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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah yes, I remember when Trotsky wrote about how Russian workers should be replaced by low wage immigrants from China so that strong Russian boys would have more time to play girls ice hockey. It's right there in the manuscript.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two men who should be in prison for the rest of their lives for unprecedented corruption & crimes against the Constitution & ~all of the laws.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Delighted to have this #cartoon published in @theguardian.com #datacentres #environment

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” The Trump administration's ultimate goal? “To make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.”

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 07/10/2026

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Susan Collins supports a dictator and brags about getting him to fling a few crumbs toward the peons.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And Putin is pleased. Probably a coincidence!

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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Free Speech For People @fsfp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Donald Trump’s reckless rhetoric is putting American lives in danger. Members of Congress must honor their oaths of office by impeaching, convicting, and removing him from office now. Sign today: ImpeachTrumpAgain.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

STEWART: "That's the answer - if we let them do enough unfettered capitalism, we can apparently capitalism our way to socialism😬... but if the ultimate goal is to give money to the people, why wait? Why not just give us the $50 TRILLION now? -- STOP LYING TO US."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump said Iran could wipe out major American cities yesterday. Invited them to do it. Not even a headline.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026

El-Sayed on Fox: "There is this argument you try to make often is that the best way to take this problem on is more war. How has that worked out for us? The war in Iraq which this channel spent years and years pressing -- has that made us safer? Are we more safe because of the war in Iran?"

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never forget Jamal Khashoggi. Never forget Jamal Khashoggi.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Endless corruption.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

Here's a little chart that our graphics team did to help you keep track of the various players.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Exactly one month out from an election that will decide who controls the U.S. Senate -- the chamber every judicial nominee needs to clear -- Justice Alito confirms in a television interview that he is considering retirement from the high court. 1/

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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement

The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All these tech guys going 'look, you don't need musicians anymore! We can just generate whatever music you want!' and it's the fucking POPE who has to explain to them that art occupies a space not replaceable by the products of machines.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump's lawlessness is more pressing, but let's not forget: the GWBush admin was also overflowing with incompetent, corrupt Republicans who were pathologically hostile to the rule of law. None of this was necessary or helpful, but it made them feel manly and it was good money for gov't contractors.

“A detainee who is shackled, transported to a former C.I.A. black site, and intentionally kept ignorant of both his right to remain silent and the inadmissibility of his prior coerced confessions, cannot be said to be making an ‘essentially free and unconstrained choice,’” he wrote.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is really something and worth your time. For those who don't know, the guy who isn't Jeremy O. Harris is Mark Guiducci, editorial director of Vanity Fair. And having worked on the print side of magazine for decades, I can confirm that "What thay want is the picture" is the cold, brutal truth.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Free book excerpt! From THEY KNEW, on paywalls, the loss of the public sphere, and the abandonment of accountability. Written in 2021, it explains much of the present political information crisis: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

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A Public Flat Earth

How paywalls killed the public sphere.

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Fish Chowder @fishchowder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Blinken went from working for Biden as Sec of State… negotiating on behalf of the U.S. with Israel… to working as a consultant for companies that create the the AI death machine assisting genocide for Israel in Gaza. Before 2025 pretending to try to stop genocide. After 2025 serving genocide.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Friday.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today in life under…competitive authoritarianism You don’t have to believe me. You can simply read the experts who, quite literally, invented the concept:

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Abdication of Hegemony. 2026. Oil on canvas.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/10/2026

This is a very funny sign to put on the plane. For when influencers travel with the big guy.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Resolutely pro rapist.

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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Uh, okay.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate

A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: NY Governor, Kathy Hochul, has named NY Attorney General, Letitia James, as the Special Prosecutor to investigate the Cornell rape case. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...

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Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case

Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.

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