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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And as the First Amendment to the Constitution extols, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This is not to denigrate US military chaplains, but they already have the Armed Forces Chaplains Board which advises the secretary.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV 'held firm,' in other words refused to countenance the most ridiculous dolts ever You can 'wine and dine' U.S. senators and UK MPs into saying whatever you want, but that really does not work on everybody

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again, everything is gender studies.

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I genuinely thought "she became curious about raw milk after reading a post in her chiropractor's Facebook group" was going to be the worst sentence I read this week but I stand corrected

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Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) Says Shut It Down!

ALT: Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) Says Shut It Down!

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's true that there's not much structural antisemitism in North America anymore but you know I'm not sure if it matters that the guys coming through the synagogue door with an assault rifle are in line with a structural system of oppression.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chuck Schumer is not on the take he is a total sicko.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Important; it’s an immigration judge, who unlike federal judges are under the direct supervision of the Administration, which has been pushing out judges they feel are unduly biased towards immigrants.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The reality is that there is no non-violent way to non-consensually end a healthy human being's life. The effort spent to fool death penalty advocates into thinking they are participating in something clean and surgical makes an already barbaric spectacle disgustingly hypocritical as well.

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is not permitted to request jury nullification during a trial but it is permissible to discuss it abstractly. Jury nullification is the synthesis of two rules. First, the prosecution cannot appeal a jury verdict of not guilty. Second, a jury issuing a verdict of not guilty need not explain itself

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Abby HALLOWWWEEEEEEN @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If putting someone to death isn’t cruel and unusual, then what truly is?

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Abby HALLOWWWEEEEEEN @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We can’t. We know we can’t. It’s why it always has been and always will be a violation of the 8th amendment.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

but seriously carrie is a very short, slight story and it doesn't really lend itself well to adaptation expansion. i don't really know how you extend out the events on either end without it losing its tension and turning into superhero bullshit

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

splitting up the book carrie so that the first season is the events of the black prom and the second season is 10 hours of congressional hearings.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tbh i think the tendency in the Canadian left will quickly run up against how PSPP governs after next month it's a mistake driven by assuming the 90s PQ was the only form of the PQ

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Providing chairs when job duties don’t really require standing is a textbook example of a reasonable accommodation. Taking away chairs, thereby forcing disabled workers to put in formal requests to aggressively hostile employer, can be a pretty effective way of pushing people out of their jobs.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These sweeping statements about more work being like software engineering that people realize and “all service work can be automated” immediately hits me as 1) a claim that can be tested and 2) one that hasn’t been sufficiently tested. But they all just blithely accept it.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember how michael tracey (human worm) reacted when graham platner was found out? @marisakabas.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and i remember! it was fucking disgusting

Michael Tracey @mtracey

Good luck being a heterosexual male Democratic candidate anymore with even a whiff of anything but the most pristine romantic/dating history, because wherever you might fall on the party's ideological spectrum, the minute you hit national notoriety, the knives are coming out hard
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One weird trick for getting Democrats to take bold, decisive action: Manufacture a sex crime

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Everyone must accept that American political affairs will be fundamentally dictated by a constant parade of rape claims — always and everywhere, rape rape rape — but also, you must not ever think too critically about it, or you will be declared as complicit in the constant raping
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The defenestration of Platner is one for the ages.
Received the highest Dem primary vote in Maine history less than a month ago. Then, BOOM: skeevy PR operatives get everyone to scream RAPE!!!! — and switch off their brains — and now Party chieftains get to pick their own nominee
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i think about this speech a lot

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

Schmitt: Who knew jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan? We had information he was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta. He answered the question. That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but he says he's at the game. Maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's really crucial to remember that a "gas tax holiday" means starving states of revenue. That means fewer resources for public needs. Who do you think wins in a fight between funding for preschools and highways?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Rachel 🍉 @refein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One must imagine Sisyphus paddleboarding

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What people who talk about “innocent until proven guilty” need to understand is that victims are actually the ones considered guilty while purposefully being held to an impossible standard.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This would not be the first time the state retaliated against a victim for embarrassing them. It’s a pretty regular occurrence

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/09/2026

Like, even if you want to do the “membership in a heterogenous diaspora gives you special real estate privileges” argument, the “5000 years” thing is a result of morons who look at the number on the cover of a Hadassah calendar and don’t understand what Anno Mundi is. bsky.app/profile/jkfe...

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/09/2026

I am so fucking tired of people who claim opponents of Israeli apartheid and genocide don’t know history, then rattle off a bunch of myths and half truths

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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