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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h
The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h
Imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 11h
The fact Kara Swisher is now monetizing her critiques of Elon Musk after literally being foundational to his work and actively ignoring all the insane gross shit he was doing and saying for years to give the tech press the inspiration slop they wanted is part of why we're here.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h
"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.
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An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hegseth should be hung around the neck of every GOP senator. Why do they hate the troops so much that they let this incompetent fanatic send them into a war with out food, support, and, it turns out, medical care once they’re wounded in service of the United States
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays!
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is no sacred ground that he won't defile if given an opportunity. No one in politics ever cared though. "Support the troops" was just a cudgel to beat Dems with. Didn't mean anything to the people pushing it. bsky.app/profile/dmnd...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The platform must be institutional reform:
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A good article, but the GOP committing to defense of democracy won't happen. We must create disincentives for lawlessness and collaboration with fascists, and that means punishment. Either we impose consequences or we allow the GOP to keep making things worse as it has continually done since Nixon.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And the NYT is so proud of its both-sidesing the article is leading the website. Readers are offended, as well they should be. Most recommended comment:
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The headline refers to "exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as a drunk"; the article then spends a lot of time detailing a single incident, which has been widely exaggerated beyond all proportion and recognization, and finally turns to Ramaswamy's career exploits, which are by no measure being exaggerated beyond defensible arguments as to their social impact. Why couldn't this article be accurately headlined: In Ugly Fight For Ohio Governor, Exaggeration of Single Personal Incident Is Pitted Against a Plutocrat's Career and Its Consequences. Concerned readers are eager to know.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The book details how -- among other things -- that the the real origin of the Supreme Court's claimed power to overturn Federal law as not "Marbury V Madison" but "Dred Scott." And that there was a concerted effort among conservative scholars to convince everyone otherwise.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gerrymandering is cheating and election-stealing. The massive money advantage is corruption in action. Neither of these represents “an upset.” The media really needs to stop normalizing and enabling cheating, election-stealing and corruption.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Al: So here comes Bundy into the game for the first time. You've all heard the Ted Bundy story, we don't need to go into it. Kirk: Dealt with a lot of adversity, and it's inspiring to see him face that adversity head on. Good looking guy too! Al: No kidding! So Bundy under center, 3 receiver set.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
athletes and celebrities don't *have* to shill for harmful companies just because that's where the money is and it's refreshing to be reminded of that
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall.”👶
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Roberts is not a figure embarked on a principled project of expanding executive power who can be excused for being unable to predict how those principles later abused. The abuse is occurring in real time. Many of the requests for expanded power are coming from the abuser.
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John Hollingsworth @fiatjusticia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the crux of the issue. It’s not just enough to “vote harder”; the Democratic Party leadership has to fix their hearts. But they are completely beholden to the consultant class…which is mainly focused on raising money…which requires that their donors know, “nothing will fundamentally change”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/09/2026
The peace Conan describes here is what I find so psychotic about Capitalism: The unnatural systemic need for more, growth, bigger, up, is constantly making people feel - mentally and financially - like where they’re at is not what success looks like, even if it’s exactly what makes them happy.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Reminder: Cosplay Patton here is 0-1 in wars and he took an L to a B-level power
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's astonishing just how committed this SCOTUS is to burning its own institutional legitimacy to the ground.
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Kathrin @puzzledpeaces.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm always struck by the absolute fucking JOYLESSNESS of it all. They don't want to browse and explore and spend time actively pursuing a hobby they might enjoy. Instead, they want to click 5 times and then go "Behold my stuff" to an empty room because they have no actual friends.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Always remember, it's not just Trump. This is Public Enemy No. 2: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
Linda Greenhouse
By Linda Greenhouse

Ms. Greenhouse, the recipient of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, reported on the Supreme Court for The Times from 1978 to 2008.

Chief Justice John Roberts has accomplished so much of his agenda that it’s not easy, as he begins his 22nd Supreme Court term, to think of what unfinished business might remain.

Affirmative action is dead. Roe v. Wade is a fading memory. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is in shreds, rendered incapable of serving its original mission of preventing states from undermining the political power of minority citizens. The executive branch agencies known collectively as the administrative state have lost their independence, with the president now able to fire nearly all agency heads for any reason or no reason at all. Federal judges are no longer to defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own authority, instead being told to decide for themselves the validity of agency regulations. Historical claims that fly under the banner of “originalism” have frozen the government’s ability to regulate the ownership of lethal weapons.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight
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Trump releases AI accord with tech executives
President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord ​on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm genuinely stunned by how credulous and acquiescent pretty much every major news organization was yesterday. It ought to be completely uncontroversial by now that DHS lies about officer-involved shootings, always.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just can not get enough of the reaction of his staff when the realization hits lol (around 9:30)
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
San Diegans love nepo baby Sara Jacobs and her obscenely wealthy family precisely because they do stuff like this “There’s only so many things we can do ourselves to spend money in a useful way,” Jacobs said. “After that, the greatest pleasure is being able to help others.”
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Philanthropist Irwin Jacobs donates $50 million to build homeless center downtown
Money will be used by Father Joe’s Villages on a three-building, 18-story complex in San Diego’s East Village.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is really remarkable that in a time of historic impasse in Congress, with both houses have been reduced to complete standstills despite a mounting number of political, economic, and ethical crises, both parties have spent months working to pass a bill limiting the pay of college athletes
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait. Which country is he talking about?
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
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