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Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social · 11h

I do not regret to report that I want the Tshirt and also all three people wearing it here

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21h

It's not that analogies to ISIS or North Korea are inaccurate. But it actually lets Hegseth off the hook for what he, Trump, and the entire MAGA movement, including John Roberts, are trying to bring America back to. And it's not ISIS, it's the Jim Crow South. That's the analogy we should use.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21h

The less comfortable truth about Hegseth wanting to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter is this: it's not ISIS or the Taliban. It's not medieval barbarity. It's simply a return to the neoconfederacy, where executions of minorities were done for the public entertainment of white people.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 19h

Rule # 1 of winning debates (and elections) is force your opponent to fight on your turf, don't ever wander onto theirs. Pedophile protector party has zero space to talk about people's lives & choices - attack your opponent not the people your opponent shames, blames and reviles.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In this insane rant, Trump sounds convincingly like a KKK Grand Wizard from the 1920s... by the way, his father was arrested participating in a KKK riot in Queens in 1927. He was named among the rabblerousers in local newspaper reports.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

recalling now that Ossoff came in throwing sufficient high heat in the 2020 debates that Perdue opted to no-show the last two

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026

On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

one of my favorite Mainers, @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social, has thoughts about Susan Collins over at instagram: "As someone born and raised in Maine through college, this is SHAMEFUL..." www.instagram.com/p/DePCyBQRwH...

I don't stay silent when it comes to kids being harmed.

CORECOVIC, a FOR-PROFIT company that makes millions locking up KIDS at its Dilley, Texas detention center, has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to

Senator Susan Collins of Maine

Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE is CoreCivic's customer. The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something I've found completely galling from wide sections of the left is that Ken Martin is doing exactly what they have long advocated for at the DNC--democratization, decentralization, robust local investments--but they don't actually care because they think it's more fun to just crap on things.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The limits of the what now

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wonder how Usha Vance and JD’s inlaws feel about all of this. Btw shout out to Ezra Klein for giving Rufo a sit down interview giving him credence in the world of media elites. You know … politics done the right way.

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Vivienne (formerly BillThePony) @billthepony.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Somehow these people who do not call themselves democrats are not painted as "wreckers sailing under the democratic banner to transform the party" Ya know, the same treatment DSA gets, despite having "democratic" in the name Can't imagine why this is...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I reached out to Manhattan Institute, where Rufo derives so much of his legitimacy as a "senior fellow," to see if it has any comment about him pushing "The Indian Question." No response, will let ya know if that changes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/10/2026

An 18-year term limit and an ethics code … I’m trying to imagine what the mission brief for this court-reform plan was: “nothing, but make it sexy”?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I prefer the incremental solution that can be implemented through bare-majority legislation (240 Supreme Court justices) to Third Way's radical plan, which requires fully amending the Constitution (term limits)

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just to be clear, with legislation you can pack the Court or radically restructure it. You /cannot/ set a term limit in contravention of the plain Constitutional text, and anyone suggesting that is not to be listened to, because they’re either incompetent or trying to quiet-kill reform.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let me say, once again, that Third Way is funded by billionaires, many of them openly right wing. So why in the fuck would we let them keep pretending they have any good faith interest in real democratic progress? They are fucking you from the inside. Stop taking their calls.

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wyethearth.bsky.social @wyethearth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lanae Erickson is the senior VP of social policy & education at @thirdway.bsky.social but has no actual policy credentials. She has a law degree but has only really worked at third way & a small org where she “investigated the backgrounds of federal judicial nominees on civil and human rights”

