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Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

"The US will endorse war criminals and attempt to ruin the lives of people working to bring them to justice" was something every elite understood to be the actual stakes of the 2024 election but the news outlets the elites controlled told voters Tim Walz's trip to China in 1989 was a bigger deal

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

let's STOP with the VIRTUE SIGNALING abandoning any last shred of ethics and openly streaming a snuff film is a perfectly reasonable price to pay for massive tax breaks and the complete dismantling of all meaningful U.S. consumer protection standards

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate. On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/10/2026

Brendan Carr is illegally destroying U.S. media consolidation limits so that Trump-friendly local broadcast TV companies (Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna) can all merge and pummel local TV news consumers with propaganda. This is even pissing off major cable companies, who say it's unfair to them:

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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap

Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.

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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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/10/2026

Shaming Talarico for ordering a potato and egg breakfast taco in Texas is a stunningly effective way to prove you don’t know shit about Texas

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Gregory @gregoryhmm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It has been apparent that the conservative bloc picks their politically preferred outcome and then has their clerks reverse-engineer a rationale - no matter how flimsy - for decades. The lack of effort and academic rigor they put behind these rationales are well-reflected in this interview.

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Gregory @gregoryhmm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everything he says and writes is logically and constitutionally incoherent. The distillation of "fuck you, we have the votes".

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hereby order that we be renamed, "Super Media Outlets"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“We hate this guy and would never vote for him…but what if he had our accent… 🤔🤔🤔🤔”

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cornell 7 got me thinking about disciplinary inequity at my own elitist northeast alma mater

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People will roll their eyes at this over the combination of The Atlantic and the "well well if it isn't the consequences of my vote" genre but it's good that he feels this kind of shame, that's how a human should feel and Trump's power is built on people with no remaining capacity for it

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dude wrote an entire essay about how he’s not a reactionary centrist which involved wildly bad faith interpretations of progressive stances on free speech immediately followed by steelmanning Rufo.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A core belief uniting Trumpists with Silicon Valley tech bros is that society should be organized around male entitlement to sex: a cross between Mad Men and the old Playboy Mansion.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists are consistently some of the bravest and least morally compromised in the profession and it’s a real problem that the pipeline to professional journalism self-selects for the opposite of those traits maybe more than ever before

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They agree with Trump and conservatives and are trying to help their scheme to destroy education in America.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you see these guys in public, this is a good way to approach them to lay some chin music on them. They can be surprisingly responsive if you seem initially friendly as opposed to yelling obscenities from several feet away, which is also valid.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I refuse to read this dreck but I can't overlook someone supporting the Trump administration's policies to "reassert the law"!?!?

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Course it fucking was, he makes Kissinger look like Wee Bey

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So telling that a giant corruption scandal got dumped on Susan Collins yesterday, and the Tkachiks and Grims and Stollers of the world are instead attacking the Democratic candidate for not being the guy they wanted.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't print lies in the newspaper

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

its odd that the political media hounds dems to constantly comment on every random statement hasan piker makes but don't do the same for Republicans of the top GOP megadonor two cycles in a row

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

media consolidation is always extremely harmful to labor, consumers, creatives, and markets. It's not a debate. when the thousands of layoffs drop next year, all the dems who clamored for a weak settlement will be nowhere to be found

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Feckless Dems Fold, Back Off Effort To Kill Paramount Merger

Every single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why is it always the ones you expect?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

now that Trump's health and political power are in free fall, major media companies begin to display the faint outline of a backbone

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

I appreciate that Golden, who is retiring, has spent all of his time being a petty asshole and burning his bridges with the party establishment so he can't come crawling back later on fuck this guy, good riddance

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is an instructive situation - if you hadn’t clocked taylor lorenz as a grifter and a hack long ago, you need to hone your moron radar

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I predict that this will not affect the overall tenor of how Trump is covered because the reason he receives friendly coverage has never been about "access" but about the fact the people who control these outlets like Trump and think hes a good President bsky.app/profile/jona...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The convicted felon who told you he has a healthcare plan and will give you $5000 and didn’t rape E Jean Carroll and won the 2020 election and COVID is a hoax and was at the towers on 9/11 wants you to know his son paid the emolument back. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump says son has paid back Russian for wedding party

The president defended Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to take a large gift from Umar Kremlev, saying that such presents are “common.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m sorry to all the Lukes but the fact is that there is a massively funded scare campaign against guys named Luke and a lot of morally and intellectually lazy people have fallen for the daily torrent of resulting propaganda, and what are we to do? offer a vigorous principled counternarrative? Well,

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump and Republicans are less popular by the day. Institutions and individuals folding to the Trump administration now are fundamentally misreading reality, not to mention failing in their moral obligations to society.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

El-Sayed could suplex Piker on stage and say “I condemn this man in the strongest terms possible” and they’d still run with stories like this.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And they still have their thumbs on the scales. Questions like "should prayer be allowed in public schools?" and "should the government promote traditional gender roles?" do not accurately reflect the actual policies in dispute, they're both sanewashing to make GOP policies look less malicious.

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