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Defector @defector.com · 07/04/2026
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector
There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
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Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Durham, NC ❤️🤍💙 #NoKings
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Times Square, NYC. #NoKings
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
pissing off my friends on this San Francisco trip because i won’t stop growling “IT’S A WARZONE” in a right-wing propaganda voice while we walk around some of the most beautiful city streets in America
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
wow. we’d heard rumors to this effect. now it’s more than rumor.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
As my colleague @joshtpm.bsky.social noted today, it’s an action that allows him to “deprive those states and localities of their liberty and right to self-government. Because he wants that power for himself.”
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Some of his requests, per NSF staff: - Dedicated suite for him in the 19th floor - constructing an Executive Dining Room - reserved parking space for his 5 cars - exclusive use of 1 elevator for the Secretary - hosting the Secretary’s executive assistants in the 18th floor.
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.com · 25/06/2025
Reading the article, looks like they're still going to try to make the language work juuust right in order to fit a land sell off proposal into the budget bill, but it is deeply unpopular on both sides of the aisle. Call your reps, this isn't over, but they're hearing about it loudly. Keep calling.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/06/2025
Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon theonion.com/iran-wo...
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Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon
TEHRAN—Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America’s uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nation may soon be capable of producing its 8,500th nuclear weapon. "Our intelligence estimates indicate that, if it is allowed to progress with its aggressive nuclear program, the United States may soon possess its 8,500th atomic weapon capable of reaching Iran," said Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, adding that Americans have the fuel, the facilities, and "everything they need" to manufacture even more weapons-grade fissile material. "Obviously, the prospect of this happening is very distressing to Iran and all countries like Iran. After all, the United States is a volatile nation that’s proven it needs little provocation to attack anyone anywhere in the world whom it perceives to be a threat." Iranian intelligence experts also warned of the very real, and very frightening, possibility of the U.S. providing weapons and resources to a rogue third-party state such as Israel.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19/06/2025
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
clip art office guy in red ink, on the horn, saying: Oh my God, this War On Terrorism is gonna rule! I can't wait until the war is over and there's no more terrorism!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 09/06/2025
There are many evergreen social media posts of the Trump II era, but my personal nomination is this from @brendannyhan.bsky.social captures the multidimensional degeneracy of our times:
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This is really brilliant, accompanying ProPublica's story on how AI tagged a bunch of contracts for elimination. www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
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Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This is an incredible interview by @gregsargent.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com. It is completely wrenching and captures everything that’s wrong with ICE. Totally sick that it has come to this but maybe good reporting like Greg's can change some minds. newrepublic.com/article/1959...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 25/05/2025
Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money. Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment. Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Trump: The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
did some yapping about this youtu.be/9e6nJ8-9kms
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Trump's Insane Oval Office Meeting with South Africa's President
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
ICYMI, new piece/thread from me:
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
This expands a similar purge recently at the Naval Academy library, in Maryland. Last month, civilian Navy officials, following orders originating from Mr. Hegseth, pulled from shelves books including one that critiqued “The Bell Curve,” a 1994 text that argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people. But the academy kept “The Bell Curve” itself on its shelves.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science
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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 09/05/2025
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
President Trump fired our nation’s Librarian, Dr. Carla Hayden, by email at 6:56pm tonight, taking his assault on America’s libraries to a new level. 

Over the course of her tenure, Dr. Hayden brought the Library of Congress to the people, with initiatives that reached into rural communities and made the Library accessible to all Americans, in person and online. 

While President Trump wants to ban books and tell Americans what to read – or not to read at all, Dr. Hayden has devoted her career to making reading and the pursuit of knowledge available to everyone.

Be like Dr. Hayden.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/04/2025
When I was growing up autistic kids were "hyper" or "had water on the brain" and there was always a raft of "weird kids" who were socially ostracized because they had a hard time people-ing. If you don't think autism existed before it was commonly called "autism," it's because you chose not to see.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Republican thing is so broken, dysfunctional and rotten to the core.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.” Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is one of way too many examples of how the Trump administration supports kidnapping. (Including when it carries them out itself).
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They are - literally - sending armed forces so as to take over the museums and libraries.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.
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I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Russian authorities abduct Ukrainian journalist, torture her for months w electrocution until she dies in custody, weighing less than 30kg. #russianwarcrimes khpg.org/en/160881447...
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Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna died after savage torture and extreme emaciation in Russian captivity
The 27-year-old journalist, who lived for her work, had travelled to occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast in order to find out about Russia’s torture prisons on occupied territory
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
What amazes me about this is the group pathology of Trump and Musk world. It would take minutes to explain to a 5-year old that dumping water on farmland 100 miles and a mountain range away from a fire does not put out the fire. Yet they insisted. bsky.app/profile/ella...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
6/ They have additional statutory authority to enforce certain laws. They're not the White House's police force. They're certainly not DOGE's police force. So what happened here? cc: @gtconway.bsky.social @asharangappa.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Josh Billinson @jbillinson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The Pentagon flagged a photo of the Enola Gay in its DEI purge… apnews.com/article/dei-...
In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.
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Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A reminder that this is just the House assembling a reconciliation box. The Senate's box looks completely different, and both chambers have to agree on what the box looks like before they can start the hard part: filling it with (Byrd/other Senate rule/precedent-compliant) stuff.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I want to address a related point to the one I raised in this thread. A couple years ago the Times did a really strong package about the power of SpaceX. Not only is SpaceX. Not only is it now one if not the preemptive orbital delivery company in the world it also has a fleet of ...
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Needless, stupid, and cruel
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
lmao, jesus
J6 Prison Choir to Perform at Kennedy Center
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A coalition of 18 state attorneys general file suit over Musk’s staff accessing the Treasury payment system, the largest data breach in American history. ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New Trump executive order makes it the policy of the US government to resettle white South African Afrikaner "refugees" in the United States in cases where they have been the "victims of unjust racial discrimination".
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 06/02/2025
“Four years after America survived a brazen attempt to overturn an election, we must again stand firm, protect every ballot and demand that the will of the people prevails,” writes Eric Holder Jr., a former attorney general of the United States.
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Opinion | The Courts Must Stop This Judge From Stealing an Election
North Carolinians — all Americans — should be watching closely to ensure that justice is done.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A cautionary tale for any federal worker considering taking a “deferred resignation” deal. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Feb.
5, 2025, 6:32 PM EST
By Jonathan Allen and Courtney Kube
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard
Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday - not even enough time to gather her personal effects - according to two people familiar with the incident.
Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of the military, was removed from her post as the Coast Guard's top officer on Trump's second day in office. Officials at the Homeland Security Department - which oversees the Coast Guard - cited border security issues and an "excessive focus" on diversity, equity and inclusion among the reasons for her dismissal.Coast Guard leaders had given Fagan a 60-day waiver to find new housing, according to one of the sources. But on Tuesday, Homeland Security officials told the acting commandant, Kevin Lunday, that he had to kick her out because "the president wants her out of quarters," according to one of the people familiar with the incident.
The DHS official was not able to immediately ascertain whether the directive had in fact come
from Trump or whether his name had been invoked without his knowledge.
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