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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Attention US media companies: in case you’re wondering, this is what censorship looks like.
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@nytimes.com, @bloomberg.com, @washingtonpost.com, @msnbc.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy, @npr.org You folks watching this? Take notes and Do Better!! You’re in the business of journalism for christs sake, not stenography. Act like it!
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@chicagotribune.com This is what actual journalism looks like, not the Fox News BS you’re peddling. I’ll never subscribe to your fascist aiding tabloid.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 02/09/2025
From the Editorial Board: We’ve said from the start that the nothing-to-see-here, murder-rate-is-down, crime-is-under-control, we-know-best argument from local politicians was a loser.
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Editorial: Chicago’s gunmen did not get Pritzker and Johnson’s memo
A violent Labor Day weekend brings a dose of lived reality.
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🤣🤣
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/08/2025
Although crime is declining, Washington is still far more dangerous than it should be, Charles Fain Lehman argues. Instead of just looking tough, “the administration should focus its resources on the people and places that make the District unusually unsafe.” theatln.tc/6RCOGO23
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
one of the biggest technological revolutions in human history is happening quietly, and the part of the reason its quiet is because our own country is being left behind, so that Trump and Republicans can funnel our money to their Saudi paymasters
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
He is so fucking GOOD at this, and makes me think about how unfairly maligned the word "communications" has become. "Communications" has largely come to mean "a corporation or politician blowing smoke up your ass." BUT! Talking to adults as adult w clear communication abt important things is GOOD!"
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’d like to see the Democrats focus more on process than policy. Its more unifying. But we really need an expanded court, more House districts, new states (and 2 sen). Overturning citizens united, banning gerrymandering. Maybe public funded elections. Change the rules, then we can argue about policy
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Remember the people who hated Obamacare but loved the Affordable Care Act, and didn't realize they were the same thing? Yeah, a lot of them are about to find out their health insurance IS THROUGH MEDICAID! More leopards, more faces to eat.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/06/2025
the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Can’t get over this image of Governor Gretchen Whitmer shielding herself from cameras in the Oval Office this past week. Whitmer’s spokesperson said she was at the White House to meet with Trump about Michigan matters and didn’t know she would be walking into a press event. (Photo: Eric Lee/NYT)
In the Oval Office, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer stands in front of the fireplace, using two navy blue folders to shield her face from the press cameras.
She wears a royal blue blazer with silver buttons. On either side of her stand a woman in a sleeveless light blue dress and a man in a dark blue suit and tie. Behind them, the ornate fireplace mantel is decorated with elaborate gold sculptures and urns, and the wall is lined with large framed portraits of American historical figures, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The atmosphere is formal, yet Whitmer's gesture adds a moment of unscripted humanity.
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Giving Trump control of tariffs is like giving a 3 year old a lighter to play with.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2025
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22/02/2025
President Trump's approach to the war in Ukraine is a reversal of the last three years, the editorial board writes, "but also a repudiation of a nearly eight-decade core belief that the United States was safer in a world where it stood against aggression and authoritarianism and for freedom."
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Opinion | Trump’s Misguided Strategies for Peace in Ukraine
In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Has anyone considered that Trump may be playing an elaborate game of 6th dimensional chess with Putin? If the Russians keep popping champagne bottles open at this rate they all may soon die of alcohol poisoning.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
people will yell at you for expressing this opinion - maybe they're right - but it's how I and I think a lot of people increasingly feel about subsidies and liberal outreach to rural America www.volts.wtf/p/dan-savage...
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And yet, every time I pick up a story, read a story in the paper about some kid blowing his head off, it's not some kid on the Upper West Side of Manhattan who blew his head off. It's not one of my people. It's some kid in a rural area with rube fucking parents with tons of guns laying around. Occasionally, it's a kid in an inner city where there are guns laying around, but almost invariably, it's an exurban or rural problem. And I was like, "We're losing votes because we are fighting so hard to get gun locks under the guns of these idiots in Iowa." Fuck them. If they don't want their own kids to survive being toddlers, why are we expending so much political capital and losing votes in these areas for being perceived to be anti-gun to save their own kids from themselves and from their parents?

David Roberts

Well, to once again draw a parallel, like Biden's whole administration was devoted to policy meant to revive precisely those red areas of the country that have been hollowed out by globalization, et cetera, et cetera, minimum wage stuff and care stuff. Like Biden fought for those people and in response, they hated him. You know, like the working class in those areas, the white working class in those rural and exurban areas hated him like Satan. Even though on any sort of like tangible policy level, it was the most sort of like, you know, most working-class-friendly Democratic administration in years.

Dan Savage

And imagine, imagine if the same sort of investment and prioritization had been targeted at cities, not just during the Biden administration, but the Clinton administration, the Obama administration. There's this constant sense that, well,
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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The problem with left wing extremists is that they mistakenly spend most of their time attacking progressives to their right than actual fascists. Good work, Electrichead.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2024
If you hate protesters blocking roads in the name of taking immediate #ClimateAction, you’re going to really hate how Climate Change itself blocks roads. A picture today from Valencia, Spain where they received 500mm of rain, a year’s worth, in one day on Tuesday. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
A mass of cars piled on top of each other in a narrow street.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 25/10/2024
"Capital can flow freely between most countries with few restrictions, allowing businesses to seek out the most favorable environments... Labor, on the other hand, is often trapped within national borders, restricted by immigration laws and policies." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberals-mus...
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Liberals Must Wage War on Rent-Seeking
Rent-seeking classes form a core backbone of the Republican Party.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 25/10/2024
Liberal Currents has published defenses and discussions of liberal ideals since 2017. Please become a member to support our writers. www.patreon.com/liberalcurre...
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Get more from Liberal Currents on Patreon
creating a reimagined liberalism
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
The free Dave's Redistricting App has new demographic data & a cool election comparison tool: davesredistricting.org Great data for drawing your own maps or exploring a state's demographics/elections. The map below compares different statewide election results in each district on a user-drawn map
Tweet from @maxtmcc showing new data features on Dave's Redistricting App. The embedded graphic compares the 2012 and 2020 presidential elections by district on a user-drawn Maryland map.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
"City data shows 127 people were killed by drivers across the five boroughs during the first six months of 2024, about 55% more than the 82 who were fatally shot over the same period."
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Cars prove far deadlier than guns in NYC so far this year
City data shows 127 people were killed by drivers across the five boroughs during the first six months of 2024, about 55% more than the 82 who were fatally shot over the same period.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Ever see (or heaven forfend been in) a family where one partner beats the shit out the other partner, engages in financial abuse, just a horror show and then everyone pretends to maintain the status quo for others That's my country.
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