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boolivia🏳️‍⚧️ @professorpajamas.bsky.social · 55m

Living in America these days is so depressing when you just know what words mean

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 37m

They may be evil, but never forget how stupid they are, too.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026

"The conservative project called for the eradication of transgenderism from public life entirely; it never said 'but we'll stop if trans people concede somewhat.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/concede-noth...

Concede Nothing

Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Verhoeven cut scene

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 17h

Why the EU is listening to anything the US asks of it is utterly beyond me.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 18h

It’s really funny to see how a $12k donation will get you a federal contract for like nine figures while this doofus is wiring Don Jr’s ex $300k for nothing. How are you that bad at bribes?

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 17h

"Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials for murder in Mississippi became a landmark case for racial bias in jury selection, has died, according to the Montgomery County coroner. Flowers was 56." (via @mississippitoday.org)

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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies

After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 17h

9-reporter story at Reuters saying Tesla successfully pressured automotive safety regulators and evaluators in the Netherlands to approve their FSD (Supervised) systems - partially automated driving systems - for use in customers' cars in EU. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.

Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 17h

Fox News turns 30 today. Its anniversary gift to itself? Three decades of misinformation, smears, and Republican propaganda. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Fox News celebrates 30 years of lies, racism, and smears

Since launching on Oct. 7, 1996, Fox News has aired a nonstop stream of bile, misinformation, bigotry, and stupidity.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18h

NEW: The Trump administration refuses to say whether it'll send ICE to voting sites, but a FOIA lawsuit forced it to disclose 166 pages of documents about its plans. While the records contain talking points and value statements, it leaves the main question unaddressed: will ICE be at the polls?

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ICE at the polls? Even after FOIA lawsuit, agency refuses to give a straight answer

The produced records seem to get tantalizingly close to finally answering whether ICE intends to send agents to voting locations.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 21h

The thing about fascism is you really need to keep defeating those fascists.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagine sitting down with a white supremacist who just a few months ago said, "The defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated." Then, asking him absolutely nothing about his white power activism & slapping this quote on the thumbnail of your cozy interview.

Screenshot of NPR's YouTube thumbnail featuring a photo of the white supremacist Tucker Carlson: "I was caught in the partisan lie."

Title: Tucker Carlson has a new enemy: the politics he helped build.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026

“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”

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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SCOTUS in a 6-3 decision decides states must help enforce the fugitive grandchildren act

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, this sounds like an argument two of your relatives have across the Thanksgiving table, not seasoned political professionals.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 07/10/2026

Susan Collins in a nutshell:

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's kinda fun hearing these Republican voices so used to strong proclamations and sweeping generalizations reduced to sounding like mealy-mouthed Democrats. They know they can't claim to stand for or believe in **anything** anymore, so make a few soft noises about "process".

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

maybe it's a topic for a quick blog post but there's this insane phenomenon that happens with anti-Trump right-wingers where they correctly acknowledge the stakes at play and then refuse to actually do anything about it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm sure plenty of other people are pointing that way, but if you missed it @swordsjew.bsky.social has some great writing on the abusive parenting popular in Evangelical Christianity. www.thecut.com/article/the-...

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Breaking a Child’s Will

The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The states should file a class action suit against Trump, his family and all related Trump businesses for loss of tax revenue.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Congress may still have room to respond with a new law, but it can’t just say the court got the Constitution wrong." The hell it can't. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...

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Congress Is Supposed to Be More Powerful Than the Supreme Court. Why Isn’t It?

Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Their 30 sec ads don't just hit on poll tested issues, they call upon the deeper narrative to tell a more complete, coherent story. Democrats think people are blank slates they can move with the right 30 sec ads. Republicans spent decades grooming people, preparing them for the ads that would come.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Democrats, for decades now, have been laser focused on translating polls into 30 second ads. But they've entirely abandoned telling the longer story of who they are, what they value, and who they're fighting against. Republicans spent decades building a propaganda machine to establish their story.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Quick, someone form a band called Penised Lesbians and just red JK's tweets out as songs.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At least John McCain had enough dignity to stick it to Trump when he had the chance and it cost him literally nothing.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tillis is a coward who, even as his political career draws to an end, cannot bring himself to say Trump is bad. He still says the worst problem with Trump is advice he gets from *other people*

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah...voting is not the only thing, and it's often not the most important thing, but it does matter, and I think if someone makes their voting choices public, you can point out that those choices were not ideal.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yet somehow dog-whistling antisemitism is exempt from the lying down with dogs rule?

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Because we are a lazy and apathetic country, in part because our political system has no means by which immediate political fury translates to change of governance.

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Michael Scott Says Thank You

ALT: Michael Scott Says Thank You

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something about social media algorithms written by sociopaths giving edgelords enough social purchase to compete with that 75+ years cultural training that led to the 30% of people born to be fascist to suppress that instinct.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it really the loss of "living memory"? For the 75+ years Hitler and the Nazis have been the archetype of unrepentant evil in popular media; as we entered the internet age, we had to immediately invent "Godwin's Law" to discourage hyperbolic usage of "Nazi" for people we disagree with.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm on the edge of my seat over here. a journalist in South Africa is digging into the subject of my absolute favorite series of episodes of weird little guys -- the South African pro-apartheid terrorist who married an American klansman.

dailymaverick.co.za

The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right

Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not going to win California with that (or any other ad), but getting a bunch of people scolding you for your juvenile, risque ad is a better image than doubling the party of Bible thumping buzz kills.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bob Ferguson has always been a cop, and if you didn't see that years ago, I can't help you.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW: RFK Jr. is bragging to MAHA audiences that the massive changes he's made to HHS are permanent. "Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent

“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With great consistency, people who prefer authoritarianism to democracy envision themselves in charge. Could be them personally, could be vicarious, but they're always the boot, not the face. It's basically a way to say everyone should shut up and accept that we're doing my preferences, not theirs.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dems honestly should just lie about this right now so Alito (a dumb guy who doesn't actually know how anything works) doesn't figure out that he needs to retire in the lame duck if the GOP loses the Senate

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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