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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 11h
How Rep. Max Miller and his lawyer try to silence foes www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Rep. Max Miller and his lawyer try to silence foes
Court filings and cease-and-desist letters reveal their aggressive legal tactics.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 11h
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Architecture of Campus Assault
College sexual assault is predictable. Here's how to change that.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h
bring back shame
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 18h
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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0 for 26: The Trump Administration’s Astonishing Losing Record
Not one single court has approved of the Department of Justice’s plans to obtain state voter rolls.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 18h
www.propublica.org/article/miss...
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Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected
For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges. But after the state Supreme Court overruled the GOP’s redistricting push, some Republican lawmakers are calling ...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h
Only in America are mass shootings in schools a regular occurrence. Kids endure active shooter drills. They never get to enjoy a sense of safety. Yet America refuses to deal with the guns. They value the second amendment over the lives of their own children:
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Police say at least 2 were hospitalized after shooting at elementary school, and the shooter is dead
Authorities say at least two people were hospitalized Thursday following a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and the shooter was shot and killed.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The inability of the 117th Congress & Biden admin to hold the first Trump regime accountable for corruption, maladministration during a pandemic, attempted auto coup, conspiracy to defraud the people, & inciting insurrection is the worst accountability failure in U.S. history. Dems must use power.
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FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year
In the DOJ’s investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump’s orbit.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
As much as one would like to imagine supporters of the AfD as passive victims longing for an alternative to neoliberalism, a left-wing alternative was available and was actively rejected. A near majority of voters chose a far-right party that plans to dismantle the welfare state, but also promises a national revival through mass deportations of the supposedly parasitic foreign masses that have been holding back the German people. The AfD made no secret of its aims and means, and for many this was the appeal. As historian Peter Fritzsche once wrote, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations.”
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...
Screenshot from the post listing the four questions Court expansion proponents should have to answer:

1. How do we avoid touching off a race to the bottom, where each time one party controls the House, Senate, and presidency, it expands the Court to ensure an ideologically and politically sympathetic majority?

2. If a race to the bottom is unavoidable, how do we avoid further (and potentially fatal) erosion of public confidence in the Court—which will quite transparently be little more than a lever of power for whichever party last had such a trifecta?

3. If eroding public confidence in the Court is a feature, and not a bug, how do we insulate against the same erosion of public confidence in lower federal courts?

