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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Scarborough grew so slowly that they lost an MP. If the one politician with the courage to actually point out the numbers loses to the former MPs who just whine about how unfair it all is and demand even less growth, I don't know what hope young people in the area can have for their future.

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Demonstrably false—they are mostly disenfranchised, but when and where incarcerated people are granted meaningful ballot access, they very often do vote freely.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

almost like there's increasingly a fundamental choice between support for the pluralistic democracy that sustains our community and support for the nightmarish ethnostate that hates us!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The creation of dense, mixed-income, multiracial neighborhoods should be a significant policy priority for the Left because that is the breeding ground of our social base.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This by Adam Tooze is good. I’ve always found overly materialist explanations of far right voting unsatisfactory and tbh a form of left cope at times. Yes economic insecurity & loss plays a role but the driving force is simply racial resentment. It’s always best to look that squarely in the eye.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The left’s answer to Thomas (shitposter)

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'll again note that the folks willing to sign a letter supporting a raging eugenicist (purportedly in defense of his academic freedom to be racist) aren't nearly as motivated when it comes to *actual* threats to academic freedom, like this.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For this org to threaten its membership that their actions could lead to “the wreckage of our discipline" is breathtakingly awful.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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WIRED @wired.com · 13/08/2026

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet. www.wired.com/story/heat-w...

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In a Heat Wave, One Medical Condition Is So Much Deadlier Than Any Other

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The consequences of being late may be worse for low-wage workers, but the answer there is stronger labor rights and unions not “speeding is virtuous, actually.”

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The chart reads “among their own’s state’s validated voters”

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

California slid into the ocean? Need to pay your hotel bill? Call now!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Over the last five years, my local CVS has been 1.) immediately adjacent to Skid Row in downtown LA, 2.) in the fanciest White people neighborhood of New Orleans and 3.) in a boring Inland Empire suburb. In all three locations, everything was locked up because CVS only hires 2 people per store.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"In fact, YIMBYs have plenty to say about power relations, inequality, and redistribution; it’s just that anti-YIMBYs haven’t been listening." publiccomment.blog/p/inequality...

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Inequality and Housing Shortages

Wealth inequality is both a cause and a consequence of restrictive land use

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans students are taking out are paying off.

Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest. For-profit programs will also be hit particularly hard.

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beleaguredcommoner.bsky.social @beleaguredcommoner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Every Gender Studies major deserves an apology for every joke made at their expense. People studied STEM because everything was science and engineering. People studied CompSci because everything was computers. People studied Gender because as it turns out, everything actually is Gender.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“Mass deportations but not enough to kill the economy or alienate key business interests” has been the GOP position since Reagan, but somehow Trump can’t even do that

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What’s even worse is the Democratic Party used to be really good at it! www.programmablemutter.com/p/not-popula...

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Perhaps Democrats should consider becoming a political party?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/07/2026

this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I agree so long as we’re doing so everyone who recommended a vote for him once it became clear he had the primary locked up. Basically every Democratic-aligned figure or org right? It was a systemic failure.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There is a formal distinction in DSA terms, though. A recommendation means there are reservations about the candidate and the chapter doesn’t commit resources to elect them, whereas chapters will work with campaigns that they endorse. The bar is (or should be) higher for the latter.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well we’re definitely in agreement there.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I take the point that the South did not automatically flip Republican as a bloc, it was a dirty break, but the southern Democratic Party and its base transformed in that period so that the dynamic of the mid-60s was no longer central but an artifact of a few popular Dixiecrats who stuck around

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ok, but despite some notable exceptions like Byrd in WV who were holdovers from the Dixiecrat era, the Democratic Party of the South was not a segregationist party in 1988.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Admittedly realignment happened more gradually and unevenly in the states and Congress, but the presidential results are pretty unambiguous

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And how long did the “solid south” continue to vote democratic after that?

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“My party would appeal to both transphobes and transgender people,” I say, waving my politics wand

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

if you thought México losing meant Los Angeles would not be blasting fireworks you would be wrong

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org

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US Scholars Speak

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Completely agree, although the elite conception of “the heartland” and “heartland values” is always conveniently whatever some white contractor in exurban Ohio says, and not like, a Black postal worker in Racine, WI.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

✍️ ℑ𝔱’𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔣𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔞𝔰𝔰 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶, ℑ 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 📜

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The PA spent the last 20 years providing security cooperation to Israel, after a decade of diplomatic concessions, and the response to the end of active fighting in the West Bank from 🇮🇱 has been to massively accelerate settlement construction and completely foreclosed on the possibility of a 2SS.

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Please consider ordering my new book BLUE POWER from @redemmas.org today, to support legal defense for Prairieland and Minneapolis defendants. redemmas.org/titles/48838...

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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Its so cool how trans people get treated as nothing more than proxies in all these internecine beefs, often specifically by the people claiming to be supporting our rights by using us as tools.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Lot of white NIMBYs doing noble savage bullshit. Like Black working-class communities having fewer amenities and housing options is the natural order of things.

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