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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

3) this is yet another instance of Vance treating a native-born but nonwhite American as if they are foreign born. 4) it is vance who should be greatful that anyone ever bothered to treat him like he might do some good in the world (they were wrong of course)

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

He's doing it again.

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Salon.com @salon.com · 14/10/2026

“Even on his official trips, if he’s unable to return home Trump will sleep at one of his own hotels, a move that is always profitable for him personally since the government pays for much of the huge entourage trailing the president.”

salon.com

Trump’s "Camp Donald" grift is designed to outlast his presidency

Trump's plan to turn his Florida golf club into an official presidential retreat — and reap the benefits

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

"They might tax some of my billions or put some mild regulatory restraints on the growth of my businesses, therefore I will endorse fascism" is not savvy. It's not clever. It's not understandable or forgivable. It's shitty, just like it looks on the surface.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

I consider myself a fairly compassionate & empathetic person, but the more I read about people in this particular demographic -- wealthy Gen X white men radicalized by social media & group chats -- the more I loathe them. I understand them *too well* to sympathize. They are contemptible & weak.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

the bar for stripping people of citizenship is extremely high. It’s identical to that required for a criminal conviction. Beyond a reasonable doubt, citizenship procured by fraud. You don’t launch an investigation *with the goal of* getting there.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

These people are so morally grotesque they can’t even pander effectively

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026

Since 2020, electricity bills have risen 34% for customers of investor-owned utilities, but only 19% for customers of publicly owned utilities. Nuking the IOU model & making all distribution utilities publicly owned: people are saying.

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One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower

The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Quoting this Robert Jackson speech may seem like a cliché, and maybe it is, but more people need to read it.

If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm-in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

a high ranking official (probably miller, blanche, or vance) is openly admitting this is a fishing expedition in national news. they just can't help themselves

The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the
source said. For example, if records, representations related to age
and immigration status contain false information, that would
provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could
also examine communications related to such matters.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Over the past decade, some conservatives have invoked principles of academic freedom and free speech in order to subvert both. These conservatives mocked “snowflakes” and “trigger warnings,” and then passed legislation making it illegal to hurt white students’ feelings by discussing historical or contemporary events. They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against “indoctrination,” and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Talarico refusing to immediately release the evidence debunking our idiotic conspiracy theories made us look ridiculous, and we cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

RFK Jr announces a new initiative to kick people off their healthcare coverage but insists it's no big deal because "they don't even know they were enrolled in anything. They never make a claim."

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I've never made a claim on my auto insurance. I sure hope they don't cancel me before I can go out and get into an accident to prove that I know I'm insured. Or something.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026

The GOP's ongoing success is an indictment of journalism, in and of itself. I don't know why they don't see it that way.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026

This is one reason I've never really understood the weakness & passivity of the US political media. If I live in a system where one of two parties can only win if people believe lies, and I am in the truth-telling business, I should take the ongoing success of that party as a personal insult.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026

I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/10/2026

It's wild that this has happened in public view, right under our noses, and almost no one talks about it and I doubt 1 out of 1000 normies even knows it happened. (Not just "oligarchs." *Right-wing* oligarchs.)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/10/2026

I guess I must fall on the extreme end of ... whatever spectrum this is, because of all the meetings, seminars, panels, & webinars I've attended in my life (thousands), I'd say for roughly 98% of them I come away thinking, "I would have learned more, faster, from a short email summary."

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He's hated him since the first impeachment and he's hated Ukraine generally since Rudy convinced him that Hillary Clinton had colluded with them to push the Russia scandal. And we know he really digs Vlad.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

"If they don't want to be called nazis they should stop doing nazi shit, and the media should ask themselves why heated language bothers them more than nazi shit."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Unbelievable. What a thing for an editor to say

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026

Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hhholy shit

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 09/10/2026

it’s so cool that NPR gave this guy a big sympathetic profile a couple weeks ago

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/10/2026

I understand that whiny guy is part of the conservative alpha male character - rush limbaugh was fucking whiny too - but trump is off the charts

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/10/2026

still hilarious that i'd take bloody bill kristol over the median Dem senator these days

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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mean what even is this shit?

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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Petition to convince Amy Klobuchar to hire DHS goons to work for her campaign so she'll actually subject them to the anger and abuse they deserve.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 13/10/2026

everyone should understand that Katie Zacharia is very helpful to us journalists off camera and we have nothing but respect for her

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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

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Opinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start. (Gift Article)

Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026

of all the people who should not want to play this particular game, jd vance is at the top of the list

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Logan Jones, whose company rushed to destroy DC trees this weekend on Trump's command, is "super friendly, responsive, ambitious, and accommodating". Surely he would respond to your constructive feedback on what you think about his ambitions. 4/

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Riverbend, like all companies these days, maintains a Facebook page where customers can leave comments. (They are also reviewed on Yelp.) Public feedback helps ensure a world where companies operate according to social norms. 3/ www.facebook.com/riverbendlan...

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No president can abuse power alone: he needs a complicit Congress, and contractors to do the physical work. Riverbend's owner Logan Jones could have said "we can't start that fast", or "we need to wait for the court order". He didn't. You can call and tell him what you think. 2/ riverbendva.com

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Riverbend Tree Service | Serving Fairfax & Loudoun Counties, VA

Riverbend is proud to provide quality tree care, tree removal, pruning, pest & disease management, landscape maintenance, drainage, grading & lot clearing to northern VA.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mean to be fair, HE has definitely forgotten that, but it's really central to who he is and what he wants out of being involved in politics. he's a mean, ignorant, vindictive, petty racist who is happy to make things up, stoke conspiracy theories that make no sense, incite mob violence...

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

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