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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seeing The Atlantic re-up that awful piece about Bates again. Read this rejoinder instead.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t think any court should be allowed to consider the question “is the president allowed to try to overthrow democracy?” and any court that does should be understood as having nullified itself, its authority, and all its past and future rulings.

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the piece was very long. Thank you for your service. (also did you get into the comments? because Atlantic commenters have a worldview!) (i thought i’d see some nice takedowns on there, like there surely woudld’ve been if this were NYT, but no)

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

prolly true for more fields than just science

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

JCO FTW 🔥🔥🔥

Joyce Carol Oates
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with furrowed brow, troubled mien & a pretense of being conscience-wracked, the conservative apologists at the NY Times pondered through 500-plus words how by never mentioning the insurrection of Jan. 6, never hinting that the Republican president has been deeply mired in corruption & embarked upon a continual onslaught against US democracy, never so much as hinting that he & other powerful cronies might be implicated in sexual crimes recorded in the Epstein files, not to mention this same Republican president's cynical selling of portions of our national parks & forests--all this & more, taking care never to mention--these conservative columnists (Douthat, Brooks) could come to the identical conclusion: "both sides, right & left" equally at fault but probably the left is more at fault, because--not-right.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And yet

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Scott Galloway: America Abandoned Its ‘Unremarkable’ Young Men

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...

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After Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)

Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 14/07/2026

Joan Sebastian Guerrero should still be alive. This is the second time in a week that ICE agents have killed someone who — by their own admission — was not the subject of their operation. Now Sebastian is dead, his killing witnessed by his three-year-old daughter wearing her Bluey pajamas.

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Also I always read Casey Cep, and her profile of Marilynne Robinson was brilliant

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ann Patchett’s My Three Fathers and Peter Schjeldahl’s The Art of Dying are two of my favorites

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As the outbreak of cyclospora grows it has been reported that last year due to a lack of funding the CDC made tracking it optional, with means this outbreak (which causes explosive diarrhea) is just further proof that cutting the CDC’s funding was a really shitty idea.

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I don’t usually read the fiction pieces but I always read Rabih Alameddine and this did not disappoint

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

ALEX EALA!!!!!!!! Just defeated the defending champion on Wimbledon! Laban Alex! 🇵🇭

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026

Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Baude: I agree that we are in unprecedented times, maybe even a constitutional crisis, but if we survive it, the court deserves no small share of the credit.
Vladeck: Exactly the same credit we might give to the arsonist who shows up with a fire extinguisher.

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

i have never not regretted unmuting when i see clips of this man. what a f*cking massive dick.

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

So let me get this straight. Citizenship clause was written into 14th Amendment as a corrective to Dred Scott, which held that Blacks could not be citizens, and Justice Thomas did what now?

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Dorothy Zbornak's Blank Stare

ALT: Dorothy Zbornak's Blank Stare

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sirs, this is not a victory. bsky.app/profile/slat...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What she said. It’s an out of control court when the completely nutso executive order on birthright citizenship draws any measure of support.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 26/06/2026

x2 We have opinions (good ones). We voted too (maybe better than you, but no shade). But we do our jobs impartially bc that’s who WE are. When you come to us for service, or we come to you to give it, IDGAF who you voted for, bc we’re public servants. And that’s the way it should be.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The list of decisions, many of them very, very significant, that would have been decided differently if Jim Comey hadn't taken it upon himself to disregard DOJ norms is now *extremely* long--and that's before several more next week and in the years to come.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Immigration case: Trump can stop people in Mexico, and prevent them from applying for asylum, because they haven't *arrived* in the US. Alito calls the case "straightforward" but Soto's dissent explains that standing two feet into Mexico shouldn't allow Trump to deprive people of human rights.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Court today holds that the Executive Branch may
circumvent all these mandatory procedures by having U. S.
immigration officers stand at the border and physically
block noncitizens from setting a foot onto U. S. soil. They
may do so even if the asylum seeker is at the threshold of a
port of entry designated to receive all noncitizens who seek
entrance into the country. Even if the port of entry has ample capacity to inspect that person, including an available
asylum officer trained to process asylum applications. Even
if the asylum seeker is certain to be persecuted, or killed, if
she is turned away.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“A jolt of hope will kick you in the head when you least expect it” was surprisingly resonant

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's not just New York. In Maryland, at least two state senators & one state representative are losing to challengers to their left.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

No points are awarded for doing what the Constitution plainly commands us to do.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

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mcfungusface.bsky.social @mcfungusface.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

These are extrajudicial killings by a man whose overwhelming desire is to be a dictator. Propped up by an entire political party and 30-40% of the American public. Unreal.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Republicans are attacking the administration’s awful Iran deal. The administration is attacking Israel. Israel is attacking the administrations awful Iran deal. The reflecting pool has leprosy. I was told there would be winning.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

3 minutes ago these guys were telling us Iran’s missiles were an existential threat to America and cheerleading an insane, illegal, and destined-to-fail war to get rid of all their missiles.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026

HISTORY.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

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