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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's an essay to be written about how the re-appropriation of ill-gotten wealth has been one of the biggest, but also most underrated, accomplishments of Taiwan's democratic transition, and that it is also something that the US can emulate.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

the reason my likely presidential candidate tier list has two people at the top - Ossoff and AOC - is that they are by far the most effective messengers of I Am Fucking Furious And There Must Be Consequences, which is the most deeply held conviction of the Dem base

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "The draft-dodging commander in chief builds a monument to himself while plunging us deeper into a war he doesn't know how to end or win"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026

"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the specific insanity of “what if i started a perpetually-escalating trade war with Canada two months before control of the senate is determined by voters in Maine and Michigan” is under-discussed here, just wild how unmoored from public opinion concerns the Trump admin has gotten

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

and a very classic thing, even when the original reason for hating her has been proved to be false, people insist that there must be *something* wrong about her, because otherwise they wouldn't hate her. They can't be the ones who were wrong. lots of stuff like this

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In today's episode of Only Democrats Have Power or Agency we learn that the US could end the Iran War and lower the price of gas and cost of living if only Democrats wld just stay quiet about Trump's humiliating defeat in his war of choice.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is the correct answer. The principle that every person living between the Mediterranean and the Jordan should have equal rights and self-determination is far more important than the number of states.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

kamala and pete both on board, 13 is table stakes for 2028

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Among many other things this is a good illustration of the necessity of untethering ideology and "fight" in intra-Democratic battles. The party is very united on fight, very divided on ideology. You unite on fight, let different constituencies/states find their center of gravity on ideology.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/07/2026

"this should be obvious" I mean personally I think it's pretty obvious that if people are depending on lifesaving medication you are providing to them and you stop providing it to them with no warning and no alternative you bear responsibility for their deaths

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This young man was valedictorian of his high school. He came to the U.S. when he was three. ICE held him for a month. Then they shipped him to El Salvador. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

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Texas Christian University student deported to El Salvador

Luis Andrade Garcia came to the United States from El Salvador around age 3. ICE deported him this week following an arrest in Arlington.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I keep saying that even if you don't care about ethics, going after purely civilian targets makes no sense from a military perspective. You're wasting munitions, time, and energy on meaningless targets instead of the people actively trying to kill you. It's war for people who are mental children.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder.

Bar chart titled "Voter fraud among Republican politicians vastly exceeds the public's. That rate is still just 1 in 850." The chart shows that 0.118% of Republican politicians (17 out of 14,442 DIME candidates from 2016–2026) have been credibly implicated in voter fraud. This rate is represented by a tall red bar that dwarfs the microscopic rates for the general electorate, making the politicians' rate 50x to 38,000x higher than the documented rates for everyone else.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A little tired of the ubermensch nonsense from a guy who would get his wallet run by a husky middle schooler bsky.app/profile/peip...

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026

every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Two new ICE killings this week and they aren’t even bothering to claim a legitimate reason for using deadly force. This is homicide as policy.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The entire Constitution speaks with a single voice on this question If you want to reject what it has to say, the thing you are rejecting is the Constitution. Full stop.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

the entire purpose of MAHA is to say if you're not healthy, it's your fault, and therefore the government should neither provide nor subsidize health insurance. If you don't want to die eat some raw meat and go on testosterone

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.

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FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe

The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the Trump administration’s investigation was justified, sources told MS NOW.

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EC @prairiecrab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This was his post and I don’t want to hear any lectures from those MAGA dirtbags on decorum….

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Here's another news story that will absolutely never be covered by mainstream media. When it comes to election fraud, it's always Republicans doing it.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10/07/2026

i don't like to pick fights on the internet. but i also don't like the tendency i've seen on here to whitewash what was actually said on 10/8. here, for instance, is what the people's forum had to say about 10/7: that it was heroic, liberatory, righteous.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And also this is Trump’s fault. Getting involved in the red card drama and then gloating about it. Cursed the team. Remember the only game Knicks lost in the playoffs was the one Trump attended.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2026

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

“This Court sees race when it wants to, and blinds itself to racism in most other cases,” Melissa Murray, a law professor at NYU, told me. “It’s hard to imagine how egregious the statement would have to be to be considered ‘overtly racial’.”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

He’s 100% right which is why we gotta start locking these freaks up and throwing away the keys

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/06/2026

it’s going to be so funny when he refills the reflecting pool a second time and the algae comes right back

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/06/2026

"the left has ceded all notions of patriotism to the right" is a real [citation needed] claim

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

i don't know how to make it clearer that there are 5,000 soldiers + federal agents + the 30-odd police forces that are always here + like the oklahoma sheriff's department for some reason, in an area that is *68 square miles* and has lower crime than many of the places these folks come from

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