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Truly, it wad the stupidest time

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We are already in emergency territory. These people may be very nice but they have too much money. We need to take a lot of it away from them, soon, or no more democracy. It’s pretty simple." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
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The War Against Accumulated Capital
Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...
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Dolly Parton Never Wavered
From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Which should be the baseline for *all* journalists and media publications By and for the troops. Stars and Stripes started with that motto in WWI. And they demonstrate their integrity - one of the Army’s core values - today.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Is it irresponsible to speculate about the vital role Natalie Harp plays for the dementia-ravaged, sex pest president? No, no. Remember what Peggy Noonan said -- it would be irresponsible *not* to speculate. Mistress? Diaper pro? Hospice nurse? Ghost writer for Truth Social? Shadow president?
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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The moon was asking for it, IMO
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
1. This was so fun to make I almost threw up every day. 2. This is the trailer on YouTube if that’s how you’ve chosen to live your life: youtu.be/IZYZaRWwYR4?... 3. I’d be super grateful to anyone who reposted the post above. 4. Have any Qs about it for me? I’ll endeavor to answer! 5. Get in!🚣🏾‍♀️
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Exploring Moby-Dick With Rob Delaney and Hester Blum
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/07/2026
A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY
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What is there to say about Lindsay Graham?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros stood, and listened, as a judge said his press conference with top DOJ officials led to a "clear" violation of her seal order. Boutros dodged sanctions. But other controversies loom. UPDATED from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
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Judge finds Chicago’s embattled U.S. attorney violated secrecy order in Tren de Aragua case
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura McNally admonished U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros after ordering him to a highly unusual hearing Thursday. McNally didn't impose any sanctions, but said Boutros' decision to ...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 09/07/2026
New from me: flaminghydra.com/issue-602/
Fascism, to borrow a line from a friend, is a politics of action. There is no intellectual basis for its precepts but that does not mean its campaigns are executed without strategy. Fascism is all strategy and no goals. Indeed, fascists are far less constrained in strategic terms than their enemies are, because a fascist need never interrogate the morality, legality, or even the rationality of a given tactic so long as it serves some immediate end; it's the rest of us who are left to ask whether violence is permissible and whose voices ought to be heard and respected within our coalition and whether we ought to acknowledge land theft, and these are the things that assholes like to make fun of or condemn as "cancel culture." But they are also a source of community and strength and inclusion and, crucially, foresight. What do the fascists plan to do after they round up and exterminate all the Jewish and Black and brown and disabled and homeless and queer and leftist people? Will there be layoffs at the death camps? You can already see a yawning imaginative void among tradwife influencers and right-wing movie directors, for whom utopia is a matter of stapling together 1950's advertising imagery and the early Spielberg movies. There's no vision of the future, only a bowdlerized past that can't be recovered, not least because it never existed. There was never an America where Haitians couldn't cross the border.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
On the island of Naxos, meet a 15-foot-tall boy who broke his leg 2,600 years ago. The Flerio Kouros hasn’t healed...he seems kind of lonely...and you can enjoy an unforgettable moment alone in a shady corner of that sun-burnt island with him. Look for our new Greek Isles guidebook in 2027!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2026
wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.
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The Betrayal of Black Patriots
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Donald Trump has intertwined his wealth so fully with our government that the only solution is to nationalize his companies and assets, along with those of his entire family. In the interests of fairness, we can provide them a one bedroom apartment in public housing and minimum wage jobs.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
/4 Congrats to the Federalist Society folks -- although I believe they may find they do not know what to do with the car now that they have caught it. May they take their success with them down to Hell.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal
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Mike Johnson is House speaker only because of illegal GOP gerrymanders
Discover how partisan gerrymandering secured GOP control in Congress and shaped national politics—find out more in this in-depth analysis.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Anybody listen to "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire lately? Hits a lot different these days than when I was a kid.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Federal agents kill again; gunmen still at large: defector.com/federal-agen...
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Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large | Defector
On Saturday in Minneapolis, federal agents surrounded 37-year-old Veterans Affairs intensive care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who’d been filming them in the street with his phone camera as they conduct...
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 21/01/2026
If you went to law school more than five years ago, half of the syllabus for your constitutional law class is now irrelevant and out-of-date
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Every Supreme Court Precedent Bows to the Principle of “Donald Trump Gets What He Wants”
The conservative supermajority is willing to throw process out the window if their favorite president asks nicely.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
These people have completely abdicated their responsibility. There may be little they can do on the ground but they can tell the truth, and like the many of us who have essentially stopped living our normal lives because of this terror campaign, bear public witness to atrocity.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/01/2026
We’ve decided to make this story free for all readers, forever. We hope you’ll support this reporting by sharing it.
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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It is imperative that state ethics authorities never let these people be lawyers again. They cannot just slide back into practice like they didn’t just spend 4 years pissing on the rule of law to get likes on Truth Social
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Defector @defector.com · 17/01/2026
Fascists are pathetic: defector.com/fascists-are...
In his weepy tweet defending their negligible honor and that of the work they do, Mullin calls them "red-blooded American patriots," and that, too, is both directionally correct and plainly laughable on the merits. They're American, all right, and the patriotism they claim—an old, small, ignorant version, but one that for those reasons nevertheless has some claim on the word—is just one of many. Before they put on plate carriers and masks and threw themselves into the dirty business of terrorizing their neighbors and breaking their families, they were still identifiable as who and what they are and always were—seething, unappeasable, deliriously and defiantly pig-stupid, and absolutely a threat to the peace and comfort and flourishing of everyone and anything else. The masks only make them easier to see.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ICE eats at a Mexican restaurant and then arrests the workers there. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Trump threatens to send troops to Minnesota after federal agent shoots man over alleged attack
Trump claimed “professional agitators and insurrectionists” were among the demonstrations in Minneapolis as he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. The federal government released new details ab...
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
Someone who claims to have witnessed the incident says - car was blocking ice - they told them to move - "something happened' - ICE shot into the car as it was driving away - passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead There is video and I have seen it
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/01/2026
Tim Cook on January 6, 2021: "Today marks a sad and shameful chapter in our nation's history. Those responsible for this insurrection should be held to account, and we must complete the transition to President-elect Biden's administration. It's especially when they are challenged that our ideals matter most."Tim Cook genuflecting before Trump in the Oval Office as he hands him the bespoke golden tablet that he crafted for him.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
this is how every outlet should refer to X
Financial Times: Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 02/01/2026
"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Alan Dershowitz, Mr “I kept my underwear on” is not going to be happy about this. The redacted document says he negotiated the Epstein agreement in order to protect himself. More generally, Epstein’s buddies are not going to be happy, as there seems to be a way to see behind the redactions …
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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 18/12/2025
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
A propaganda poster in a painterly style. At the top there is a Nazi soldier in a faded grey with his hands raised at the point of a bayonet. Above him it says "We beat 'em before.." Below him in darker grey is an ICE agent in the same posture, with a hand pushing back at him, its palm out in a "stop" gesture. Below it says "We'll beat 'em again!"
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
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If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 05/11/2025
ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district. #ice #chicago
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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 31/10/2025
Top Trump officials, citing security threats, are moving onto military bases. Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, and Kristi Noem now occupy "Generals' Row," bumping actual generals. The administration is building its own Green Zone, straining military housing while fleeing the public they govern.
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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal
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Defend Kat Against Unjust Charges
Show your support with a contribution.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/10/2025
It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.
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