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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This headline & framing are nuts. Are we a democratic society or not? Is there no fight, only cope? And is that cope solely the responsibility of individual families? Reality check! Live-streamed execution does not have to be a forgone conclusion.

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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1) Die AfD plant in Sachsen-Anhalt gemeinsam mit dem BSW, nur noch ihre eigenen Landtags(vize)präsidenten zuzulassen. Damit können alle anderen Fraktionen gegängelt werden. 2) Sie wollen die Ausschüsse so besetzen, dass die AfD überall Blockademehrheit hat. Nur noch AfD-Themen auf der Tagesordnung.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's crazy to me that this is not leading the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, etc. If you're that numb, maybe think about a field other than journalism.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

JD Vance is telegraphing that he is going to run as an antiwar candidate in 2028, based around a Dolchstoßlegende that absurdly blames Israel for being the sole cause of the Iran War. And that is going to awaken levels of antisemitism in the US that we have not seen in decades.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New, at Can We Still Govern: What happens to the ability of government to recruit when that government engages in democratic backsliding, or tilts ideologically to the right? Sharon Gilad find that potential recruits stop applying for govt jobs. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-polari...

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How Polarization and Democratic Backsliding Affect Public Sector Recruitment

Some lessons from Israel

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/07/2026

This is fantastic example of how Beltway reporters become twisted by the clubbiness of power in DC. She thinks this is a charming anecdote.

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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

dieser artikel steht stellvertretend für diesen bescheuerten hauptstadt-journalismus: wen interessiert es, wie geschlossen und einig sich alle sind? die frage ist, wer wegen der maßnahmen bluten muss und wer nicht. das ist keine analyse, das ist ein wetterbericht www.tagesschau.de/inland/analy...

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Koalition stellt Reformpläne vor: Ein staatstragender Auftritt

Geschlossen, fast gelöst präsentiert sich die Koalition bei ihren Reformplänen - nach monatelangem Hin und Her ist nun von Zusammenarbeit und gemeinsamen Lösungen die Rede. Wie tragfähig das ist, wird...

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Stefan Niggemeier @niggi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Mathias Döpfner versucht zu zeigen, dass die FAZ in ihrer Ablehnung von KI-generierten Texten lächerlich rückständig ist, indem er seine „fulminante“ Replik in Sekundenschnelle von einer KI generieren lässt. Besser kann man seine eigene Entbehrlichkeit nicht demonstrieren.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

You cannot address the underlying causes of bad-faith conspiracy theories. Any measures you introduce to speed up the count will be seized on as a pretext to claim the election is now less secure. (We want only paper ballots meticulously hand-counted by candlelight, and all results instantly!)

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It goes without saying that if Joe Biden had done this, the entire Fourth Estate would immediately condemn his unprecedented violation of norms & write masthead editorials tomorrow questioning his fitness for office & calling for his resignation. But, you have to understand, He is One Special Boy.

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theglovesareoff.bsky.social @theglovesareoff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I've long wondered about that.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/05/2026

The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

WAPO Op/Ed headline: You can earn a billion dollars

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 04/05/2026

it only took seven months from the time bari was announced editor-in-chief of cbs news to 60 minutes started doing nyt-style puff pieces on understanding the nazi next door.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Once the British press gets the classic introspective and depressed backseat car photo of you… it is over.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This entire clip down to the "Trump Orders McDonalds" crawl at the bottom feels like a fever dream, you couldn't recreate the cultural and societal trajectory that created this moment if you tried for a thousand years

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

they, uh, “fixed” it?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Again, the tiny protests that were orchestrated by Fox News for its loyal viewers -- the NYT asserted it was a massive political shift that recentered the universe Protests twenty to thirty times as large -- the NYT asks "yes, but what are numbers, really?"

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I know it’s apparently only salient to most American media outlets to talk about oil, but for the few remaining people left with a soul, thousands of people live on this tiny island in only 8 sq miles. This reads like a serial killer prison interview.

