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Gray Norton @graynorton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I mean, this is really good…but I’d hardly call Robert Reich an “establishment liberal,” unless I were stuck in the Clinton era.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 01/05/2026

The solution to gerrymandering has been known for nearly two hundred years at this point. When we take back power we should do a new VRA that requires proportional representation (after we deal with the Court, of course, to ensure the law sticks) youtu.be/T7_LmqR0a04?...

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Just do proportional representation!

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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

When there is a fascist/authoritarian takeover, institutional political opposition is *not* enough to stop it. You need an opposition composed of business, media, & university leaders/elites + an organized pop all on the frontlines Our business, media & universities simply bent the knee.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful. From @gelliottmorris.com open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

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Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/10/2025

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10/10/2025

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/09/2025

THURSDAY: Join the No Kings mass kickoff call! Jump online with thousands of activists across the country to learn everything you need to know about October 18 and hear from some of the smartest activists working to oppose the Trump regime’s authoritarian takeover: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Washington Post’s commitment to personal liberties does not extend to employing people who criticize gun violence or accurately quote, without comment, Charlie Kirk’s words

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2025

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

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Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/09/2025

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

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Two fired from Cumberland University over ‘inappropriate’ comments about Charlie Kirk assassination

Cumberland University confirmed on Friday morning that Dr. Michael Rex and Max Wood are no longer employed by the university.

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In the crush of days' news, this -- and red-flashing-light alarm over it -- has been lost. Listen up: The Ellisons, the miniMurdochs, want to turn CNN into FoxNews Jr. alongside their terminally tained (C)BS (the B stands for Bari). Let's hear some shocked shouting, people!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Journalists need to retire “unprecedented.” What Trump’s doing isn’t—it’s a fascist consolidation of power, by the books. & everyone else needs to give up “wannabe,” as in dictator. Face facts: he is. Let’s contend with that.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

NEW PIECE IS UP. I don’t enjoy facing the truth about this court, but it must be done. Yesterday’s decision in McMahon has me convinced. Hope you’ll sign up for the September webinars. We need the people - not just lawyers - to understand what’s at stake. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Facing this Court

A Sober Look at What to Expect in Trump v. Casa And What We Do About It

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Why do Trump and some of his most fervent tech billionaire backers want to take land and create privately-controlled zones? Gil Duran says we’re watching the rise of a new anti-democratic extremism—networked, crypto-financed, and cloaked in the language of freedom.

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Trump’s Gaza Fantasy and the Network State: The Tech-Fueled Future of Privatized Sovereignty | TechPolicy.Press

We’re watching the rise of a new anti-democratic extremism—networked, crypto-financed, and cloaked in the language of freedom, writes Gil Duran.

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Stage Banter Guy @tweeterreprise.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I wish the Democratic Party was alive to see this.

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Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The president could really stick it to Elon Musk by reinstating all of the research grants he canceled, bringing back USAID, and taking away DOGE’s access to all of our private information.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A plurality of the country is regularly exposed to this drip feed & it is destroying the Republic

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"A one sentence explanation of the Federalist Society vs. Trump might be this. An ideology welded to a spoils machine is in a fight to the death against a spoils machine welded to a spoils machine." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-federa...

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The Federalist Society claims it's just a debating club

Now it risks becoming one.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I would hope that, by this point, university leaders who are still "negotiating" with the administration have their eyes wide open about the fact that these negotiations are all in bad faith.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Stop the @bsky.app bashing. We’re all under a tremendous strain. We’re not perfect. I block when I need to, but ignore most foolishness. Don’t become goaded into leaving a platform that’s doing almost all the right things. To organize for 2026, we need to stay in communication w/each other.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🧵 When authoritarian leaders attack judges as "enemies," history shows us exactly where this leads. Trump's assault on "USA HATING JUDGES" isn't just inflammatory rhetoric—it's following a script written by strongmen worldwide. But other countries show us how to fight back.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Vital point here. The frames of political discourse — which are shaped by the structure of the info environment and by both strategic & organic communication — shape how people interpret their own experiences. We're not dealing with a problem of bad "facts" ... but one of corrupted sensemaking.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Richard Nixon's presidency-ending crimes were harmless high school pranks by comparison. We are so far past the "this should have immediately led to impeachment & removal" that we can't even see the exit/signs anymore. Barack Obama would have been ousted in days if he tried this authoritarian BS.

