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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h
The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”
After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.
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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 12/10/2026
scotus special boy doctrine incoming
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In my mind the defining feature of Trump II is that is ✨actually✨ a kakistocracy. RFK Jr and Russ Vought have very little in common politically, but they do share one essential quality: they are absolutely the worst person alive for the jobs they have.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Precisely.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Longtime Susan Collins fan and Press Herald columnist @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social comes to the conclusion that she hasn't met the moment and isn't up to the job. #MEpolitics
Steve Collins column:

During this week's debate, Collins said she is "not exactly" Trump's favorite senator, to which there is some truth.
It is equally true, however, that the president wants her to secure another term. Like everyone else, Trump recognizes that a "concerned" Collins is far better for him than a dedicated foe like Jackson.
Collins wants Mainers to see her as a moderate, reasonable and independent leader in the mold of former Sens. Olympia Snowe and William Cohen. That vision has grown ever more hollow as Collins faced the difficult task of dealing with Trump. As he runs amok in Washington, she has, sadly, proved that she isn't up to the challenge of protecting the prerogatives of the Senate and defending the laws it has enacted.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I could be wrong but pointing out that Republicans are, in fact, Nazis, and then explaining in detail why they are Nazis, might be an effective line of attack!
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Preemptive dooming is such loser energy
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great piece by Lisa Needham for Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice: Trump meme coin investors, including rich foreigners, have lost $3.81 billion but gained an opportunity to bribe the president of the United States. It’s mindblowingly corrupt.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ daughter posts a pic at a training camp with a pro-Russian militia in Bosnia that specializes in destabilization… totally normal stuff! “The photo raises Q’s about White House links to the pro-Russian politician”🤔 www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a lie, and it's a lie they've been telling since the 1950s. They push the story that technology will give the white-collar populace 4 or even 3-day work weeks, but that never materializes. 5-day work weeks with exponentially greater output expectations does.
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ashley (birthday week) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
okay holy shit
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just despicable people. All of them. It’s not just that they’re corrupt and shitty at their jobs - they’re terrible humans.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Great FAFO continues
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug
A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#GoldenAgeofScience: "The move comes after the Trump administration implemented a raft of policies that have upended postgraduate academic research, including in STEM fields. Doctoral programs have been roiled by more than a year of cuts, freezes and uncertainty around the federal research grants"
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 08/10/2026
In September, claims that Americans use guns defensively an estimated 60,000 to 2.5 million times a year were put on the CDC’s site. Later that month, that number changed to 500,000. John Lott, an economist and gun researcher, first reported the update. Experts have now debunked his conclusions.
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The CDC Updated the Defensive Gun Use Statistics on its Website — Again
The Trace reported in August when the CDC highlighted dubious figures on how often guns are used defensively on their website. This latest update also reflects the Trump administration’s staunch…
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.
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An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good. Every lawyer who's brought dubious cases under this regime should have their license questioned. www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirr...
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Jeanine Pirro ensnared by grand jury misconduct questions amid Reflecting Pool fallout
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro faces calls for a watchdog probe into whether her office recalled a grand jury witness to "manufacture" a felony charge against an Olympian later cleared.Lawyers for three-...
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just broadly, this isn't the purview of ICE in any way.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tell me again how many private dinners Ellison had with trump this past year?
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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is an incredibly important discussion. Our belief in meritocracy exists to justify a society based on hierarchy, in which the natural order is a division of humanity based on inherent traits such as gender and inherited factors such as wealth and opportunity.
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the president: let’s murder all citizens in blue cities the media: he speaks in riddles it’s unclear what he really means
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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Y’all, Catholics don’t applaud in church. Ever. This is a thing. You don’t have to like the church or organized religion. You do need to understand that up until the 90s and the US church pivot to abortion as a primary issue, the Catholic Church has long been a powerhouse in immigrant communities
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Affordability for working people, accountability for those who corruptly abuse their power. That's the platform, folks. Don't miss either part.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wrote about the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation. Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? My new piece:
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What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election?
Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump ordered OMB Director Russ Vought to embezzle funds from the federal government to fund ads designed to glorifying himself during the election season. The agency’s general counsel and WH counsel both signed off on the move as legal, although it clearly was not. The money was
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is cartoonishly self defeating and vindictive. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The timing might be a coincidence, but Trump is trying to get as many checks out the door as he can before the midterms. $90 to seniors. $1000 for health insurance supports. Could be this is part of that push. Look for some sort of Trump announcement where he boasts of giving kids $1000.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The corruption is so blatant. US-Russia discussions now include a multibillion-dollar purchase of Russian energy giant Lukoil’s global assets,to enrich Mid East businesses with ties to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who are leading the negotiations. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is one of my big things. AfD has no policies more radical than Republicans but Republicans never get accurately covered like AfD does.
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