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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 01/10/2026

Nobody: Cate Blanchett:

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Speak at Your Own Risk

Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This was Colorado's hottest summer on record, and it wasn't even close. Average statewide temp of 69.4° beat the old record (2012) by 0.7°, a wide margin. It was also Colorado's hottest August on record, and it's our hottest start to a calendar year on record as well. #COwx

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Consider Mark Carney. Americans are rooting for a foreign leader to beat us in a trade war. We’ve outsourced resistance until we can manufacture it here at home. Thats a warning to Jeffries, not a high sign to stand down. www.offmessage.net/p/long-live-...

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The #Resistance Is Dead; Long Live The Resistance

Pro-democracy Americans don’t think resistance failed; they think it was failed by frauds and cowards.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here's the Trump two-step: 1) transfer money from working/middle class consumers to the wealthy by using tariff revenues to fund tax cuts for rich 2) when the tariffs hurt GOP constituencies, transfer our tax dollars to them in form of bailouts, effectively paying them off to keep voting GOP

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The dismantling of science/education is up there with the erosion of international trust as long-lasting disaster legacies of the Trump administration that will not be reversed any time soon.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2026

very fun to see people just straight up ignore stop signs as if they don’t exist. it is especially cool when they are also doing 50 in a 25

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Also, it does not matter if Russ Vought is against DEI policies, if Congress has instructed NIH take to into account health disparities in an assessment of a grant. An executive order cannot overcome a formal statement by Congress. Somebody needs to point that out to him.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Your two options in American politics are the "let's raise taxes and give rural America subsidies" party and the "let's cut taxes and give it all to billionaires" party. I think it would be neat if there were a "raise taxes and invest in urban areas" option!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The upcoming midterm elections are going to be contested amid a broken Voting Rights Act, "rigorously" invalidated campaign-finance laws, and federal election commissioners who can be fired for no reason. The only people who voted for this absurd legal regime are the unelected justices on the Court

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/06/2026

A shockingly close call on how to read plain English in the first sentence of a constitutional amendment.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What happens to art when every artist must be an entrepreneur? (We talk about this a lot.)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Everything I Don't Like Is Unconstitutional" A Memoir by Samuel Alito

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is going to be unpopular here, but I think the Democratic Party should balance power towards Congress and away from the Executive, even if that means getting fewer policy wins in the short term, if it means making those policy wins more stable over time. (Also SCOTUS reform, obvs)

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I know that it's Calvinball now but saying you're going to dismantle a district because it's 47% African American sure seems like the intentional racial discrimination that's still banned

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 05/05/2026

Had he whipped 9 more GOP senators and himself voted to convict, we would not be here having this conversation and would not be witnessing the unraveling of American democracy at the hands of Donald Trump and his sycophants Republicans have agency too

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 05/05/2026

Personal pet take: The best monocausal explanation of how we got from 1/6 to now is that Mitch McConnell didn't have the courage to put party before country just once and banish Donald Trump from elected office forever. bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What Kilpatrick wanted, and what the Roberts Court is making possible, is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white. The anticaste provisions of the Reconstruction amendments, intended by their authors to reverse the “horrid blasphemy” that America was a white man’s country, are being inverted to defend that dominance. This is not the color-blindness of Martin Luther King Jr., but what the scholar Ian Haney López has called “reactionary colorblindness,” the purpose of which is to maintain racial hierarchy through superficially neutral means. It takes the view that the Constitution’s “color-blindness” renders any attempt to remedy anti-Black racism unconstitutional, because by definition that would involve making racial distinctions. Similarly, the ruling in this case does not explicitly overturn the VRA’s ban on racial discrimination in voting so much as rewrite it to allow such discrimination.

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

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 02/03/2026

Seems like a thing more people should be mad about

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Airstrikes alone have never caused regime change. They can do a lot of damage, but can’t create conditions that last.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

One of those costs there’s probably no way to quantify but is obviously huge is just the huge deadweight loss of time and mental energy spent thinking and talking about Trump relative to a normalish president.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States. In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It was never about fairness in high school sports, it was always about destroying trans people’s lives

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

Our national project of elite impunity

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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This one hits hard.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

There is a major political organization allied with the president that got so mad a Latino artist was tapped to play at the Super Bowl they made a whole alternative show. We should all take a moment to reflect on that. It is so blatantly racist.

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