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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I admit I still have an active X account (locked, wiped, and only really used for verifying certain tweets), and it is alarming to see people with reputations to maintain — elected officials, commentators, etc. — casually retweeting AI-generated content without realizing it’s AI.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Official Congressional E-newsletters mentioning "Trump" over time, by party in the 119th Congress:

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It will take the rest of my lifetime to rebuild the diplomatic relationships this guy has demolished over the past year and a half. If not longer.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i cannot say i really understand the derisive commentary about the Kennedy center protests. much of the negative reaction is “why aren’t libs protesting ICE or detention centers?” when there’s been constant, ongoing protests from liberals on these issues in DC and elsewhere for two years

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More importantly, what do you even say about the people who would believe this

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Top notch messaging before the midterms: tell almost the entire voting public they're wrong. Just flawless.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Charlie Kirk martyrdom thinkpieces are somehow worse today than they were a year ago

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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MC Nietzsche @mcnietzsche.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Stealing this from a discord with no shame

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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So cool to have a president who faces zero consequences for lying about his role in one of the most tragic days in our country’s history 🙃

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The state of play in the USPS mail ballots case:

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lo and behold, vaccines work!

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That dialect quiz accurately clocked me as a New Jerseyan who used to spend summers in Maine 😳

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I sense the problem with these three is not so much cognitive decline as it is overblown media exposure.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, the honorific “Ms.” was virtually unheard of. Unmarried women were referred to as “Miss [father’s last name]” and married women as “Mrs. [husband’s last name].” “Ms.” was an assertion of individual identity. Women who used it were widely mocked.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s a popular revolt against the tech oligarchs, not about data centers per se. Yes, streaming sites also use data centers. Yes, data centers don’t actually use up a lot of drinking water. Accuracy is good for its own sake. But still, right or wrong about data centers themselves isn’t the point.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The article, incidentally, is about him having tweeted about how we were losing multiple 9/11s worth of people a week to COVID, which it walks up to by introducing the idea of "deleted tweets" in a way that's clearly meant to tease him doing apologia for 9/11

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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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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lol Google this is such loser behaviour

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

By complete coincidence, my husband and I happen to have tickets to Rocky Horror on Broadway…tomorrow

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are certainly debates between two positions that are worth having. But the very act of debating implies that there are two sides that have intellectual merit, that are worth seriously engaging. This is why you can’t win a debate with race science people. They win by engaging with them at all.

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Agreed. Students certainly have agency, and academic integrity violations are nothing new. But we (the older generations) put this technology in their hands without meaningful guidance or guardrails in place.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/08/2026

oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing

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Who is Natalie Harp? Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Trump aide in spotlight

The former TV news anchor began working for Trump in 2022 and has become a close aide during his second term.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You should not look at this story & think "Shhh! We mustn't speak badly of our side during a make-or-break-democracy midterm election season!" Like so many other low political tactics, the GOP got to small-dollar scams first & it hollowed out their donor base. Now they're *reliant* on billionaires!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People persuade themselves that they’re innoculated against cognitive bias by being aware of the potential for it. And that can help a bit. But more often it’s like an optical illusion: You don’t stop experiencing it just because you understand how it works.

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"The candidates who opt-out risk falling behind those who opt-in. The result is that the donors being squeezed are elderly, while younger Democrats are being driven away. And the digital consultants profit whether the party wins or loses." 🎯 Excellent stuff, @adambonica.bsky.social.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/08/2026

Endorsing political candidates is now one of the duties of U.S. attorney general, apparently.

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The reason you still get political fundraising emails is because they’re considered free speech and therefore exempt from the law governing commercial marketing emails and opt-out requests (CAN-SPAM). Also, historically, they are effective at raising money. But that doesn’t mean people enjoy them.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

TBH something about the casual usage of the terms “Woke 1” and “Woke 2” mildly pisses me off when you consider its origins in Black vernacular VS what it became perverted into by *checks notes* White people with deep rooted issues.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I never want to hear the name “Graham Platner” come out of a Republican’s mouth ever again.

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

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