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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It needs to be made more forcefully that every US citizen is a birthright citizen. They are saying that US law devalues citizenship and that they hate that law because it confers citizenship on those that they despise.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Instead of founding fathers let us aspire to be perennial midwives, helping always to deliver democracy anew. (The last line of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone.)

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I am also conflicted about showing a bunch of white nationalist assholes parading around DC while there is no (visible) attention given to efforts to drive them the fuck out. Why are they so comfortable walking around? Why are we so comfortable with seeing them and sharing their images? For what?

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Don't let yourself get attached to any politician you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the bad politics around the corner

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/05/2026

Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"Jews and Black people" is how you say "cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers" in English.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

some people react really violently to this idea. this is generally because they take offense at the prospect of being out of control in their lives.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

you have almost nothing to gain from spending money on self-help or body optimization books and courses. most supplements and health topics are bogus. but universal healthcare would meaningfully extend your probable lifespan.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We're not quite sure how to tell you this, but we gave Claude write access to our back catalogue of answers and it ended up deleting 60% of the historical record.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/04/2026

"The Court’s decision is consonant with the philosophy, articulated by Kilpatrick in his earlier days, that the state is oppressive when it interferes with the right to discriminate, and respects liberty when it allows discrimination." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now

Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.

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jpfetherston @fetherstunned.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

John Robert’s America “It is not an exaggeration to say that the changes that will result will likely represent the greatest withdrawal of voting power from Black Americans since the end of Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow.” @moiradonegan.bsky.social

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The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy | Moira Donegan

The US was not a true democracy before the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday’s decision has essentially destroyed the law

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“Regretful“ Trump voters always remind me of the James Baldwin quote: “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Kash Patel looks the way he does because this guy is always in his peripheral vision but no one else can see “him”.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

everything in american politics boils down to this

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 22/04/2026

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

As anyone who has lived through a single election knows, they don’t get bolder after.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I am not at all interested in the fantasy that Democrats are ready to put them all in prison that has nothing to say about dismantling the conditions that got us here.

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Christine Nangle @nanglish.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Dammit it’s already happening

My Allbirds shoes telling me to kill myself

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

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András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

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Chris Goldin @chrisgoldin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Pretty telling what politicians get to define their beliefs themselves irregardless of their actions, like Vance, and what politicians get their beliefs defined by their opponents, irregardless of their actions and statements, like Zohran.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Reading Swalwell allegations I am reminded again of my decades-long attempt to resist Twain’s cynical interpretation of the intrinsic temperament of democratic governance. He wasn’t wrong.

Where Twain is ingenious, I think, is in understanding the federal system as reflecting a misanthropic vision of human nature and society. Twain does not believe that any sane person will ever want anything to do with national government.
The only people who he can imagine will ever stand for election to the executive or
legislative branches at the federal or even the state level are sociopaths, narcissists, monomaniacs and greedheads. Those who, by choice, seek to put their hands on the levers of power cannot be trusted. They should be presumed to be criminals by temperament.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Netanyahu is bombing Lebanon because his political career (and therefore avoidance of prosecution) depends on constant war. How many more people must die for the sake of one man's standing?

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I simply think that no American President and in fact no human being at all should ever have the capacity to destroy civilization and it is sheer madness that we exist in a world where this is possible even when that isn’t foremost in our minds and headlines

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Zooming in on the photo of Earth taken by astronauts on Artemis II on their way to the Moon, you can clearly see the Aurora Borealis and thin layer of atmosphere wrapping around the planet.

Zooming in on the photo of Earth taken by astronauts on Artemis II, you can clearly see the thin layer of atmosphere wrapping around the entire planet.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What it all boils down to is whether we can get to Nuremberg this time without passing through Hiroshima and Auschwitz. It's really that simple.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/04/2026

do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

When you add in the recent emergence of billionaire-plutocrat-controlled AI tools capable of fabricating seemingly "real" images and videos...it creates a social world in which any sane person would of course disassociate from anything they see or hear on a screen because who knows if it's real?

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?

