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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 20/02/2026

Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 08/12/2025

Said it before and I'll say it again: A real problem with the legal profession's cultural norm of venerating the Supreme Court is that the legal profession never contemplated that there might someday be a justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh on it

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/02/2026

the glorious constitutional principle of "the president can't fuck with Supreme Court justices' investment portfolios" stands strong

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/01/2026

Trump is nothing if not ready to sacrifice anyone and anything in order to save his own ass and the single most important thing that could happen right now is someone convincing him that the biggest driver of his unpopularity is not just Bovino and Noem but Stephen Miller personally

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

there's no answer to the question 'what's it gonna take?' but that doesn't stop it from popping into my head every goddamn time I look at the news

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Bluesky posters will be like you “you think massive universal legal resistance with total support from the population works? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning a shootout with an ICE army” and then not win a shootout with an ICE army

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

like “If I were you I would merely defeat the US government by force of arms” is not a great plan under any circumstances but I can’t help but notice the people saying this are also leaving the actual details of the plan to the rest of us

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The Founders assumed that Members of Congress would jealously and zealously guard the powers and prerogatives of their branch of government against the grasping of an overweening Executive, and instead we got this supine GOP majority that yearns to lick the boot.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

state and local political leadership at this time requires a willingness to be in the streets facing agents of the federal government. don't know what else to say but that

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/01/2026

As a leader, the way you *encourage* your people to peacefully protest is to get out there on the street with them. This cannot be done from the protected safety of one’s office.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

They put 6 kids in the ER by tossing a flashbang into their dad's car while they were in it. Periodic reminder that ICE agents' lives must be *ruined* after we get back into power. Fired for cause, names and faces publicized, banned from federal service for life, and any state services we fund.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time. Some thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2052...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/01/2026

seriously these results are a roadmap to demands for the upcoming budget battle: criminal liability if they break the law, no masks and mandatory IDs, no new funding and clawing back as much as last year’s funding as possible.

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

You know who knit me my pink pussy hat in 2016? My rural-Arkansas-raised nurse mother who was protesting and volunteering to provide abortion care in the 1990s. I am so tired of people like her getting painted as a “boomer resistance lib.” She’s been at this a long time.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19/12/2025

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/12/2025

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

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USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order

The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.

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Dog Mom Betty Cooper @legallybelle77.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

god I miss crashing out on Twitter circles

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/12/2025

it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Libra: Libra is on a holiday break, so please enjoy this Classic Sorrowscope from 1637: The Widow Jeffords is a witch! Take heed!!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

i’m really digging the new democratic catchphrase “from the window, to the wall”

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

presented without comment

Offit told me that Kennedy is a "liar" and a
"terrible human being." I asked him to explain. "It doesn't matter what I say," Offit said. "He thinks the medical journals are in the pocket of the industry, he thinks that the government is in the pocket of the industry, he thinks I'm in the pocket of industry, and he's wrong." Offit continued: "If he has data showing he's right, then fucking publish it. He can't, because he doesn't have those data."
I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public's rising distrust in science. "I don't think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost," he said.

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 30/11/2025

THE MOON (evening walk)

The moon stuck in some dark hemlock branches

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 30/11/2025

THE MOON

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 21/11/2025

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/11/2025

Trump gets a pass on violent rhetoric, and he shouldn't. Calling the police is the correct response. Journalists should also take this seriously, demanding explanations and accountability from the White House, instead of pretending this is just a Thursday.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 20/11/2025

Struggling to come up with a meaningful list of jobs this from which WOULDN’T get you fired and put on a security watchlist. Great stuff

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

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Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say

Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.

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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10/11/2025

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

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