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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 2h

All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.

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Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚨New @ajpseditor.bsky.social! How does school history education emphasizing past conflict affect students’ attitudes toward cooperation with the country today? Do students exposed to different historical narratives develop different attitudes? We examine Qs👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5h

And lied about it

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Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social · 6h

This

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Reyes to DOJ: "If you don't see the relevance of [the questions]," there's a bigger problem. "The questions go to whether or not I've been lied to. ... I am beyond disappointed in the gov't right now." Reyes extends the current TRO until 2p Tues. The plan is for Wischer testimony at 9:30a Tues.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Reyes: "Now we're going to have a massive fire drill because the government can't be trusted." Reyes wants Wischer testimony tomorrow; current admin order blocking any more tree-cutting will be extended at least until after the Wischer testimony.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Reyes: Know what I find most frustrating about this? [Silence.] Gov't: No, your honor. Noting that the court was told repeatedly that nothing was happening and that there was no urgency, Reyes calls the Trump admin's behavior "completely beyond the pale" and their claims "preposterous."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

“Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the US worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press.”

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Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa

Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that she worked in the seven weeks before her attorney says she had legal permission to work in the country, according to...

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

i also have a lot of questions about exactly what the judge believed they were signing here — knowingly authorizing a search warrant for a sitting member of congress, to look for decades-old paperwork a few weeks before an election is a very, very long limb to step out on

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ossoff is very deliberate with his words. So if he repeatedly calls his opponent a Nazi-adjacent bigot, it’s likely because that *is* what we do here in this country today to win elections in Georgia and fight the rising tide of white nationalism.

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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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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I would laugh but it‘s actually not that funny

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just so you understand the depth of the cynicism: Trump’s failed war with Iran not only raised America's gas prices, but also global oil prices, which allowed Russia to make a gigantic amount of money and fund the killing of Ukrainians. And then they blame Ukraine for a disaster of

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

when you’re too dumb to know you’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Seems bad!

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026

🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It remains fascinating to watch people in ‘STEM’ engage in the exact forms of special pleading that have characterized the decline of ‘the humanities.’

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.

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I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

when I read through history I often wonder how could human beings be so cruel, unkind - and utterly devoid of basic humanity. And then I get real time reminders like this. ↘️

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Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I guess I should send you the book I'm writing ... I don't really think that's right.

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Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Empirically, though, natural resources are at minimum weakly associated with territorial claims. Soyoung Lee even finds that the natural resources that provide concentrated benefits are negatively associated with claims. Also, oil is not positively associated with claims.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The fortress of their bigotry is immune to new facts and evidence, because their racism composes the first principles through which they interpret all other facts - racism is for the helmet crowd *more true* than the historical evidence, in that sense.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When Trump took over, Rufo personally led the campaign to get a hundred trans intelligence fired. Was this about merit? No. Rufo has been very clear. We protect our people, we denigrate and punish the others. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, ”I‘ve been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I’m not qualified to talk about.” ”No one person should be the oracle or be the articulator…be skeptical of people who attempt to appoint themselves as that. I don‘t want that job at all.”

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Michele Harrison @shellydogg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wait til the Medicaid cuts kick in January 1. They purposely waited until after midterms. They KNOW how hard that will hit. Every ad Dems show on tv should be about Medicaid cuts.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They don’t vote for these things in the booth though. If they did we’d all be in a different situation bsky.app/profile/matt...

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congratulations to @jackpaine.bsky.social, Xiaoyan Qiu, and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social, winners of the Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics for "Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa," published in the APSR. buff.ly/Q6TaVri

APSR abstract for "Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa," by Jack Paine, Xiaoyan Qiu, and Joan Ricart-Huguet, The authors revise the view that Africa's borders were drawn arbitrarily, showing precolonial states and geography shaped 62% of bilateral borders, often via water bodies rather than straight lines. Full abstract is available in linked article.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Tompkins County DA says his office was never given the full transcript where the former Cornell student said, “I can say with 100% confidence I was raped.” Cornell says it turned over its investigation. So what exactly was sent, and why was that statement apparently missing?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's the lure of "Grand Theory." Everybody wants to have or claims to have (Mearsheimer) the theory that explains the world. Aside from the fact that such theories typically are asinine and plainly wrong, for a long time, that was how one made a reputation or joined a camp. A pathetic waste of time.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1/ You should check out my sobering and compelling conversation with @radleybalko.bsky.social about ICE and why it must be abolished before its abusive tactics spread to the rest of American law enforcement at @theunpopulist.net . 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

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Abolish ICE Before Its Abusive Tactics Spread to Other Law Enforcement: A Conversation With Radley Balko

The agency has gone rogue and cannot be reformed

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone else noted (sorry, can’t find it now) it really feels like there was a coordinated campaign to boost Schmitt today, with the Axios piece floating him as Vance’s VP setting up his big gotcha attempt at the hearing. They just ignored the fuckup and moved to stage three congratulating him.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People really want the story of Trump's second term to include a lack of grass-roots protests (outside of the handful of No Kings events) and it's just not true. Listen to @chenoweth.bsky.social, folks.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 29/09/2026

<Tommy Tuberville barging through the door> Stay in your lane, Schmitt! There can be only one dumbest Senator, and as they say in my great home state of Florida, whoooo!

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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