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kragtbakker.bsky.social @kragtbakker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@kkdumez.bsky.social Spotted another of your stealth marketing campaigns
Halloween decor with a skull and the words: lived, laughed, loved.
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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kragtbakker.bsky.social @kragtbakker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@kkdumez.bsky.social I saw these socks in a bookstore. Part of your marketing campaign?
Socks with “Live Laugh F*ck Off” woven in the design
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“Since New York City introduced congestion pricing, the state has heralded significant reductions in traffic and rush hour delays, fewer crashes and noise complaints, & toll revenue projected to hit $500 million by the end of 2026. Now, Cornell researchers have tallied the environmental benefits.”
news.cornell.edu
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026
a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I wish this sketch were 1/3 as well known as “Are We the Baddies?” Especially in the age of AI. I mutter “bloody hell, now I’m offended” two or three times a week youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE?...
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That Mitchell and Webb Look - Kill All The Poor
YouTube video by fanvideos4u
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...
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A Question of Margin
And there's so very little.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Racism is real, but race is fake. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
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A Family Secret No More
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.
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They're Really Going For It
Trump's plan to overturn the midterm elections comes into focus.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/05/2026
I wrote about the "anti-weaponization fund" and how the "weaponization" cited basically didn't happen and how there is *actual* weaponization happening at the moment but that the targets of it will never see a single dime for their troubles. Gift link:
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Taxpayers get the bill for Trump’s grievance fund —  but not the benefit.
Taxpayers pay the cost, but won't get the benefit.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’d note this is a trick Trump learned at the very start of his second term: Using frivolous lawsuits with no chance of success as a mechanism to solicit bribes from companied that quickly “settle” to curry favor.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The next administration should tear every one of these agreements up as corrupt from the beginning, treating them as legal nullities.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/05/2026
An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries:
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Assassin’s Delusion
Violence serves an authoritarian agenda.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“[W]e need a Supreme Court that is prepared to uphold a structure of laws that protect democracy in our country.” A tour de force from @sifill.bsky.social on why we need an expanded/constrained SCOTUS to save our democracy (& smash lawless white supremacy) open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
“That is why the effort by Trump and Republican state leadership to gerrymander Black representation out of Congress must be understood as not only an attack on Black people, but on democracy itself. If the Republican racial gerrymandering effort is successful, the U.S. will lose any claim to democracy for a generation or more.

And the forces that stand today against citizenship and political representation for Black people won’t stop there. They will not tolerate meaningful political representation for any group that opposes their oligarchical Christian nationalist ideology. They seek a one-party political system in a country ruled by authoritarians. The political oppression of Black people is not the end. It is the conduit.

We must work together to dismantle that conduit. We know the formula that is necessary to put rampant, lawless white supremacy and its democracy-destroying force back on the leash. It is the same formula that briefly brought us back from the abyss during Reconstruction and again during the Civil Rights Movement. We need to build a strong, determined, even radical Congress to recreate an infrastructure of laws and protections that cannot be easily undone. And we need a Supreme Court that is prepared to uphold a structure of laws that protect democracy in our country, and that has the integrity and vision to do what is needed to hold democracy in 21st century America.

That reformed Court will need to be expanded in size, constrained in power, adherent to ethics, and populated with justices who have the legal, intellectual, moral, and experiential skills, combined with the integrity, courage and sophistication to fairly adjudicate the complex array questions and controversies that emerge from a multiracial democracy of three hundred and forty million people in the 21st century.

At the same time we also need a cultural reset – not a look backwards, but a new cultural vision that invites all of us to imagine and strive for who we might become as…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/04/2026
Democrats should get louder in championing clean energy’s affordability and resilience from global shocks, according to some of the party’s leading voices on the climate. From our friends at @theguardian.com:
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As fuel prices soar, climate leaders urge Democrats to equate clean energy with affordability
“I don’t think they’ve grasped the political opportunity yet.”
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I am 100% certain that some of the usual big names in journalism are already preparing books admitting "everyone knew" that Trump was suffering from dementia and governing by irrational impulse. They'll all want to be seen as in the know—but only after they no longer need access to his admin.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20/04/2026
A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It would not hurt if you called your GOP MoCs to tell them they are legally complicit with the war crimes Trump is committing. Might not prevent armageddon, but couldn't hurt. (202) 224-3121
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Don't look away. It is happening here
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Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps
“This system is designed to punish, not protect”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
If you’re tracking the warehouse developments, @projectsaltbox.bsky.social is a must-follow. Doing great work!
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
"I never want to see a child run away from our own government ever again"
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I think this is super smart.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0
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Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 22/01/2026
It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
So moved by the people of Minnesota who—drawing on LA, Portland, Chicago, DC etc—are writing a shining new chapter in the history of nonviolent resistance. The rest of us need to be taking notes—and helping them! www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2025
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
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