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David @dburnette.com · 26/09/2026

This admin has consistently broken the law in a way that cuts to the core principles in the constitution, and so far congress has just sat back and watched. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction.

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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 16/09/2026

NASA released a bunch of 16 and 35mm film engineering footage of the Artemis II launch today. Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m so old I remember when conservatives were indeed quite vocal about saying children should not have babies.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Not that anything matters anymore, but Oman hosts U.S. forces including USAF air wings alongside allowing us access to naval support facilities at Duqm. Great coalition building Mr. President! Very reassuring to our security partners!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

these guys need to go to jail for this, theres no coming back from this without it

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David @dburnette.com · 08/08/2026

I hope the next admin is ready to hire an army of attorneys to prosecute corruption. Taking bribes, steering govt contracts to yourself or your buddies, all of it.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This was *by far* the craziest story to come out of election night. youtube.com/shorts/J2H1w...

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Trump’s racist politics BACKFIRE in Michigan GOP primary

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

A graph showing whether voters support or oppose free trade by party identification, showing 54% of "Dems favorable to DSA" strongly support free trade agreements

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David @dburnette.com · 03/08/2026

Man discovers the Czech Mliko pour.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/08/2026

This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It turns out insurance companies believe in climate change whether you do or not

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David @dburnette.com · 30/07/2026

This is insane and should not be hand waved away as normal. There would be wall to wall coverage if a Dem withheld disaster funds to Alabama.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/07/2026

Scalded her with boiling water Put a gun to her head Punched her in her face Broke your grand daughters collarbone And Bennie Moreno ain’t beat his ass yet???? Every time i see you in DC it’s on sight

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David @dburnette.com · 19/07/2026

Really though, that movie is fantastic. I watched it based on @swiftonsecurity.com ‘s recommendation. Similarly I say, go in cold without looking it up first.

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David @dburnette.com · 07/07/2026

Egypt absolutely robbed by that VAR decision. Unbelievable.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’ve been thinking about the America I’m proud of and that I want to celebrate tomorrow, and it’s things like hip-hop and blue jeans and sending a man to the moon and this.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

this video from the bbc about texas bbq is frying me

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David @dburnette.com · 29/06/2026

Insurance, how does it work?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K Views

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The facts of this case are bad. County wrongly claimed family owed $2,000 in taxes, foreclosed on the home, and sold a house it assessed at $190K for just $76K and tried (unsuccessfully) to keep all $76K. Screwed a family out of tens of thousands to collect $2,000 that they didn't actually owe.

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David @dburnette.com · 17/06/2026

Amazing match from DRC there, just incredible for them to hang on for a 1-1 draw with Portugal.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13/06/2026

Folarin Balogun, born in New York to Nigerian parents. People like JD Vance would say he's not *really* American when, in fact, he's the epitome of American. 🇺🇸

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David @dburnette.com · 12/06/2026

Canadian fans just LOUDLY booed America at the opening cermony of the world cup game today. 👀

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David @dburnette.com · 11/06/2026

North American Schengen region, we should absolutely make this happen! Pitch it as a huge money saver by reducing regulations and costly border enforcement and creating more freedom for Americans.

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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Wow.. nerves of steel

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David @dburnette.com · 11/06/2026

Wow. We’ve come a long way from the ai being unable to figure out how many R’s are in strawberry.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 08/06/2026

In all seriousness: religious freedom only works when it is a common project of defending everyone's freedom of worship and belief. It doesn't work as an individual project of asserting your own freedom to be religious how you like. Senator Lee is learning a hard lesson here. Hope he remembers it.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is textbook racism. As in, this is an example that an elementary teacher might use to explain racism to a child: "If someone says all members of a particular race are stupid, that's racism, kids." Any news outlets that uses any word for this except racism is not reporting the truth.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The criminal justice system doesn’t just demean defendants, it degrades and lowers its participants.

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“Festering” or, as Goebbels would have said it, “gärstoff der zersetzung” and “eiterbeule.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026

Kavanaugh, 7 weeks before an election, when a lower court prevents Alabama GOP from discriminating against Black voters: 😠 🛑 STOP Kavanaugh, during an election, when the Supreme Court empowers Alabama GOP to discriminate against Black voters: 🥳 🍻 LET'S GO ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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The Supreme Court Is Very Concerned About “Voter Confusion,” Except When It Helps Republicans

A Court that claims to be skeptical of “judicial tinkering” with elections has no problem allowing Republicans to stack the deck—even in states where voting is already underway.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“My ‘this is not a golden calf’ statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.”

From Pastor Mark Burns: “One of the greatest honors of my life was leading the dedication of President Donald J. Trump’s statue to the world.

What amazes me is how quickly some people have compared this beautiful statue, created and made possible by more than 6,000 patriots, to a golden calf or idol worship.

Let me be very clear.

We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone.

The Word of God says, “You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3.

It also says, “You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.” Matthew 4:10.

That is the line.

Honor is not worship.

Respect is not idolatry.

Celebration is not bowing down to a false god.”

