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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It's almost as if the conservative justices want to help the Republicans retain power through racist gerrymandering.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It’s a shame that this otherwise happy event would crash the whole economy

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ajc.com

The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon

Delta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.

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Brendan Fischer @brendanfischer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@campaignlegal.org filed an FEC complaint alleging former Senator Kyrsten Sinema abused her donor money, spending at least $700,000 in leftover campaign funds on personal expenses--flights, high-end meals, luxury hotels, and even a vehicle--in the year after she left office.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is one of the many many ways that “legal” is becoming “illegal”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/02/2026

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

$MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.$

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Perfection

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/01/2026

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

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maggieyg.bsky.social @maggieyg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Did these people read 1984 and take it as a road map?

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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

BREAKING: Jimmie “Chris” Duncan is released on bail Wednesday after being on death row for 27 years. In 1993, Mr. Duncan was wrongfully accused of the death of his then girlfriend’s daughter, who was found unconscious in a bathtub. Read more: bit.ly/4ofLq5z

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

motherjones.com

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/10/2025

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

yaledailynews.com

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Republicans' shutdown message is abundantly clear: Let us jack up millions of people's health care costs or we'll starve the poor. I wish that was an exaggeration. It's not.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

Chart showing Trump's net approval compared with this point in previous presidencies. In 2009, Obama's approval at this point was approximately +7, in 2017 Trump's was -16 and in 2021 Biden's was -7

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I'm gifting this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | With Mamdani, the Left Finally Has Its Trump

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 24/09/2025

"Even more lucrative!" That's how all honest politicians frame their policy moves, right?

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maggieyg.bsky.social @maggieyg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Modern day book burning: there’s no smoke but there’s definitely destruction.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Holy fucking shit

Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/08/2025

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

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maggieyg.bsky.social @maggieyg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Absolute power play to make Trump wait for him a the red carpet.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Stephen Miller is right: crime is rampant in DC www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Instead, the National Guard ought to focus on tackling the major terror on the streets of this city! Why, at any moment you or your neighbor could get yanked into an unmarked van by a masked man, without any regard for habeas corpus. Los Angeles all over again! How can anyone feel safe while this keeps happening? People who are trying to do everything the right way, snatched from hallways after their court hearings. Professors, detained after expressing their views. Americans who just want to work hard and support their families, petrified to go to work every day because of the shameless wrongdoers in D.C. and what they have unleashed. And whoever masterminded the abduction of so many people-seized without due process and whisked away to a foreign gulag-is still at large, and staring back at Stephen every time he looks into a mirror. Not safe, not safe!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/08/2025

Please read this book. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

Cover of ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. Black text on red book cover. Stylized drawing of a silhouetted child standing under a falling bomb.

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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

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maggieyg.bsky.social @maggieyg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If Biden had expanded the Supreme Court to 13 justices then Trump would not be getting away with all the un-constitutional shit the Robert’s court is allowing. This thought kept me awake last night.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

One more crucial aspect here is that Republicans are confident they can do this stuff and SCOTUS will back them up, but if a D president or congress were to try to do the same, SCOTUS would find a way to block it. (See, e.g. student loans)

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/07/2025

Way too many people believe that both politics and democracy is simply when you do an election.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge? 900?!

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The way the NYT is covering Leader Jeffries’ magic minute speech and covered Speaker Pelosi’s similar effort vs how it covered McCarthy doing the same thing.

The speech was the final Democratic delay standing in the way of passing the G.O.P. bill to extend tax cuts and slash social safety net programs, which Mr. Trump has said he wants to sign by July 4.
But was, in the end, a portrait of ineffectiveness.
Because it was clear throughout that the often soaring oratory was only postponing a bracing reality: Republicans were poised to pass the bill and achieve their latest in a string of victories over Democrats, whose standing with voters has never been lower under the leadership of Mr. Jeffries and his counterparts.

It also demonstrated, yet again, why Ms. Pelosi, 77, of California, remains one of the most enduring — and to many, infuriating — figures in Washington.
"I am reminded that there are members who come to this great chamber to make speeches, and there are those who come to make laws," an irritated-sounding Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican of Texas, said when Ms. Pelosi wrapped up. "When it comes to speeches, I would note that the Gettysburg Address came in at two minutes, and Americans may think it had greater eloquence."

Mr. McCarthy, the top Republican in the House, did stave off a planned Thursday vote as he railed against President Biden and his agenda. But the Californian had another goal: Secure the respect
— and possibly the support — of his party's restive conservatives, who have been told repeatedly by their leader, Donald J. Trump, that other Republican leaders have not fought Democrats hard enough. Hours after concluding his speech, Republicans fist-bumped him and clapped him on the back as he arrived on the House floor for votes.
"You galvanize people, right? You catch people's attention, and you demonstrate to them that we're resolved to fight," said Representative Chip Roy, a Texas Republican who is known for forcing procedural delays. He added, "Look, I want the leader to fight, and that was good. Go fight. Let's fight more. Let's throw everything we've got at this nonsense."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/07/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Eric “Hell needed horribly bright, self-centred people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage.”

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration? I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

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maggieyg.bsky.social @maggieyg.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Is this what Americans want to be spending their tax dollars on? iCE and the military? The deeper question is why does congress no longer care what the majority of voters want?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

👇👇👇👇

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT. this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics. Do not sign!

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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

And it ends at the White House not the Capitol. Symbolically it the route is troops called from the Barracks/General Staff to render obeisance to the King, while demonstrating how the King can call in troops to awe the cities. 9/

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

What is the cost of sending National Guard and active duty Marines to Los Angeles, where they are not needed? What is this political theater costing taxpayers? Talk about WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

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