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Once was a lawyer, all executive time now. Frequently orthogonal to whatever it is you were talking about. GFY DOGE Hitler Youth.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22h
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
F*cking hilarious. Like listening to Hitler joking with Heydrich about Zyklon B not working.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/09/2026
beast mode
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026
None of us can top E.B. White on this argument
“Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.”

-E.B. White, "Here is New York"
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ok, here's a compromise: Print out the unredacted Epstein Files and tape them to the Kennedy Center. Boom! His name will be all over the place.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 18/09/2026
If Trump really wants his name on The Kennedy Center he should try earning it the way Kennedy did.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14/09/2026
I fucking hate "I don't take sides" people, which is just siding with the oppressor and hoping you'll have plausible deniability. You're not apolitical, you're not neutral, you're just doing this:
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Any "compromise" on trans rights is both deeply wrong in itself and lays groundwork for worse. Sports bans? Segregate us from part of public life, establish legal grounds for further discrimination. Healthcare bans for trans kids? More trans kids die and trans healthcare as a whole is endangered.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026
Now is a good time for you to sign the petition demanding that the criminal who conspired to endanger first responders, and supported insurrection and election denial, be prohibited from attending 9/11 observances and disrespecting survivors and the city: c.org/DWLWktyGcj
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Sign the Petition
Ban Rudy Giuliani from 9/11 observances
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I continue to maintain my deeply unpopular position that this man’s time & our democracy would be better served by fewer glib speeches & jokes about “faculty lounges” & more direct denunciation of the lawless authoritarianism & blunt calls for Trump’s immediate impeachment, removal, or resignation.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/08/2026
what if Canada just declared this America's flag, and started using it on their literature and websites
the American flag except the stripes have been made to look like a circus tent
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When this nation’s first president chopped down one cherry tree, he was honest and contrite. When the current president chopped down a slew of cherry trees, he did so in violation of a court order—and didn’t give a shit.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The vast majority of Democrats have no idea who Hassan Piker is. Here's why they need to denounce him anyway.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/08/2026
Trans youth deserve the freedom to be themselves.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Liberals say that the leader of our democracy should not be controlled by a 35-year-old stalker with no security clearance. They’re wrong— the leader of our republic should not be controlled by a 35-year-old stalker with no security clearance
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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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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
DO 👏 NOT 👏 BOTHER 👏 ME 👏 UNTIL 👏 HE'S 👏 FUCKING 👏 DEAD
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 23/08/2026
MAGA recalls the start of the COVID pandemic as a time when the President forced them to be indoors 24/7 and Biden was President, neither of which actually happened.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If the ballroom gets built, the next President should just start knocking down the Supreme Court building one day. Throw up some cubicles in the ballroom and tell them they can work out of there until a new one is built.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
1. Lately, I have been thinking about Pat Robertson. Yes, the very same. The late televangelist was in the habit of accusing America of falling away from the straight and narrow when there was a natural disaster. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods – these were God's punishment, he would say. For what?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Karoline, No Surfer girl Leavitt had fun fun fun sending out good vibrations from the sloop Don T, but I guess she just wasn't made for these times. Will she sail on to kokomo for a surf safari or help like Rona at the RNC? God only knows. by Maureen Dowd
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Sarcasmo @sarcasmodemiami.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Difficult to imagine the dance here. The reason for ANY press secretary is to create reasons for the press to positively spin the administration’s actions. This SHOULD leave the press dripping w/ suspicion & contempt at being played. That it doesn’t is an indictment & smacks of systemic collusion.
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Sarcasmo @sarcasmodemiami.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
To carry this to its most obvious conclusion, the WH press demands content & perks. It punishes an administration that doesn’t provide both. In return, it prints the administration line & asks the easy questions. That’s the dance. It’s just grotesque to imagine.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
so humbling to know that the public has brave journalistic heroes working on their behalf to surface such hidden yet uncontroversial insights as "the people who lie relentlessly in public are actually candid and helpful when nobody is watching"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is it right here. How can you trust a reporter who is either a.) a rube or b.) playing rube for the benefit of the subject they're covering. Neither is good!
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 07/08/2026
. @brianbeutler.bsky.social gets this right
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Biden made the right decision with problematic execution pulling out of Afghanistan and he was savaged for it daily. Trump makes one of the worst strategic decisions in U.S. history with catastrophic consequences and somehow the reaction seems milder. Am I wrong about that?
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/08/2026
There is no God.
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
…and they’ll know you are Christians by your love, by your love/and they’ll know you are by your love…” 🎶 🎶 religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p... Updates
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'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith
(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I can’t imagine a more personally humiliating thing than to be Chotiner’d by Douthat. Astonishing.
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Jon @joniceeyes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A politician here in Canada was once asked about parental rights over their children. He said, "In Canada, parents don't have rights. They have responsibilities." The CHILD has rights. A parent has the responsibility to uphold those rights. Full stop.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
i am OK charging parents with felonies when they deny their infants basic life saving medical care. I don't care what they believe.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/07/2026
Elected Ds need to realize that we are not going back to "normal" after we defeat Trump. We're taxing billionaires out of existence and destroying their undemocratic, obscene, disproportional influence on politics in this country. If you're cozying up to billionaires as a D, your career will end.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Democrats should demand that Mitch McConnell produce his long-form life certificate.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It's July 2nd...the deadline for Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan's order in my lawsuit over the Epstein Files. Let's see what his "compliance" looks like today... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction – #15 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
ORDER granting 9 Motion for Preliminary Injunction. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 6/25/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 06/25/2026)
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This World Cup we're being out-fanned on every level
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
First they came for me. Like, right away. I tried saying "Don't you have some trade unionists or gypsies or something to deal with?", I tried giving them names, but they weren't interested.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Literally manifesting a united front against the will of their own constiuency with a swiftness and vigor they could not muster to even feign resistance to open fascism
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ilana Glazer and I are both proud Jewish New Yorkers who believe unapologetically that our safety is inextricably bound up with that of our neighbors, including Palestinians. And that AIPAC and the candidates they support aren’t making any of us safer or freer.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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