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Jeremy Press

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Chicagoan, swimmer, lover of long walks on the beach and off short piers.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I think what they’re really concerned about is that left politics *will* resonate — and you’ll have progressives and democratic socialists in office demanding that the Democratic Party leadership actually do something.”
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The Democrats’ “Woke” Panic and the Left’s Response
The victory of left-wing candidates in Democratic primary elections shows that voters want a different path. But party leaders don’t.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this starts off with him saying that you can't be a conservative lawyer if you belong to bar associations, and launches into a lengthy tirade about how the proper measure of a good nominee is doing expressly partisan legal work
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Abbott ads blaming the democratic nominee for the (very high) Texas property taxes Abbott is responsible for are pretty impressive in a shamelessness way.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"G.O.P. Nominee in Texas Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him: Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that 'everybody’s numbers dropped' after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times."
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As kids say, I have a connection! Sarah Isgur lied about Pride Puppy, claiming it had "graphic sex stuff," that C was for "clamps," and every character wore leather chaps. When the illustrator pointed out that this was all untrue, she replied that the facts about our book weren't "legally relevant."
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/09/2026
Even the finest modern scientific instruments are incapable of measuring the levels of sweaty, pick-me desperation in the blog posts Josh Blackman is about to uncork
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Trump Gets Fifth Circuit Vacancy as Bush Appointee Steps Back
President Donald Trump will have another opportunity to appoint a judge to the influential US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Donno if anyone’s said this but the fact Megan McArdle had to intensively (and obsessively) search to find out if she’d been cancelled is at least some evidence that “cancellation” as these dim bulbs use it is meaningless.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
15 year olds need to get out of their bubbles and listen to pop country, watch Landman, and eat a diet of 50-60% beef tallow
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A picture of a smiling Doctor Strangelove, from the Stanley Kubrick movie of the same name.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
get in kids, we’re launching the University of Austin: Sex Trafficking Campus
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a reason there's an under-reported drumb-beat of calls to repeal the 19th Amendment in GOP circles.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026
Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quickly becoming as big a disappointment as Durbin.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know I trash the Federalist Society a lot (a lot). Just know that when I do it’s because nearly every single prominent person in their ranks is just like (or wants to be just like) this pathetic little worm of a human being.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I can’t help but think that Mitch’s current physical condition and life circumstances are exactly a reflection of the present state of the GOP (and that the universe is punishing him and them for these choices).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In every Kol Nidre service I’ve attended, a rabbi (aware of the long history of antisemites saying this) always points out that the Kol Nidre prayer absolutely does not mean you have moral or legal permission to lie. One might note, eg, that bearing false witness is one of our top ten no-nos.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
convicular
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Chicagoans! Come to The Onion's tent at RiotFest today and try some HogWater. It smells like one thing and tastes like another, and if you have two you WILL see Abraham Lincoln. It has a truly Tomacco-esque flavor profile! Come try it!
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Spooky Hallowe'en Name @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Aslan has been renamed to Translan.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The fact that this is imaginary is perfect. The whole premise is based on a fantasy that the optimal form of public education is the midpoint of a polarized society. Just split the difference between the science of climate change and the lobby of denialism.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lmao you’ve got to be fucking goddamn kidding me
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight up confessing to war crimes now.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The problem is that our current crop of politicians (the ones who could and should hold him accountable) don’t have a ton of credibility on this specific issue.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There’s research which carefully assesses all evidence before coming to a conclusion. There’s confirmation bias, which comes to a conclusion first, then looks for evidence to ‘prove’ it. Then there’s confirmation fraud which uses AI to make up studies that would support you if they existed.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
what if we just let every resident of chicago be mayor for a day
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, exhibiting real "pick me" energy, thinks maybe all of this is within the USPS's statutory authority (in other words, keep trying, fellas! The 2028 election cycle is coming up!)
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Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey: Pick Me, Choose Me
ALT: Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey: Pick Me, Choose Me
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“SCOTUS blocks Trump” and “Thomas and Alito dissent” is redundant. The latter is automatically implied by the former.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Goddamn, it’s hard to imagine how I could possibly hate Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas any more than I do right now.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The gang's all here
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Billionaires are gigantic pieces of shit, part infinity.
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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/09/2026
Note on new YouGov poll in Iowa: Dem gov cand Rob Sand, who has spoken out against unlawful deportations, is doing much better against his opponent (+10) than Josh Turek (+4), who has taken the centrist/Third Way/Searchlight talking points on immigration d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/io...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 11/09/2026
To give you a sense of how nervous the conservative establishment is about losing power, the WSJ opinion section has a hilariously baffling column claiming that changing the size of the Supreme Court, a thing Congress has done a half-dozen times, is actually SECRETLY unconstitutional.
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“Is Court Packing Constitutional?” and Other Questions Easily Answered By Reading the Constitution
The Constitution empowers Congress to set the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Only one columnist dares to ask: What if it didn’t?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Goddamn fucking quislings.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.
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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This man won his primary by 30 points.
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