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Is there a cleverer way that Ukraine could have hit back at Trump doing a dirty oil deal with Putin to help him with gas prices in the midterms than turning off the army of Russian propagandists posing as heartland Americans with concerns about trans socialists?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can’t “prove” your pocket calculator isn’t conscious. It is conceptually possible that it is. But it is no more or less likely than currently existing LLMs.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, it is almost impossible to overstate the stupidity & bad faith involved in using "salary four years after graduation" as a metric of the worth of majors or degrees, let alone - as US News & World Report did in epic bad faith this year - as a criteria for ranking universities & colleges.

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Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People

ALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone remember 25 years ago when the people who sent out videos of themselves executing people were the bad guys? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...

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Daniel Pearl - Wikipedia

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Lynne @lynne-sails.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is good, gets at the grossness behind the cabinet members the media desperately want to label "adults." Also, I literally was at the Ancient Agora in Athens on Sat. So the description of Rubio's speech at the Pnyx nearby made me physically *nauseous*. A disgrace to the birthplace of democracy.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"you have to give up your daily coffee because we're losing the dumb illegal war we started and now you can't afford groceries" is a hell of a closing message

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

valuing hustle unfairly privileges Indian supremacy over indigenous White ways of knowing

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heartbreak in Springfield, Ohio. Please read this important reporting. It all begins with big lies and it ends with ethnic cleansing and deaths for which we must not only mourn but feel ashamed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026

The Super Intelligence Force will report directly to the man who thinks windmills cause cancer.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🚨Breaking: Michael Shellenberger is sending waves of stupid emails to researchers again 😂 Reminder: if you got one, you don’t need to respond to Mike. Screenshot the email, post, mock, go directly to the public. He’s not a journalist, he’s a crank w/a substack whose growth has flatlined. Have fun.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/10/2026

Wow. That was a whole era. Farewell to Marjoe Gortner.

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U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @usmnt.ussoccer.com · 04/10/2026

CAVAN SULLIVAN THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS! #USMNT x VW

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I watched this ad and it’s amazing. Doesn’t even use his name. The very clear almost explicit subtext is: my dudes, if I can suck it up and vote for this lying sack of shit, you can too, okay?

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today is the birthday of Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott and Spanky MacFarland. That’s a lot of funny for one day.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026

Rufo often gets treated as a "respectable" conservative. His latest podcast episode — framing Indian-Americans as a problem in need of solving — is more evidence that he shouldn't be.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Signs you might really have crossed a line: The torture guy is suggesting a firing squad as a more humane alternative

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks

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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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We normally try to keep this on the DL, but it’s true: We can fly.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just read @katemanne.bsky.social ‘s fantastic piece in The Cut about the Cornell rape and she points out that students protesting conditions in Gaza were treated more harshly than the rapists and holy shit, this detail

One of these students was my own advisee, and having supported her throughout the the months-long case, I can state with confidence that she did nothing wrong. Moreover, she happens to be deaf and was suspended in part for being “unreasonably loud.” Privacy consideration

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Talarico is running in a state Trump carried by 14 points in 2024. Yet he’s actually leaned into the moral issues around immigration more aggressively than most other Democrats. He makes an expansive moral case that immigration is good for our country." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hear we're not supposed to call these guys weird.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This would come across a lot better if he hadn’t just lost a war.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm genuinely stunned by how credulous and acquiescent pretty much every major news organization was yesterday. It ought to be completely uncontroversial by now that DHS lies about officer-involved shootings, always.

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the guys who invited the vampires into the house is now complaining that damn, there's a lot of vampires in this house. Stupid and craven is no way to go through life, son.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Letting people get potentially tortured while you decide if it is actual torture is a hell of a position to take.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY-25), ranking on House Administration, on how alarmed we should be about election interference by the Trump administration. Morelle is reasonably confident about the safeguards and guardrails in place--but he isn't complacent. youtu.be/VuNdUPlrev8?...

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The Most Important Job in Politics Is...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

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