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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone 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.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An 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.uk
Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico
Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker
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nibbish @nibbish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If 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?
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/09/2026
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS
NEITHER ARE WORKING
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 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.com
A 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.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
DC'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.
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Pirro’s special grand jury probing D.C. schools, city oversight of youth
The unusual investigation appears to have a broad scope. Prosecutors have contacted D.C. Public Schools personnel to question them about truancy and graduation rates.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
NEW @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...
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Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Andy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...
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Andy Kim’s Big Health Care Pitch: Enroll Every Kid in Medicaid
The New Jersey senator takes a unique, long-game approach to a top Democratic goal.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
People 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.com
A 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
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The 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
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The 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...
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yesterday...Northwestern Ontario looked like a scene straight out of Dante’s Peak.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Blanche 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.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 14/07/2026
How 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...
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14/07/2026
An 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
xAI's unpermitted turbine emissions would dwarf federal permit thresholds
Potential annual emissions, in short tons, from 30 unpermitted turbines at xAI's Southaven, MS facility

Chart: Potential emissions at 80% load
Nitrogen oxide: 2,474
Carbon monoxide: 4,065
A vertical dotted line indicates the Federal permit threshold.

Note: Federal permit threshold of 100 short tons/year is based on emissions at 100% capacity. Emissions shown at 80% capacity reflect the lower end of typical operating levels for gas turbines, according to the EPA.

He said the facility would be on par with the top 25 U.S. gas plants for nitrogen oxide emissions, citing EPA data for actual emissions.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Family demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in Houston
The 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...
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Being 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.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $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.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The 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.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
One 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!”
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
it’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
Macron posting Statue of Liberty White House posting Christian nationalist slop
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/07/2026
At 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:
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Iowa’s Rob Sand Tries a Different Kind of Populism
Instead of chasing outrage, he’s campaigning on audits, electoral reform, and singing “America the Beautiful.”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Not 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.
Reuters tweeted: "Pope Leo urged Americans to uphold the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, praising the country's long tradition of welcoming immigrants in his first major address to the United States." They then attached a video of the Pope speaking. 

Someone named NoraNH replied: "The Declaration of Independence doesn’t mention immigrants"The Declaration of Independence.He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This 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.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
wife 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
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A 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.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 03/07/2026
250 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...
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How We’re Fighting for Democracy on America’s 250th Birthday - American Oversight
American Oversight is pushing back on the threats to free elections and fighting to hold government officials accountable.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In 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...
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How health insurers get a free pass to deny coverage from a 52-year-old law meant to protect worker pensions
A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The 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...
The Fourteenth Amendment has not changed since 1898. What have changed are the Republican Party and the modern conservative movement. Trump believes that “if you import the Third World, you become the Third World.” His rise to power began with his willingness to be a standard-bearer for a movement that cast the first Black president as an illegitimate invader and demanded to see his birth certificate. Trump’s second-term campaign promised “mass deportation” of those very same “Third World” immigrants, and since taking office, he has established an effectively whites-only refugee policy, specifically for white South Africans, illustrating that his objection is less to immigration itself, or to immigrants from the “Third World,” than to immigrants who are not white.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026
For 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.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
still the definitive statement on "can you cheer for team usa if the usa does bad things" discourse:
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 02/07/2026
I 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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Remember, 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.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
From 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...
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Cool 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.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If 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
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Donald 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.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With 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.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
They’re going to start arresting attorneys who defend immigrants.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/05/2026
Trump is using the power of the executive branch to harass and persecute the woman he raped.
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Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
The 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...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Think 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.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I 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
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/05/2026
Seriously, fuck this. I'm so sick of our profession's cowardice. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools
A longstanding diversity and inclusion requirement for U.S. law schools is teetering amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration and Republican states.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/05/2026
well we did lose to legal Calvinball and we aren’t going to fight back. but at least we spent a hundred million dollars losing
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