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So former NFL kicker Jay Feely is running for Congress as a MAGA guy and his opponent just put out an ad with a bunch of his missed kicks lol

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2h

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

What has done much more damage to SCOTUS is the personal petty corruption of Justices Alito and Thomas about which Bari Weiss-directed CBS News opted to ask no questions whatsoever. Shameful.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 5h

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 3h

Heather MacDonald of the same Manhattan Institute that employes Chris Rufo. When institutions show you who they are, believe them.

Ayfkm Heather Mac Donald?

She’s doing apologia for the Cornell 7

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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 5h

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...

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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h

Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6h

none of these assholes has any new ideas

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Senator John Hickenlooper @hickenlooper.senate.gov · 6h

Colorado is a better place because of Justice Hart. Our thoughts are with her family and her loved ones. She will be dearly missed.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for the reprint @sierramagazine.bsky.social! We truly believe that syndication and collaboration is vital in this journalism era, and that everyone deserves to read accurate journalism about the natural world. That's why all our stories are available to read and reprint for free.

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Restoring Watersheds One Dam Removal at a Time

The benefits of decommissioning reverberate across the Northeast as thousands of tiny dams come down

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 20h

I take back what I said about Roberts having a rich patron. He doesn’t need one. Money is being funneled into his pocket via his wife. Wow. Legalizing corruption on the Court while BigLaw firms toss his family cash. What a life.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 13h

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 12h

The fallout has already begun. In Florida, DOJ is seeking to roll back a court order it won to keep medically fragile children out of nursing homes. In Texas, the department walked away from a 16-year lawsuit aimed at helping people with developmental disabilities live in their communities.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 9h

For my Friday Sick Burns paid newsletter post, I wrote about the Democratic party consultant problem and how it's killing a key Senate race. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

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Fire the Consultants

The Democratic Party will win this fall in spite of the consultants, not because of them

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Mr. Lipson, a former law partner of the chief justice, introduced him to the island and made a project of settling him in. Mr. Lipson located the Roberts home, negotiated the deal, assigned him the lobster-dinner shtick, and integrated the Roberts family…” Oh! Another justice with a rich patron??

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.

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

To round these critical perspectives on polarization out, you cannot do better than @pettertornberg.com's essential recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article, available here open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2026
Petter Törnberg

Abstract

Polarization has become the master concept for diagnosing contemporary democratic crises. The notion denotes three features: symmetry between parties, politics as an opinion space where positions diverge, and mutual repulsion between opposing camps. Yet none of these capture current realities. Across democracies, the central dynamic is not two poles drifting apart but the transformation of the political right into authoritarianism, norm breaking, and openness to political violence. Social democratic and center-right parties tend to respond in the opposite way from what “polarization” implies: by accommodating rightward. Attempts to salvage the polarization frame with modifiers (“asymmetric,” “affective,” “sectarian,” “pernicious”) concede these realities but risk hollowing out the concept’s definitional core. These limitations reveal a deeper misdiagnosis: when one party turns antidemocratic and illiberal, incivility and conflict are inevitable—but they are symptoms, not the root problem. Misdiagnosing them as the central issue leads to viewing civility and compromise as remedies, thereby risking the legitimation of authoritarian actors. This article proposes an alternative lens: the radicalization of the political right. Developed in the study of extremism, the radicalization framework better captures asymmetric change, identity-driven politics, and the mainstreaming of illiberalism. It foregrounds identity fusion, threat narratives, elite entrepreneurship, and escalation. Concepts are never politically innocent and persisting with “polarization” risks both misdiagnosing and normalizing authoritarian threats.
Keywords
Political polarization
radicalization
democratic backsliding
radical right
authoritarianism
democracy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nixon was pardoned already. This is an effort to rehabilitate him as the victim, and his investigators as villains.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Gavin in ‘28: I’m just a chill, fun loving left wing presidential candidate who’s into pervert glasses and going downtown to throw out homeless people’s shit myself

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Since Nixon is back in the news: --Congress almost forced gov shutdown to end his illegal bombing of Cambodia --Congress enacted 1973 War Powers Resolution in large part b/c of illegal bombing of Cambodia --One of the proposed articles of impeachment pertained to his illegal bombing of Cambodia

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 01/10/2026

On SNL, Ramy Yousef mocked the NYC mayor’s social media strategy, portraying himself filming a TikTok with an “urgent message.” @justinbaragona.bsky.social explains how the mischaracterization of Mamdani’s online presence shows how mainstream media still doesn’t get it. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/what-snl-g...

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Three billionaires gave more than 90 percent of the money raised by Representative Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin" Tom Tiffany is the most bought and paid for candidate we've ever seen in Wisconsin. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

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3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)

Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who's read the debates knows that. But it's not clear Cox has. His only citation for that section is to a Federalist Society blog post.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cox also calls the Lincoln-Douglas debates the kind of principled, substantive "real debate" we need to return to. And yes, the debates did offer a principled exchange of ideas. There was also repetition, name calling, flat-out lying, and gutter racism and - not just from Stephen Douglas.

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Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A New York Times report reveals that Meta is telling the IRS that their A.I. data centers are a giant experiment or “pilot models” allowing the company trim almost $4 billion off its tax bill last year. #meta #irs #tax #money #a.i. #datacenter #markzuckerberg

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

youtube.com/shorts/r8xb5... Republicans in Colorado, desperately trying to create a decree of separation between themselves and the Christian nationalist regime that they implicitly support by belonging to a party of literal fascists. #copolitics

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Statehouse Candidate Distances Herself From Group She Helped Found

YouTube video by Colorado Times Recorder

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 01/10/2026

Remember: Trump's problem with the ads Noem put out wasn't corruption. The problem was that they were not about him.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: judge dismisses case against reflecting pool defendant Davey Hearn WITH PREJUDICE- meaning the DoJ can’t ever bring charges against him in this matter. www.ms.now/deadline-whi...

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Judge permanently dismisses David Hearn Reflecting Pool indictment

The Trump Justice Department sought a temporary dismissal. Hearn wanted his charges tossed for good.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was in Spain last spring and it really cannot be exaggerated how pissed Europeans are that their economies have been thoroughly fucked by the erratic whims of a maniac none of them voted for.

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)

After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Any time Biden was incoherent major media had no issue calling it what it was. Every time Trump is incoherent, and that's most of the time, media artificially provide structure to his ramblings to make him seem lucid.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit.

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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

American journalists are extraordinarily cowed. It's so weird to watch from abroad. It's like they don't know the basics of journalism

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Time interview with Trump is a master class in subjecting yourself to a stream of lies, lunacy, and insults with no correcting him, no calling out his crazy shit, nothing to show for it, nothing accomplished. It’s enabling, not journalism. They should die of shame. time.com/article/2026...

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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CNN @cnn.com · 01/10/2026

Family of Renee Good sues US government and Trump officials over her fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. cnn.it/4rLtWSa

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.

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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana

ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are watching an administration that views women as disposable and treats accountability as a joke now attempting to claim divine authority over the armed forces. It is a desecration of both the military they claim to

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