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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BELOW: Republicans when they find out Donald Trump is coming to their state to campaign for them.

Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting observation here: "Trump’s extreme unpopularity is bringing contested elections to Red States that haven’t seen one in a long time. And one of the things it’s showing is that a significant number of Red State incumbents just don’t have the skills for a contested partisan election."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What Republicans say: "I think the president is getting bad advice." What Republicans mean: "I think the president is a fucking moron and I'm too big of a pussy to say so."

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Your history lesson for today: As the history of the East India Company shows, there can come a point when a corporation stops being just a company and begins seizing for itself the powers and trappings typically associated with a nation-state.

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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Stalin’s purge of top generals leaves Soviet army rudderless. Leadership vacuum comes as it is trying to adapt to a new kind of warfare dominated by tanks and airplanes. #Hegseth #USArmy

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Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless

The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Remember, Trump's appeal is aspirational. His followers want to emulate him and get away with it. #EpsteinFiles #Trump #pedo

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There is nothing inappropriate about Donald Trump's relationship with Natalie Harp. by David Brooks

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NY Times pulls its punches in this headline. Should have quoted him: “We’ll bomb the shit out of them!” Do better, @nytimes.com

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Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out at Oman as Deadline for U.S.-Iran Deal Passes

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Should Democrats unite and attack Trump and MAGA and Republicans who are destroying everything and have terrible approval ratings? No, no. They should instead attack progressives, popular policies, and El-Sayed. This is how Democrats win. Right?

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Too good to be stuck on Twitter

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If the word “Socialism” is such a liability, maybe the DSA should rename itself as the “Medicare for All Party” or the “$15 Minimum Wage Party”. The “No Bombs for Israel Party” might work as well, as would the “No Data Centers Party”.

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Inside the Democratic Socialists of America’s Audacious Quest for Power

Democratic Socialists are capturing more votes than ever before — even as they run up against the limits of their appeal.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2026

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026

Honestly I think the climate & clean energy world is too dominated by nerds preoccupied with Facts and Science. What they need to do is just hire a bunch of hot people to say nice things about clean energy online. Don't overthink it. Just hire hot people who know how to use selfie sticks.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

To win back blue collar men, Democrats need to put aside their bigoted preconceptions and accept that drunken rape is an important part of blue collar culture.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If you’re ever lost in the wilderness, just build a cycle path because someone is bound to pull up in their car and park in it.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Graham Platner is a good looking sexual abuser with a drinking problem. So why hasn’t Trump given him a cabinet position?

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God @thegodshow.com · 05/07/2026

These all sound like excellent ideas.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” -- D.H. Lawrence America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up

Once you understand the moral psychology of America's immaturity, everything about America's 250th birthday makes sense.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

Karoline Leavitt inthe $400m flying bribe slash natsec nightmare

A shelf of fake books, some titled “Library”

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/07/2026

My friend just texted me "no goal is offsides on stolen land" 😭😭😭

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 27/06/2026

see the millionaire duck dynasty folks' tv makeover

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The moral corruption of Israel has destroyed the alliances that kept it safe for decades. No amount of tough talk from Bibi and Smotrich, no guns or bombs will enable a small pariah state to endure forever. The old logic has ended.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/06/2026

The current position of climate deniers is (a) These temperatures aren't anything new or special, we've had heatwaves before, there's nothing to panic about (b) We urgently need to install as much AC as possible to adapt to the climate change that isn't happening (see (a))

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ken Paxton is the logical and obvious heir to Trump’s legacy, much more so than J.D.Vance or Marco Rubio. He has all the qualifications: he’s corrupt, amoral and totally shameless. These are the qualities that attract Republican voters these days.

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, on Sunday delivered an unusually harsh indictment of what he described as “a terrible process of brutalization” creeping into Israeli society. He cited examples of thuggery: a surge of mob violence by Jews against Palestinians and the abuse of detainees in custody.

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Israel’s President Excoriates Growing Israeli Violence and Brutality

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Bringing logic to economic issues: if AI is taking all the jobs, then the government deficit is not a problem. It is that simple, even if your favorite commentator can't understand it deanbaker22.substack.com/p/four-reaso...

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Four Reasons We’re Being Lied To

It rained on my Memorial Day

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 26/05/2026

[nuclear war breaks out] DOW FUTURES UP 12000

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

No tears for Thomas Massie, he's a nut job...

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It turns out that would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or impose draconian punishments in order to make successful power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre.

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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We won't police ourselves into some respectable perfection that's somehow gonna bring down fascism. That's a fantasy.

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“One of the lessons of the Trump era is a failure of imagination about how many norms they would break,” What I’ve been saying since 2026. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

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Democrats Realize Good Government Is Bad Politics When It Comes to Maps

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Trump thinks Greece is a person...

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