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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h
50 years from Goldwater, Scott, & Rhodes to this guy & this position, & yet somehow we've spent the last decade talking about "polarization" as the problem & how it is <checks notes> the Democrats who have moved further from the political center than the now-far right authoritarian party.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Silicon Valley CNC party bros and the Southern Evangelical Christian movement are natural twin anchors of the Republican Party because they're a group of men who believe in their divine right to be the masters of the universe and also believe young women exist to serve them
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/09/2026
I'm assuming this is just a transparent ploy to get his arch built by pretending it's a national security issue. But if you think about it, putting a sniper's nest on the Mall can only suggest shooting demonstrators.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026
The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is an incredible essay. Well worth your time to read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our servicemembers deserve so much better than this. When I get to the US Senate, we’re going to investigate Hegseth for these and so many other failures.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We all knew this was the case. What we’re learning now is the extent to which they were willing to commit it to writing despite its illegality. Ordinarily you take care not to create a paper trail for something like this. But Trump officials are unconcerned by the threat of legal entanglements.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 04/08/2026
"Reluctantly," a federal judge dismisses the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy cases. Trump DOJ "excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle." "The court cannot write a different ending," he adds. buff.ly/NvVKnaW
This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6. That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle. The court cannot write a different ending.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/08/2026
Congress: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 31/07/2026
I’m not even embarrassed by Trump anymore. I’m simply ashamed of this country for electing him.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
One of the most thoughtful and clear-eyed readings of Lindsey’s career. All to say, utterly typical of Zimmer’s writing.
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iamthe1nonly1.bsky.social @iamthe1nonly1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sending much love to our 🇨🇦 Canadian 🇨🇦 neighbors from a Sane American in Seattle, Washington!!
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I am taking down the paywall for this one, as I believe it remains relevant as a potential antidote to cynicism and declinism. The glass is half-full. Or at least this is my attempt to argue it might be. We are confronted with a world-historic chance. The German version of this week’s piece:
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Eine welthistorische Chance
Die Rechten rasten aus, weil wir nahe dran sein könnten zu beweisen, dass eine egalitäre plurale Demokratie möglich ist. Eine optimistische Interpretation dieses Moments.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The United States 1957 vs. 2026: The same vibe, an innocent black girl surrounded by the same damn problem, white supremacy.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Centrist Democrats wanted us to cast some people aside in order to expand the tent and win? Great. We agreed. We choose to cast out ... them. They should just hold their nose and go along like they expected trans people to go along right? They know what to do with this play; they invented it.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/06/2026
the second a democrat is elected president the national media will become extremely concerned with the deficit I have a suggestion for where to start
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Dan @dkbuddychrist.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The fact that this is so hard for so many of our elected officials to understand (I’m looking at you @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social ) might be the most infuriating part of this situation.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
we are dealing with actual nazis. that’s how they ought to be treated. stop confirming their judges. stop pretending bipartisanship is a virtue. they want to kill immigrants and they’ve been given billions to do it.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026
get off the cross, ding dong. we need the wood
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/05/2026
MAGA HEADS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE 🤯 🚨 A new Cato study found immigrants reduced US deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994. Not increased. Reduced. Even undocumented immigrants were estimated to have reduced deficits by at least $1.7 trillion.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
ICE is not reformable. ICE is not retrainable. It must be abolished.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026
Fuck peace I want justice.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/05/2026
6 Greenville, SC residents, including at least 3 cops have been arrested & charged with child sex trafficking AGAIN—not immigrants, not trans people, not drag queens, not Black or brown people. And we will not hear Trump or any MAGA politician acknowledge this. These were cops. How deep is the rot?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bigger cities can drop a couple of hundred million dollars a year on police lawsuits, and never feel pressured to change their behavior. news.wttw.com/2025/09/02/c...
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Chicago Spent $231.2M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits in 7 Months, Nearly Triple Year’s Budget: Records
Even as the financial toll of decades of police misconduct is likely to grow in the coming months, Chicago exhausted its annual budget of $82.2 million months ago and had spent nearly triple that amou...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/05/2026
i now live in fear of the Brain Damage That Makes You Republican
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is what Elon Musk, Russ Vought, RFK Jr, and of course Donald Trump, have brought us. So that insurrectionists and coconspiritors could be paid off instead.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture
A picture of a man inside the Capitol rotunda on January 6 2021. He is wearing full camo tactical gear, masked, carrying zip ties and climbing over a bannister in the gallery
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My friend Eddie Carson with a little proposal. As a resident of SEC country, I endorse this plan.
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Hear me out, okay. Southerners love their college sports teams. Just imagine. Again, hear me out. Imagine if Black families told their five and four-star student athletes that it would break their hearts and that of their grandparents if they attended schools like Auburn, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc., because you will be nothing but a spectacle mule to them. Tell those colleges that we do not attend schools in places that practice Jim Crow and engage in the act of weakening our franchise via constructing zones that work against the Voting Rights Act. Black folks are all excited about their kids participating in a form of white supremacy where the majority of fans in the stadium walked into the ballot booth, and made decisions that will set us...Black people... back for decades. Black people. It starts with our protest. If white folks love their sports teams, let us give them back. They can have the all-white teams as they had in the days of old. We all just have to care.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It's the exact same playbook that segregationists ran against the NAACP in the 1950s. They sued to get membership lists in Arkansas during Little Rock, hoping to single them out for retribution. Meanwhile, Alabama -- this same state below -- just outlawed the organization entirely.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Why is anyone debating whether or not to “let Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent”? She has not asked to be in a tent with you. Nothing indicates that she wants to be in it. She is positioning herself to appeal to people who hate your tent, and possibly to peel off a few people at the edges of it.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If there are political benefits on the margins from blood-red turf, great, but you don't expect it in a game that is rigged against you, and you certainly don't sacrifice the interests of your base, especially on issues of immigration and minority rights, in order to virtue signal to them.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/05/2026
Florida just ignored its constitution to gerrymander. Ohio has repeatedly defied court rulings to gerrymander. The legal infirmity here, which is wholly invented, is also piddling next to those. Revise the statute and push the map approved by voters into force.
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The collective left needs to be more vengeful This isn’t some reactionary statement This is a well researched position They’re beating us by relying on our willingness to follow the intent of the law instead of the letter of it, and to try to be fair Fuck fair Don’t be fair to Nazis Ruin them
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Proud Boys associate, Ben Bergquam, is embedded with DHS agents today and was spotted during an abduction in Wheaton, Illinois.
Ben Bergquam is seen filming himself with his phone like an idiot. A cowardly masked DHS agent is behind him abducting someone who will be sent to a concentration camp for migrants somewhere in the U.S.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.
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Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office
Louisiana Republicans have eliminated the office an exoneree was set to take after being overwhelmingly elected to the New Orleans-based seat. Republican Gov.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
It's jarring to see ICE executing American citizens in our streets for exercising their free speech rights. It's jarring to see innocent people being kidnapped and sent to gulags in El Salvador. It's jarring to see children being traumatized in concentration camps.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.
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