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Hannah Kolus

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 20h
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm thrilled to share that my new book about #SCOTUS, "The Court We Need: What's Really Wrong With the Supreme Court—and How to Fix It," is now available for pre-orders: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812983... The book is set to be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social on May 4, 2027.
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The Court We Need by Stephen Vladeck: 9798217061815 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A brilliant and bracing account of the Supreme Court’s rise, its unraveling, and what it will take to save it, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Docket Richard Nixon turned...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My Steinem obit: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement | Moira Donegan
The activist made the movement mainstream – and became a receptacle for its hopes and disappointments
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/09/2026
Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement | Moira Donegan
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Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement | Moira Donegan
The activist made the movement mainstream – and became a receptacle for its hopes and disappointments
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/07/2026
There's dead and then there's mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. However in this case there's only one thing to do, which is to go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 16/07/2026
Thanks to our friends at @motherjones.com for republishing this story!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
At this point I don't really think anyone is even bothering much with denying climate change, instead there's just this insidious loss of interest, and resignation, but the thing is as bad as it is and will get it could still get a LOT worse depending on what we do
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
Get rid of your imposter syndrome (which tends to afflict smart people more than dumb people anyway). NO ONE is a "real expert." You have every right to be there. And you can make an enormous difference if you're in the room at the right time. Get involved. Participate. You can matter.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026
oh yeah this is a weekend at bernie’s situation
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com
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The Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Ruling Goes Well Beyond Sports
The ruling is about whether trans people have the same rights as everybody else—and the Court said they don’t.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The knowledge of how many innocents’ deaths he is directly responsible for is clearly tormenting Musk psychologically, and I think he should be confronted with it roothlessly at every opportunity until he has a psychological break like the guy in The Tell-Tale Heart.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Baude: I agree that we are in unprecedented times, maybe even a constitutional crisis, but if we survive it, the court deserves no small share of the credit.
Vladeck: Exactly the same credit we might give to the arsonist who shows up with a fire extinguisher.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/06/2026
Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pent…
Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion
Military Now Under Command Of Software Developer
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are full of shit in their dissents in the birthright citizenship case. Give me two minutes, and I'll explain why.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We are ruled by the Council of Nine. They rule for life & are completely unaccountable. Their agent, the president, is empowered to enact their will but will be placed on a short leash when he displeases them. Congress can raise and appropriate funds the president can use or not to his liking.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
Gorsuch literally says as much as this in his Slaughter concurrence. He calls this the Constitution as originally intended.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It was 5-4 on the constitutional question and the fact you are unable to recognise this as a problem is why you are unfit for the purpose. You have to go.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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According to Wayback Machine, the NPR article announcing Alito’s retirement was supposed to be published Friday
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 30/06/2026
It was a 5-4 vote. You are not suitably concerned. That it made it to the Supreme Court is a sign that the Court is corrupt.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yeah this is not the tone of alarm I’m looking for, try again.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/06/2026
fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
I'm reading Kav's concurrence. He's an originalist—except when he's not. Because here he is advocating for a living breathing constitution. What a crock.
Kav: To spell that out: The Constitution is an enduring
document, and its principles were designed to, and do,
apply to modern conditions and developments. The original
constitutional principles do not change absent a
constitutional amendment, but the relevant principles—
both the rules and exceptions alike—must be faithfully
applied not only to circumstances as they existed in 1787,
1791, and 1868, for example, but also to modern situations
that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s
Framers.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Clarence Thomas is so broken and riddled…. rotting with hate. How does a man become such a shattered disgrace?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
Here's what happened in Trump v. Barbara: 5-4 on the constitutional question. Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, Jackson say the 14th Amendment says what it says: born here, you're a citizen. But it's 6-3 on the actual outcome, because Kavanaugh disagreed on the constitutional question.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
First case is West Virginia v. PBA. "Coach" Kavanaugh --who famously touts that he coaches girls basketball even though he's been accused of attempted rape-- writes WVA is allowed to exclude trans girls from sports.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/06/2026
Yeah I really do not think people should be able to get millions of dollars if a fire starts
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is pretty much it.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Behind every abortion is a village who made it possible: from providers and policymakers to the clinic escort who walks you to your car and the donor who keeps the lights on. Most of that work goes unseen. That's why we're highlighting a different activist every week in our new series, The Helpers.
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Meet The Pennsylvania Lawyer Helping Minors Access Abortion
Christine Castro of the Women's Law Project in Pennsylvania has helped teens who already have kids navigate a broken abortion access system
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Claudia Lamb @claudialamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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J Mills @jmillsjr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Every video I have seen of Zohran Mamdani this week feels like watching a 90s movie called "KID MAYOR" where every idea works and he wears a basketball jersey under a suit jacket and his main villain is Donald
Trump.”
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
All the things they told us they would never do are the things they will fight to do. As midterms approach, we need to make sure women who are still on the fence understand that we are moving towards The Handmaid’s Tale.
NY Times Headline: Support Builds on the Right for Prosecuting Women who Get Abortions.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
KBJ dissenting in Wolford (decision invalidating Hawaii law that creates a presumption of no firearms on private property w/o property owner's consent): "Today’s decision makes one thing clear: The Court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law."
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