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I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 6h

Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11h

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

an aggressive purge of a very tiny subset of users will enable bsky to grow. where else are they going to go? back to elon's nazi farm? bsky actually has the advantage here

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 13h

I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 13h

It's so funny that they think they can buy the Pope the same way they think they bought the current president

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 13h

Chris Rufo is married to a woman from Thailand named Suphatra Paravichai.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

normatively it is treated as aggression in left spaces to say that this is sick behavior. i do not care. it is sick behavior. anyone not on the internet twelve hours a day knows this, and anything you have learned by watching pales in comparison to the fact that you have forgotten this.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s wild seeing Republicans run ads in Ohio whining about Democratic Congressmen trading stocks when Donald Trump exists and is a Republican.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Nuremburg tribunals included a "Judges' Trial" of 16 lawyers and judges. Ten were found guilty.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This seems impeachable but per Trump v US invocation of the insurrection act is a core presidential power so absolutely immune and giving an interview talking about a core power is absolutely immune and are we fucking getting it yet, that the Republican Party is engaged in an ongoing insurrection?

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you lose $400K because you’re stupid enough invest in Trump’s meme coin you had no right to that much money anyway and in fact you should lose whatever else you have for the good of society.

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why isn’t anyone asking Trump about his dementia or his ongoing stroke care?

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens.

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The President has dementia, it’s getting worse, and that’s the clear obvious explanation for his behavior that nobody wants to talk about seriously.

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Knockr is just a website for connecting sexual assaulters with victims.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here were Hillary's campaign promises on immigration in 2016. Would have been nice if certain people on the left could have gotten "excited" about this but alas, there was a free trade bill to protest.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AH FUCK. This is getting way the fuck out of control. Goddamn Luigipoasters are going after innocent parents who, whatever the truth of the matter, didn't make their son commit crimes. @safety.bsky.app @masnick.com any of that shit shows up here you need to bring down the hammer like hellfire.

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete Hegseth is a pathetic, cringey, extremely divorced drunk. Literally everything out of his mouth is the most eye-roll inducing shit I’ve ever heard in my life.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The DA should resign. Despite his attempts to hide it, this actually comes through even in his bullshit summary when you read it critically.

According to a transcript of the alleged victim's interview with campus
police, obtained by CBS New York's Mahsa Saeid from a source, Jane
Doe distinguished the initial sexual activity from what she says
happened later in the night.

She described drinking and using drugs the night of the alleged rape,
and said she had gaps in her memory, according to the transcript.

When asked whether she was OK with the initial encounter, she said,
"Yeah, as much as I can be because, again, I was super drunk when I
got there ... But I was pretty OK with all of this."

When describing what happened later in the night, the transcript says
Jane Doe said, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped."

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"They did a thing, maybe it was the right thing to do at the time maybe it wasn't, but regardless between this and bombing iran we now have ironclad evidence a) the israeli govt are unmanageable and b) US MENA specialists are all gigantic dumdums" is the objectively correct take from mcgurkin it

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Republicans love rapists and pedophiles more than anything else in the world.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remorseful Republicans: I didn't vote for *this* Me:

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what the fuck? the right lost *Third Way*?

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 29/09/2026

What's more, and this is going to be hard to hear: men with women partners—it happens in front of you. And your partner does not call attention to it, because she does not want you to go to jail. Yes, you'd have to prove your right to intervene, because the default is to doubt her story.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Best part is when Schmitt gets angry that she points out he has the team wrong, as though he's the one who was wronged bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t think a good system of government would give the worst person to ever live the ability to murder every human on earth.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, exactly. people will respond "what does the fact that i tolerate immense racism everywhere around me have to do with you?", and -- i mean -- they have arranged their entire epistemic universe around avoiding intellectual bias and _this_ is the thing they just let slide?

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's also why I'm pretty dismissive of the argument that it will be used against us in the future. If we don't deal a death blow to the GOP during the next trifecta, they're going to come back and kill off our democracy no matter what we do.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is fucking disgusting man. And it’s just about the dumbest shit Israel could be doing. You want to send American Jews fleeing supporting Israel even faster, just suggest that your blanket backstop for their insecurities is, in fact, conditional. Get the fuck out of here.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Biden was a weak president and lacked the ability to project strength" was always my thesis anyway.

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one day the presidential fluids will get so low that he'll fall asleep during a press conference, shit himself, and then just never wake up. that'll be good television, i think

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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jasmine Crockett is a punk. Bitchass sore loser.

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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.

However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.

You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and

public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.

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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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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fuck Aaron Rodgers. Discount double check yourself into an old folks home.

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