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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 12h
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h
This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h
To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16h
This is correct. The government’s assault on Somalis and Somali Americans is perverse and wicked even for this gang
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19h
Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18h
Fox News is reporting this is a criminal investigation into the immigration paperwork filled out by Ilhan Omar’s late father when she was a child 40 years ago. I actually think this is so nakedly outrageous it will blow back on them. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 18h
The people who want to deregulate AI and promise basic income will keep you afloat would also like you to know that entitlements from the welfare state (here, it's disability benefits) are crushing wealthy nations, and must be eliminated.
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The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain
The U.K.’s welfare bill has ballooned, its borrowing costs are now higher than any G-7 nation and it’s paying more for its debt than even spendthrift France.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 18h
It's very significant that the raid against Omar was conducted by HSI. That means that whatever justified the warrant isn't related to corruption or misconduct. They're specifically looking for evidence that she committed immigration fraud so they can denaturalize and deport her.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h
Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 18h
The most darkly comedic irony of the micro-mass-hysteria event that was the attempted Talarico smear on Twitter this weekend is in the last Congress there were two Republican members who literally were in mental health facilities including one who had secretly been there for six months.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21h
While people are talking X, let me talk about X OFF. Two big ideas: 1. Get everyone possible off of X, especially for the news (at least) until every vote is counted 2. Tell your elected reps and candidates to stop sending people there and go X last (at least)
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X OFF
Until every vote is counted, get your news somewhere other than X, and ask the people running for office to publish it somewhere else too.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, & the only way forward is to bring back shame & make this level of bad faith unacceptable in American politics.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Twas my first thought too
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I empathize obviously but it's tough not to be a little resentful reading electeds be like "this is unprecedented, my family was swatted" It's horrific, AND A lot of us were raising the alarm about this stuff 8 years ago. Earlier, for women targeted by Gamergate.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/10/2026
Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Remarkable, and encouraging, data from @tbonier.bsky.social and @targetsmart.bsky.social.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They are all a bunch of tiresome, petty, juvenile trolls.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If @fetterman.senate.gov doesn’t want to d the work of representing the people of Pennsylvania, then he should resign & give another Pennsylvanian the opportunity to serve. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen... Service is a privilege. @johnfetterman.com is wasting taxpayer dollars by not doing his job.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/10/2026
As the Trump administration guts disaster aid, it’s time for an extreme weather superfund paid for by fossil fuel firms.
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Extreme Weather Disasters Cost Hundreds of Billions. Let’s Make Polluters Pay.
As the Trump administration guts disaster aid, it’s time for an extreme weather superfund paid for by fossil fuel firms.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In 2016, I was the general counsel to the Clinton campaign. In 2022, Trump sued me and others for RICO. The case was dismissed. Trump and his lawyers were sanctioned. Now, they have asked SCOTUS to hear the case. I will never back down. I will never stop fighting. When we fight we win.💪⚖️🗳️
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
another day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna...
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Poland‘s Prime Minister Tusk had a phone call with Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. He made the following statement afterwards:
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Citizens United could be overturned on the basis of a new understanding of the facts. Limits on expenditures that are narrowly tailored to achieve the compelling objective of fair elections could pass First Amendment scrutiny. But I don’t see this Court doing so, so we must amend the Constitution.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Remember this the next time you read another idiotic piece asking "wHy dO pRoFesSorS aLL vOtE foR DeMoCraTs?" It's a real mystery why more faculty don't back the party that's actively working to destroy them and their work.
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's almost as if running a home takes effort. Oddly enough, it also sounds like maintaining friendships, society, and social networks also takes effort and thought. Raise your hand if you're shocked. I'll hand you a broom.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
📌Win or lose, if Willie Nelson endorses you, you are the better man.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"We're a Christian nation, and we remember what Christ said -- never, ever turn the other cheek"
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Roxanne Darling 🍁 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and released ALL of the Epstein files, I’m betting they’d suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just like Uber and Lyft head out to destroy mass transit and ended up reinventing buses. The objective is to deprive you of every public space and every public utility, then give you shittier, more expensive versions you have to pay someone for.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Remember this guy started his post-Trump reboot by inviting a bunch of reactionaries onto his podcast so he could apologize for opposing them and tell them how much he thinks like them.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
People don't like being the target of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign, even if they once bought the lie that such an effort would target dangerous criminals only. The Trump regime, Republicans, ICE and right-wing media have repeatedly shown that by "dangerous criminal" they mean "looks Latino."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These guys have drawn their lines. Pretending that this will all go away if we don't mention their names is the definition of surrender. archive.ph/8oXvJ
Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
what the nearly monotonic trend says to me is that once you’re done you’re done forever, and I think the mechanism for that is that being done with Trump requires admitting that you got rooked
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Eustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It turns out when you run on "forget everything else I'll bring back the 2019 economy" and you do not, in fact, bring back the 2019 economy, median voter brain revolts. I wish it was something else, I wish the threats to democracy and the corruption registered.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/10/2026
They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No one has more contempt for Trump voters than Trump himself
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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