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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 13h
We need a party that starts out with a sense of its own convictions: Good government, an equitable and just society, zero tolerance for dictators, capitalist vultures, and foreign genociders. This is basic human morality and people are showing right now that this is what they thirst for.
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My “bond markets are functioning in an orderly manner" statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Netanyahu has killed plenty. His coalition and Hamas are in a lurid embrace. They need each other to maintain power and authority and to hold the mass of sane Arabs and Jews -- and the necessity of a shared future -- trapped between them.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Procedural hardball is disruptive, but makes perfect sense from a radical perspective. The whole question is whether there’s a good basis for radicalization. Given [gestures everywhere] the answer’s clearly yes. www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is that a threat, @wired.com ?
Wired paywall message says “You've read your last free article.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.
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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
every argument that trans allies should withhold their vote from Talarico would also have told abolitionists to shun Lincoln, equal rights advocate to avoid LBJ, and gay marriage proponents to oppose Obama
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
This new, shocking action by the US Administration just one part of a portfolio of severe taxes and restrictions on high-skill immigration to the United States. The resulting blow to our ability to attract global talent, and thus for the US economy to innovate & grow, will be terrible & permanent.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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unpersoned.bsky.social @unpersoned.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nothing in this @cnn.com piece about Elon Musk's extremist views and the questions and complications they will surely bring for Ken Paxton who must, of course, now be asked to disavow the support of a racist who advocates the Great Replacement Theory and other white nationalist ideas. Not a word.
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Musk has started spending money to help Ken Paxton. Will it help change the course of the Texas Senate race? | CNN Politics
For months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s beyond outrageous that doesn’t happen. He’s their largest donor! Who went to DC and destroyed countless government services with an algorithm!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When is the last a Republican was even asked to defend spending? The surest sign the GOP controls the media narrative is how predictably the debt becomes an issue only when there’s a Democrat in the White House.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Will testosterone be mandatory and vaccines optional?
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/07/2026
We need a War on White Collar Crime
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2026
This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.
1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Get ready for some MARBLE COLUMNS!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
CNN montage of Trump attacking others claiming they have profited from being in office.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
America has gotten to that last part of Monopoly where the game is effectively over and we're all just watching the Elites suck up all the money, nobody else is allowed to really keep playing the game & we're all getting more pissed by the minute. Flip the damn board over already.
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The whole UK loves New PM, a charismatic go-getter that can build consensus! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the PM has resigned.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michelle Obama: "That's where the truth of this country lies. Not in grabbing as much as we can get for ourselves. Or knocking folks down to prop ourselves up. But in the overwhelming goodness, the relentless striving, the quiet dignity, that is inside all of us."
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026
One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Too much Dudamel? No such thing.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
They printed up banners like it’s a sporting event?
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Totally beside the point, but Peter is an extremely popular name in Hungary, and "Magyar" literally translates to “Hungarian.” It's like if the winner of the next presidential election were named “Joe American”. Talk about lazy writing.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2026
I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Dozens of people showing up at members’ town halls in 2009 was enough for The Media to declare the Tea Party Movement™️ as a key force in American politics — for years — as the Obama administration was getting going. Consider that when you see how those same papers cover today’s protests.
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Pam🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦💙💙 @roseblosum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
EVERYTHING HE DOES IS NOT A DISTRACTION FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES... MOST OF WHAT HE DOES IS BECAUSE HE'S AN IDIOT!!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
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jbrilliant.bsky.social @jbrilliant.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
BTW, where DO you go these days to see the current terror threat level.
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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This war on Iran is a case study in an administration that believes it has the means - and therefore the moral authority - to do whatever it wants. It could have assembled a case, enlisted allies, stuck to a script. But it can't be bothered, because it feels that to all be unnecessary.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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