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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Top mathematicians criticize AI answers, explaining math as a social project. A main point of solving math challenges, they write, is the tools, collaborations, and understandings made along the way. Almost like a math teacher saying to show your work, but at the highest, most impactful level.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

when people said we needed a "joe rogan of the left" i said anyone who approaches that has been and will continue to be condemned by the very people searching for that. they want a joe rogan of the center left and that is a contradiction in terms

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The news media need to say plainly, in big headlines: Trump is building a dictatorship. Use the D word. Say that this is the most corrupt presidency in American history, which it obviously is. Say that the president is mentally unstable, which he obviously is." My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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The media are missing the story of our lives: a looming dictatorship

News outlets’ downplaying of the danger is shameful journalism neglect

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's dark, but kind of perfect.

This political cartoon was created by Pedro X. Molina and published for Counterpoint Media on September 15, 2022.

Pinocchio is wearing a "MAGA" hat and hugging Geppetto, who is labeled "GOP."

Geppetto is dead, having been impaled by Pinocchio's long nose.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

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FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is a variation of the "but does he really *mean* what he says" navel-gazing. It ultimately doesn't matter who a public official really is in private or what they secretly believe. It's what they actually do with their power that matters.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

“You are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.

“The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.

“You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth.”

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm stuck on this—the WaPo editorial board uncritically repeated a lie that right-wing rage merchants manufactured by selectively editing a video then splattering it across X. It seems these guys' brains have been so cooked by Elon's algorithm that they can no longer identify MAGA-manipulated slop.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is a soon to be shuttered boondoggle that squandered hundreds of millions of dollars and simultaneously engaged in human rights violations. In a functioning political system, it would be a massive scandal.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The frame for 2028 and all future elections is The American People vs The Billionaires

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/04/2026

Fossil fuel company owners see that they can't compete with clean energy. They gave POTUS $1B to protect their profits. He's doing it, devoting more public $$ to forcing Americans to choke down their pollution and high prices. bsky.app/profile/mcbr...

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 22/04/2026

After Minneapolis, Dems refused to fund DHS in 2026 without human rights reforms to ICE and Border Patrol. Instead, Repubs plan to fund ICE and BP, unreformed, for 10 years. Using a special rule for a party-line, simple majority vote. 🚨The bill has dropped: www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/new...

(b) INSTRUCTIONS.—
(1) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.—
The Committee on Homeland Security shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by not more than $70,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2026 through 2035.
(2) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.—The
Committee on the Judiciary shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by not more than $70,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2026 through 2035.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Law Dork @lawdorknews.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Any federal official who does not respond to Tuesday’s threat in a manner befitting their own constitutional obligations in light of Trump’s past actions will bear a part of the responsibility for what follows." - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on the need to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment now

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We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it.

It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

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Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski

Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/03/2026

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

to me it rocks that this company that has never come within light-years of making money and has a bad product with zero practical use cases is the pivot point of the global economy because a bunch of embarrassing Burning Man dorks just decided it should be

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I finally figured it out: this Iran war feels like the kinds of wars I used to have in Civilization II after I saved the game and felt like seeing how big a mess I could make.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

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