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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h
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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 5h
Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.)
Screenshot of a transcript. It says: “Exactly right, but I want to say a couple things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting: cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering: if you look at the population of well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country. Okay, in the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing, and there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book, and their child's face, and choose theSecond screenshot says: “verse in the book over their child's face, and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho, and those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have friends giving dinners with them. You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories, and so cities. Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities.” But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h
Tired: Michael had a gambling problem Wired: LeBron is giving other people a gambling problem
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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 9h
Let's do this again: Great conversation with @aselrod.bsky.social about the future of the GOP, and how Christianity plays into it. One thing about why some cons. Christians are turned off by ICE goon squads: hospitality to the stranger is one of the most explicit commandments in scripture. 1/2
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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 9h
The Chicago populous yearns for pedestrianized streets. Lincoln Square should be closed to cars year-round.
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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 12h
I’d make so much money as a righty Ed policy guy, it’s not even funny.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10h
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10h
The polls could be off, but you shouldn't necessarily expect them to be off in any particular direction. Historically speaking, "unskew"ing has made forecasts worse, not better. Plus, unlike 2016-2024, polls in the Midwest basically agree with the fundamentals www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...
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Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave
When you look at state-level election results, fundraising, and the national environment, surprising state polls actually make a lot of sense. Your weekly political data roundup for October 4, 2026.
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Mzbitca @mzbitca.bsky.social · 11h
We are reaching a point where we need to revamp and rework our forms of government for the modern age if we want liberalism and freedom to survive. That requires not just stomping fascism down but also being willing to make big changes before it's too late
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h
Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h
It seems unlikely that a BBC editor who e.g. made a film that “accidentally” accused Tory staff of screaming “Hitler was right” at colleagues and later quietly clarified this wasn’t correct, in an election year, would ever work in current affairs again.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11h
...when the much more straightforward strategy is to go to those voters and say "The Republicans you keep voting for? They think you're stupid, they lied to you, they conned you, they screwed up everything, and you should be ENRAGED at them."
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11h
The most obvious thing in the world is utterly puzzling to so many in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, who believe the better idea is to spend the next 20 years on their knees before Republican voters, saying "We hear you, all your choices were wise and virtuous, please don't hate us"...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”
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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 12h
Really curious how many people quoting this have actually read it because it seems pretty clearly to be an academic talking to other academics about ideological biases and in that context I don't find it all that objectionable.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h
Its not quite time to really tell people what’s happening, plainly, because they’re still caught in the midterms fever but someone credible has to emerge soon to do it or it’s a wrap.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 13h
We're not suffering a breakdown of the social fabric because we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other; we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements because some people are trying to deliberately rend the social fabric.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h
the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h
i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 23h
The US (federal govt and corporations) has been meddling in Brazil's democracy and economy for a long time now, trying to tip the scales in favor of the far-right. bsky.app/profile/ians...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In other Bolsonaro family news: Carlos (Jair's son) was elected senator, Michelle (Jair's wife) was elected senator, and Jair Renan (Jair's son) was elected as federal deputy.
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Pequeno Vira Lixo @leozinirreparavel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Its much worse. Lula winning in the second turn straight up doesnt matter anymore. The right basically doubled or tripled their presence in all seats of government. Its complete right wing control. Bolsonaro's party has 20 more seats then the next biggest party in the chamber of deputies lol
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last year Bolsonaro was prosecuted with overseeing a vast scheme to overturn the 2022 election he lost. Lula’s worker party steadied brazil after a near decade long recession Now Brazilian Voters have handed the reins of power in senate,congress, states & perhaps presidency back to the bolsonarists
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
and honestly, losing either statewide race in texas is something close to a strategic defeat. it completely upsets the political map going forward. it would be similar to trump winning new jersey in 2024 (where he came close).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026
I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026
The first thing that his son will do is free his father and go on a revenge campaign against everyone involved in holding his father accountable. Somehow, Brazil saw what the US went through with Trump 2 and decided, what if we elected Trump Jr instead.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not the only reason but a brand of inevitability, FOMO, anxiety, and, ‘if you don’t see it it means you’re not smart enough’ has become the chief way silicon valley (led by venture capita) markets its products.
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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 04/10/2026
Let us say that many failure modes of The Left ™ are downstream of rightfully denouncing Unambiguously Bad Thing, clustering it with Wide Array Of Unambiguously Good To Morally Ambiguous Things, and then denouncing anyone who insist on the difference as an apologist of Unambiguously Bad Thing
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The arguments are incoherent and bogus but the racist right turning its lens on South Asians for being too successful and visible is a real phenomenon and should be forcefully countered
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Weekend scoop from me for @votebeat.org: Two GOP members of Georgia’s State Election Board say Executive Director James Mills sent letters to DOJ and DHS without telling the board or getting approval — and that the letters went beyond what the board voted to request. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Georgia election board director allegedly goes rogue, asks feds to crack down on state voting equipment
Two members of the Georgia State Election Board say their executive director sent unauthorized letters to the Trump administration.
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hooked on chronics @blazeweedman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is happening on steroids nationally
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 04/10/2026
Related: her predecessor quit suddenly and many journalists likely know why and aren’t telling
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump voters in 2016 were happy to admit that he's a corrupt liar. They just thought Hillary was more corrupt and dishonest. Don't know about this guy specifically, but a huge percentage of the conservatives "turning on Trump" now are gonna find excuses to see Dems as a bigger threat in 2028.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But the thing that jumps out is that the social antibodies in these sort of ignorant racist circles are working overtime to say oh maybe this individual thing is sad but hey it's all a conspiracy against white people anyway. It would be interesting to see if he's capable of breaking out of that
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I suspect that there's a certain amount of sane-washing going on given the sort of unresolved nonsense conspiracy theories he himself seems to have. When you talk to people like this you get into some really insane incoherent stuff really quickly that's probably unprintable
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem has never really been that conservative voters are reluctant to criticize Trump. The problem is a relentless right-wing media apparatus that tells them Democrats are worse.
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Will Warren @statsbywill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not aimed at Chris, but “why does every college football fanbase seem miserable” after 15+ years of the sport screaming at everyone that the national championship is the only thing that matters and every G5 program should die, boy I wonder why everyone’s unhappy
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
High school senior Elder Chavez Carranza is an immigrant living in the US legally under a program for abused or neglected children One day he went to buy food when a cop asked for his papers-which he didn’t have that day. So ICE put him in detention He has been incarcerated for more than 200 days
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 04/10/2026
I don’t like to inquire into the fascist mindset because there are enough abysses to stare into, thanks, but AfD appear to be seeking territory not just from Belgium, Switzerland and France but also … Łódź? And Transylvania? Why not Rīga and Tallinn, or indeed Namibia at that rate?
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Democrats gotta stop thinking that impeachment is about *winning* a conviction. It is about stop the behavior: funny thing is Ukraine still gets the money!
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