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Director, ABA Division for Public Education. Skeptical of everyone, cynical about everything, but not without hope.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 21h
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19h
You're welcome to run for Congress any time you want, shitbird
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the foremost scholars of polarization in the world is telling us that polarization is the wrong concept to apply to the contemporary United States...so maybe don't do that
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ferdinand Mount in @lrb.co.uk reminding us that 28,000 have died trying to cross the Med since 2014 ‘the death toll of a medium-sized war’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23h
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23h
More confirmation that the Trump Administration is staying underground with its anti-abortion plans until after the midterms. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brent crude oil prices extend gains to +5% on the day after Chinese refiners suspend oil exports “until further notice.”
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Should be lively!
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Formerly known as Truly S. @notincleveland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trying to rehabilitate Nixon: trial run for trying to rehabilitate Trump.
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hana martin @nitramanah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=me66... @weissmann.substack.com
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Andrew Weissmann Spots the Biggest Tell in the Jack Smith Hearing | Illegal News
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Jeremy @callmenerdy.com · 01/10/2026
In case you were wondering what it'd be like to talk to somebody from the 18% who "strongly approve" of the job Trump is doing.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think it's bad that the president's brain is mush. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1. On Tuesday morning, Trump unveiled America dot gov, which he described as “the ultimate product.” Right now, it is basically a chatbot that draws data from official government websites. As a result it is brutally efficient at debunking Trump’s lies.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hometown editorial: #MOsen
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silvergrl.bsky.social @silvergrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because of course he did. #Epsteinclass Paxton
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
two doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric
A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.
Kelly Gleason, an attorney for Pike, said she heard this from another of Pike's attorneys, Randy Spivey. Gleason said Spivey was in the death chamber with Pike but stepped out to call Gleason.
"She's alive and snoring," Gleason said.
Another attorney, Amy Harwell, is driving an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Gleason said.
"She needs immediate medical care," Gleason said.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meanwhile foreign press, starting with Die Zeit in Hamburg, accurately cite the DOJ complaint as a descent by Todd Blanche to the same sort of tactics that the Nazis used to silence judges in the 1930s.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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I_LoveYou @to8lerone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tough on Crime…….?
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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Part 5 | How Pete Ricketts Got His Jobs
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth has reportedly fired 20% of the military's generals, claiming, "No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors." This toxically masculine ethos sounds straight out of the handbook of Doug Wilson, Hegseth's Christian nationalist spiritual advisor.
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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gonna repost this whenever Hegseth whines about "beardos"
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schweinberghere.bsky.social @schweinberghere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is leading on an issue instead of cowering behind focus groups and consultants, and far too rare in the Democratic Party.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bitch fuck these ghouls
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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Calvinball enters its QP era.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ohio doesn’t have anyone in the Senate fighting for us – we’re changing that this November.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
We're really not quite grasping how momentous it is that one of Europe's most pressing geostrategic challenges is figuring out how to rely less on the United States. From the archives:
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Rubio Offers Europe Trumpism With a Human Face
All the talk of friendship and partnership masked a deeper hostility.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We absolutely, positively want a delusional, psychotic and psycopathic president talking about taking cities out with nuclear weapons. It’s all good, right? Nothing to see here, media?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mortgage rates print 7.50% @cnbc.com
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Frank @frankvaladez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump is breaking the law.
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Illinois Traffic Cameras @iltrafficcams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Willis Tower Skydeck (West View) 🌇 Sunset: 6:33 PM - 6:42 PM CT (20x speed) 🌡️ 63°F | Clear 📍: 41.878900,-87.635900
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 29/09/2026
In this Republican bastion, angst over Texas’ public education system has helped fuel Gina Hinojosa’s campaign, giving voters here one of the most competitive governor’s races they’ve seen in decades.
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Conservative moms are fed up over Texas schools. For Gina Hinojosa, it’s an opening.
Democrat Gina Hinojosa is a mom who got into politics because of education, an issue that’s helping give Texas its most competitive governor’s race in years.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations to Vladimir Putin on one of the most successful operations in history. www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections
ICA 2017-01D
6 January 2017
Key Judgments
Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow's longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.
We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.
• We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.
• Moscow's approach evolved over the course of the campaign based on Russia's understanding of the electoral prospects of the two main candidates. When it appeared to Moscow that Secretary Clinton was likely to win the election, the Russian influence campaign began to focus more on undermining her future presidency.
• Further information has come to light since Election Day that, when combined with Russian behavior since early November 2016, increases our confidence in our assessments of Russian motivations and goals.
Moscow's influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations-such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or "trolls." Russia, li
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Important thread on one of the most contentious issues in contemporary antidiscrimination law.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations, we have created a world where teenagers cannot exist with each other in space, where we use “safety” to destroy sociality, youth, and development.
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New Under-18 Policy Begins Today at Westfield Montgomery and Westfield Wheaton

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themocoshow A new Parental Guidance Policy begins today, Monday, September 28, at Westfield Wheaton and Westfield Montgomery malls, requiring visitors under 18 to be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian or chaperone age 21 or older after 3pm daily.
The policy will be in effect from 3pm until closing, seven days a week, and applies to interior and exterior common areas at both malls. According to signage now posted at the malls, one supervising adult age 21 or older may accompany no more than
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.
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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My kids have measles, I can’t buy diesel, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now I’ll be able to watch a baseball game in a national park
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