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Jess @jessilin79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I want to believe we can make this happen, truly I do, and I'm willing to work to make it so, but man, have I lost faith in America.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like I’ve always said you gotta consentmaxx or else you’re gonna get justicemogged
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'd only be worried about a Trump coup if... a) They fired all the professional generals and replaced them with loyal hacks b) They brought Nat'l Guard troops from pro-Trump states into DC until 1/20/29 c) Trump was building a massive bunker with drones next to the White House wait a minute...
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"What is it about the story of a greedy, spiteful creature who becomes deformed by clinging onto a symbol of power that appeals to you?"
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
COMMENTARY: A whole lot of celebrities are loved. Dolly Parton loved you back.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
really difficult to wrap one's mind around the fact that they clearly don't care about the actual amount of tax; for them, it's the insult of being made to contribute to society in any way that they don't control. how dare we not beg them for individual crumbs
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/06/2026
I’m usually good, but when I think about the nonsense we’ve been living through, I get pissed off all over again. The morons who voted for Trump because they believed he would lower prices & end all wars got us a half-torn-down White House, a UFC cage on the South Lawn and an economy in the toilet.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trump announces "maybe I'll seize the capital of the US if voters displease me" and it'll be nothing more than a blip on the news at best
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Verily, he is One Special Boy, & enabling the imperial presidency like this was a grave constitutional mistake.
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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending
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Jerrad Alexander @conservingspace.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Because 2 x 0 = 0
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.
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Zeke Hernandez @profzeke.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Every time you drink out of a straw you’re giving a tiny blowjob
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Keep talking, pal.
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fraser ramon @fraserramon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
More like bring me the Verizon
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/05/2026
A lot has happened, but not much has changed.
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Pellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This hit me so hard this week.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI.  Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your are…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
You know, instead of debating how we should go overboard to protect the one man who's the most hated provocateur of malevolent violence in the entire nation, we could just remove him from office through the normal procedures.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Democrats did not want to do any mid-decade redistricting. It was Trump who started it in June 2025 with a phone call to Greg Abbott after more special election losses. Dems warned they’d respond. But Texas did it anyway - without the consent of the voters. Then Dems responded.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
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Krisi 🏳️‍⚧️ @primaryradical.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.
FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"I'm a cop, I don't understand the law" is literally one of the most on-brand things I have ever heard in my life
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
things can’t be this evil and this stupid at the same time
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They want to "liberate" us from all the things that make us who we are, that we both need and crave. "See, now you don't have to even live anymore," they say, feeding us into our battery cradles. "We've freed you! Now the AI can do all that pesky LIFE STUFF for you."
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I feel genuinely humiliated as an American
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
image from today's hearing
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jort harrison @crip.es · 07/02/2026
the hell did you just say to me you
human-grade turkey
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Like his Confederate forebears, Ted Cruz talked a big game, started a fight, got absolutely dog walked, then cried about how unfair it all was. A story in four images.
Ted Cruz
Newsroom
Press Releases
Published:11.25.2025
Sens. Cruz, Cornyn File Amicus Brief Backing Texas’ Emergency Application to Implement New Congressional Map
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, and John Cornyn (R-Texas) filed an amicus brief in support of the State of Texas’ emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of the district court injunction that barred Texas from implementing its new congressional district map. The Senators did so in part on the basis of the Purcell principle, which holds that courts should not change election rules shortly before an election.


Sen. Cruz said, “The Constitution entrusts redistricting matters to the states and to state legislators. The federal district court’s preliminary injunction was not made on the merits of the case, runs counter to precedent and to principles of federalism, and undermines the prerogatives of Texas lawmakers and the will of Texas voters. The Supreme Court should stay that preliminary injunction, and do so expeditiously in order to provide certainty in our election maps and rules as we approach deadlines for the 2026 election.”Newsweek: Ted Cruz has proposed that Texas extend the state's Republican advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives to a full Democratic wipeout if Gavin Newsom goes ahead with a proposal to redraft congressional maps in his state in response to a similar plan by Republicans in Texas.@tedcruz on X: A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy.

47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 

52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. 

(By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.)@SenLouiseLucas on X: You all started it and we fucking finished it.

@tedcruz on X: A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy.

47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 

52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. 

(By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.)

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
i agree with this, as long as by “take accountability” you mean “prepare your horrid souls for damnation because you will find no quarter on this Earth”
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."
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