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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely incredible reporting on the people who have paid the steepest price for Trump’s occupation of Memphis, the parents whose children have been shot and killed by the National Guard hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

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Trump’s Deadly Invasion of Memphis

A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Probably preaching to the choir on bluesky but it really is an indictment of the entire American people and project that the most politically salient point against the Iran war isn't our rank imperialism or that we started it by bombing children, but that it's driving up gas prices

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI is an unregulated emergency on every level--academia, art, national security, privacy, the environment, faith in journalism, and on and on and on--and deriding those who are desperately trying to pull the handbrake as we go over the cliff as alarmists will not age well (if we get to age at all).

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Their goal is to FULLY outlaw abortion everywhere. I hope that folks know this and that they will not rest. So the question is what are we who are pro-abortion rights doing?

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dem politicians kicked women in the teeth on abortion for decades and their reward is that they got to move on from pearl-clutching about the Abortionplex and put their energy fully into kicking trans people in the teeth

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Jay Dee @taarguschonus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are way too many people that believe that we are a temporarily occupied country and once Trump is gone the day will be saved and we'll go back to being the good guys. Trump is not a virus he's a symptom.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026

Yes, we want good candidates to win, and that's why we want to push candidates to be better. The insistence that they stay mediocre and uncriticized is probably worse for Democratic chances.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/09/2026

something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you're in NYC, you should come to the Abortion teach-in on October 3 so you can be in community with like-minded people and so you can be prepared should the Right criminalize Mifepristone in the coming months. Be ready for the fights ahead.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The full statement is kind of a masterpiece. Take the most braindead both-sides take you’ve read in the Atlantic and remove 30 IQ points

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Ed Sheeran on Instagram: "It’s important that I set out some facts."

383K likes, 0 comments - teddysphotos on September 15, 2026: "It’s important that I set out some facts.".

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Between Schumer, Gillibrand and Jeffries, NY is really fucking things up on the Federal level.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it's horribly dispiriting to continually watch abusive men not just escape accountability, but thrive.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you have a problem with Mayor Mamdani attending the 9/11 ceremony you’re simply a racist piece of shit, I’m sorry, that’s on you, you’re gonna have to live with that until you figure out how to be a better human being

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/08/2026

elected democrats working themselves up into a dancing plague about a twitch streamer in possibly the most winnable environment for an opposition party in the history of the planet. beautiful stuff

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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Area Man @areamancm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

After new polling shows Democrats in all six of the first 2028 primary states overwhelmingly in support of sanctioning & cutting weapons to Israel, Hakeem Jeffries elevates one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in Congress to lead the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee:

Moskowitz personal account tweet:

Thank you to
@RepJeffries
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@RepGregoryMeeks
for this important responsibility to help lead Democrats policy in the Middle East and North Africa on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Quoting of his official House account:
I’m honored to be named Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.

At a moment of enormous change across the region, I’ll work to strengthen America’s relationships with Israel and our Gulf allies, expand regional peace, advance American diplomacy, and ensure our foreign policy is grounded in strength, security, and reality. I’m ready to get to work.

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It speaks volumes that men are now openly harassing and degrading women at WNBA games and transphobes respond with, "well, they have a point, right?"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You don't have to do the thing where you strip a situation of all of its specifics to make some abstract point. Cofnas didn't merely switch topics, he took up one of the worst ideas of the last two centuries. It's actually fine for universities not to employ people who are loudly wrong and bigoted!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

one thing i’ve been keeping to myself is that when people talk about automating their workflow i don’t know what that means

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John Breen @breen.tech · 19/08/2026

Oh wtf: “Delta employees at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport told him his seat was being upgraded, but that, because of technical issues, he needed to board last…. Instead of an upgraded seat, he walked down the jet bridge to find three ICE agents waiting.“

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's an odd thing to say of a politician, but Jeffries has no ambition. He's an NYC machine flunky who got tapped by Pelosi to lead the Dems because her no. 1 choice lost a primary. This is as good as it's gonna get for him. He has no vision for the party or America. He's just defending his turf.

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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't know how effective a viewer boycott of the show could be--I guess we'll see--but I do think a media boycott would have some impact. If all the websites that would ordinarily cover this from every angle just greet it with oceans of silence...maybe it'd mean something.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

attempts to win them over are doomed because the only thing that could actually do it would be fully appeasing them on Israel. that's not happening, and if it did it would alienate the rest of the party. it's time to think about what the party looks like without them.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 06/08/2026

y'all do not love men or like men, let alone young men. you treat them like incompetent failures when they're like 10 years old. feminists are the ones who ACTUALLY LIKE OR LOVE MEN bc they don't have a patronizing inability to take men seriously enough to hold them accountable and help them grow!

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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I've been irate at how little national coverage the killings of four Black men in Memphis by federal agents have gotten -- and even how little in Tennessee. The root? State lawmakers who wholeheartedly approve of the occupation of Memphis.

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Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Concerns over fake phenomena cannot be held in good faith. There's no such thing as "good faith" concern over razorblades in Halloween apples or vaccines causing autism. If you still have 'concerns' about these issues you are uninformed, a bigot or being manipulated. No other option.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Same with gender-affirming care for kids. Good-faith concern would be, "gee we should be making sure kids are appropriately assessed before receiving care and don't end up regretting it," realizing the numbers are tiny, kids are assessed and regret rates are miniscule and then dropping it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This ideology has been far more damaging to the country than anything the DSA is proposing www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Joe Manchin was born in 1947 in Farmington, West Virginia, a small coal mining town. He was a local football star and attended West Virginia University—where he met his wife, Gayle—on a scholarship before suffering an injury that sent him back home to run his father’s furniture store. Sixteen years later, in 1982, he decided to run for the state house. Impressed by the Republican congressman Arch Moore’s decision to help his Democratic father secure a small business loan, he announced, to his father’s chagrin, that he would enter politics. He wanted to serve his constituents, he says, though he doesn’t explain what he wanted to accomplish for them; he reasoned that he “was raised right,” with “good values,” and was “a talker” who would like the work of campaigning.

What are these “good values”? Manchin rarely specifies. “My journey in public service has been defined by standing firm when I must, finding a compromise where it’s possible, and always putting my state and my country above politics,” he explains. He writes more about legislation that he killed—ranging from abortion rights to cap and trade—than about bills he championed, although he does discuss supporting a gun background check bill after the Sandy Hook shooting, introducing bills to address the opioid crisis that ravaged West Virginia, and helping to write the Inflation Reduction Act under Biden. He seems to care most about what he views as fiscal responsibility, constantly seeking to rein in “reckless spending and unchecked government overreach,” and always finding compromise, no matter what the issue is. Manchin is widely understood to be captured by corporate interests—he repeatedly shielded his family’s coal business from regulation, to the detriment of action on climate change—though he understandably fails to address this on his own.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."

dannykatch.substack.com

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the only people who could ever earnestly support means testing are people who've never had to be means tested before. it is a humiliating, dehumanizing bureaucratic hostage negotiation with a system whose primary purpose is to *not* provide financial support as often as humanly possible

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 02/01/2025

Democrats lost 2024 because Democratic voters didn’t turn out. That’s the truth. But all the attention (again!) has been on Trump voters and what we can do for them and how we can reach them and and and FUCK THEM MY GOD. I am so tired of this. Democrats need to focus on Democratic voters!

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