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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h
Yes, see for example how they have retconned 2008 as a story about how Katie Couric "exposed" the unqualified Sarah Palin instead of what actually happened which was the media covered up for Palin through the election and beyond (including Couric's softball interview) bsky.app/profile/ther...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h
How is any of this slandering of a totally innocent public servant different from what Joseph McCarthy did? You know, the thing that the DC journos still beat themselves off to as an example of the news media standing up and stopping something evil? bsky.app/profile/awk7...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h
They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
The thing is, once you are ok with "the election was stolen" or "immigrants are eating pets" you are on board with everything else bsky.app/profile/just...
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16h
Third Way's narrative seems to be that Republicans have gotten more extreme while trans advocates have moderated. I don't agree that trans people were too extreme or that we've moderated besides being sidelined in the debate over our own lives, but if that's how they want to save face, okay.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16h
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11h
What we tax and how we tax it matters. If we think developers are making too much money, we should tax their incomes, not the badly needed new housing they build.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11h
People mistakenly believe that unfunded inclusionary zoning is a way to tax developers and rich people to fund subsidized housing for the poor. It is not. In reality, it’s a tax on working and middle class renters. Actual rich people, who overwhelmingly own single family homes, pay nothing at all.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h
agree entirely with your point here. But even on its own terms the quote is wildly incomplete. Free child care also appeals to poor and working class people with no college education who have to be in the workforce whether they’d prefer to stay home or not.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14h
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h
Sen. Roger Marshall says he didn't have the pregnant patient arrested over a $50 late bill. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS AND DEFAMATORY!!! He had her arrested for not showing up to court when he sued her for being late for $50.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h
the left has gotten sports, in its entirety, in the national divorce this is why bluesky is the official app of sports
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Conspicuously not cited:
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Making the electricity grid work like the internet
Jonas Birgersson joins me to explain how "packet-switching" for electrons can lead to energy abundance and grid resilience.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
I'd bet a million dollars that the NYT got the idea for this story from my pod.
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The World Needs Better Power Grids. Why Smaller May Be Better.
Jonas Birgersson, a Swedish entrepreneur, wants to use decentralized networks modeled on the internet to transform how electricity is distributed.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Futurama: Zapp Brannigan's Checkmate
ALT: Futurama: Zapp Brannigan's Checkmate
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 28/09/2026
I am reminded of the NATO photo op in his first term where he pushed himself to the front.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump take egg
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who was president in 2020? Was the president's response to the emergency generally regarded as calming and effective? Was there general tranquility on the streets?
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The news outlets purged as a result—the Washington Post, CBS, CNN, and surely more to come—are, from the perspectives of the oligarchy, a fringe benefit. They don’t have to worry about the pesky writers attacking them so much any more, either." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
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The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
ICE’s charter airlines are basically impossible to boycott, because only one also offers ticketed commercial flights. But there are other ways to affect their bottom lines. We have a working theory of the case, y’all. Hit them in the pocketbook, and suddenly the “impossible” is possible.
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you @garbageday.email for *actually* explaining why nobody you know has heard “Choosin’ Texas,” yet it is paradoxically topping the charts www.garbageday.email/p/why-choosi...
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Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit
Read to the end for FlubberLover01
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This felt like the first sane thing written about the song
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
"'The foundation of clean energy remains firmly bipartisan, despite the appearance of division in recent reconciliation efforts,' Frank Macchiarola, chief advocacy officer at the ACP, told me in a statement."
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Willem Dafoe Laughing Crazy
ALT: Willem Dafoe Laughing Crazy
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Nobody on our side understands Republicans. Even after all this. I just fucking despair.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
It's just Republicans fucking clean energy over & over again while people in the industry keep insisting "actually Republicans really like us!" It's such beta behavior it makes *me* want to bully them, and I'm on their side!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
If you want to understand just how pathetic the clean energy is on politics, read this excellent piece in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. There are like a half-dozen quotes in here that make me want to jump off a fucking roof.
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Why Won’t the Clean Energy Industry Play Dirty?
After Republican attacks, why does the industry still spend so little on elections?
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
the idea that you might have to do bare knuckle Tom DeLay type shit to get the Business Party to support a rapidly growing industry—or that you just have to beat them—does not fit into these guys’ brains
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the most Bluesky targeted ad I've ever seen lmao
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a good example. It assumes that the person can afford the price of whatever shop is available, for one thing. It also misunderstands that finding someone to work on your car is, for a lot of people, a social relation as much an economic one.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Plot to Enslave America
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I don’t trust the media, it’s biased” and “uncle Bill sounds pretty convincing” sit really comfortably next to each other with way too many people, especially when the vectors to deliver bullshit to *you* through uncle Bill are essentially unlimited.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trusting everyone to sort out what in their information environment is valid and true is a fucking disaster. We *all* get taken by bullshit sometimes no matter how good we think we are at filtering. We *all* have a tendency to trust charismatic people we like over people with actual authority.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I get why gatekeeping in its negative sense is bad but also it feels an awful lot like gatekeeping in the positive sense was a load bearing pillar of society.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026
"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026
It's too grim to face the situation we are in, every time these cases come out in the news, which is there there is no law, policy, or policing remedy to sexual violence, and definitely not one that is capable of ending sexual violence.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Civic tech brought tools of human-centered design, rapid iteration, and ongoing improvement to managing government even as they were unable to broadly implement these practices across government. DOGE abandoned those, putting its faith in engineering and AI, which creates huge blindspots. One said:
Since about 2015, UX [user experience] has been systematically disempowered in the tech industry, with the innately brilliant engineer dominating as the staff type who always matters more than every other. You see this in Musk’s actions at Twitter, mirrored in DOGE’s focus on recruiting young engineering talent with little effort to understand the technical or cultural systems they’re changing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DOGE officials had little background in government, joined for short assignments, and so might have learned much from fellow technologists who had been exposed to government’s problems up close. But this potential for collaboration was never realized. Once civic tech person noted:
Every person who comes to government with no experience inside has a dawning as they start to figure out how things work (or don’t, depending on your perspective). That naiveté can be useful. It lets you ask questions that someone with more knowledge might not. But naiveté, in combination with a complete lack of moral compass, disrespect for incumbent public servants and the expertise they hold, along with being empowered to maliciously and indiscriminately cut the funds and resources needed to deliver public services will only lead to harm.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Motivation matters: Hard to make govt work if you don't believe in govt. Members of the civic tech movement saw themselves as pursuing prosocial goals of making govt work better, while DOGE was engaged in reactionary politics to make govt smaller and serve the owner class of Silicon Valley.
Civic tech has always focused on making government work for people: understanding community needs, delivering outcomes over outputs, prioritizing effectiveness over efficiency. DOGE and the U.S. Digital Service start from the same premise — government is failing to deliver — but diverge completely in their response. DOGE’s focus is efficiency, cost-cutting, and software modernization…It may seem pedantic, but it’s foundational. Focusing on technology centers the systems and institutions. Focusing on service centers the outcome and the people.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two years after I interviewed civic tech leaders, they were mostly out of power and DOGE was in. I reinterviewed some, asking them to think about the difference between civic tech and DOGE. Key differences: Civic tech was/is bottom-up, pro-democracy and public service, people-oriented & incremental.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A few years ago I started documenting the civic tech movement, because it seemed like an important and understudied aspect of how the administrative state was evolving. The results are in this paper in Public Administration (open access). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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