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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I made a lot of conservatives mad some years ago when I said that this is a radical, activist court. It is not "conservative" so much as it is "reactionary." And those things are very different.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump really is on Russia’s side. He wants the kind of dictatorship that Putin has.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What's going on with this plague death in #Russia? Whatever it is, don't count on Moscow to be honest about it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death
After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
valuing hustle unfairly privileges Indian supremacy over indigenous White ways of knowing
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We don't have to live like this. Look at all the billionaires and technofascists dining with Trump and Xi tonight. They pay off both sides of the aisle. The only way out is to crush them, and we need fighters to do that. nypost.com/2026/09/24/u...
nypost.com
Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife’s medical bills — strangers raise almost $250K
“The reality is that he isn’t working by choice; he is working for survival.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yup!
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two more Americans dead, one missing. The president must tell Congress why he’s gambling with the lives of U.S. service members. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Two More Americans Dead in the Iran War
Congress must demand an explanation from the president about why he’s gambling with the lives of U.S. service members.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Criminal Algae #PolitiZoom
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Criminal Algae
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we are taking a slight detour to watch the first episode of THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT on Netflix at 8pm eastern. #HATM 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2026
Ossoff: "When they gathered in Atl to remove Black elected officials not by defeating them at the polls, but by manipulating maps to dilute minority power, they saw you mobilize & they backed down. A wave is building ... let's make sure they hear it down at Mar-a-Lago, that GA will bow to no king!"
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump's reversals on Iran are so extreme, the outcomes so ludicrous, that if it were a TV show, no sensible screenwriter would attempt to sell any of this as a coherent story. But it's a lot more dangerous than fiction. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Shameless Iran Reversals
America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 26/06/2026
A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.
THE PATHWAY THAT CONNECTS the
White House residence to the
Oval Office has long been paved in Tennessee flagstone. Every president since
Harry Truman made the 45-second commute, and made it without complaint, until Donald Trump. The dun rock would not do. Instead, Trump wanted polished African granite, carved in Italy, with a flamed-finish stripe-slightly raised, to prevent slips—running down the middle. As workers tore up the flagstone last March, a reporter asked Trump who was paying for the enhancements. "Paid for by me," he replied.But that wasn't true. Budget documents from the National Park Service that I obtained show that the walkway replacement cost taxpayers $689,232, and is part of a $1.3 million project that included repairing adjacent stone and masonry and providing new hardware for nearby doors. A year earlier, in a separate
"Rush project at request of POTUS," the Park Service spent $347,503 to remove and replace the stucco on the colonnade wall, a project that cleared the way for Trump to affix gold frames and plaques mocking some of his predecessors.
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Michelle Kenoyer @michellekenoyer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Charlotte Clymer writes: "I genuinely don’t understand why we’re being asked to buy a book with important information about Trump when that information could have already been reported in the newspaper employing the two journalists who wrote said book."
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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Holy shit, why is Popehat suspended?! @moderation.bsky.app BRING BACK POPEHAT!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And then President Trump is going to beat up Iran's dad in front of the whole school and then President Trump is going to take us all out for McDonalds and then President Trump is finally going to tell me that he loves me and then
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/06/2026
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Did Lalas enjoy an elite playing career? No. But does he do the background reading that could compensate for his relative lack of standing in a conversation with titans like Henry and Zlatan? Also no. But is he charming or funny or charismatic or otherwise magnetic on screen? Eh, no."
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The Times Of America @timesofamerica.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Trump Administration Announces Plans To Arrest Foreigners For Making Gas Prices Higher, Movies Not As Good, Kids Less Respectful
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 20/06/2026
The President, today, flaunted an explicit violation of the constitution by showing off a jet gifted to him by a foreign country and this is how the paper of record is reporting it buried deep on its home page Legacy media should never claim itself as a protector of democracy
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"The rejected 30-second spot features Trump calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' and suggested that Trump-allied Paramount chairman and CEO David Ellison could force CNN, the flagship Warner Bros. news network, to soften its reporting on the president and his administration."
wired.com
Paramount Refused to Air an Ad Criticizing Its Merger With Warner Bros.
The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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The Times Of America @timesofamerica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
President Donald Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran Again If It Does Not Comply With Deal By Doing Whatever It Wants And Also Accepting $300 Billion
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
People need to make a bigger deal out of Elon Musk's endorsement of "Reconquista." This is naked fascism. newrepublic.com/article/2119...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
RFK is so relentlessly full of shit on anything remotely medical or scientific.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The weirdos who still post on Twitter know it's the world's best source of white supremacist memes and child pornography, and Elon Musk thinks they're willing to pay for that privilege.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NEW: Texas middle schoolers could be taught about a Christian revolutionary war movement that never existed. The so-called “Black Robe Regiment” is a favorite myth of David Barton and other Christian nationalists who are leading massive revisions of Texas curricula to focus on US “exceptionalism.”
texasmonthly.com
Scholars Call the Black Robe Regiment a Myth. It Could Soon Be Taught in Texas Schools.
