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@markhax.bsky.social
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Art history prof, emeritus. My research and writing are essential to preserving my sanity in this dark time.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 3h
How is this real. How.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22h
Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it turns out that when Eric Schmitt thought Jack Smith snuck off for a secret meeting to conspire with Fani Willis he was actually in Maryland watching Caitlin Clark play basketball.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Brett Meiselas: If we’re going to get into a “race” against China like with AI, why is it never like... We’re going to get into an affordable healthcare race! We’re going to get into an infrastructure race and beat them in high-speed rail! We’re going to beat China in the affordable housing race!
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026
Republicans discover the microphone works both ways.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In case it’s still unclear how badly their anti-“SoCiALiSm” fearmongering is backfiring👇🏽 Again: The problem for @MarshaBlackburn etc is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social exists
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has found a new use for your tax dollars: promoting himself and his party in the midterms. He’s running campaign ads thinly disguised as PSAs. And through taxation and unauthorized spending, he’s forcing Americans to pay for them. My takedown of the president’s latest theft.
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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Isla Catrìona @islascribbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accidental art
A cropped screenshot of a broadcast from the Oval Office, showing Trump apparently slumped asleep in his chair as someone else reads an address from off the crop. The subtitles still visible at the bottom of the crop read simply ‘American energy’.
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bluethru.bsky.social @bluethru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every damn day
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KMark1969 @kiwimark1969.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Cook Political Report’s Erin Covey tells Scott MacFarlane: "What I’ve heard more generally from Republican operatives is that the Midwest looks worse for them right now than the rest of the country."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My kids have measles, I can’t buy diesel, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now I’ll be able to watch a baseball game in a national park
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did Canada actually prepare for a US invasion? Susan Glasser on the “To the Contrary” podcast youtube.com/shorts/lAobM...
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Is Canada Preparing for War with the U.S.
YouTube video by To the Contrary With Charlie Sykes
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “I’m a capitalist. We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism.”
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He destroys everything.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And, in "It never gets old" territory, this from tenured pundit:
Headline from March 2026: 'The War Is Going Better Than You Think'
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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God @thegodshow.com · 25/09/2026
You ever just get tired of this shit? I know I do. It’s all I can do to keep from smashing the reset button everyday.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social
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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
Rebuilding trust will take generations.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Donald Trump continues to publicly support Pete Hegseth amid the Iran War debacle, but privately he is telling friends that when handing the world's largest military to an alcoholic cable news host, he should have picked someone from primetime.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." This week: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of an impending Hamas attack in 2023 by the UAE. The information wasn't passed on to Israeli security officials.
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials said.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What did the Trump-Xi summit produce for the US? In one photo: nothing.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As noted in the replies...someone do a country song called "My Kids Have Measles and I Can't Afford Diesel". (I tried one on AI but I don't like to use AI for this kind of thing.)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The chemistry is so real
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
you can see why Trump was wearing gloves in 65 degree weather yesterday 😬 (Andrew Harnik/Getty)
pic of Xi and Trumpzoom in on Trump's hand, which is caked from his fingers to his wrist with makeup to conceal some sort of disfigurement
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Journalists being kicked out need to get the Secret Service badge numbers so THOSE people are held in contempt.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This week we learned that the Irish government has proposed weakening Europeans citizens' fundamental right to privacy to favour AI companies. We also learned this week that 83% of Irish people under 25 want stronger government regulation of AI. Who *exactly* does our government work for?
AI: EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" of Europeans in the interest of Al companies
Artificial Intelligence / 21 September 2026
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAl, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data "in the context of Al" should automatically be lawful.
There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens "in the context" of Al. Schrems: "Under these proposals, the profits of Al companies would trump European's fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans." All this is happening despite the key figures of Al corporations actively warn about the enormous risks associated with their own products.Transport costs and mental health also remain prominent concerns.
More than seven in ten adults believe Al will make it harder for young people to find secure employment over the next five years, while 83% support stronger government regulation of Al.
Just 17% of young adults said they believe the Government is doing enough to support them through the cost-of-living crisis.
"These findings should serve as a wake-up call," said Grace McManus, Policy and Campaigns Manager at NYCI.
"Too many young people feel that the chance to build a secure and independent life is slipping out of reach," Ms McManus said.
The polling was conducted by RED C, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,010 adults, including a cohort aged 18-24.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2026
every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not the kind to say it all points back to a single historical episode, but so much of what Trump is doing with ballroom & Kennedy Center—the wanton destruction, the callous indifference to the past—was evident when he destroyed Bonwit Teller's irreplaceable sculptures nearly a half-century ago
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The defense contractor who bribed Susan Collins has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why is this "corruption"? Well, Trump lied about the funding for it, stole money from other approved projects, and says he is taking undisclosed "donations" from who knows what oligarch to fund this project on property that isn't his and isn't authorized.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website this week stripping away numerous prominent references to his endorsement from Donald Trump.
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Byron Donalds strips Trump references from his campaign website
The Republican gubernatorial candidate stopped emphasizing his endorsement from Donald Trump as the president’s approval ratings plummet.
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