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Clint Hendler

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Mother Jones senior editor. New Haven.

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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
32 years ago today, we held the launch party for DOOM II at the Limelight in NYC, a former church. Happy birthday to DOOM II, but also, happy birthday to the Super Shotgun, the be-all and end-all of many a monster.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The working assumption about 🇺🇸 politics needs to be that we are going to have 20-30% of voters supporting far right authoritarianism, as is now true in ~every rich democracy. We can reform our institutions to ensure the 70% can govern, or we’ll always be one election from the fascists getting 51%.
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Pete Hausler @petehausler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm fascinated by the the synchronicity of two consecutive posts that sometimes hit our timeline. the irony is amazing: a post about a revisionist Watergate movement, next to a post saying, "oh, hey, you can now bribe Trump directly by buying his meme coin to have dinner with him."
consecutive Bluesky timeline posts of 1) revisionist Watergate theory and 2) A post about how people with business before the government can now bribe the president by buying his meme coin.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
US military killed four more people today in a boat in the Caribbean, SOUTHCOM said this past hour. Military said intelligence confirmed they were involved in narcotics trafficking, did not share any of that intelligence/evidence. 1st strike since Sept. 9. x.com/Southcom/sta...
US Southern command post on X that says: On September 19, under the direction of U.S. Southern Command, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have stepped into this conversation. Have a blessed day 🙏
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/09/2026
It’s true we shouldn’t expect state and local police to defend voters from ICE at the polls. But it’s not so much because it’s logistically tricky or because they’re scared or outnumbered or were told not to, but because they’re all law enforcement, and this is how law enforcement works.
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Cops won’t fight federal election interference—so citizens will have to
How democracy protection groups are preparing for Trump's worst.
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LuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 22/08/2026
2026 CFB names thread:
PRAYER
YOUNG-BLACKGOAT
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp.
a very wordy cartoon discussing server farms taking over entire states and also journalism being reduced to podcasters scrounging for spare change.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
DSA should claim Mike Rogers is a member so people can cover his views
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ms. Rachel
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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 25/08/2026
Stuck in New Haven rush-hour traffic? At least there’s something worth reading along the way. 👀 Two 48-foot billboards sponsored by Indivisible Civics along I-91 and I-95 read: “Yale is failing intro to ethics by cutting a deal with Trump.” 🧵 1/5
White graphic with the text, “Two 48-foot billboards along I-91 and I-95 read…” followed by very large black letters: “Yale: Don’t Cave.” Below, text reads, “Indivisible takes the campaign to New Haven.” A photograph shows one of the digital billboards partially obscured by tree branches. The billboard says Yale is “failing intro to ethics by cutting a deal with Trump” and includes a circled red F and YaleDontCave.com. Photo credited to Gregg Gonsalves via Yale Daily News.
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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/08/2026
This week, Senator Ron Wyden demanded that Trump’s Customs and Border Patrol agency explain why it had “abruptly abandoned its own established administrative procedures” to lift a ban on sugar imports by Central Romana, the Dominican Republic’s largest plantation owner. 🧵
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The high human cost of America's sugar habit
Low pay, chemical exposure, and a life of debt.
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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Passing the polling place, signs sprouting from the roadside, I saw a grandpa wearing an I Can’t Breathe t-shirt walking a kid into school, and so I introduced my daughter to “A Small Needful Fact” in the car line.
Screenshot of the poem “A Small Needful Fact,” by Ross Gay. 

A Small Needful Fact

Is that Eric Garner worked
for some time for the Parks and Rec.i
Horticultural Department, which means,
perhaps, that with his very large hands,
perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures,
like being pleasant to touch and smell,
like converting sunlight
into food, like making it easier
for us to breathe.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I was just telling a reporter that most of the college presidents who have taken action have done so in the wake of moves from their faculty and other workers, not the reverse. Harvard is no different.
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Danny Blinderman @dannyblinderman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The endpoint of the "unitary executive".
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Something I didn’t include in the story: Rep. Miller expressed to the judge he was worried about making future court hearings over his CPO because Republicans have a “very small majority.” His lawyer basically told him to shut up.
Screenshot of court transcript
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Leavitt can now resume her prior side hustle of putting her name on prefab op-eds. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's new press secretary was paid for articles praising a con man
Before Guo Wengui was charged in a massive fraud scheme, his followers commissioned Karoline Leavitt to byline fawning op-eds.
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Total waste of money. They could pay a bunch of DSA factions 10K each to shit post against one another and get more results.
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Nina Martin @byninamartin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Dobbs was supposed to crush the pro-choice movement. But even as abortion *rights* have shrunk in red states, abortion *access* has expanded. This week at Reveal @amylittlefield.bsky.social @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social & I look at why. @revealnews.org @motherjones.com
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The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America
Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
you gotta talk about Gloria here, right
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Today in “Existential threats to American higher education that make one wonder why university presidents are so totally absent from the public square in defending our interests” bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Fetterman bringing up Abdul El-Sayed without any prompting as he rants about Hamas… well, it feels like a tell, doesn’t it?
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Hannah Levintova @h-lev.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/ Last summer, @acleek.bsky.social and I started getting emails from staffers of a company called American Healthcare Systems. They told us that their hospitals were in financial chaos and that they were struggling to care for patients. So we started digging: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
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Laura J. @elsiejay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Cape Verde should get a trophy. If FIFA can make up a trophy for Trump, they can do it for Cape Verde.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Brooklyn craft beer packaging goes hard
Participation Trophy Brewing’s “it’s like nobody wants to impress Jody foster anymore” hazy IPA 🍺
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We’ll see a game with a way above average number of crosses.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
To Yale: Appeasing fascists is never a good idea. Ask your history or poli sci depts. But appeasing fascists when they’re weak manages to be even worse. As wrong and self-defeating as Columbia’s appeasement was, at least they did it early when the fascists were running high. Have some integrity.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life
“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A Danish journalist, Rasmus Svaneborg, asked NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: "You sit next to Trump while he talks about taking over Greenland or publicly humiliates Spain. Doesn't it affect your self-respect when you just sit there and say nothing?"
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If Betfair odds are a sure guide [ed. "they're not"] Count Binface is more likely to win the Clacton by-election than each of Norway, Morocco, Switzerland or Belgium is to win the World Cup
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Survived a Swiss miss
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Colombia and Swiss teams’ and fans’ differing preparations for field kicks illustrate a real divide between Catholicism and Calvinism.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.”
“On nous dit dans l’oreillette que Donald Trump souhaite lancer un recours auprès de Gianni Infantino en accusant la sélection belge d’avoir joué au football ce mardi.”
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A younger USMNT played a better Netherlands side closer and tougher than this four years ago, and did so halfway around the world. Wonder what the biggest difference was. Any ideas?
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
Pausa de Humiliacion
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
when they go low, we go hide
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Following this up with “oh I’m still alive” was a choice.
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You can change the tournament format. You can hire one of the world’s most famous coaches. You can call your corrupt buddy and make a special plea. But no matter what, the US will go out to a low country in the round of 16.
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Air to Ground Message: WORLD CUP SCORE PLEASE Area: Buffalo, NY, USA Type: Airbus A330-300 A: #a073d1d1fe0 F: #fa25a72d1e9
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Wheeeee!
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yes. Balogun didn’t ask for help from Trump, a man who doesn’t even want him to be an American.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I still don’t know how Platner would have ever been able to land a punch against Collin on the Kavanaugh vote. Trump would have gotten that seat. That isn’t the liberal lingering rage around that confirmation. It’s about the treatment of sexual abuse allegations. Messengers matter.
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Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
CONCACAF heritage night
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