4. What is the case for why expansion is a better way to achieve the desired reforms than alternatives that would (or, at least, should) avoid many of these forward-looking concerns?
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Kudos to credentialed reporter Cat Murphy for standing her ground after a congressman threatened the University of Maryland grad student for recording and questioning him during a post-debate impromptu news conference. www.wbaltv.com/article/andy...
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Harris clashes with forum audience, threatens reporter's removal
A highly emotional candidate forum on the Eastern Shore ended Tuesday night with drama — but it wasn't jabs between the candidates.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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GUEST ROOM | The Whac-A-Mole Ritual of Suspending Fraternities Is Not Working; It’s Time for Deeper Reforms
Professor Young and Professor Hirschman have come together to create a dataset to analyze all known fraternity infractions since 2008. They use this data to call for the restructuring of Greek Life in...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/checks-and-b...
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Checks and Balances Will Not Save Us
A Democratically controlled Congress will have some tools to deploy, but not as many as some may hope.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Choose Your Overlord
Musk vs. Bezos
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In a communist system, the government owns the means of production. The Cato Institute is tracking how the Trump regime is steadily acquiring shares of private companies, taking ownership of the means of production.
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Government Ownership Dashboard
This tool tracks every deal announced by the US government to acquire an equity stake in a private US company, including the terms of each deal and primary source documents, if any.
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Iran is not going to let Trump off the hook.
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Immigrants with harrowing accounts of domestic abuse were detained after contact with local police, sometimes after calling them for help. "I had suffered from domestic violence,” said one woman, whose daughter was still nursing when she was detained. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”
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These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.
It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
steady.page/en/democracy...
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Demonizing Democracy
The Right has long derided any attempt at leveling racial and social hierarchies as anti-American “socialism” or “communism.” What they are actually fighting is equality.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.thehandbasket.co/p/democrats-...
thehandbasket.co
Why Democrats must keep calling out GOP bullsh*t on sight
Immediately diffusing Republican desperation drastically shortens the life cycle of their clownish ideas.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.currentaffairs.org/news/mamdani...
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again
The NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.texastribune.org/2026/10/09/k...
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Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips with state-funded security - The Texas Tribune
The Texas attorney general’s use of a taxpayer-funded travel security detail stands out when compared with his predecessor and other state officials, our analysis found.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
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Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue Was Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Again)
And probably on purpose.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/poli...
harpersbazaar.com
Women Everywhere Are Talking About Cornell. Why Aren’t Men?
In an era when misogynistic voices are louder than ever online, the silence from “good men” feels particularly damning
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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After ICE Shooting, Progressives Want New York's Police Commissioner to Step Down
28-year-old Oscar Belgal still has a bullet lodged in his body.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Democrats are set to break a 16-year curse
Here’s where the polling stands in some of the nation’s most important, under-the-radar races.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble
A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hegseth has been caught this week in a series of conscious lies about things that matter to ordinary Americans, like the fact that uniformed service personnel died in this stupid war.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And speaking of the NYT, here's a report that's also an avoidance: I'm pretty confident that most of the death threats come from the right but this one plays it out as though they're evenly distributed. WE do know that most political violence in the USA comes from the right.
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
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You Can't Run From Christian Nationalism
White evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Israelis admitting to murdering Palestinians during the 1948 Nakba.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This guy, who has “venture capital something something” is his bio, first criticized me for publishing some of my work behind a paywall instead of all of it for free - and then, after I reminded him that this is my source of income, came back with this condescending “advice.” Don’t be that guy.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Diesel futures fell after Trump announced a “massive” European oil release.⁣ ⁣ Then traders read the actual G7 statement, and the entire price move vanished.⁣ ⁣ Turns out the massive release was mostly a PR stunt. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels turns out to be leftovers from March.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Going on 94, Chuck Grassley has regressed into a world of infantile delusions. He's the poster boy for the Iowa GOP.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.justsecurity.org/159770/aucti...
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Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”
Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/power-and-th...
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Power and the Liberal Tradition
I have long considered myself a liberal, in the following sense: I believe in liberal democracy. The ideal of a republic of free and equal citizens is my north star, guiding my own politics here in th...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It‘s utterly unconvincing when Susan Collins tries to pretend her vote for Kavanaugh wasn’t a betrayal of women’s right to bodily autonomy.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. 1/
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. All encounters with federal agents should be recorded and documented if it is safe to do so. Witnesses can reach out to us to share what they see or to seek help.

Chaotic, warrantless immigration raids and roving patrols spread fear and disrupt lives and livelihoods. They do not belong here; hard working immigrants do.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i'm usually on the side of "sometimes good art is made by bad people, what you gonna do" with the harry potter remake, it's not just that rowling has bad values, its that she's using her wealth to fund the oppression of a minority & silence anyone who speaks out
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
2/ Federal agents have detained at least 70 children and teens who are American citizens. Some were handcuffed or zip-tied. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
At least 70 U.S. citizen children detained, some of whom were handcuffed
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magenta511.bsky.social @magenta511.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This nurse was assaulted by ICE – and it was caught on video. Now she wants her day in court
Norma Bowe, 68, was flung to the ground at Delaney Hall, the infamous New Jersey detention center. She sees her lawsuit against ICE as one step towards justice
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 04/10/2026
Immigrants including refugees, human trafficking survivors and people who’ve been granted asylum but don’t have green cards are losing their Medicaid coverage under provisions of HR1, also called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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About 9,300 immigrants in Illinois to lose Medicaid this week because of One Big Beautiful Bill
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