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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h
The 2024 GOP policy platform was: -Put Trump above the law, let him crime without consequence -Hurt the darkies and the queers -Make things more expensive -Censor media and academia -Empower corrupt tech oligarchs And it worked! Voters were into it. So I can see the logic of trying that again.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 23h
I don't know how you recover from this. An illiterate and innumerate nation of shallow people.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want Roy Cooper to have coattails that swamp the R gerrymander of the state legislature 🤞🤞🤞
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
axios.com
Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026
You don't fucking say.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After Eric Schmitt lied and was corrected at the Jack Smith hearing, the NY Times called it a “misunderstanding.” This might be fair if Schmitt had a record of honesty (he doesn’t) and if Schmitt didn’t repeat the same lie after the hearing (he did). What the hell is the NY Times doing?
Devlin Barrett and Charlie Savage
Reporting from Washington
Jack Smith, who as special counsel twice charged Donald J. Trump with criminal offenses after his first term, defended his actions in testimony before Congress on Tuesday, as a Republican senator accused him of perjury based on what appeared to be the lawmaker’s misunderstanding about a basketball game involving the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Timberdoodle, BUT SPOOKY @timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and yes, I know this from personal experience, I'm on HRT due to a bomb blast knocking out my pituitary gland's HGH production. my endocrinologist warned me to stay active warned me*specifically* about this exact thing that is happening to Musk.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And then people say "Oh, but the safeguards will hold" not realizing that THEY ARE THE SAFEGUARDS.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chart of the day, from Michael Tesler: There's a tight correlation between Trump support and Google searches for testosterone boosters. A bunch of insecure little men being told to feel even more insecure by their insecure media and political leaders. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...
Chart showing correlation between Trump support and google searches for testosterone boosters
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@ChrisStephensMD

CNN ANCHOR: this is NOT the america any of us signed up for. we’ll be right back.

(five ads designed to trick old poor people into going bankrupt play)

CNN ANCHOR: and we’re back
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madgoat @m4dg0at.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Then A&M lost lol. Karma.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's hard to believe that letting him get away with it once only encouraged him to do it again. Who could have foreseen this? Who?
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17/09/2026
"transgender ideology" is a phrase that should be treated with the same revulsion as "woke mind virus"
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We live in a poll-driven political age, but it's important for all politicians to remember that they can lead/influence public opinion through leadership and communication.
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kbromberg.bsky.social @kbromberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Almost makes you wonder whose side these guys are really on. Oh yeah, the side with the money. This is not a left/ right issue; it’s right versus wrong.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Again, bigots will never choose bigotry-lite over the real thing. You're not going to win them but you're going to drive away people who otherwise would have voted for you. And this year -- when voters most of all want "a fighter" in Congress -- running ads about how you will not fight is idiotic.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes! bsky.app/profile/shad...
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The Re·Sist·Ance @heygoogleitsme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A decade ago, if you aimed to predict Supreme Court decisions, which has proven a better heuristic? 1) Follow legal text and precedent according to a logically consistent judicial philosophy 2) Ignore or distort law to maximize GOP/right-wing power while mitigating risks of future court expansion
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The reason why they think their voters are this dumb and gullible is because they are.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/09/2026
thinking about all the young people who left ban states and came to New York for care, and now
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not when he’s got his prescription pad out
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Penelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
After being forced out of the military, many trans service members have yet to receive tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they are owed, leaving them destitute and homeless. (gift link) wapo.st/4qN0TNq
wapo.st
A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/08/2026
I made a chart, naturally.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump is so stuck in the '80s that he keeps trying the movie cliche of "we'll solve our problems by putting on a cool show!" Military parade, the "Great State Fair," a UFC fight at the White House, the Formula 1 race, etc. Except he's not the scrappy teen hero. He's the evil real estate developer.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Don’t get me wrong, this isn‘t Jon‘s fault, good on him for finding an attack that works. But it’s so incredibly bleak that this is a more effective line of attack than Epstein and Iran simply because the media gets bored easily and always needs a new shiny toy to get their attention.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 19/08/2026
Resharing my story from yesterday! One interesting tidbit that didn't make it in: Carnegie Mellon University was planning to publish a press release about its VINCE portal's role in Gold Eagle, but within two days, it canceled those plans. (A spokesperson blamed "shifting communication priorities.")
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 18/08/2026
Maine and Vermont, two states with the highest proportions of white residents, never disenfranchised people with felony convictions. That’s no coincidence, says an advocate for incarcerated Mainers: “The Maine model ain’t happening in Louisiana."
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Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts
Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.
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Mike Bloom @michaelbloom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
And they say BlueSky is a bubble. Try being a Republican congressman
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The vast majority of major media platforms are now owned by right wing billionaire Trump supporters. Here’s why the left still controls American culture.
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Rev. A. l'Uecipher @revaluecipher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
my fave is "sorry ladies, it turns out dudes are amazing in bed so I'm done with chicks"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/08/2026
yeah that one is incredible “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is insane: Trump's rage and humiliation over the Reflecting Pool now has the White House urging DOJ to undertake new prosecutions *even though the government itself has already determined the person in question is innocent.*
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/08/2026
This is what we mean when we say we're living under fascism. You might not feel it in your own personal life every day. But you and all of us are vulnerable at any second to this kind of malicious exercise of fascist power. This isn't freedom.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The same people who are trying to send Fauci to jail are cheering this on.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.
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We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...
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