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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm going to start a company called Wealth Extraction Services, LLC. At WES, we don't claim to provide a useful product or service. In fact, we skip that step entirely and simply use all available legal means to quickly and efficiently transfer funds from your bank account to ours.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here’s the truth: Americans across the political spectrum are fed up with corruption and with rich people calling the shots while everyone else struggles. Economic populism has real legs. Standing firm and enforcing the law isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s the politically smart thing too.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In my ongoing attempt to persuade you to pre-order A Scrap of Moss & Magick – or request your library for a copy! – I thought I’d show you some of the inspiration behind it. Some of this influenced the way I wrote the book, some of it is more vibes based… More in alt text. #ukkidlit #kidlituk

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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 17/09/2026

This guy is so dumb af

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wish every single Democrat in Congress shows the fighting spirit and tenacity of @repbeatty.bsky.social. (Btw note it’s always fearless black woman leading the way in times we are in) HT @mjtoma.bsky.social for flagging via @newrepublic.com newsletter. m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1qi...

“NOT YOUR USUAL CABLE NEWS CHATTER: Last night on The Weeknight on MS NOW, Ohio Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty recounted a recent exchange she had with Donald Trump at a meeting of the Kennedy Center board, on which she sits. Trump, appearing remotely, was informed that he’d lost in court again (the case is captioned Beatty v. Trump), at which point Beatty said Trump "went into a tirade": "It was the most unprofessional thing I have ever witnessed." She said he called her "obstructionist," "dumb," and "incompetent." She insulted him back. The MS NOW hosts listening to the story were slack-jawed. The look on Eugene Daniels’s face at 1:18 is alone worth watching in this remarkable segment.”

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In not impeaching someone who floats this idea, you the Congress are betraying the constitutional order yourself

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And (wearying as it is to keep saying this day after day, issue after issue, but it's the only constitutional language we have for it) it is an impeachable offense to attempt such a circumvention of Congress. I think it would be fair to impeache just for trial-ballooning it. 6/6

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And the constitutional settlement of it is absolutely part of the inherited structure of the U.S. constitution, which whatever else it was, was *not* an attempt to turn back the constitutional clock to the Stuart side in the English Civil War. It's one unified federal purse. 5/

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The king says "ah, but I'm creative and can extract revenue that isn't called a tax. And, neat trick, now I can spend it on creating my own personal army that Parliament didn't authorize." This was fought out, 350 years ago. 4/

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is genuinely one of the oldest and most fundamental points about legislative authority to constrain would-be absolute kings. The king wants to govern without parliamentary oversight. Parliament says "you need us to authorize taxes and military spending." 3/

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

huh you’d think he’d have mentioned this during the phone interview he did that day with a local news station, when he said he watched the towers fall from trump tower and then bragged like a fucking psycho that another building of his was now the tallest building in the manhattan skyline

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 03/09/2026

Neither for the first nor the last time: Vance is an absolute piece of shit, yet it delights me that he hasn't a clue how ghastly and utterly uncharismatic he is.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

"you don't have medicaid because trump wanted to build the arch" and "you don't have SNAP because he wanted to build a ballroom." make republicans have to sputter and say "well actually it is private donations"

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Zaquelle LaBelle @zaquelle-labelle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They spent all that time screaming and hollering that there was no institutional racism. Meanwhile, they are literally trying to bake the racism back into the system! Reinforcing it. STAY WOKE!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some congressional Democrats (or their staffers, I guess) follow me on here, so let me speak directly to them: The media isn't going to do this on their own. But if you make it an issue, they might just be shamed into forcing your GOP opponents into discussing the fat racist elephant in the room.

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 03/09/2026

"The media clearly won't do it themselves, so Democrats need to make this an issue in the campaign, denouncing Musk's ongoing extremism in no uncertain terms and forcing this into the conversation."

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

By Wendell Berry, RIP:

They Sit Together on the Porch

They sit together on the porch, the dark Almost fallen, the house behind them dark.
Their supper done with, they have washed and dried The dishes-only two plates now, two glasses, Two knives, two forks, two spoons-small work for two.
She sits with her hands folded in her lap, At rest. He smokes his pipe. They do not speak, And when they speak at last it is to say What each one knows the other knows. They have One mind between them, now, that finally For all its knowing will not exactly know Which one goes first through the dark doorway, bidding Goodnight, and which sits on a while alone.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These people are weird and creepy and Democrats need to say it more

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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The current malevolent Confederate occupation government is destroying the capital of the Union. bsky.app/profile/airb...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That impeachment is simultaneously the proper constitutional remedy for official misconduct & effectively impossible *should,* in Trump's case, prompt immediate talk of a simple majority vote finding disqualification via the 14th Amendment. "Impeachment" discourse ought to be "removal" discourse.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If impeachment couldn't work against a defeated, out-of-power insurrectionary who put Congresspeople's lives in danger, there's no reason to think it would ever work. The Constitution thus lacks any functional way to get rid of a bad chief executive & so isn't even a minimally adequate plan of govt.

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Vague blanket reminder that "look for the helpers" is advice for children. When you are an adult in a cruel and uncertain world, it's time to step up and *be* a helper. Look where there is a need, and fill it. As well and as often as you can. That is your privilege and your duty.

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Tim Rasinski @timrasinski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

WORD LADDER WEDNESDAY/ FLUENCY FRIDAY! Even though the school year has started for many of you, summer is still going strong. What better way to say summer than “Corn on the Cob.” I am combining Word Ladder Wednesday and Fluency Friday in this post.

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Tim Rasinski @timrasinski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

MORPHOLOGY MONDAY! Starting the school year off with the word roots "struct, ped, pod." Morphology and word roots are inSTRUCTion a great way (SOR) to BUILD vocabulary and comprehension. Enjoy!

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

This is the same motivated reasoning as "alternative facts". It's a belief that universities and research are slanted left because that's their starting ideology, not that that's just where the evidence has lead. They believe that all you need to do is look for a different truth and you'll find it.

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cyborg2024.bsky.social @cyborg2024.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

She actually states that there’s a distinction between “conservative-based research“ and “evidence-based science“!?! Next step is “faith-based“ research. 🤨

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 22/08/2026

So if you're the judge who issues an order like this to a *baby*, or the government-funded USCRI attorney who doesn't speak up, what do you do next? Go home, have dinner with your spouse, go to bed, and get up for another perfectly normal workday? What kind of life is this?

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.

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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Cities will claim they can’t allow this because of legal liability- though I don’t recall any actual examples ever being cited. But more broadly I think we need to figure out how to allow more direct community action like this.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The lawsuits from this should bankrupt SpaceX. There should also be criminal liability for Musk. Give these families all of his money.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

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SaiyanMyNameE @saiyanmyname.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

They out here making Spiderman 17 but couldn't be bothered to make one of the easiest stories "Badass motha fucker killing vampires"

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