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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
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Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it's great.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/10/2026
Still struggling with wrapping my mind around woke Bill Kristol.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You have to use the power to reform the institutions, or it all happens over & over again. The platform must be institutional reform: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To have that conversation honestly would have to start with an acknowledgement that our founders didn't trust a government based in popular will either. The electoral college, the senate, no direct election of senators, no one but white property holding men voting was all there from the jump.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...
A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.
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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This entire situation is beyond disgusting, but thank the Goddess for the stellar fucking work of student journalists. Truly. CW: rape, sexual assault www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Scott @smadin.net · 23/09/2026
"Massive Meat Recall" is the name of my avant-garde punk band whose songs are all about classic gay porn flicks from the '70s and '80s.
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Massive meat recall on beef, pork and more: USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of of raw pork, beef, and goat products that officials said were produced without the benefit of f…
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Officiant: If anyone present knows of any reason why these two should not be wed— Fan standing up in back of the church: 71 OPS+ by the way
Talkin’ Yanks: Austin Wells is engaged

AmericanMade: Instead of being in the batting cage and working on his hitting while batting .170 on the season, our catcher is doing this bullshit.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
art
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 18/09/2026
As an American watching the UK Labour Party squander its historic parliamentary majority through aimless, rudderless, poll-driven governance, I hope the U.S. Democratic Party takes note that U.S. voters in 2026 do not want a Democrat-controlled Congress because they want tepid Republican governance
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In his recent debate with Senator Douglas, Rep. Lincoln argued for a strict ban on the expansion of chattel slavery. But what do blue collar Americans think of the plan? Our New York Times correspondent spoke with likely voters at the Montgomery, AL auction block, and they expressed some concerns.
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i think you can do it by making trump's crimes into true crime. no joke
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stop watching football. I did. I missed it at first until I didn't. www.npr.org/2026/08/25/n...
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At least 25% of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE, study finds
Playing football has long been linked to the brain disease known as CTE, but how prevalent it is is still unknown. A new study of former NFL players who died recently found that at least 25% had CTE.
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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just so everyone is clear, the Republican president is civilly liable for sexually assaulting someone. The difference is that the Democratic Party decides those guy aren't going to represent them.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026
We could have this all the time, routinely, but in the end we always prioritize cars.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 06/07/2026
i have no idea whether this is actually what happened or not, but FIFA choosing to let trump take credit for doing a corruption when they had already decided to make a difficult (but wildly unpopular) call sounds just about right
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Amazing that when mainstream Democrats lose to Republicans - who peddle lies, sow fear & weaponize social media - lesson is Dems must change their policy priorities & messages but when mainstream Dems lose to socialists lesson is waaahhhhh no fair.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I geniunely do not think this is true, and not just because I am closer to these candidates on some axises. The successful DSA insurgents have governed as more or less normal left-libs once in office. Mamdani and AOC have been affable institutionalists. Nithya Raman is a technocrat.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"A Project 2029 that has nothing to say about either the Senate filibuster, or an ideologically captured Supreme Court, or extreme partisan gerrymandering — among other concerns — is not a Project 2029 worth the time or effort." Amen. Democrats have to address the fundamental flaws in our system.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
love that we keep just test-piloting the thing that works again and again and again. did you know that giving people money directly results in good outcomes? WHOA IF TRUE
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/05/2026
Good thing nobody covered Trump’s 2024 win as a mandate for dramatic policy change & a right-wing vision of America’s future — instead of, say, a close win driven mainly by the price of eggs and gas going up (then back down!) in 2022-23. That would have been irresponsible. Good thing nobody did that
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Here’s one little-h hypothesis: even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways; they know they’ll never be able to compete with that & that whatever they have will be worth less & less over time.
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Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com · 26/05/2026
What if taxing the rich works?
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The ‘millionaires tax’ was pitched as a $2 billion revenue source. It’s blown past that, yet again. - The Boston Globe
The state’s so-called millionaires tax has already generated more than $3.1 billion in revenue from Massachusetts' highest earners this fiscal year.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!
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1 doctoraatspositie in kiesgedrag
1 PhD position to research how parties build connections with social groups
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
One imagines that if was a synagogue in San Diego was was shot up by two terrorists with records of what the police chief called "hate speech," killing five, that the New York Times--this is while the situation was ongoing!--would find space for it as one of their lead stories. Mosque, who cares?
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Principles Before Personalities @lizzyvoice.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
THIS👇
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.
Sean Connery in The Untouchables
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If I had more faith that a Dem blue wave would sweep into office the WT Sherman- and (Thaddeus) Stevens-level Reconstructionists we absolutely need at this moment, I'd tell every college kid to go to law school, because there would be SOOO many openings come 2029, in the DOJ and elsewhere.
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M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I kept thinking about Sabastian Sawe’s marathon stats as I plodded home after 2.5km this morning because I forgot my headphones and couldn’t possibly keep going without them…
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026
It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yet again, lefties have hled their nose and voted for a right-winger to save democracy from the far right. Contrast that to the large number of right-wingers who consistently chose far-right candidates over even centrists.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Josh Friedman @friejose.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Official Hungarian election results here: vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026?filt...
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Nemzeti Választási Iroda - Országgyűlési képviselők választása
Választási szervek - Nemzeti Választási Iroda
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Josh Friedman @friejose.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
For the crucial Hungarian election, friends don’t let friends follow fake-experts. Follow these real experts instead: @gabrielagreilinger.com @danielhegedus.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social @zecsaky.bsky.social @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @eublogo.bsky.social
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a map showing slovakia and hungary with a flag on it
ALT: a map showing slovakia and hungary with a flag on it
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Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One more detail. Mobilization is highest in the districts in Pest county and in Budapest, where at this rate, turnout could even reach an insane 90%. And it's lowest in north-east Hungary's poorer areas. (Data from @telexhu.bsky.social) Whatever happens, people are feeling the stakes of the vote.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
finally, free speech and academic freedom have returned www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...
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A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career
Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.
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