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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Does no one else find this an unforgivably stupid question? Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable. Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in five European nations, survey finds
Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/07/2026
I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
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clairepaulson.bsky.social @clairepaulson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You're not allowed to say this but: Getting people who believe in baseless conspiracy theories to be afraid of and hostile to bad things instead of hostile to good things would be a major boon to the world and seems generally easier than getting those people to stop believing in conspiracies
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
THIS IS GOOD @matthew.flux.community "In the current media ecosystem, Republicans own and Democrats rent. Democrats pay for seasonal access to the networks, stations, platforms, and newspapers owned by Republicans or right-wing entities, to advertise and communicate with voters."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/05/2026
incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/05/2026
This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.
Ocasio-Cortez isn’t convinced. She’s not sure that these are the kinds of proposals Democrats should start building an agenda around.

“When you actually look at the totality of what’s being put forward, we are seeing a total gutting of a resource base,” Ocasio-Cortez told NOTUS. “If people want to choose between whether they want guaranteed health care or a 5% tax rebate, people are going to want guaranteed health care.”

“It’s not to say that I object to any and all like tax cuts or tax rebates, right? We can help people who are struggling, but I don’t think that the biggest impact in how you help someone and how we help people make ends meet is through that avenue,” she said.

For Ocasio-Cortez, who has long been an advocate of taxing the wealthy and transforming social services, wiping out significant tax revenue goes too far.

Ocasio-Cortez said “across the board” tax cut proposals on the table amount to an “attack” on young people.

“It is a complete defunding of the world that young people will have to live in, and they are asking young people to foot the bill,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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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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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/04/2026
Omg I'm so happy
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Kerry @kjfh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don't surrender it to those who would destroy it.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-...
meditationsinanemergency.com
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender)
I have been hesitating to hit send on this one, because across the world we are all under the shadow of Trump's threat to commit war crimes that will "eradicate a whole civilization" in Iran while Ira...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/03/2026
“Is that the reason why Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is now consulting the domestic intelligence agency before approving funds to bookshops?… A quick look at the three bookshops is telling: they are antifascist, they are proud of it and they are institutions in their communities.”
theguardian.com
Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir
First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Unpopular opinion but the Dems should be investing in this sort of "this must hit so hard if you're stupid" slop content – our side lost the kind of people who like this shit 95/5 in 2024, just drawing the "incredibly dumb guy" demo back to 70/30 GOP would mean landslide Dem wins
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
RESULT: Over & over, Democratic lawmaker Shelly Willingham helped the North Carolina GOP override the vetoes of Governor Stein & Cooper. He lost just now to a progressive challenger, 56% to 44%. (And he's likely one of several in this position. Stay tuned.)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
lmfao get wrecked
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
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Philine Widmer @phinifa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 17/02/2026
In neighbourhoods across Berlin, a quiet rebellion is unfolding in the form of Kiezblocks (or “neighbourhood blocks”). What began as a grassroots response to political inertia and rat-running cars has evolved into a compelling experiment in bottom-up urbanism coordinated by @ccitiesorg.bsky.social.🧵
People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings. People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings. People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings. People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda. Only 57 Democrats voted NO. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
Gabe Amo (RI-01)	Val Hoyle (OR-04) 	Gwen Moore (WI-04) 
Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03)	Jared Huffman (CA-02) 	Seth Moulton (MA-06) 
Becca Balint (VT-AL) 	Jonathan Jackson (IL-01) 	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) 
Don Beyer (VA-08)	Sara Jacobs (CA-51) 	Ilhan Omar (MN-05) 
Andre Carson (IN-07) 	Pramila Jayapal (WA-07)	Mark Pocan (WI-02) 
Sean Casten (IL-06) 	Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) 	Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) 
Joaquin Castro (TX-20) 	Bill Keating (MA-09) 	Delia Ramirez (IL-03) 
Steve Cohen (TN-09) 	Robin Kelly (IL-02) 	Emily Randall (WA-06) 
Maxine Dexter (OR-03) 	Raj Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) 	Jamie Raskin (MD-08) 
Lloyd Doggett (TX-37) 	Summer Lee (PA-12) 	Pat Ryan (NY-18) 
Veronica Escobar (TX-16) 	Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03) 	Lateefah Simon (CA-12) 
Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) 	Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) 	Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) 
Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) 	Stephen Lynch (MA-08) 	Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) 
Val Foushee (NC-04) 	Seth Magaziner (RI-02) 	Mark Takano (CA-39) 
Laura Friedman (CA-30) 	Sarah McBride (DE-AL) 	Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) 
Maxwell Frost (FL-10) 	Morgan McGarvey (KY-03) 	Nydia Velázquez (NY-07) 
Robert Garcia (CA-42) 	Jim McGovern (MA-02) 	Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) 
Chuy García (IL-04) 	LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) 	
Dan Goldman (NY-10) 	Gregory Meeks (NY-05) 	
Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) 	Robert Menendez (NJ-08)
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The press practice of relying on the govt to set the narrative is routine enough in the US to normally escape notice, but in an insurrection it looks unmistakably absurd alongside citizen reporting. Running in clown shoes to the cops & the White House to uncritically report back whatever they say.
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BREAKING: A federal officer shot a person in the leg after being attacked with a shovel during a Minneapolis arrest, an AP source says.‪@unraveledpress.com‬:
Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches. @reuters.com‬:
Exclusive: Trump calls Minnesota ICE shooting 'sad to see on both sides' ‪@statuscoupnews.bsky.social‬:

"It looks like Call of Duty outside—it's fucking crazy! Get ICE out of the city!" -Minneapolis resident after ICE shot a man run the leg and unleashed onslaught of grenades and chemical gas on unarmed protesters.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026
“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I *think* that appealing to the basic decency of most Americans in the aftermath of Renee Good's murder is smart politics. But mostly I think it's worth doing because if that decency really isn't there then this whole rebuilding democracy thing isn't going to work.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin. Sensible gun regulation is not a violation of natural law. It is Thursday in London... There is another America inside this one.”
data4democracy.substack.com
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
this is not a party gearing up to even pare back funding, let alone abolish ICE. I cannot stress enough that it'd be cleaner and easier to just get rid of every last one of them via primary than try to figure out which is worth saving
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"We have a different and particularly bad electoral system" is the simple reason behind so many problems that people want to attribute to the character or culture of Americans.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
1. First, let's talk about the elephant in the room that he doesn't mention explicitly but haunts the whole piece: climate change is real, we've overshot the goal and the only way to turn the corner is to leave fossil fuel in the ground. To ignore that is to talk about rocketry and ignore gravity.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“I don't wanna go far for stuff" My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
White text on black: I love walkable neighbourhoods because I don’t wanna go far for stuff. 

No big conspiracy, I’m just lazy.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/12/2025
This report should have panicked everyone on the left into concerted, coordinated effort to address the information asymmetry. But as far as I can tell it just came & went & Dems are still in "buy TV ads about affordability" mode.
mediamatters.org
The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces
As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
forever-wars.com
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
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