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Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5h

Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

An ICE officer shot and wounded a man today around 4:00 in Manhattan. Exact details are still coming in. I'm not seeing any further information other than that the man is at a hospital now.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Mayor Mamdani: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

DSCC switched back to the full caff coffee I see

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 4h

Tom Emmer is the congressman for my hometown, St. Cloud. The growing Somali population there is who are buying up the big houses that my friends there grew up in. They’re the only ones who seem to give the city life anymore. Fuck him for talking about them like this.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 5h

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Note: That is not, in fact, what socialism is. However, this may be one of the more revealing political moments of the past decade: a leading politician openly acknowledging efforts to redefine a political term based on contemporary political rhetoric, as opposed to its original/historic meaning.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13h

Words don’t mean anything.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13h

Now I've listened to the other half. If you want the bong session, listen to the first half. If you want the important things that the news is mostly not covering, start about halfway through.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23h

One final chef’s kiss here is that Rubio’s parents were not US citizens when he was born in Miami. He is a citizen by birthright, a constitutional provision the Trump administration has worked hard to undermine.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Experts say more research is needed." Of course they will say that about everything. Who is going to say "no more research is needed"? But this framing implies the research has been neglected. The numbers here are out of date, but the point stands.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15h

brilliant example sir, this message is sure to resonate with the peasants

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So this is now confirmed. Canada, as well as the EU and Lithuania, withdrew due to American pressure. Just complete cowardice, and an unwillingness to accept the threat staring us in the face.

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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MadameNostalgic✨Tanya @madamenostalgic.bsky.social · 15h

Oh fuck off. What kind of ads will you be selling your kid in your voice during this very, extremely special bonding moment?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16h

It's exactly the same reason that streaming services are now frantically having to reinvent bundled cable tv. The technology of streaming was NEVER the product. AD FREE access to a large library of quality (or, frankly, familiar old comfort watches) on demand was the product. Not the platform.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 15h

Systematically destroying US hegemony in higher-education may feel like "owning the libs" but (1) Education is massive export for US (2) Best & brightest from around world stay in US and start businesses here (3) Higher-education is key employer & medical life-line in many *Republican* states.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 14h

I wrote about James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages, the “literacy crisis,” and the point of the written word for The New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

In truth, reason has its work cut out for it in any medium. The value of the written word lies not in an intrinsic tendency toward the rational but in its intrinsic difficulty—difficulty measured not in the complexity of any given text but in the basic demand writing makes of us to turn to resources beyond our eyes, ears, and experiences for an understanding of the world. The data on reading that Marriott and many others have pointed to suggests, so far, that we live in societies where fewer people may want to read seriously and with sustained attention, not a world in which people are now less capable of doing so than in the past. If so, that is nonetheless a problem. But it’s not one that will be solved if we understand the fight for reading primarily as a technological battle that has already been half or mostly lost.

We need a new literacy for the present and a world that has been irrevocably changed from the reading world we took for granted decades ago, not a pining for older forms that will never be dominant again. We need to discover how to read seriously not only on the printed page, but also on our screens, which will entail convincing the public that serious, difficult reading is worth their time. All the more dauntingly, we’ll have to do so without making the untenable promise that a life of reading will deliver them a world that seems more intelligible, orderly, and satisfying.

The case for reading isn’t that it simplifies life but that it vivifies and deepens it. In this Marriott does, to his credit, offer his readers a model reader to look up to: the sixteenth-century essayist Michel de Montaigne, who once said the things that mattered most to him were “variety and the enjoyment of diversity.” Marriott enjoys the way Montaigne “joins stray ideas together, leaps from one subject to another and asks weird questions,” and his ability to include in a single essay “subjects as diverse as sneezing, seasickness, farting, Socrates, amphitheaters, the Spanish conquest of Peru, the Roman general Mark Antony and more.” Montaigne’s motto, “Que sais-je?” means “What do I know?”—a sentiment Marriott admires: “It is the motto of a man of the age of print, whose books showed him that nothing could be taken for granted any more.”

