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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

A rainbow colored box turtle looking nervously out of a drab gray shell. There is text above him that says “It’s OK if you’re not ready yet.”

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I think the thing people just don't realize is that the cost to provide universal healthcare or strengthen any aspect of the safety net is so incredibly large that basically all US science funding is a rounding error in comparison.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026

BASH: There's no question that Maduro was a destabilizing force in the region. People are celebrating in the streets all over. Is it fair to say there's some benefit in him not being in power? CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated? We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

yep. Biden kind of miraculously managed full employment and low inflation, and seemed ready to continue that indefinitely. and basically no one cared or credited him for it. and now we're in hell.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I really think trump doesn't even understand that he's making the jobs number worse by throwing people out of jobs. like, his whole policy is to cut federal jobs and refuse to pay federal money to other people who are creating jobs.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

President No Bad News.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This only adds one job to the report, dummy. Won’t even move the needle!

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 01/08/2025

The fix is in for Ghislaine Maxwell and it couldn’t be more obvious. It’s happening right in front of our eyes. Trump feels emboldened and untouchable now.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

NBC News: Ghislaine Maxwell was ineligible to be transferred to a minimum security prison camp — like the one she was transferred to in Texas — because she is a convicted sex offender, according to the Bureau of Prison's own designation policy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/08/2025

REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics? TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/08/2025

There is no covid without testing There is no bad economy if we cook the books Electing Trump in a free and fair election is one of the greatest own goals in human history

In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The BLS firing is a textbook example of how personalist authoritarianism causes policy nightmares. It's like Trump is trying to prove why liberal democratic guardrails aren't some kind of luxury, but essential for good governance

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/08/2025

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The US is on its way to "tractor production has risen 500%" style economic statistics

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 01/08/2025

This just genuinely confuses me as someone who voted for the first time in 1992 and was well aware of how people spoke about the Clintons (esp Hillary). Republicans just openly talk like Limbaugh now but Trump didn’t make that happen.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

peek behind the curtain re frustrations w dems - senate dems released a report showing elon wasted $21 billion - they gave wapo a heads up on it, fine, wapo writes it up - they dont put out any releases on it - they dont put the report online - the senator leading it doesnt post it on his site

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Maxwell says she’ll testify—if Trump protects her. If this ends with her shielding Trump in return for clemency, it’ll be the most corrupt cover-up yet. And we’ll all be expected to act like it’s normal.

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

“I saw someone tweet the other day a picture of the sky, and it was blue .... and then 20 minutes later, there were clouds. And they said, ‘How is this possible?’ And I’m like, have people just never looked up?”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025

also, “so woke you have walked backwards into supporting segregation” is definitely a thing online

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

MTG is willing to criticize Israel in part because she's very antisemitic. (she babbled about Jewish space lasers!) one of the many evils of what Israel is doing is that it empowers antisemites because Israel is committing the horrors that Jews have been falsely accused of in the past. 1

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Most politicians from North Carolina are going to reference their faith and if that's something you -- someone who is not from North Carolina -- do not like, you are perfectly welcome to shut the fuck up.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/07/2025

79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None. Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

You know how broken our political system is when a man who’s clearly deranged holds the highest office and the people who could remove him from that office continue to support him with gusto.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

do these guys realize they are just signing up for a recurring subscription

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It’s very dangerous to ignore these statements from Trump as mere distractions from Epstein The Trump administration has purged the DOJ and FBI of people who worked on January 6 cases, is prosecuting a Democratic Congresswoman and has threatened other Democrats America is facing an age of tyranny

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 23/07/2025

There is clear evidence that voters (rightly or wrongly) consider Trump’s impassioned gibberish authentic, not processed through a spokesperson. I think when an unhinged fascist is accusing you of treason, people expect you to respond with legitimate rage. Where is The American President speech?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/07/2025

Trump blasts out conspiracy theories directly on social media and live on TV during press events carried by every cable network. Obama releases statements in the voice of his spokesperson through his office. Guess which method gets more attention?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The apparent 7-2 vote — with Kagan joining the Republican appointees on the procedural question of the district court's power — is appalling abdication of its role in our constitutional republic. The short of it is seven justices said Trump can send these 8 people to South Sudan with no process.

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 02/07/2025

If this were a repeated line from congressional Democrats, there would be countless think pieces about why such rhetoric is alienating young men from the party.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is the bill you get, by the way, when Congress is gerrymandered sufficiently that members fear primary challenges from the right more than facing general election voters.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.

A photo of Speaker Johnson surrounded by GOP members all smiling broadly with their thumbs up, just after passing a Bill which strips healthcare, food nutrition and school meals from some of the most vulnerable families in America.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

POLITICS IS NOT A SPORT. YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO COVER POLITICS LIKE IT'S ALL A BIG GAME.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 109 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

💥 “Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month.” No paywall: archive.is/3LjoW

'It's a Killing Field': IDF
Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans
Waiting for
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IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

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