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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

As much as I fully support just abolishing ICE, the reality is that these would all be big policy and political wins for Dems and would create momentum towards abolition when they do finally have a trifecta again.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2025

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

'out of the three mass shootings today'

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Smart city attorneys everywhere should be drawing up “_____ v. Trump” templates in preparation for what we can only assume will be more military invasions of American cities.

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Not that she has any reason to want to subject herself to this, but Leah Remini has a strong moral voice, a compelling personal story, and is widely known, including in red states, from her network TV career - she’d make a great political candidate one day.

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Very happy for Moldovans standing up against corrupt Russian imperialism today.

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

LOL. LMAO, even. They’re so desperate to shut down Zohran. Side note, what job is this two-bit wannabe mafioso getting in the Trump admin? I’m not even gonna bother saying “hope it was worth it, buddy” because we all know it won’t be. He’ll degrade and debase himself while ZM is cleaning up his mess

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Really do think this dismissive attitude is just dumb. It does actually matter if the demographic most likely to kill people, which is men ~16-40, are feeling alienated. Yes, even if you think it’s their fault, yes even if other groups are suffering as much or more. They’re the ones who pick up guns

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2025

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2025

so much of what this administration is doing is based on creating the perception that he is inevitable and unstoppable and it’s not true and he can lose and it’s important that people see that because the only way he does win is if everyone gives up

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2025

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Democrats shouldn't enable or support this Trump Administration. Oppose it all. Shut it down. Let GOP own it.

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Obviously nowhere near the biggest or most concerning thing here but… you’re apparently allowed to carry liquor into public city council meetings?! This is gonna make public comment so much worse 😫

A police officer at the meeting stopped the man and took away the object, which ended up being “something that looked like a molotov cocktail but was actually a 40 ounce malt liquor bottle,” according to Arcata Police Lieutenant Luke Scown. The officer then let the man return to the meeting “because at that moment, he wasn’t doing anything else wrong,” Scown said, but then the man quickly moved to the front of the council chambers.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

One reason why authoritarian regimes govern poorly is that they devalue rationality: they deny the existence of reality, and sooner or later, reality will catch up

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Can’t wait for the farm bailout to come from the next Dem-led government, after which the farmers will show zero (0) gratitude whatsoever and again vote for a bunch of far-right lunatics

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It should concern everyone that one of the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet has completely cooked his brain on internet insanity and is now inciting violence against all manner of marginalized communities

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The British fascist Tommy Robinson is leading anti-immigrant marches throughout the UK today, and while it seems he is wildly overstating the attendance (claiming “millions” protesting when it’s likely closer to ~100k), the fact remains that UK voters are getting alarmingly fascism-curious…(1/x)

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 11/09/2025

The political party who celebrated Paul Pelosi's assault, ignored Melissa Hortman's assassination, laughed at the attempt to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, and cheered as insurrectionists on Jan 6th attempted a violent coup of Congress want you to be ultra respectful about Charlie Kirk

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/09/2025

he was an extremely public figure, he spent many years publicly and clearly articulating what he believed, he was not ambiguous about *anything*, this is a “walter white is the beloved hero of breaking bad” level of bad faith and dishonesty

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2025

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

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We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life

Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/09/2025

the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

again, it is possible to denounce the shooting of Kirk without lying about who Kirk was.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Charlie Kirk's org's main purpose was to surveil, terrorize, and force the firing of college professor's he disagreed with. He was a committed, tireless opponent of free speech and democracy. 1

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

There’s a big difference between saying “Kirk shouldn’t have been assassinated” and “political violence is bad” (both of which are obviously true) and making up this fantasy that he was some saintly maestro of ethical civil debate struck down doing a noble act (which is just BS, come on now) …

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I suspect the response here will be asymmetric. Regardless of the shooter's identity, Democrats will make strident appeals for peace and calm, while Republicans will call for retribution and an escalation of violence. This is a very bad combination.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

the problem with shootings is the guns. you fix them by banning the guns. but we aren't allowed to suggest that and it is driving all of us insane.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It’s actually pathetic to apply to college, get accepted, pay to be there, and then try to stop your professor from teaching you because you’re such a huge fan of authoritarianism. Even more pathetic to record your professor to get them fired.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In the same way I'm opposed to the death penalty, even for people who definitely did commit heinous crimes, I'm opposed to political violence even against people who definitely do advocate for heinous positions. A functioning society cannot tolerate vigilantism.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

the reason that america keeps electing rapists, pedophiles and other miscellaneous sexual predators is that sexual access to people who can not or will not consent is implicitly seen as a reward for the powerful.

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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The MAGA campaign to capture our courts is here so let’s go: A vote to retain the 3 justices of PA’s Supreme Court means free and fair elections in 26 and 28, and no gerrymandering. It means women keep the right to choose. It means freedom of speech and religion. Pass it on.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

it's good that there is a ny times columnist that is as popular as ezra klein who is openly calling this administration authoritarian

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I’m so sick and tired of this tiny, insecure little man and his wannabe North Korean ass regime.

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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I don’t do a lot of “meanwhile, over on the other site” posts, but… Seriously, imagine these losers trying to talk to other people in real life this way. If someone walked up to you at a party and started ranting about “transnational cuckism,” you’d look for the fastest possible exit you could.

A debate on Twitter/X between a normal person, who thinks Hindus and others should be able to freely and peacefully practice their religion in the US (thanks to the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom), and a too-online loser who thinks allowing people of (presumably non-white, non-Christian) faiths to practice their religion constitutes the culture descending into “transnational cuckism.” Sigh.

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is why we need to make Vance and Theil and Andreesen etc the face of the GOP.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Trump’s approval rating on the economy fell to 37 percent in August, from 42 percent in February. His average approval rating on the economy during his first term was 52 percent. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...

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Trump Ratings and U.S. Mood Stay Tepid in August

Americans haven't changed their minds about President Trump or the economy over the past month, with ratings of both holding at less-than-optimal levels.

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