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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Triggered much?" is what a troll says when one of their targets gets bothered by their posts. Here, senior US official Greg Bovino redeploys it to defend/celebrate a literal murder in the physical world. A government of, by, and for the Online Right.

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/01/2026

we’re living through the national version of that conversation where you’re like, hey, I don’t think grandpa should be driving anymore, but our cousins are all like, fuck that, give him the keys! grandpa rules! I bet he could drive 1000 miles per hour!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

All the talk of "balance" in journalism produced a culture where constant sane-washing of the right isn't just allowed, it's expected and required.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Another example of an article framed by Trump’s pov that barely mentions that Trump, in fact, decisively lost the 2020 election and continues to lie about it, and that he is repeating conspiracy theories with no basis in fact. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

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Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It's that Wilhoit's Law thing again, isn't it?

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NPR @npr.org · 12/01/2026

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images. n.pr/49BPyI1

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Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk's Grok over AI deepfakes

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Is there any point to sleep anymore? I wake up at 3am still tired of winning. So, so tired of winning.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I honestly think that the main revelation of Trump 2 has been that there is no big C Capital running things behind the scenes anymore and pulling strings. There's individual rich crazy people with their thumbs on the scale, but there's no smoke filled rooms

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Early 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally shut down the CFPB, the newest member of the Federal Reserve system. Jay Powell says nothing. Summer 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Powell says nothing. 2026: Trump admin comes for Powell. He finally finds his voice.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 11/01/2026

Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors. Excellent opening in particular.

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America’s Strategic Alliance with Denmark and NATO

A statement by 14 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

On Jan 7, Elon Musk posted a “100” emoji above a post by an author called“Jerr,” which stated, “White solidarity is the only way to survive.” In the same thread, Jerr promoted his book, Blood Prophecy in the Bone House, which (per Jerr) “explains why racism is moral...” 1/

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I want that mouse toy on my desk by tomorrow morning!

A white and ginger cat standing up at a computer desk.

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Bryan Cursèd @chucklebot314.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Competition is a once useful animal trait that has become a destructive mass-pathology used to analyze (very very badly) everything from sex to sleep to pleasure to work to relationships to parenthood. Its inappropriate in 90% of cases and excessive in the rest.

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Good Lord. Welker: [Translated] Well, yes, but certainly you wouldn't consider shutting down the entire government over something as insignificant as this?

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

“”We Love America” isn’t a journalistic principle, it’s barely a bumper sticker. True patriotism does not mean ignoring your country’s faults or dismissing its critics as haters or disloyal.” @anthonylfisher.bsky.social with a stirring rebuke of Bari Weiss and CBS News www.ms.now/opinion/cbs-...

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Opinion | CBS News' new ‘We Love America’ mantra gets patriotism all wrong

Anthony L. Fisher: The new CBS News says it “unapologetically” loves America. But there’s more than one way to love your country.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

And literally replace it with a cage match on the WH lawn.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/01/2026

the reason there are going to be more incidents like this is that you’ve hired a bunch of murderers and told them they’ll be protected and celebrated if they shoot people

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

There's no coherent argument for invading or buying Greenland, and when Trump tried to say one to NYTimes it came out as gibberish from a condo salesman about the pride of ownership. It's basically the same as declaring war on Germany to "own" Ramstein Air Base. No upside, immense downside.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is just chud welfare, they looted medicaid and foodstamps so they could shower riches on the most unemployable fascist freaks in the country

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

We already knew that Trump had completely reshaped the federal courts, but these stats are incredible. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

If you debase yourself to the logic of neo-royalism, it consolidates the order. You lose the ability to generate alternatives. Enough of daddy needs to use more strong language and more talk of joint alliance commitments www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Basic, simple, health precautions based on data and science - overreach Secret police, military invasion, summary executions, ethnic cleansing, and concentration camps - not overreach

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"which, by definition, might end up putting the United States in a shooting war with France." Ponder this. Deeply.

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 11/01/2026

Australia’s grid just passed a brutal heatwave stress test. Jan 7, 2026 hit record demand, yet solar surged at peak, batteries carried the evening, and reliability beat 2019. Not more fossil fuels — clean energy scaled. This is modern resilience, and a sign of what’s coming. 🔋⚡ #Solar #BESS #Energy

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The key section:

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The existence of even a single billionaire is a policy failure at a nearly unthinkable scale…

Of course, they can afford it. The record 3,148 billionaires around the globe are sitting on a record $18.7 trillion in combined wealth. The average billionaire is now worth $5.9 billion, up 5% from 2024, roughly in-line with CLEWI’s uptick. There are now 19 centibillionaires who have amassed fortunes of $100 billion or more, versus just one six years ago. As the billionaire population has exploded, companies catering to this super-rich set have been cashing in.

