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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10h
Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h
None of this is surprising but it is a good dissection of how the White House and its allies generate victim-narrative bullshit.
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How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs (Gift Article)
A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
People don't like being the target of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign, even if they once bought the lie that such an effort would target dangerous criminals only. The Trump regime, Republicans, ICE and right-wing media have repeatedly shown that by "dangerous criminal" they mean "looks Latino."
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency
Donald J. Trump
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The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help - and leave the rest to us!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 06/10/2026
No matter how petty. The goal is to make it look like he was never there, never existed.
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Dan Frazier @danrfrazier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country (Gift Article)
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s ballroom must be instantly torn down for rule of law, fire code hazards, damnatio memoriae, and symbolic reassertion that We the People are sovereign. But also clearly for national security. Like the bribe plane from Qatar, we know foreign interests are involved but don’t know all they did.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From me, most before paywall, contrasting long Playboy interview w Donald Trump in 1990 w long Time magazine interview this week. TL;DR His crabbed world-view is the same. But his cognitive terrain is alarmingly shrunken This only makes him more dangerous. fallows.substack.com/p/midterm-co...
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Midterm Countdown, 33 Days to Go: Language from Our Leader.
It’s not just your imagination. Donald Trump’s active vocabulary, his train of thought, his ability to filter are all in rapid decline. We’re watching a leaky balloon as it deflates.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know it's just repeating the obvious at this point, but there have to be really extreme consequences for this kind of lawlessness.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/09/2026
The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We’re finally going to finish Reconstruction & do what we should have done after Watergate, Iran-Contra, & January 6”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"
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napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social @napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And here it is. As the far right starts gaining power in Germany they are banning commemorations to Nazi victims
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Laquan McDonald was unavailable for comment on Rahm’s presidential ambitions and the Times manufacturing consent for it
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026
That Fucking Newspaper is trying to make “the mayor has a comms team” into a watergate level scandal
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tear it down in broad daylight
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cold-blooded murder. The goal is to get us used to it so they can do it on a larger scale.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is insane. Inflation is under 4%. We’ve genuinely created a monster here: a public that hallucinates intolerable inflation no matter what the actual figures are. It is a bullet to the head of the entire progressive project *and progressives can’t even be made to care.*
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John “Radio” Hannibal @radiohannibal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Youngstown gets some good press in the New York Times, today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/r...
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A Real Estate Guide to Youngstown, Ohio (Gift Article)
The former steel giant is becoming a place that’s easy to call home.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If he is thwarted in his inevitable efforts to cheat in 2028 we need to be prepared for the very serious likelihood that he will attempt to steal, auction off, or destroy out of pure spite every public asset he can.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Monday, so a deeply compromised Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to enable Trump fraud www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Gillibrand privately urges Dems to advance crypto bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's posture on the legislation puts her at odds with progressives in her party.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As I’ve said before, a lot of modern American Evangelicalism is just a lifestyle brand for right-wing authoritarianism. It has no real core principles; its function is just to ventriloquize whatever otherwise-indefensible view serves power as a command from God.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Democrats were serious they would go straight for the jugular of the crypto industry as soon as they take power. There’s public policy reasons to do this (name a non-crime use case), but also it cuts off a major artery for Republican support and corruption.
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Bill Horton @mrhortywho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And yes, large accounts are clearly stating not to vote for Talarico and that he would be worse than Paxton. Stupid, ignorant, wrecker shit.
Alejandra Caraba... • @esqueer.net
Can you read? I never said vote for the republican. I said don't vote for the Dem.
And yes, it would be worse if a transphobic Dem wins. None of the anti trans policies would be undone and then we get a model for other centrists to abandon trans people.
It's the labour playbook.
2:05 PM • Sep 13, 2026Screenshot of her profile, showing 214.6k followers.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 07/09/2026
BREAKING: Multiple sources tell The Rooster that Dr. Amy Acton’s attacker is Patrick Havas, the brother of Andrew Havas, the pedophile lobbyist who resigned in disgrace from the Husted campaign in July.
patrick havas handcuffed on a bench next to weaponsAndrew Havas resigns from Husted campaign
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's vital for pro-democracy voices to emphasize that it's the entire Republican Party – not just Trump – that is screwing up our country. Tattoo Trumpism on every GOP candidate. Don't let them slither away.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
an entire party culture defined by a debilitating fear of confrontation www.offmessage.net/p/elon-musk-...
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I Am Going To Lose My F****** Mind
Can someone make the madness end? Or are we simply doomed to demented discourse and intolerable double standards and spineless opposition forever?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump Admins latest move to bring vote by mail sabotage plan to SCOTUS is a good example of the absolute necessity of breaking the current Court's corruption. This is transparently unconstitutional. Even if it weren't some version of Purcell wld require not rushing something so poorly planned ...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Scoop: Bari Weiss is throwing her full support behind CBS News' widely-panned report about Abdul El-Sayed's old mundane tweets which referenced 9/11—but within the network, the story isn't being received so well. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-e...
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CBS’ El-Sayed Scandal
The Bari Weiss-led outlet is being pummeled by a storm of outrage over a story about Abdul El-Sayed—and Status has learned that within the network, some staffers have raised the matter with standards.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bari Weiss "praised the story during the network's daily editorial meeting ... Weiss even personally directed that the headline be tweaked to mention that El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the Sept 11 terrorist attacks." via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/cbs-news-e...
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CBS’ El-Sayed Scandal
The Bari Weiss-led outlet is being pummeled by a storm of outrage over a story about Abdul El-Sayed—and Status has learned that within the network, some staffers have raised the matter with standards.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
if this happens, the democratic president should ignore the stay and keep tearing down the buildling
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the HRW statement is insane: “yeah Orban was bad but you’re moving too quickly to clean up his mess and kick the fascists out of government!” it’s legitimately a bad parody of liberalism. these people have lost the fucking plot. we do not have time to navel gaze while restoring democracy
"Hungary's new government has a mandate to set right the damage done to the rule of law during 16 years of Fidesz rule, including reversing its arbitrary stacking of key state institutions with Fidesz loyalists," said Benjamin Ward, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "But restoring the rule of law requires respecting due process and taking time to ensure genuine consultation before enacting sweeping constitutional changes."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Pentagon is making interactive website maps of the DSA, as well as other perceived enemies. Not their top priority, sure, but that's how this should be understood, since "DataRepublican" is a Pentagon employee. One of the enemy networks she says she'll do next is "democracy organizations."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA
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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
start bulldozing the ballroom on day one, dare the court to enjoin you, and make clear that if they do enjoin you, you will use the double standard to openly accuse them of complicity in Trump’s criminal cult of personality and call for the institution’s complete gutting on that basis
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.
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