A pastor blessing a garish golden statue of Trump

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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The economics are brutal. Anywhere that a litre of diesel costs more than 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity, an EV truck pays for itself in 12-14 months. After that, it will be more profitable than diesel every single month: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Tesla’s Semi Is Getting Overtaken by China Inc.

Electric trucking is about to have its BYD Co. moment. Long considered an implausible alternative to conventional, diesel-powered road freight, EV trucks have been quietly growing into a formidable bu...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

In 1982, when Congress passed a series of amendments strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lawmakers wanted to make one thing very clear: that minority voters seeking to prove violations of the Voting Rights Act do not have to prove that lawmakers intentionally discriminated against them based on race. Instead, under a provision of the law known as Section 2, Congress said, it is enough for voters to show that a given policy—a redistricting plan, for example—has the effect of making it more difficult for them to actually participate in democracy.

At the time, Congress had good reason to be specific. Two years earlier, the Supreme Court in City of Mobile v. Bolden had held that a facially neutral electoral map did not violate the Voting Rights Act, even though it had the practical effect of reducing Black voting strength. In the 1982 amendments, Congress explicitly overruled Bolden; in its final report on the bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee affirmed that requiring challengers to prove discriminatory intent would impose an “inordinately difficult burden,” and would make it too easy for racist lawmakers to disguise their true motivations by leaving a “false trail” of non-discriminatory justifications.

In Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court decided on Wednesday, the six conservative justices took it upon themselves to reimpose the “inordinately difficult burden” Congress lifted five decades ago. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito strains to present Callais as faithful to the law passed by Congress: His opinion, he says, merely “updates” the tests that courts use to evaluate Section 2 claims, and “realigns” that framework with the text of the Voting Rights Act.

In reality, what Alito and the majority have done is make it functionally impossible for voters to prove that a given map is an illegal racial gerrymander, no matter how discriminatory the map’s real-world impact. Their opinion in Callais preserves only a husk of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, leaving intact the ability of minority voters to cast ballots while simultaneously guaranteeing lawmakers’ power to ensure that those ballots are meaningless. Going forward, the same racist lawmakers whom Congress sought to bind in 1982 will be freer than ever to draw lines that gerrymander their Black and brown constituents out of electoral existence.

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David @dburnette.com · 24/04/2026

The people have spoken and we demand the ability to hedge our exposure to onion prices. Repeal the Onion Futures Act!

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Neither of those calculations is correct. (It's a 500% increase and an 83.3% decrease.)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If Republicans have had a belated realization that gerrymandering is bad, they should work with Dems to ban it entirely. I suspect though that they think it’s just bad when it happens to them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I suspect, however, that Republicans have not had this realization, and that they simply believe that disenfranchising Democrats is good but disenfranchising Republicans is bad. If that’s the case, then this race to the bottom will continue indefinitely. On Monday, Trump called the new maps a “shameful effort” to “silence the voices of Virginia conservatives.” He either didn’t remember or didn’t care that he had set off this whole process by demanding that liberals in Texas and other Republican-controlled states be similarly silenced. In fact, the president complained in a post today that the election had been “rigged” by virtue of the fact that all the votes—including mail-in ballots—had been counted.

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David @dburnette.com · 22/04/2026

Uhhh... were they doing a lot of business in Tehran or something???

Breaking headline from CNBC stating that ServiceNow lost subscription revenue due to the Iran war??? Definitely not AI... For sure the war.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

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David @dburnette.com · 20/04/2026

This is a well written piece on how NYC's new tax on wealthy non-resident property owners is good tax policy and good politics. open.substack.com/pub/betterci...

open.substack.com

Zohran's Pied-à-Terre Tax is Good Policy and Good Politics

An economically sound way to tax the rich!

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Oil just dropped 11% on news the Strait of Hormuz is “open.” But “open” doesn’t mean normal. Right now, 800+ tankers are stuck in the Gulf. The strait is effectively a 3-lane highway merging into 1. ~400 loaded ships trying to exit. ~100 empty ships willing to enter. 3 years until normal.

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David @dburnette.com · 14/04/2026

These people responsible should never live this down. Also, prosecutions for those who broke the law.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Folks, the Hungarians just ousted Orban after he spent a decade and a half consolidating power. The odds the Hungarian resistance faced were far worse than what we’re facing in the US. Like abolitionists and civil rights activists have learned here, everything seems impossible until it isn’t.

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David @dburnette.com · 10/04/2026

Even if it magically opened for normal traffic, the pain is already built in. Multiple producers already ceased oil production, restarting could take weeks. Not to mention all the physical damage to energy infrastructure!

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"During the past decade, voters in four Republican-leaning states — Arizona, Florida, Missouri, and Nebraska — enacted big minimum wage increases." In the four states, "wages rose substantially, while restaurant and retail employment was unaffected." – @arindube.bsky.social

open.substack.com

These Republican-leaning States Went Big on Minimum Wages.

Here’s What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

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Lunar Flyby - NASA

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).

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