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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026

The court is basically saying that knowledge of the victim being trans is potentially exculpatory for a self defense legal claim. This is explicitly greenlighting the panic defense and saying a victims trans status might excuse a murder.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

Public "assets" = our current collective capacities to meed public needs. Public "liabilities" = what the public owes to private interests. Public "equity" = the net value of public's current collective capacity less its obligations to private interests.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the rationalist community pretty regularly forgets that the goal of development is not "reaching the stars", it is "human flourishing". A thing that helps you reach the stars at the expense of that is bad and should be discontinued

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reconstruction brings in an imagination of creating new institutions, which has been conspicuously absent from American politics including Bernie-style leftism for a very very long time

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/09/2026

From my personal experience people don't want to pay you to tell them they can't do anything about, eg, the very likely anti-Dem. midterm backlash in 2030 (or, gulp, 34). But it's true. So consultants make up stuff like "Kamala Harris would have won if she ran anti-trans ads"

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, while I don't agree with a lot of what Klein says in this it's a good overview of the current liberal AI panic and worth reading. Klein is a good barometer for how people in his orbit, including policymakers, are thinking about this stuff

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

So when libs say, you need to do incremental progress like gay marriage, it completely ignores the rollbacks that have happened in 5 years. It is every aspect of trans life from where we use the bathroom, how we are addressed, what our IDs say, to even censorship on discussions about our existence.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2026

from any kind of liberal democratic perspective the decade-plus open crisis of police abuse is a screaming emergency but these people decided to pretend it didn’t exist so they could score points on the left

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's no evidence that we can neutralize MAHA with a better health care system. Western Europe has universal access and lower costs — and still has huge anti-vaxx and “medical freedom” movements. MAHA is driven by right-wing misinformation, not legitimate grievances with US healthcare.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

Not only is redesigning our public finance systems possible through political struggle; it may very well prove to be more advantageous a terrain than substantially raising taxes on the rich, for the latter still leave the design element of treating the rich as the source of financial wealth intact.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026

that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don’t think there is broad enough support for a governance agenda that is just anti-democratic backsliding or for state capacity. But together there might be. And substantively, a synthesis between these perspectives would be healthy.

The democratic backsliding group would benefit from objections raised by those who worry that constraints become proceduralism, that stopping bad action can easily morph into stopping any action. These are reasonable concerns.
Why do the state capacity types need to take democratic backsliding concerns seriously? The Trump administration's executive aggrandizement has revealed and exploited existing weaknesses in our systems. It is not enough to assume there will not be another Trump. There is a queue of would-be Trumps waiting in line. And without governing stability, the rule of law, and constraints on corruption or abuses of power, no good government vision has a meaningful opportunity to sustain itself.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Being on X fucks up your worldview in a way that even smart people who understand what Musk is trying to do refuse to admit. You can't sit in the sewer all day and still be disgusted by shit. Worse yet, it encourages people to feel righteous when shame might be a more appropriate emotion.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

There's a broad, cultural-heritage sense in which all Western socialists are also Marxists. But one reason I don't ID myself as one is that I find M's "base vs. superstructure" distinction very problematic, esp. with respect to race. @greenbackbetter.bsky.social's 🧵 demonstrates that problem well.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So the alternative to neoliberal “representation” isn’t less recognition or a retreat to supposedly non-cultural class politics. It is public institutions—the fisc—turning recognition into public obligations that orient inter-temporal planning and provision rather than just present-tense rationing.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It was always obvious that “cancel culture” was a fake threat ginned up by reactionaries to inflate the authoritarian threat of the left. The best evidence for this? The spree of cancellations they have embarked on since taking power. It’s the bulk of what they’ve done!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The idea that deep institutional damage can be easily rolled back seems like a very odd take for a conservative. The damage to the civil service system is huge, and legislation is needed to reassure future hires they won’t be fired on a whim.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is largely invisible cause so many on Bluesky are clearly spending more time with the site’s algorithmic feeds than building and using lists, but this place *already* contains multitudes. If you’re not seeing them, congrats, the tools are working!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/07/2026

If there were still a public editor at the Times, they might have written about a White House correspondent doing a newsless beat-sweetener hit piece on a target of the president's ire. But you know, Twitter's the public editor now, so ...

On May 11, 2020, Dr. Fauci wrote: "Hilarious video of Billy Crystal playing me in a Trump dungeon prison,” with a link to this video.

Hovering over it all was the pandemic that would leave more than a million Americans dead.

“I’m supposed to go to an even bigger black tie affair at the home of the French ambassador tomorrow,” Dr. Fauci wrote in November 2021. “I think I am going to cancel out since I don’t want to go through the nerve-wracking experience that I did last night worrying about having gotten infected.”

On May 11, 2020, Dr. Fauci wrote: "Hilarious video of Billy Crystal playing me in a Trump dungeon prison,” with a link to this video.

Hovering over it all was the pandemic that would leave more than a million Americans dead.

Shawn McCreesh is a White House reporter for The Times covering the Trump administration.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/07/2026

Republicans are trying to make the news cycle about anything other than Donald Trump and his incredibly unpopular domestic and foreign policy agenda. That’s why they set up this Fauci hearing. And everyone is taking the bait

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

the women's sports haters love saying "nobody would care about these WNBA players without Caitlin Clark, they all owe her their paychecks," which is not true of the vast majority of the league, but actually is true about Sophie Cunningham

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/07/2026

This is why gender affirming care and abortion are part of the same fight for bodily autonomy. You ignore what's happening to trans people at your peril.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18/07/2026

“People say I’m racist just because I believe that certain races and cultures are inherently inferior to others in ways that mean we should think about and treat them differently” yeah man that’s what the word means

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16/07/2026

Crypto bros & their allies with public power quietly cut off the possibility of a public option.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This keeps happening, the conflation of people disapproving of Dems being too weak and unprincipled with disapproving of Dems for being too leftwing. This is part of how a lot of Gen Z distrust for Dems gets recast into Gen Z being rightwing

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

ngl cville reddit trying to gin themselves up into doing a pogrom against the free bridge encampment is starting to really fucking concern me.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10/07/2026

Celebrating “America’s birthday” on July 4 is like commemorating the weekend after your parents decided to try conceiving you

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

there is no new deal without the influence of actual socialists and communists within the larger roosevelt political coalition

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