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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

maybe Platner can negatively polarize Fetterman into sucking slightly less

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/02/2026

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026

REP. STEIL: Some Dems demands put at risk the safety of members of law enforcement CNBC: You mean like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are? STEIL: Well, they're known to their supervisors CNBC: No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/02/2026

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Honestly, I think Obama might be a top five president in hindsight simply because it turned out this country was a shithole powderkeg and he managed to ride the tiger for eight years somehow. Last Roman type of thing.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/01/2026

it's a truly staggering measure of this country's profound cowardice that so many people are afraid of this pathetic loser

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…

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Michael Leibel @michaelleibel.com · 26/01/2026

Incredible paragraph in Robert F. Worth's excellent reporting from Minneapolis: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Text that says: Inside the schools, many administrators have been making their own preparations over the past year. Amanda Bauer, a teacher at a Minneapolis elementary school that has a large portion of immigrant students, told me that administrators informed parents last fall about their emergency plans for ICE raids by phone or in person, because they were already concerned about leaving email chains that could be mined by a hostile government.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Homan is the "bribes" wing of ICE as opposed to the "blood" wing of ICE. neither is good but we are rooting for Team Bribes in this matchup

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 25/01/2026

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

in no way the most important thing but it is incredibly jarring how many times people have opened up their devices in the last year to see autoplay videos of people being killed

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I give it 2 weeks max if nobody steps up

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"He had a gun so we're allowed to execute him" is another example of "the nose of the football brushed against the ground for one frame of video so it's not a catch" replay review thought substituting for legal analysis

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We don’t have a federal system, where state govt’s have separate sovereign powers, so that the governors of those states can plead with the President to call off his death squads. Extrajudicial killing is simply murder. Murder is a crime in Minnesota. The State of Minnesota can—MUST—address it.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

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Wrycke @wrycke.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If the dude who helped make Sarah Palin famous can learn and do better, we should expect no less from elected officials

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In a normal world, "US treasury secretary endorses American annexation of Canadian territory" should be front page news

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:

CrazyRossStrat just put windmills on Greenland then he won't want it anymore

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I feel like this official letter is an inflection point, convincing European elites that not only is Trump genuinely insane, but the people serving him in the U.S. government are either insane or too cowardly to object.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/01/2026

I’m pretty sure that 2026 is going to be a bloodbath for the GOP, though, and to illustrate how bad of an idea predictions are, a bloodbath opens up the possibility that President Hakeem Jeffries is running as an incumbent in 2028.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 19/01/2026

I'm actually completely done letting people make their fee-fees about Schumer my problem I'm telling you the truth: Schumer can't do anything and screaming at him like wittle babies makes you look pathetic. a bunch of you on this site are pathetic.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 12/01/2026

Meanwhile credit card lenders pre-market COF -11% SYF -10% JPM -3% BAC -2% AXP -2% I am honestly shocked people are taking rantings with no legal basis this way, incredible example of market inefficiency.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is the simplest brake on all of this and while I wouldn’t exactly put money on it I think if you are a constituent of any of these folks it is well worth putting whatever pressure you can on them

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12/01/2026

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

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John Lee @johnleemk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

So if Walz drops out that literally means the assassinations worked, right?

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I think this is one those things historians understand intuitively and a lot of non-historians struggle with. Research isn’t just about answering a question, it’s about framing a question. This is what we argue about! Wrestle with. Cry over. Drink away. Not how to answer, but what question to ask.

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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Two things: *They are only cutting these funds in seven states that lean Democratic *Support for people with disabilities was a relatively bipartisan position. Trump has repeatedly made clear he does not see them as people worthy of support or dignity.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

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John Lee @johnleemk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

If the US invades Venezuela it's hard to see how impeachment couldn't be on the table after 2026

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

us citizen shot by ICE officer after victim said 'not cool, bro'/'hey those are kids' is almost like a daily story at this point.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/10/2025

"Won't be thwarted by impotent or subservient institutions" is not synonymous with "doesn't matter". Jesus tap-dancing Christ.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

One thing that is clear from the kicker to this excellent WSJ story on the WH ballroom is that Trump himself can't believe how easy it is to run roughshod over rules and traditions. There's probably a metaphor in there somewhere. Free link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The president himself has marveled at his own ability to move forward, telling donors to the ballroom about a conversation he had with officials involved with the project.

“They said, ‘Sir, you can start tonight,’ ” Trump recalled during a recent dinner at the White House. “I said, ‘What are you talking about?’

“ ‘You have zero zoning conditions. You’re the president.’

“I said, ‘You got to be kidding.’ ”

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Even if you think some of Mamdani’s policy ideas are ill-conceived dorm room stuff (which I do), the level of performative panic around him just seems bizzarely, irrationally detached from any sense of what an NYC mayor can actually DO unilaterally.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/10/2025

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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