After days of conflicting messaging from the White House on how much longer it will continue to wage war on Iran, Trump alleged that US strikes had "totally demolished" most of Kharg Island, and told the network that its military may hit site "a few more times just for fun"

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This has also been the problem with seizing the superyachts of sanctioned Russian oligarchs: you can't sell something you don't own, so without title to the yachts, the governments who seized them are stuck with million-$ maintenance bills & costly multi-year court battles about ownership transfer.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/03/2026

why is the Transportation Secretary talking about ICE policies and Iran on Fox News? (this is a rhetorical question -- the answer is that nobody in the Trump administration has actual job duties)

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Corporate actors have often been active supporters of welfare state expansions, including basic income proposals, during periods of upheaval, (eg 1960s) out of fear. They have so effectively co-opted the state now, they feel they have nothing to fear.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I can't compete with this.

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Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com · 09/03/2026

…und wie sehr nützt es den Populisten, ihr dummdreistes Vokabular zu übernehmen und sie prominent und ohne Zitatmarkierung ach warum

FAZ-Homepage, Überschrift: "Das Leiden der Veteranen", Unterzeile: "Die Altparteien trauen sich viel zu wenig – und wundern sich über die Strafe der Wähler. Das nützt nur den Populisten.

Ein Kommentar von Gerald Braunberger"

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Querdenkenwatch 🤦‍♂️ @querdenken.watch · 08/03/2026

"I wish we had fucking bombs and guns!" Kitty O'Brien im Rahmen ihrer Ingewahrsamnahme beim heutigen Hamas-solidarischen und israelfeindlichen Hassfest in #berlin. Unter den Augen rote Hamas-Dreiecke. Die Szene ist völlig durchradikalisiert.

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Moritz Krawinkel @mrtzkr.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Was man zum Stand des Rechtsradikalismus in Deutschland wissen muss.

Grafik zur Landtagswahl: Inzwischen wählen viel mehr Menschen die AfD aus Überzeugung statt aus Enttäuschung.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

DIE ZEIT macht einfach nahtlos weiter: Nach Tino Chrupalla, Beatrix von Storch, Benedikt Kaiser und vielen anderen wird jetzt die rechtsradikale Medienszene porträtiert!

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Friedemann Vogel @friedemann-vogel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Der zitierte Satz kommt von Merz - er ist Ausdruck von ökon. Dummheit und Arroganz. Forschung ist nicht nur dafür da, Wachstum und Profite zu generieren, sondern gesellschaftliche Entwicklung zu verstehen und Handlungsoptionen zu erweitern, Ungleichheiten zu erkennen und Machtkritik zu ermöglichen.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/02/2026

Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

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Hendrik Michael @hendrikmichael.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

What a well-made Interview! No need to lay out details (likely prohibited by NDA) - and abstractions that come with just the facts - instead laying bare the e m o t i o n a l reality that may finally resonate. Audiences need more of this type of journalism.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/02/2026

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.)

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Liebe Medien, "Sozialreformen" ist ein Unwort. Reform hieß mal: Verbesserung, Fortschritt, etwas zum Besseren verändern. Heute ist es Neusprech für Kürzungen, Abbau, Privatisierung. Eure Sprache dreht die Realität um. Ehrlicher wäre: Sozialkürzungen, Leistungsabbau, Entsolidarisierung. Nennt es so.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

"I'm not on the ballot" is the spectre haunting the Republican Party.

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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Der deutsche Neofaschismus steht kurz vor der Machtübernahme in zwei Bundesländern, die größte Supermacht der Welt ist in den Faschismus gekippt - und die Bundesregierung verkündet, am Holocaust-Gedenktag, den "Kampf gegen den Linksextremismus aufzustocken". Keine weiteren Fragen zum #NieWieder.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026

it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?

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Hendrik Michael @hendrikmichael.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Look at those happy faces! Carefree times for all the wrong people.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/01/2026

jesus christ

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Hendrik Michael @hendrikmichael.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

An incompetent scene. DT's people are oblivious. There is no way to secure Venezuela unless they have a ton of boots on the ground. Continued bombing and assaults alone either strengthen the powers that be or the systems in place degrade to a point where the country collapses into civil conflict.

Picture of Donald Trump and various government agents in a makeshift situation room following the attack on Venezuela on 3 Jan 2026.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I swear to god, a kid I went to high school with who was posting the “Harris will send me to war” memes reposted this with “we’re so back”

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