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@jordancurran.bsky.social
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7h
Also, Brazil has nationwide electronic voting machines. Funny how he never mentions that.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reporters need to start responding: "No, you did not inherit higher prices, Mr. Trump. And, no, you have not brought those prices down. Why are you being so brazenly dishonest to the American people? You think they never visit stores and gas stations?"
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2026
“We don’t want the tech billionaires' post-human reality. We want this world. The soil between our toes.” Rachel Millward on choosing a future built for people, not billionaires.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And one more time, prescient JP Stevens dissent: “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law”
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I said at the time, “Milhoan wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread. “This is so dangerous as to approach criminality”. And here we are, with RFK Jr. conducting his experiment on Americans.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
this is well worth your 12 mins
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Instant reference desk on the Dred Scott case: "Among constitutional scholars, Scott v. Sandford is widely considered the worst decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court."
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Dred Scott decision | Definition, History, Summary, Significance, & Facts | Britannica
Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Amer...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s objectively stupid strategy, not to mention immoral
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today the Islamic Republic of Iran essentially declared that Donald Trump is too mentally deranged and pathologically deceitful to negotiate with... so they won't. And you know what? They're right. That's a normal, rational, adult position. So why don't we see it inside the US?
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🧊✈️ ABORTED TAKEOFF ‼️😲 👉 An ICE-chartered Air Wisconsin jet (N454AW) aborts takeoff Sunday afternoon from Dallas Love Field. Nobody was harmed today, but in the event of an emergency the FAA standard window for airplane evacuation is 90 seconds—all but impossible when the passengers are shackled 👀
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is why I find the 'AI has uses' or the 'AI is marketed wrong' so dumb. Of course everything comes with a trade off, but, you can't possibly think that what few things it can do is worth being "the biggest climate polluter in the US." That seems absolutely insane
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026
El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One America, where the man on the left is so ignorant he had to pay someone else to take the SAT for him. Another America, where the man on the right is a Rhodes Scholar.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
WSJ calls a right-wing hoax exactly what it is. And offers solid insights into the realities of the immigration issue affecting Mediterranean Europe. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
wsj.com
Essay | The Spanish Border Chaos Illusion: Europe’s Borders Are Finally Working
Viral images of 72,000 migrants stampeding into Ceuta looked like a security collapse. In reality it revealed Europe’s much harder line on immigration.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Compare the headline with this from the second paragraph: “But, as they have time and time again during Mr. Trump’s second term, Republicans ultimately swallowed their reservations and fell in line behind the president’s wishes.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...
nytimes.com
Blanche Is Confirmed as Attorney General After Overcoming G.O.P. Concerns
Todd Blanche, who has served as acting attorney general since April, eked out Senate approval, despite growing unease about his willingness to rein in President Trump.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“False” is wildly insufficient here. This is a vile racist smear.
NYT “fact check” on homepage: “Abdul El-Sayed ‘ believes America deserved 9/11.’ Mike Rogers, Republican candidate for Senate, referring to his Democratic opponent.
This is false.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/08/2026
Where is the evidence that Trump actually wants to rebuild US manufacturing, and how is destroying solar power in the US going to achieve that? It’s stunning how media normalizes and whitewashes Trump‘s efforts to destroy the US.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/08/2026
"If the best they've got … is to point to my name and say that they can't pronounce it, then I think we're going to have a pretty good time over the next 13 weeks." –@abdulelsayed.bsky.social Full interview: www.democracynow.org/2026/8/7/abdul…
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Adul El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan and holds a PhD from Oxford (that's in England, not in Mississippi), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He's a leading US public health expert. You, Tuberville, are motivated by just one thing: racism. It permeates your innermost self and defines you.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/08/2026
update: they still haven't retracted their wildly misleading X posts
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
. @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu: "Hardly anyone will ask why it is that so many people are so desperate to move that they will risk their lives. Few will mourn the dead."
theatlantic.com
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is ethnic cleansing.
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Haitians face arrest and deportation after US removes TPS protections
DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin says ‘We’re going after them right now’ despite threat of violence in home country
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is another form of disenfranchisement. It's insane that American voters have no recourse other than the polls.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There’s a strategy behind his lies
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.
Zack Polanski calls for higher taxes on oil and gas profits to fund wildfire prevention
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/08/2026
This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
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SMBernard @jordancurran.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
All AI intelligence ultimately becomes a weapon of some sort, in part because of who owns, controls, and benefits from it. Let’s deal with the diseases that have been killing millions for centuries before we invent new ones just in case. TB, malaria, cholera, Ebola, cancer….
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Onice upon a time, they did this same shtick with Italians and Jews
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Odds that this was actually written by Mitch McConnell or had any meaningful input from him: less than 1 in 100.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Meta needs to be broken up
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The biggest known Medicaid fraud scheme is in MS. Which I bet they never discuss. And the biggest known Medicare fraud scheme was run by the man talking in this clip.
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SMBernard @jordancurran.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Federal employees work for the people of the United States. They are not enforceable and violate every single legal right the employee has for illegal targeting based on political affiliation, whistleblowing, reporting to IGs….
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans students are taking out are paying off. 

Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest. For-profit programs will also be hit particularly hard.
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SMBernard @jordancurran.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Per NYT, “I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro, really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro,” [Trump] said. “She folded like an umbrella, and people get away with things. It’s a disgrace.” But … www.facebook.com/msnownews/vi...
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4M views · 17K reactions | WATCH: President #Trump abandons his open umbrella at the door to #AirForceOne while departing for #Indianapolis on Saturday. | MS NOW
WATCH: President #Trump abandons his open umbrella at the door to #AirForceOne while departing for #Indianapolis on Saturday.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
They should take him up on this offer.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan reports first 2 US deaths of people who had been sickened in outbreak of cyclospora.
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RFK Jr is NOT a scientist. RFK Jr is NOT a doctor. RFK Jr is NOT a researcher. RFK Jr is NOT qualified to discuss vaccines.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
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SMBernard @jordancurran.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There was a reason we stopped giving government jobs to people based on connections and contributions 100 years ago. Every day now we see how destructive the spoils system was/is.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Here's where the show's host should say: "If you don't stop lying, we're going to end this interview."
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 31/07/2026
When ICE tells you they’re targeting the worst of the worst, this is what they mean. ICE arrested Ameaka at BWI airport, and immediately moved her out of state to a GEO facility in Louisiana. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
Screenshot of two paragraphs of article text reading: "Ameaka began studying for a master's degree in public health in 2023 as a Fulbright scholar, according to her LinkedIn page. She's affiliated with the university's environmental health and engineering department and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, according to her faculty page on the university's website. She's also the founder of a peer education organization, BodyTalk, which aims to educate young women and girls about self-esteem, health and body positivity."
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
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