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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love good journalism, so much.

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Somehow worried yet not while reading Ed's take on all of this. Pointing out the obvious that the media (well, most MSM) no longer can bother to try to interrogate claims. It's just take the story and move on. And that's why people are media illiterate and fast to take something at face value.

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't understand anyone who continues to make this argument. No one is being impacted by trans athletes anywhere right now. Please shut up with this non-issue.

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yesterday showed that true investigative journalism still can exist, and the rich and powerful can still be held to account. @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social feels like a fever dream for journalism nerds, so the fact that all of this is real is so so beautiful. www.youtube.com/live/ENBv21u...

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REACTING TO THE KAWHI LEONARD INVESTIGATION RESULTS

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 02/09/2026

govt money to start local news outlets — yes x1000 kudos @mattdpearce.com and all involved

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/08/2026

“If we ban sports betting, the people at those companies will lose their jobs” good

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's things like this that evoke old Twitter where no one yet everyone knew what was going on at once and it very quickly became very fun to be part of it all

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/08/2026

Democratic turnout for House primaries in a majority-Black Tennessee county surged to the highest level in a decade Thursday, the latest sign that redistricting may be energizing Black voters across the South.

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Voter turnout surges in Tennessee after Black-majority district is erased

High Democratic turnout for House primaries in Shelby County, which includes Memphis, is the latest sign that redistricting may be energizing Black Southern voters.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

considering how well things are going in new york, the lesson here is clear: fuck these people

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Sean Keeley @seankeeley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m definitely going on a list somewhere for this

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 29/07/2026

I cannot boost this enough. The lack of local journalism is at the root of so many problems.

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

VAR gonna be pissed it can't take that goal now! #Egypt

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

dude fuck FIFA and going back and litigating potential fouls. This shit is so stupid and looks so much like fuck collusion

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

lots of rumors swirling ie mitch mcconnell and botched rib removal surgery. no need to be first, if its true we’ll find out in due course

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Dansby Swanson is feeling froggy lately. @obviousshirts.bsky.social

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 24/06/2026

Because the Tea Party was opposing a qualified and reasonable Black Man, while Dem Socialists are challenging centrism--the dominant political ideology of the well-educated and well-compensated.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

If you wanted people to be less hostile to "AI" then you should have had a different group of liars trying to push it than the ones behind the metaverse, crypto, driverless cars, NFTs etc. "Sorry but we're only so gullible!"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026

All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Mamdani is bewilderingly good at this. I'm always shocked by his expectations for his audience -- he assumes you are smart and compassionate and sensible, and that feels great

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A lot of messaging from politicians right now assumes you are dumb, mean, selfish, gullible, and racist, with the memory of a goldfish, and that does not feel so good

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

@taniel.bsky.social I know you don't live/die by polling at Bolts, but wondering if your team or anyone has seen any actual polling on the SAVE America Act. I keep seeing this "80% approval!" but it's either White House or Heritage accounts purporting that. Feels like BS, for obvious reasons.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

i see we have entered the “get mad at Democrats about unilateral Trump action” phase of the thing and, whatever makes you happy I guess most of the criticisms are correct and almost all of them are irrelevant

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There's been a lot of discussion about the echoes of the civil rights movement in the protests today, with people obviously drawing comparisons between the strategies, tactics and coalitions that were vital then and are still vital now. But this post has me thinking about a different echo ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Matt Shaw really beginning to doubt his "Jews will not replace us" poster.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

unless Dolly Parton is on there I don't give a fuck. some of us are normal and don't develop parasocial relationships with politicians

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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I envy people who have the ability to separate themselves from what's going on every day from what they need to accomplish every day. My brain just gets stuck in the infinite loop of insanity with no means of escape other than to shut it all down

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Phang: These firings were illegal in the first fucking place. It’s like the Republicans are supposed to think that they’ve now done something right by not doing what is illegal in the first place.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Recommended read in its entirety! “Do not reject the Democratic Party or officially give up on participating in U.S. politics just because a bunch of clueless, cowardly, capitulating millionaires do not understand their jobs, the stakes of the fight they were involved in 1/4

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10/11/2025

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown

Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

For Democrats this shouldn’t be a matter of 7 votes in the Senate. They should stand firm until there’s a deal that can get 47 VOTES IN THE SENATE. That’s EVERYBODY IN THE CAUCUS!!!

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

only one way to find out tbh

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If you're a leftist this is the best day since... when

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025

this is genuinely wild

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

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