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Ian Sinclair

@imsinclair.bsky.social
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appellate counsel || democracy, inequality, segregation, baked goods || former city planner and low-level bureaucrat || imsinclair.substack.com/

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 16h
Yesterday kid 1 school got evacuated for for bomb threat. Today a road rager ran me down while I was helping with kid 2 bike-to-school day ride. If this is 2/3s of the Routine American Violence Trifecta I‘m cool just skipping part 3, thanks.
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Parent hit by car during National Walk and Roll to School Day in South Philadelphia
National Walk and Roll to school day took a scary turn in South Philadelphia Wednesday morning when a man was hit by a car.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.
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spirit airlines presents: airplane fall @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
in theory they used to mitigate the vast ignorance of our legal high priests by requiring them to accept the factual determinations made by the lower courts, the ones actually holding trials and such to find out what the facts were. these days scotus seems happy to substitute its own facts at will
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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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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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Someone tweets "gotd - How the fuck can there be anti
vaccine "witches?"

If you disagree with binding an invisible malignant entity into a single drop of potin that seals a subject's blood against the full force of that very same entity's curse then you are not and can never be a witch you're just a karen who buys rocks"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
Andy Beshear is proof that you can win a red state without abandoning trans people.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ... The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite" "Magnifica Humanitas."
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Trendar @trendar.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Most of what little voter fraud actually occurs is perpetrated by Republican voters. Election fraud on the other hand is entirely a Republican thing.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
5) there is a more logical explanation: lots of cheaper ACA plans have very high deductible and copays, so that you’d still avoid getting health care unless or until your seriously needed it. People choose these plans either because they think they’re healthy and won’t need it, or can’t afford it.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
4) and IF that is the case, the solution isn’t to go on TV and decry the program, but quietly do the detective work to catch these companies at their game, and send their managers and owners to prison.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
3) the only logical argument here is if insurance companies are signing up fake customers and then taking the government subsidies for that coverage, while paying out no claims. IF that is happening, it would be business/corporate fraud, not consumer fraud.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It really sucks that killing someone is basically legal in this country if you do it with your car
A Virginia driver who struck and killed a pedestrian less than three months ago had his case dismissed Thursday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor and completing 20 hours of community service.
On June 18, the driver of a Prius jumped the curb of a Leesburg Pike service road near Seven Corners and fatally hit 38-year-old Sean King.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
The Labour Party did this. That's why trans people are pushing back on Dems capitulating on trans issues. We have seen what happens when the liberal party abandons trans people after saying you must vote for them or it without be worse under a conservative government.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Which is when ICE decided to drive onto the sidewalk and come straight towards the crowd, forcing them to move out of the way or get run over. One woman did have her foot run over. Thankfully she was wearing steel-toed boots or some sort of protective footwear. (Frederick, MD - September 4, 2026)
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/09/2026
my understanding is that it's illegal in the united kingdom to pass a big burlap sack of money across the dinner table labeled "for influence". if true: how are a politician's wealthiest constituents supposed to ensure their voices are heard?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
one of the craziest things about American politics is that Republican media figures and politicians are constantly threatening to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale unless they are allowed to win and it literally never makes the news
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family says
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you are a liberal democracy, a key part of your foreign policy should be hurting the Republican Party in any manner you can.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It was never just about undocumented immigrants, or criminals.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 24/08/2026
If the Evil Six are consistent about nothing else, they’re absolutely in lockstep on making sure that any possible voting restriction or electoral sabotage by the Republican Party is immediately implemented
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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In a dm I was asked to describe the Jobless Caucus that populates this platform and I think this interaction is the purest distillation of it. “I have the benefit of hindsight that Frederick Douglas did not, and it is me that is smart and brave for saying America is irredeemable.”
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America is an evil empire founded entirely on white supremacy and exploitation Imao, there is no "Americanism" without genocide, racism, and oppression.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I screenshotted this elsewhere because the line: “the crushing weakness of our politics against the unmet needs of our people” landed on me like a ton of bricks (h/t @acyn.bsky.social)
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Ossoff: When you step back and consider it, the situation is absurd. Tech titans dig bunkers and warn us the new intelligence they're training could lead to mass joblessness or human extinction, while our Congress debates ballrooms and youth sports.
We've amassed enough firepower to end the world 1,000 times over, but we can't summon the will to guarantee health care and pre-K. I say all this to say, but it's the crushing weakness of our politics, against the unmet needs of our people and the massive stakes of our times, that's shaking our faith in the future.
But Atlanta, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become.
When Eva is old enough to ask me why | let this happen. I'm determined to answer truthfully, that | didn't
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, in heaven. A dog with little wings runs towards her open arms. Off panel, a speech bubble reads “welcome to Heaven! Here is your dog!”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. She says, “where’s my cat?”
The third panel zooms out. There are dogs with little wings everywhere. Sarah says, “Where’s ANY of the cats?”
The fourth panel shows a circle of cats holding hands and dancing gleefully surrounded by flames in hell.
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Leyla Boulton @leylaboulton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Absolutely heartbreaking in Lebanon: ‘the FT saw entire villages with barely a building left standing: historic markets, squares and winding streets reduced to a sea of concrete. The sound of blasts, apparently from building demolitions, continued through the day.’ as.ft.com/r/153a7c25-e...
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How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.
Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views. Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In fact I actually think this is immensely corrosive The idea that the thing to do in life is take on your fair share of the task of social production in exchange for your fair share of the bounty is just totally moribund, no one believes in that because why would they
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Much like calling soldiers “warriors,” applying “commander in chief” beyond its proper scope reflects a breakdown of the republican norms that make our constitutionalism viable.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Periodic reminder that the president is no civilian’s “commander in chief.” That is his role only with respect to the military.
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
He paid off traitors because he wants to create more of them. His plan is to overthrow democracy and enslave us
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
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