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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Already subscribe and will continue doing so. Thank you for your excellent reporting.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s breaking my brain.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I miss Mick Tinglehoff
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is an important element of the 2026 elections, and I'm glad to see @stephenwolf.bsky.social and @the-downballot.com looking at it systemically.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nightmare may have abated but it’s still with us. We need a Blue Wave to end it Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. Citizen
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Video: Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. Citizen
Federal immigration agents in Evanston, Ill., mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who was later released after he identified himself.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 22/09/2026
Whether this was intentional or not, Trump sketched out a position on Venezuelan oil today that made the United States sound less like a global superpower and more like pirates. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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‘To the victor belong the spoils’: In U.N. address, Trump brags about seizing Venezuelan oil
The president sketched out a position that made the U.S. sound less like a global superpower and more like pirates.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice." — John Rawls It’s as though this entire administration believes sadism makes the heart grow stronger.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Trump excuses Xi for helping Iran kill US troops 👇 Q: On the topic of Xi, we recently reported Chinese entities may have provided Iranians w/ satellite imagery of airbases in Jordan-- TRUMP: He's behaved reasonably well. When they say China spies on us, I say, you're right, and we spy on them too.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They got their wish. We are at war with ourselves. TY Pete Kegsbreath. And MAGA writ large.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Check out the custom banner Therese Walsh created for my interview with John Copenhaver that's up today at Writer Unboxed, where John discusses writing across cultural, ethnic, religious and gender difference. @johncopenhaver.bsky.social @writerunboxed.bsky.social #fiction #writing
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Writing Across Difference
I met John Copenhaver several years ago when I moderated a panel on politics in fiction. I was struck by his intelligence, his heart, and just his overall menschiness, qualities I rediscovered when…
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: Pentagon agrees to hold off firing 3 Stars & Stripes journalists through next Friday to allow their court challenge to be argued. Reprieve came as Judge Trevor McFadden (Trump/DC) mulled their request for TRO. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Fired Stars and Stripes journalists sue Pentagon to get their jobs back
The ousted publisher, editor-in-chief and a senior reporter say their firings violated their free speech rights as well as a law regulating government administrative policies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"We have one goal right now, to win Michigan, and given the fact my opponent is Mike Rogers, who you agree is a beta, it probably shouldn't be very hard" -- Abdul El-Sayed more than held his own against Jesse Watters, who tried to trip him up on loaded culture war questions. Here's whole interview:
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Abdul El-Sayed slugs it out with Jesse Watters
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Massive voter fraud case against Elon Musk moves forward to trial as the case looks daunting for Musk. www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-fr...
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Federal Judge Rules Elon Musk's Million Dollar Voter Payout Was Rigged as Fraud Lawsuit Moves to Trial
A federal judge in Texas has refused to dismiss a massive fraud lawsuit against Elon Musk, ruling that his controversial million-dollar voter payout scheme may have been deliberately rigged.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump's cycle of threats of devastation versus promises of reconciliation and claims that peace is at hand bear a remarkable relationship for massive oil futures contracts someone is executing in the hours before each announcement. The world is right to be skeptical at this flagrant corruption.
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News zu Iran: Trump droht Iran mit „Wirtschaftskrieg“
Auch Länder, die Iran „unterstützen“, sollen bestraft werden. Iranische Medien zeigen sich von den Drohgebärden des US-Präsidenten unbeeindruckt.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My monthly contribution to Writer Unboxed--in which I challenge our fascination with heroes and wonder if it doesn't obscure recognition of the natural emergence of innate heroism found, for example, in communities in the wake of disasters. Eastern vs western storytelling also discussed.
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Do We Really Need Another Hero?
With the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this summer and renewed discussion of its “complicated” hero (Emily Wilson translation), some of us have been taken back to that fraught decade p…
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Only one company bid on a $244 million federal contract. There’s a reason nobody else did.
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What The Trump Regime Filed At 9:04 On Friday Night
Plus: A judge just saved 116,000 votes. Every major doctors’ group told Trump no. And he left Turkey in a catering truck.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yeah.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just because I’m stupid doesn’t mean I’m oblivious.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Who the f**k gives a f**k.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You went to BU? Go Terriers!
