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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 7h

those arguing for incrementalism are teling us they are fundamentally ok with years (decades?) of a Roberts majority undermining reform efforts and thwarting a good chunk of a Dem policy agenda

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 11h

absolutely spot-on observation. we have been failed by both the Court as institution and by the ecosystem that has grown around it, that feeds off of it, and that shapes what everyday Americans hear about it.

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, the race to the bottom has been underway for quite some time.

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 13h

yes! a key Court reform goal must be to reduce the influence and political power of any single Justice and make it much harder for the Fed Soc future judge radicalizing engine to deliver on right wing political outcomes

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 15h

yes! moreover, there is an entire machine in place to radicalize future judges and justices via the Fed Soc pipeline, funded by right wing political interests you need to smash that machine and/or change the incentives so the machine no longer can reliably deliver desired right wing outcomes

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Gori 🧹 @curdgirl.bsky.social · 23h

This picture 🤌🤌

William Contreras celebrating G Mitch home run. He looks like he's levitating

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 15h

the narrative machine must be fed

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 16h

exactly right-- expansion is the skeleton key that unlocks the ability to make other structural changes and policy reforms

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 16h

exactly. the conversation baseline should be the status quo-- right wing judicial supremacy-- is unacceptable. court expansion opponents need to explain why right wing judicial supremacy is preferable to any imagined hypothetical downsides of reforms.

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 16h

yes! the status quo is decades of right wing judicial supremacy Court exp opponents need to articulate why the tangible suffering/consequences of right wing judicial supremacy outweigh a world where the Court and individual Justices no longer enjoy outsized status and political power

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 18h

Or perhaps the opponents of Court expansion should be forced to justify sentencing all of us to live under right wing judicial supremacy for the next several decades.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“The bad guys were exposed, we won the election—that’s incentive enough for them to change their ways.” No it’s not. www.offmessage.net/p/exposure-i...

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Exposure Is Not Accountability

When bad actors are shameless, exposure accomplishes little. They need to face tangible consequences.

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

the alien Pluribus gaze, as though he's Carol

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

a team of Ivanka lookalikes 😂

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Make Article I Branch Great Again

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She done lost her damn mind.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/10/2026

I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fucking lol to no end Don't feed the AI trolls

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV: Someone who says 'I'm against abortion' but says 'I'm in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life. Someone who says that 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life.

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Milwaukee Brewers @brewersbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

THIS IS A MASTERPIECE

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the degree to which Dems can beat a right wing authoritarian GOP is directly proportional to their willingness to engage in process radicalism tough sell for a party with an elected class full of lawyers and institutionalists who have come to value process over outcomes

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yes, and the vast majority of automation discourse drips with “gee whiz”-ness

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

absolutely perfect use case for this pic

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the next Dem President should think about this decision not in terms of whether these structures remain, but in terms of whether they want the tear-downs to be orderly or chaotic

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How are there any defenders of the Roberts Court left? I can think of only two reasons: 1) Hates democracy, disdains rule of law, hopes for permanent overthrow of the Constitution, glad to see more backsliding 2) Deep denial, a psychological and/or professional need to pretend 1 isn’t happening

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Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“elite lawyer” as identity is a powerful force and for that cohort the Court is first and foremost the apex of professional excellence vs an institution that wields political power

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