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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Legalized Bribery. (H/T @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ) (Core Civic is based in Brentwood, TN)
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 11/10/2026
“Everything made of words will be taken over by AI” Yuval Noah Harari spoke to Nobel-winning journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social and the Nerve’s @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about the threat of AI, for an in-depth and sometimes alarming conversation about humanity’s near future
Yuval Noah Harari on the threat of AI: ‘Fascism isn’t the worst-case scenario. Fascism is still human’. Photograph: Yuval Noah Harari in conversation with Maria Ressa and Carole Cadwalladr in an ornate hall
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Rodney @yentothedor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you appreciate how history repeats itself and how you can learn from history, watch this. It's not flashy, it's not click bait. It's how we can learn collectively and move forward for a stronger country. www.youtube.com/live/9wUYmJ0...
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Violence As Politics
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(2) we need all eligible voters to check registration at vote411.org (3) we need you to vote early and then track your ballot at vote.org (4) and we need you to encourage and help you friends and community members vote (5) remember: there’s no one to save us but us but we can do it — together
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VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 04/10/2026
What do writers do when their book proposals are rejected? Of course, they WRITE about it! www.confrontthehate.com/p/top-new-yo...
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Top New York Editors Loved My Story of Confronting Hate. Then Came the ‘But...’
What happens when a “hair-raising,” “powerful,” “impressive” story meets a “challenging market”? And where does that leave important stories?
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I'm not worried the Democrats will lose the midterms. I'm worried they'll win and use their normal ploy of installing a rotating villain to torpedo the vote as soon as something good and productive is about to happen.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...
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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people… tech is an incredible alternative to politics…” JD Vance & Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel making it clear tech oligarchs hate democracy👇🏽 When they tell you what they’re doing, believe them
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a straight line between J6 and the pain everyone is feeling now. Straight line. I want to hear a Democrat tell that story.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Iowans want what the Democrats are offering. They just don’t want it from the Democrats. www.axios.com/2026/09/27/r...
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The most pressing midterm issues for rural voters
Affordability matters most for rural voters heading into the midterms.
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Dr. Meowgnetar @meowgnetar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great work here by @jimacosta.bsky.social.
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'They're Mapping Out How To Do It': Olivia Troye Warns Of Trump Allies Pitching Martial Law
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As I said to the late great Dan Ellsberg - it’s is an honor to call you a friend ;)
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 25/09/2026
Emily St. John Mandel's novel 'Exit Party' is a time-bending work of speculative fiction that speaks to our divided present moment. Mandel tells Ali Velshi that the novel addresses "the idea of compliance and acquiescence" with authoritarianism that is "something that we're seeing today."
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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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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Netanayhu is bad for Jews concerned about anti-semitism. www.timesofisrael.com/poll-majorit...
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Poll: Most US Jewish voters deeply concerned Netanyahu has fueled antisemitism
Survey shows that despite criticism of premier, 86% identify as pro-Israel, though majorities back aid cuts and remain divided over AIPAC’s role in primaries; most US Jews plan to vote Democrat
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Which means—the nation. The entire nation. He can’t own or control it. So he’s destroying it. And destroying it is “owning” it…
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Grace Segers @gracesegers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We've seen a lot about how young people are struggling with mental health. I took the time to speak with young adults across the country about why things are so bad, from their perspectives. My deep dive here: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
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The Dire National Crisis That Washington Won’t Touch
Adolescents and young adults across the country are collapsing under the weight of isolation and pressure to succeed. There’s no easy fix—but it’s past time for Washington to do something.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m so pleased to announce the relaunch of my “Wealth and Poverty” course, this coming Monday, September 21st. Please join me and Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse for a live “watch-a-long” of the first class of my course, on Substack at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET. More details at the link below:
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My course "Wealth & Poverty" starts right here on Monday, September 21st
And every subsequent Monday for the next 14 weeks.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Calling all yappers, Team Abdul needs you! Phonebank to onboard new volunteers: go.abdulforsenate.com/volunteer-on... Phonebank to contact voters: go.abdulforsenate.com/phonebank
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.
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FactsOverFeelings @thunderstorming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@rbreich.bsky.social is correct. We are still a democracy….
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
👇🏽
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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv @bandylee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I return weekly to The Weekend Show with Anthony Davis: www.youtube.com/live/DIf7wrq...
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LIVE: Trump’s Nuclear Problem Just GOT MUCH MORE SERIOUS... | The Weekend Show
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sheeran should have told the NFL owners to enjoy their empty stadiums and no concession sales. And also tell his fans that any customer service questions should go to the stadium hotlines.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have often said that Donald Trump’s plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat. Now we know what that will look like in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...
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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.
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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Leon Black matters for a lot of reasons. This is a big one. Bring on all the jail time. #EpsteinFiles ellieleonard.substack.com/p/decoding-a...
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Decoding an Unknown Survivor's Journal - Part 1
Trigger Warning: discussion of sexual abuse of a minor and child loss
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The rule of law doesn’t reboot after Trump. We must demand investigations and prosecutions for corrupt officials who got rich while Americans paid the price. Letting Trump’s crew walk tells the next crew they can loot, lie, and hurt people without consequences. #CostOfCorruption #Pinks
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Impeach Fetterman
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Goes Wrong When You Coddle Fascists And Attack Progressives? ICE is unleashing robot dogs & shock gloves against immigrants as Trump continues attacking our democracy. What are Democratic “centrists” doing? Condemning progressives. thelefthook.substack.com/p/what-goes-...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
😕
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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