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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Why "Cold War liberalism" (or, some of the thinkers associated with that label) is worth revisiting today. With many thanks to @jkuznicki.bsky.social and his colleagues at liberalism.org. www.liberalism.org/p/the-hard-w...

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The Hard-Won Lessons of Cold War Liberalism

Twentieth-century liberal intellectuals stood firm against the totalizing ideologies of left and right. Their insights remain valuable today.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

From our FirstView: The Politics of Privilege: Discrimination, Monopolized Social Rights, and Reform by @andysabl.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Greenwatergate

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Urgent policing at the reflecting pool in DC. A tourist touched the water.

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Many of us fall into the fallacy of assuming that, if grotesquely venal, selfish and cruel figures achieve success (political or financial), they must also be very clever. Trump and Netanyahu are salutary reminders that quite often the opposite is true.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 14/06/2026

A multicultural city of millions experiencing and sharing joy together is the quintessential symbol of why the far right's worldview is such a sad failure, one that can occasionally gain temporary power, but will always be a historical failure clung to only by failed people. Diversity is strength.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It's not often that a living man gets such a vivid preview of how he will be mourned.

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

America waits for its 250th Anniversary to begin with a symbolic end to the Imperial Presidency and a restoration of both the rule of law and democracy.

Construction workers building more scaffolding above the 6th level to stabilize the structure so that when they remove Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center, the torques don't make the structure unstable.

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

4.3 million people have already been dropped from Snap benefits and with 14 million children already living in food insecure households they have made food pantries working past capacity. This can't continue. Vote blue everyone. #USDemocracy www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Millions lose SNAP benefits as One Big Beautiful Bill’s stricter requirements kick in

SNAP enrollment has fallen sharply nationwide since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last summer. More than 3.5 million people have lost access to the food assistance, as states implement...

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It took them less time to take down the East Wing

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 04/06/2026

Who could possibly have anticipated the shocking revelation that Graham Platner may have harmed women? Who among us might possibly have predicted this? Surely no one. Surely this is utterly unforeseeable, with zero warning signs

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Indeed -- but there is a way to stop him. It's impeachment; and the fact that it is out of the question -- and that even with a flipped House, the Senate is unlikely to convict -- suggests something has gone deeply wrong with our system.

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thanks to @nescio13.bsky.social for the shoutout in this very interesting post. A thread in response: Thinking of the critique of Cold War liberalism in terms of meaning in history & collective worldmaking is illuminating.

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm not sure what's funnier/more tellingly apt: that Vanilla Ice is the only artist who is actually willing to embrace the Trump music festival, or that the festival has booked a fake version of famous fakers Milli Vanilli.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is outrageous. It’s just pure largesse for the president’s family, cronies, and street thugs. The corruption is mind-blowing.

According to ABC, the settlement would create a
"commission" with "total authority" to settle
"claims" brought by those who allege such weaponization. Per ABC, this not only includes the insurrectionists; it could even settle purported claims by "entities associated with President Trump himself." By all indications it would operate with little-to-no congressional oversight.

In our interview, Raskin pointed out other glaringly corrupt aspects to this. He noted that Treasury's Judgment Fund is supposed to dole out its settlements and lawsuit judgments in accordance with actually existing court or administrative proceedings involving genuine victims of the government. As Raskin's staff notes, depending on the details, the relevant agencies and government officials must sign off on these payments, and they're disclosed to Congress and the public.

But with the new fund, it's not clear the payments will look anything like this. It appears to transfer control over its payments to Trump alone, Raskin's staff says, and decouples them entirely from all those agency processes.

"The Judgment Fund exists to settle valid judgments against the United States government," Raskin told me. Trump and his allies, Raskin said, are "trying to take money from the Judgment Fund while eliminating any controls and oversight" and putting it under Trump's "direct unilateral control."

On top of that, Raskin added, this circumvents Congress in another way, since Congress never voted to create a fund structured this way.
Which potentially renders it unconstitutional, too.

Ultimately, this story also helps explain the sordid political economy of MAGA fascism. As writer John Ganz has explained, Trump uses the government in various ways to support his coalition's "material basis." For instance, the massive scaling up of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ganz notes, functions as "an employment program for the
Trumpenproletarian mob," as a key component of the "class composition of actually existing fascism."

