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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
these fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives
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Clutch @clutch3-16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine you’re a law firm with a case before the Court and Jane Roberts calls you up and recommends you hire someone. Even if you have zero interest in trying to bribe him, how do you respond?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026
This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms
Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.
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MLB Homerun Tracker @mlbhomeruntracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HOME RUN! Jose Altuve Solo HR off Sean Burke Chicago White Sox @ Houston Astros Exit Velo: 98.0 mph | Launch Angle: 26° | Distance: 353 ft Bot 4th | CWS 4 - HOU 3 Season HR #1 #MLB #HomeRun #Astros
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.
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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”
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Clutch @clutch3-16.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They’re gonna give him the Mehdi Hasan “oops all Nazis” treatment
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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 25/09/2026
Read this again when someone tells you that the democrats are gearing up to go transphobic or don’t fight for us.
Do they settle because it costs a lot of money to litigate? Because they're at risk of losing federal funding? What are the ways that the Justice Department is able to coerce these hospitals?
Rep. Grace Meng: I mean, all of the above, right? I'm the top Democrat on the Appropriations
subcommittee that oversees all the DOJ funding. And we have seen this as we've been negotiating our budgets with them. They tried to include over 50 anti-GBTQ riders, what we call poison pills, into the budget. And we, as House Democrats, were able to take them all out. But they wanted to insert 52 pieces of wording and legislation that would have restricted medically necessary health care for transgender people, basically allowing taxpayer-funded discrimination against same-sex couples, blocking any non-discriminatory and DEl-type efforts.
But they are persistent, so they try it through the budget process, and they can't do that. Obviously, they're trying to cheat by coercing these hospitals:
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
any attempt at a reckoning for the systematic destruction of American domestic and global standing over the last several years that does not include consequences at every possible level for one Arthur Gregg Sulzberger is a failure
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.
I know, buddy, you did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi.
No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war.
And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
say, this reminds me: After Susan Collins voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh wrote the decision that gutted a key federal bribery statute
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Clutch @clutch3-16.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The thing is that those pundits themselves genuinely supported the worst shit the administration was doing.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wearing eye black with Hind Rajab’s name on it.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026
my dream is to one day see Sam Alito’s seat filled with the wokest rainbow-haired trans lesbian puppygirl imaginable
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think the argument that it would be better for anyone on any time horizon for Paxton to win is ludicrous, but if that's what you believe then at least stand up for it. Don't do this "I'm just saying don't vote for the Democratic candidate, what heppens is out of my hands" chickenshit nonsense
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Clutch @clutch3-16.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Ted Cruz curse is fucking brutal
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm not even stating a side on the latest Discourse - I'm simply saying: the goal of this shit published from the Beltway punditocracy, a group we KNOW loves Republicans & wants them to win, is to get YOU, personally, to despair & see enemies everywhere, to convince you the real war is against Dems
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In 2028 someone is going to tell you (it is going to be Ryan Grim) that Vance is running to AOC’s left on foreign policy. When they do I want you to punch them in the mouth
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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This shit is so funny, bar exams should legit be testing the Mr. Trump Is a Special Boy Doctrine, it is the law at least as much as, like, the first amendment. More so in many cases.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
someone could do a “after moulton rebuke, centrists face growing pressure to retreat from extreme right-wing positions on gender conformity” number that would be fun
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Clutch @clutch3-16.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Man we’ve got tankies here crediting Stalin for getting the UK and France to fight Hitler by SIGNING THE FUCKING MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For reasons that I believe need examination and explaining, credible news organizations have not made this their lead story every day this summer. If a Dem president did this in one red state it would be nuclear level coverage.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
one of the craziest things about American politics is that Republican media figures and politicians are constantly threatening to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale unless they are allowed to win and it literally never makes the news
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
since folks are asking for various Bluesky sports starter packs I guess I should repost this badfaithtimes.com/your-guide-t...
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Your Guide To Bluesky, The Official App of Sports
Using the power of sports, we can extract people from the society-destroying influence of Elon Musk
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
i think that we can raze the Republican party to the ground using the power of the state and if that risks a Napoleon, i'd rather my dictator than theirs
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Of all the reasons the establishment media won’t amplify our existential national crisis, the simplest one is that they’re on the side of the crisis.
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Clutch @clutch3-16.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
First of Ossoff or Pritzker to propose demolishing the homes of the 6 GOP justices will run away with the nomination
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Probably not, so you need to focus on giving them someone to take revenge on in the meantime--MAGA regime officials who committed actual fucking federal crimes. The next Dem admin needs to go on a puritanitcal anticorruption drive and message the fuck out of every person who gets tossed in a cell.
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Clutch @clutch3-16.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think I could fix Lila
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
please try to imagine that the world is larger, more interesting, and infinitely more important than the mental horizon of an American op-ed page
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Pack the Court or Lose the Republic.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's beyond insane that every major paper and news org just let's these pieces of shit lie with every breath they can muster. This is no different than the Comet Pizza basement horseshit only this time it's coming from the Secretary of Education.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the news media understood perfectly that stuff like this was what was actually at stake in the 2024 election and told voters instead that the larger issue was that it was a scandal that Tim Walz retired after 21 years in the national guard
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I feel like the only people insecure about having email jobs never actually had blue-collar jobs and don't realize that blue-collar work is completely unrewarding dogshit and get really worked up over it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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