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rimidar @rimidar.au · 31/03/2026

The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

159/ "U.S.-Israel are carpet bombing Iran and killing civilians. 92,000 civilian units damaged, universities, schools, hospitals, oil and gas fields, desalination plants, nuclear facilities, steel factories…all in an illegal war" Why do we only hear of gas prices & market and not this DESTRUCTION.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/03/2026

‘Nonfiction books are a crucial bulwark against the surging public culture of “alternative facts,” outright lies, and the brazen embrace of ignorance.‘ newrepublic.com/article/2076...

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Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important Than Ever

Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction, and our understanding of the world around us.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We strongly condemn the House's passage of #HR5103, the "DC Safe and Beautiful Act." This bill would codify the unpopular federal surge forces that are terrorizing people here, and it is a direct attack on DC’s human rights and our democracy. Our full statement: freedcproject.org/news/free-dc...

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2026
CONTACT: media@freedcproject.org, (202) 771-1921

Free DC condemns House passage of H.R. 5103

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier today the U.S. House passed H.R. 5103, the "Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2026." Free DC strongly condemns the passage of this bill as a direct attack on DC’s human rights and our national democracy. The bill, introduced by Congressman John McGuire (R-VA-5), passed the House by a vote of 218 to 206. It would codify the unpopular federal surge forces that are terrorizing people in DC and calls for “the maximum enforcement of federal immigration law,” “facilitating the deployment of a more robust federal law enforcement presence,” and more.

The context for this bill’s passage includes: the murder of Julian Bailey at the hands of U.S. Marshals who were operating under the current "DC Safe and Beautiful Task force;" the Trump administration’s comments that military patrols will be in DC through the end of 2029, ostensibly to prevent a transfer of power; and the creation and deployment of a special brigade of the DC National Guard to coordinate with federal surge forces and local law enforcement.

In response, Free DC's Executive Director Keya Chatterjee issued the following statement:

“People in DC are being killed, shot at, arrested, and deported based on their race, thanks to the 'Safe and Beautiful' Task Force. This bill to expand that force is part of a coordinated power grab aimed at intimidating DC communities and it's neither ‘safe’ nor 'beautiful.' The Trump administration, Congressman McGuire who introduced this bill, and their allies want to instill fear in the streets and at the ballot box, so they never have to leave office. But the people of DC are the ones who have to live under this occupation, we are the ones who experience the violence at the hands of federal agents, and we remember January 6th vividly. We reject everything this bill stands for."

"The bill includes provisions that:
Direct “the maximum enforcement of federal immigration law”
Encourage the redirection of available resources to “apprehend and deport illegal aliens”
“Increase the speed of processing concealed carry license requests in the District of Columbia”
Expand “pretrial detention to the maximum extent permitted by law”
Ramp up policing at metro stations, which has been show to disproportionately impact youth, black and brown people, and low-income people
Support “facilitating the deployment of a more robust federal law enforcement presence”

This bill puts DC’s human rights and democracy in danger. When taken in the context of the new Special Brigade of the DC National Guard, as well as the assertion that military patrols should continue in DC through 2029 — at a cost of $2.4 billion — this bill is a clear attempt intimidate the people of DC, and attack the first amendment to prevent a transfer of power, as was attempted on January 6.

Call to Action
Free DC calls on every member of Congress who supports free and fair elections and a peaceful transfer of power act immediately to oppose this bill as it moves on to the Senate, and to instead co-sponsor H.R. 5093, "the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act". We urge Senators to speak out against the “DC Safe and Beautiful Act” and members of the public to join us to oppose DC's ongoing occupation at No Kings DC on Saturday, March 28 at 1:30 pm at the Frederick Douglass Bridge.

Free DC is a movement led by the people of DC to win dignity for our communities and exert our right to self-determination. For too long, the people of DC have been prevented from fully governing ourselves in ways that are deeply and fundamentally unjust. We are no longer willing to accept this and building the cultural and political power it will take to win. Learn more at FreeDCproject.org."

Screenshot of a Congressional vote on H.R. 5103, showing 218 Yea's and 206 Nay's.

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