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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
a regime of stupid, bigoted, sadistic goons
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the number of 2024 Trump voters in Los Angeles County alone exceeeds the entire populations of Wyoming, both Dakotas, Montana, Alaska, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, and the District of Columbia (respectively, not combined).
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the number of 2024 Trump voters in Los Angeles County exceeeds the entire populations of Wyoming, both Dakotas, Montana, Alaska, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, and the District of Columbia (respectively, not combined).
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truth
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Roberts is not a figure embarked on a principled project of expanding executive power who can be excused for being unable to predict how those principles later abused. The abuse is occurring in real time. Many of the requests for expanded power are coming from the abuser.
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the “pro life” party
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these people are monsters
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/10/2026
Tennessee remains a horror show run by the world's most repulsive people.
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‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute woman after 2 lethal injections
Christa Pike’s attorneys said she was being treated at a hospital but her condition is unknown. May Martinez,, the mother of the murdered teenager Colleen Slemmer, called the botched execution “a mess...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Graphic design is my passion" -- Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.
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Fari Wills ackoukod yes personal relationhip with Nathan Wado
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*SIgh*
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations theintercept.com/2026/09/29/i...
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Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations
The Trump administration is fighting to keep up "third-country" deportation flights. We examined the private contractors profiting from these abuses.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DHS SAVE database has long and documented history of producing false positives of non-citizens voting, leading to sensational headlines of alleged voter fraud that turn out to be untrue on closer inspection. In St. Louis County, MO, for example at least 81% of the names flagged were incorrect
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Republicans have helped a senile narcissist destroy our economy, our system of laws, and our standing in the world. But my liberal neighbor has one of those stupid "Coexist" bumper stickers on her Subaru. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It is unfortunately in the best long-term interests of the United States for the rest of the world to treat us as a rogue state and make concerted plans to rein us in.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/08/2026
I mean, hindsight now, but perhaps next time we shouldn't put a failed casino owner/reality TV show host, and a cable news weekend anchor run the most powerful military in the world?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Single-payer is treated as a radical idea today that the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are too chicken shit to stand behind. 54 years ago, it was just the next logical step for a party that had already delivered Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“We” did not lose a war with “Iran.” The U.S. govt, seeking to become a regime, lost a war with the Iranian regime. Both have long histories of murderousness toward the people in their immediate control. Both are fossil fuel pyramid schemes, exchanging all of our futures for short-term vanities.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Liberals say that our democracy is on life support. They're wrong—our republic is on life support.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Get set for ethnic cleansing in Ohio. Our country has become a carnival of hatred and cruelty.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Explaining the American Collapse in 2060: "so, basically, everyone on the right went insane after they let a Black centre-left president into office"
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New: On Monday, HHS withdrew guidance reminding nursing-home owners they can’t impede residents from voting. The administration replaced it with a new memo alluding to instances when Republicans sicced sheriffs and prosecutors on people helping nursing-home residents vote.
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Donald Trump Doesn't Want Nursing Home Residents To Vote
He's trying to intimidate election officials, and people who run and oversee long-term care facilities, out of helping infirm voters cast their ballots. And that's only the beginning.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Given Trump's track record on tariffs, the headlines ought to be more conditional. Reminder: presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-...
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The Trump regime should be covered as a criminal enterprise | Press Watch
It’s not a one-off when he does something flatly illegal. It’s his M.O.
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oh wow it turns out the guy who never tells the truth and never experiences consequences for lying wasn’t telling the truth; let’s see if he experiences any consequences for lying.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We have thrown massive amounts of money at expanding a goon squad no decent person would want to be part of. Unsurprisingly, it is now full of poorly-trained, psychologically unfit, violence-prone amoral thugs
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The actual enshittification of government
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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jpbernbach @jpbernbach.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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