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Pita Enigma @pitaenigma.bsky.social · 3h

One of many things I am thankful for is that when my egg cracked there was a local LGBTQ community and they weren't perfect but I got to meet a huge variety of chill people who were emphatically not the people I knew online.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 3h

Seems one of the biggest problems the GOP has (besides its leadership, record, base, morals, values and declining influence) is finding new leaders who are not absolute shit weasels. Which rules out essentially every senior GOP official or advisor currently on the scene.

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 4h

They think liberals are libertarians who hate trans people and Muslims, and that's a very odd definition of liberalism.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 5h

this is a perfect example of the thing I said yesterday about how tankies, like most online conservatives, are culturally bourgeoise liberals who are embarrassed about it

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 11h

There's a Politico (lol) piece entirely about how Republicans' hope right now is that the polls are all way off and they only get a MILD wipeout and first of all it's full of a bunch of nonsense but the best part is how it ends on this incredible bit:

"The strategist also noted that the polling right now reflects a change in the electorate as profound as those seen after Watergate and 9/11.

“It would be so historically unprecedented you’d have to presuppose we’re staring down the barrel of a generational national trauma that no one is aware of,” the strategist said."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

national polling: things are very bad for republicans state polling: things are very bad for republicans district level and internal polling, apparently: we have broken the fifth seal and the apocalypse is nigh

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

for real: get your ass to the polls, folks we’re gonna see some weird shit out there this year, you never know

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 5h

My old Congressman used to say everyone wants more benefits and fewer taxes, but I think it’s deeper than that: millions of people want the benefits of living in society with none of the social obligations.

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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 8h

Phew, do I agree with this entire thread. The way to battle disinformation and wrest back truth in discourse is not to promote your own disinfo or allow lies to fester. Having a false sense of reality isn't going to do our side any favors - it'll just make you feel comfortable when you shouldn't.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 8h

seltzer just got her year mixed up

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ashley (birthday) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

GOP pollster, D+11. no notes

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 14/10/2026

It can't be over-emphasized how much <gestures> all this is a result of a set of easily avoidable own goals by Trump and his people. We should remember this when we start to feel panicky about various schemes for holding onto power. Trump isn't all-powerful. He's actually pretty inept.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If this is the result it will be apocalyptic for the GOP. We'd have 54 Dem or Dem-leaning independent Senators.

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My favorite part in all this is even the articles of serious R dooming all on background still will not face reality. This MOC says they're DOA and could lose as many as *10 seats* and, like, sir, if you really believe that, you are setting yourself up for a fucking heart attack come November

Excerpt from Politico article:

One senior House Republican said the GOP’s goal at this point was to “save as many Republican seats as we can.” The president, this person said, was not helping.

“President Trump has made this election all about himself,” the lawmaker said. “Now we have to survive that political storm.”

A second Republican member of Congress said the movement of campaign advertising made plain which side was in control of the midterms. This lawmaker predicted Democrats would pick up about 10 seats, more than enough to take control of the chamber.

Even in newly redistricted red states like Florida and Texas, this person said, Republican candidates were “hanging on with their fingernails.”

Republicans have already fallen back from several contested House districts that they feel are no longer winnable, including those held by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa and Tom

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

DEMS IN ARRAY

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 14/10/2026

COPE AND SEETHE MOTHERFUCKERS

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So nice of him to keep cutting ads for Democrats to drown Republican in even here at the end stage

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yea, I've been thinking a lot about this. Winning the midterms is one thing but we are absolutely going to need to be clear w/the voters, post midterms, that Trump owns this economy Affordability & accountability need to be the 2028 primary themes! Our messaging is going to need to be crystal clear

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's a worry for another day, but that day isn't far away at this point. We simply cannot have Trump & the GOP cast the blame for the economy on Dems when we take control of Congress.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life.