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Sad, beautiful, and amazing...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10/01/2026

It’s quite something watching Trump, Vance and the rest of his boosters trying to argue that meekly accepting untrammelled government authority is what America is all about, actually. It’s particularly wild watching the “don’t tread on me” lads nodding along as they do, though.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"Being on the 'right side of history' is romanticized. It often means you were wronged and people cared too late." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders

Excerpt from "The Invaders", Kendzior, Jan 2026. No paywall: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I’m old enough to remember the late 2000s, when redpill dudes were starting to mobilize online various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism I can still hear the crickets

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/01/2026

Not long ago, President Donald Trump had a clear opinion of Venezuelan oil: “Horrible,” “tar,” “the dirtiest stuff you can imagine,” and the “worst oil probably anywhere in the world.” Now he’s sent the American military in to capture it.

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“Garbage”: How Trump used to talk about Venezuelan oil

The US is going to extreme lengths to control oil that Trump used to regularly disparage.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

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Opinion | Renee Good wasn’t the first person shot in her car by ICE. The justification followed a familiar script.

Mike Fox: The officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis might never have to defend his actions before a judge or jury.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

As Paul Musgrave shows, the right wingers are coming for political science. They’re coming for the legal academy, too, even if it’s still below the radar. Don’t think for a second the war on universities is just about the humanities. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

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U.S. Political Science in the Crosshairs

Conservatives have a lot of levers yet to pull

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"If he views the members of previous committees as being sold out to industries, it’s very difficult to understand why the same designation doesn’t apply to these people, except that these people are associated with the meat and dairy industries, and they like that.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

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Several of Kennedy’s Dietary Advisers Have Ties to Meat and Dairy Interests

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The layers of derangement here are like a lasagna of stupid, narcissistic, and insane noodles with a sauce of dementia.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Costco is co-locating housing above a new store in South LA, 800 units. Unbelievable that we've been building malls & big box stores for, what, sixty years, and never figured this out www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I feel rationally angry that A.I. video's taking up so much our cultural headspace at this PARTICULAR moment in time and history, because we are all going to have to, from now on, forever, question, however slightly, the veracity of every video we see. Hey, who owns A.I., anyway? Anybody we know?

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Thinking earlier (washing dishes) about Trumpian aesthetics (relating to my yoot in the '60s NYC Pop Art scene, but nevermind) and I remembered: this is the jerk who spoiled the fucking PLAZA HOTEL once he got his mitts on it. And I realized I'll be dead before he's done with the White House. 👍🏼😘😂

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Here's a picture of the January sun coming up through the trees and the frost on the window over my desk. Just for something nice to look at for a moment. Timeline cleanser, I guess you call it. Because wow.

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Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I'm a white male boomer (1954 model) and I can't apologize for being what I am. But I'll say this: in 71 trips around the sun, I've seen this: too often men break things, and women are the ones who pick up the pieces, do the repairs. And here we are again. America can't do shit without our women.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Photojournalist Aaron Marckell Williams was killed in a crosswalk as the result of a police chase over a traffic violation. DC local law had made such chases illegal - House Republicans voted to overturn that law last year.

Facebook screenshot of a post from DMV News Now with a picture of Williams smiling.

"A DC photojournalist was run over and killed by a suspect fleeing from police near The White House in downtown Washington DC.

26 year-old Aaron Marckell Williams had been struck while crossing in the crosswalk at 16th Street and L Street NW Wednesday afternoon.

It was later revealed that DC Police had attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the suspect, 20 year-old Santana Matthews, before he ran a red light and killed Williams. Matthews has now been charged with Second Degree Murder.

Williams was a photojournalist for the Washington Informer and was heading to a nearby church to take photos for a story.

“We are heartbroken over the loss of Marckell Williams — a talented photographer, storyteller, and beautiful soul who was once part of the Washington Informer family,” the statement from @washinformer reads. “His passion for capturing people, culture, and truth will never be forgotten.”"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Proudly, openly a liar.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

More from the party of federalism: "the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them, for the good of the country, to do."

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