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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
12yr old Farrokh Bulsara — aka FREDDIE MERCURY — in 1958.
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Sort of Damocles @sortofdamocles.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit
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Dr Oddman - #AntiFa @droddman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
So, we can build Data Centers, but not Battery Storage centers? And solar, wind to power them..
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The toxic influencer who has made "hyper-masculinity" his brand was arresting wearing Doris Day clam-digger slacks and a kicky purple blouse.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This passage from @davidlat.bsky.social perfectly captures the false dichotomy you see so often from the Supreme Court's defenders: The Court is held out as "independent" because it doesn't *always* rule for Trump. That whitewashes (1) how often it *does*; & (2) its bad behavior in non-Trump cases.
Screenshot from David Lat's "Original Jurisdiction" newsletter that reads:

Runner-up for Judge of the Week: Chief Justice Roberts. The end of a Term brings with it evaluations of the Supreme Court—and, of course, the Chief Justice as its leader. For critiques of the current conservative Court—and, implicitly, Chief Justice Roberts—see the views of Professors Kate Shaw and Steve Vladeck in this spirited debate in The Times (gift link).

I call it a “spirited debate” because of the vigorous pushback that Shaw and Vladeck received from Professor Will Baude (who clerked for the Chief). See also this post at Executive Functions by Professor Jack Goldsmith—no fan of the Trump administration—titled “The Powerful, Resilient, Independent Supreme Court.” Or if Goldsmith is too conservative a commentator for your tastes, check out this staff editorial by The Washington Post (gift link), “The Supreme Court’s not-so-MAGA majority.”
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Henry, Peter & Jane Fonda in 1963
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
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A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Texas mother was turned away by two different emergency rooms when she sought treatment for a miscarriage seven weeks into her pregnancy. Even as she developed a fever, writhed in pain, and suffered massive bleeding—she was refused care. www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-...
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Texas Passed A New Law After 3 Women Died During Miscarriage. Why Was This Mother Still Denied Life-Saving Care?
Like so many women denied miscarriage care since the fall of Roe v. Wade, Lynn Callaway developed an infection, according to a new lawsuit — leaving her at death’s door with no one to turn to for help...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“Stop talking about it.” MORGAN FREEMAN on ‘Race’.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
i hope tom kean becomes a synonym in our culture for collecting a paycheck while doing absolutely nothing
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026
Three votes for the proposition that the Fourteenth Amendment does not mean exactly what it says. Three votes to strip citizenship from people to whom the framers guaranteed it. Three separate opinions explaining why. Three fucking votes. Broken institution, not worth saving.
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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
To be honest, I'm a little surprised the birthright citizenship case wasn't 9-0 and it's a sign of just how deep the brain rot goes on this bench
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 30/06/2026
Progress stripped away the poetry
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Good morning!
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 29/06/2026
The owner of an Oak Lawn methadone clinic has been charged in a massive fraud scheme that allegedly swindled tens of millions of dollars from government programs that were used to fund an extravagant lifestyle, including brokerage accounts, luxury cars, jewelry and a yacht named “Butt Nekkid.”
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Feds: Owner of Oak Lawn methadone clinic stole millions, funded lavish lifestyle including yacht ‘Butt Nekkid’
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/06/2026
Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/06/2026
he is not wrong
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
While Trump is focused on the Reflecting Pool, Arc de Trump, and East Wing Ballroom…. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/t...
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China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. for First Time Since 2017
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Having lost a war with Iran and still not having turned over the Epstein files, it is time, of course, to attack Dr Fauci with the most batshit conspiracy theories ever... because.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 22/06/2026
Happy Father's Day to all those men who are breaking cycles, and showing how love can always triumph.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Old enough to remember when the people defending a UFC fighter for making a 'joke' about Michelle Obama at the WH wanted Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian, to be fired for making a joke about melania on his show.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"Mirror journalist asks why violence committed by white men never seems to matter" www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Mirror journalist asks why violence committed by white men never seems to matter
White officials redirect public concern, downplaying the dangers of Islamophobia while disproportionately amplifying antisemitism
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Jrfitzg @jrfitzg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
All these American car manufacturers can build a low price EV just like the Chinese are doing . They just don’t want to .
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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
EVs = they’re going to crash the grid!! Data centers = “let’s build 3,000 of them!”
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Elections are always clean and good and wholesome when Republicans win — isn't that amazing? What an amazing coincidence. But when they lose, it's fraud. Look, in Trump we have an authoritarian president who, among many other things, does not believe in democracy.”
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/06/2026
Bad enough to say “pretexts are fine as long as you’re going after black voters”; worse when the pretext is exploded, and the Court still blocks.  www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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The Supreme Court Is Illegitimate
The court’s conservatives ripped the mask off the institution in a brief, unsigned decision allowing Alabama to use a racially discriminatory congressional map.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
So trump can go to a knicks game on a Monday but not his own son's wedding on a weekend???
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@jackohman.bsky.social
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 03/06/2026
Nick Bilton wrote he's not here "to make headlines about newsroom drama." Bilton referred to himself 23 times in his email firing Scott Pelley—five in the first sentence alone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nick Bilton's email to Scott Pelley, with the personal pronouns highlighted.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Worst person you know" meme
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 31/05/2026
I believe Xi made a deal with Trump: Look the other way on Taiwan, and in exchange Beijing will purchase enough Trump meme coins to make him wealthier than the CEOs who accompanied him at the summit.
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Art of the Sellout
China’s soft invasion of Taiwan
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Timothy Snyder does a perfect job describing American foreign policy in just 53 seconds! This is so spot on, what an embarrassment the "baby in the bulldozer" is. @timothysnyder.bsky.social #Pinks #ProudBlue
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The Mr Neutron @themrneutron.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/05/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/05/2026
NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 26/05/2026
👉️ bit.ly/3Q3OJSj
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'Price Is Right' host torches MAGA-backed candidate as 'serial scammer without a soul'
Drew Carey, host of "The Price Is Right," fired off his criticism of MAGA star and former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.Carey made his opinion known of the Los Angeles mayoral candidate in a post on Threads. "Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Prattf...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If the 2nd greatest English-language filmmaker of all time can cast a black woman as Helen of Troy, then surely Christopher Nolan can, as well.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927. Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars. Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that. Bari Weiss killed it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🤣😍
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
💖💚💛 love is love 💖🤎🧡
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW EPISODE: The Purcell principle is a made up legal rule that federal courts should not alter state voting rules too close to an election. That is, seemingly, unless you’re a Republican. www.youtube.com/watch?v=InDA...
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A Made-Up Supreme Court Rule Rigs Election Law for Republicans
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump wants to give these Insurrectionists your money (Credit to Bill Weir for the original video post)
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Every American should be disgusted by this.
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