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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Gerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules. - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.
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Ryan Rosenblatt @ryanrosenblatt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH
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Kevin 👽 @astro-kevin.com · 10/04/2026
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Government is good. Science is good. Government funded science is good. Artemis II is a perfect reminder of these values. From @smotus.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/09/2025
Time to break out the chart
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The murders of Charlie Kirk and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman are part of a dangerous rise in political violence. We cannot accept this as the norm. We must do whatever we can to reduce the anger and hate that are consuming and destroying so much of the country.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
	•	Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
	•	Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
	•	A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
	•	The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked by a President it led to the Japanese internment camps
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Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As an American and someone who represents a proud Ukrainian community, this is devastating news. America is a safe harbor for generations of people who fled persecution and war. Trump is betraying innocent people for his personal grievances.
Reuters: Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hey, anyone within earshot in Canada: Any sane American realizes that Canada has been *the* closest US ally, not only literally and geographically (see also: Mexico) but commercially, diplomatically, militarily, all ways other than sports playoffs This spasm of Trump policy is destructively insane
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I knew this would happen, but it's still surreal to hear another nation's leader talk to us in a televised address the way US presidents have historically spoken to the citizens of countries led by dictators and despots.
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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/02/2025
Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 22/02/2025
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Valor Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Top federal prosecutor in N.Y. resigns after refusing to drop Adams charges
Two top prosecutors in Washington also resigned over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The lesson for career Republicans is that there’s no real safety inside the Trump tent, because eventually you either need to refuse an order and face immediate retribution or obey an order and risk eventual disbarment or imprisonment.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert. Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025
"the high cost of free parking" is a book that legit rewired my brain. RIP to a great scholar
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Mark Gurman @markgurman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The UK government has ordered Apple Inc. to build a backdoor to give it access to global user data, in a move that could spark one of the biggest privacy fights in the iPhone maker’s history. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple Ordered by UK to Build Backdoor for User Data
The UK government has ordered Apple Inc. to build a backdoor to give it access to global user data, in a move that could spark one of the biggest privacy fights in the iPhone maker’s history.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/02/2025
I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
Brian Driscoll, the acting director of the FBI, sporting curly hair, a kinda rakish jazz dirtbag moustache and beard combo, a faintly amused look in his eyes and a wry "whaddaya gonna do" smirk
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Mood
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Historian here Happy Black History Month greetings from Thaddeus Stevens home, even though the US Government has been forbidden from celebrating it. It is up to American citizens to prevent the sabotage of our democratic republic. Remember we brought down the slave power.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
absolutely this. it is entirely possible to describe what's going on accurately and with full view of the stakes without subscribing to an attitude that we're all doomed. we're not! things are frustrating and scary right now, but we don't need to devolve into full-blown panic.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025
it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Combs all said they were briefed on the collision, so they all knew about this internal FAA report when they went on TV to blame minorities for the crash. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report.
Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times.

The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Will write about this further when I can. But: no part of modern society is better set up for continuous, *collaborative,* dispassionate, 24/7 learning and improvement than the aviation-safety establishment. Groups like this make it go. Now... just burn it down. (h/t @joshtpm.bsky.social )
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KoopaKhan @koopakhan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Back when he knew how to use capital letters
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/01/2025
let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*
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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The consistency of nostalgia. No matter when you were born, community tends to have been best when you were ~5 years old, the news industry was best when you were ~10, music was best when you were ~15, sporting events were best when you were ~20. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Not much for Posting Guidance but if you find yourself starting a post or reply with something like "and this surprises you/anyone??" I might softly suggest that trekking deep within the Gobi desert and burying yourself to the neck in its cold and uninviting sands is a better use of your time
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
there's this weird trend on here that wants to downplay the civic memory of American anti-fascism for godforsaken reason instead of harnessing it as part of the American civil faith
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/01/2025
President Trump claimed to end birthright citizenship on the first day of his second term. That executive order is unconstitutional. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Presidents Can't End Birthright Citizenship
President Trump's executive order is almost certain to be struck down.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The single greatest attack on the Constitution in my lifetime. Utterly and completely lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Happy MLK Day.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
One of the surest ways to defend the Constitution is to act and talk like we have one. The quickest way to lose it is to act and talk like we don't.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/01/2025
The rules, if you are keeping track: If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever. If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 19/01/2025
It's remarkable how good TikTok is at currying favor with an authoritarian leader. It's almost like they have practice.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I do hope TikTok’s defenders on the left reconsider their support for the app in light of its totally shameless support for Trump out of cynical self-preservation. What a grotesque spectacle of bending the knee for an autocrat.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/01/2025
the destruction of the car dealership cartel would be more effective than almost anything else democrats could do at neutering the political power of their opponents the core of Trumpism in most towns is the area car dealer, ruling like a particularly smarmy baron over local politics
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