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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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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

YouTube video by Exploring The Greats

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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?

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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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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Walmart is famously chill about this kind of stuff.

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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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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

You can see it just watching sports with Republicans. Every play that goes against them should be reviewed and overturned, it's obnoxious.

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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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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just got mine! Tickets, not 2Pac painting.

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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I live on the border of Butler county, and wish I had time to investigate how much $ he spends flying around in the police helicopter. That thing is up constantly and never seems to be involved in actual law enforcement.

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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 · 19/03/2026

I have an elephant you can borrow but she’s booked til next Wednesday.

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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 · 22/02/2026

Every single day you've had at least one joke that has caught me off guard and just made me snort. Thanks, man

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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

How much longer will we allow them to destroy public goods.

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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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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The people of Minnesota have made me feel more patriotic than anything in my prior 51 years, and it’s not particularly close.

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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Yeah, when we've protected every marginalized person from the harm you fomented with your intellectual dishonesty/laziness, then we'll spend some time worrying about your feelings of acceptance.

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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Until they tell us who he is we have to assume that every masked agent is a cold-blooded killer unconcerned with the law.

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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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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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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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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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Here in an autocracy @enchiladamole.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The only thing I want AI to do is show him a video of the world's reaction when he dies.

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