While the dawn of print opened up seemingly endless possibilities for men like Montaigne, the man Marriott describes is also, very probably, one who would have loved reading the internet, and thought seriously about how readers might fight, against all odds, to think for themselves and make the most of the digital age. That is our grave and heady task. That is the nature of our crisis and the nature of our opportunity. “Even in the worst-case scenario,” as Marriott writes, “reading and a cultural reverence for reading will be around for a while yet. And that means those of us who value books and reading still have a chance to make our case.” He’s right. But we’ll need a better case than his.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent thread explaining how care work is devalued in market capitalism to the detriment of women. I want to highlight that this is a classic market failure calling for state provision; everyone recognizes care to be essential, but markets underprovide it, so political economy must be altered.

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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you think that a woman is making herself vulnerable by being alone and outdoors at night,(or drinking, or going to a party, or just being at home), you are openly admitting that men are inherently violent and incapable of controlling themselves.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. Democratic Midterm Sweep Odds vs. U.S. Diesel Prices” @bloomberg.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

23. According to Bloomberg's Javier Blas, the daily price for hiring a supertanker to move oil through the Gulf has spiked roughly 2,500 percent. It was $50,000 a day before the war, Blas said. Now it's $1.3 million. x.com/JavierBlas/s...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15h

Very much agree with this. The Trump admin has purposefully attacked mail in voting from multiple directions and continues to make threats of law enforcement at voting sites… their goal is to create confusion, distrust, and fear… to suppress votes.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Social Security is a sleeper 2026 campaign issue. Senate candidates like Talarico (D-Texas), Turek (D-Iowa), El-Sayed (D-Mich.), Osborn (I-Neb.) are calling to lift the payroll tax cap to avoid a 22% benefit cut. The shortfall hits in 2032, or six years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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Senate candidates run on raising Social Security taxes for higher incomes to prevent benefit cuts

Social Security is projected to dip into insolvency and force a 22% benefit cut in 2032, or less than six years, meaning the class of senators elected this year will have to address the issue.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16h

Literally all these dudes

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16h

INEXPLICABLE: Live data showing that #GasPrices appear to be rising to $4.79/gal in #Michigan today.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe the single most important topic in Smith's Wealth of Nations is just his account of *what it means for a nation to be wealthy.* The mercantilist idea is a giant pile of gold; Trump's talk of 'saving' billions by not trading is the same. Smith says wealth is having more of the stuff for living

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEWS: A federal judge has ordered DHS to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, 5 months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, where he has no ties. The decision that could have implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s 3rd-country removal scheme.

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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect

A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This man is unfit in every possible sense of the word. He is the worst impulses of this nation given physical form, and it is the duty of every single one of us who actually believe in freedom and democracy to make sure he and his followers are banished from power.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've watched it, and watched the follow up, and I think that's exactly what *he thinks he's saying*, even if his brain and mouth are no longer on the same radio frequency

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

494/ The Houthis don't just want to trap Oil, they want to take down the House of Saud. “He is looking at Mecca and Medina more than he is looking at Aden” "..how Abdulmalik al-Houthi rose to power and who he is today, drawing on people who have known him, met him & studied him over many years"

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The Reclusive Houthi Leader Wreaking Havoc in the Middle East

Abdul Malik al-Houthi took over the militant group when he was in his 20s. It’s since grown into a force that can disrupt trade and energy markets.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fun fact: This view of what counts as "corruption" is shared by the Roberts Court.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump is basically claiming that he pardoned a crook who didn't deserve it for purely political resasons. This alone is worthy of impeachment and removal; overall, Trump's abuse of power pardons are easy calls for legitimate impeachment and removal. Whether he brags about it or not.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No AI for kids. Full stop.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 07/10/2026

This is a big f'n deal.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump Administration announces RECORD payments to farmers! An amazing $13.8 billion "this is the largest annual payout by far since these key safety net programs were established in the 2014 Farm Bill." www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 07/10/2026

While the driver was asleep, three men made off with four pallets of ground beef shortly before 3:45 a.m. Tuesday.

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Ground beef worth $40,000 stolen from tractor-trailer in Northeast Philly

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've played poker at dozens of casinos in my life, from the fanciest palaces in Las Vegas to crappy riverboats in the Midwest, and I can say that the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was -- by a fucking mile -- the dirtiest, dingiest, cruddiest casino I have ever experienced in my life.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects

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