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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 15h

So. Much. Economic Anxiety.

Darby Shaw's Ghost @darbys-lament.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not a big scold BUT... I honestly cringe when stadiums play Gary Glitter or when rep cinemas play Victor Salva films. It's not like it's a Michael Jackson "we know but we don't KNOW" thing - this guy was CONVICTED of molesting the 12yo star of his film. F'n gross, Nitehawk...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026

I know we're all tired of the "they just said it out loud" shtick but it feels noteworthy that the secretary of defense is articulating the Garrison State as an explicit objective of the American christian fascist project.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be honest, "Idiocracy" understated the kind of threat stupid government poses.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Darby Shaw's Ghost @darbys-lament.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is correct. (I mean - mostly - the uselessness of charts in a post-gatekeeper, hyper-fractured media ecosystem)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Darby Shaw's Ghost @darbys-lament.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These people are idiots and that is my new default response to many people in my life now: "You believe that because you are stupid and there's nothing I can do to help that." 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The defense contractor who bribed Susan Collins has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How I decided AI was probably nothing to worry about

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Venezuelan oil is unusable sludge. The Greenland deal is NOT new. The Strait of Hormuz is CLOSED. Belarus says they've no potash to sell. China isn't buying soybeans they said they would. Saudi Arabia is under attack, Trump sitting it out. He is a distrusted deceitful disaster, despised globally.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In 2024, the US imported ~12 million metric tons of potassic fertilizers from Canada (hillnotes.ca/2025/06/05/p...) Specialized ships can carry ~60k metric tons, tho container ships <half that (www.sasktoday.ca/central/loca...) So we'd need at least 200 ships loaded from [checks notes] Belarus

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's been three days since he said this, but I think it deserves an encore: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” And this guy is in charge of the world's largest economy.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The most incompetent administration in history by far, populated by idiots from top to bottom putting all of our lives in danger.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1) The US federal system is gravely flawed (as I've written one zillion times). Was engineered in slavery-era compromise to over-represent Southern states. Now grossly over-represents rural (mostly conservative) states. Not a coincidence that virtually no other democracy has copied this system...

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump, from NC, on Fox: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” Idiot is not a strong enough word.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

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Pat Casey @patcasey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’re just letting this guy destroy our whole civilization. He’s got the IQ of a horse

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.

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Darby Shaw's Ghost @darbys-lament.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This. The amount of accelerated accountability that is going to be needed in order to, literally, save the republic is something this country has never seen short of the Civil War. We are not ready for it. We are probably not up to it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."

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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

So when a Dem says they agree with any of this, they are taking a position that is against what trans people ALREADY HAD just 5 years ago. That's why trans people won't accept it. It's not about progress, it's about preventing a managed decline in civil rights agreed to by Democrats.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Socialist Roger Marshall demands more government welfare for his voters after Trump and the Republican Party wrecked their businesses.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all agree that we have to slow down - and now - something serious clearly happened with a frontier AI model. Journalists should be digging in to this. We aren’t getting the whole story here.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's quite a high bar and must dramatically narrow the range of competent economists if you can't have criticized Trump's economic policies.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The biggest story on planet Earth today, is the same as it was yesterday: The President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable. Unfathomable. Unacceptable.

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Darby Shaw's Ghost @darbys-lament.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If I hired someone abd two years into the job they were blaming their low performance on the last person..? 😂

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