Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos. 271647401
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.independent.co.ukHecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and TalaricoRepublicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker 392416568
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialnibbish @nibbish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If they really believed any of this, they'd be, like, a million times more specific. HOW is ai is going to kill us all. Is it nukes? Is it poison? Is it some weird 25th century nanomachine nonsense? What is the mechanism? 516114
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A former staffer for Rep. Mike Collins, the Republican challenging Jon Ossoff, shared images of a swastika and one that depicts himself in Ku Klux Klan robes. A number of people in Collins's orbit have been accused of having ties to white nationalists or of making racist or antisemitic comments.washingtonpost.comA former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images. Some Republicans see a pattern.Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes. 72932438
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 27/08/2026DC's young people, teachers, and schools are the beating heart of our communities. If Pirro wants to do anything to help children in DC she can get the National Guard and federal police away from our students and schools — and push for the release of the full Epstein files.wapo.stPirro’s special grand jury probing D.C. schools, city oversight of youthThe unusual investigation appears to have a broad scope. Prosecutors have contacted D.C. Public Schools personnel to question them about truancy and graduation rates. 0285
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgBuilding Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft DurableExplore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production. 57337
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Andy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...notus.orgAndy Kim’s Big Health Care Pitch: Enroll Every Kid in MedicaidThe New Jersey senator takes a unique, long-game approach to a top Democratic goal. 901468296
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026People are shocked when they come to DC now and see groups of fully armed soldiers patrolling our neighborhoods. Trump's occupation of DC has been going on for nearly a year — and he wants it to go on forever. We refuse to allow this to become normalized and continue to call for it to end.theguardian.comA year into a national guard deployment, DC residents say they live in ‘a city under siege’Since Trump deployed troops last August, Washingtonians have banded together to resist and support one another 381292553
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking 412426579
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it 171563697
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 15544521646
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialAudrey @parickards.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yesterday...Northwestern Ontario looked like a scene straight out of Dante’s Peak. 26040971231
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos 1764144697
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialCathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Blanche is making an EXTREMELY dangerous argument about subpoenaing journalists, suggesting they're merely witnesses to a crime (ostensibly the leak) and there is no other countervailing free press concern. At best he doesn't know First Amendment law, which is disqualifying. And worse if he does. 314638
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialThe Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 14/07/2026How Regimes Rely on ‘Loyal Losers’ New research sheds light on how low academic performers with poor career options tend to be assigned the most brutal tasks, including torture and murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w... 33969287
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14/07/2026An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning 3626411116
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comFamily demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in HoustonThe son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the... 6550238
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Being able to love what’s good about something, and to see its potential, is a necessary prerequisite for improving it, which is a frame that makes posts like this a lot clearer. 1039856
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it. 265207493774
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The United States has seen four close presidential elections in a row. The takeaway from that should be: closely divided country, with a group of vibes voters who swing elections. Instead, it's more common to see claims that the American people as a whole swung dramatically for ideological reasons. 728028
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026One sense of how skewed our political reality is comes as Mamdani says anodyne things that the GOP presidential nominees from 1976-2012 would have all agreed with, like “We should rely on due process for the burning of witches,” and everyone screams, “Leftist Commie! Red Commie!” 262788501
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026it’s kind of ironic that the French government better understands and captures the true aesthetics and ideals of America than the groyper weirdos at the White House posting cringe anti-American MAGAslop 371868298
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/07/2026At a time when so much of the country’s populist energy is concentrating on the political fringes, Rob Sand is building momentum as a different kind of populist—a technocratic, centrist, competence-obsessed insurgent. He’s worth watching. ICYMI @eggerdc.bsky.social:lnk.thebulwark.comIowa’s Rob Sand Tries a Different Kind of PopulismInstead of chasing outrage, he’s campaigning on audits, electoral reform, and singing “America the Beautiful.” 58614
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens. 6961301338
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 04/07/2026This is the white supremacist group Patriot Front and we condemn in the strongest possible terms their ideology and presence in our communities. We advise DC neighbors to protect the most vulnerable people around you today. We reaffirm DC’s values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. 12355100
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026wife attempted local 4th of July 5k, reports no MAGA paraphernalia and a white boy whose red white and blue chest paint read “LOVE DEMOCRACY HATE RACISM” again, this is Montana 432390226
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialJason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 04/07/2026A creedal nation can be good or bad at living up to the creed. It’s possible to succeed or fail. It faces meaningful tests. A nation of mere blood lacks any workable plan for self-improvement because purifying the blood doesn’t build; it only diminishes. 226383
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialAmerican Oversight @americanoversight.org · 03/07/2026250 years ago, the Declaration of Independence laid out a vision for American democracy. Now, the U.S. has slid toward authoritarianism. We can stop it. Here’s how: americanoversight.org/democracy-th...americanoversight.orgHow We’re Fighting for Democracy on America’s 250th Birthday - American OversightAmerican Oversight is pushing back on the threats to free elections and fighting to hold government officials accountable. 1156
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialMiranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In my latest piece for The Conversation, I wrote on how ERISA constitutes the legal underpinnings of so many health insurance barriers that occupy our attention, undercutting health insurer accountability. This is the subject of my next book, The Health Care Trap theconversation.com/how-health-i...theconversation.comHow health insurers get a free pass to deny coverage from a 52-year-old law meant to protect worker pensionsA little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims. 27132
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 402102575
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise. 296135763887
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026still the definitive statement on "can you cheer for team usa if the usa does bad things" discourse: 141459255
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialSydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 02/07/2026I choose to believe that the people watching and believing in this team are more representative of the America that I wish to see this country become and no amount of content this administration tries to create can touch that. Also watching soccer was woke 12 years ago. 2082497
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Remember, the outcome of yesterday’s decision was that nothing changed. They’re going berserk over the Supreme Court saying “we got it right 125 years ago and we’re not going to change anything.” The state of the law today is the same as last week, last year, and 150 years ago. 1934780
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our... 252631813
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system 462759493
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken. 44690441643
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Cool that James Madison envisioned everyone having a rocket launcher but the authors of the 14th amendment explicitly stating their intentions doesn't count for some reason. 181618360
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If Rs win in 2028 and replace Sotomayor, it's gone. I don't know why a bloc of left-wing voters convince themselves "the court shouldn't matter, you can't blackmail me" but that happens every decade and a half for some reason 611167220
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned. 6050841361
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win. 9268982497
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/05/2026They’re going to start arresting attorneys who defend immigrants. 26785396
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/05/2026Trump is using the power of the executive branch to harass and persecute the woman he raped.cnn.comExclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN PoliticsThe Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources fam... 11357117
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Think it's crucial to stress that Talarico is NOT adopting the Dem-consultant-approved approach. He centers costs and economy but contrasts his vision with the society that Trump and MAGA want—meaner, crueler, unrepentantly hierarchical, proudly anti-egalitarian, wracked by violent ethnic purgings. 231068273
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialDan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I don’t know man, I’m all out of words. We are literally criminally investigating people our authoritarian president raped to punish them for speaking out against him 03918
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/05/2026Seriously, fuck this. I'm so sick of our profession's cowardice. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...reuters.comAmerican Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schoolsA longstanding diversity and inclusion requirement for U.S. law schools is teetering amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration and Republican states. 652225535
Reposted by @fishloaves.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/05/2026well we did lose to legal Calvinball and we aren’t going to fight back. but at least we spent a hundred million dollars losing 30680113