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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 5h

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 8h

COD is lying to the public about collaboration with ICE in violation of state and local law. I, for one, want the mayoral candidates to weigh in on what we, the lublic should expect from them and from the police forces that ostensibly serve us.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every mayor in America should be asked what they are going to do to ensure civilian control of our police forces, and what they will do to officers or departments that break the law.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Civil Gideon (a publicly-provided defense lawyer) for immigration, eviction, and a wide variety of similar civil court cases is a very technocratic fix for a gaping hole in our social safety net. You only have a right to a lawyer in criminal cases, and most government action is civil in nature!

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is no hell hot enough for what must be done to the people that did these evils in our name. Prosecution of ICE is the moderate, even conservative solution. We either answer this without mercy, or we are damned to history.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 27/09/2026

secretary of damnatio memoriae, many people are crying out for it

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A friend of mine that specializes in focus group polling says that the second hardest part of his job is keeping a straight face when people say the dumbest shit imaginable as if it's obvious.

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 24/09/2026

Every two years, Cook County voters are faced with a hefty list of judges on their ballot to either keep for another term or remove from the bench in what’s known as a judicial retention election. buff.ly/X6haOZK

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What are Cook County judicial retention elections?

Why we vote to retain judges and your other questions answered.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy "oh gods, why is this ballot full of judges!?" day to all who quail in terror on Election day. Major kudos to the hard work of InjusticeWatch for building a tool to help you research your choices in advance: 2026retention.injusticewatch.org #CheckYourJudges

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Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide

Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

LGBT youth make up a disproportionate amount of children in care. Often because their birth families abuse or neglect them for being LGBT. This ruling is a disgrace and a travesty, privileging parent's religious beliefs over child safety and their right to develop their own identity.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What cowardly, fragile people. Scared of anything and everything, if we are to take them at their word.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump has single handedly changed my view on the Rome Statute, which must henceforward become a pillar of a campaign against leader impunity

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17/09/2026

Car dealers are a reliable and influential power bloc for Republicans. Today on Assigned, @emarcadia.bsky.social writes that Democrats should politicize them and pursue them and other bastions of Republican power as relentlessly as Republicans have pursued the Democratic coalition.

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Consider the Car Dealerships - Assigned Media

Republicans have long waged war against Democratic constituencies. What if we turned the tables?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

figure shows dramatic cut in research staff

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

planning out our second phase of mailers to exploit our Republican (she's very mad we're calling her that) opponent inexplicably saying that she would "find a responsible path to Yes" on data centers, you can help make it happen! secure.actblue.com/donate/calle...

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Donate to Callee Ackland

Show your support with a contribution.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The LGBTQ community certainly isn't a monolith, and it is perhaps very very fortunate for liberal politicians in the West that we are largely kind, empathetic, and patient with our allies. We take a *lot* of shit and brush it off in the name of peace, hoping for justice, or at least to be let be.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was thinking about this. Why wouldn't he wreck the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Memorial? What could stop him from any of that? And if you're like "well he can't do THAT" lol yeah he can. SCOTUS even said Trump could wreck the people's White House because he felt like it

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

reason.com

Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets

The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.

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Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Carleton College announces new ‘no loan’ financial aid policy More: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/c…

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the story of these last ten years or so has been stuff that sounded like wild conspiracy theories proving more or less true so yeah, let's see if mitch ever delivers that many words on camera again before I say I was overreacting

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 14/09/2026

Note the first half of this quote — EPA’s ability to be malfeasant is a symptom of a corrupt judiciary eager to overturn precedent; climate advocates need to push for institutional reform, not let themselves focus entirely on the details of new executive actions in a future administration

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 12/09/2026

Read it slow: he told a crowd he doesn't care if they're registered, just go cheat like the other side does. That's not a gaffe, it's an instruction, on camera, with his own name attached. Every Republican in that arena who cheered instead of walking out owns this too. Fuck you.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don't print lies in the newspaper.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

There is never a compromise you can make that will satisfy them. They will still attack you and force you to concede more. You should never concede anything to them because they want to eradicate trans people.

