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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one thing i have learned from trump is that literally every word procopius and suetonius wrote was literally true

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The president of the United States standing in front of the world and saying "To the victor belong the spoils" is just beyond comprehension. The fool is going to end the world unless we end his tyrannical reign first

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The one thing I can say is that I’m completely Suetonius pilled now. Tiberius tortured a man with a fish. Caligula declared war on the ocean and made his horse consul. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. They did all of this because they were insane and bad people.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the Trump administration is obsessed with doing the kind of thing which actual authoritarian states only do in a panic when on the brink of collapse, because they think that they are done out of strength rather than weakness

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

imagine someone trying to give u this as change lol

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 31/08/2026

Donald Trump if he isn’t interior decorating

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It doesn't really sink in how insane the Roman Empire was until you write a sentence like "We have the skeleton of a man in York who was bitten by a lion."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As a society none of Trump’s insanity is impossible to parse or react to. The problem is that our feckless elites are scared of humiliating themselves by expressing an appropriate amount of alarm, which dumps the burden on to the rest of us, where it becomes unmanageable

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've said this before but it's surreal that basically the only policy issue that Donald Trump cares about (tariffs) is something he fundamentally misunderstands. It's like a rocket scientist who thinks gravity is actually a kind of cheese.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026

let him build the ballroom and then the next president can sell tickets to a public demolition or live stream a drone strike on the facility

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026

early virginia primary you say

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Don't like the way this administration openly flirts with disunion to own the libs.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

good morning mr president, heres your daily list of things you can do to make everyones life worse but will make you the center of attention

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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Fourth and happy 250th. I find myself re-reading FDR’s third inaugural address often these days. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...

Lives of Nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is threescore years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

There are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as a form of government and a frame of life, is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and artificial fate that, for some unexplained reason, tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future—and that freedom is an ebbing tide.

But we Americans know that this is not true.

Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock—but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.

These later years have been living years—fruitful years for the people of this democracy. For they have brought to us greater security and, I hope, a better understanding that life's ideals are to be measured in other than material things.

Most vital to our present and to our future is this experience of a democracy which successfully survived crisis at home; put away many evil things; built new structures on enduring lines; and, through it all, maintained the fact of its democracy.

For action has been taken within the three-way framework of the Constitution of the United States. The coordinate branches of the Government continue freely to function. The Bill of Rights remains inviolate. The freedom of elections is wholly maintained. Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught.

No, democracy is not dying.

We know it because we have seen it revive—and grow.

We know it cannot die—because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise—an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority.

We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.

We know it because, if we look below the surface, we sense it still spreading on every continent—for it is the most humane, the most advanced, and in the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society.

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

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I oftentimes understand why Athens felt it necessary to have a political mechanism to permanently expel people from their polity.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

“On her view, Congress could commandeer the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, most (if not all) of the Department of Justice, and a number of other agencies besides. Indeed, if Slaughter were correct, then it is not clear why Congress would need to allow the President any say in firings at all”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads up in the middle of the night tending newborns or downplaying nightmares or providing cups of water or massaging growing pains or fretting over fevers or simply looking at their kiddos sleeping and thinking how lucky they are to be parents.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The only truly consistent thing about Trump is that he will inevitably make fools of everyone who supports him.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

people make fun of Sun Tzu for being not terribly profound stuff like "do not needlessly anger your allies before you need them" but you do kinda gotta hand it to the guy, White House would have been well served with someone who knew those things

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/06/2026

Let's Leave It Up To The States To Decide vs You Guys Always Say That Right Before Starting A Civil War About It

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The images of people taking selfies in front of the Kennedy center as they take his name off is a foreshadowing of the celebrations when it happens and the White House knows it.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.

Weeks ago, I warned that vacating the District Court’s
injunction in these cases would “unleash chaos and . . . con-
fuse voters.” Caster, 608 U. S., at ___ (dissenting opinion)
(slip op., at 4). Nevertheless, the Court forged ahead. Now
the Court is squarely faced with a record of the turmoil it
has caused and the harm it has wrought. Yet just as Ala-
bama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court to-
day doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the
rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate
equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/05/2026

i now live in fear of the Brain Damage That Makes You Republican

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The corruption of our civic institutions has grown so intense that it's difficult to talk about appropriate remedies while staying within the bounds of propriety.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

also just Really Not A Fan of knowing that the base political stability i have taken for granted my entire life, that everyone in my family and around me has taken for granted, is definitely under a lot of strain in a way it hasn't for a very long time

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Four VA Supreme Court justices decided to ignore the definition of election in constitution & code. Article IV, Sec. 3: “the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November.” § 24.2-101: "'General election' means an election held in the Commonwealth on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November"

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is the aspect of this era I think historians are going to chew over most. We’ve had corrupt and cruel and demagogic politicians in the past, though rarely to this extent. But the level of shameless immaturity seems new. None of these people behave like… adults.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

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Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District

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Kenny Keil @kennykeil.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

[guy who missed the first few seconds of Star Wars] whoa is this happening right now? In our galaxy??

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

the fact of the matter is those amendments write a principle of anti subordination into the constitution and empower congress to do whatever is necessary and proper to uproot subordination and its effects.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2026

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If I was a Democrat in Congress tomorrow I’m releasing a statement to the press announcing that we are in a national emergency, because the chief executive has lost his grip on reality and cannot do the job, and until he leaves his office, removing him from power will be my sole, overriding focus.

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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/04/2026

we should treat these pardons as null and void as far as i am concerned www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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