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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

(singing Clean Sheets by the Descendents as I change the duvet cover) "Still punk as hell."

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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 7h

Plunder. Everything is there for them to plunder. That something belongs to all of us is incomprehensible to them.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 13h

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Andrea Robertson @andrearobertson.bsky.social · 5h

My new paranormal romance novel is available now! Wolf shifters and dark magic just in time for spooky reads season.

Images of Poet and Protector book cover featuring two young men with wolves and a dark presence looming over them in a forest background

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Can you spot the differences between these photos?

schematic of the interior of a slave ship

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 6h

under old scottish law, you just gotta let someone go after a failed execution because the sentence has been carried out

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 6h

Dems’ 2028 platform should include stuff like letting soldiers have beards, letting TSA agents sit down, letting generals get their promotions, etc. The deep state isn’t real but civil and uniformed services are. We need them to know which side respects their human dignity before MAGA’s next coup.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.

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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 10h

During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership."

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10h

This is just sick.

Breaking news: Tennessee inmate is in critical condition after
"torturous" execution attempt, lawyer says

The New York Times
Oct. 1, 2026, 4:01 p.m. ET
BREAKING NEWS
E23
George Walker IV/Associated Press
Tennessee Inmate Is in Critical Condition After Botched Execution, Lawyer Says
Christa Pike was "alive right now" after surviving a…

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

The working assumption about 🇺🇸 politics needs to be that we are going to have 20-30% of voters supporting far right authoritarianism, as is now true in ~every rich democracy. We can reform our institutions to ensure the 70% can govern, or we’ll always be one election from the fascists getting 51%.

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 10h

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

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Matt ”read the syllabus” L @matt18l.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, in another timeline, with President Al Gore, thats what would have happened.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 9h

I'm half-British and half-Thai. A random right-winger verbally racially abused me in the street for no reason at all. That same man was in my A&E ward a couple of days later due to a cardiac arrest. I was the doctor who saved him. There's a moral in that story somewhere.

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jeanbaudrillard.bsky.social @jeanbaudrillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dunno what prompted this but JCO is an epic troll, like ‘use forbidden words’ level

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/09/2026

Getting mad at Joyce Cato Oates for being a snob after cheering all her epic burns is a different form of being a member of the Leopards Eating Faces party. You can’t contain that heat, you can only hope to avoid its gaze.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

“Opposition parties do win unfair elections, & a restored US democracy will remain unconsolidated until both major parties commit to its defense” This is why we need multiparty democracy reforms. The far right authoritarian party is highly unlikely to moderate under our existing institutions.

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Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 10h

Deal with it. 🕶️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Someone should tell President Trump that the best way to turn the Iran War around and stick it to the Democrats this fall is to have Pete Hegseth lead an infantry charge that they'll air on live TV.

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 11h

AIPAC is bad for a whole host of reasons but I get annoyed by people who blame it for politicians support of Israel. The much more obvious explanation is that the median primary voter is 150 years old and thinks that Egypt still is one more war away from wiping Israel off the face of the map.

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Sam @samwyzh.bsky.social · 10h

Yes AND the sanewashing by journalists that want a moderated narrative makes me feel insane. “This is just a bit they are doing for political gain.” And then that bit is concentration camps in the Everglades, as if that is anything other than real human suffering inflicted by the state.

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never linger; rightly grow @nlrg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

correlation isnt causation but ive noticed america didnt start losing wars to iran until the trans ban

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12h

not especially interested in hearing about "affordability" when the President of the United States is outsourcing foreign policy to a robot that calls itself "MechaHitler"

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 16h

On the Hegseth thing, I just stop every so often to sit in the disgust of a government official just casually tossing around slurs in a prepared speech

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 14h

Jon Husted said “our work ethic is broken,” but that’s not what I see. Ohioans are working harder than ever before just to put gas in the tank and food on the table, all while billionaires and CEOs get tax breaks from Washington. The system is rigged, and I’m in this fight to fix it.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13h

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

You really can’t make this shit up.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16h

The political will to do something about student loan burdens may have evaporated but the pain still affects real people's lives

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17h

i do not want people like this in my professional network, personally

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like, the US is very publicly losing a war of choice that rocked the global economy and is going to cost his party a massive election loss. And the SecDef’s priority is getting a bunch of subordinates together to lecture about how important lifting weights and tucking in your shirt is. Pathological!

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17h

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Matt ”read the syllabus” L @matt18l.bsky.social · 16h

Seconded. Minnesota politicians have been asleep at the wheel for the last decade when it comes to state higher education. I like him for a lot of other reasons, but Tim Walz doesn’t give two fucks about higher ed. A generation of DFL state legislators who supported higher ed have retired or been

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026

I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips.

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 23h

A distressing account of the botched execution of Christa Pike. Listen with caution.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 22h

Wyoming Has Fewer People Than These 116 US Counties brilliantmaps.com/wyoming-h...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22h

1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 19h

The death penalty is fucking horrific. The Americans doing botched, barbaric, torture-poison execution and sending the poor victim alive to hospital afterwards? To heal her in order to kill her again later?

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cornell is thinking: If we refund Jane Doe's tuition every girl who got gang raped at our school is going to want a refund and who can afford that?

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 19h

Between October 2023 and April 2024, Israel dropped more explosives on Gaza than were dropped on London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined during all of WWII. The destruction of Rafah, which I believe is the city in this picture, did not begin until May 2024.

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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 19h

It’s worth noting Christa pike has suffered the way she has today because we want to lie to ourselves about what we’re doing when we execute someone. There is no calm “nice” way to kill someone, and long drop hanging is far more merciful then this

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thiiird person @thiiirdperson.com · 20h

look for the helpers

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

righteous among the nations

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