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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a Jewish person who has long been concerned about antisemitism, I think it’s fucking bananas that Republicans’ biggest donor is a neo-Nazi and that’s not really a political scandal—but we’re constantly talking about whether my friends on the left have a problem.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wait fr??

Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin's administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities.
But Spanberger said over the weekend the rule is now dead.
Governor Abigail Spanberger told a crowd at Virginia Pridefest Saturday she was moved by the story of a transgender child and the issues their families face.
"And I tell you I burst into tears because of the fact that I want to make members of the
LGBTQ+ community know that you have a governor that values your community," Spanberger said from the Pridefest stage.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the fact that they were all screaming about how disrespectful it was to the victims to let the Muslim mayor attend, and then the Muslim mayor was the only one who fucking respected the victims I don't really believe in hell but I KNOW it is not hot enough

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Shanah Tovah Mr. Mayor! 🍎🍯

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

"We're tired of being called racist for being super fucking racist" is, in fact, an accurate representation of conservative thinking. They want all their ugly instincts & prejudices but they don't want any social disapprobation for them.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The correct headline would be: Increasingly Desperate Trump Offers Illegal Bribe to Voters in Last Ditch Attempt to Avoid Humiliating Midterm Losses

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue.

Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) exchange discussing political pragmatism and the Overton window.
The initial post by onion person (@CantEverDie) reads:
> "doesn't matter, this is about what the right is able to push with the overton window. first its democrats needing to disavow trans women in sports to get elected, next it'll be agreeing to ban access to HRT to get elected. we've seen how this plays out"
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A reply from Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) reads:
> "Are you insane? The Overton window didn’t even include this discussion until recently. The public has never been in favor of desegregating the sports by sex.
> Personally I’m glad Barack Obama ran against gay marriage in 2008. Not because that was the right position, or one he even actually held, but because he knew the public wasn’t with him on it. If he hadn’t won he wouldn’t have been able to appoint 2 of the justices who ultimately voted in the majority for Obergefell.
> Lincoln in 1860 didn’t even run on abolishing slavery! He just wanted to stop its expansion. And thankfully he did that and won because a more extreme and morally correct position would have lost. As a result he was able to win the Civil War and push through the 13 amendment.
> Political practicality is the entire history of progress in America. There’s no other way."
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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m starting to suspect that Republicans aren’t the salt of the earth working class party they claim to be.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Elon Musk: #1 Republican Party donor and world’s most prominent neo-Nazi.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026

The Pentagon is purging all trans people in the military. They're going after those who didn't even transition by searching through medical records to find any evidence someone had gender dysphoria. They're purging those who detransitioned to save their jobs. federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main...

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Pentagon searching medical records to identify transgender troops | Federal News Network

Military officials are using medical and personnel data to uncover troops with current or past gender dysphoria as the Pentagon moves ahead with separations.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just finished Here Where We Live Is Our Country. It’s one of the most moving and powerful books I’ve ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is what you get when you build a force to terrorize immigrant communities and recruit for it with Great Replacement fear mongering and slogans borrowed from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

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Amy M. Traub @amymtraub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Such a promising initiative. THIS is why I knocked all those doors. Happy Labor Day!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026

Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Going after criminal bosses who steal from their workers and criminal landlords who harass their tenants! What a concept! Love that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has the courage to hold rich people accountable for crimes against working class New Yorkers. ✊🏽

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Alvin Bragg @manhattanda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Manhattan has the fewest murders year-to-date in recorded history, down 55% from last year. There is always more work to do, and we will continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners at the NYPD to keep our borough safe! abc7ny.com/post/nypd-ny...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026

ok but renewable energy is cheaper than oil energy. in part *because* of the wars in Ukraine and Iran

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

⚠️ The Kuhestak wedding strike is reportedly the FOURTH incident in which the US struck sites with no military use in Iran and killed civilians, including children: Feb 28th: Tomahawk on Minab school Feb 28th: PrSM on Lamerd sports hall July 31st: 2K bomb on residential area

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Meanwhile, some people (including some Democratic elected officials) still believe that thinking Palestinians are human beings actually is The Real Antisemitism.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We are witnessing a shock redistribution from the many to the rich: The profit share is at its highest level since WWII. The first bump was sellers’ inflation which ushered in Trump. The second bump is Trump’s chaos casino designed to push up profits.

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Amy M. Traub @amymtraub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m tremendously proud of Sam Poole, speaking out as part of @sengonzalezny.bsky.social New York Fights AI Data Centers Tour

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Amy M. Traub @amymtraub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Governor Hochul, are you listening? “To make New York State a place where young people can afford to stay…stand up against the data centers raising our bills and ruining our air and water by signing the Responsible Data Center Development Act!”

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 28/08/2026

Go tell someone who reads a normal amount of news that Trump wants to sell off parts of Yosemite to a private Las Vegas developer and see if they believe you. It's one of those parts of the Republican Party so outrageous that people don't believe it's real.

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Julie Votes Blue @juliededit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“It’s never a good idea to fire competent generals in the middle of a war you’re losing.” We are so fucked

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A watershed moment in *people getting more upset about the words or actions used to protest something than about the something they were protesting* era.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a great point for any Democratic candidate with the, um, intestinal fortitude to make it.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is Natalie Holmes. She came to US as a child She's now a pastor ICE banished her to a dictatorship Agents wouldn't let her sit or lie down for 72 hrs Agents shackled her so tightly she couldn't feel her ankles Agents threatened w/ full-body wrap She's been held since June w/o charges

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 22/08/2026

The newest darling of the Western center-left and frontrunner to replace Netanyahu says today on Twitter:

Gadi Eisenkot - גדי איזנקוט
@gadi_eisenkot
Translated from Hebrew
There is no Palestinian state, and in the government we will form, no Palestinian state will arise.
Rate this translation:

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jesse, head of endorsement deals at Boingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you’re poor and against inequality you’re jealous of the rich. If you’re rich and against inequality you’re a hypocrite. Scientists are still looking for the person allowed to be against inequality

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/08/2026

Wage theft is theft. Tenant harassment is illegal. Those who defraud vulnerable New Yorkers will be held accountable. We are working with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to share real-time information and crack down on crimes that target workers and consumers.

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Workers' rights at the heart of new NYC initiative, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg says

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner are partnering up to combat wage theft, tenant harassment and fraud targeting immigrants.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

Making shared self-interest power analysis go viral as campaign messaging is next-level political talent 🫡

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...

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Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions

A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our servicemembers deserve so much better than this. When I get to the US Senate, we’re going to investigate Hegseth for these and so many other failures.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This shit is wildly offensive! My brother, dad & grandparents all served in the US Navy. They are no longer serving but WTAF?!?! The level of incandescent rage these families must be feeling for their loved ones being fucked over by this sociopathic, corrupt, arrogant administration is…😡🤬😡🔥🔥🔥

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last-mile delivery is now part of everyday life in New York City, but the rules have not kept up, and workers and communities are paying the price. New Yorkers shouldn’t have to choose between the convenience of delivery and safe jobs, safe streets, and accountability. 1/4

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