trafficking victims" is a prostitute who he met when she was in her twenties, who had sex with him and reported that he gave her an orgasm.
There's more evidence of Epstein being a stud than there is he's what conspiracy theorists
claim.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Depths Explorer 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @boxedout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brian and Matt Y had a very animated (heated?) argument on the Politix podcast the other day. I was transfixed lol. And kinda hoped Brian would write this piece or something akin. Go read it!

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In particular, I don’t think even ardent foes of AI regulation dispute that liability is a real limiting consideration. Can’t pass it off to the robots. The issue is that the potential damages are too vast!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seen any hateful anti-immigrant videos lately? There’s a decent chance they’re AI slop, targeting US/UK viewers, but produced purely for profit in Sri Lanka or Cambodia. youtu.be/zCvPPaIN5Ew

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How to rage bait Americans

YouTube video by Christophe

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the centrist spoilsports endorsing their Republican buddies out of spite and ego. www.offmessage.net/p/frontline-...

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Frontline Democrats Are Not Beautiful And Unique Snowflakes

Inside the mailbag: Jared Golden ... Mike Johnson ... Iran War

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a characteristically sharp set of Q&A here

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Republicans are begging Trump to end the Iran war, slow ICE enforcement, and chill out on health care. Trump in turn muses about annihilating Iranians, runs the deportation machine hot, and takes ACA plans away from 700,000 Americans. Thoughts here on why, and how it should inform the opposition.

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The Revolution Has Been Televised—It’s About To Fail

The task for Democrats now is to keep the wounded, zombie version of it from encroaching further or clawing its way back to power.

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