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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 16h
The dissolution of the USSR happened under Regan's watch. Putin saw this as the greatest travesty of the 20th century, and vowed revenge on the US. ... the instrument of his revenge: the Republican Party (and it's going better than he could have ever imagined)
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pete Hegseth probably thinks it's macho for him to obsess about testosterone levels and order an execution to be livestreamed to the public. But it really screams male insecurity and desperation. He is one sick individual.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't trust polls anymore. Just VOTE.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
3 things can be true at once: 1) He didn't mean to say he *wanted* Iran to nuke San Diego or LA 2) He's so morally lazy he was willing to leave that vile impression 3) He actually wouldn't care if those cities were nuked
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
The goal in detaining these children, a former official says, is “to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.” Read @samanthamichaels.bsky.social + @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social report on the administration's new family separation policy that targets children in the nation's interior.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
tuned in for for State Radio, but grandson was insane -- bring it!
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Although it IS a win, framing this as a 'victory for democracy' isn't correct framing. This man was falsely accused of something he did not do in order to soothe the ego of the most incompetent asshole on the planet. It was false and a flaming clownfuck from the get-go. abc7ny.com/story/victor...
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'Victory for democracy': Former Olympian David Hearn speaks out after Reflecting Pool vandalism case permanently dismissed
Former U.S. Olympian David Hearn says he is “relieved” after a Washington, D.C. judge permanently dismissed the vandalism case against him.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 02/10/2026
The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil…. hartmannreport.com/p/did-trumps...
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Did Trump’s Iran War Just Blow a Hole in Big Oil’s Future?
The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil….
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The reason I don't want a
"Christian nation" isn't because
I'm against Christianity.
It's because I've studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church pursuing political dominion.
Separation of church and state doesn't just help protect religious freedom, it helps keep Christianity Christian rather than becoming indistinguishable from the empire.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here’s what these Republican ass-clowns don't want you to know: the most damaging witnesses against Trump wore RED. Republicans who backed him, worked for him, and rooted for him. Jack Smith was going to put this Trump away…with Trump’s OWN team testifying against him.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
No, our @davidcorn.bsky.social did not say, “Apparently, there’s a fissure somewhere in the US that leads straight to hell." Fake Russian bot accounts impersonating him did. Here's how David got dragged into a Putin disinformation op:
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How I got dragged into a Putin disinformation op
This just confirms the warning in my new book.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BIG TECH: This thing is going to kill everyone TRUMP: I want to be the one to name it
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NPR @npr.org · 26/09/2026
The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate. n.pr/4yZnzwO
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The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions
The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Techbros who created artificial intelligence telling the world that they've essentially lost control of artificial intelligence and have no way to safely contain it is essentially the beginning of countless really good sci-fi movies and shows. It's also the top tech news for the last two months.🤷‍♂️
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Men in Black: Move Along
ALT: Men in Black: Move Along
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The contempt order kind of writes itself, no?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone ready? We only had 10 years of people saying that this was their endgame. If it doesn't happen by November, it'll happen before January 2029. Either way, these creeps have no intention of allowing our democracy to survive or ever leaving power.
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump is an atheist whose regime has seized control of a) powers assigned to other branches of government, b) significant private corporate assets. He curbs civil liberties and his foreign pals are Communists or ex-KGB. Only one person in DC can be accused of being a Communist.
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It'll be like that scene from Airplane where they run out of coffee.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Democratic notions of the law, and the very notion of “rule of law” and “impartial justice” have no place in authoritarianism.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All this is rhetorical, of course. I know why we have no such politicians. Because they'd be boring. We got Trump and a collapsing society because we confused politics and entertainment. Politics is supposed to be boring but enormously consequential—the opposite of entertainment.
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It shattered the uneasy compromise in the belief that a stable democracy and rule of law were the primary path to wealth.
