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Kygosi @kygosi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gym memberships must be crimes against humanity

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Mkorolden @mkorolden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Psssssstttt… we’re all on the decoy plane.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/07/2026

Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece:

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Opioid of the Masses (From 2016)

To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 10/06/2026

He was the most influential scholarly advocate for the claim that America is based on an idea: human equality and republican government. It is not based on blood, soil, or ancestry. See this excerpt from one of Woods's last speeches, at AEI last November. Trust me, this one is worth reading.

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Gordon Wood, RIP

The great historian of the American Founding passed away yesterday, killed by a car while walking.

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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

May 21, 1776: The Raleigh, a 32-gun frigate of the Continental Navy, is launched from Langdon’s Island, Mass. (later Badger Island, Maine). The warship is seen in the state seal and flag of New Hampshire, as it was built in the shipyard of John Langdon, a patriot of that state.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Given this argument, I assume it's too dangerous for the President to go golfing anymore, right?

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It’s like the entire country is being held captive in an abusive relationship.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/04/2026

Where Americans live. (From my new column/newsletter.) www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

They renamed the Secretary of Defense the "Secretary of War" and now they're embarrassed to say they launched a war. I don't understand these people.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Live the kind of life that makes people like Donald Trump welcome your death.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The NBC News story about Corey Lewandowski is very important. The GEO Group-related claims are astounding, and later reporting in the story suggests that those allegations were not some one-time thing. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

During the transition, Lewandowski told Zoley that he wanted to be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group's DHS contracts, according to a senior DHS official and three people familiar with their discussion. Zoley, concerned about the propriety of the ask, told Lewandowski he would have no part of it, the sources said, describing the confrontation as tense.
Lewandowski took a role as an unpaid "special government employee" at DHS once the new administration was sworn in, where he advised and acted as a "de facto chief of staff" to Noem and, sources said, influenced contract awards. Zoley scrambled to find a way to assuage tensions from the meeting during the transition, two industry sources familiar with the matter said. He secured a follow-up with Lewandowski in late February or early March 2025.
That second meeting did not go much better.
Zoley offered to put Lewandowski on retainer - a recurring consulting fee - with GEO Group, according to two industry sources familiar with the matter.
Lewandowski balked, saying he wanted to be compensated based on the company's new or renewed contracts with DHS, the two sources said.
"He wanted payments — what some people would call a success fee," said a person with knowledge of the meeting.
Zoley declined, the two sources said. In the months that followed, the length of two of GEO Group's federal contracts shrank, and currently several of its facilities that could house migrants sit idle,

One senior White House official raised the issue with Trump during an unrelated meeting in October, two current administration officials said, before the conversation was cut short by superseding business.
And another senior White House official told NBC News they had received a "dozen" complaints from at least four companies about Lewandowski's involvement in the contracting process during the second Trump administration.
Such complaints are rare in the defense contracting industry, in which relationships are often carefully built over years and across political parties. The reports of requests to pay Lewandowski, a government contracting expert told NBC News, raise "red flags."
This account is based on seven months of reporting, including interviews with nearly two dozen people who expressed concern about Lewandowski's role in the contracting process - including current administration officials, current DHS officials, industry sources who have done business with DHS and lobbyists. These sources were interviewed on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media or because they wanted to protect their relationships with an agency critical to their business.

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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

March 17, 1776 (Morning): The British give up Boston without a fight. Gen. William Howe leads over 6,000 redcoats into transports docked at the harbor, unmolested by Washington’s Army observing them from the heights. After 334 days of siege and suffering, the cradle of the Revolution is free. 1/7

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"Most members of Generation Z were still children when Trump came down the escalator…They don’t view Trump as sui generis or beyond the pale, because he’s been the dominant force in our politics for as long as they’ve been politically aware." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters

Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.

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Fergus Cullen @ferguscullen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Trump’s tripling down on broadly unpopular, militarized immigration enforcement puts GOP pols in non-deep red states in a vise

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It's already cost us a lot more than we could ever imagine, or ever afford.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 26/12/2025

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

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Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies: If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

And you tell them, because the President has been illegally trying to usurp Congress and can't be trusted to uphold his end of any deal.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

An Idaho mother was brutally beaten and zip-tied by ICE in front of her three U.S. citizen children.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

If Vance wants to have a conversation about people in ERs waiting for immigrants to be treated before them, we should also have a conversation about all the native-born Americans getting treated by immigrant doctors and nurses.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Fergus Cullen @ferguscullen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

@dicknixon.bsky.social Sir, your take on how well Pritzker is handling the crisis/opportunity politically? His stock is rising, no?

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

What Americans Die from? And what the media reports on... Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Fergus Cullen @ferguscullen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

One thing you notice in hospitals is how many of those providing care are foreign-born. Vance thinks that’s bad, too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2025

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Dear parents, one of the best things that happened in the last few centuries was the declining child mortality rate around the world. Source: buff.ly/IC4werE

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Ceddanne Rafaela hits a walk-off triple in the ninth inning to clinch a 2025 postseason berth.

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Fergus Cullen @ferguscullen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Can’t tell ICE agents from Hunger Games peace keepers

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Fergus Cullen @ferguscullen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Last spring spoke to NatGuard recruiter who told me recruitment was up “because ppl wanted to serve under *this* Commander-in-Chief.” Today’s 18-22 year olds have no memory of pre-Trump politics; to them all this is normal. Ppl may be underestimating implications of this @brendannyhan.bsky.social

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

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Fergus Cullen @ferguscullen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Seen in York, Maine. Do not obey in advance.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: It's not backsliding, it's a march to dictatorship. Only @thebulwark.com

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Let’s see. With Japan the negotiation was: unconditional surrender or get nuked again. With Germany it was: your Fuhrer is dead and your Reich destroyed now sign this.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

“We’re not leaving. We’re going to protect our neighbors” By God this is an American! Squarely in the tradition of a bunch of New England farmers in 1775 who told the most powerful army in the world: you’ll come this far and no further.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Cancelling $500 million in vaccine research is exactly what a virus would do if it ran the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Fergus Cullen @ferguscullen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If you need some wholesomeness in your timeline here are 3 momma turkeys & 20-21 chicks (they wouldn’t stay still for me to count) in my front yard

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

ICE will be the vehicle, the gestapo empowered by the President, to enforce his will, first among vulnerable undocumented people, then among legal immigrants, then among political rivals, then among citizens who speak out against the Trump grift.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Among our founders’ grievances: The king “obstructed Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent swarms of Officers to harrass our people…cut off Trade w/the world…deprived us…of the benefits of Trial by Jury…transported us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…” Sound familiar?

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“…it was stunning to realize how closely many of the grievances our founders asserted toward King George III mirror the issues we are facing with the tyrannical despot currently occupying our White House.” www.americaamerica.news/p/independen...

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Independence Day Is Resistance Day

Reflections on the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass and our historical commitment to fighting tyranny

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

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