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Jacob Malcom @jacob-malcom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another good take by @brianbeutler.bsky.social...it reminds me of the importance of reading and understanding Hofstadter's Anti-intellectualism in American Life, which starts from the decline of McCarthyism... www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

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Republican Disarray And The Second Failure Of McCarthyism

The missing ingredient, for now, is consequences.

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a joke. We are governed by performative morons. It provides zero confidence that AI in the military will be executed well. Hegseth is too busy yapping his gums and firing people (in order to mask his profound incompetence and insecurity). Good times. 🙁

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The projection here is next-level. No words …. ☹️🤡

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some good insights below. Even doing this second Jack Smith hearing ~6 weeks before the election seems RISKY and it signals that Trump still calls the shots. The entire GOP has no spine and/or they are too deep into Trump’s Kool-Aid to think straight anymore. Pathetic.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alex Karp is something to behold. Does he simply relish some form of World War III that is AI-centered and the US wins? I just saw Karp’s usual condescending and angry rant with Eamon Javers of CNBC in front of the White House; before AI leaders’ lunch with POTUS. #palantir

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perfect mojo for this political moment ! 👍 “make ‘em sweat” #resist #GOPCowards #impeach

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Your daily reminder that our POTUS is an embarrassing buffoon. 👇

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

we fought an entire civil war over this and they're pretending it's a natural backlash to some annoying oberlin students

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here's the dramatic improvement of Republicans' opinion of Vladimir Putin in 2016. As with anti-Canada sentiment now, the unmistakable main cause of the change is Trump. I think of these examples when pundits claim politicians can't change public opinion so they must follow wherever it already is.

Graph of Economist/YouGov polling in 2016 on Americans' favorability of Vladimir Putin. Shows Republican approval of Putin leap up in mid and late 2016.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Autonomous malware-agent doomsday cults will be a thing in our lifetime.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In no real sense is the academy, especially the elite academy, "radical." Sure, there are radicals here. But it hews close to its longstanding function as a machine of class reproduction. The supposedly radical elite academy churns out finance & tech bros (of all genders), lobbyists, nice doctors.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The capitulation of civil society organizations is perhaps the most important political story of 2025. For every 1000 pundit pieces on what Democrats need to do to win moderate voters, there is 1 piece on the politics of civil society--businesses, unions, congregations, universities, nonprofits, etc

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026

Ontario Premier Doug Ford: "The red states we're gonna hit hard ... you think an insult from him [Trump] hurts me? Bring it on, buddy. You're a loser."

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This “median voter” information deficiency IMO is why it’s imperative if a Dem wins POTUS in 2028 that criminal prosecutions of Trump 2.0 be AGGRESSIVE. Dem POTUS must also “prosecute” these miscreants in public speeches in parallel to DOJ. It must be much more than an investigative committee.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Declined to seek a security clearance” was simply not a thing before the One Special Boy. You didn’t have a choice about these things. The media did not write those words normalizing illegal things. And then we simply decided nothing - not laws, not norms, not the Constitution - mattered anymore.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And the North Koreans are excellent in getting into our systems. Remember the Sony hack? All of that expertise & experience, from both Russia & North Korea, is going to be put to use to aid the Iranians. 8/

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The Weeknight on MS NOW @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“They have the stomach for this fight”: Media Matters’ President & CEO @goangelo.bsky.social explains how Donald Trump and Todd Blanche shattered post-Watergate norms.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

More than any other journalistic outlet the Post helped to establish the post Nixon norm of DOJ independence because of their Watergate coverage. Now they endorse what was a fringe view a couple of years ago. Lackeys for money and authoritarianism.

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A history PhD student in 25 years will have to write about such Trump dumbf*ckery and make it sound “Dr Evil-like” when it’s probably just this! 👇 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So. This is idiotic, uninformed, and wasteful. It will take the Ford out of service for years and delay the rest of the class. Or, as we say here in the Trump years -- Thursday.

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Exclusive | Trump Orders Navy to Restore Old Technology in Aircraft Carriers, Costing Billions

The Navy spent years fighting the president’s push to go back to steam catapults.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you want to hold it against me that I am catastrophically delusional and self deceiving in exercising my judgment and power and that I reject any appeal to reality or reason to protect the public from murderous maniacs — well then have it your way.

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What an absolute coward. Unbelievable. Please stop going on news shows Senator Cassidy. You are useless. Weak sauce….

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The core economic pitch for Trump's mass deportations was "fewer immigrants means more jobs for Americans. Unsurprisingly, that's just not happening Instead of rising, prime-age employment rates for native-born Americans fell to the lowest levels in more than four years in data released today

A graph of prime-age employment rates for native and foreign-born

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 05/08/2026

"The Trump admin has made crystal clear that it prizes arrests above all else, even if it means violating constitutional rights, short-circuiting due process and arresting people who are actively following the rules and who’ve often been living and contributing for decades without incident."

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N.Y. cops shouldn’t be helping ICE lawlessness

Showing that states retain certain powers even under the misrule of Donald Trump, Albany Federal Judge Mae D’Agostino has upheld for now New York’s ban on local law enforcement agencies having so-call...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Insane that Republicans want to take everyone back to 2020, but if that’s what they want we need to go to the tape.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Trump admin’s case against Davey Hearn should have never been brought. Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The administration owes Mr. Hearn an apology.

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The Trump Administration Owes Davey Hearn an Apology | Democracy Defenders Fund

Statement from Davey Hearn’s co-counsel regarding today’s decision by the U.S. government to dismiss all charges against

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Questions like this usually aren’t straightforwardly useful in polling IMO but when paired with things like approval ratings, they are revealing of how much people will tie themselves in knots to avoid admitting they made a mistake, and how culturally radioactive “regret” as a concept is

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026

That basic problem -- the problem of the information environment, which I've banged on about for 20+ years now -- is upstream of *everything* else. There's no simple fix. It's certainly not going to be fixed with clever word choice or policy proposals. You have to shift the deep mythologies.

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Banger post on X today by @covie93.bsky.social capturing how incredibly LOST Elon musk has become. ☹️

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think Republicans are about 3 weeks away from saying Democrats are "witches."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/07/2026

Every Republican who passively watches on as the president loses his mind in public deserves to be loudly & repeatedly condemned in public. Everyone has decided that Republicans don't give a shit so it's not worth stating the obvious, but it *is* worth stating the obvious.

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‘Mental Health Episode’: Trump’s Sunday Evening Freak-Out Leaves Critics Aghast

The president posted dozens of times on Sunday, mostly bizarre images of himself.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The claims of the DOJ and US Attorney for the Southern District of Texas were, of course, false, and almost certainly knowingly false.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026

I'll give $10 to anyone who can cite a single example -- at any time in his history, going back to his childhood -- in which Donald Trump straightforwardly acknowledged responsibility for a mistake. Not even apologized! Just acknowledged. He literally can not do it. His psyche could not take it.

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s all about meeeeeeeeeeee !!!! jfc

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Brian F Campbell @brianfcampbell2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Me thinks our POTUS is high. Good times…..🤷🏻‍♂️

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