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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6h

My guess is this has more to do with Trump being buddies with El Salvador’s dictator and needing the concentration camp than domestic political concerns

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17h

Coming from her that’s really saying something

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 21h

Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/09/2026

Learn history, Jeff, that isn’t what happened.

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Frustrated Fan @frustratedfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching the Bears go for it on 4th down instead of taking the points:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...

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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants

A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees

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Thomas Connor @thomasconnor.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

There's an active bomb threat at #Harvard, which is probably (hopefully) just an incel and/or someone not wanting to take a quiz, but it's been going on for over two hours now and they're still keeping two buildings closed. Hopefully just an overabundance of caution...

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 27/09/2026

Bill Maher’s audience always just sounds angry

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Eat the rich @twoburritos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everybody should read Gangsters of Capitalism! Great book!

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 27/09/2026

It isn’t stupid if they think they can get away with it

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 27/09/2026

How have Sean Davis’ eyes gotten even crazier

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 07/05/2026

This is a disappointing and reductive take by @prospect.org It's a mistake to think of Substack only when thinking of independently published journalism and analysis.

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Nancy @nananancy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you haven't read Gangsters of Capitalism by @katz.theracket.news , you're missing out! I read it straight through cover to cover. True life adventure and mayhem brought to you by the US Gov.!

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

[non-linear narrative movie with Susan Collins trying to reconstruct her past and what she needs to do next through notes to herself and semi-cryptic tattoos about which bill and confirmation vote comes next and is supposed to lead to what]

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cleaning my son's room and found his bluesky account open on his school laptop to a draft that said "smoking that shit that made dolores give claibirth". We do not know what it means, but we are deactivating Xfinity high speed home internet effective 8 am Monday morning.

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Grade-A Bluesky post by @zacheverson.com on MS NOW

Post by Zach Everson, on Trump sons investments in defense contractors

Screengrab of “All In With Chris Hayes” segment with Rep. Raskin (09-25-26)

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My career in one skeet.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 25/09/2026

The bit would be some sort of collective head trauma

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/09/2026

Synagogues all over your country are being attacked by right-wing Orthodox youth, prime minister, including a Reform shul during Rosh Hashanah services. Maybe you should focus more on protecting Jews where you’re in charge. www.timesofisrael.com/three-minors...

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Three minors arrested after repeated vandalization of Jerusalem Reform synagogue

Suspects detained following smashing of plate and ripping down of LGBTQ flag at Kol HaNeshama on Yom Kippur, as well as egg-throwing incident on Rosh Hashanah

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/09/2026

LAST DAY to do this! It’s gotten an incredible response so far. Thanks to everyone who has supported the book! theracket.news/products/be-...

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Support my next book and get thanked in the acknowledgements.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/09/2026

LAST DAY to do this! It’s gotten an incredible response so far. Thanks to everyone who has supported the book! theracket.news/products/be-...

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BE A LEGEND (SPECIAL EXTENDED OFFER)

Support my next book and get thanked in the acknowledgements.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/09/2026

Was reading a Bluey book to my three year old tonight and attempted an Aussie accent. She says “no Dad talk like I talk.” So I did a three year old voice. Owned.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/09/2026

I would pay to see Bret Stephens call Edwidge Danticat or Marlon James DEI writers to their faces, and listen to them respond.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/09/2026

This was his response to being asked what parts of the Democratic platform he thinks are extremist. He didn’t start out too bright but the dude’s brain has been completely cooked by X and Substack.

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Good question. At the level of the national party, I'd say 1) categorical opposition to all immigration enforcement, 2) land acknowledgements and other anti-American rhetoric, 3) willingness to countenance explicit racial discrimination in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and/or the 14th Amendment), and 4) various minor positions on trans issues.
In terms of what people vote on, I'd say immigration and racial discrimination are much more important than land acknowledgements or trans issues. In terms of the actual future of the nation, I'd say that the ideology behind land acknowledgments -- which views America as a fundamentally illegitimate settler-colonialist entity whose dissolution is the only true path to historical and global justice -- is far more dangerous and damaging.
At the local level, there is some extremism connected to the Palestine movement, which is both deeply antisemitic and deeply anti-American.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.

"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/09/2026

All right I’ll bite. Who’s Ed Sheeran.

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beenoutside.bsky.social @beenoutside.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Contrast this with outlets ready and willing to fight for themselves. Pretty pathetic for Bash when her back is up against the wall. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/09/2026

What the hell happened to the My Little Ponies’ faces

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/09/2026

CNN’s Dana Bash giving a Trump lackey a forum to just openly lie — without correction! — in order to justify CNN getting banned from the White House is peak 2020s liberalism

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