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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 11/04/2026

Just because someone is yelling things at scientists, or angry at the results science yields, doesn’t mean there is a scientific debate. Life evolves and shares a common ancestor. Climate change is caused by humans. Masks work. Apples don’t fall up. Vaccines are safe and effective. Eppur si muove.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Does Iran know Hegseth can bench three plates????!!?!!?? How is this war still going?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

They thought they were gonna do another Venezuela and instead we've functionally put a bullet through the freedom of navigation, fucked up our newest carrier, lost a not insignificant number of tankers, overstressed the rest of the tanker fleet and lifter fleet, and lost an AWACS

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm expecting a wheelbarrow-full of pardons for insider trading on January 19, 2029. Note that the prospect of those pardons helps to keep subordinates in line. Corrupt-cop style, make sure that lots of people get a little taste, then make clear that the pardon depends on continued loyalty.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Vietnam was a catastrophe and there were objectively smart people in charge. I’m sure this will go great with the dumbest secdef in history who got the job because Trump thinks he looks good on tv and is good at blowing the sun up the president’s ass

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/03/2026

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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Stan Stanminson @lancetungsten.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

So we’ve poisoned Tehran, vaporized a girls’ school and blown up the water supply. To free the people, especially the women, of Iran.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 06/03/2026

❗️Russia is providing Iran with targeting intelligence on US military positions including warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported, citing three officials. Six US soldiers were killed in Kuwait in strikes analysts link to the intelligence sharing. #Iran

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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Stan Stanminson @lancetungsten.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Every reality TV show gets boring in season 3. Blah, blah, blah.

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Stan Stanminson @lancetungsten.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Iran just needs to bribe him through Jared and it will be fine.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested

There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

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Stan Stanminson @lancetungsten.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Pro sports are being rigged by professional gamblers. Congrats @mlb.com @nba.com @nflbluesky.bsky.social you killed the golden goose.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Yawning at the limited government folks warning that a democratic socialist mayor of New York is an existential threat, but who remain guardedly optimistic about an authoritarian president.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is exactly what we've all been asking for over the past nine months, just fucking swing hard at them and see what lands. It's not like they're giving you a shortage of material to work with.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

THIS. It reeks of fear and desperation on their part.

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Stan Stanminson @lancetungsten.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Trump has erased so many red lines for Republican voters; (the government owning stock in private companies, direct sales of drugs to consumers), opening the door to a robust platform of government intervention on affordability. Zohran is leading the way on this.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

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Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This chart just blows my mind.

Comparison of media coverage for Obama's tan suit versus the Comey indictment.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

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poliakoff.bsky.social @poliakoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I think about this quote all the time.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In this Ohio diner, ABC are the grades on a valedictorian’s report card. But they do know this: Canceling Kimmel was a good start, and next Disney has to pull any movies where women work outside of the home.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I like that this is just official DOJ policy now

A three panel screen shot from The Office of the following exchange

Michael Scott, distressed: I am a victim of a hate crime

Stanley: that’s not what a hate crime is

Michael: well, I hated it a lot, okay?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The extreme, opportunistic, completely disingenuous reaction to Kirk's murder also makes clear that if there's an Oklahoma City or 9/11-level attack in the next few years, this administration will absolutely exploit it to try to end our democracy and permanently entrench itself in power.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

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Stan Stanminson @lancetungsten.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The solidarity and understandable fear amongst those who are public figures that make money from politics is driving most of the stupidity today.

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Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The people who are angry at Charlie Kirk's assassination have decided that the best way to honor his legacy is to threaten violence to students of HBCUs. That's pretty weird, since I'm being assured that he wasn't racist.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Irony about Rumsfeld is that Americans made the same mistake with him that they made with McNamara and later, with Trump: We are convinced that people who were in business can run the government like a business. It's a stupid, stupid belief but millions of Americans are wedded to it.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2025

legit laughing my ass off

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