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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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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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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wanting to "resolve this in the boardroom not the courtroom" is how Newsom justified the settlement. The unquestioned mindset here is that these power struggles are best negotiated among oligopolies & oligarchs, not the democratic polity. Should be disqualifying as a serious presidential candidate.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/09/2026

the bipartisan majority of politicians being too captured to enforce existing antitrust laws is genuinely why we can't have nice things

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

funny thing about antitrust law is if you actually bother to enforce it you get markets with more small and mid-sized competitors that can't threaten you (see: Paramount threatening to leave California) as easily but alas, spineless corruption rules the american experiment

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We gotta seize this dude and all of his enabler’s assets after this. He’s done too much damage. It’s not enough for these people to just sail away from this on a big boat. That’s our boat.

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Blue Cheese @fromage-bleu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dems should stop working with Republicans on just about everything

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear Dems and libs: Stop helping Republicans muddy differences between the parties on AI and data centers by acquiescing to the "bipartisan opposition" frame. Rs are laughing at you while polls show Rs now leading Ds on these issues. Instead, tie Rs directly to Trump's AI/data center malevolence.

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Blue Cheese @fromage-bleu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WH reporters all went to the Milford School, apparently

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026

shit like this is why i say the press are a bunch of chickenshits. "oh they yelled at us so we just dumped it on youtube" you fucking cowards, air it anyways and dare them to sue you then put the threats in the court record. air a title card saying "THE US GOVERNMENT ORDERED THIS NOT AIR", come on

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

There is never a compromise you can make that will satisfy them. They will still attack you and force you to concede more. You should never concede anything to them because they want to eradicate trans people.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION This is *very* important where there's been obvious voter suppression, but also generally a good idea. Check that you're *ACTUALLY* registered here ⬇️ & then check again every 1-2 weeks. Pls ask others to do the same! (Not registered?➡️ www.nass.org/can-i-vote/r...)

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Not sure if you're already registered, or need to update your information? Select your state in the drop down menu to check.

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Blue Cheese @fromage-bleu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gee, I wonder why Mamdani may be giving priority to other media outlets 🙄

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

obviously you don’t really expect introspection from one of the main culprits but one of the major reasons he does things this way is that legacy media is extremely biased toward negative coverage of him and his administration and it would be political malpractice for him to rely on them

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

but I am sorry, I simply cannot see building a press office that does effective social media outreach as a scandal in a world where explicit republican partisans control nearly every media outlet or social media site and are loud and up-front about how much of a thumb they’re putting on the scale

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Project Azar @projectazar.com · 03/09/2026

Elon thinks he's Measurehead in Disco Elysium, the ultra racist advanced race theorist, and in reality, he's just the Racist Lorry Driver.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dear registered voters, When was the last time you checked your registration status and verified your current name and address? You can find the links you need to do that at npr.org/vote

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How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the democrats would rather lose perpetually than win on the left, and they would rather lose than win too big and have people expect them to do things. their incompetence will always be proportional to the ease of victory

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Blue Cheese @fromage-bleu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That’ll show ‘em 🙄🙄🙄

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/08/2026

telling that so much corporate and corruption malfeasance goes uncovered every day in the U.S. but a columnist not being able to punch down against a tiny subset of marginalized people at high risk of daily violence was worth a feature at the new york times dot com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I wish the media wouldn't cover SpaceX as if it were an exciting frontier-pushing scientific endeavour when it's really the vanity project of a megalomaniac Bond villain type www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast

A SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their co...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century

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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I muted a Jeffries post yesterday because the pro-Jeffries crowd found it. Some of the kinder critiques were essentially "You don't understand how the game is played, but Jeffries does." I understand exactly how the game is played. He's working for who he considers to be his bosses, which are not us

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

one thing that would help with reconfiguring social media influence would be if the democratic party stopped posting, providing free labor and credibility, on social media apps that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to destroy them and their constituents

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026

Not to mention that ‘bad messaging’ was ultimately are major critique of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. It was extremely unpopular at the time before ultimately being proven as the only morally defensible position. Liberals always say the messaging is bad. MLK wrote down his frustration with this.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026

We have history on our side & every single social justice movement was critiqued along minutiae such as messaging or methodology by people who ultimately just didn’t want their status quo disrupted. Because we have history we know how feckless those people look in hindsight. Why be that person?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

Screenshot of grist article with same title as in post. Image of people riding bikes in a Copenhagen bike lane.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“3/4ths of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth Worth repeating. #UrbanTruth

Same quote as in post. Tagline is “Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.”

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Blue Cheese @fromage-bleu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ICE is basically a state-sanctioned MAGA paramilitary group at this point. Any future Dem admin will have no choice but to abolish it.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

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Blue Cheese @fromage-bleu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Guy wouldn’t go to his own son’s wedding, but he’s giving a toast at Max Miller’s 🙄🙄🙄

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2026

there is no good faith anti-trans sports lobby and never has been it’s been a cynical wedge issue from day one for a group of people looking to replace gay marriage as a cultural weapon none of them have ever cared about women, women’s sports, or even sports

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026

Have you noticed the tributes to Lindsey Graham don't cite any actual legislative accomplishments that benefited his constituents? It's a lot of "he was a strong voice" & "got along with everyone"- generic stuff you could say about anyone. His actual legacy is fluffing Trump & reckless war-mongering

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Platform our campaign to end the public existence of trans people or we'll set the billionaire on you" If you contribute a single penny towards the revenue generated by the Potter franchise you're helping fund this shit.

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Blue Cheese @fromage-bleu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dems will have no choice but to abolish ICE when (if) they are back in power, regardless of how it polls. It’s basically a state-financed MAGA paramilitary org, and it will undermine and resist anything a Dem admin wants to do.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I have said repeatedly that Russell Vought should be impeached. Congress appropriates and this is a high crime against its powers under Article I. The most important thing DOGE did was take over the appropriations pipes at Treasury. If you wanted to close USAID and CFPB pass a bill.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

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