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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 09/10/2026
Supreme Court justices who started prior to 1966 stayed for a median of 15.3 years, but for those who joined the Court after 1966 (excluding the current ones), the number jumped to 25.7 years. bit.ly/47DWAuZ
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3 Charts that Show the Need for Supreme Court Term Limits
Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and narrowing Senate confirmation votes make the case for reform.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
reminds of the scene from "This Is the End" about gluten www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oz...
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"Gluten's a vague term!" - This Is the End (Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel)
YouTube video by Zach Nyhus
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"If the person is a US citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. "Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings." -- Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, 9/8/2025
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every Pete Hegseth speech just sounds like the worst kid in middle school fell asleep watching Patton and forgot he had to give a book report in English class the next day
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GATES: “.. I almost can’t believe you’re asking that.” @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump Crimes on Our Dime. "After six years of Trump’s flagrant corruption, it shouldn’t surprise us that he’s diverting public funds to boost himself and his party. It’s just another legal and moral line he thinks he can cross with impunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/congratula...
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can we just have health care?
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At what point do these corporations get charged with felonious activity? Humans certainly aren't allowed to mess with government websites or else the FBI would be knocking on their door. We all saw Wargames.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Office Space: What Would You Say You Do Here?
ALT: Office Space: What Would You Say You Do Here?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My father's ancestors are mostly pre-revolutionary, my mother emigrated from the Philippines. Take inspiration from *and* be critical of your ancestors, French argues. The right's call for a kind of Herrenvolk country is against everything we should believe in.
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NEW This week showed us how big a deal a deal the Pennsylvania measles outbreak is And how little RFK Jr. cares about it My latest for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/hhs-secret...
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RFK Jr.’s ‘Medical Freedom’ Comes With a Body Count
Measles showed up at a children’s hospital. The health secretary showed up at an anti-vax conference.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Credit to Jon Karl for fact checking Steve Scalise on this 'but Biden took 400 press credentials' bullsh*t. This is MAGA's big talking point on Trump's disgraceful press lockout and it's a lie.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Things Donald Trump says are for “national security”:

• A $1 billion White House bunker-ballroom & rooftop "drone port"

• A fully weaponized Arc de Trump

• Thousands of National Guard troops occupying D.C.

•Terrorist designations and a 1798 wartime law to justify unjust ICE raids, detentions, and deportations.

• Arresting, smearing, and killing ICE protesters, and other activists, political opponents, including Reflecting Pool observers.

It’s a typical pathetic strongman mash of insanity vanity projects, federal occupation and the criminalization of dissent, all justified with the same two magic words authoritarians love to twist to their own ends: “national security.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Statement from the Radio Television Digital News Association:
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
ALT: The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18/09/2026
“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 14/09/2026
This Michelle Goldberg column is very good. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
In a series of private speeches last year, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Silicon Valley thought leader, said that the young activist Greta Thunberg represented the spirit of the Antichrist. It was more than just a hyperbolic slur. Thiel was expressing a Promethean theology, one that sanctifies technology and expansion. In Thiel’s worldview, the forces of dynamism must struggle against the evils of stagnation, represented by Thunberg’s leftist environmentalism. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science,” said Thiel.

Thiel’s philosophical assumptions might sound bizarre to outsiders, but they appear to be widely shared among the tech elite. “A.I. and its capabilities represent something analogous to the Second Coming,” Jeremy Nixon, a founder of an A.I. hub called A.G.I. House, said in May. The technology, some tech titans believe, will allow humans — at least some humans — to escape the bounds of earth and even perhaps the inevitability of death. It represents liberation from hopelessness and decay.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If, as seems to be the majority view here, you dislike the prospect of a world where human journalism and analysis is displaced by AI slop, have the self-awareness not to act annoyed and offended that the human labor of writing sometimes requires compensation.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meanwhile EPA says that regulating climate pollution is none of its business, but your uterus is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump EPA Ends Climate Regulations for Power Plants
This is one of the administration’s most significant climate rollbacks.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 11/09/2026
The only thing Trump hates more than a factual question about one of his lies is a factual question about one of his lies posed by a woman.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 07/09/2026
Seeing the effects of human-induced violence leaves us healthcare workers reeling with trauma. We are tired. We've had enough.
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Big Tobacco, toymakers pay for the harm they've caused. Why not gunmakers?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/09/2026
Must be nice to be a member of Congress and never have to do your job. trib.al/Itl4uUM
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After 5-Week Vacation, House Suddenly Takes Off the Rest of September
Must be nice to be a member of Congress and never have to do your job.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The essential feature of our national park system is “its essential democracy … the preservation of the scenery, of the forests, of the wilderness …for the people as a whole instead of leaving the enjoyment thereof to be confined to the very rich who can control private reserves.” - T Roosevelt
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Tom Tell @thomastell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"It's a real catastrophe that the US, with just a fraction of the military assets we put into Iran, could have helped the Ukrainians defeat the Russians in this war. If you go back to the seizure of Crimea, this war has been ongoing for over a decade and we could have made a significant difference."
John McArdle and Tom Nichols on C-SPAN.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You gotta clear the neighborhood around your orbit, Pluto! Show Charon what's what. Suck in some asteroids. Step it up, or you're never making it back to the Majors.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/08/2026
More of this positivity, please. Bless him.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about the national debt, remember that roughly 25% of it has been added during Trump's presidencies — largely thanks to his tax cuts for the rich. The notion that Republicans care about the debt is one of the biggest lies in politics.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The President said he’d pay off the debt in his first term. Well we all knew that was a lie. Instead he ran it up to $40 trillion while he and his family made billions.
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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 17/08/2026
A government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich www.citizen.org/article/trum...
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Trump's Billionaire Boys Club: - Public Citizen
Report on billionaires in the Trump administration, their conflicts, and political donations.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“.. 2% inflation is not what is really happening.” - Mallouk
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Scaling back the exercise is, of course, an insane decision, which does nothing but hurt an ally, and tempt an adversary to think—correctly—that American leadership is feckless." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation
His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The only way I can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is to sing it. In my generation, at least, I don't think I'm alone in that respect.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
CapitalOne closed 300 of Trump’s accounts on suspicions of money laundering, so the Trump family just decided to start their own bank. Problem solved!
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Michelle @michkajo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Actual waste, fraud, and abuse.
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