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Philip Kennicott @philipkennicott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Have we hit rock bottom? As Trump nods, and men like Hegseth and Rubio jockey to succeed him, gothic ideas like a live-streamed execution will just keep coming… www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/1...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Jeff Bezos' Washington Post wants to take trillions of dollars from Social Security www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int... and give to his friends in the financial industry cepr.net/publications...
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Donald Trump Wants to Take Your Social Security to Give Even More Money to Wall Street
Trump’s “Trump Accounts” plan would privatize Social Security, driving up costs and boosting Wall Street profits.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Analysis | To revive their political party, Democrats must reject the wishes of Democratic Party voters.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Elsewhere, less tactful conservatives expressed directly what the dissenting justices chose to do in euphemism. Stephen Miller, who runs immigration policy for the Trump administration, told Fox News that “we have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel.” He went on: “They can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?” Miller’s long-standing view is that what ruined America was the repeal of eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions that had banned immigration from Asia and Africa and from nations in Europe deemed to be composed of lesser white races.

There is very little difference between Miller’s position—if you come from a “Third World nation,” you are inferior—and that of antebellum Democrats and the opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time it was adopted: American citizenship is degraded by having to share it with the biologically inferior. The justices are elite lawyers with the ability to obfuscate this project and ignore its aims, but the rest of us need not pretend. To put it bluntly, Miller’s objection, as articulated here, is not to birthright citizenship. It is to the idea that “all men are created equal.”
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 31/01/2026
Noel Hawkins began working in Mulligan's of Poolbeg Street in Dublin in 1979. During his near half-century behind the bar, he became one of the capital's most well-known and best-loved characters
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Noel Hawkins, the bartenders' bartender - a tribute
Noel Hawkins began working in Mulligan's of Poolbeg Street in Dublin in 1979. During his near half-century behind the bar, he became one of the capital's most well-known and best-loved characters.
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"SUBDUE him?" The victim was being assaulted as he tried to help someone else who was being assaulted. Vocabulary matters.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The takeaway from the entire story should have been "HOLY SHIT THIS DUDE IS STARK RAVING INSANE." Instead, NYT did 20 stories squealing, "OMIGOSH we've got access again!!!" [And I don't think I'm exaggerating on that number.]
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Where is the business community and corporate leaders of Minnesota based companies in speaking up? Why aren't the big law firms sending lawyers to represent the people being attacked? We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 10/01/2026
Martyn Turner
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/01/2026
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/12/2025
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
They prevented a fair count of votes then and that wasn’t enough of a corruption of democratic process, they have had to take it further.
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Bush v Gore set the stage for what is happening now because it demonstrated that the GOP and its SCOTUS enablers had zero principles, only a firm belief that only they were entitled to win, and rule.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 09/11/2025
I think we should replace the NYT health care plan with HSAs (ok this might not be fair I haven't seen their coverage of this yet)
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
With these now explicit threats to use the Kirk killing as the pretext to attack liberal political groups, and given the Ds hold the cards at the end of the month, what are @chuckschumer.com and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social going to do about this? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What badass investigative reporter is going undercover with one of these ICE goon squads? This is, like, THE story right now. Who trains? What rules of engagement? What propaganda do they consume? How do they recruit, and weed out non-sadists? Would they follow orders to shoot regime enemies?
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
What an incredibly nasty column this is by Kathleen Parker in WaPo is. Shame. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | New Yorkers might vote for a socialist mayor, but a Muslim?
The city has come a long way from the dark days of post-9/11 Islamophobia.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is the one to send your most MAGA relatives
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The events of the past few days has me recalling this Yeats poem:
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
What exactly are you going to do to stop Trump’s utter lawlessness, you person WITH power????? Strongly wordered statements are not helpful here. Show us something to do that is effective, Guv.
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It’s Bush V Gore again.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Because it is. Truly.
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Sick.
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part…put your bodies upon the gears…make it stop… —Mario Savio, December 2, 1964
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.
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mairelong.bsky.social @mairelong.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Sadly even this guy does not get the moment we are in. Just stand up for a single principle— academic freedom — and against the threat of those who oppose that principle AND believe they have the power to enforce their point of view. This should not be hard to do!
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