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The idea that one branch of government could endow itself with uncheck-able power to kill people is completely anathema to the country's founding principles.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 5h

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Madlibs World

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5h

That a guy who’s overweening political ambition was to be JD Vance’s running mate exposed himself humiliatingly as a grotesque posturing jackass seems like a textbook dog bites man story.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

If Trump thinks cost overruns on a renovation project are criminal, I have a reflecting pool to sell him

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 3h

A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Every single member of this administration sees themselves, first and foremost, as a Content Creator™ It's like they staffed an administration with homeschooled aliens who learned about humanity through mainlining TikTok accounts. Just unbelievable levels of sweaty dorkiness.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 4h

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 1h

Howard Lutnick was a wealthy investor living it up in NYC high society, and could have continued doing so into retirement for the rest of his life. He gave all that up to become the court jester of the second Trump administration.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

The things we memory hole

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2h

Political scientists understand why. Trump just doesn't understand political science.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 7h

My latest, on how Trump keeps calling Dems "communists"...and then undermining his own message. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n... Feat. @scottlincicome.bsky.social, some cuts from the Ruthless podcast, Columbia U's Sheri Berman...and a hell of a headline from @realbabylonbee.bsky.social

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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message

The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 6h

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 6h

Starting momentarily! Come join us!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" Something something "Every Day is Jan. 6 Now" something something No, I guess they didn't really mean that And no, "it's the sports section" is not an excuse

NYT Editorial Board, 1/1/22: "Every Day is Jan. 6 Now"

Quote from editorial about Republic facing an existential threat

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 8h

Thanks John Roberts et al!

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 8h

I still can't get over the fact that SCOTUS (minus Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson) did this yesterday *on the shadow docket.* Nary a word of justification. Not even a nod to the lower court opinions finding it unlawful to deport to 3rd countries w/o due process to flag torture & persecution risks.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Chris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social · 9h

when members of Congress are unable/unwilling to carry out their constitutional responsibilities, that is constitutional failure. rick scott is describing, acknowledging, condoning, and normalizing constitutional failure--even as he occupies a seat in the senate.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10h

My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 12h

Breaking News: Just received a journal review where I was informed that I didn't have a grasp on the administrative burden literature.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 23h

Jesus this is bleak. Just boilerplate “we, the undersigned CEOs, promise to try really really hard to only make good artificial super intelligences. We’ve got this. We promise.”

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 23h

Not you.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To bottom line this for you, the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to deport people without giving them a hearing, and said "we will consider next year whether this violated the laws against torture". They think it's worse to make Trump wait than risk him torturing people.

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Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration’s Third-Country Deportations, for Now

The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

man the republicans who hate language policing are going to be so mad about this

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS, I guess: "who cares if immigrants are sent to torture dungeons in Equatorial Guinea? It's not like they're humans with rights."

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is criminal exposure everywhere you look in this administration, from the obvious of ICE murdering civilians in the streets, to more discrete stuff like insider trading or agencies funneling tax money into pro-Trump ads. This is what wanton corruption looks like, and the hammer must fall.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 29/09/2026

I guess we're going to have to send six of the SCOTUS justices to be judged as well

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm genuinely curious what sort of play this gets in the broader media. Could be: *nothing *Senator can't tell the difference between sports teams! c *big gotcha effort backfiring emblematic of right-wing conspiracy addiction I think the latter story would be most insightful, but less likely

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

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Screenshot from the Trump Administration’s new AI Chatbot:

Can the president rename
Artificial Intelligence?

No. Official sources do not show that a president can rename the term "artificial intelligence" itself.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

When your big gotcha moment goes so epically wrong that it’s the other party sharing clips of it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 29/09/2026

In academia, if you publicly falsely accuse someone of research fraud, you should be so embarrassed that you retreat into your office, never to be seen again In the US Senate, if you publicly falsely accuse a witness of perjury, you just go on with your day and preen about how you were "tough"

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you haven't been keeping up, Sen Schmitt tried to play gotcha with Jack Smith and it blew up in his face.

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Debbie Schildkraut @debbiejsr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tufts tenure-track job in American Politics!

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)

photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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