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this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15h

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026

what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They cited nobody, and I wondered what kind of a monstrous sociopath would welcome this. Folks,

While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and _some are welcoming the move_, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary.

Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
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This seems like a reasonable idea with precedent from
Obama's education department.
The government shouldn't be in the business of encouraging
people to take loans they won't be able to repay.
(IN The New Republic © @newrepublic • 18h
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don't make
enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social
work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit
the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car?

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This truly is horrifying. Not only is he unlawfully spending OUR money on a political ad, the whole point of the ad is that roughly half of the country consists of enemies who must be conquered.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026

i strongly agree with this and while i think the definition of virtue can change over time, almost none of the shit that so many powerful chuds think is virtue *ever* has been considered as such

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Experienced FBI counterterrorism experts were punished for refusing to investigate something that, at most, warranted the attention of the DC Metro police.

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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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“She’d been told grim things about Jews when she was a kid, by her Hungarian grandfather, but never like this, from someone her age.” Family “wisdom” like this is one of the key ways fascistic ideas transfer from generation to generation like a rhizome. Fuentes’s message fell on fertile ground.

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screaming until the void tells me to shut up @mutedscreaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll never forget the student journalists at Columbia who continued to cover the university bringing in an army of cops to dismantle the Pro-Palestine student encampments. Even when the folks at the SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM were prohibited from covering it, they stayed and kept covering. Amazing kids

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because why would engineering students ever need to study the ways their very expertise has been used and abused in the past, the way 'oh, I'm just an engineer solving a problem' has been a necessary and foundational lie in every modern system of oppression or extermination?

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump was impeached for doing this with Ukraine defense spending.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder of that time you were all over the news just because you were horribly incompetent in your national security job

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/09/2026

it’s like some particularly clumsy Old Testament parable about why you shouldn’t have a psychotic piece of shit as king. “the LORD spake, saying, an evil king will befoul thine own food and drink as well as the foreigner”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Huh. The Daily Wire is reporting something that would be *enormous* if true, as since July the majority of all ICE arrests are people with no criminal record. I am deeply skeptical of such a massive operational change, given how the White House/DHS keep bragging about setting arrest records.

Jennie Taer *
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SCOOP: ICE officers across the country were told this weekend to stop arresting non-criminals, agency sources tell @realDailyWire
Now, ICE may only arrest illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges for the time being, said the sources.
The change also ends so-called "collateral arrests,
" sources said, meaning officers who find a criminal target alongside others in the country illegally may detain only the target.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For context: Palantir isn't named that because he's a Tolkien fan. It's because he's a fan of the uber-reddit Russian fanfic "The Last Ringbearer" which recast Sauron as a progressive industrializing force.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People don't even understand*their own personal material conditions* as raw data, they understand it as a story.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.

The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are like 500 of these books and they all exist in an alternate universe where trying to win over white working class voters is a Bold Forbidden Insight rather than the guiding ideology of the entire party.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

theguardian.com

Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.

cnn.com

FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics

The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 25/09/2026

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People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like Arnold was the one guy to truly hold the republican line about what the great goodness of America means in his heart and when they stopped pretending to believe any of it he looked around and was like fuck it I’m Bernie I guess

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“These aren‘t real people. They’re illegal aliens!” Pretty much the Trump regime worldview. “We can dish out as much brutality and suffering as we want because immigrants aren’t human.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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Joel Lesko @sunshowerlearning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Speculation aside, it looks like a conflict of interest to me - the guy who's supposed to be overseeing DHS is living rent-question-mark in a house owned by the guy running DHS.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

remigration is what today's right call ethnic cleansing

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fact that a bunch of lefty state legislators signed onto this ridiculous anti-nuclear fearmongering letter is unbelievable Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. shut down a nuclear plant and it caused NY emissions to skyrocket!

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

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Sean Frisco @seanfrisco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Because the Police Officers Union will hold city officials hostage if they actually hold individual officers accountable. The cops will signal it’s a free for all for criminal chaos. And then hand the blame to City Hall will the city burns. And those elected officials will lose office.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026

IN MINNESOTA.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

not an accident or a fuck up — part of the conservative plot to destroy universities and higher education generally

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a great catch from Chris, and a remarkably … suggestive … citation from Sauer—flagging the only two recent examples in which (we think) a circuit justice was overruled / preempted by the full Court. Here’s my post from November on this subject: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-192-...

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Bonus 192: The Court vs. the Circuit Justice

Tuesday's ruling in the SNAP case appears to be the second example in seven months (and for quite some before that) of the full Supreme Court taking an application away from the circuit justice.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Journalists getting threatened with federal arrest here in NYC for trying to find out what’s going on in new “black site docket” immigration courts…

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