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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“when placed under mild authoritarian pressure, an extraordinary number of powerful Americans, ostensibly honorable and right-thinking, quickly revealed themselves to be cowardly and unprincipled and made of the wrong stuff.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b...

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Why Did These Powerful People Kowtow to Donald Trump?

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh
[audience going berserk]

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momthemeatloaf.bsky.social @momthemeatloaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Main character energy from the refs in London

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think it is evidence of how so much we have been made to think that gaining an audience is the goal of life in this attention-seeking economy that saying "a rapist shouldn't seek a public persona that is available for consumption" is taken as equivalent to saying they "can never rejoin society."

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momthemeatloaf.bsky.social @momthemeatloaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s a lot of words to just say he’s a dumb bitch

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI frontier labs may be the least ideologically diverse industry in America, and everyone there subscribes to a dense thicket of pseudointellectualism that all collapses to "if you can invent any reason for doing what you want to do, you can tell yourself you are rationally obligated to do it."

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026

Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now that JD Vance is again pretending El-Sayed smeared Usha/Papaw, reupping this: It is absolutely true that JD has compromised with some of the most vile racists in the MAGA coalition. JD hesitated before defending Usha against them. So El-Sayed is 100% correct: newrepublic.com/article/2149...

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Zechariah @zechariahj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Holy shit

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I bet the NYT would've given Mamdani the same benefit of the doubt if he'd said he'd gone down to Ground Zero as a child to dig people out of the rubble.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

To lie this brazenly and shamelessly, you have to have already removed your soul from your body, incinerated it, and then spread the ashes somewhere over the ocean.

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ossoff invoked Natalie Harp as a means to characterize Donald Trump as not wanting to do his job. This was not an attack against Natalie. El-Sayed invoked Usha Vance to turn the bigotry within JD Vance's family that *JD* was willing to campaign on against him. This was not an attack against Usha.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If a US president said, if I tried, how badly could I fuck things up …

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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momthemeatloaf.bsky.social @momthemeatloaf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I worked at a big law firm in dc and associates were literally crying in the hallways. It took new grads the better part of a decade to recover.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/08/2026

USAID was a free space for tankie and tankie adjacent dingbats to score edgy contrarian points by wildly exaggerating how imperialist it was, confident in the belief that it wouldn’t just disappear, except now it has and everyone is uncomfortably looking elsewhere

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026

you could have ended the second klan very quickly if you had gone back in time and told william joseph simmons that in a century the US would be so mongrelized that you'd have dark-skinned italian klansmen

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Google Maps already changed Lake Ontario to Lake America. I can't fucking believe it SIKE. They didn't, but you weren't completely sure and that's kind of the whole problem lol

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Surplus Cornbread @surpluscornbread.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What's kind of funny is this whole "buy corporate, look rich to neighbors, conform to group expectations, be conservative and religious" culture isn't traditional US rural culture (which tended to have anti-law and rebellious streaks), but nearly 1-to-1 with mid-20th century SUBURBAN culture!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

youtube.com

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The president has a lady Renfield that sleeps in the White House crawlspace and travels in the wheel well of Airforce 1 and prints out his posts for him on a portable printer and wipes the poo poo off of his giant ass and that's supposed to be funny?

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There is an art to this. One of Trump's superpowers is that so much of what he does is so completely out-of-bounds gross or illegal that the media blushes to talk about it. You have to draw attention to the stuff that is truly bizarre, but not so bizarre that you will be ignored.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this would be why i got a polio booster last year.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026

Ossoff: "Now the Trump administration it seems will give the stamp of approval to the Trump family bank. We're in banana republic territory here ... they're trying to get money. And they're getting money."

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When did Trump's so-called 'ballroom' become 'national security" - a Bond-villain lair with drone-port, military bunkers, and a hospital? Why does he even need this, and troops in DC, if not to survive Civil War II or World War III? We need answers. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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We need the truth about Trump’s alleged ‘ballroom’ | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the day Trump left his press corps for dead.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 08/08/2026

I think we should bring back the authentic meaning of Thanksgiving: giving thanks for Union victories over the Confederates

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.

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The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)

And how to disempower the oligarchy

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

heard an interview recently with an anonmyous wall street bro who said his employer would not subscribe to the president's truth social insider trading scheme because they did not want to go to prison when the rule of law returns

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Russia, if you’re listening,,, Not the first time Trump has invited foreign government attacks on people he deems to be his enemies. Very on brand

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“is the federal government assisting iran in their attacks on dem run states” is a legitimate question that needs to be asked

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 26/07/2026

COVID was a moment where the liberal consensus about both expert institutions and shared personal responsibility were proven to be incredibly important and it has driven both conservatives and a certain kind of leftist completely insane because it invalidated their worldview

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

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Teela (Don't call me. Call your MoC 202-224-3121) @teela.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In 1970, the 5th grade students at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write to someone they admired and ask what makes a good citizen. Joel Lipton, then 10 years old, wrote to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz. Schulz's response is relevant even today:

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One thing I do know for sure is the press wouldn't just have forgotten about Savannah Guthries mom if a Dem was in the White House. The FBI would get getting page 1 above the fold coverage for their incompetence

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026

Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.

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