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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 05/10/2026

Do it. Whoever is keeping The LIst of all the things we have to do, put it on there.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Would have been nice, I think, if Jan Greenberg had responded, as virtually any of us would have, that "For your information, virtually every woman I know made crucial life decisions--in the workplace, the bedroom, the doctor's office, deciding where to live, etc.--in reliance on Roe. ... [4]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Countless women will now make different decisions about careers, education, relationships, and whether to try to become pregnant than they would have when Roe served as a backstop....For millions of women, Roe and Casey have been critical in giving them control of their bodies and their lives." [3]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just to be clear, this isn't much different from what he wrote in Dobbs. To which Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan aptly responded: "This is to ignore as judges what we know as men and women. The interests women have in Roe and Casey are perfectly, viscerally concrete." [2]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice

Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

what an asshole

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...

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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record

According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyway, happy First Monday everybody, this Supreme Court term is going to be an absolute nightmare, just like they will continue to be until we decide enough is enough and get serious about court reform.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week marks 10 years since I had an abortion. It wasn’t traumatic or heart wrenching—I just didn’t want to become a parent while 24 and living in a shoebox in Brooklyn. I will never be able to convey the rage I feel at the men who have spent the last decade making women less free and less equal.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kristi Noem characterized Renee Good as a “domestic terrorist” — and and Lisa Demuth thanked her

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jpgriffithmn.bsky.social @jpgriffithmn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agree. Bryan Stevenson said it best. It’s not about whether someone deserves to die. It’s about whether we as a society deserve to kill.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.

Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The timing on this ruling, as we are all learning more about the assault perpetrated by young men at Cornell, is just impeccable

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2026

TODAY: I'm introducing the Youth Voting Rights Act. Donald Trump is trying to limit young people from voting and going after campus polling places. If your vote didn’t matter, Trump wouldn't be doing this. We need to fight back.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ll just add to this thread, I guess

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is anyone keeping a tally of how many Republicans have hired Nazis for their congressional offices or campaigns?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In actual democracies, a National Voter Registration Day is completely unnecessary, since access to suffrage is easy, often automatic, & not the subject of endless pitched legal & political battles about its restriction.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Except… none of this happened?

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember when John Kerry got swiftboated for his ACTUAL Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts?

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 08/09/2026

Naloxone is saving opioid users who otherwise might have died, and getting the opioid antidote in the hands of people who need it most has been key. In Duluth, Harm Reduction Sisters are handing it out for free.

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In Duluth, advocates say wider access to anti-overdose drug is saving lives

Naloxone is saving opioid users in northeastern Minnesota who otherwise might have died. Getting the opioid antidote in the hands of people who need it most has been key. In Duluth, Harm Reduction Sis...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)

The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dr. Amy Acton, Democratic nominee for Gov. of Ohio, was the target of a failed attack by an armed individual this afternoon. I hope Republicans in Ohio and across the country will condemn this and make it clear political violence is always unacceptable. I know Trump will not.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A Florida grand jury found $10 million meant for poor kids' medicine was "misappropriated" and spent on political campaigns. That report sat sealed since January. It's public now. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-judge-to...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

People with elite media jobs live in like 6 American metros and never interact with people who don't have bachelors degrees (62%.) As a result, they create a fake form of Republicanism based on things that annoy them personally and the most genteel Republicans who exist only to interact with them.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Imagine if American newspapers survived and made punditry a distributed network of major metro columnists. You would hear about the Republican Party from the state flagship college grad who makes $95k writing for the Kansas City Star or the Arizona Republic about the things Republicans actually do.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

life comes at you fast

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Going to be honest, after MapQuest refused to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, we looked them up thinking we might have to print out directions like the old days. 😂

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/08/2026

Got a painfully high electric bill this summer? Record heat meant cranking the AC and watching your electric bill climb. Trump’s response: killing clean energy projects that would lower your energy costs.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Markwayne Mullin told election officials that refusing to help him purge the voter rolls could mean prison. His department had a list of 15,903 names. A computer made that list. Nobody had finished checking it. Nevada got them on a video call and pressed record.

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The Trump Regime Built A National Voter Purge On 185 Names

What we found in 61 pages of a court opinion, a federal complaint, and a Florida election return

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I can't get over how irresponsible this NYT oped was. The Sumerians did not cancel sovereign debt. This is an undergraduate fail-level misreading of financial history. The whole piece is based on a mistake.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A Chilean copper giant spent a decade trying to dig above America’s most visited wilderness. The Senate cleared the way in April. On Tuesday a governor with five months left in office shut the state’s door in their face.

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Republicans Sold It By One Vote. Walz Took It Back.

Plus: 16 former DOJ lawyers turned on their old department, and a town of 7,500 beat Big Tech

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026

I want my tax dollars to give the people of Gary, Indiana their power back instead of being used to murder and imprison children.

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pixiemona @mwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“This judiciary committee is no longer an independent branch of Congress... The Senate is supposed to be. But we’re an arm ... of the Trump White House. A resemblance of independence has just disappeared. Its gone.” Ghost Senate @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ghost-sena...

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Ghost Senate

The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Spoilers: it's racism. It's capitalism and greedy for-profit healthcare corporations, but even more, it's the long and lasting legacy of racism in the US. White Americans would rather go without the human right of healthcare than extend it to their Black neighbors. We can change that.

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The real reason we don't have Medicare for All in the US.

YouTube video by Parkrose Resistance

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the smartest ideas I've seen in the last few years is instead of trying to find "the Joe Rogan of the left," buy up the news sites of defunct papers and put some money into providing local news coverage in rural areas.

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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I wasn’t at all surprised by the behavior of the demented madman Americans insisted on making President, but I was horrified and sickened by the extraordinary and indescribable cowardice displayed by Kristen Holmes’ fellow WH correspondents. Every one of them should be jobless.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A win! Huge move by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to protect the Boundary Waters!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am almost without words for what has become of this once proud newspaper. I will only say this: Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That’s the gist of it.

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