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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What was the criteria for core south? (It seems odd to me that Arkansas isn’t included)

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Jason Rosenbaum @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court has placed the redistricting referendum on the ballot. It has also barred the use of the 2025 map in the general election. The 2022 map that almost guarantees Emanuel Cleaver's victory will be in effect. ENORMOUS

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everyone complains Pluto got demoted, no one is ever happy for Ceres for getting a promotion!

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Barnes problem was that the party and donors left him for dead, race may have played a part in that unfortunately (though given the rumblings of scandal this year I wonder if people behind the scenes knew back then and didn’t support him for that reason) but it won’t be an issue for Crowley

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ford is the least likely of the three to win (at least according to Sabato, WI is lean dem, GA is tossup, NV is lean GOP) but hopefully all three win

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Again, the point at which Democrats needed to burn it all down & stop the authoritarianism in its tracks was December 12, 2000, when the Wizards In Robes decided that people's votes didn't need to be counted. Everything since has been the inevitable outcome of that levee breaking.

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not to be that guy but... that second "then Nevada" should probably be "then New Hampshire"

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OK but this is also a huge part of the plot of The House of the Scorpion which is a very good book.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.

Chart of the polio vaccine obliterating polio

chart of the measles vaccine smashing measles into bits

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 10/07/2026

Graham Platner finally files withdrawal paperwork. Dems can now officially pick a replacement. x.com/hollyotterbe...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thank the gods. NOW he’s officially out.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

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The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Bro what are you doing? SCOTUS was only 1 vote short of usurping the clear and unambiguous language of the document by judicial diktat Taking a victory lap for that is grim

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

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

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We are ruled by the Council of Nine. They rule for life & are completely unaccountable. Their agent, the president, is empowered to enact their will but will be placed on a short leash when he displeases them. Congress can raise and appropriate funds the president can use or not to his liking.

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In 2010 democrats committed political malpractice by failing to outlaw gerrymandering. In 2022 democrats committed political malpractice by failing to reform the Supreme Court If democrats retake control of the federal government in 2028 the same mistakes cannot be repeated

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Obviously it’s good the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship but the decision was effectively 5-4 The fact we are one vote away from the destruction of America as we know it isnt exactly heartening.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is a dangerous pattern with this Court: They find a delegation paired with a constraint, decide they don’t like the constraint, but appear totally untroubled by the idea that Congress delegated the power only *because* prior precedent assured them their constraints would be binding.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

When you said entirely correct things like this c.2019 - that 🇺🇸 is not remotely a full democracy, the GOP is a far right authoritarian party, & the Wizards in Robes were akin to 🇮🇷's Guardian Council - people got really angry with you. But you were right. It's good more people are recognizing this.

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Feels like a good time to remind people that Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good & should be indicted (and convicted) for murder

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

State legislatures? Gerrymandered. The House? Gerrymandered. The Senate? Malapportioned. The presidency? Malapportioned. The courts? Largely beyond any kind of popular control. Governorships are still okay, I guess, but that's it. And now we're extinguishing black representation again

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My philosophy for every March madness tournament when Syracuse doesn’t make the cut

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

look, I've heard people claim that Al Gore would have invaded Iraq and that Hilary Clinton would have put anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court. 'the imaginary version of the Democrats in my head' is always going to win for some people really committed to the 'both parties are the same' crap.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/02/2026

The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Is the Missouri gerrymander going to be in effect this year? I lost track of the status of the people’s veto and litigation

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

NEW: Virginia Dems have unveiled their proposed 10-1 congressional map in response to GOP gerrymanders in other states. It targets 4 Republicans & has 10 Harris seats. It will be used in 2026 contingent upon an April 21 voter referendum. Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/20e0049...

Image of a Virginia Democrats' proposed congressional map that is drawn to elect a ten-to-one Democratic majority and flip four Republican seats in 2026. The district lines are displayed over top of a basemap with major roads and cities labeled. The districts are colored by the 2024 presidential winner's margin of victory, with Kamala Harris districts in blue and Donald Trump districts in red. Darker shades represent larger margins of victory. An embedded chart shows the 2024 presidential election results and the adult population racial demographics in each district.

Kamala Harris won 10 of the 11 districts, while Black voters would retain their ability to elect their preferred candidates in Districts 3 and 4, which remain safely Democratic.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/01/2026

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

~<Every single institution> we have is counter-majoritarian: - A hyper-gerrymanded House - A hyper-malapportioned Senate with staggered elections - FPTP SMDs in a continent-wide country with our urban/rural population distribution - The EC Stop it. We need <checks on counter-majoritarianism>

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Via IG: moneyballmemes2011. www.instagram.com/p/DSqEY_rgUnx/

Santa, this is Rudolph. He is one of the most undervalued reindeer in the North Pole. His only defect is he has a red nose.

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Or two or more races or “foreign students” (which is often reported separately on university demographic data)

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Because there are more than just the 4 listed groups

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Um what? Pretty sure state AG (Ellison) outranks mayor (Mamdani) but love them both www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

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Update from Emma Fitzsimmons

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Probably afraid to in a 3 way race since the modeling is more complicated

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Hawaiʻi license plates will now include the ʻokina.

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Rob Sand is currently a statewide Democratic elected official in Iowa as we speak! (and he just announced he is running for Governor)

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Does Idriss Déby’s death in 2021 count?

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Not to mention a lot of the inefficiencies in the federal government stem from its anti-democratic features (oh your popular bill passed the house by a wide margin? too bad it got stalled in the senate despite being supported be senators from states representing 75% of the population)

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If there was any election for Georgia to elect a Democratic Governor 2026 would be it

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Did this work when Neville Chamberlain tried it?

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Dante @dantecade.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

and most of the remaining 10% is the US senate is structurally biased in favor of the GOP so heavily that its much easier for a GOP president to get their appointments in place.

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