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Liberal. Democrat. Tall. Celt. Husband. Wonk. On-My-Way-To-Oaktown! French Harp. Cancer/Cancer, now in remission! Passion. East Bay. Change. Show Up.

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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 8h
Fascist creep.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Beyond being a MAGA apparatchik he is also abominably stupid
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ai-yai-yai, Lucy!
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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Our podcast on immigration and Maria Bartiromo is a really good one. www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...
buzzsprout.com
Ep 763 | No Fair Remembering Stuff, Immigration - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
We review certain facts you'll want to have on hand when talking to MAGA relatives regarding the history of immigration in America.  Special props to Maria Bartiromo, a grandchild of open-border ...
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Natalie, trying to catch up to Drumpf…
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Look at how short all the jackets are in that photo - how did we let that his happen to men’s suits?? Wacky & foolish looking…
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shellenberger is a longtime well-known bad faith hack who works directly w/powerful minders to spin specific narratives. He is a PR flack, not a journalist. However, because he describes himself as a journalist with “2 million followers across platforms” people who aren’t familiar often respond.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The increasing racism, calls for violence, and efforts to suppress and corrupt the vote are horrific and indicative of growing GOP panic, but also exactly why the GOP needs to be crushed at the polls.
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They work great to fill hinge cutouts (painted) when you remove a door!
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A friend of the Vice President
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
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Four Legs Good @4legsrgood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a reminder that rape isn’t a crime of sex, it’s a use of sex to exert power. I hope these men are caught and spend the rest of their miserable lives in jail.
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint. I’m old; she was a beauty & a character.
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Newsom in a black shirt. So bad. So clueless. Hollywood.
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corporate cowardice. Ne’er will change. Pursestrings…
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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Republicans are coming for our reproductive rights, by banning abortion meds that are safer than Tylenol. Follow @jessicavalenti.bsky.social to stay in the fight. 👇 bsky.app/profile/jess...
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He’s a hateful stupid prick. He doesn’t “care” about ‘America people’ one iota. And the onrushingsenility amplifies his every narcissistic impulse. He slapped around the child he sexually assaulted!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is such a sick, evil thing to say. Especially because he’s not saying this as a joke. Just as sick that his supporters are laughing at it
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cowardly retreat under low testosterone Secty Defense and addled POTUS
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Threat of Iranian Drone Attack Prompted U.S. to Pull Bombers From U.K. Base
The planned attack was part of a broader Iranian plot to target the aircraft and kill American pilots at RAF Fairford, officials said.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The gratuitous cruelty of this order cannot possibly be regarded as anything even vaguely adjacent to any sane notion of justice," writes @sifill.bsky.social, possibly understating what the Supreme Court's six pro-fascism justices did last week. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...
sherrilyn.substack.com
The New SCOTUS Term Begins Today. But Let’s Not Move on Too Quickly From What SCOTUS Did Last Week
The new Supreme Court term begins this week.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...
annabower.substack.com
Read the “Cornell 7” Documents
I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rahm Emanuel deserves the political wilderness both for his morally bankrupt actions and his utterly worthless political instincts
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quit fronting this Faux Democrat. He’s a loser.
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kɛbɹah zmɪeʒd @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartfor...
en.wikipedia.org
Hartford Whalers - Wikipedia
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A historic 96-mile protest march is underway, as faith leaders make the multi-day journey from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the Mojave Desert, to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUo...
youtube.com
Faith leaders make HISTORIC 96-mile pilgrimage to protest ‘EXTREME CONDITIONS’ in ICE detention
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More here. Mask mandates now in place.
kyivindependent.com
Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia
The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RAISES NEW QUESTIONS, New York Times? RAISES NEW QUESTIONS? How about REVEALS THE DEPTH OF WITKOFF'S AND KUSHNER'S CORRUPTION?
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since taking office, Ken Paxton has spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on luxury travel, including to: — China — Israel — India — Italy — Malta — Taiwan — Albania — Greece — Palm Beach — South Africa — Dominican Republic — 25 trips to California — The 2024 Kentucky Derby
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's as if he is TRYING to lose the midterms. With historically low approval ratings, it would be wise to avoid the press altogether. Instead, he gives TIME magazine this bonkers, unhinged & l-e-n-g-t-h-y stream-of consciousness interview, pathologically lying throughout. shorturl.at/PMvVB
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lord, please rid us this of this excessive moron!!!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This transparent IDIOCY makes me long for radical change in my country. Every moment these stupid & immature buffoons are in charge is peril for America…
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My Mom always said I was the sneaky one to watch. 😉 Thanks to Tim Miller of The Bulwark for moving my race to his list of Dems Who Can Win Red America. Here's the rundown from The Bulwark:
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We need to love our kids more than we love our guns — and that starts with banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Every child deserves to grow up safe, and I’m proud to stand with Gabby and the GIFFORDS PAC in that fight.
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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, one of the most harmful abortion restrictions ever enacted. The Hyde Amendment prohibits coverage of abortion care for individuals enrolled in the federal Medicaid program, and disproportionately targets low-income people who rely on Medicaid.
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'll say it again: It doesn't matter what Democrats say now, or intend now. They will impeach Trump, because he won't give them any choice. So I hope they're preparing themselves for it.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread text messages when he attempted to corner former special counsel Jack Smith during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
talkingpointsmemo.com
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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John Hardy @johnhardy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stupid, and bonus points for being absolutely disinclined to read the freaking room…
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
missouri consistently churns out some of the stupidest republicans known to man
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I know you think you don't, but it's not all bad" is exactly what I would expect a rapist to say.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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