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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Clinton & Obama's cozying up to W since 2016 has been ugly & deeply shameful. He's been totally absent in the authoritarian moment, & now he's actively stumping for it. Again, all the awful stuff keeps happening bc we never do elite accountability & haven't since at least Iran-Contra, if not 1865.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Breathtakingly bad polling. If the political class hadn't preemptively declared him immune to all laws of political gravity, they'd be calling this a failed presidency and talking about resignation, impeachment, party splits, and other historical markers of full executive-branch collapse.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I say this again: Any Democrat who wants my vote in the 2028 primary better get to Springfield fast.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans control Congress & the judiciary, much of the press, voters rejected Trump twice & despise him now, & GOP senators haven’t won more overall votes than Dems this century. An entire society hasn’t failed—an undemocratic political system has. Europe wouldn’t be so different if they used it

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think this gets to the heart of liberal-left complaints about the press. Political reporters think we're criticizing them for not being on "our" side. We're not. We're criticizing them for not being on journalism's side. Unplug from the DC celebrity access system and do honest independent work.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Love it when reporters break the fourth wall to remind me that they're happy to be part of a club that includes the most criminal and most un-American presidency in our nation's history.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If impeachment couldn't work against a defeated, out-of-power insurrectionary who put Congresspeople's lives in danger, there's no reason to think it would ever work. The Constitution thus lacks any functional way to get rid of a bad chief executive & so isn't even a minimally adequate plan of govt.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

remarkable that the United States has made it official policy to only accept white refugees and people still think it's up for debate whether or not they're white nationalists

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The way this is going to end is the way it ended after Nixon, after Reagan, after GWB, & after Trump I. All the senior people will go on to lucrative book deals & sinecures in elite media, academia, business, & think tanks, & we'll pretend there was accountability because we had an election.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

No one is an island all alone. We are bound to each other even if we
do not know it. The landscape binds us, flesh and blood bind us, work
and speech bind us. However, we are not always conscious of these
bonds. When solidarity is born, this consciousness is awakened, and
then speech and word appear, and at that point something that was
hidden becomes manifest. All our bonds become visible.
Józef Tischner, Spirit of Solidarity

A man’s good or evil actions, although not ordained to the good or
evil of another individual, are nevertheless ordained to the good or
evil of another, i.e. the community.

Thomas Aquinas ST I-II, 21.3 ad 1

In its social meaning liberation of every kind belongs to time;
salvation is for eternity, and for that reason always anticipates time.

Henri de Lubac, Brief Catechesis

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

He never misses a chance to sound like a rapist

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

this is all well and good but the mainstream media is still too scared to address IRCP theory

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

one of my favorite charts

chart showing how almost all americans think we need more factory jobs, but almost no americans actually want to do them

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/07/2026

evelyn normielib is real and she is coming to a primary near you I cannot count the number of conversations I’ve had with normal offline liberals that would be TOS violations over here

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

They have to move the dead Senators quickly so Bobby Jr. doesn't try to eat them.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 11/07/2026

Legacy media in the US pussyfooted around with Trump because he was novel, exciting, and because they want access. They have rarely ever treated him like the existential threat to freedom that he is.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's in the news that the political pogrom JD Vance started against his Haitian constituents worked, driving hundreds of thousands out of the country. That Vance can be on TV without being asked to apologize for his slander discredits everyone involved.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

it would be nice to stop gaslighting folks about this extremely obvious gesture

UFC fighter giving Nazi salute during a White House event

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/06/2026

"This guy is responsible for the deaths of 600,000 children," he writes on the site owned by the guy, shaped by the guy's algorithm. I don't get it. I really don't.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Normie Pete is in on SCOTUS expansion. We're cooking.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2026

that’s right

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/06/2026

Biden didnt just let reporters call him whenever, so no, they will not apply the same standard because access is more important than practicing good journalism

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Under my administration this woman will be allowed to kick brett kavanaugh in the balls for 18 hours straight

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Kamala Harris calls for an “expanded playbook” to strengthen democracy—including Electoral College reform, Supreme Court expansion, multi-member districts, and D.C./Puerto Rico statehood. Republicans spent years changing the rules to entrench GOP rule. Democrats are now talking about fighting back.

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