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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(angry goose meme) "Efficient HOW?"
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/10/2026
The usual suspects aren't panicking about the bond market gods the way they do when someone proposes spending a million bucks to feed children
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The billions wasted on mass deportation could have been used to fund an efficient, fair system for processing asylum claims, making TPS recipients permanent residents, and legalizing undocumented people. We would have a safer, more prosperous, more just country.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
once again, this should be front-page news all over the world, the President of the USA just fabricated an entire story about himself
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unprecedented corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It should be bigger news that Natalie Harp reportedly dug up the image that Trump posted of the Obamas as apes. On the pod, @greene.haus is great on how Harp debases our country—and all of us. "It’s degrading and sordid to be governed this way," he says. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2146...
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Trump’s Fury over Natalie Harp Mess Worsens as Leaks Grow More Damning
As the scandal around Trump’s devoted aide spirals downward, a political operative who previously held a job similar to hers explains the deeper reasons all this is so unsettling.
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Howard Megdal @howardmegdal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You ban him. You give exactly as much energy and attention as is required to the task and nothing more.And then you never think about or talk about him again. #wnba
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The kidnappings and deportations to random third countries are atrocious and $5million is insulting chump change for Liberia to accept for its part in this sordid scheme. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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U.S. Agreed to Pay Liberia $5 Million in Connection with Deportees, Documents Say
The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/08/2026
"starting to feel bad for Natalie Harp" is a real problem and you should get treated for it
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/08/2026
There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
Bleak tidbit from Regime Change — Bessent attempted a Hitler-style shakedown of Zelenskyy as one of his first acts as Treasury Secretary
“Bessent’s proposal would require Ukraine to pay the United States 50 percent of future revenue from state-owned natural resources, including hydrocarbons and rare earth minerals. The document prescribed very specific commitments from Ukraine, but offered no security commitments from the United States. Even though the minerals deal had been Zelensky’s idea, part of the “Victory Plan for Ukraine” he had recently unveiled, he was shocked by Bessent’s terms.
Zelensky explained that he was leading his country through a particularly violent phase of the three-year-old war, and insisted that he and his staff needed more time to consider the proposal. Bessent saw things very differently. He had traveled nearly five thousand miles to an active war zone to obtain Zelensky’s signature, and now Zelensky was telling him no.
“You need to sign this,” Bessent urged. “The purpose of this is to show that there is no daylight” between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Zelensky, furious, replied that the document was an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty. This was not the way international agreements worked—this was a shakedown.”

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Regime Change
Maggie Haberman
https://books.apple.com/us/book/regime-change/id6761716648
This material may be protected by copyright.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
STUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh
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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Watching in real-time as the right wing media machine's attempt to hijack the WNBA spotlight to push anti-trans hate morphs into an effort by a bunch of men to bash the WNBA by mocking the player's athleticism (comparing them unfavorably to eighth-grade boys) and gender presentations.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 28/07/2026
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The so-called ceasefire was, in significant part, an attempt by Trump to 1) avoid a War Powers Act vote and 2) game the markets some more. Republicans in Congress let Trump get these people killed.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.
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Little Gitmos everywhere
The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Welcome to the meritocracy, Sen. Graham’s Sister
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 09/07/2026
"a corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury, and executioner" My dude, this process is a job interview, not a criminal trial
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Graham Platner for Senate on Instagram: "My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine."
4,306 likes, 1,724 comments - grahamformaine on July 8, 2026: "My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.".
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Graham Platner shouldn't be a United States Senator -- and neither should Susan Collins -- and I really really hope there's a way for both of those things to be true.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A lot of govts have limited this guys company in order to ensure affordable housing, but he has a different explanation for housing shortages, one courtesy of an organization too racist even for William F. Buckley. And he also in charge of digital branding for the US government under Trump.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just because SCOTUS affirms a type of discrimination does not mean that discrimination is required. This decision should not cause us to weaken our efforts for trans inclusion in general or trans inclusion in sports in particular. Cis allies, you very specifically, need to double down.
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jackson: "Of course, the ultimate irony is that for all the talk about the detestable Dred Scott decision, the Government and the principal dissent propose a return to its core tenet. Their bottom line is that, for certain people, being born on American soil will not suffice to confer citizenship."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion attempts to divine the intentions and desires of the Fourteenth Amendment’s drafters without a single citation of anything they wrote.
Here, that interpretive principle would support
additional exceptions for children born to foreign citizens
unlawfully or temporarily in the country.5
First, significant illegal immigration into the United
States is a new circumstance that was largely unknown as
of 1868 and that the Framers of the Fourteenth
Amendment could not have fully anticipated. And the
Framers likely would not have anticipated (and presumably
would not have intended) the odd result of granting a
substantial birthright citizenship benefit to (i) those foreign
citizens who violate U. S. immigration law and illegally
enter or overstay and then have children in the United
States over (ii) those foreign citizens who follow U. S.
immigration law and have children in their home countries
while seeking to lawfully immigrate to the United States.
Nor presumably would they have wanted to grant
constitutional birthright citizenship to children of foreign
citizens unlawfully in the country while simultaneously
denying constitutional birthright citizenship to children of
tribal American Indians. So too, the issue of temporary
visitors who give birth in the United States presents a new
and different circumstance than in 1868 given the
significant changes in immigration laws and travel.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
one kind of striking thing about the 250 birthday fiasco is aren't there usually just regular people visiting the capital every day did this event actually repel visitors
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
All the centrist Democrats freaking out about the NY primaries need to understand: This is what we call “politics.” The kind that involves voters. It’s a good thing. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
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The New York Election Proves That Primaries Are Good
The Democratic establishment has an aversion to politics, at least the kind that involves voters.
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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I mean, look, in fairness to the AI industry, if you set aside the part where they eventually start charging for this stuff, and the disruption to the internal staffing of companies that use it that happens in the meantime, and the environmental consequences of needing massive new electricity /1
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"The Indian is my wife" This is what I mean when I describe Vance as a 19th century racist
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Bonhoeffer tried to assassinate... Hitler. It's so telling that when a GOP stooge is looking for the name of a bad political assassin... he doesn't name Wilkes-Booth or Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan. He names a hero who tried to snuff out Hitler. He knows, in his fucking BONES, who Trump is.
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Queen Sansa @queensansastark.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wow, Trump finally got a crowd to show up at the Kennedy Center.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I wish academics would stop doing this insipid punditry. If people are acting like Nazis I'm going to call them Nazis! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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