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Most of the anger this is & will generate on Bluesky is being directed at the Democratic Party which I get. But we can’t lose sight of who is ultimately responsible for this—the Trump admin—& what they’re doing: Threatening to take *all* healthcare away from ~2 million people in each state

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

if those states don’t punish—in a cruel & life threatening way—the roughly 14K transgender minors who live in each Losing Medicaid $’s will cause hospitals to close, putting 1000s or 10s of 1000s of people out of work, harming non-Medicaid patients & wrecking local economies

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Supreme Court has already green lit Trump’s actions here, meaning that the only way to block or rescind this vile extortion is to remove from power the people holding trans kids hostage Which means however angry you are at the Democrats over their actions here, we *must* elect more Democrats

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 13/10/2026

when i'm queen of america i am banning the words "capitalism" and "communism" from all discourse on account of imprecision and vagueness

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I humbly petition your majesty to include "neoliberal" and "centrist" in that ban

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13/10/2026

She wouldn't be my first pick, but I do think it's pretty obvious that Harris would have won if Biden hadn't presided over 10% inflation. The empirical Q (and we will get data on this) is whether she gets the same boost in the future, which some are asserting as fact but is as of yet uncertain

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Put a fork in the Republican Senate candidates in GA and NC. Rogers is hanging on by the thread in MI. Collins is in trouble in ME, so is Sullivan in AK. Paxton is clearly on the back foot. Kansas is in play. Graham is a weak candidate in SC, and nobody is quite sure about the state of play there.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s happening

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Similiar except for me it was Musk himself pushing antisemitism, how Jews were anti-white or somesuch. At that point there’s no denying it staring you in the face: Musk is an actual, literal capital-N Nazi, and there’s no morally separating him from the website he owns as his personal plaything.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you want to think about what the information environment was like in late 2024/early 2025, one of our big debates was "was this a Nazi salute?"

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢 @ens0.me · 13/10/2026

This sort of behavior is so absurdly anti-intellectual. Yeah, sure, massively downvote me for correctly answering a question being asked. Bury your head in the sand.

Getting downvoted for pointing out the AI being used is a very lightweight model

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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This to me is one of the clearest cases of anti-AI sentiment escalating to a moral panic for at least some people. It’s not enough to be anti-AI, mere knowledge about it taints you.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Someday there will be a last “check out this CRAZY stuff Trump said at yet another rally!” post. Dunno when but there will be just one last one after 250,000 of them and then we’ll be done.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 12/10/2026

A lot of people on here tut-tutting this but Harris' campaign outperformed just about every incumbent party on the planet in '24 and she did it with far less time as usual.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 12/10/2026

This is not an endorsement of Harris. I think she is too much of a pragmatist when we need someone willing to tear the thing down to the studs. But the idea that she shouldn't run because she isn't viable candidate is silly.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 12/10/2026

yeah like. you can not like AI. I don't like large parts of it myself. but saying stuff like "fancy autocomplete" means you are dumb.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/10/2026

more evidence for the idea that the entire party has forgotten how to run competitive elections

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 12/10/2026

"Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall." r/brandnewsentence

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mean I'm not thrilled about what's happening with Ilhan but if this is what the Trump administration can actually gin up to try and get revenge against people Trump doesn't like..

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Running for competitive office is one of the worst white collar professional experiences that it is possible to have. People who do not have either sincere convictions and/or some form of mental illness do not do it.

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every person who does the whole “sure republicans are bad but what if democrats were worse” schtick thinks they are incredibly perceptive when they are in fact some of the biggest rubes in the nation

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The “I don’t get mad at republicans because the real problem is the democrats” crowd also ends up quite often finding common cause with republicans and eventually adopting a lot of reactionary positions that they try to sell as progressive.

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this target list says the DCCC is convinced the majority is theirs and they're looking to utterly break the GOP's spirit

Ally Mutnick @allymutnick
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NEWS: DCCC begs donors in memo for $17M
before 10/22 to avoid "leaving winnable seats on table" amid wave of GOP $
Top races on line: #FL27 #NVO2 #SC01 #NY21
#MNO1 #ARO2
Others needing funding, per DCCC ED Julie Merz:
#C003 #FLO7 #IN05 #0H10 #NC09 #VA05
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2:00 PM • 10/9/26 • 45K Views
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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If we can get some leadership figures, committee chairs, the last remaining “serious people” if you can call them that in the House GOP, that makes it harder to recruit for Governor, Senate, and of course the big chair, pair that with decimating state house supermajorities and we’re in business

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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 10/10/2026

a lot of leftist burnout that young leftists lose there shit over is just realizing how much of this there is in the world, how many people one slanders accidentally because they underestimate how hard everything actually is

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