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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A little blown away by Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. It includes a scene about 2/3 of the way of the movie where I laughed for 45 straight seconds while everyone else in the theatre was dead silent with their hands over their mouths. Ends with a lot of heart. Good movie.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Translation: "WE are the only rightful masters, WE are the only ones permitted to rape women." Just so we're clear: the problem being pointed out below is not rape or domination. It's that the WRONG PEOPLE might seize those "privileges."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

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Let me be clear: if you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends.
His death is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for his wife and children.
I believe in the Resurrection, and while it's difficult, I can and do pray for his soul.
Charlie Kirk's death is a reflection of the violence, fear, and hatred he sowed. It does not excuse his death, AND it's a sad truth.
The shooting is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for a college campus experiencing an active shooter situation.
The deaths of Melissa and Mark Hortman, the children shot and killed in Minneapolis last month, and the children shot in Colorado today are all tragedies that also deserve your attention.
Charlie Kirk excused the deaths of children in the name of the second amendment.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

You’re paying more so Donald Trump can collect bribes from companies that want to avoid his tariffs. Trump is good at increasing two things: his own net worth and your prices.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

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Heather 💙 🐸 💙 @featherfrodis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2025

got so annoyed at seeing idiots on tiktok and youtube argue about 20th century american party politics that i made a nearly 30 minute video trying to sketch out the history in a nuanced way. the conceit of this video, however, is that it's all from the dome! no notes, just vibes.

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Nerd Stuff — "The Party Switch"

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/05/2025

yeah, like it is WILD that Trump saw *huge* gains among Latinos running on a "deport all the Latinos" platform bsky.app/profile/owil...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/04/2025

amusing that the contrarian leftists obsessed with disdain for resistance moms ended up on the same side as centrist goobers like Jon Stewart and David Brooks www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

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Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.

Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/04/2025

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

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Kyle Foley @kylefoleywrites.com · 14/03/2025

If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/03/2025

Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship—as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians. ...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.

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Primary Every Democrat

It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

NEW: Elon Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, spending millions to install bought-and-paid-for MAGA extremist Brad Schimel. Today, @WisDems launches a campaign to punch back: The People v. Musk.🧵

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This account is followed by the most powerful man in America, who is running the government, who spends all of his time on Twitter, who gave a Nazi salute at the inauguration and who has espoused anti-Jewish replacement theory, whose underlings keep getting outed as Nazis.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @adacabot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I don't remember all these planes crashing when Democrats were in power.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I find the doomers in my replies yelling “there won’t be future elections!!” exhausting - (1) don’t give them credit for something they haven’t done & (2) there is no mechanism for cancelling elections! Our elections aren’t run by the fed govt; they’re run by states, counties & municipalities.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated). 30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

How are we going to ever convince regular Americans to be outraged at Trump lawbreaking if we can’t even convince the leaders of the political party opposing him to be outraged

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order to defund schools of federal dollars if they mandate COVID vaccines for students.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk, has done more to publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration this week at greater personal cost than any elected official I can think of.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The Vice President and de facto Acting President have both surrounded themselves with undisguised Nazis and you all should be paying more attention to it. Truly, how is this not headline news every day? The core ideology of this administration is open white supremacy. It's a journalistic disgrace

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Today in Cincinnati, Police shut down a highway overpass and held a line on each side to allow Hate Club to wave swastika flags and nazi banners unchallenged. They then protected them as they loaded back into their box truck, while physically pushing back a crowd of people trying to confront them.

Cops on a highway overpass standing between nazis getting into the back of a box truck and a crowd of people trying to get to them. One cop in particular looks like such a fucking dork.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

new video up on the youtube page (adapting my column last week) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPh...

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President Trump and the Power of the Purse

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This cartoon is from 1930. It could have been today.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 30/11/2024

Just insane that the left treated the tech industry with increasing hostility just because they undermined organized labor, flouted the regulatory state, and bragged that they were going to get rid of everybody's jobs for a decade straight.

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Erin Kate @erinkathleen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The thing is, Sarah McBride could have quietly entered Congress without this being A Thing had it not been for Nancy Mace. Trump ran those ads about Harris supporting gender affirming care for prisoners. It's not Democrats (to a lot of our frustration, I think) who are talking about these issues.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

the argument against using threads as the place to consume your news is the same as the argument against using Vichy Twitter. an untrustworthy billionaire controls what you see. Maybe if threatened with his site failing, he lets you take some control back, but he can pull it back whenever!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A key reason voters don't believe the fascists are fascists is that major media outlets keep normalizing them with cover stories cueing the public they are just like Hollywood celebrities. Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/11/2024

What happened here with Don Jr at the SpaceX launch today

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/11/2024

great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 19/11/2024

bluesky request. do not follow or reward quote-doomers. people who quote an article and only add something like "you have no idea how bad this is" or "it's over" or "say goodbye to everything you love". they succeed from your stress. they're bringing you down with them. stay awake; not like this.

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Matt Halverson @mhalvey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Boba Fett plays tic tac toe in the sand with a tusken warrior chief

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 19/11/2024

On Sept. 29, 2023, Japanese ambassador Rahm Emanuel made a 6-figure buy on the stock market into an AI cloud computing company. The very next day, the Japanese government announced a $320 million subsidy into that industry. What luck! prospect.org/power/2024-1...

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Rahm Emanuel’s Suspiciously Timed Stock Trades

Multiple transactions seem tied to specific activity undertaken while the possible DNC chair candidate was U.S. ambassador to Japan.

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