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K* Smith @ksmithmi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@andyrichter.co Had a great time at The Coney last night. Thanks for the photo at the stage door. I was the one with the phone that took way too long to take the photo. Sorry!

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The grift is the point, every bit as much as the cruelty and the soft eugenics.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump: 1) has plans to hold downtown DC using snipers and drones embedded in new monuments 2) is throwing a fit, saying whatever he thinks might get through a court block to make ego-boosting monuments to himself Not saying completely dismiss any possibility of 1, but 2 has the better read on him

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't really follow politics

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

After the White House bans CNN, CNN invites the White House on for Sunday morning shows. They love groveling for fascists. Just total, abject submission.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can't wait to watch it get blown up in 2029

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump saying we urgently need well stocked sniper nests overlooking the nation’s main location for political protest should ring alarm bells.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Speak at Your Own Risk

Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment

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Nsignificannot @nsignificannot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gender affirming care.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last year, in office, Kennedy said the MMR kills and blinds kids.

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RFK lies about the MMR killing kids

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is there a formal name for the performative credulity and elite deference that respectable media just can’t seem to abandon? It is clearly illustrated in the case of RFK Jr. Everyone involved is expected to maintain a fiction that nobody knows what everybody knows.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trump, Vance, and especially Musk have largely succeeded in eroding the norms against overt gutter racism. We don't get back on track as a society until people that act like this are driven out of public life.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mike Johnson never has had any moral center. He has no love for any part of the Bible that doesn't include stoning. And Herrera is the R trying to replace the guy who cheated on his wife with a staffer he drove to suicide. This is who the GOP is.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Let’s not talk politics, it might put people off” might be a defensible guideline for Thanksgiving dinner, when Uncle Bill & Cousin Deborah can’t resist going at it over vouchers or something. But for a public figure at this particular historical moment it’s just cowardice.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You know, your life isn't the only one in danger here, right We've got a GOP that is all but openly trying to start a civil war and you want to punish Democrats for not being perfectly on your preferred message despite being the single most pro-trans major party in the entire world.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I suppose my opinion on AI regulation is that at present, you have to mentally add "as enforced by Donald Trump" to the end of every legislative proposal and for that reason, I'm functionally a libertarian until January 2029.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What's a few million starving children between friends? And no, an imperfect Dem defeating a mass-homicidal psychopath in Texas is not "sacrificing" you.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei calling for AI development to slow down—but not, you know, just doing that at the companies they control—while Donald Trump is president smells like an attempt at regulatory capture.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Iran's regime lies a lot. Not that everything they say is a lie, but when they claim they did damage, it was probably less than they say. America's regime lies a lot. Not that everything they say is a lie, but when they claim an Iranian attack didn't do damage, it was probably more than they say.

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K* Smith @ksmithmi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Republican party is just a terroristic cult around Donald Trump.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Republicans who see Canada as an enemy has leapt up this year, similar to how Republicans’ approval of Putin shot up in 2016. Virtually no anti-Canada US constituency before this year, and virtually no pro-Putin constituency before 2016. Out of nowhere. Now millions say that’s their position.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh god some of the Canadians on this site understand US politics and government worse than MAGA illiterates on Xitter.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

i will say one thing for the increasingly popular pro-cancer takes: they helpfully relieve me of any residual feeling that those saying these things are sane, deserve respect, or should be negotiated with

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On the one hand, Carney is not wrong On the other, this also means there will not be meaningful movement on the trade war while Trump lives

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The US is bombing Iran again, saying it’s to stop Iran’s ability to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, which is also what the last round of bombing what was supposed to accomplish. Why the U.S. expects this more limited bombing to accomplish what previous bombing failed to do, they did not say.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/09/2026

The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16. We're urging Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the measure.

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EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California’s AB 1709

The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 (A.B. 1709) today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16. This well-intentioned, but deeply fl...

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 01/09/2026

Today, House E&C marked up the GUARDIAN Act (H.R. 6488) as a substitute for the RESET Act. While ostensibly about parental consent for social media use, it’s really just a ban by another name. 🧵

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026

I would like to return to an era where I do not have to assume that every single statement that comes from a government spokesperson is a lie

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K* Smith @ksmithmi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These people at the USPS are terrorists. They need to be executed for this...AFTER A FAIR TRIAL, OF COURSE.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/09/2026

Spoiler: it's going to be used for right wing anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ propaganda

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I understand the rhetorical impulse but I find it very tedious to always frame everything as "imagine how a future Dem president could abuse this power" as if the fact that the power is currently being abused by the most corrupt and anti-constitutional president in American history isn't bad enough.

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Ryan Pollard @ryanpollard.ca · 01/09/2026

I went to the Vernon Cadet Training Centre as a kid. I also know the woman on the right. we volunteered with kids together, she is a model citizen. this shit is sickening.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gonna' have to figure out a way to process the rage. Because these stories are going to continue. And we can't ignore them.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

She is so fucking stupid, any person given this massive portfolio at one of the biggest networks who also had a quarter of a brain would be able to figure out that you gotta be more subtle than this; you didn’t get a job at Fox Business, who do u think your audience is

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think the trump administration’s conduct on this has been cultish, horrendous, lawless and scandalous and it understandably ranks low somehow on my list of priorities because of all the other suffering and bloodshed BUT, unlike me, most Americans seem to like JFK, and many might be madder…

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Big news this morning is a whistleblower files a complaint that USPS has been illegally preparing to implement Trump’s executive order against mail voting in defiance of court orders: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms

A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Trump White House will sabotage mail-in voting, blocking before and disputing after, disenfranchising Americans however they can. The Roberts Court will make up some BS to allow it. It’s wrong, it isn’t fair, it shouldn’t be. But it is. And it’s beatable. Big numbers in person and they lose.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Political purges and a failing war of choice launched against generals’ advice has left the Army largely rudderless, while the war continues with no end in sight. Empowering political leaders who think international success comes from shallow bluster and white men doing war crimes has consequences.

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