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merritt @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

Sympathy for the Wrecker: On doing things for "the community" www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

I cannot over emphasize how wild it is that this isn’t a top story constantly. Any other admin, yes. This one? They’re causing death and suffering in so many novel ways that in terms of body count and scale, this actually credibly ranks lower

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 8h

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 30/09/2026

"If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat you’ve never heard of, one that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that."

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klfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 15h

There is nothing seismic about this, other than the rebellion against establishment Dems. For decades, Dems have run on immigration by moving to the right on it, getting upset that The American Fascist Party (GOP) doesn't embrace them, then repeating. Of course something different works. 🙄

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The U.S. has withdrawn its last troops from Iraq, 23 years after a Republican president launched a war of choice based on lies that cost trillions of dollars, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and unleashed regional chaos. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Telnaes:

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...

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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The angry response is what comes out so clearly to me - normal people, if they're caught out mistaking the Hawks for the Hawkeyes are going to be embarrassed and apologetic, but Schmitt's response is volcanic 'how dare you' anger. Just manifest low character, frankly.

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

It's always been stupid and fake, but even more so now, that a "caravan" of migrants would be coming here, of all times, given how we are torturing and renditioning and sending them to concentration camps.

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Sophia Florence (Swolephia Arc Pt 2) @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is probably my most reactionary take, but I think that not hammering on the anti-intellectualism of the right for the last 10 years or so has been a massive failure. The messaging is important though! It's not that they're "stupid" or "low IQ," it's that they're intentionally ignorant.

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

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My cab driver to Coachella was an Obama-Romney-Trump-Biden-Trump voter who had on a channel that played AI-generated music. He said that if Democrats vote to restrict data centers, they'll lose his vote forever.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026

if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...

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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For decades we have been saying: maybe Democrats should run ads that simply quote Republicans saying horrible things about their own constituents. But Democratic consultants convinced Democrats that that would be too effective. So, this is validating to watch. Also, always hated false civility.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026

For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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klfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To the landlord class, affordable rents are an affront.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh no portland got affordable to live in and now the WSJ is freaking out????

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

between this and Medicaid and more, trump and his party have set up for so much of this country to fall off a very steep cliff starting next year. It is going to be really bad. We are going to stay on top of it at @zeteo.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Odd, that Donald Trump has latched onto things being done/built to protect "national security" when Donald Trump, a man who is said to have sold *highly* classified documents, is currently the nation's biggest security threat.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026

Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.

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klfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember, being ideologically pure is more important than making practical steps forward! 🙄 Also remember that the person who is advocating for practical steps instead of purity cannot be so far to the left of you that they got their guns back, as the saying goes. 🙄 These online "progressives" 🙄

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like it’s reflective of something broader that social media has brought on. There’s a cycle where people are less open to media that makes them uncomfortable and companies are more squeamish about making media that can be uncomfortable.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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klfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Apparently, the teens go out to malls on Saturday evenings, still! I happen to be at the mall and it is busier than I recall it being in years. (I don't come during Christmas, so it's probably less busy than then)

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hmm…sound familiar…🤔

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.

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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.

Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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klfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I first heard about this doc, I had no interest. Now? I'm so interested.

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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Jeff Bezos: Men we are *told* are brilliant businessmen, but every time they open their mouths they prove themselves to be ridiculous idiots.

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