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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Since Ford pardoned Nixon, there's been an elite consensus in this country that elites should never ever be held accountable for their actions, no matter how deserving. Saw this with Iran-Contra, Bill Clinton, Bush #2's war crimes, the 2008 financial crisis, Trump 1.0, and on and on and on.

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Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Plenty was done. The supreme court granted him immunity and congressional republicans feted him like a king.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/10/2026

Adam Serwer argues that people who break the law for an administration must face accountability—and that failing to act invites another attempt.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all of the money. That's how you can tell. Anyone interested in "how Dems lost the working class" hot takes - here ya go: It's the broke-ness, not the woke-ness.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

to me, a layup sensible AI regulation is "do not allow the AI agent to make phone calls for any reason"

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Democratic decision-making is economic decision-making. President Trump and Pete Hegseth peacocked their way into an inflationary cycle. Pete Hegseth should be impeached for many reasons; one of which is this war is like a Turducken of bad decisions.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

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The War Against Accumulated Capital

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

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Ty @sweetdrinks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the great thing about a wealth tax is that what you do with the proceeds is not the point. sure, create robust new social programs if you can, but we could light the money on fire and it’d still be worth doing. individuals can not have comparable power to/power over the state. 1890s knowledge

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Meanwhile, in Children-Are-Private-Property country....

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

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Justin @jvreeland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean a bunch of cardinals voted for him

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Justin @jvreeland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/greg... One bag one gallon normally but got in the habit of half gallons of milk. I'll drive somewhere if i'm stocking up on a fee gallons of distilled water or cat litter for example.

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Justin @jvreeland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not a mega city but I live < 1/4 mile of neighborhood walking from a grocery store. I walk for small trips a few times a week. Drive to a bigger store for bulk things sometimes but it's great for my ADHD to not worry about forgetting things on a big trip.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Letting two-bit scammers and thugs run the government is bad.

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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first time a man in the US was charged with rape of his cohabitating wife was in 1978. The *first time* that charge had been brought. His lawyer argued “maybe this is the risk of being married, you know?” Anyone want to guess the verdict?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of Musks breeding allies has apparently called it quits. I know I keep harping on this but imagine the media coverage if the top donor to the Democrats was a billionaire with a baby breeding cult? And yet the media has mostly ignored this part of Musk’s story.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thousand-year-old decadent orange emperor that destroys the universe's sole source of transport fuel in pursuit of a new paradigm where it's no longer necessary. Leto II Atreides, or Donald John Trump?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Justin @jvreeland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't understand why everyone involved in the first false accusation incident still has a job.

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hang on - if U.S. nukes are hard-coded against striking NATO states how will President Trump credibly threaten to annihilate Toronto during the next round of trade negotiations with Canada?

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

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

👇🎯 Also why Musk and all the DOGE guys need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. They had no authority at all to dismantle USAID or anything else.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah so if a president liquidates a government entity created in legislaiton passed by Congress & funded by congressional appropriations that's super-duper unconstitutional. In normal times he'd be impeached by close of business that day.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

running list of minor things that i think the us could do to improve its government: 1. mandatory dormitories in dc 2. undo the gingrich era shift to a commute culture by requiring members to participate in a five-day DC work week 3. undo gingrich era "consolidation" of congressional agencies, staff

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

presidency: 1. convert the white house into a museum and shift the Executive Office to the Blair House 2. dissolve the secret service 3. undo the post-9/11 reorganization 4. destroy the Office of the First Lady and just consolidate that work into permanent staff

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

why isn't the answer, just stop all executions forever???

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Justin @jvreeland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good the man should never have a moment of peace

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Simple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861 inauguration

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is monstrous. Lethal injections are neither painless nor humane; the paralytics just make it look that way. The government should not be allowed to execute people in this way, if at all. The Supreme Court Justices who ignored new evidence to push through this order are complicit in torture.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 30/09/2026

It's not the "Cornell 7." It is the Cornell 50, or however many are in that group chat. Their silence is complicity. Essays for five of the seven. Essays. Essays are what you get assigned the first time you plagiarize something, or use AI when it was forbidden.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜

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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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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always great to see from six alleged Catholics. So much for “pro life.”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 30/09/2026

Seen Michael Tracey's photo a bunch of times today and now it feels like I have fleas 😬

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are actual human beings being tortured in actual prisons right now and the fact that there are a large number of people more concerned with computers being “tortured” makes me want to go off the grid.

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