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Joe Milton

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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hey look it's the libertarian currency that's entirely dependent on government action to gain value
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...
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Dead Country Fair | Defector
Things come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/05/2026
The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/04/2026
this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
the best part of this isn't the slopulist policy it's "we need to think creatively" when introducing the hundredth variation on a targeted tax cut to a favored subgroup
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I wonder if there was some sort of reason the Founders routed the war power through Congress rather than the whim of one person. Probably not.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
the tragedy of the long 2010s is that so many people (centrist libs included!) basically think edgy-posting online is essentially the same thing as "doing politics"
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Puffing Trump’s delusions about the economy as if they were on track until ten days ago is peak NYTimes soft-pedaling Trump’s furious unreality and both-sides-ing it with actual documentable reality
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The missles in this video cost more than that.
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Tsundoku Artist @kbsutt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This company needs to be put out of business. It’s an indictment of society that it’s allowed to exist at all, but it’s all the more damning that it possesses the prominence it does.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States. In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/02/2026
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The reason why billionaires are attracted to Russia isn't difficult. That is a society run by and for oligarchs, without any pretence of being anything else. Putin's regime is the model they want to impose on us.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This language on the TrumpRx site.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My three main issues: - Neither man has heard of the Fourth Amendment. - Sanchez did not explain that administrative warrants do not involve a judge. - Sanchez did not explain and Alford ignored that this was a change secretly implemented by DHS in this administration.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/02/2026
Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
extremely destructive pathology of academia/activism to go "oh so you've been shocked by something? you're open to considering substantial changes? well if you aren't willing to cosign onto a radical re orienting of all of society get the fuck out of here"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026
an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I think that’s because the Times sees its role in society as smugly lecturing liberals about why the right is correct and/or going to win, in the eternal liberal game of trying to feel smarter and more in touch with “real people” than the next liberal, of which it is the all-time world champion.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/01/2026
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“Our country has—through presidential aggrandizement accompanied by congressional authorization, delegation, and acquiescence—given one person, the president, a sprawling military and enormous discretion to use it in ways that can easily lead to a massive war. That is our system: One person decides”
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
For those keeping track at home: Since Christmas Eve the United States has bombed or carried out raids in Syria, Somalia, Nigeria and now Venezuela. And Congress' response has ranged from nothing to support.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/01/2026
one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Does America Need God? Brought to you by Bank of America with that dude from Epstein plane
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We have a Constitution that is meant to prevent an unhinged executive from dragging the nation into war without just cause. Alas.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I wrote a piece recently about how Trump, Putin, Musk and the rest are actually fellow citizens of a borderless, lawless society designed to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. Politics and patriotism are just a cover.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."

She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.

They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.

This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.

The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.

"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.

"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2025
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/10/2025
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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