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An imagination trying hard not to fail The Founders did not intend this It doesn't have to be this way Interests: 💣 Wealth Inequality. Dominionism Don't Dream It's Over 🦋 Joined 5/25/23 but languished

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 03/10/2026
After @levernews.com published my essay about @thebulwark.com today - and it trended across social media - The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell pretended there’s no data suggesting neocons’ election strategy of embracing Liz Cheney had anything to do with Dems’ 2024 loss. That’s false. See the data here👇
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The Bulwark Now Tries To Rewrite History
On the defensive, Sarah Longwell pretends Democrats campaigning with Liz Cheney was fine. Polling data suggests otherwise.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/09/2026
Welp, now we know who their other clients are. As I've been saying, the tech fascists are buying up Democratic consultants by the bushel. They have enough money to *BUY BOTH SIDES* Time to burn out the rot and build a party that serves the people, not the billionaires.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 17/09/2026
“From a human standpoint, it’s tragic. From a constitutional perspective, it’s absurd: The people elect their representatives to enact legislation, and five unelected judges veto that legislation. Is this really the democratic system our founders envisioned?”
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I see where he's going with this
Trump photo with Hitler mustache
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Incredibly maddening, even when you've already noticed this for two decades. Happy week:
7/13/24: The next week is going to be yet another object lesson in how neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party, & how only one party is ever expected to be held to any standards whatsoever in the National Conversation
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is Trump's "Let them Eat Cake" moment. He's not lowering costs for imported beef tenderloin or tomahawk ribeyes. He's allowing the great unwashed to afford the occasional burger. Thank you great MAGA king!
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
He's preparing for a siege.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Republicans are communists. Here's the proof.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump is both an expert on soccer rules and doesn't know what a red card is. He's the Schrödinger's cat of the laws of the game.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
USMNT: We've spent all the time since the Bosnia game crafting a winning strategy without Balogun. FIFA on Sunday: Oh, nevermind, he can play.
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
250 years of fighting these assholes
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New article! Where is America going? On Trump's July 4 disaster, the stolen sovereignty of the US, the leftist primary wins, and the plan to merge the US and Israeli militaries. Also, Vanilla Ice: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/stop-colla...
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Stop, collaborator, and listen!
On stolen sovereignty and Americans fighting back.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Endless War™
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is disgusting as usual. More of the same partisan political speeches to active duty troops following the standard practice of Trump, Vance and Hegseth to violate a fundamental principle of the Republic. It’s also gross that more Republican vets don’t call this out. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I think there is more in the past between Ivanka and her father than we will ever know.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is the best. If you can't handle the often disturbing truths, at least stay for the exquisite writing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
These takeaways are ... very good?
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Far right controls Republican Party, backing policy that is extremely unpopular & dangerous for most of US People who control Democratic Party fight hard against Democratic Socialists, despite fact their policy is extremely popular & good for most of US
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's a classic sign of senile dementia: "Trump keeps bringing up the number 22." Taking out 22 ships in Iran war. 22 fountains. A pool built 22 years ago. A flight 22 hours long. A story on NYT's page 22. 22 specialists at Walter Reed checkup. 22 Nobel economists. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump keeps bringing up the number 22
A White House official couldn’t explain why the 47th president has seized on the number.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Great Audacity of Mediocrity
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So glad that Haberman and Swan are going to make millions more publishing a book based on things they discovered doing their actual job but withheld reporting until now so they could personally enrich themselves from the fascism.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is the way.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Chuck Schumer would much rather have fascist Rs in control than progressive Ds. That's the whole issue, right there.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/06/2026
over at the newsletter I wrote about how grotesque levels of corruption on consumer privacy is literally killing U.S. troops, but our consolidated press is so captured and broken it can't make the real cause of the disease clear to anybody
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Privacy-Eroding Corruption Is Killing U.S. Troops
The U.S. lacks privacy protections because it's too corrupt to function, but the consolidated press is too broken to make that clear to anyone.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The most curious thing about this is that our Beltway commentariat think that Platner has disqualifying problems from his tattoos to his sexual predatory emails, while the voters of Maine appear (so far at least) not merely unconcerned, but actually inclined to ridicule the commentariat about this.
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The Problem With Platner
In fetishizing ‘outsiders,’ Democrats are getting used to excusing bad behavior. We’ve seen this movie before.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Coach Tuberville believes that rioters who assaulted policemen on Capitol Hill on Jan 6, leaving 147 policemen requiring medical attention, should now be compensated through a slush fund run by Donald Trump.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Why is Vance giving this presser? Has President Sundowner been relegated to just talking about his ballroom and big arch? Has the transition begun?
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Antichrist Fest 2026
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Like taking a shit on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Maybe that's on his bucket list.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In October 2025, the Trump administration gave $20 billion to Argentina to help its president, Javier Milei, get reelected. Trump told Americans we'd all get cheap Argentine beef but he never followed through. Now he's scrambling to remedy his Dunning Kruger tariffs and failed war. Too late pal.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Klobuchar giving an assist to the Minnesota Republican Party. Useless. The moderates are useless.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
John Roberts is an institutionalist only insofar as he’s committed to growing and preserving the power of the institution he controls. For decades he has wielded that power on behalf of oligarchs and theocrats to end America as we knew it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Blame John Roberts for destroying the Voting Rights Act
He's been dismantling the country's most important civil rights law for over 40 years.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.” -- Exodus 32: 9-10
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Trump should fire Hegseth immediately but he's too egotistical to do so. He's stupidly painted himself into a corner and all he can do is say he planned to do it. And the world suffers his incompetence.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I am increasingly persuaded that in addition to whatever legislative remedies are agreed upon, public hearings should be held to fully expose the raw corruption that fuels Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh and their ties to the cult of Opus Dei.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
An astounding percentage of this debt, as a reminder, has gone to fund massive tax breaks on the wealthy during the two Trump administrations.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Chuck Schumer: - can no longer recruit and cultivate winning Senate candidates - is wildly out of step with Democrats on foreign policy - refused to endorse the most popular Democrat in America, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani There is no reason to keep him as leader. He must go.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As the Brits said in WWI: Lions led by donkeys.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Knives out in Trumpworld.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
LISTEN⏵The shooter wasn’t the biggest evil at the #WHCD last night. That honor belongs to every journalist who thought it was a good idea to be there given the appalling treatment of the press by this rogue Trump regime. What the fuck were you thinking? (Reposts = agreement)
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.”
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Strait of Hormuz, ALREADY OPEN before we began bombing Iran, is open again. Yay! There's talk of an anti-nuclear agreement for the price of unfreezing $20B in frozen funds. Double yay! All in all, we'll have spent and/or transferred $52B to replicate the Obama deal, which he tore up. Triple yay!
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Michael Jochum @notjustadrummer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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The Inevitable Result 50 Years in the Making
The Republicans and their obscenely wealthy handlers didn’t stumble into this moment, they engineered it.
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I think MAGA are upset about all the failures -- the Epstein files, the increased prices, the unnecessary war -- but the tribe won't accept those reasons as enough to turn on Trump. However, being a heretic? Can't question my faith!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/04/2026
Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
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dons @dons.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Be a shame if people kept spreading this depiction of Trump as the antiChrist.
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