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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026

What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/

A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

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With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I will just say, from Oregon, that to me a big part of why Mamdani and Lander blew up on a national level was that their shared values, mutual respect and solidarity across faith traditions (even while running against each other!) was like everything beautiful about both New York and America

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Again, every single person involved in DOGE, including Elon Musk, needs to be sent to jail for the rest of their lives for these unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations.

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No more billionaires! @emartineau.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I want a National Office for the Recovery of Public Assets, too!!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

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Trump’s Humiliation in Orbán Defeat Stunner Is Only Just Beginning

For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The US AID destruction is one of the sickest things anyone has ever done in human history. No one got anything out of it besides the gleeful thrill of mass black death. It’s truly bone chilling to even contemplate what this really was.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

the Democrats should announce that they will not renew any contracts with XAI, Palantir, Tesla, or SpaceX and bankrupt the fucking tech right. announce that you have the votes to ban crypto too.

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Renee Good reminds me of how vital poetry is, of how the generous splay of language outlasts every tyrant. pundits can belittle her as a "self-proclaimed poet" because they don't value what's not for sale, because poetry enumerates that which cannot be purchased: our humanity.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This, for the love of all that is holy Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I'd also note they already invalidated Section 3 that says that you can't hold federal office if you engaged in insurrection against the United States. These are not judges impartially applying the law. They are racist despots who despise American progress. (3/3)

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

rewarding this guy with a trillion dollars for making u money go fuck yourselves you shareholder fucks

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Your liberal media at work.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2025

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/08/2025

People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It is increasingly clear that the majority of federal law enforcement officers do little or no real work, hence having the time and resources to do what they've been doing under Trump. Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Threats of the militarization of cities—, including DC which has been fighting for self determination for generations, isn’t a “distraction”. It’s a massive, giant, red trial balloon For what an American president can do YOUR city if you feel like it. I need people to wake up.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

every writeup of some AI cheerleader makes them come across as the biggest assholes in tech which if u know anything about tech is quite a fuckin achievement

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I love my city and I love my country even though they are built on deeply fucked up systems which badly need dismantling but they are full of good people who care about the right things and that’s not nothing I would rather be us than them

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/03/2025

Media is straight up refusing to cover any of the protests, and actively misreporting the basics of the law-breaking across the administration. Normal people who just casually pass by a few minutes of CNN in a week haven't heard *anything* about the worst attack on government since the Civil War.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

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André Gunthert @gunthert.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"Make billionaires even richer"/"Billionaires first".

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If Trump and Musk were trying to weaken the United States and sell it to its foreign enemies, how would they act any differently from the way they're acting now? Not at all, you say? Maybe you should wonder why that is.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Look, I’m not the CIA’s biggest fan, but can we not describe the ONGOING FUCKING COUP as a “makeover”

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