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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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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...

newrepublic.com

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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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is exactly what's wrong with the tech industry, which my work intersects. It seeks people willing to see their jobs as a collection of preset, repeatable, tasks. This mindset views talent, creativity, and natural ability as impediments, not virtues. Tech values dronedom.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...

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MUSK | Official Trailer HD

YouTube video by Elevation Pictures

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction. A must read to understand the stakes of this election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cover of Mother Jones issue on the new Jim Crow

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The media assignment is very straightforward and clear: Can you find, in the coming months, some of these 750,000 people and interview them? According to Vance, they're probably all "fake" because anyone who buys a health plan and then doesn't file claims is obviously not someone who really exists.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:

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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift

The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Again for those in the cheap seats. Gavin Newsom is an owned and operated subsidiary of the powerful. He puts a center-left wash on oligarchy. That's what he considers his job.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

perfect from @warren.senate.gov “Allowing one Trump-aligned, foreign-owned conglomerate to dominate American news and entertainment is a disastrous outcome. ...The new Paramount behemoth is a clear candidate for antitrust scrutiny in a future pro-competition Administration.”

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Don't give archconservative MAGA cranks control of historically large and important media conglomerates" seems like a very low bar, but leading Democrats somehow fail to hit even that. If Democratic leadership wants to understand why it's unpopular with its own base, look no further than this.

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off

evanstonnow.com

Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now

Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...

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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is how NYT describes Saudis bribing Trump: “For years, his [Mohammed bin Salman’s] government has invested billions of dollars and extensive political capital in building personal relationships with Mr. Trump and his family.” tinyurl.com/4jrd4ber

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Saudi Arabia Faces ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ After Being Rebuffed by Trump

The kingdom is in a state of strategic shock after coming under attack from an emboldened Iran and failing to win more U.S. military support, analysts say.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The NYT lies for Trump, again www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol... Contrary to the NYT headline, Trump didn't pledge his followers to vote for him; he pledged his followers to cheat for him (literally).

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Video: Trump Has Crowd Pledge Their Allegiance to Him and to Vote

President Trump closed the Republican convention by having the crowd pledge an oath to him. Vice President JD Vance cast Democrats as the “party of hatred.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.

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Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico

Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We are a nation that spent 3/4 of its history in slavery and apartheid. We are a uniquely violent society for a rich country. We have consistently elected leaders who put the wants of the few over the needs of the many. This is at least as much who we are as the compassion these caregivers show.

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What's more astonishing is the degree to which Democrats happily allow everyone forget the utterly shitty things Republicans regularly do.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Yeah, it’s trash. The article itself is also horribly Islamophobic," a CBS staffer told me about this tweet.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm not a conspiracy guy. I generally believe things happened just as they looked. But, being ex-military and working with weapons, I've yet to hear an explanation for how Bone Spurs was hit in the ear with a high-velocity rifle round and ended up with nary a scratch or a scar. It doesn't happen.

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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just a reminder this statement was said by a sitting Congressman to the public, Trump and his DOJ offered not one pushback, denial or lawsuit.. it’s still just sitting out there

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026

don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA

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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In other words, white racists love blacks who support the forces of white supremacy. They advance racists' interests while providing a shield against accusations of racism: "I'm not racist! voted for a black person."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

One of the Dem weaknesses is that we refuse to attack the MAGA base. Meanwhile they attack Dems as inherently evil people who might be demonic and whatever their corrupt politician is doing “Dems are worse”

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

data4democracy.substack.com

With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote about Ross Douthat's last column and why conservative white supremacists like Ross always claim that fascists have no agency. It's because they know the fascists are working for them but they want to pretend they don't know that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ross-douth...

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Ross Douthat Knows the Fascists are On His Side

Consensus white supremacy relies on fascism to crush its foes.

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An apt metaphor for the current state of the American constitutional system

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

This whole piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is a must-read, but this part rings especially true. If you're a centrist worried about the future of the party, maybe focus your $15 million freakout on shoring up black voting in the South instead of pushing milquetoast moderates in deep blue NYC?

Black organizers in the South expected a Democratic cavalry after the Voting Rights Act was gutted by the Supreme Court. Instead, they feel abandoned. They look at conservative groups like Heritage Action and Turning Point USA and wonder what they could do with that kind of support.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thank you. I have been able to sit through exactly one of four of his films its entirety

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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Newsflash for white people. You can look at my skin and fairly accurate assume where I sit on the political spectrum. I see "the other side" as a threat because... THEY ARE A FUCKING THREAT to my ability to go through the world unmolested.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/07/2026

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.

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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race

Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 24/07/2026

NYT: Sorry we can’t say he’s clearly lying because we don’t know what’s in his head Also NYT: He’s grieving, can’t you tell??

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/07/2026

I won’t share the video of the public execution by police of a yet unnamed Black man in Madison, WI. With four white Madison cops on him, one cop pulled out his firearm and shot the victim in the head at least three times at point blank range. 1/2

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

matthew always brings the receipts

• A law called the "Food Traceability Rule," designed to make tracing contaminated food easier, was supposed to go into effect on January 20, 2026.
• Taylor Foods started paying Sidley Austin to lobby. on "regulation of food safety" in January of 2025.
• On March 20, 2025, FDA announced they were pushing back the implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule" by 30 months.
• On March 26, 2025, Taylor Fresh Foods Inc contributed $1,000,000 to MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

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