The State Board of Education meets this week to vote on a K–12 curriculum some experts warn elevates Christianity over other faiths.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States
Louisiana’s case against the FDA is not just about one drug.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Key aspect of fascism. They don't mean anything they say.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
predator handshake meme: the islamic republic of iran 🤝 ticketmaster entertainment, llc
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Josh Hokit is the perfect representative of Trumpism: a thuggish, semi-literate lout who trash talks and pukes on himself. A piece of shit, admired by pieces of shit, celebrating being a piece of shit.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
40th time’s the charm?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Right wing propagandists will work hard to bully the media into portraying this as a big accomplishment for Trump, even though all signs are it restores things to where they were before Trump dropped tens of billions of $ in bombs with US troops and countless Iranian civilians killed in the process.
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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This event is in honor of America's 250th bday, but to watch it, Americans have to pay for a subscription to Paramount+, the company owned by David Ellison, whose deal to merge with Warner Bros was approved by Trump and whose dad is a major Trump fundraiser
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/06/2026
In other words: the U.S. gives Iran everything it wants immediately, including billions in cash, for a pinky promise to negotiate a future deal on the things the U.S. wants
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Fuck this guy and fuck you if you voted for him.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A married Ken Paxton having multiple affairs that led his wife to file for divorce on "biblical grounds"? Not a problem. A single James Talarico dating one woman and then, my God, later dating another? SCANDAL. (And as always: Paxton Pardoned a Pedophile)
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The funniest part of the latest round of Republicans whining about California is the legislatures of Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina all just straight up rigged their election systems to guarantee only Republicans win. And they just, you know, openly admitted this.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 05/06/2026
Here is a definitive summary, by a group of Conservative jurists with integrity, of the facts in those 64 cases against our 2020 elections. The cases were a numb, cynical train wreck of falsehoods. Every judge threw them out of every court. Sixty four times. —> lostnotstolen.org
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.
chronicle.com
A Flagship’s Civics Center Saw Low Enrollment. Now Students Will Be Required to Take Classes There.
A provision in the Iowa state budget will require all students at the University of Iowa to complete two classes at the Center for Intellectual Freedom to get their degree.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?
The real count is much higher than the public knew.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.
First, the Court's decision will cause havoc. The so-called
"Purcell principle" "generally holds that, because late-breaking changes to election procedures can cause chaos, federal courts should hesitate before exercising their equitable discretion to alter state election laws close to an elec-tion." Malliotakis v. Williams, 607 U. S. _, —
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(SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 10). Today's decision tramples on that principle of restraint.
As the District Court explained, the path of least change in Alabama is keeping the District Court's remedial plan in place. According to Alabama Director of Elections Jeff El-rod, all voters in Alabama are currently assigned in county-level voter rolls to congressional districts based on the remedial map that the District Court previously ordered and that the State used for the 2024 election cycle. 2 App. 135.
To run an election using the remedial map, then, the State need not make any changes to its voter rolls or change the status quo.
To switch to the 2023 Redistricting Plan now, however, county elections officials will have to reassign hundreds of thousands of voters across the State to new congressional districts. Three of Alabama's counties will be particularly hard hit because they are split across two congressional dis-tricts. 2 App. 121-122. These counties have about 600,000registered voters between them (roughly 15% of the State's total number of registered voters).2
Elrod testified below that county elections officials would have to reassign those 600,000 voters manually. "The sys-tem," he explained, "is not automatic" and "requires manual input" from elections officials who must "physically manually interface with the system." Id., at 146. Reassigning voters in precincts split across two districts is particularly complicated, he continued, as it "cannot be done with a simple click" and instead requires officials to check street-level data to determine how to assign individual voters. Id., at 156-157. Worse yet, Elrod warned that reassigning voters requires using complicated computer software that officials must be trained to use, as "most of the counties' registrars are not tech savvy" and "registrars are the only ones who can make the changes ... to a voter's record." Id., at 147-
148. This process also requires many prechecks and backend quality control steps, all of which add to its time-inten-sive nature. Id., at 140.
Given these complexities, the process for reassigning voters typically takes months. Alabama knows (or at least knew) this. In 2021, at the first preliminary-injunction stage in these cases, Alabama filed a declaration from El-rod's predecessor representing that voter reassignment
"can take a county's Board of Registrars 3 to 4 months to accomplish." ECF Doc. 82-7, p. 4.3 For example, after the Alabama Legislature redrew its state legislative districts in 2017 following litigation, "local election officials struggled to complete the district assignment process in up to 4 months." Ibid.
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Law Librarian to the Stars @audiolibrarian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
nick bilton: be sure to put in the newspaper and on broadcast television and across every social media platform that I got mad and that you hurt my delicate feelings
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.
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