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Michael Snack

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Staunch Democrat. No prefix. No suffix.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And here's @willbunch.bsky.social, a columnist who could have David Brooksed it, but instead chose to embark on deeply reported explorations of the violence underway in the country, explaining to his readers what's happening and why.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 10/10/2026
Russia just bought large quantities of diesel from South Korea because it has run out of the fuel. Could Putin be defrauding a gullible Donald J Trump? Perish the thought!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes! What we’re seeing is the spread of a pervasive social norm where constant lurid expressions of misery and pessimism are de rigueur. People can’t see it because they’re part of it. But it’s obvious when you talk to groups who have every reason to be pessimistic, and they don’t have it.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, in the face of unimaginable loss, Americans came together with prevailing unity, courage, and resilience. On this solemn anniversary, we honor the lives lost, salute our heroic first responders, and remember that our nation is strongest when we stand together.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a preview of what things could look like if SCOTUS allows the USPS rule to go forward: the Postal Service rejected envelopes from a county in Florida because the return address is 0.014 inches too close to other text on the envelope
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USPS Rejects Florida County’s Mail Ballot Envelope Design over Return Address Being 0.014 of An Inch Too Close #ELB
A taste of what would happen if the USPS mail ballot rules were in effect: The U.S. Postal Service — which President Donald Trump hopes to deploy to restrict mail voting in the November election — rec...
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Twenty-five years later, we still remember.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Why legalize enough housing construction to make the city broadly affordable when instead you can come up with bespoke BMR solutions for preferred classes of people and then require potential tenants to prove they belong to X preferred class www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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S.F. is building housing for artists. Now it has to decide who gets it
San Francisco is creating a formal process to determine who qualifies as an artist, a new certification required for city residents hoping to live in this affordable housing development.
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Michael Tolbert @michaeltolbert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@benmckenzie.bsky.social presents watch.eventive.org/everyoneisly...
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Everyone Is Lying to You for Money | Everyone Is Lying to You for Money — Live from New York | Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
Actor and author Ben McKenzie investigates the lies, hype, and harm behind cryptocurrency’s rise—and who’s really paying the price.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
There has been remarkably little serious analysis of how this fundamental, structural shift in how information reaches us has affected what we believe about the world. People have only started taking the idea seriously in the last year or so.
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Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED PENNSYLVANIA'S #HD12 (Trump+18): Brandon Dukes (D)- 50.3% Scott Timko (R)- 49.7%
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
One of the reasons I changed my mom's phone number was to stop these texts. She has dementia and kept agreeing to give monthly donations. I tried removing her name from lists and blocking all the numbers, but neither worked. The spam kept coming. This practice is immoral and exploitive.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This “people are mad about the high costs of electricity so we should cancel a bunch of key electricity infrastructure projects” idea from the Trump administration is probably one of the more obvious blow-up-in-your-face strategies from them, which says a lot www.energy.gov/articles/ene...
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Energy Secretary Announces Cancellation of Three Proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will not move forward with designating the three proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors previous...
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Canek Aguirre @canekforcouncil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Polls are open! I just voted for Congressman Don Beyer and hope you will too. Go make your voice heard: iwillvote.com/VA
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Guys, the best weapons to protect your neighbors from ICE are NOT GUNS They are CAMERAS, WHISTLES, and a well-organized RAPID RESPONSE AND NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH SYSTEM. ICE is better-armed than you'll ever be. But they like to rely on secrecy, and you can make it much harder for them to be secret.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I have never denied - would never deny - that people are struggling. People are always struggling, and we are a wealthy society and can afford to help them. In the wealthiest society in history, at the pinnacle of its wealth, nobody should go unhoused, unfed, or untreated.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Kansas City Star endorsed Adam Hamilton for U.S. Senate. The editorial board's choice was unanimous. They agreed Adam can beat Roger Marshall in November and be the first Democrat Kansas elects to the Senate in almost 100 years. Advance voting is open. The primary is August 4. Read more ⤵️
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Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If you're betting on the Navajo Nation Presidential Election, there's no point in calling the number, there's no saving you
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Jewish Dems @jewishdems.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Praying for a speedy recovery for the two people injured in yesterday’s attack. Every leader has an obligation to fight the rise of antisemitism.
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2 Men Stabbed on Upper West Side in Possible Hate Crimes, Police Say
A man was arrested after the daylight attacks in a Manhattan neighborhood bordering Central Park. The police were investigating whether the stabbings were hate crimes.
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Genre Enthusiast @linchawkfan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
As long as McConnell is 'alive' and not at his desk in the senate, Trump has one less vote. Let them desecrate Mitch, we need every nay or no vote we can get on Blanche for AG. Same goes for Clayton for DNI as well.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The logic here.... "Vehicles are dangerous 2-ton weapons, so we're going to pull them over for specious reasons and terrorize the drivers to see what happens..."
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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
As a teen I worked at a gas station selling people scratch tickets. I would not have thought that people could destroy their lives over 1$ scratch-offs, but I watched it happen. I think about how much worse off my customers would've been if they could have gambled on their phones.
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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‘OC’ actor Ben McKenzie urges Senate to vote down crypto bill
Actor Ben McKenzie, best known for his role on the TV drama “The OC,” urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to vote against a cryptocurrency regulation bill over the lack of an ethics provi…
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internettheo2.bsky.social @internettheo2.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Such fake performative toxic aggressively ignorant bullshit in saying that stuff like cutting child poverty in half, the largest investment in climate ever and infrastructure and forgiving billions in student loan debt vaccinating millions of people during COVID etc is fuck all
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11/07/2026
Illinois is #2 in the nation for corporate expansion and relocations, with Chicago as the #1 metro. Stripe’s expansion is a reflection of our efforts to empower companies to put down roots and grow here.
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This article is disturbing on it's own but something it doesn't address that I want to highlight is, if Moraff DID get other journalists to lie about Platner, then that's the kind of fireable ethics breach that could be used as blackmail to coerce a journalist to do further unethical things for him.
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Platner’s Guru Daniel Moraff Asked Me to Lie for Him (I Didn’t)
Platner's campaign guru asked me to lie for him and the incident raises questions about what journalists may have lied!
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It really is vital for journalists to learn what did Rebecca Katz, Morris Katz, and Dan Moraff know and when did they know it? And frankly, this applies to people like Bernie as well.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Brandon Scott doesn’t get the credit he deserves, I think because he doesn’t really communicate like a “tough on crime” politician even though his policies have worked and are in fact pretty tough. www.slowboring.com/p/baltimores...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Gambling doesn't make markets more efficient - especially when gamblers are players in those markets: the introduction of polymarket bets on what bitcoin prices will be 5 minutes from now leads to meaningful increase in bitcoin trading volume 4 minutes later. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Settlement Manipulation in Prediction Markets
Prediction markets increasingly list contracts settling on an asset price that holders can move by trading the underlying. We build a model showing that such co
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This isn't complicated: Don't rape women. Don't ignore issues in a ballot box that would be massive red flags in a job interview. Don't confuse performative theater for the job of a legislator. The Republicans have proven what happens if do those things. We don't need to copy them.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sorry to be ungracious but I am just not going to tolerate any "who could possibly have seen this coming?" revisionism on this
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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What the fuck did you think we meant when we said that the Supreme Court was on the ballot in 2016? Gotdamn.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/06/2026
“These are not small side-issues. They directly affect the lives of millions. Brits who, say, are married to someone on a visa route, or have trans family, will also be impacted. Taken together, the country is a much, much more illiberal place than it was two years ago.”
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Starmer Out
Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
First he ignores algae. Then he laughs at algae. Then he fights algae. Then the algae wins. (See also: Iran, Epstein files)
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Yeah, the people being like “no, Iran deserves Hormuz and 300 billion in aid” need to get a grip. Yes, the war visited horrors on the Iranian population. Trump’s massive surrender concessions do not repair those injuries, they reward and enrich a regime that killed more Iranians than we ever will.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.
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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 12/06/2026
Mary contacted my office after struggling to get answers from the IRS about her late mother's tax return. My team worked directly with the agency to resolve the issue and secure her refund within two months. Having trouble with a federal agency? Contact my office, we're ready to help.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
When People or TMZ report on a lawsuit filed on a Saturday, and don’t link to the complaint, they’re more or less acting as the plaintiff’s PR team, not as journalists. It’s clear they got leaked a copy (or in People’s case maybe just a summary) and decided to run what amounts to a press release.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2026
listen to Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic about "Barack Hussein Obama" and DC monuments in this clip and remind yourself that this is supposed to be an event about agriculture
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 05/06/2026
Statement from the Office of the Governor:

