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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
one of three or four books that built the foundation of my Self:
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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've been a reporter for a long time and this might be the strangest thing I've ever done. We've been reporting on privatization of schools this year and found that just about anyone can open a private school in most states. So we asked, Could reporters do it?
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So brilliant: community building, engaging and also educating people about how change happens when people work together.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s like they think the lesson of McCarthyism is that people really loved McCarthyism and Republicans really wanted to campaign with Joe McCarthy and it all worked out really well for them.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dems, please hear me: This Is NOT The Way. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
yahoo.com
Rahm Emanuel on a potential 2028 bid for president
In an interview with Fox News Digital, former U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel touts his qualifications over other Democrats as he mulls a 2028 presidential run.
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So many good points here
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Spot on, as always.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rick Steves is one of the good ones. I wish more were like him.
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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And another thing! Nobody ever asks fascist republicans if they think their party should be more moderate! Why is that?!
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apple 1997 – Think different Apple 2026 – Think compliant
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apple: think bootlicker
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley is on it. Well, not the chemistry, but the psychology. Here's one of the dozens of pieces about his research.
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Empathy and Wealth: Understanding Our Compassion Deficit
The life experiences of people with wealth, new empathy research suggests, leaves the rich less altruistic than people of modest means.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
People are responding to this like it's an argument for staying home instead of a really basic fact about intimidation campaigns Effective pushback only happens if people wake up on 11/3 ready to make it happen, so maybe stop shooting the messenger and rest up for election day
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/08/2026
The Supreme Court is increasingly relying on the shadow docket, which provides for little or no explanation of rulings. Congress must put an end to it. bit.ly/4gq1Vvr
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Dragging the Supreme Court Out of the Shadows
It’s time for Congress to put a stop to the unbriefed, unargued, unexplained rulings that account for a majority of the Court’s decisions.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/08/2026
I think maybe Democrats should be trashing this guy and not a twitch streamer
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Authoritarian creep fundamentally relies on our willingness to blame imperfect victims. The real test of solidarity is whether you can stand up against fascists, no matter the victim they target. You have to really be willing to defend everyone’s rights.
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is just wonderful and inspiring; look through all the art!!! Minnesota continues to inspire!
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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I don’t suppose it’s feasible to prosecute ALL these assholes but to the best of my ability: I will never rent to them, hire them, let them on committees, do any services for them, sell them anything, buy anything from them, pee on them if they are on fire. Nothing. Until I die.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Grete Hermann (1901-1984), brilliant philosopher of maths and quantum mechanics and first student of Emily Noether. Hermann was co-founder of the journal Ratio, and turned to political philosophy later in her career, writing in 1947:
Whoever lives in the Third Reich or otherwise comes to terms with it, but isolates themselves from the political events around them in order to occupy themselves with other, in themselves beautiful and worthy subjects, is lending their name and their work to this system. There is no neutrality towards the legal and cultural decline in public life. Whoever does not oppose it is complicit in it. Whatever beautiful and good things they may create otherwise are devalued by this participation in the social injustice with which it is burdened.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To paraphrase my friend @brendannyhan.bsky.social: if those things were happening in another country, anyone would recognize this as a 12-alarm fire. Here we’re basically left telling ourselves, “but he won’t be able to pull that off!”
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 23/08/2026
America’s strength depends on more than presidents and military power. It depends on expertise, institutions, alliances, oversight, elections, and citizens willing to defend them. Civic courage becomes a form of national defense. #holdfast steadystate1.substack.com/p/democracy-...
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Democracy is a Contact Sport
The institutions are under assault—and when institutions weaken, civic action becomes national security.
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026
Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
More accurate headline: "Loser Pollutes South Pacific"
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am curious if the research suggests that the Republican party’s fundraising is substantially different in strategy or methods? I hate the texts I get from Dems because it resembles so closely the manipulative fundraising mail from GOP I saw for years in my parent’s home.
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very on point. Good points for countering right wing hysterics. Bouie rightly characterizes obsession with “wokeness” as decadent when the real revolution we are experiencing is an authoritarian attack on human rights, free expression, and I would add, unmatched levels of graft and corruption.
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Up next, political persecution prosecutions. Not good.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Remember, it's virtually impossible to sue federal agents, so it will be basically impossible to hold ICE officers who shock people without justification accountable. We should not be giving new weapons like this to a law enforcement agency that enjoys near-total impunity.
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Democrats must unlearn the reflex to yoke all politics to kitchen-table issues and remember that politics is also a morality play. Everyone who cares about truth needs to do a better job conveying that politicians and parties aren’t all equally dishonest…”
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is the big picture. The environment, creativity for creativity’s sake, beauty, and the preciousness of each human life means nothing to Trump Regime + oligarchs + tech and surveillance bros. It’s about power and control and some sort of perverse luxury at any cost to everyone else.
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It is always worth reading Alec Karakatsanis: his writing is generous, thoughtful, grounded in actual credible social science research, and pragmatic. And it’s so critical now as Trump regime moves to increase oppressive surveillance and punishment structures which will impact all of us.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Almost everything you are hearing in mainstream news about the supposed lack of popularity of progressive policies on police and prisons is a lie. Shifting resources from police/punishment to social services is one of the most consistently popular policies polled for 40 years.
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John Sands @iohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵
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Knight Foundation-SSRS Poll: Americans Feel Free Expression is Eroding - Knight Foundation
For more than two decades, Knight Foundation has commissioned research to better understand Americans’ lived experience with the First Amendment and free expression. As the country marks its 250th ann...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I won't mince my words from what I saw and heard at the ICE detention center at Dilley. Today in America, babies and toddlers are imprisoned. These are real people navigating profound trauma and their basic human rights are violated daily.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026
So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/07/2026
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Today would be such a good day for it to happen. (And in the most indisputably undignified way possible.)
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/07/2026
Legal experts agree: It's time for Supreme Court term limits. Staggered 18-year terms would ensure regular turnover on the bench while preserving judicial independence.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Written in 2019. The future is now.
excerpt of Sarah Kendzior book Hiding in Plain Sight. "there is a difference between expecting an American autocracy and acceptig it and i refuse to accept it."
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25/07/2026
it feels shallow and reductive to say that trump is the cause of why things feel so terrible, but it isn’t, he really is that bad, he really has made everyone’s life worse, he is bad vibes personified and he’s been an uninvited part of our lives for ten fucking years
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/07/2026
This particular criminalization of parental poverty, used to disproportionately pathologize Black women and steal their children, is called Jane Crow. And it's proliferating because of deliberately cruel, punitive administrative policies like what's happening to SNAP and Medicaid.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🔥DR. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “ICE has nothing to do with immigration. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets, weaponizing the idea of immigration against the Constitution. ICE cannot be reformed, retrained… ICE has to be ABOLISHED.” (And held accountable)
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/07/2026
The Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing and reassigning staff responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign disinformation operations in U.S. elections. bit.ly/4pmBCJb
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Trump Administration Cuts Make Elections More Vulnerable to Foreign Influence and Disinformation
The depletion of staff and resources at various agencies leaves the government underprepared to respond to attempts to influence elections by China, Russia, and others.
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