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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026

The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What would you say if you saw it in another country?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There's nothing more populist and middle America than -- checks notes -- getting one's son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter. www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...

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Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests

Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump, Musk, Rubio own this #ProLifeMyAss

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 11/07/2026

Rooting for England is just below waving a confederate flag

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

100 years ago.

The klan marching in front of the US Capitol in 1926

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/06/2026

Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2026

thank you jd vance for helping instigate an ethnic cleansing campaign

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

cc: Stephen Miller

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Bold thing to say when your party is in control of literally everything.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ossoff is not just claiming that the GOP is corrupt. He says the whole political system is corrupt and he implicated Dems in that which is what will actually resonate with people because everyone knows it's true.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Microcosm of the horror of this post-Callais moment: the Mississippi House plans to hold its redistricting session in the Old Capitol where they seceded & instituted Jim Crow. They'll meet there aiming to erase Bennie Thompson's district — the one majority-Black district in a state that's ~40% Black

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13/04/2026

Meanwhile here's Elissa Slotkin last week with the Mayor of Cincinnati in Cincinnati. They offered free drinks to the first 100 people but not even 50 showed up.

Elissa Slotkin in a giant banquet hall on a fairly large stage surrounded by very few people

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So JD Vance was given two high-profile tasks for the Trump administration -- boost Orban's chances at re-election in Hungary and help strike a settlement in Iran -- and he appears to have failed horribly at both. I'm sure the NYT will be all over that.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2026

so far in hungary, Vance has stumped for a kleptocratic dictator, regurgitated putinist propaganda, and is now indulging the gutter racism of his hosts. it really is an unvarnished look at what the ideological character of the trump regime is.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Our media discourse has long assumed that right-wing-populist-coded policies express the deeper yearnings of the American volk. But as I try to argue in this piece, that story has been totally discredited by the public's widespread rejection of the major tenets of Trumpism:

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The conservative Cato Institute is accusing the Trump admin of carrying out the largest fraud in the history of the immigration system — totaling $1 billion dollars. The scheme allegedly involves taking processing fees from immigrants, then never providing the promised services.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This is the conservative pitch to most Americans: Sure, you might be suffering as a result of our policies, but other people -- people who are different from you, people you don't like -- they're suffering a lot more than you, so it all works out.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

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Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good

After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

youtu.be

Abolish ICE

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

On the other hand, if unarmed Americans are on the streets of say, Minneapolis, it's fine to shoot them in the head. In that circumstance, Trump will immediately call them deserving trash and credit his ICE gangmembers with a clean, fresh kill.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I didn't have a chance to develop this thought yesterday, but how you react to this story depends on which level you come in on. And on every level besides the US, there's room for a lot of ambivalence. 🧵

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/12/2025

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Schmitt’s argument is unintentionally revealing. The “color revolutions” were non-violent, pro-democracy political movements aimed at ending autocratic regimes in former Soviet bloc nations. If the Democrats are leading a “color revolution,” then Trump is an autocrat & Schmitt is pro-autocrat.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 29/11/2025

The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

NYT headline: Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Hondurass president and is serving a 45-year sentence.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

if mamdani gets this in every interview, republicans should always be asked to respond to the 76% of Black voters who think their party is "very" racsist

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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