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Again: I am genuinely fascinated with a particular type of liberals—many of whom live amongst us on here—who earnestly believes the only path to overtly leftist policies like Court Reform will happen through the continuous support of Reasonable Centrists™️ who quite overtly reject all of this.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

see thread here for another example of why i keep pushing the idea that the dems in washington know better than us is just fallacious garbage. they have no idea what they are doing and we have to bully them from the outside.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You must internalize Oliver's point: 1) there are no "adults in charge" of the Democratic House comms machine 2) what you actually have is a consultantocracy telling a bunch of 20-somethings who started as interns what to think and say 3) I was 33 with comms experience. That made me a rarity.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Third Way is what it is - it’s billionaire funded troll operation (to annoy progressives & get media hits in elite DC press) - I say this as someone who got started in DC as a DLC intern. In any event remember as @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social noted ▶️ all options for scotus reforms are on the table.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again progressives get no credit for being right first. Because that is just the way our system works. bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

same org whose leader declared "war" on progressive Dems to NYT on Aug 6, right after El-Sayed won the primary. They have no constituency but DC media loves them cause they attack other Dems: “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” said Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IIRC, the Third Way crowd was criticizing progressives for calling for Supreme Court reform like a year ago. I accept their apology.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Do the thoughts, concerns, and opinions of your voters factor in here or are you only listening this failed billionaire "think tank?" Inquiring voters would like to know.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What is the constituency for Third Way?

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neck romancey @bruxa.online · 01/10/2026

You see, Bill Clinton won a three-way contest back in 1992 and ever since then the Democrats are forced to be right wing. We didn't make the rules!

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/10/2026

this is hilarious. Politico is pretending that it's a "scoop" for them doing PR for a proposal nobody would even know about otherwise

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123 @nocowards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh my god look at Third Way's Lenae Erickson's (the source of this) bio on their website. Imagine writing this way in 2026 as an adult.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are two things to learn from this: 1) Third Way gets to present what the Democratic Caucus plans will be because they're the ones inside the room making them; 2) Dem staffers often don't realize that they're wholly captured by this centrist consultant-industrial complex. It's fish in water.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eventually, the guy told me that they're always looking for new voices to present to the Dem caucus, and I should send recommendations. I, of course, sent in recommendations of prominent progressive strategists, communicators and pollsters. Never once saw my recommendations get to present, though.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The expression I got back would have reminded you of Tucker Carlson interviewing anyone--that expression that you'd make when someone was eating a jar of raw mayonnaise in front of you and you just don't know how to react to that situation. The "I don't know how to react to that" face.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After maybe the third or fourth one of these, I asked the person in charge of it (who wasn't from Pelosi's office, the Member in charge of this was a different position) why it was that an organization whose very name says that Dems are wrong got to run the strategy sessions for the Dem caucus.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Story time. My wife's post here reminds me of one of my favorite stories from my time on the Hill, of which there are many. I was in Comms for a Dem member, and the Caucus would put on a weekly talking points seminar for comms staffers. More often than not, these were run by Third Way.

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Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey @politico.com can you explain why @thirdway.bsky.social is the source for what the Democrats' SCOTUS platform will be, when they don't even have the word "Democrat" in their name and routinely diss the party? I'll wait.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW POLLING with Lake Research: we found Dems have made progress in tough South and Southwest battleground terrain, going from R+5 4 months ago to R+1. Strong, clear messaging moved voters +9 towards Dems over the survey. PLUS NINE. More details in this🧵including data, coverage, and the memo/deck:

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A "loyal opposition," wedded to an order that no longer exists and a continuance of the status quo that helped make faux populist propaganda appealing, is integral to fascism. It gives plausible deniability that crimes against humanity are merely policy differences.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

1868: Let's allow these people to save face so we can move one and get back to work fixing the country. 1974: Let's allow Nixon to save face so we can move on and heal the country. 2021: Let's not convict Trump so we can move on and get back to work fixing and healing the country. 2026: …

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 22/09/2026

"That said, Tesla Takedown...was successful, according to the documentary, in large part because it bruised Musk’s ego so much. He is desperate to be liked and loved by a critical mass of people." 😂🔥🤘 LFG! www.hardresetmedia.com/p/we-got-a-s...

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We Got a Sneak Peek at the Massive Musk Doc

Elon Musk is so insane that he must be a genius, we’ve been told. But is that true? Is he actually just … insane? A new film peels back the layers of his illusions.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol at all the people who've been going "Why isn't Dubya speaking out about Trump??" folks, he's committed to the same fucking project.

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