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@jach37.bsky.social
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Professional consultant, amateur sand thrower. Here to think.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11h
So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel like I’m the only one writing about realistic deliverables in the next two years: www.ms.now/opinion/demo... and www.salon.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The Democratic playbook for taking on Trump after the midterms
The party will have many tools to hold the administration accountable — if it uses them
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve seen enough people expressing confusion about why it would be in their interest to try to become regulated, or why they would be saying things like “we might kill the world!!”, that I’ll do an explainer. Buckle up.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What Trump gets about voters that Democrats don't usually 1. Wildly malleable 2. Require repetition 3. Need a story with a villain 4. Want a catharsis (in his case, dominating others) 5. Require repetition
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Bruce Coffman @brucecoffman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The new American grocery shopping game, What Will Kill Me This Week, kinda sucks. And it's so expensive to play!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This part
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/08/2026
"Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world." uh what now?
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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My time lapse of the Gironde #fire near Bordeaux, viewed on Friday afternoon from about 20 km distance. One minute compressed into 5 seconds. #GlobalHeating
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?"
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The Screaming Butt Naked Patriot @buttnakedpatriot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has been absolutely killing it, and here's another one
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump just fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms
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Trump fires all commissioners of federal election agency
Months before the midterms, the only federal agency dedicated solely to election administration is now unable to do anything.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/07/2026
When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We are going to need retroactively enforced anti-corruption legislation. And sooner Democratic lawmakers start announcing it and drawing it up, the sooner some of the corrupt may feel just a little fear and hold back.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
wake up babe the white house is a six flags
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Weird war, where the winner gets skyrocketing gas prices, inflation and market crashes while the loser gets control over 20% of global oil flow.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“Sending abrasive dickhead to negotiate with Iran has backfired”
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Do Americans know that their Vice President was in Hungary campaigning for a Putin ally to be reelected, instead of in DC during a war in which Putin is helping Iran target Americans?
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is gross obviously but note how all the stuff he cites (closing of Hormuz strait, attacks against regional allies) are things that have happened *because* Trump attacked Iran
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chef boy r dyl @brothlsprout.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I keep spamming this but John Larson filed impeachment articles yesterday. Every congressperson can sign on to it right now, it’s already drafted! www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Impeach Trump.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The fact that Hegseth is still secretary of defense points in the same direction. He has shown himself to be laughably unfit to run a foreign war. But he is a person — perhaps the only person around — who would be enthusiastic about a self-invasion. (6/17)
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Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Too many people are ready to burn our institutions down. But there's another kind of burning — the controlled kind, that clears the way for what comes next. I wrote about the new book Crisis Engineering and why we need more crisis engineers. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/trial-by-f...
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Trial by Fire: Crisis Engineering
A new book shows how to turn a crisis into the change you've been waiting for
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Living in Hell
War crimes coming: A horrifying update
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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The game electeds play where they pretend to powerlessly observe the actions of the government reveals how broken we are as a society. You're not some especially engaged Trader Joe's cashier connecting with a customer. You're in Congress. Tell us what you're doing about this.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The American president has lost his mind.
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
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Charles Martin-Shields @charlesmartinshields.com · 16/02/2026
I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
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Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled.
Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The release of the Epstein Files really lays bare the evils of (among other things) networking.
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Ok, you can have another hundred billion for ICE but only if you agree to a strict cap of five summary executions per week, and that is our FINAL OFFER.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Top Senate Democrats are focused on other priorities in the government funding fight.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I'm tired of living inside an unholy mix of a shrug emoji and the "this is fine" dog.
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Eric @crexpat.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This also screws with tax filers of all sorts who rely on postmarks to avoid late payment fees. Biden keeping DeJoy on as Postmaster General was another blunder
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
A USPS mailbox in New York City
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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
America sent 12 Tomahawks to pound the sands of northwestern Nigeria. So, you should know about their precarious production rates. www.aei.org/op-eds/why-i...
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do. If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
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Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
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