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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 8h
Our so-called leaders have prostituted us to the Russians. Destroyed our culture. Our economies. Our honor. Our blood has been spilled on our soil. Our blood on their hands. They are the invaders.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 9h
We are gonna beat these fuckin guys anyway, no thanks to all the losers who still don't get what the game is and what the rules are now.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h
He didn't use procedural shit to try and overthrow the 2020 election, he sent a mob to try and kill people in Congress because the procedural and court shit didn't work out for him. That's what happened. I think people forget what J6 actually was. It wasn't about states rights or courtroom antics
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 14h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h
There’s this strange belief that saying the enemy’s name lends them strength, but the implicit underpinning of that idea is that saying their name requires you to adopt subtly apologetic, fearful, hedged criticisms. If you say their name while slugging them in the face, you simply look unafraid.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h
One thing that Ossoff does - thank god - is COMPLETELY abandon the weird liberal wisdom that you should never say your opponent’s name. He says “Mike Collins” about 30 times in this clip, not “my opponent” or some such, and the directness make his attacks exponentially more brutal.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump: I'll let the Iranians hit Southern California The press (slur): what did he mean by this? Trump 24 hours later: I said the Iranians should hit San Diego or Los Angeles. With a missile. It will be traumatic.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay Kathy I see you
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing.
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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🇺🇸 First international break of 2030 World Cup cycle for the USMNT a perfect start with 4 wins in four matches: - 13 players make senior debuts - Cavan Sullivan first goal - Julian Hall first goals - Mathis Albert first goal - Tyler Adams named captain - Wins over Mexico, Canada
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Herculez Gomez @herculezg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dream window for the #USMNT. 🇺🇸 Four games. 13 debuts. 8 teenagers. Four debutants with goals. 12 goals scored. Two wins over South American opposition. And clean sheet wins over your two biggest regional rivals, Mexico & Canada. New faces. Young talent. Big results. #USMNT
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
More and more people are saying it. Call stupid people stupid. Enough already. You are able to live without Smallpox because of a vaccine and post on your phone because smart people made those things. Shut the fuck up if you're an idiot and be thankful
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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The "whistleblower complaint disclosed two separate incidents in which she said White House officials demanded the FBI investigate and arrest anti-ICE protesters." www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/p...
cnn.com
Whistleblower says Trump demanded FBI probe into protesters over a TikTok he saw | CNN Politics
The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint,...
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
25th Amendment now.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
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Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I cannot stress enough how fucking illegal this is. “Donald Trump is a criminal who keeps committing crimes, and now he wants to bribe voters to keep Republicans in office so he can—you guessed it—commit more crimes.” If you can’t message around that, no one can help you.
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Inside NU @insidenu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Northwestern is a football school.
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Welcome to the New Era
Northwestern football has a different energy around it with the opening of the new Ryan Field. @cjacobs1116 on what the night was like.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I like how other Rs explain that it’s not a bribe, he’s talking about a legitimate policy proposal he hopes to enact with R support, and then Trump comes out and says It’s a bribe, I’m bribing you to vote for Republicans.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've seen Northwestern beat big name teams before. I've seen Northwestern even score a lot of points on big name teams before. But I can't remember too many times when I've watched Northwestern line up against a big time team and just physically beat their ass again and again for four quarters.
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T(he Thing)J(ohn Carpenter’s, that is) Tomaso @cyan220.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ok, if we nickname the new stadium “The Library”, I’m back in
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Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Go Cats
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Matt Fortuna @mattfortuna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This isn’t your father’s Northwestern
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Coach Dan Casey @coachdancasey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Football nerd stuff 🫡
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
treated penn state like they were a directional illinois buy game. I'm levitating
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For my latest, I wrote about some of the modern addictions shaping American life, from social media to celebrity to sports betting. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
liberalcurrents.com
Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The lure of celebrity is supercharged in our moment, although notoriety is a much older desire www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
Everything is page six

The idea of the influencer, of the self-made and self-packaged celebrity figure in its contemporary form, is rooted in the rise of reality television in the early 2000s, a phenomenon that coincided with our burgeoning social web. I have written before in this column about the ways our modern media creates an increasingly suffocating atmosphere of voyeurism. Now, social media is so ubiquitous and so deeply penetrating into our lives, that it is an engine for celebrity all on its own. And, when fame flows from older media like television and print, social media massively enhances our ability to engage in the voyeuristic celebrity culture around it.

The Trump era has treated us to a parade of individuals who have tried to parlay insider tell-alls and political apostasies into moments in the pop culture sun. These individuals are frequently written off as grifters, a word that has obtained zeitgeist status since 2016. But the grift we are describing isn't usually just about money. It's also about fame, about finding ways to extract that sweet hit of public attention and the concomitant likes, follows, and fans that can bring.Through qualitative research with famous people, psychologists Donna Rockwell and David Giles have formulated a four-phase theory of celebrity. Crucially, the second phase, after the initial dizzying achievement of fame, is addictive behavior directed towards staying famous. Speaking to ABC News (Australia), musician Ben Lee, who first gained popularity as a young teenager, said
"It's usually the first flushes of fame that are the most disorientating, and it comes with an intense sense of drama."

I think this perspective helps open up a lot of the behavior we see from influencers, reality TV stars, and even increasingly in politics itself. Candidates, commentators, and even staffers now have the chance to be more than public servants and news figures, but personalities with followings and brands. Stoking debate as either a demagogic candidate or a controversial commentator can be a quick, superficially easy way to obtain the fame and attention our political media environment offers. What else explains the obvious desires of the Daily Wire crew to become movie stars, or the mix of mean-girl commentary and pro-Russia lies peddled by "left-wing" commentator Briahna Joy Gray?
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
God, Taskmaster is such a fun show
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It remains odd to me The Onion has decided the thing to do in 2026 is mislead people about Democrats The DNC and prominent Democrats like El-Sayed! This isn’t even a joke, it’s a poorly controlled reflex
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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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Being mad at the Mamdani announcement is just straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Like there’s not really any excuse left to hide behind there.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Absolutely embarrassing stuff
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
anyway, in conclusion: very few people have experienced how corrosive unmoderated social media is over the long term, and on top of that for many there's a profit motive bc this is where the audiences that pay them live. this is very bad, and we should address it both individually and systemically.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve never been in denial about it but I do think today was the first day I truly realized how much antisemitism is spreading and being normalized in online far-left circles. It’s scary and frightening and is only going to get worse if the left insists it’s not a problem.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've seen lefty people on multiple websites sharing stuff by people who use the term "ZOG" seriously, it is endemic and it is very, very bad
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Andy 🌴🗿 @andys311.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My favorite is them acknowledging that Ossoff focusing on Trump, and not bashing trans kids, was the correct way to go about things
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/09/2026
Third Way are weathervanes and this is what it feels like to have the wind at your back again
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/09/2026
You’re going to see more of this, and it’s going to be a lot better to say “welcome to the party” than holding onto old grudges and saying “I told you so”. You get to feel the win inside.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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