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ManlyLibrarian @manlylibrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Posting for no reason: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYjl...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump's tone of voice reads like he's telling the funniest story he knows. And everyone in the audience is laughing. American democracy - the founding, the constitution, rule of law, checks and balances, representative government ALL OF IT - is just a joke to these people.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh wait, someone has thought of this before!
18 U.S. Code § 597 Expenditures to influence voting U.S. Code

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'd only be worried about a Trump coup if... a) They fired all the professional generals and replaced them with loyal hacks b) They brought Nat'l Guard troops from pro-Trump states into DC until 1/20/29 c) Trump was building a massive bunker with drones next to the White House wait a minute...
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ManlyLibrarian @manlylibrarian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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United States: where I've been
Fill in your own version and see where the two of you disagree.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.
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Jack Nicholson’s Alt @thevinyllitigator.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A good way to think about the relevance of James Carville is if someone who worked on Grover Cleveland’s successful 1892 campaign spent all their time critiquing FDR’s 1932 campaign as not being the real Democratic Party that Cleveland represented.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Look, with all policy you have to do a DMFI (Dumbest MotherFucker Implementing) analysis. Do I think in a vacuum it’s a good idea? Yeah. Do I think it’s a good idea in a world where the average teacher in Pooburg, Alabama thinks the Jewish kid is hiding horns under his curly hair? AHAHAHAHAHAHA no
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026
Just weighing in from vacation to note the obvious: Ossoff's use of "Natalie" in that address was a brilliant way to play the attention economy. It works *because* it drew controversy -- by drawing controversy, it drew eyeballs & ears to a story Trump doesn't want in the news.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
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Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There have reportedly been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as poor conditions and mental stress reach a breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land, a record
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
That's right, racist. The inbred "heritage Americans" of the traitorous Confederacy got their asses kicked by a motley assortment of immigrants in the U.S. Army.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral system
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Brazil denies visas to U.S. delegation aiming to impugn election system, officials say
The U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity of the voting system before a presidential election this fall, officials said.
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ManlyLibrarian @manlylibrarian.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Pick a grammatical lane CNBC:
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Cool Jim the Vampire @lechased.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The gyre is what? I see. And wider is bad, right? Okay. How bad? Did you say “blood-dimmed tide?” That doesn’t sound great. We’ll get a guy out there tomorrow between 12-5.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 16/07/2026
Many Americans appear to have simply accepted the indefinite military occupation of our capital, in peacetime, American soldiers deployed against Americans. I do not and never will. It is the opposite of Conservative, the opposite of patriotic, and the opposite of democracy.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Andy Beshear should just steal mcconnell's senate seat the way mcconnell stole Obama's Supreme Court seat.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 08/07/2026
I am begging my fellow Americans to learn how parties work *literally* every where else. Candidates are not more legitimate just because they were selected via a primary. Parties regularly select candidates and then voters, in an election, tell the party if they liked them or not.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent
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Petrarca @petrarca.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"KKK, but Best Buy, bitch"
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/06/2026
Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ha!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You really have to admire Antifa’s artistic skill. With nothing but box cutters, they somehow managed to perfectly recreate the intricate look of poorly applied paint peeling off concrete that had concentrated peroxide dumped all over it. Incredible craftsmanship.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Call it the "I f*cked everything up, bail me out" bill. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Trump requests $88 billion from Congress for Iran war, Ebola outbreak and farmers aid
The White House on Wednesday officially asked Congress for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding to pay for the Iran war, curtail the ongoing Ebola outbreak and provide aid to U.S. farmers, among o…
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
oh my god

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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

By Ken Harbaugh
An illustration of a rocket headed from a shadowy female figure toward a soldier whose face is illuminated by the glow of his phone
Illustration by Ann Kiernan
June 21, 2026

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For several months last year, a Ukrainian housewife, 35 and lonely in a marriage that had gone cold, traded WhatsApp messages with a Chechen commander, Achmad, stationed somewhere in Ukraine’s occupied south. They wrote about their days, their disappointments, what they hoped to do when the war ended. She asked about the front. He told her.

“Send me a picture,” she said. “I want to see your life.”

One afternoon, he obliged—a photograph taken inside the barracks, of himself and another soldier grinning for the camera. Behind them, pinned to the wall, was a map of the compound showing the unit’s position.

The housewife did not exist. “She” was a middle-aged officer named Serhiy working for Ukraine’s military-intelligence directorate, part of a concerted effort to draw secrets from the men sent to occupy his country.

“Serhiy was great at flirting,” his commander told me. “Guys in our team started asking him for dating advice.” Shortly after Achmad sent that photograph, the coordinates it revealed were struck by a Ukrainian drone.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Who knows if there will be a final agreement. But if there is, two things will be true at the same time: a) It's essentially surrender to Iran. b) We should be glad about it, because every day this insane, illegal war continues, we get weaker. 1/ Let me explain.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026
To all the people who condescendingly told me, “You see, you just don’t understand Maine. You don’t understand the politics here.” Damn. You were right. I don’t understand this shit at all.
"He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them," she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in
"a sexual way, not in a gay way."
"He was like, I would rape them to show them that I'm dominant," she said.
Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them. A friend who knew Mr. Platner and Ms.
Fifield during that period said the comments sounded out of character.
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The David Pakman Show @thedavidpakmanshow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As a bonus, the president plans to celebrate his 80th birthday this month with a UFC cage match outside the White House
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 30/05/2026
There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵
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Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department
Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
MORE OF THIS PLEASE
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The signal that Trump is sending with the Goon Squad Slush Fund:
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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is right. The government didn’t “settle” this case. Trump brought a frivolous case and voluntarily withdrew it, and then the Justice Department said they’d agreed to set up this insane slush fund for him. It has no legal connection to the case, and there’s no legal authorization for it at all.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
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Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“What Democrats need to understand, is that this is a moment of drastic, monumental change, initiated by a Republican Party poisoned by illiberalism and anti-democratic resentments and a figure in Trump who wants to arrogate despotic powers to himself.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
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Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
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ManlyLibrarian @manlylibrarian.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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The Clash - White Riot (Official Video)
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case
Judge Breyer: Okay. Thank you very much. Juror 96, I think that you also have strong views. Could you set them aside?

Juror 96: I believe that in a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict. However, in a civil trial, I feel I can set those views aside.

Judge Breyer: That’s interesting.

Juror 96: I’m happy to expand.

Judge Breyer: Sure.

Juror 96: I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race were Mr. Musk to be sent to prison. However, I don’t believe a loss of several hundreds of millions of dollars in a civil trial would be even a drop in the bucket to his wealth, so it doesn’t really matter. Therefore, I would be able to consider the facts.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How to Be a Real Man, 2026 GOP Edition: -Drink whiskey, smoke cigars, make sure it's on camera -Claim you'd kill for your kids, but barely parent -Say you could beat up a bear -Say an out-of-shape 80-year-old can beat you up -Express pants-wetting fear of cities -Be an asshole to women -Whine a lot
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The foundation of our democracy is burning to the ground. It did not begin with Trump, but he stoked the flames. The conservative Roberts Court did not light the match, but it has repeatedly declared fire hydrants, sprinklers and smoke detectors illegal. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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The GOP lit the match. The Supreme Court banned the fire department.
The foundation of our democracy is burning to the ground. It did not begin with Donald Trump, but he stoked the flames. The conservative Roberts Court did not light the match, but it has repeatedly de...
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ManlyLibrarian @manlylibrarian.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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The Rolling Stones - Love In Vain - Best version from Philadelphia 1972
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/05/2026
Again: this is real life.
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