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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have a long piece up in @nytimes talking about the Bush Line, Republicans’ declining support for Trump, how Dems can go on offense on comms, and more: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

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Opinion | Democrats Want Fighters. A Former Republican Has Ideas.

On deep frustration with the Democratic establishment and potential souring among Trump supporters.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/09/2026

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social has conducted more than 400 focus groups with thousands of Americans across the political spectrum. Democratic voters have a clear message for their party, she writes:

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Voters Have a Message for Democrats

Fight harder.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is an indictment of the media ecosystem that glossed over Trump’s plans for mass deportations to alert us to the fact that Joe Biden was old 🙄

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Their best defense against the growing challenge from the left would be simply to meet the moment and act more aggressively against Trump. If they just did that, half the energy behind DSA challenges would dissipate and they'd be safe. But no, they'd rather punch left in a panic.

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NPR @npr.org · 10/08/2026

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share. n.pr/3UopqvW

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Voters are sick of the two-party system. A new poll shows they're open to big changes

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The best thing about the WC halftime show was Ronaldo looking baffled and Ronaldinho looking like he’s was having an absolute blast.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Yeah, the red card was garbage, but this is not how you want it overturned. Balogun should just not play the game.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Finally, yes, please leave. Especially if you promise to stop texting and emailing incessantly.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

After sleeping on it, I definitely think that was the best half of soccer I've seen the USMNT play and I've been watching since the early 90s. Not just 3-0, but the creativity, the energy, the pressing, all of it in a huge moment of pressure.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This a great thread about what media stories get read and shared.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

An agenda for Supreme Court reform: - 18 year term limits - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Binding ethics rules - Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11/04/2026

This is great because you get a visceral sense of the acceleration. h/t @jdotj.bsky.social on the video app.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 07/04/2026

My Republican colleagues are turning a blind eye as the President escalates unhinged threats to obliterate an entire civilization. A moral failure and cowardice of the highest order. Speaker Johnson must bring the House back to stop this blatantly illegal, immoral threat.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’m in DC today, ready and able to vote to rein in this out-of-control war. Republicans control the Senate and the House – they need to have the courage to call us back into session and then vote to hold this President accountable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is great and I think it applies broadly to many (all?) fields outside academia.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/03/2026

Had the Defense Department’s harm-reduction plan not been axed by the Trump administration, the policies almost certainly would’ve reduced the number of noncombatants harmed over the past year, current and former officials tell ProPublica.

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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18/03/2026

Unfortunately, the drone edition of the BYD Leopard is not available for sale in Ukraine. They have to supply their own drones. But no, we shouldn't send Cybertrucks pretending to help Ukraine. If we want to help Ukraine, we should give them what they ask for: money, weapons, and respect.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/03/2026

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative.

The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/02/2026

This has nothing to do with fraud. The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Always appreciate @anildash.com's ability to be nuanced and human about tech and there's a lot of great stuff about AI in here...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Some thoughts on what de-magafication of our institutions might look like when this nightmare is over (free post) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Excising the Cancer in Our Institutions

We need to start thinking about how we are going to separate the sheep from the wolves in sheep's clothing.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This x10000 "Successful anti-authoritarian movements don’t win by moderating their positions on a traditional left-right axis but by creating an entirely new one." www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Cops are taught to avoid shooting into cars, for all the obvious reasons, but ICE has shot NINE people in cars since September. Great reporting from @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Cops are taught not to shoot into cars. ICE keeps doing it anyway.

Immigration agents have shot at least 9 people since September. All of them have been in cars.

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ejesse.bsky.social @ejesse.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Nausicaa was so unlike anything I had seen at the time as a kid in the 80s... completely opened my eyes to new art, storytelling, ways of thinking about the world and the future.

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a cartoon character is jumping in the air while holding a sword in his hand .

Alt: a clip from the film Nausicaa of the title character jumping off her cloud climber and throwing off her mask in excitement

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Who controls both Houses of Congress? Stop giving them free passes. You're angry at Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis & other the 10 other Republicans who could caucus immediately, today, w/ the Democrats & actually given them control of both the House & Senate. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The two parties are not remotely the same, & yet they are covered in our most prominent outlets in exactly opposite proportions to the actual degree of scandal, lawbreaking, authoritarianism, etc. It has been uneven for decades, but it’s reached new levels of farce & obscenity since Trump.

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Ryan Bernardoni @dangercart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Stealworkers

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