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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Note how in all of this, Vance's comments are suffused with the rhetoric of 1930s Nazi eugenics, including the "elite human being" (in German, Herrenmensch or Übermensch). Straight from Curtis Yarvin, and Elon Musk, by the way. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026

All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.

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

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...

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

"That's from Breitbart."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Trump says he's "banning the free press"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

I know I am not the median voter. But when I watch Trump performances like the one we just endured in North Carolina, I can't escape the feeling that our problems go much deeper than "affordability" and we're whistling past the graveyard if we reduce our politics to that issue.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2026

“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is chilling. I’d like to make fun of it, and there are certainly ample ways to make fun of it, but it’s honestly just chilling.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I still can’t believe that a nut job exclaimed, “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs” and millions of Americans said, “That’s the guy I want as president.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cool www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As part of the appeals process, a member of a three-judge panel had cast the ballroom as illustrative of the Administration’s “move fast and break things” approach. “If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty,” the judge asked, “nothing can be done?”

“I think that’s right, yes,” a lawyer for the Administration responded.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Notice how he immediately goes to “What are they gonna do? Fight us?” because that’s all their tiny brains understand. The only answer is violence.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We need more politicians like Pete, who not only see the problems, but also has ideas to fix them. I was accused of "ageism" when I said the old guard needs to step down. It's not about age, it's about the attitude of going along to get along, of being tone deaf to the times we're living in, etc.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wow. If this isn’t the mentality of Trump’s party in a sound bite I don’t know what is.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/08/2026

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

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Lawdy Gaga @litigaytor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

When 13 soldiers died on Joe Biden’s watch because Biden was *ending a war* that had killed Americans for two decades, these people acted like Biden shot the soldiers himself

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This guy gets it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...

Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, took a different tack, placing Trump's misjudgments in separate categories:
There are three categories of Trump failures: disasters of mismanagement, disasters by design and disasters of greed.
What are the achievements of the second Trump presidency thus far? Persistent inflation, sluggish economic growth, an unpopular war, aggressive immigration enforcement that has outraged many and the shredding of the safety net to fund a large tax cut.
In his second term, Moynihan argued,
Trump no longer feels the need to be bound by precedent, norms or good advice. We can see this at the superficial level (the Reflecting Pool) or for issues where there are extraordinary stakes, such as the Iran war.
Trump has lost any inhibitions he had while creating a bubble where he is surrounded by yes men.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Clausewitz. Yeah. Of course. You can see it right in On War. If you're the superpower, you just win! Stab yourself repeatedly in the face in a confused war with no clear political end-state? It doesn't matter! Nothing matters!

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026

the last 25 minutes or so of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER are magnificent. the highest tier of hollywood action filmmaking.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is worth watching simply because of how pathetic Clayton’s response is. It’s a preview of the kind of insanity Trump will build upon in his rant to the nation tomorrow night.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" was the line he used on Jan 6.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

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ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says

It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.

Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.

More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.

As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

People talk about US higher ed like it’s all blue haired gender majors but mostly it’s nursing and business students

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2026

Trump: "Grass has a life just like people have a life"

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon

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Iran War Reasons Chart.xlsx

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The great thing about Ben's op-ed is that it doesn't stop at organizing to win elections. Winning elections is the precursor to necessary institutional reforms to make America an actual representative democracy. This is the way. The platform must be institutional reform: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Detroit Breakdown @detroitbreakdown.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/06/2026

On a fundamental level, US politics has not made sense to me since 2015. I no longer understand the basic criteria, values, or rules. I don't know why people do things or don't do things, or how people evaluate things. It's profoundly disorienting and alienating. I don't know how else to put it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, all of us.” This 1940s film warning against bigotry and fascism is more relevant now than ever.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

remember that time Zelensky didn’t wear a tie

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“[Donald Trump] has created a permission structure for people to be their worst selves. He has taught Americans that it’s okay to be selfish and spiteful and hateful and angry and resentful and that is the most toxic thing he has done to the country.”

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