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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The reason Americans got there before most was because the fascists took over one of our two main political parties instead of fomenting as a minor party. There are barriers in parties elsewhere that prevent that. But the rest of the world has caught up. This is a global problem.

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Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.

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“It’s Time”: Virginians Will Decide Whether to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts

Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

This is the biggest reason why you don’t allow nation states to own sports teams. Because now playing by the rules is subject to geopolitical interests.

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a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026

A purple trending blue Texas is a catastrophe for the GOP. They cannot lose it and have any route to national power. Blexas = electoral realignment. It is everything to them, culturally but especially politically.

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i do think that texas is central to the contemporary conservative imaginary, and when they lose it this fall it is causing to lead to some truly demented reactions from the reactionverse

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dick Morris got 2012 so wrong that Fox News fired him for it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can’t believe the price of power converters these days. Voting for Palpatine

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brazil pulling a USA and is on the verge of handing power right back to the dictator wannabe’s family after he tried a coup. Depressing how fascism keeps coming back in almost every corner of the globe. Again and again.

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Much of this is really great. @normornstein.bsky.social brings long history to this. But...

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not me saying the Catholic Church is progressive or anything but if Catholic clergy were still allowed to run for office there'd be a priest running in a D+12 seat whose comments about ICE singe your damn eyebrows off

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/10/2026

New at Strength In Numbers this morning: Despite claims from some pundits and Republican strategists of biased and "fake" polling data, the polls and fundamentals basically agree on the blue wave: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 03/10/2026

A LOT of pop art right now seems driven by this anxiety of handing down to the next generation a worse world. i think this might be a key element of a non-joke idea of “woke 2”

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Christopher Nolan is not okay

With "The Odyssey," Nolan has made his third film in a row about the end of the world and intergenerational guilt

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I watched this ad and it’s amazing. Doesn’t even use his name. The very clear almost explicit subtext is: my dudes, if I can suck it up and vote for this lying sack of shit, you can too, okay?

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Increase friction. Gambling should be hard. You should need to go to a casino to do it. That’s the release valve. Things were better when we did it that way.

My most small c conservative belief is that we should re-ban online gambling, and that doing so will be politically popular. The damage from this is only just beginning to become apparent. Make gambling a vice again.

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The Dude was wrong about the fuckin’ Eagles man.

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The new stereo mix of Rubber Soul rips. In the midst of showing strong financial discipline in not shelling out $229 for the vinyl boxed set.

Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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There's a fair chance this election is what polisci types point to when talking about the rise of the 7th Party System, and where APUSH students in 2060 learn that there was a time when the Sunbelt wasn't the Blue Wall.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the thing about the polls is that no matter how right or wrong they are the trend like in 90 percent of them is catastrophic for the GOP. even in races they've poured tens of millions of dark money into, it's not working. it might be making things worse.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I told you guys that Dear Leader had created the perfect market-based incentives to force electrification and green energy transition.

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Changing clocks sucks but it’s the least bad way to do it. Otherwise you have pitch black skies at 8 am in the winter or 5 am sunrises when sunlight makes more sense in the evening.

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Love that send of Teel for a 3-0 White Sox lead.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

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I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I did not have "Donald Trump doxxing Tom Cotton over daylight savings" on my Bingo card. But I support it, I guess? Both making daylight savings permenant and making Tom Cotton miserable.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One reason the anti-gay marriage ads worked in 2004 but fell flat in 2006 is that many red states had already passed their anti-gay marriage constitutional amendments by 2006, so the ads seemed mean-spirited to swing voters, even those who had bought into them two years earlier.

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Incredible catch. I thought that was gone.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Murakami, seen here in the dugout after his home run

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A24 accidentally and unwillingly becoming one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in America by being the only people who are aware that highbrow liberals spend more money than anyone else

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Supreme Court Justice Emil Bove in the lame duck seems like where this is heading.

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1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028

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