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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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America is giving dying mall vibes

On the dangers of social and political nostalgia.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A SCOTUS that believes that the Constitution protects the political rights of corporations more than it does those of non-White Americans is fundamentally illegitimate and its rulings should be treated as such

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read. Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work. He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Even the senators who are retiring and think they won't have to face the wrath of furious Democratic voters should know that their last name is about to become so toxic that not even a goddamn nonprofit is going to want you on the board.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10/11/2025

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/11/2025

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/10/2025

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A thing Zohran & his campaign have powerfully tapped into -- and that his scavenger hunt captures so perfectly -- is that a vast majority of the people who live here genuinely *love* New York City. We wouldn't stay here otherwise!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 14/08/2025

I just can’t find the humor in the false fear generated by Republicans in DC because it’s not sincere and it’s not really funny, it’s their way of saying that Black people don’t belong in society, that Black people are inherently unsafe, and that it’s worth using violence to segregate us.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The takeover of DC is rooted in racism. It is expressed through fascism. These things matter because it’s not a “distraction” or about “false” ideas around crime. It’s just racism, pure & simple. Media, politicians, social media users, influencers, everyone need to frame it this way. Consistently.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11/08/2025

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws. The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated. www.politico.com/states/new-y...

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Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart

Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/08/2025

Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City Democratic primary, won over Jewish voters who were energized by his economic agenda and unbothered by — or sympathetic to — his views on Israel and Gaza.

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Many Jewish Voters Back Mamdani. And Many Agree With Him on Gaza.

Zohran Mamdani won over Jewish voters in New York City who were energized by his economic agenda and unbothered by — or sympathetic to — his views on Israel and Gaza.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/08/2025

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

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The Invention of “Sesame Street”

Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The administration’s intimidation and extortion of universities and corporations is a means of controlling culture, but also a shadow tax without oversight. It’s a mob shakedown that allows Trump to hand out tax breaks as gifts and bribes while enacting a punitive system that demands fealty.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

After the Paramount-Skydance merger, CBS will now officially become state media for the Trump regime. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FCC, said the government is placing “an ombudsman in place for two years,” which he described as “basically a bias monitor that will report directly to the President.”

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FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump

FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2025

reihan salam — who once tried to write a case against birthright citizenship and who has given an institutional home to chris rufo — accusing anyone of having "zero-sum politics" is rich

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025

The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians Also, once it’s history, it’s too late

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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The canceling of Colbert shows that corporations don’t really care how obvious it is that they’ve caved to fascism, because they don’t believe they’ll suffer any consequences for it. We need to make sure that they do.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

They’re rolling in the state media on time. Time to amp that national grassroots resistance movement up a few notches. I hope Colbert goes absolutely unhinged this next year and whips us into a nice frenzy.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Also so odd that Jeff Bezos suddenly wants to buy Condé Nast, the parent company of (among other inconvenient publications) Wired.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Democrats should put court reform, not just the Supreme Court, although certainly that, into their campaign thinking. Biden was a traditionalist in a way that did not recognize the true threat here.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

If you still seriously think that Griswold, Obergefell, Loving et al are safe from attack, I have a wallet of $trumpcoin to sell you.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

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