The Bears have built a storied legacy in Illinois for over 100 years but have spent the last six years, and especially the last few months, shifting their position on a stadium location. That has hindered their progress. 

Today appears to be another instance of that after Illinois leaders have been working with the Bears in good faith. 

Governor Pritzker has always been clear that he wants the Bears to stay in Illinois and still remains open to a sensible solution that protects taxpayers.
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David Costello @davidcostello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Brief bio of US Senate candidate (David Costello) who has the least baggage and the background, reform agenda, and experience to defeat Susan Collins. Money, press attention, and voter recognition won’t be an issue post primary #MEpolitics mainedems.org/primaryvoter...
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US Senate - Maine Democratic Party
U.S. Senate Maine Democrats Browse candidates for U.S. Senate: Connect With David: Globe Facebook-f Instagram X-twitter SUPPORT DAVID David Costello | U.S. SenateDavid Costello’s lived experiences are...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
To prove racial gerrymandering, a plaintiff has to draw race-blind districts that are just as favorable to Republicans. But that's impossible to do because Republicans uniformly select racists as their candidates and Black voters won't vote for racists. So racial gerrymandering is always allowed.
Callais updated these standards. As relevant here, weheld that for plaintiffs to satisfy the first Gingles precondi-tion, a plaintiff ’s alternative map “must meet all the State’slegitimate districting objectives” “just as well” as the State’sown map. 608 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 29) (emphasisadded). Those legitimate districting objectives, we held, in-clude “the State’s specified political goals” and “any othergoal not prohibited by the Constitution.” Ibid. A plaintiffalso “cannot use race as a districting criterion” in preparingthe alternative map.
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Ian @wordsoup.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
DS9 episode title card with the words "What fresh hell are they going to put O'Brian through this time?"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/05/2026
Wow. They’re openly defending the deletion of DOJ records about a man accused in a child solicitation case who assaulted police on January 6. Truly the Epstein administration.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The lie: 298 shares 1.1k likes The correction: 9 likes 111 likes If anyone has any idea how to fix this, I’m all ears.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Jesus Christ shut up, I’m not “painting a target on trans people.” This site is an eternal 24/7 struggle session, out of control, completely intolerable. Every effort to get people to chill out and stop psychotically harassing others for made-up offenses gets transmuted into even more offenses
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