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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 13/10/2026

The most obvious fallacy in political analysis is concluding that every winning campaign did everything right and every losing campaign did everything wrong. So obviously wrong that no one defends it outright. But so many people fall into the trap anyway. All the time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

moments after saying leakers should be shot, Trump points at reporters covering his rally and says "they're almost as bad as a leaker"

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h

“The woman, who was wearing a ‘Release the Epstein Files’ shirt, was punched in the face by a crowd member … Police later intervened and removed her from the venue, while the man who punched her remained inside and exchanged high-fives with other attendees …”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 15h

The ability to answer this well says everything about running as an empathetic three dimensional being in order to enact an agenda with and for people as opposed to running as an amalgam of poll-tested points to win simply for sake of doing so.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 13h

Elites once upon a time had an interest in maintaining at least the pretense of legitimacy—both for political and economic reasons. Having dismantled much of the public sphere and the democratic order, elites simply don’t care to pretend anymore.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 13h

Fun w/ Workday: I did an annual training 2 weeks ago, then got an email saying I hadn't completed it. Tech support said the problem could be: 1) I used a Mac 2) was off campus not using a VPN 3) used a browser that wasn't Chrome or Firefox 4) popups were blocked INSANE. & the reqs weren't listed.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s beyond frustrating that Dem leaders are obsessed with being outspent because they think money decides elections, so they’re pulling out all the stops to raise money from wealthy people, becoming even more dependent on the whims of the rich.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13/10/2026

The torrrent of data being spent on Ken Paxton's behalf in Texas has yet to move the needle, at least according to the polls fiftyplusone.news/polls/senate...

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We cannot merely vote. We cannot merely vote in numbers so massive, MAGA is drowned in their wake. We must make it clear what are votes are for & about: a real repudiation of the whole fascist agenda not only a backlash against higher prices. Thank you Congresswoman.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Apropos of nothing, let me say this: Questioning the normative assumptions that motivate a focus on something like polarization IS NOT an anti-intellectual project. Pretending that one’s arguments or perspectives are free of normative commitments is the unserious, anti-intellectual make-believe.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We are going to Necedah We are all in one way or another going to Necedah…

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

Again, we can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, where the executive weaponizes the justice ministry & law enforcement to target his political opponents, but it’s not a full democracy.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Desperate dictator does what? MAGA knows they're losing so they are adding to their criminal playbook.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is more extreme than Viktor Orbán in Hungary

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Once a day I’m reminded that several leading left intellectuals spent the first Trump term claiming that the admin wasn’t fascist.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Here's Ida B. Wells arguing after extensive investigations that Black men being a sexual threat to white women was only the excuse for lynching. That it covered consensual relationships but more often than not, lynchings were motivated by Black people being economically competitive w/ whites. #HATM

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America” (1900) | The American Yawp Reader

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

@cloudflare.social reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded over the past two weeks.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Or they’ll kill you. But you say it anyway.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The truth will set you free, but the supremacists will try to jail you for it.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Man who has never run for office, nor likely even knocked a voters' door, offers advice to someone who has done both - and won. Man who made his living valorizing capitulation by calling it "civility" would like all others to do the same. Groundbreaking.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks? They won't help me survive My chest is aching, burns like a furnace The burning keeps me alive”

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Calls for civility are almost always attempts by the powerful to silence the less powerful and the powerless.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.

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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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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He’d say calling Hitler a Nazi is uncivil.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m feeling extra grateful for BlueSky as my usual spot because posting a campaign update about attending a Palestinian solidarity fair on TikTok & Facebook brings out some of the worst people in replies.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It doesn’t much matter if only a small number of men hurt women if the vast majority of “good” ones are unwilling to do anything about it.

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I Know Why Cornell Was the Tipping Point

Thirty years ago, my mother told me to never be alone with a group of boys—even if they were my friends.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Beyond the fact that I oppose laws that criminalize being homeless or poor, loitering is a good unto itself. In small towns, loitering is all you’ve got

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As we end this week, where we marked three excruciating years of the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza, we enter Shabbat enraged, broken hearted, and with fierce resolve to stop this horror. hammerandhope.org/article/how-...

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And that characterization is actually generous to an oligarchic, often reactionary press.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rightwing billionaire takeovers of most traditional and social media, NYT standing alone as a monopoly in the American liberal economy…the media situation is so dark

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I turned on CNN a handful of times over the past couple days. Literally 9 out of 10 of the segments was them criticizing Abdul El-Sayed.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 09/10/2026

Imagine healthcare without premiums, co-pays, deductibles, or networks. Just guaranteed healthcare, cradle to grave. That's Abdul El-Sayed's vision.

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