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This was a key lesson from the dissolution of the USSR: The ensuing chaos and dysfunction allowed state assets to be transferred to oligarchs without any significant question or challenge.
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a tell in that statment: "Whoever wins AI, wins" This is key to his -- and the R's -- plan to stay in power... indefinitely.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A message not only for Democrats, but also for all center-left parties across the rich democratic world:
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is an excellent way to put it.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 07/09/2026
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot… hartmannreport.com/p/has-the-me...
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Has the Media Normalized the GOP’s Voter Suppression Right Before Our Very Eyes?
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot…
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You can’t write about every other country’s far right party like this, & then continue to not call the Republican Party a far right party & write about them as if they’re the 🇩🇪 Christian Democrats or 🇬🇧 Tories. It’s both factually wrong & bad journalism. And yet, it keeps happening every day.
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Due the trade dispute w/ Canada they were out of red #5 and yellow #7
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/09/2026
“The idea that we would do this to our friends is just batshit crazy.” @crampell.bsky.social explains to @jvl.bsky.social why European allies are moving billions in gold out of the U.S. amid fears Trump could freeze their reserves and use them as leverage.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
"As Hegseth was bragging about his “kinetic strikes” on narco-terrorist vessels and then launching the attack on Iran, I began to realize that the secretary’s determination to eradicate “woke” from the US military tracks consistently with Doug Wilson’s teaching of a warrior-like Christian faith."
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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026
Just as not all communities are rolling over for data centers, not all newsrooms are sitting back and letting AI steal our content. Some of us are fighting back. Read our CEO @monikab.bsky.social on our lawsuit—and Trump's unusual steps to support OpenAI.
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ChatGPT took our stories. We’re suing.
Guess whose side he's on?
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins. When you worship power, harsh treatment towards those you see as "enemies" will look like righteous strength. When you worship power, the value and dignity of others is solely measured by their conformity to you.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Six lawless radicals on the Supreme Court let this happen. And they let it happen because they *wanted* it to happen. They will be damned by history.
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Try Thunderbird (Win, Mac, Linux, Android)
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That's rich coming from a guy who spends over 50% of his time "on the clock" playing golf and just hanging out with Natalie.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victim
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USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Translation: we've spent billions on toys we aren't allowed to play with. If the US can use them in Iran, Russia can use them in Ukraine. There is no putting this genie back in the bottle once it's out.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The rapid way in which this has just become an accepted daily feature of American politics, rather than an immediate presidency-ending scandal, is yet another reminder that @tompepinsky.com was right a decade ago, despite all the people who didn’t want to hear it then & still don’t now.
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Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable
Americans have an overly dramatic view what the end of democracy looks like.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An all-timer post from @tompepinsky.com that was widely misinterpreted by bad-faith idiots at the time
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NPR @npr.org · 26/08/2026
Curry will be most remembered for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the tyrannical gender-bending alien scientist in both stage and screen versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was 80. n.pr/3SzX6X8
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Tim Curry, who defined 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' has died
Curry will be most remembered for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the tyrannical gender-bending alien scientist in both stage and screen versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was 80.
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Jen , the MT liberal bird lady @liberal-jen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you've not watched this, you should.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Again, incinerating this relationship is not only the single greatest thing 🇺🇸 could do to endanger our national security & so egregious that it should immediately end this presidency, it's also the elevation of the very sexual predation/abuse we see with Trump (& Epstein) to the level of the state.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I have a trade deficit with my beer store. I give them money, they give me beer.
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There was also a story this week about slaughtering wild stallions in the west. So...
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MartinPub @martinpub.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
...which will then rise to 60 trillion
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I read an article this morning that said “we are mourning in future tense” and that hit hard. Watching everything happen around us in real time is hard enough, but knowing that it’s going to be a long road to hopefully put it all back together is even harder.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I said to Janet Yellen once -- this was 2018 -- do you think the president understands macro-economic policy? She didn't miss a beat. "No."
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