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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ka-boom!

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've been toying with this idea about how we explicitly reframe the value of college to include other outcomes rather than ROI & workforce training. These are important outcomes but colleges also help people understand and participate in society and their governments as *citizens*.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Teaching critical thinking: What evidence do you have to support your claim? How do you know that evidence is true? Have you considered the opposing evidence? How do you know that evidence is false?

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Split-Ticket has the House Dem 230-205 Senate is now a pure tossup with projected 51 Dem seats Lastly a poll coming tomorrow from them entirely after the Iran War restarted will show the situation deteriorating even further than previously in the cycle

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Economist: "People say that you're a racist. What is the motivation for doing that?" Thomas Jefferson: "My partner is...she is my wife's 14-year-old half-black half-sister that I've enslaved...I have six kids with her (who I've also enslaved)...So I would say I'm not racist."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Regret is fine, but these were unprecedented constitutional crimes & also caused mass death, & he needs to spend the rest of his life in jail, after he personally reimburses the federal government & lawful recipients of Congressionally authorized federal funding for the billions he destroyed.

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Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The U.S. can still win if Mike Pence has the courage.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

guardian World Cup liveblog asking the big questions www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

Are you tired and emotional in Mexico?
Did you watch Mexico v England at the World Cup? We'd like to hear from you

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/06/2026

SCOTUS upholding the firing of the FTC commissioner but not the Federal Reserve board member is such a blatant reveal of how this Supreme Court sides with the interests of capital over consistent jurisprudence and precedent.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20/06/2026

The Zlatan and Thierry just VIBING, with Lalas only featured long enough to get got. I love it. Right into my veins.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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We Need a Fourth Branch

Why our most vital institutions should be placed in a constitutional vault - beyond the reach of any President.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/05/2026

the pope: hey just checking in on the AI encyclical designs- the pope's digital comms intern (looking up from Figma, the ancient spirit of Michalangelo speaking through him): WHEN I AM FINISHED!!!

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

this exchange bw @janainelson.bsky.social & @nhannahjones.bsky.social captures, with precision, why pro-democracy movements will not prevail unless they are self-counsciously and outspokenly anti-racist movements. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

“It needs to be emphasized again and again: What is happening is an assault on democracy, and they’re using the easiest vector, which is anti-Black racism, because it’s the easiest thing you could do, the laziest thing you can do,” Nelson said. “They are cementing absolute minority control because they do not represent a majority of this country. And when they — if they — get away with the heist, we will be locked out of multiracial democracy for at least a generation.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

See that NYT piece about the water crisis in Corpus Christie? This one by @dylanbaddour.bsky.social in @texastribune.org explains WHY this crisis is happening - fossil fuel infrastructure and climate disruption - which the NYT somehow... doesn't mention? www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

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Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe

City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A video answer to the insipid pundit question “where are all the student protests?”

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Alabama asked the Supreme Court for permission to abandon court-ordered maps and go back to using ones the Court ruled were in violation of the Voting Rights Act, just three years ago, in the wake of Callais. Today, the Supreme Court said yes. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Here's Why We've Been Keeping An Eye On Alabama

A really bad decision from SCOTUS

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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

John Roberts is an institutionalist only insofar as he’s committed to growing and preserving the power of the institution he controls. For decades he has wielded that power on behalf of oligarchs and theocrats to end America as we knew it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Blame John Roberts for destroying the Voting Rights Act

He's been dismantling the country's most important civil rights law for over 40 years.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I spoke to our son's entire 7th grade class just now+ talked about launching Elon Musk on a solo mission to Mars and *every last kid* belly laughed. You have to be the biggest loser on Earth to have 7th graders laughing at a mom making a joke about you. Infinite negative aura. The kids are alright.

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Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Richard Neustadt liked to say that the two most important resources a president had were "his time and his words." Trump has devalued those currencies as well.

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I already dealt with this.

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Adam Rothman 08 June 2020
Darth Vader was a Jedi.

Charlie Kirk 07 June 2020
The Republican Party freed the slaves.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Important to know how much the Voting Rights Act affects things like the number of black & brown people in Congress and state legislatures But I want to reemphasize the (more important to me) point that Black political power produced Black economic power.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Excerpt from the book How Democracies Die.

"America's democratic norms, then, were born in a context of exclusion. As long as the political community was restricted largely to whites, Democrats and Republicans had much in common. Neither party was likely to view the other as an existential threat. The process of racial inclusion that began after World War II and culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act would, at long last, fully democratization the United States. But it would also polarized it, posing the greatest challenge to established forms of mutual tolerating and forbearance since Reconstruction."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/04/2026

this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

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ReadJack🇺🇸 @readjack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🚨New publication alert! 🚨 Social Science Quarterly: college students who receive a peer-led, short, in-class presentation about voting are 11 percentage points more likely to vote. Research done w grad and undergrad students at @scharschool.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Meeting Students Where They Are: A Field Experiment of Classroom Interventions for Voter Turnout Among College Students

Objective The goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of various get-out-the-vote (GOTV) strategies on college students’ propensity to vote in state and local elections. Methods We condu...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/04/2026

No one likes unnecessary scaffolding. Thankfully, we have a plan — and John Wilson is here to help break it down.

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Work in Progress: How we're tackling Sidewalk Sheds (with John Wilson)

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I like how George Washington abused the powers of his office by asking a local federal official where Ona Judge had escaped to try to find her; literally an impeachable offense by the first and 'greatest' president

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Another master class in offering a positive vision for public service

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We all know this is fascism.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 18/03/2026

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The political education mayor

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026

FWIW this is literally the argument the Supreme Court rejected in Loving v. Virginia the state was like 'oh but Black people can't marry white people AND white people can't marry Black people so there's no Equal Protection Clause problem, checkmate libs' and SCOTUS was like '...fuck outta my face'

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

1. Trump was told a war could trigger oil shocks, especially at home, where the affordability issue is rapidly eating the heart out of his presidency. But risks were “downplayed,” the Times said, in favor of a plan to “decapitate” Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Political scientists in election years: No. Presidents can't really affect gas prices. It's a silly way to judge a president. Political scientists in 2026: So, actually...

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