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

jokes aside 'the gift of disruption' 'rebuild it from scratch' LISAN-ALEXANDRIA GHAIB

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you truly believe in triangulating your way to victory, you too have your limits — your core issues that would turn you off — and you have to ask why it’s okay for someone else to get bus tossed.

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

See, this is why LGBTQ people were upset that Acton and Tuarek broke the line on trans rights. It tested the waters and gave permission for the next most battleground candidates to do it too. Who next? When should we wonder if the Dems *have* decided we're a suitable sacrifical minority?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

mainstream/big media in its quest to show “both sides” is now regularly platforming people at conservative think tanks who didn’t give a shit about Flock until a month ago and who are doing little more than parroting the company and its investors’ points and accusing their opponents of being paid

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Making sure the bar is set in hell so that when Trump trips and falls they can somehow say he was doing something revolutionary and that nonother pol would dare and that's why you shouldn't [redacted] every GOP politician in the [redacted] for their crimes against the Republic.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: Trump admin proposes major #2030Census changes that would reshape voting maps, including no race & ethnicity questions and excluding non-U.S. citizens without a green card from a count that 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state” www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...

npr.org

Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps

A Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."

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

the uk media's staggering increase in anti-trans coverage shows they can bite & hold they're *choosing* not to for fascist street violence

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

These guys - and evidently many Americans - live in a fantasy land where the enemy isn't allowed to shoot back at your *warships* engaged in an active military operation (the blockade), but also apparently it is totally A-OK to murder civilian mariners at will.

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

I think frankly all of this speaks to the really unserious way that Americans generally but the current GOP in particular think about armed conflict, as if it is against the rules for the other side to fight back. It is not. Which is one reason (of many) why maybe we should do less war.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wonder if all R candidates are going to be asked to denounce the guy who attacked Amy Acton.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

anti vax MAHA parents are behaving much the same as transphobic or homophobic parents, and with the same outcomes; they torture their children for their own self aggrandizement.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/09/2026

DAMNATIO MEMORIAE folks, more and more people are saying it

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Internet Archive needs a lot of 18TB and larger hard drives. As quickly as this administration is erasing stuff, archivists are trying to capture it faster. As fast as crumb-bum publishers delete decades of journalists' and artists' work, IA is rushing in to grab it. @archive.org Can you help?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

This lets auctions run so quickly that they can be used as the basis for ordering a search results page. That's how it's *supposed* to work, anyway. The FTC and 22 states just filed a suit against Amazon because Amazon was *cheating on its own SBSPA process*: www.ftc.gov/news-events/... 63/

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FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme

Today, 22 states joined the Federal Trade Commission in filing suit against Amazon, alleging that the company engaged in deceptive and unfair practices that secretly inflated prices in its online s

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

10 years ago some people made a Google Doc to answer people's pleas about how to turn their furty and grief into action. Now they put millions on the streets and mobilize thousands to vote and canvas and call. You have friends everywhere: indivisible.org/get-involved...

indivisible.org

Find a Group

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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This man should never be near the hall of power ever again, except perhaps in chains.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Remember, in 2024 scores of bomb threats were called in against majority-minority polling places. All of them hoaxes. But now ICE will deliberately treat them as credible so that it can deploy anywhere someone is willing to make a threat against. Same thing with anonymous tips about illegal voters.

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I really don’t know how this country ever heals without a truth and reconciliation commission and subsequent trials on the atrocities being committed by this administration.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In my absolute, ideal world, even the liberals on the court lose their robes for this. I don't care what sort of dark night of the soul you had about it, you signed the death warrant of the republic, you should all fall on your swords

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The lesson here isn't that US activists should name doctors, but that breaking social taboos and making right wing actors angry can break the apathy of the mainstream press. These are age old lessons - but recent examples can help us re-learn things we may have forgotten in recent years.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

But, I think it's also important to understand the dual purpose behind creating documents like this. Because, if you focus on just the anti-trans intent and the shoddiness of the work, you might lose track of this: Conservatives don't believe in social science.

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