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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/08/2026
yikes *SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH TRUMP FOR NOW ON HIS MAIL BALLOT CURBS
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
SCANDINAVIANS 
No people on earth, probably excel the Scandinavians, and scarcely any equal them, unless it may be the Swiss mountaineers, in attachment to their native country. The Scandinavian emigrant
brings with him to this country, not only his love of home, but his attachments to customs and habits of his old home. So
strong is this passion that it is hard for him to assimilate to the customs of his new home, and to conform to the ideas of American citizenship, but he remains in his adopted land, a foreigner, in all that pertains to his modes, manners, habits,
likes and dislikes.This peculiar habit of our Scandinavian fellow citizens, and this strong, over-mastering attachment to their native land, has not been generally known and appreciated by our own citizens, "to the manor born."
It will take several generations to wear away this foster land attachment, and to assimilate the Scandinavian emigrant, and
absorb him into the language, habits, customs and true idea of a homogeneous American citizenship.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The US isn't letting the Iranian team sleep in the country. They have to go sleep in Mexico after they play:
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Iran to commute to World Cup games from Mexico after US refusal, Sheinbaum says | CNN
Iran’s national soccer team will sleep in Mexico and travel to the United States on the days of its three World Cup matches after Washington declined to host the squad for the tournament, Mexican Pres...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Unbelievably chilling, shameful collaborationist behavior by a medical association Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“Rejecting the court’s supremacy, Congress should reaffirm its own interpretation of the Reconstruction amendments by statute — as the 1862 Congress did after Dred Scott and the 1982 Congress after Bolden.” Read and repost - share widely ↘️
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that since people will never give up democracy and the right to vote, they must be taken away by force: "Virtuous, ambitious, masculine men have to climb the ladder of power and forcefully take away from the people that which is their detriment."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our team at Duke studies graduation of countries out of health aid When done carefully with good planning—aid is slowly replaced with countries’ own domestic financing—it’s a “good news” story (boosting national sovereignty over health systems) In contrast, Rubio suddenly cutting aid was deadly
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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Steve Kerr spot on as usual
I’d vote for him
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026
While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
planetary.org
Your Guide to NASA's Budget
How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/04/2026
Make this make sense.
Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m
The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force.
We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
BREAKING The Speaker of Iran’s parliament says that President Trump has repeatedly lied today and that the Islamic Republic of Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz as long as the US military’s blockade remains in place.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s 2026 and the Pope is having to answer questions on how much he fears the United States Government. POPE LEO XIV: “I am not afraid of the Trump administration. I speak from the Gospel, and I will continue to speak out loudly against the war.”
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katesab @ksab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
it's back
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Slight tweak: SCOTUS should be expanded to 17 justices, with 17 year term limits, one appointment per year—that way no single president can appoint a majority to the court. (Also: if a justice departs before end of term, the remaining justices appoint a sitting federal judge to complete the term.)
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Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Now seems like a good time to remind everyone that the only way to destroy an entire civilization overnight is with nuclear weapons, and Donald Trump has the absolute power as President to follow through on that threat. It could take as little as 5 minutes. Here's how it would go down:
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/04/2026
Have a great Easter, everyone.
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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Iran released another LEGO inspired video. This one is specifically for Pete Hegseth.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2026
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
THIS IS SERIOUS❗️ Singer-Songwriters & Musicians Take Heed ‼️ Video: Singer-Songwriter Murphy Campbell from North Carolina
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dinoloverx2.bsky.social @dinoloverx2.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump plans to take the extraordinary step of attending Supreme Court oral arguments tomorrow in the birthright citizenship case www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Trump plans to attend oral arguments in Supreme Court birthright citizenship case
Both the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Historical Society have said there is no official record of any sitting president attending oral arguments.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is grotesque. At best.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Trump on NATO: "We would have always been there for them. But now, based on their actions, I guess we don't have to be."
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia
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katesab @ksab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
an hour earlier ?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A reminder that you should want universal voting in a democracy irrespective of whether your side is suddenly benefiting or losing due to restrictions and disenfranchisement.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 14/03/2026
HYPOTHETICAL Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from General Counsel) By Daniel Maurer, retired Judge Advocate "... may be construed as ... a war crime. This may expose you to criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. 2441(c)(2) ... We recommend that you publicly retract."
justsecurity.org
Hypothetical Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from Office of General Counsel)
A hypothetical legal memorandum on what the DoD General Counsel would advise Secretary Hegseth about his "no quarter" statement in Iran war.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/03/2026
The UN, though in Manhattan, is on international land, not American. Also a pretty central tenet of diplomacy is “we will not take advantage of proximity to murder your people” for reasons that should be very obvious.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Ossoff’s statement is 1000x stronger than Schumer-Jeffries. This is a moderate Jewish Senator from a Trump state. The split isn’t moderate vs progressive, but leading vs poll-reacting
Sen. Ossoff Statement on Iran
Atlanta, Ga. - U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement.
"Eight months ago, Donald Trump lied to the country when he claimed U.S. air strikes had 'obliterated' Iran's nuclear program.
"Now Trump says he's taken America to war for regime change in Iran.
"Trump has launched this regime change war and put American forces at risk without presenting evidence of an imminent threat, without clear objectives, without having exhausted diplomacy, without a plan for the aftermath, and without the consent of Congress.
"I oppose yet another regime change war-of-choice in the Middle East. Congress must convene immediately and pass a War Powers Resolution to assert our Constitutional authority over war and peace.
"The President has presented no evidence that Iran or its nuclear program — which he falsely claimed to have 'obliterated' — pose an imminent threat to the United States, or that diplomacy was exhausted. Iran's support for terrorism and uranium enrichment have long destabilized the region. But sending American forces into harm's way should only ever be a last resort.
"I pray for the safety of U.S. forces who have been ordered into battle and commend their extraordinary professionalism."
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Listen this is some next level trolling. It’s not just that Charlie Kirk is up there. It’s who he’s with. Catherine Beecher, while an advocate for women’s education, also fiercely opposed women’s suffrage and wanted women’s political power to be mostly constrained to their role as mothers. 1/2
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/02/2026
Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs
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Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say
In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he would likely be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), two sources briefed on the intelligence said.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Email to USA Hockey
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Les Wexner's attorney during the House Oversight Committee deposition on Epstein: "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates. First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Angelo Alcid 🇵🇭 🎮 ⚖️ @angeloalcid.com · 13/02/2026
I cannot imagine a punishment too severe for the ghouls responsible for this
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