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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It's almost like he thinks he's the king. The 7,000,000+ from last weekend were not wrong to attend #NoKings.

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candice roberts @popmediaprof.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

perfectly timed: bsky.app/profile/joel...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Do not spread his ugliness. This is our days, not his.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We were all taught that when say our sorry's to also say what we think we did wrong. You do that consistently without weasel words. Let redemption live, Climate.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

@thebulwark.com, next time the mood goes dark, maybe give a beloved symbol a chance. cc @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

There's quite a bill of particulars against them by now. A competent opposition should have crafted and begun to use a solid narrative that explains "why that's bad FOR YOU and FOR US." Shaming the shameless is not effective. Good for #NoKings. Dems? Still weak sauce.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/10/2025

It's early in the day and the Villages retirement community in Florida is already showing up for the #nokings protests

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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

ICYMI The Villages was the scene of some voter fraud in Trump's favor....

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The Latino Vote Podcast @thelatinovote.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🥊 CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 🥊 How long will the Government shutdown last? @mikemadrid.bsky.social: UNDER 4 weeks 🔻 @chuckrocha.bsky.social: OVER 1 month ⏫ What about you? Drop your prediction in the comments for a chance to win a Latino Vote prize package New episode out NOW 🍿🎉 youtu.be/my1ObhAay7s

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MAKE HUMANITY GREAT AGAIN. Virginia Texting Scandal & The Rise of New Progressive Leaders

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 17/10/2025

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We don't give enough credit to journalists who risk life and limb to bring us the truth

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

(1/3) I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito. (1/3)

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 30/09/2025

Schumer and Jeffries are about to blow the shutdown fight. Read the latest from @therickwilson.bsky.social for Lincoln Square www.lincolnsquare.media/p/white-flag...

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White Flag Democrats

Schumer and Jeffries are about to blow the shutdown fight.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Let professionals work. We don't have to speculate past the (known) facts all the time. Follow Ashton and @mississippifreepress.org.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's been implied for decades that American elections are "tainted" -- and that's why we need "one more requirement" added to IDs, or fewer voting days and places, or... Trump has mastered a well-worn technique that Dems and reality-based GOP factions have never learned to resist or counter.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11/09/2025

Research: Believing that the mass public in the opposing party supports undemocratic tactics leads people to be more supportive of undemocratic tactics themselves. Being assured that a majority of your opponents oppose such radical tactics increases support for democratic norms osf.io/my987/download

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2025

After DOGE outed Halimi, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

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DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/08/2025

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

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"Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung

Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on
anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's
blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about
Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled
his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress,
his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at
distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the
Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with
poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing
to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise
and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear"
that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults.
How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a
real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion,
trump is masquerading as a human being.

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He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy.
He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in
has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung
and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and
"ample time on
at golf than
helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There
progress with him, only
smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your
concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any
money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot.
No intelligent person can defend this
low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka,
trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have
fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who
has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands,
this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and
voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman
leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain
who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves.
And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's
owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he
was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a
cheap grifter and a thief.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

But it is also more cognitive load and reads "a little off." You might argue these clinical treatments undermine the power of simple, true statements: "I'm in jail." On balance, I think I'm with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. Around here, the only elected Dems are local Dems.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I see these in our local public media and in our local talk. "Homeless" -> "unhoused person;" in our law school, "Inmate Legal Assistance" -> "Incarcerated Individuals Legal Assistance." I think the impulse is "don't reduce me to a condition." That's fair.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I had a great dog for a bunch of years, a pibul named Daisy. Mr Trump's motions remind me of the way she greeted me each day. With her walnut-sized brain, Daisy was never so obsequious as to clap. And I'm not even an indicted war criminal. So hell yeah, kill me now -- I saw it all, but never this.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

OBAMA TO TEXAS DEMS: "We became complacent... This precious democracy is not a given. It requires us to fight for it." 🇺🇸

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Trump has, after all, effectively imposed a Federal sales tax whose rate isn't really predictable. No deliberative body representing "the people" approved whatever is happening. If you're an originalist, you see parallels and are mad. If you're Grover Norquist-aligned, you're *supposed* to be mad.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I'm sure it's a righteous strike against the apex thought leaders.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Eleventy billion. On a serious note, I'm sure the labor economists will soon begin to remind us that there are other methods of at least corroborating whatever claims the government to makes. Who knows: Maybe somebody pulls Trump aside to explain BLS's methodology. It's harder then calling elex!

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Make America Vulnerable Again.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Remarkable: Zohran Mamdani's video about returning to Uganda racked up 4.5 million views on Instagram, 56% among non-followers, per data given to me. He is forging a new answer to Dems' digital woes. I talked to his advisers in depth about it. Fascinating. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1984...

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The Real Reason for Zohran’s Success Should Rattle National Democrats

Exclusive internal campaign data on the reach of Mamdani’s viral videos illustrates that he gets modern messaging in ways other Democrats just don’t.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

TFW you check whether they guy launching his campaign has a Bluesky.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Top to bottom, the thread's claims seem right to me. The bottom is, well, the "bottom" for our country.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Trump never enters "matters" with questions or curiosity, but with his own interest.

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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

"Donald Trump is determined to transform America’s system of justice into his personal political weapon, and now Breonna Taylor’s family bears the fresh pain of a new and terrible miscarriage of justice." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It's as though they mean what they say to the public, in public. Even the Senator is shocked, SHOCKED when the dupers are now the duped.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

In shocking news, deal with the devil turns out to have some downsides

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It's their time to spend. And now and again, you do see liberals and lefties score some wins. I'd prefer to see the effort made. At the least Dems learn by doing. When you look at the headwinds, you'll need to look competitive in a bunch more places. Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, maybe Texas...

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I appreciated the tunes then, and appreciate them now. So, yes.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Yes we can. And some Never Trumpers are right: We "think" too much. And Trump is an improviser. He says stupid stories until one lands. Then he reuses that.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Could also be the credible threat that Dems "can also do that" causes the GOP to stand down. Nebraska's vs Maine's EC vote count last year might have been a case. Dems' failure to do politics - other than between its interests - has done the party no favors since 2010.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

WaPo's news (still) seems fine. @pbump.com and maybe two, three columnists are regular reads for me. Each time one leaves, I'm closer to ending my subscription. @apnews.com is also reasonable. as is @npr.org -- which now needs more from us.

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Frank Burleigh @fcburleigh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Aren't we already that? A Texas Observer piece reminded me that we were in the grip of eugenics nuttery of different types for over a generation. You'd think we have advantages over the people then. Except we've spread measles from Texas to North Dakota in not many months. We don't quite work.

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The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn't What You Think

A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.

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