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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
Decades ago they joked that there was no more dangerous place to stand in Washington DC than right between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera. But for some reason this schmuck can’t work up a press release for a Democratic member of Congress being persecuted by the president.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h
A Scaramucci is ten days (july 21-31). Zacharia was appointed on Oct 9 and lasted till October 16. So a Zacharia is seven days, or 7/10ths of a Scaramucci.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h
Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h
New Fox poll's internals are brutal for Trump: *approval on inflation 22-77 *approval w/ independents 21-78 *approval w/ Latinos 21-79 *underwater w/ noncollege whites and non-MAGA Rs (!) On the pod we bring you the numbers and discuss whether the polls are correct: newrepublic.com/article/2167...
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Fox News Just Nuked Trump with His Most Disastrous Poll Yet
As Fox’s latest survey is brutal for Trump and the GOP, a polling expert analyzes the numbers—and demystifies the debate over whether the polls are accurate.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 9h
"pretend I'm on the ballot"
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 7h
With Paxton so much in the news, I keep thinking about a story I wrote for The New Yorker years ago about how Texas, a state where gambling is illegal, has so many thriving poker rooms. He found a way to not get involved & then collected campaign donations. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...
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Kathy E. Gill 🏍️ @kegill.bsky.social · 17h
$150 million worth 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
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Most of Ken Paxton’s Money Can Be Traced to One Man: Elon Musk (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12h
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“More than 100 elected officials have joined me in calling on parking lot and garage owners across New York City: Don’t give ICE a place to operate. Don’t rent to them. Tell them they’re not welcome.

Last week, ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the car. They had been staging nearby in a private parking lot.

Our city laws keep ICE off public property. Now, we’re calling on private property owners to do the same. One garage on Morton Street already removed ICE vehicles after neighbors spoke out. Every owner has that power.”
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10h
The next Congress ought to be plenty busy investigating corruption but they should find a little time to ask some questions of Louisiana's next senator Julia Letlow, who signed an NDA with Meta and then bought stock in the company, which is building the country's largest data center in her district
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 11h
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10h
Pleased to share a draft of my essay, "Rules for a Recidivist Republic," forthcoming in the Chicago-Kent Law Review. The argument for Trump's executive order wasn't new. It was a rehash of nineteenth-century parlor tricks, defeated by Radical Republicans' design. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Ossoff: "You stand here and say you're gonna be a champion for Black Georgians when you elevate to positions of leadership in your political organization people with ties to the Ku Klux Klan."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump brought more destruction to DC this weekend, ordering the cutting of 400 mature trees before courts could stop it. Same tactic as when he knocked down the East Wing. Riverbend Landscapes & Tree Service of VA did the cutting. They knew it was wrong. And you can let them know how you feel. 1/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026
The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“If you’re going to mail your ballot, you better do it right away,” he said. “Don’t wait.” www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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‘Mail early’: Election officials urge voters to return ballots ASAP to avoid potential Postal Service delays
Postal Service cutbacks could lead to more ballots being rejected.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
but, i mean, it had been a Traditionally Masculine activity to read Hemingway and Faulkner and Melville and Tolstoy for generations. isn't it more interesting to ask how our cultural vision of masculinity changed over time and why? or at least pondering that might help us engage with reality.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch
Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12/10/2026
Oh does it raise serious questions, dude? Is that what it does? Are the questions both serious AND raised? Wow he really got out the baseball bat for this one
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Liberals spend forever wondering if these people believe what they are saying and it doesn’t matter. Their audiences 10000% believe it and they vote accordingly.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There was no accountability for DOGE so he is going to keep doing it. Dems should promise to minimize contracts with clearly partisan government contractors and to impose more regulatory scrutiny on Musk. At this point, nothing to lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
nytimes.com
Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026
This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’
It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Vibe shift update: Dems getting endorsements from legendary Texas high school football coaches
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
OSSOFF: Mike Collins is one of the most extreme members of Congress. He's a Trump puppet election denier. I want to hear if Mike still believes the 2020 election was stolen. What do you say Mike? COLLINS: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
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“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's America
Kimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 08/10/2026
Increasing Black homeownership sounds like an easy fix for the racial wealth gap. But that assumes a housing market that treats every buyer the same. New research from @zraresearch.bsky.social breaks down three assumptions behind that idea and why they don't hold up.🧵
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Homeownership Is Not a Solution to the Racial Wealth Gap
Can increasing Black homeownership close the racial wealth gap? Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana examines how wealth inequality, housing discrimination, predatory lending, and unequal appreciation make homeowner...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade. BLS data shows 2.739M jobs in September, down ~12% from the 2022 peak. The entire post-pandemic hiring boom has now been erased. I expected AI to cause Big Tech to shrink but not all tech. 😞
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think that @aselrod.bsky.social is right that the attention economy does bad things to our brains, whether or not those things qualify as addiction www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Only 11% of companies could accurately forecast their AI spending. A separate study found cheaper AI models cost more 32% of the time. So dollars per token is less relevant than dollars per task. AI is like getting a contractor, you know the hourly rate but not how many hours the job will take.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Flávio Bolsonaro got 56 million votes yesterday. He's under investigation for alleged “money laundering, illicit capital flight, corruption" after he negotiated a $24-million investment from a now-jailed banker—accused of leading the biggest bank fraud in Brazil's history—to finance the movie.
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How a Bolsonaro biopic ended up at the center of Brazil's presidential election
“This movie is going to be a nightmare for the Left.”
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