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Marcy Sacks

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Historian. Runner. Trying to make my corner of the world a better place.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 16h
We tried that after the Civil War. How’d that go?
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026
This the most anti-American administration in history. Destroying everything good about us, growing all that is bad.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants use propaganda to manipulate the people they are supposed to serve in order to MANUFACTURE that consent, our SERVANTS soon become our MASTERS. Your tax dollars paid for this ad.
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These Elections Could Decide 2028. No One Is Watching Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | These Elections Could Decide 2028. No One Is Watching Them.
Four swing states will soon elect the official who will run the 2028 presidential election. The candidates are alarming.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/09/2026
My new favorite news photo. The ugliness of these people just leaps right out at you.
Reuters photo (I checked that it's real) showing Trump glaring belligerently at the camera, with Melania behind him looking like she'd like to rip the photographers throat out, and Xi watching them both with a mild bemused expression.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The RNC in 2024 gave every delegate a “Mass Deportations Now” sign.
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This MI Jewish voter stands firmly behind Abdul el Sayed.
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Alejandro Zúñiga @byazuniga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NFL scouts from the Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots, Los Angeles Chargers, New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs are at Michigan Stadium today.
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This makes me incredibly queasy.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
More like DO(i)J, tbh.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/07/2026
It’s time for Congress to pass a robust anticorruption agenda that would help end the era of massive money in politics that the Court ushered in. bit.ly/4b5yJ9H
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Supreme Court Continues to Dismantle Anticorruption Laws
Its latest decision to strike down campaign finance limits underscores the need for Congress to pass popular anticorruption reforms.
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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This desert oasis is a biological wonderland. Trump’s border wall threatens to destroy it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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This desert oasis is a biological wonderland. Trump’s border wall threatens to destroy it
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ossoff brilliant at this
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more ‘political’ than newsworthy for live coverage
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I prefer principled leaders. We need many more like Mayor Mamdani.
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Must be nice to be rich.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Trump administration moved today to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development and other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026
For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Why do I get calls literally every day from different public opinion polls? Aren’t these supposed to be random?
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So, uh, just to be clear: birthright citizenship is for everyone, not just immigrants. It's just that most of us in the US haven't ever had to think about it in our own lives. Take it away, and what replaces it?
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I also wonder what it will take for elected Democrats to become serious about judicial reform. Dobbs wasn’t enough; neither was the death of the voting rights act. There doesn’t seem to be a constituency they value more than their cowardice.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What I wouldn't give to just once read a headline that says, 'Internal Records Demonstrate that the President is Full of Shit.'
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Marc-Grégor Campredon @marc-gregor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
UnWritten is back. After clearing licensing/editorial questions, the Kickstarter relaunch is live. Short 2-week campaign, limited print run. If you don’t pre-order now, there won’t be extra copies later. Let’s finish this properly. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
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UnWritten: The story of the 2026 Basketball Season.
The editorial chronicle of Michigan basketball’s historic season is back. Now with significantly fewer legal panic attacks.
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Open the damn bridge!
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Such a disgrace. This guy’s worked his whole life to be selected for the World Cup. He’s earned it.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
sign at mt. kisco, new york anti-trump protest this past week:
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 06/06/2026
I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees. Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/06/2026
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
What an embarrassment
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you aren't on Twitter, you might not have seen this! @marc-gregor.bsky.social and @byazuniga.bsky.social are putting together a photo book chronicling the 2025-26 Michigan men's basketball national championship season. It should be fantastic. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
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Remember in photos the 2026 Michigan men’s basketball national championship season.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it. Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter and Happy Passover!
Two versions of the Pillsbury doughboy:

On the left, the well-known version, beneath which is written “He is risen!”

On the right, a version rendered in matzah, with the white baker’s hat and kerchief in blue rather than white, beneath which is written “He has not!!”
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Marcy Sacks @msacks.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Cc: @astrokatie.com
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.
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Alejandro Zúñiga @byazuniga.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
at the end of the day, Michigan's roster is full of mercenaries and Tennessee is just a bunch of volunteers
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.
chart of Cumulative federal deficit in billions of dollars (nominal), FY2021-2026
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There wasn’t a single Democratic elected official who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Not one. Donald Trump is openly celebrating Robert Mueller’s death and no Republicans are condemning him. Both sides are not the same.
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We are seeing the Iran war become a quagmire in real time. Asking U.S. taxpayers to spend $50 billion on a war Trump claims we have already won was outrageous enough. Quadrupling that within a week shows a total lack of understanding or control over what he has gotten us into. Not one more dime.
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Alejandro Zúñiga @byazuniga.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Michigan has become the first men’s basketball team since the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers to finish the Big Ten season undefeated in road games.
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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
While you're all focused on Iran, the Tr•mp regime is laying plans to overturn the 2026 midterm elections. Thanks to the Guardian for explaining how they will pull it off: #Tyranny #MenaceToDemocracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Will Trump try to seize voting machines to disrupt the midterm elections?
State election leaders have been raising concerns about the intent behind Trump’s recent moves on elections
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