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I think we’ll win. It’ll be close. NH has elected a Republican governor and legislature every two years since 2016

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(Yes pols, not polls. Polls are flawed but responsibly collected data is what it is)

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I’m from New Hampshire and i believe both that Pappas is likely to win and that national pols often take New Hampshire for granted for the same reason they used to take MI, WI, and PA for granted: consistent presidential wins that ignore narrow margins and recent down-ballot history

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With apologies to the assignment editors who keep trying to make Certain Names happen

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 11h

Every Republican presidential primary includes MSM-friendly candidates who are just in it for a Fox News contract. The 2028 Democratic primary has a few doing the same thing. We are not going to nominate someone who tells liberals/lefties to shut up, sit down, and stop trying to solve big problems.

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Maricopa County has: (1) a Republican in charge of its elections (2) a majority of the population in a top battleground state

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Suncor v. Boulder: the Supreme Court climate lawsuit against Big Polluters, and what it means for you

SCOTUS will hear Suncor v. Boulder at 10am today. It's the biggest climate case since 2022, when MAGA Justices invented a fake constitutional "doctrine" to hamstring EPA's authority to fight climate pollution under the Clean Air Act.

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Polluter-caused climate change costs all of us money. This case will decide whether the American people can sue Big Polluters to make them pay their share.

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NYT reported six months ago that SCOTUS internal deliberations on blocking Obama’s signature climate plan involved no discussion of any specific law or precedent. This morning, the MAGA-majority Supreme Court will consider blocking every climate accountability lawsuit in state courts nationwide.

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Suncor v. Boulder: the Supreme Court climate lawsuit against Big Polluters, and what it means for you

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Polluter-caused climate change costs all of us money. This case will decide whether the American people can sue Big Polluters to make them pay their share.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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Jewish lives matter. Palestinian lives matter. Acknowledge both or stop pretending to hold the moral high ground.

The Greens in England and Wales have formally adoptega policy that equates Zionism with racism and calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state.

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And again: Netanyahu is terrible, AIPAC is terrible, Palestinian lives matter. You can and should say that without being antisemitic.

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It's a bit like certain high profile posters who can't distinguish between AIPAC and J Street. If that distinction doesn't mean anything to you, red flag!

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Is your problem with zionists or (((zionists)))? Again, Netanyahu and his wars are extremely bad, that's not what this is about

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I'm increasingly skeptical of people using "Zionism" as a negative label. Say what you will about Netanyahu, and I think he belongs at the Hague, but be clear about whether your position is (1) the occupation of Palestine needs to end or (2) something terrible should happen to Jews in Tel Aviv

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just last year Senate Republicans were so afraid of Trump they confirmed Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard.

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Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.

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“I’m James Talarico and I approve this message”

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Kind of makes sense honestly. I trust Claude or ChatGPT far less than Wikipedia, but far more than Newsmax. But as we’ve seen with Grok, these things can easily be manipulated by their corporate owners, which we can’t trust and need to regulate urgently

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And yes it’s exacerbated in america by deeply antiquated institutional design (presidential system, first past the post, single-member districts, indefensible situation with voting rights, gerrymandering, and money-in-politics driven by a bad faith SCOTUS…)

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Sure, some of that is on leaders and institutions of the center-left, but the real collapse is of the center-right.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The global far-right populism crisis is not a failure of liberalism. It’s a a failure of centrism.

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It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"

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For all their dismissal of the legal academy, they’ve created a regime dependent on essentially academic arguments about historical and linguistic oddities that have no objective answers, rare relevance, and too little honesty to be worthy of even a symposium, let alone the high courtto

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//we have a game of endless Calvinball, in which new doctrines are invented whole cloth—the "major questions doctrine," the "qualified immunity doctrine," the "unitary executive doctrine"—in order to enable whatever the Republican cause du jour happens to be.//

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The Saudis gave him $2 billion to start this private equity firm in 2021, after he got to know them in the first Trump admin.

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Weird how a lifetime appointment to the most powerful court in the world leads one to accumulate hubris over the years

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If he retires before the end of the current senators’ terms in January

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Republicans haven’t lost any statewide election in Texas since 1990

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(yes i'm aware it's not the same sherman but they were brothers, it's fine)

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Opioids and social media also up there but not #1

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The #1 threat to high-trust society in America in 2026 is fascism

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Every one of these guys is thinking the same thing: how much money can I extract from giving Defense contracts to the tech industry? Even the govt officials are calculating when to make the jump over to the vendors they are nominally going to be buying from.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Trial balloon following the East Wing and the Kennedy Center

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“If elected, I promise not to make the CIA send a big list of employees via unclassified email, which is a real thing that happened in 2025.”

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