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“Noisy Weakling” — maybe a little projection there, Ross old buddy?
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
His conviction was thrown out after a prosecutor admitted he had failed to turn over key fingerprint evidence. Eligible for up to $480K in state compensation, he hasn't received a cent. The Louisiana attorney general has opposed 22 of 23 compensation claims by wrongfully convicted people.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Same even if we win both houses. This Experiment in Error will cost us long after this regime is gone. Heritage, the Manhattan Foundation, America First Foundation, etc., are already game-planning the post-Trump era.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
*shot (not short)
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The problems result from an electorate that ranks them below Trump. The GOP may be wounded but their messaging about Dems is as robust as ever. Dems can’t rely on negative partisanship the way MAGA can. Whoever steps forward with a popular message and delivers with conviction has a short. Otherwise?
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Which “establishment” is at issue?
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
*Jim Crow (sorry)
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Those who argued we were heading toward Nim Crow 2.0 were understating the threat.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Peace Arch Park has long been known as a unique international park where visitors from both Canada and the United States could meet within the park without immediately passing through a traditional border checkpoint.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“To make our settlement with the Gambino Crime Family more equitable, we have limited its immunity from consequences for committing crimes to only the family members most likely to murder.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Where's the outrage and nonstop coverage over Max Miller, corporate media? Is that only reserved for Democrats and progressives? Why are Republicans supporting a mam who allegedly beat his wife and injured his child?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Klein himself admits that Trump, Musk et al are not tricksters in the larger sense but mere disrupters. Focusing on a distinction he himself makes as an oversight is, first, weird. Second , it obscures the real point of his essay: Nolan sneaks the Golden Rule into a story that never recognized it.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Getting advice from fellow Buckeye Gym Jordan, I'm thinking.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xag5...
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Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair (Official Audio)
YouTube video by SlyATFamilyStoneVEVO
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/08/2026
Bernie Sanders: "People look at the Republicans. They say, 'No they're out of touch.' They look at the Democratic leadership and say, 'No, they're out of touch.'"
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yeah, "lazy" is the first word that springs to mind when I think of you. Like, never.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Some people act like only way to support universal coverage as a goal is to support Medicare for All, as if anyone who doesn’t back M4A isn’t truly committed to universal coverage. That would surprise the likes of Ted Kennedy, legendary MA Dem senator who was the patron saint of universal coverage"
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The ‘Medicare for All’ Test for Michigan Democrats
Haley Stevens wants to move legislation. Abdul El-Sayed wants to move the debate. But first, one of them has to keep the seat blue.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You are rapidly becoming my hero.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes. She froze to death. Another ICE homicide. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2026
I love this. Every blue state should be doing everything in its power to max out the vote.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s like living in a world where people really believe that whoever shouts loudest at the TV magically leads their team to victory.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2026
I remember when Bill Clinton met with the Attorney General for three minutes when Hillary was being investigated for mishandling classified information, and the republicans cried bloody murder. Now, the AG nominee is covering for pedophiles and that seems okay. WHAT THE FUCK?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On Secretary Pete Hegseth's orders, the Pentagon has been wildly manipulating the US killed in action and casualty numbers from the Iran War so as to depress them.The Pentagon quietly changed its reporting categories Saturday for overseas casualties after nearly a week of glitches and
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Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting | CNN Politics
The Pentagon updated its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 new wounded and restoring the four soldiers killed due to Iranian strikes last weekend.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I think this op Ed from Andrea Flores should be required reading for anyone who thinks Latino voters will just naturally turn to Democrats despite their sense of betrayal from Trump. How hard have Dems fought for citizenship? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/o...
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Opinion | Latino Americans Are in Shock. Can Democrats Finally Do Something? (Gift Article)
For decades, Democrats have misunderstood Latino voters. Trump’s deportation campaign offers a chance for them to get it right.
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Soon, with a noise like tambourines, Came her attendant Byzantines. They wondered why Susanna cried Against the elders by her side; And as they whispered, the refrain Was like a willow swept by rain. Anon, their lamps' uplifted flame Revealed Susanna and her shame. —Wallace Stevens
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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Babe.
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