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wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 15h

it's not just in Gaza! they are explicitly undertaking a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign of Lebanese Shia!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 20h

It’s very strange that polling has us on track to win Texas and NC and Kansas but plausibly lose Maine?

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 20h

Note the dates, this is before most of the medical debt thing got a lot of exposure. Blansas might happen??? And we might still lose to Collins??????

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you do not hate newspaper editors/publishers enough

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I prefer the incremental solution that can be implemented through bare-majority legislation (240 Supreme Court justices) to Third Way's radical plan, which requires fully amending the Constitution (term limits)

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why did Texas Republicans base the gerrymander around the assumption that Hispanic voters would keep voting how they did in 2024? Are they stupid?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's important to him because he's a white supremacist, which is the same reason he avoids mentioning the Nazis or Confederates when he lists the foes America has defeated. My guess is at least one of his speechwriters believes the wrong side lost in WW2, if Hegseth doesn't.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is obvious when you think about it for five seconds—deliberate and classic tool of the right to hurt poor people: find a sympathetic-sounding but annoying-to-prove means test.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This can be what it is but it doesn't mean people vote for it in the booth because the choices they're presented with are D and R and they have pre-existing perceptions behind those brands that aren't tied to ideological positions. There is a huge danger in assuming voters are well-informed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you absolutely must kill someone, have the decency to shoot them instead of pretending you can do it bloodlessly

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meanwhile, on SNAP

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Developments in the Hunter story were, after 2021, generally covered with the exact same scandalous tone and cadence as reporting on like, Watergate (because they didn't like Biden and wanted scandals to hurt him)

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I'm not even getting into the science of it because who fucking cares. It's a non-issue that is unlikely to ever affect you. The first sports ban was Idaho in 2020 and nobody gave a fuck before then. Hell, in 2016, the country revolted when North Carolina passed a bathroom ban. It's so dumb.

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Shoresy: This Is So Dumb

ALT: Shoresy: This Is So Dumb

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cases I argued are published a few times in a minor state level legal reporter for cases that are likely to be cited maybe four times in the future. That’s the best I get.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

these look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like “do not get into a situation where your political opponent can have their lawyers depose you under oath and on a video record about your medical debt collection practices” feels like pretty basic political good sense, but I guess I’m not a senator from Kansas, so what do I know?

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Lani 🏳️‍⚧️ @laniodeary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I bet people underestimate how far over the line this is. The amount of shocked Pikachu face I get that you can't get rid of student loans in bankruptcy is wild. Almost universally the response is: that cannot be right. Like immigration people assume poverty is a way more rational system than it is

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Tired of running for office in a fair election, Roger Marshall wants to extend his medical debtor’s prison machine to his political opponents. I’m Adam Hamilton and I am being sued by Roger Marshall for telling the truth, and I approve this message.”

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh my GOD imagine them suing over this! Imagine the discovery!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

these guys don't know how to run for a competitive office

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a bench warrant for defaulting in consumer debt litigation is theoretically procedurally valid. it's just so insane that even the American judicial system generally does not do it. Roger Marshall did it 81 times.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God, the inadvisability of this ad is insane. this is doubling down on the fact that you are a specific kind of hateful evil that most middle-class-and-above people do not even have to contemplate the existence of

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've literally seen the moment where it clicks for a skeptical conservative federal judge, and I've read the opinions that result. if it were not protected by a bunch of different regrettable immunities, there would be FedSoc judges trying to find a way to make Roger Marshall's conduct illegal.

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Davis X. Machina @ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

>>...some show-runners prefer subtlety. Like so... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

Bill Raymond as the Greek, from "The Wire".

"The Greek is a mysterious figure involved in numerous criminal activities. His given name is never mentioned on the show and he is known only as the Greek, although he stated that he is not actually Greek."

A thoroughly generic old man with a moustache, in a brown shirt and a tweed hat

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even @labourlist.bsky.social, which is covering every aspect of Labour Conference in Liverpool, hasn't run a story covering what happened at Women's Conference. Indeed I challenge you to find a *single* story about this boycott written after the event in *any* news outlet anywhere. Remarkable.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It looks like EVERY Western democracy is going to get a chance to touch the stove! Equality!

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should do a large scale in-person arts subsidy. Even AI disruption aside, it’d be worth it just to get people to touch grass more.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

HIT THEM AGAIN KENTUCKY BOY

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...

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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.

Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you make any sort of money off betting or are a sharp, they also just ban you lol

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Transphobia is genuinely an elite fixation that is much less popular than most politicians and media outlets would have you believe.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The way Trump is burning our international credibility to the ground is really upsetting.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it would, however, be worthwhile announcing (and not really spend much capital in doing so) that any sort of fuckery with Canada gets a Church committee-style investigation

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

jesus fucking christ

Ottawa has warned the Quebec government against the possibility of US interference in the current election campaign, which is aimed at favouring the election of a sovereignist government.

At the beginning of September, a senior official in the Fréchette government received a call from a counterpart in the Mark Carney government, we have learned.

He was offered the option of going to a "neutral location, where there were no cameras", and was forbidden from bringing his cell phone.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 25/09/2026

AH FUCK OH SHIT OUR WALLETS

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In other Canada investigations today, I have learned the Constitution had to be amended to replace the federally provided ferry from the mainland to Prince Edward Island with a bridge in 1993 (the ferry service—termed “steamships” in the constitution— was a term of PEI’s accession to the Union).

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Nobody could have foreseen..." Correct...they couldn't. They never will be able to. You and I are freaks. Aberrants. This is what happens without the proper civic and governing institutions in place.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Query for Canadian friends: do you lose your citizenship if you criticize Stan Rogers and secondarily is The Idiot super reactionary or subtly leftist?

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thread leading up to here is good and helps explain Putinist Russia far better than “NATO made Russia do it” ever will. Campists and Tankies basically agree and view Central Asia, the baltics, and Ukraine as properly part of the Russian Empire, just leftishly. Which is why they defend Putin.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On Boston marriage, 1894

BOSTON MARRIAGE

What the Scarcity of Men in Massachusetts Has Brought About

The funniest of all social developments is that which goes under the head of Boston marriages. Two women, as well known as Susan Channing and Edna D. Cheney, have made separate appeals for this new departure of female habit, and have defended it with considerable success.

A Boston marriage is described to be a sympathetic union of two women, who have not been able to make good and agreeable matches with members of the opposite sex. Miss Cheney is of the opinion that in our present state of civilization they seem to be necessary and should not be interfered with. Miss

--The Evening Herald, 21 Feb 1894

Channing also believes that since in our present state of civilization marriage like wealth is getting to be more and more the privilege of the few, the women unsought in wedlock or unable to get the men of their choice should have the right to form sympathetic unions with each other.

What is to hinder a Boston couple from adopting a child or even more than one? Why not grow a household in this manner? The meanest thing about old-maid life is that it takes to cats, or parrots, or poodles -- generally cats. I see no reason why a cat shall not have a share of sympathy but it has no claim upon a love it cannot appreciate. Besides, cat-love is a dreadful

apology for baby-love. By all means let our Bostonese adopt children. In this way, while there is no increase of children, there will be a decrease of homeless children.
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