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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/10/2026
This opening by Bob Smietana is perfection! A must read!
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jon Ossoff:
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Stand By Me: Want to See a Dead Body?
Alt: Stand By Me: Want to See a Dead Body?
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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Prime Minister…Sir…the opposition…they’re Aurafarming” “It’s over”
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quite the bolt from the blue, this whole MAGA "takeover" of the Republican Party....
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While the Trump ads paid for by the taxpayers are shocking, his abuse of federal resources for campaign activity is nothing new. Just a little louder and more obvious. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
motherjones.com
In another break from norms, Trump is using the White House as a campaign backdrop
"We’re in unorthodox times.”
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Technically, empathy is not the opposite of selfishness. It is the opposite of solipsism.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There need to be penalties for the companies and individuals who bribed Trump, not just the Trump family for taking bribes.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ROTFL.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spoken like a guy who has essentially abandoned his core market to chase unicorns.
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 24/09/2026
Gavin Newsom, who has spent the past year courting billionaires and the right wing, is "a political juker — an advocate for nothing but his own ambitions as the Democrats’ best boy," writes @soleilho.com. www.coyotemedia.org/what-is-the-...
coyotemedia.org
What Is the Point of Gavin Newsom?
You can’t build a movement around a person whose only commitment is staying uncommitted.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 14/09/2026
Bernie agreeing with Musk, Bernie talking to Claude as if it were a person, now this.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICYMI over the weekend: I wrote about the emerging far-right international, why the project it is pursuing is best described as a kind of aggrieved revanchism, and what an adequate democratic response might look like.
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A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy
MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I understand what each word means individually but I am struggling with them being in this order
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just happen to be reading the Notes from the Constitutional Convention today. It's a shame about the republic.
Docr. FRANKLIN, said he was sorry to differ from his colleague for whom he had a very great respect, on any occasion, but he could not help it on this. He had had some experience of this check in the Executive on the Legislature, under the proprietary Government of Pena. The negative of the Governor was constantly made use of to extort money. No good law whatever could be passed without a private bargain with him. An increase of his salary, or some donation, was always made a condition; till at last it became the regular practice, to have orders in his favor on the Treasury, presented along with the bills to be signed, so that he might actually receive the former before he should sign the latter. When the Indians were scalping the western people, and notice of it arrived, the concurrence of the Governor in the means of self- defence could not be got, till it was agreed that his Estate should be exempted from taxation: so that the people were to fight for the security of his property, whilst he was to bear no share of the burden. This was a mischievous sort of check. If the Executive was to have a Council, such a power would be less objectionable. It was true the King of G. B. had not, as was said, exerted his negative since the Revolution; but that matter was easily explained. The bribes and emoluments now given to the members of parliament rendered it unnecessary, every thing being done according to the will of the Ministers. He was afraid, if a negative should be given as proposed, that more power and money would be demanded, till at last eno' would be gotten [FN10] to influence & bribe the Legislature into a compleat subjection to the will of the Executive.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bouie: a perm does different things to black hair and white hair Cottle: no, a perm is a perm, if it did something different to black hair it should be called a black perm Bouie: it's the same chemical process, it just- Cottle: enough, I've seen Legally Blonde
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“The dirty secret is that many professors do not write their own op-eds. Bigwig profs — especially economists and physical scientists — have research assistants and university comms professionals who can help with that”
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 25/08/2026
I’m sorry but I just am not willing to allow AI fears to make me concede the idea that students should emerge from humanities programs able to research and write long-form essays. I am not switching to only in-class assignments and making them take tests which largely prove rote memorization skills.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.
Chart: Annual US measles cases
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I am seriously asking if you read his suspension letter before you jumped to defend Cofnas? Because it isn’t just about “unscholarly speech” he likely broke Belgian anti descrimination laws again advocating for racial supremacy. And it isn’t just that either.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 23/08/2026
this is bug shit insane stuff, shocking somehow even for this administration
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.
Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
when lindsey graham died, I decided not to describe his sister as "unqualified" because honestly there are so many unqualified idiots in office these days. but I think it was a bad call on my part, this is legitimately unqualified.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is one of my biggest frustrations, especially when talking about technofascists. They really do want a feudal society! It’s not a metaphor!
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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Amazing. This is not sugar-coated; it's carefully worded, using moderate, factual language. It makes no attempt to kow-tow or appease. It just tells it like it is. Bravo, @wikipedia.org, for setting an example.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is an amazing conversation but I recently encountered the idea (obviously of longer standing) of this - the 'Alan Keyes Constant' that basically 27% of people will vote for any lunatic as long as they have the right party ID or what have you.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/luke...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Mock Op-Ed Text:

Here's Why It Would Never a Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes

by Some Rich Asshole
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.
Brandon Gill • is at White House. •
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The American Dream belongs to Americans. It does not belong to the world.
The American dream belongs to Americans.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Like I said in Scientific American last month, this is the military-industrial, for-profit approach to research funding. It presupposes an ability to guess at (and fund) successful research, and most scholarship on it says it generates neither new knowledge *nor* higher productivity.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If you say "Clausewitz" five times quickly in succession, the fog of war disappears.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21/07/2026
Great news for the quoted poster, who posits that vocally "pro-life" profs couldn't possibly be employed at public universities in the humanities, here are two at UT Austin
kut.org
In new lawsuit, two UT Austin professors say they won't excuse absences for abortion patients
Professors Daniel Bonevac and John Hatfield say they have no intention of complying with the Biden administration's Title IX regulations that expand protections for LGBTQ+ and pregnant students.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The People Own the Constitution, Not the Court talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-p...
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The People Own the Constitution, Not the Court
I wanted to direct your attention to this podcast episode from Slate....
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
matthew always brings the receipts
• A law called the "Food Traceability Rule," designed to make tracing contaminated food easier, was supposed to go into effect on January 20, 2026.
• Taylor Foods started paying Sidley Austin to lobby. on "regulation of food safety" in January of 2025.
• On March 20, 2025, FDA announced they were pushing back the implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule" by 30 months.
• On March 26, 2025, Taylor Fresh Foods Inc contributed $1,000,000 to MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
Excuse the fuck me? They are using AI to put Black prisoners in conditions of greater torture in Canada? Does AI do anything that's not violently antiblack? @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.
Chart of the polio vaccine obliterating poliochart of the measles vaccine smashing measles into bits
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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