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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

Good evening to Juan Linz. Presidentialism was a grave mistake. Impeachment is literally the only mechanism we have. Failing to even try to use it is total failure. A constitutional order like this, in the face of such unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes, is not really worth saving.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 22h

Democrats are starting to clarify that Republicans are unpatriotic. They are also helping people realize Republicans are bad Christians, failed husbands and fathers, losers, weaklings, cowards. This is an embarrassing brand that degrades anyone associated with it. These ads only prove it further.

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excellent quote. This article also pairs well with Backlash Presidents, which takes on the historical and institutional dimensions of this problem but shares the same basic conviction.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is not a “middle ground” on right and wrong. There is not a “middle ground” on basic human decency. I am perfectly fine contributing to polarization if it means standing up for others.

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Republicans don't actually want Milwaukee to succeed. They want to deprive it of resources, deprive it of funding, and then point their fingers and blame the city for the challenges they've chiefly caused. They don't want a thriving city. They want a political punching bag.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My newsletter is up. Eric Schmitt should be mocked and John Roberts should be hounded and I will not be persuaded otherwise. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

thenation.com

Eric Schmitt Deserves to Be Mocked Forever

In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent relives the senator’s glorious face plant. Plus: whyt John Roberts’s also deserves our mockery.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a pretty direct line between "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything" and this kind of MNF banter. The rot is everywhere in our society but it's a lot worse in some places than others. (screenshot from sports.yahoo.com/articles/al-...)

Then, Michaels cited the familiar football phrase that "winning is the best deodorant," before Herbstreit predicted that Browns fans would eventually embrace Watson after previously booing him in the preseason.

"You want the fans to get behind you, and that goes for pretty much any market," Herbstreit said. "This is an extreme case because of what you laid out with Deshaun Watson, but if you convert on third downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

cbc.ca

Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A sitting senator publicly confusing the Atlanta Hawks NBA team with the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team feels like it was a discarded subplot from Veep.

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What will it take for the Milwaukee police to ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING about reckless drivers?

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know what has built-in seating? MUSICAL THEATER!

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Why don’t kids play outside?” Maybe because you fucking assholes keep driving the wrong way on one way streets!!!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a lot of discourse on here about what politicians should to to win fails to grapple with the fact that the median swing voter is floridly insane

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hot take: Fall biking > Summer biking! For every like, I will share a reason why. Let’s Go!

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You know what’s outdoors? Weather! Uncomfortable bleachers (if you’re lucky). Porta potties and sketchy park bathrooms. You know what has climate control, comfortable seats, and proper restroom facilities? MUSICAL THEATER.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of this, from @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s a family of four on this cargo bike. You don’t need an SUV, let alone a car.

Two adults and two children on a cargo bike

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

No matter what they claim, the REAL “war” that’s been going on in our cities has been a WAR ON WALKING. And it’s been going on for a century. #UrbanTruth

Mostly black text on white background: “ The Road Lobby claims that there’s a war going on in our cities. There is, but it’s not the war they’ve been lying about. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century.“ Via the Urban Truth Collective.

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

LOOK WHAT THE MPS CROSSING GUARDS FINALLY HAVE! Shoutout to @mkefrizz.bsky.social for not backing down from a fight with the Fire & Police Commission about this!

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 31/08/2026

This is murder. They are murdering this man by denying him treatment.

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Chicago, why are we not throwing delivery robots into dumpsters?

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Biff Tannen is president and Terminator 2 seems more and more relevant every day. This has to be a fevered dream, right? I’m going to wake up in 1996 and swear off Tom Clancy novels forever.

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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My union lobbied NYS to pass a heat bill with temperature limits. Now every classroom in my district has an air conditioner. Unionize Amazon.

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

OMG. We snagged two free tickets to today’s game and because I am the awesomest wife and mom, I told @mkefrizz.bsky.social to take the kiddo while I stay home.

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Do I have any friends who have taught Intro to International Relations lately?

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Last night my family was biking on Milwaukee’s only circle street, which is a one-way. A driver turned the wrong way. My husband & I told him it was a one way. As I passed him, I repeated it. He looked at me, said, “I heard you,” and kept driving. Deeply anti social behavior.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

en.wikipedia.org

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

the thing about government grocery stores is that food deserts are a real thing and people need food

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Gwen Mesco @gwenmesco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seeing the same people posting about Jared Leto being a monster and then turning around with gushing tributes to Glen Hansard. Um, guys…

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Amanda Hoey @amandahoey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Something a student org I was in considered but didn't have the bandwidth to do was a community fair where we connected people to nonprofits that could help. I think channeling campaign resources into something like this would be a good idea and more useful than the campaign trying to do mutual aid.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/07/2026

A decade ago, Facebook was so worried about rising misinformation that it paid various news outlets to hire writers specifically tasked with publishing Snopes-like fact-checks. Today, the company is leaping into bed with a purveyor of misinformation to toy with a tool known for getting facts wrong.

The top part of a Newsmax press release dated 28 July 2026 headlined "Newsmax and Meta Enter AI Content Partnership." The screenshotted text of the press release reads:

BOCA RATON, FL / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2026 / Newsmax Inc. (NYSE:NMAX) ("Newsmax" or the "Company") announced today that the Company has entered into an AI content partnership with Meta Platforms ("Meta").

Under the agreement, Meta will have access to Newsmax's digital news content. Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content across its platforms to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.

"Newsmax applauds the significant resources Meta is putting into AI to keep America at the forefront of this emerging technology," commented Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax. "We are pleased to work with Meta to help ensure users have access to timely, high-quality journalism through AI technologies."

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Me when someone else offers to make plans vs. me when they actually do.

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’m aiming to write more and I made a post about what I want to write. Short version: food deserts in Milwaukee and the English Civil Wars. open.substack.com/pub/craigfri...

open.substack.com

A Life & Substack Update

In which Craig attempts to catalog the things he wants to write.

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I specifically remember Dr. Lowell Barrington’s courses 20 years ago on authoritarianism and democracy and first learning the lengths regimes would go to rewrite history; this would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous.

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Craig Frizzell @mkefrizz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The snow and cold in Milwaukee during the winter are way more manageable to bike in than wildfire season is.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 18/07/2026

What Cyberpunk 2077 can teach real-world cities aftermath.site/cyberpunk-urba...

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

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Monster Moloch 👹👿👻 @modernmoloch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I think basically every outstate Democrat is indifferent at best to Milwaukee’s plight, and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin is dominated by outstate Democrats, so Milwaukee is left to rot.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026

I want trials for every last one of these mother fuckers.

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