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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump has lost this war. America is weaker, Iran is stronger, the price to reopen the strait increases by the day, the supposed 'deal' that's on the table right now would pay Iran $100 billion a year in order to reopen the strait ... what a victory for Iran."

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Wrote about the best movie I've seen so far this year: chrisknapp.substack.com/p/on-my-fath...

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On "My Father's Shadow" (part 1)

Childhood, brotherhood, fatherhood, statehood

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Newsletter is live open.substack.com/pub/chriskna...

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fresh Hell is going up in a few days and it will be rad. Subscribe for free!! open.substack.com/pub/chriskna...

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Fresh Hell! Coming soon!!

Against my better judgement I am doing a Substack and it will be called Fresh Hell.

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It is the season to buy my book

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Starting a substack called Fresh Hell!! 🔥🔥 There will be lots of griping but the Marxist kind substack.com/@chrisknapp

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Fresh Hell! Coming soon!!
Against my better judgement I am doing a Substack and it will be called Fresh Hell.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I think people should respond this way any time they are asked this question bsky.app/profile/dipl...

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It’s actually so hilarious to me that people thought Superman was a direct and specific reference to Israel and Palestine as if that’s the only time that shit happened

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/04/2026

The failure of the right in the U.S. is total, is world-historic, but the Atlantic will circle the drain forever scrambling for ways to blame the left

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

mainstream media outlets should probably be vocally asking who the actual President is

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/03/2026

the day he dies is going to hit so good

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?”
“As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.”
“Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

And the problem with these all these tech goons, and billionaires in general for that matter—they’re literal dunces in all other areas of life but want to be the dark lords of the universe

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I’m listening to a podcast from 2021 and it’s reminding me how the meme-ified speech and bastardized social/political vocabulary of the internet turned us all into LLMs long before the real thing came on the scene

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I think about this a lot and I haven’t read Lyta’s book yet but I’m convinced part of it is that politics has become the only acceptable axis for negative criticism

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

They did that when they delivered the weapons and funding, and blocked anyone from stopping the genocide.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

a fan of this energy tbh, and ambitious politicos should be trying to outdo each other here

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I first thought "there aren't words" when I first saw this story. but there are

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 04/02/2026

Reporting from the Twin Cities, Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein (@robinks.com) “kept hearing about the lengths to which ICE is going to ensnare people who criticize the agency or obstruct its terror campaign.”

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Fifteen Below Zero | Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

Driving to St. Paul from the airport you pass under Fort Snelling, an enormous limestone structure from the early nineteenth century. In November 1862,

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Stacy W @stacyw.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"...we maintain this weird double standard: Soldiers in combat zones must refuse unlawful orders, but civilians facing unlawful force from domestic law enforcement must submit." publicseminar.org/2026/01/the-...

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The Moral Right to Defend Yourself Against ICE - Public Seminar

If you saw an armed stranger forcing his way into your neighbor's home at dawn, would you have the right to stop him?

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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I get that covering these things is hard but journalists have to stop falling into this kind of trap E.g. in this case implying that if something isn’t covered by the constitution the government can execute you on the spot

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“President Trump does not seem interested in de-escalating anything in Minneapolis. This week, he said that one justification for the shooting of Renee Good might have been that she had been "disrespectful" to officers. Being disrespectful is a form of speech, though - one protected by the Constitution

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15/01/2026

They're still trying to deport Rümeysa Öztürk after she was arrested in the street by plainclothes ICE agents and detained for six weeks for writing a column in her college newspaper that was critical of Israel.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

It’s actually astonishing to see how the NYT dances around the fact that she was a vile, convicted racist even in the side article about her politics, and meanwhile Le Monde, otherwise a truly bush league paper, has it in the lede.

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Solid opportunity for Ezra Klein to redeem himself

Screencap of NYT obit for Brigitte Bardot

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

can not handle one more profile that describes a wealthy new yorker being “in exile” in LA as if the mayor had them banished

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chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Hating the liquid glass thing has become my entire personality

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

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