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Gray Norton @graynorton.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Want to work on frontend / full stack at Adobe? Though not mentioned in the listing, this org's entire stack uses Lit—so WC & Lit expertise are highly valued. I work closely with the hiring manager and his teams and am happy to field any questions you might have! careers.adobe.com/us/en/job/R1...

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Senior Software Development Engineer in Seattle, Washington, United States of America | Design at Adobe

Apply for Senior Software Development Engineer job with Adobe in Seattle, Washington, United States of America. Design at Adobe

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If the president can simply rendition legal residents on a whim, & he can simply cut funding for anything he wants, & he can violate all of our treaty commitments, & he can monetize the presidency w/o consequence, then what exactly makes us believe that accepting election results is any different?

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Gray Norton @graynorton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Just to circle back, the image was not a fake: bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Gray Norton @graynorton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I have actually just spent about 15 minutes trying to find any evidence that it’s real, and I can’t find any. I think this image is most likely a fake.

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Trickle-down in one graph: golden shower. All rot leads to Reagan.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

1/🧵 What if Democrats' best strategy to fight GOP corruption isn't matching Republican billionaire money but refusing it entirely? My empirical analysis shows why rejecting mega-donors and corporate PACs is both principled AND pragmatic. Let me explain…

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Gray Norton @graynorton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I think the word is “responsibittity,” so actually not a misspelling.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

“The guardrails are gone, his pretend “leadership” team applauds the madness, and America—the one that could inspire a lyric like 'God sheds his grace on thee'— becomes harder and harder to find. “Our duty to keep the light on grows.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Snapshot: The Grotesquerie of Corruption

Reflecting on Trump’s sickening plan to take a $400 million "gift” from Qatar

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The media’s inability to state facts when it comes to Republicans (and Trump) is partially how we got here. The plane is a corrupt violation of the U.S. constitution (not to mention a security risk). This is a fact. Full stop. It’s not up for debate with weasel words like “raises concerns”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"At what point have we as a nation crossed into having a secret police?"

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Not a single Republican Senator was willing to commit to holding Trump to the constitution. These people are corrupt, pathetic slugs who believe in absolutely nothing.

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Republicans Silent as Trump Refuses to Commit to Upholding Constitution

Republicans have been silent after Donald Trump responded to a question about whether he needs to uphold the Constitution by saying, "I don't know."

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I will never understand why Democrats haven’t made Curtis Yarvin a household name. He’s odious and genuinely represents a huge part of what Trump and his regime are trying to do.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If so many professors are forcing personal, course-unrelated politics into classes, shouldn’t there be hundreds of unambiguous cases? Allow me to suggest the GOP attack on academia is the politicized thing. That it’s bad faith, based on evidence like “Charlie Kirk said” or “Ilya Shapiro complained…”

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

in less than a week, two conservative opposition leaders in australia and canada who tried to win their elections on anti-woke platforms (with an air of You Know Who) have not only lost their elections, but lost their *seats* as well. yikes. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Australia state broadcaster ABC projects opposition leader Dutton to lose seat

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said on Saturday it was projecting opposition leader Peter Dutton is set to lose his seat in a nationwide federal election.

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 02/05/2025

New Blog Post: Houdini Re-ReVisted In which I discuss a recent presentation by @bram.us at BlinkOn... bkardell.com/blog/Houdini...

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Houdini Re-Revisted

Recent presentations at BlinkOn strike some familliar notes. Seems a common theme, ideas come back.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/04/2025

We see you Kennesaw State University Faculty Senate! 1st in the South to pass a resolution establishing a mutual defense compact w/ other institutions. "Whereas, Faculty members must organize to effectively counter political attacks on higher education & defend #academicfreedom..." #defendhighered

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/04/2025

New YouGov/Economist poll out this morning finds Trump is no longer popular on immigration. This was the last issue he had a positive net approval on. This was very easy to see coming, esp bc individual components of immigration policy are so toxic: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/should-dem...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump

Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."

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