This new MAGA slush fund seems very much in this vein, particularly if it hands out payments to January 6 rioters. As Raskin put it to me, Trump and his lawyers "are figuring out a way to refund the January 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle."

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 10/05/2026

Despite clear moral justification, the Civil Rights activists did not pick every possible fight on every possible front. This is because choosing your battles isn’t defeatist, it is the opposite. It’s the thing you do when you want to win.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When the people's justice includes executing lemonade sellers and nuns, something has gone badly wrong.

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

… what you saw as a student — imposing buildings full of imposing professors and administrators with imposing power and prestige — perhaps you can be forgiven for not knowing that universities are held together with sticks and duct tape and an almost perverse resolution to make it work.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

By this same logic, Donald Trump bears direct personal responsibility for the murder of Melissa Hortman, the assault on Paul Pelosi, the guy who showed up armed at the Obamas, the attempted pipe bombing of several prominent Democrats, the January 6th rioters who assaulted cops, and many many more.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 27/04/2026

#OpenAccess from The Review of Politics - Between Philosophy and Culture, A Symposium on Sungmoon Kim’s Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy - cup.org/4t8mZtu - Chungjae Lee #FirstView

The image features a two-toned background, with the top half in dark blue and the bottom half in yellow. The text reads "The Review of Politics" in large letters and "#OpenAccess" below.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 26/04/2026

Honestly, it's supremely irresponsible to the *staff* to keep this disgusting panto act going for a minute longer. No decent person should blame them if they all walked out on a wildcat strike.

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

From the initial vid I had noticed how quickly JD had hightailed it out; I hadn't twigged that POTUS had stumbled and fallen while being evacuated. That, plus the CBS anchor/chair of WHCA crawling on hands and knees after POTUS, is all just too apt. Reality has gotten too symbolically on-the-nose.

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The equivalent of a "Tizla strategy" for the US would be Mitt Romney running on a platform of overturning Citizens United, banning gerrymandering, court reform, and jailing half the administration. And I mean, if that were how ol' Mittens were rolling, I'd at least hear him out!

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hungary's incoming health minister is SO much better than RFK Jr.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orban called Magyar to congratulate Magyar - and admitted defeat to his supporters. It's over. Peter Magyar and his Tisza Party wins with such an overwhelming victory that he has two-thirds of the seats in the parliament and can undo Orban's autocratic legalism!

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

JD Vance has two jobs this weekend: 1) Surrender to Iran without it looking too much like surrender or set up a resumption of war without it looking too much like America failing to control events 2) Get Orban reelected in Hungary

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Look everyone, we need to face the facts: Vance and Goodwin etc were right and Hungary is in fact a model to look to!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians. You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did. 👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/04/2026

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Now Tisza projected at 138 seats against 54 of Orban’s Fidesz. If these numbers are confirmed, this is a larger victory than Orbàn’s 2010 landslide, which allowed him to change the 🇭🇺Constitution and start backsliding towards an illiberal democracy. A historic day.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...

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András Schiff - Schubert - Hungarian Melody in B minor, D 817

YouTube video by Classical Vault 1

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Paul Cotterill @bickerrecord.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize for Literature and Viktor Mihály Orbán loses a general election. Pretty good few months for Hungary.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Voting harder just gave the Hungarian pro-democracy opposition everything they need to dispossess Orban's entire political machine, rip up Orban's antidemocratic 2011 constitution, and restore liberal democracy. Vote hard enough and Trump will meet a similar fate.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"The vote on April 12 is Hungary’s best chance in 16 years to choose democracy over autocracy. It may not come again." Excellent piece by Bálint Magyar and madlovicsb.bsky.social that lays out the stakes of Sunday's election in Hungary.

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A Last Chance for Hungary

Orban’s mafia state could fall—or cement itself.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

1. Something that’s been genuinely painful to come across on Instagram is the accounts of Iranian influencers I’ve followed for years. I click on their profiles, scroll through their grids, and realize their last post was in December. Of course, it’s understandable.

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