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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This administration is so self-conscious and nervous that they feel the need to denigrate a musician over a snippet of a forthcoming recording… Says all you need to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...

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Kristi Noem Attacks Zach Bryan’s New Lyrics About ICE

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This is actually the right move. Like similar algorithm pricing recommendations in real estate, this consultant-higher ed relationship is likely distorting tuition pricing. Ivy league was guily of it, wouldn’t be surprised if these other colleges are as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

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Republicans Take Aim at ‘Industry Behind the Curtain’ of College Prices

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

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The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party

But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/09/2025

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

Nation Grateful to GOP for Protecting It From TV

Report: You to Be Fired for Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Trump Spends Entire UK Trip Trying to Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do? Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is why I don't understand the hagiography of him as a bastion of free speech. I agree that his murder was an assault on free speech as a principle of liberal democracy, but so was his politics. Condemning both is the only consistent position.

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Sorry I refuse to consume your slop.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The guy who nearly got people killed spreading Pizzagate. Who called for an end to American democracy *last year*. Who told his followers to “take the path of the hunter … we are going to make them the prey." We’re watching this country collectively descend into madness.

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What’s up with the Prime Thursday Night football broadcast being so desaturated?

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Jesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going."

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2025

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11/09/2025

The tech industry says social media doesn’t polarize us but sure feels like you could watch it happen in real time today

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A real leader would remind us that the vast majority Americans do not hate each other. That what unites us is greater than what divides us. That violence is not a solution. But Trump is going to use this as an opportunity to suppress critics who had nothing to do with this crime and condemn it.

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"they are at war with us"

ABC News photo of Jan 6 mob storming the US Capitol.

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 10/09/2025

Swift movement to blame Democrats and the left by a few accounts with sizable followings. Worth noting, however, that these are not politicians or elected officials.

First in a series of screenshots showing right wing accounts politicizing this shooting in the immediate aftermath

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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

for the record I don't even understand how this matters to the question of whether it's fake, if someone was faking a letter to Jeffrey Epstein from Donald Trump in 2003, which is obviously absurd, they could have just used the arcane pre-AI technology appliance known as a copy machine

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Hard agree, Democratic Fundraising Text. Hard agree.

“Nothing pisses me off more than a fundraising text from a democratic….”

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

You guys see where this is going? Right?

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Getting rid of the de minimis tariff exemption is good, actually.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2025

one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 22/08/2025

Very comprehensive argument from @jongeeting.bsky.social here. the tl;dr: SEPA gives way more to the state than it takes, so if Harrisburg Republicans won't fund SEPTA, then SEPA pols should start playing hardball on subsidizing GOP districts thephiladelphiacitizen.org/southeastern...

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Southeastern PA Wants our Tax Money Back to Fund SEPTA

The debate over funding SEPTA has led Chester County state Rep Melissa Shusterman to suggest a radical approach to PA tax distribution

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A felony for throwing a salami sandwich? What utter nonsense.

Part of the article reads: “Dunn then heaved the sandwich at the officer and took off running. After the incident Dargin crossed the street to examine the sandwich, which, he said, appeared to have salami.”

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/08/2025

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/08/2025

The Tesla Diner is a perfect metaphor for the whole Tesla brand: a bad facsimile of something that already exists, made by people who don't understand what they're recreating, with a thin veneer of superficial futurism on top, for people with no taste or self-respect www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/d...

Tesla engineers built a proprietary tool to flatten patties for the smash burgers with crisp browned edges, held together with caramelized onions and cheese, which seemed to be on most tables. It lent the dish a superficial whiff of innovation, but the burger didn’t stand out in any meaningful way.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I knew it! DHS appears to have STAGED the removals of serious criminals to Africa, even though they could actually be sent back to their home countries to try to pressure courts to permit the practice for anyone. We can't trust anything they say because DHS LIES.

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Why is MLB on ESPN so annoying? I could be missing something here, but the constant commentator yammering and the in-game interviews overwhelm the actual game.

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is awful. Reliable economic data is a key strength of the US economy. When Argentina and Greece faked economic data it contributed to major crises. I don't think Trump will be able to fake the data given the procedures. But there is now a risk plus an awful appearance.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is how they managed statistics in the old USSR.

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Brian @brn-ags.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Harassment is a crime that can be punished under existing law. If a few instances occur, those responsible can be held to account. When the state uses its monopoly on violence, you need to be able to identify who is employing that power in order to hold abuse to account. The alternative is fascism.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Stop repeating this. This is not doxxing. Public officials who are not ICE employees regularly appear in (um) public without masks. Their pictures can be taken. That is as it should be.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell. In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

“I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

“They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said.

Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said.

He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

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In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For the 1st time since the mid-20th c, a major urban US transit network is going to be largely destroyed. Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, starting NEXT MONTH. 45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?” wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/

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Funding Crisis – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

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