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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read Bernard Lefkowitz's OUR GUYS, about the Glen Ridge rape case, when I was 21. I didn't know what it was. Picked it off a shelf. The most chilling book I've ever read, seminal, crystal-clear sociology about exactly the type you find at Cornell & how society (women included) protects them.

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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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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only a barbaric shithole country administers the death penalty. They should not get to try again. Maybe they should take her survival as a sign from God, whom they allegedly love so much

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/10/2026

This morning at JFK, waiting for my flight, and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs" was playing in the background and I CANNOT GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD now many hours later.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A woman I dated said I was like House, and I don’t think she meant it in a good way

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🎶But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow🎶

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 07/08/2026

People do no fully appreciate that inflation is a bigger issue to voters now than it was in 2024 open.substack.com/pub/fiftyplu...

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Affordability concerns are even more important to voters than in 2024

Inflation continues to dominate the issue landscape, and drag down the president

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Now can we stop pretending? I mean seriously, days and days of "Collins is a No!", "Murkowski is a no!" They even tried to make it into a big TV event "At 10am Friday Cassidy is going to make a big announcement". Yeah, fuck these clowns. My life is not a reality TV show.

Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown again.
Or, the left after hoping that a Republican would give a shit about anything but themselves. Collins and Murkowski would have been "Yes's" had they needed the votes. Fuck this whole timeline.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

CBS and Bari Weiss may have created their own biggest competitor. Reports say journalists fired from 60 Minutes are planning to reunite with former exec. producer Bill Owens working bring on Scott Pelley, and other former correspondents/producers. This is how you do it.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

hey look it's the iwo jima photo but embarrassing

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/06/2026

The Knicks belong to New York City. And this championship belongs to the people who waited 53 years for it. That’s why we’re giving away 600 free tickets to Thursday’s Championship Ceremony at City Hall following the ticker-tape parade.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"Silence" - my oil painting

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Kids with autism will never dump a dead bear cub in Central Park & try to make it look like a cycling accident. They'll never decapitate a whale & strap its rotting head to the roof of their van. They'll never deliberately swim in raw sewage.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Judge Mehta doesn’t want to quietly dismiss the seditious conspiracy conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. He’s asking the Trump administration to justify its decision to try to erase the case.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

oppo research on Talarico: he is in a loving relationship with his beautiful girlfriend oppo research on Paxton: he literally freed a pedophile and his wife divorced him on “biblical grounds”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/05/2026

I remember when I wrote about how John Solomon was rolling over for Trump and he got so mad and insisted he was so independent etc and well

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Journalist Favored by Trump Is in Talks to Join White House in Temporary Role

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

THIS IS LIKE FEEDING GIZMO AT NIGHT

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hegseth says military retirees are subject to speech restrictions and that if they didn’t like that they can forfeit their pension & benefits. "Trump admin expects the ppl who have put their lives on the line for America to cede one of their basic rights" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

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Opinion | Hegseth Is Sending Us a Warning

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

There likely is nothing to be done at the moment to prepare for these possibilities (the only body of writing on the subject available in an emergency is science fiction), because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.

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Member, Professional Staff

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Back around this time, I told my folks I wanted Jesus Christ Superstar for Christmas. I got some generic version of songs from it, and Godspell, and Tommy, by some no-name group. I never asked my parents for a record again.

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Mike Babin @mikebabin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

He doesn't even give you proper gruel

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

On one level I respect Mamdani's political savvy but on another level it's, like, his radical strategy is "what if I talk like a normal person and close potholes" and c'mon America that should be our baseline for electing anybody 😭

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/04/2026

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!

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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman @repbonnie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The money requested from Congress for Trump’s war in Iran could fund ACA tax credits for YEARS, but the GOP let them lapse months ago. They need to get their priorities in order. Americans are seeing their premiums skyrocketing by 114%. It’s unsustainable. #healthcareNOTwarfare

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

i'm so old i remember when Hillary tried to make healthcare easier and the GOP screeched at her to stay in her lane

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is exactly what it was, by the way. No policy.

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Sara Leahy @mindyourownuterus.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

From the same article by @jvl.bsky.social

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Much better to pleasure your date at a musical.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A lot of "this-is-the-moment-when-Donald Trump-became-president" energy here

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The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Leo's body language is akin to the parish priest who knows the man beats his wife but has to deal with him anyway because he funds the carnival.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

When the now-abandoned law to deport migrants to Rwanda was in place, Charles leaked that he found it barbaric. There wasn’t even the usual effort to insulate him. It was attributed to palace sources.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/02/2026

Multiple people tell me the only reason they still use Facebook is for FB Groups. So, of course, Meta is doing its best to ruin that feature with an unstoppable AI inviting hundreds of people to someone's private tea party group.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 21/02/2026

live free or die

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marymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.

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White House, Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice quietly negotiated deal over ICE enforcement in courts

Four days later, chaos unfolded inside the Hennepin County Government Center.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A reminder that thanks to the no good terrible very bad Supreme Court decision in INS v. Chadha, this is subject to a veto. He'll be annoyed by having to veto it, that's what they were trying to avoid. But even if both houses pass it, that's what will happen.

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Shoshie Rules @shoshierules.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

25 post thread...please read This is not the America we grew up being proud of. Harsh Immigration policies have become a loser for the GOP. This is why Trump is working so hard to poison the midterms.

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