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TACOvill

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Objecting to the destruction of USAID is a pretty clean litmus test for being a serious person and not evil a surprising number of otherwise bad people pass this test, and a shocking number of people who pretend to care do not
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Democracy Matters! @democracymatters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In a 2012 divorce deposition RFK, Jr. described cognitive problems, including telling doctors and lawyers about a possible parasite that "ate" part of his brain, and he used those ailments as part of an argument that his earning capacity was diminished and therefore alimony should be reduced. #USPol
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Regular Car Reviews @regularcars.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
How to stop Content Harassers and get them to leave you alone. You say these music words and it ruins their ability to make money off the video they shot.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.
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TACOvill @jallenv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's almost like when you gut food safety regulations, staff, and enforcement to give billionaires tax breaks, all the stuff breaks. Weird.
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TACOvill @jallenv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Does any awful, terrible, unprecedentedly shameful political news even matter anymore? craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...
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Nothing Moves the Needle
Not that long ago, the press could root out corruption, topple presidents, and end wars. Now, even the biggest scoops have little impact. Here's how and why the media lost its mojo.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
ICYMI — Trump just made history, becoming the first 🇺🇸 president to be edited out of a World Cup team’s celebration photo 🏆
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
😂🏆
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Found this from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social OTD 2021:
What will they do next?
Think of the worst thing they can do.
Doesn't matter if it's legal.
Doesn't matter if it's moral.
Doesn't matter if there's no precedent.
Doesn't matter if they get caught, as long as they don't get punished.
Why will they do it?
Because they can.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/07/2026
I worry about the narrative on this stuff because young people are so impressionable and not going to college is just such a huge mistake over your lifetime earnings. It’s deeply immoral to see Ivy-educated conservatives argue against college because they know they need angry, undereducated voters.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news points out that the smoke days we're experiencing were not foreseen by climate models & so nobody has reckoned on their cost in lives, health, & economic disruption—which appear to be MORE than EVERY OTHER climate impact PUT TOGETHER.
How costly? “When monetized,” a group of Stanford and Princeton economists wrote in Nature last year, in the first major study on the topic, “the climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the U.S.A.”

You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.To summarize, wildfire smoke did not appear in our economic simulations of climate change. As recently as a few years ago, we did not really know that days like today — or June 7, 2023; or September 15, 2020; or September 9, 2020 — could occur. Then they happened. And happened again. And then we studied them and discovered that, in fact, they may be more expensive for the U.S. economy than we once thought climate change itself would be.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/07/2026
Maybe we should remember Lindsey Graham the way Fox News is remembering him this morning. For his rabid defense of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. Never forget: Graham’s speech helped push Kavanaugh across the finish line and onto the Supreme Court.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trump took another cognitive test and had another physical at Walter Reed. Has it even been two months since his last physical? There’s a massive coverup surrounding the President’s health happening right now.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here. Everyone knew. And they all had their price.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He’s worried about those Texas and Georgia U.S. Senate races
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 04/07/2026
A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”
Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates people at a rate of 614 per 100,000. This is at least 4x higher than any other founding NATO countries.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/07/2026
All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump. to.pbs.org/44batiO
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A Belgian diamond group is gifting Trump a lavish ring after that industry won tariff relief
It’s a glitzy window into the role that ostentatious – and almost always gilded — gifts are playing by those seeking to curry favor with the U.S. president.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden gave a speech at about protecting Democracy at Independence Hall flanked by two Marines - pundits lost their minds & TV networks refused to broadcast it live. Now here we are: a taxpayer funded Trump rally on America's 250th. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/04/t...
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Trump to mark U.S. 250th anniversary with campaign-style rally on National Mall
Washington's July 4 celebration attendees this year will have to contend with stepped-up ‌security, possible thunderstorms and temperatures that could top 100F.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can we finally all agree that the argument “we should run the country like a business, and therefore elect businessmen to run it” has been a failed experiment?
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Watching this Administration start and lose a war of choice with Iran for reasons they still have been unable to articulate hammers this point home. It’s stochastic terrorism and internet grievances dressed up in a trench coat pretending to be a government.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This point can’t be stressed enough. Just as Musk bought Twitter to try to make himself seem popular, he bought Tesla to make himself seem smart. The only thing he’s actually invented is a mythology about himself
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/06/2026
"Cutting $1 trillion out of Medicaid is the antithesis of the Christian faith. I stand by that... and I said it to him directly." Sen. Raphael Warnock tells Tim Miller why he confronted Mike Johnson over cuts to Medicaid, and the meeting between them that followed.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“…something happened on the evening of June 9 that needs to be understood and, hopefully, deplored by all Americans. The USA seems to have deliberately and with foresight, committed a war crime as an act of policy.”
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War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now
We Will Rue The Day
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Across most sectors of the front line, the advance of Russian occupying forces has nearly come to a halt. There are only a small number of areas where the enemy is still able to make gains, but overall activity has decreased
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just sent out. The USA seems to have committed war crime deliberately and openly, by destroying civilian access to water as summer approaches. It is strategically idiotic and morally repulsive--and needs to be acknowledged if the US has a chance to recover. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now
We Will Rue The Day
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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Boycott CBS. Boycott Ellison.
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TACOvill @jallenv.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Every business action by members of the Epstein Class is an attempt to steal money and agency from you.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The Coolidge coin is actually quite a rare collectible precisely because the public didn't like it and the Treasury eventually melted most of them down. As a result, the rule against living persons on coins was instituted soon thereafter.
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TACOvill @jallenv.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Not only is the affordability crisis not a hoax, but it's actually worse than you think... and accelerating.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/05/2026
A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.
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This is how close American households are to the financial edge
A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026
yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Paxton's Corrupt Adam Hoffman Pedophile Pardon" and then you start shortening it to "Paxton Pedo Pardon" or "The Corrupt Hoffman Pardon" or any other variation you can think of on subsequent mentions in the same appearance. bsky.app/profile/dext...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ya, that's good. You usually need to have reporters play along with this for it to work and I doubt they would but who knows bsky.app/profile/kelp...
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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Every republican man looks like they aren't allowed within 500 yards of a school zone and in 70% of cases, they legally aren't.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Conservatives are terrified of Dems finally understanding that the people yearn to tell Republicans to shut the fuck up
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/05/2026
“The reforms I’m describing do not come naturally to me. It’s something I resisted for a long time, but I think if you look at what's necessary to reinforce democratic self-government in the United States, you simply can’t do that with the filibuster and this Court in place.” — @joshtpm.bsky.social
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Josh Marshall on how US democracy can be saved
"You simply can’t do it with the filibuster and this Supreme Court in place."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026
“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”
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TACOvill @jallenv.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is Bill Kristol endorsing the socialist mayor of NYC's budget management. Man, this lithium is amazing!!
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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Obama about his agreement with Iran: “there were mechanisms in place to enforce it and verify it, and we pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97 percent of their enriched uranium out. We didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.” #GlovesOffObama 👊🏼
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