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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

CNN: “Israel’s favorability all negative — not just with Dems, the general electorate has turned against Israel… not just a left issue, an American issue… a SIXTY-SEVEN POINT SHIFT AGAINST ISRAEL…”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Ranking House Judiciary member already has (time zone is ET +6).

Rep. Jamie Raskin

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Who Hatched this plan? Every other sitting U.S. Attorney General followed the Hatch Act and stayed away from political campaign rallies. But the handful of Americans tuning into tonight’s GOP midterm convention will be treated to the spectacle of Todd Blanche turning his office and the Department of Justice into partisan campaign props by becoming the first U.S. Attorney General in history to address a political party convention.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/08/2026

Read Peter Wehner, on the significance of Natalie Harp www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

omg he's DEAD, Ms. Oates, he's DEAD

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that's because you are actually an undergraduate & not an older likely unemployed white-male person churlishly grumbling about how standards have plummeted since he'd been an undergraduate falsely encouraged by his professors to think that his opinions might one day be of value.
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i’m a princeton senior minoring in english. i like that the department offers nontraditional courses that offer interesting angles. i also prefer the classics, and im taking the james joyce seminar that someone in this thread mentioned. i don’t see the problem

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

*double checks list of people born in 1946*

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On some level, I think a lot of Dems just aren't willing to say flat out that Trump and Trumpism have failed in a very profound way. Dems have internalized the idea that this is too much for voters to hear. That's the source of a lot of problems. It's needlessly self-constraining.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The thing about Kirk's death being very much Not a Reichstag Fire is one reason I think that while MAGA has a great many fash characteristics, it's fundamentally a dysfunction of America's constitutionalism and looking for interwar central European models ends up going wrong.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the many things the pearl-clutchers don’t understand is that saying these things out loud forces vultures like Wolff — who was definitely sitting on this until his next book — to start vomiting up what they know.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Why did we ever stop calling them weird?

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 18/08/2026

This Ossoff Natalie Harp drop-in, the ensuing media circus, and his use of the news cycles to zero-in on Trump’s “security blanket” staff who have cocooned him away from reality — it’s a perfect maneuver, start to finish. He is a real talent.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026

Ossoff says he does not want his young daughters "to grow up in a world defined by the values of Donald J. Trump"

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trump: When you have to pay a little bit more for gas, you're at $4, it's okay. I'll never apologize. I did the right thing

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think this gets to the heart of liberal-left complaints about the press. Political reporters think we're criticizing them for not being on "our" side. We're not. We're criticizing them for not being on journalism's side. Unplug from the DC celebrity access system and do honest independent work.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about "cancellation" for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about "free speech restrictions" and "educational indoctrination" while embarking on them every chance they got.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

dc press corps from 2021-2025: we must report on every cough, trip, stutter from joe biden like its a frame of the zapruder film dc press corps on mcconnell: his staff says he's ok and we take them at their word

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"he" hasn't said anything. his office has issued statements. you guys are literally up there on capitol hill and you seem absolutely disinterested in seeing if this man is alive or dead.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

* U.S. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION VOTES TO RESCIND RULE BARRING LOCAL BROADCAST STATION OWNERS FROM REACHING MORE THAN 39% OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF U.S. TV HOUSEHOLDS @reuters.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's latest round of global tariffs (this time under Section 301, re: alleged failure to prevent forced labor in the supply chain) hit the docket today, this time brought by Dem state officials. From Erik Larson: buff.ly/CVmhnFx

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Trump’s Latest Tariffs Hit With New Lawsuit by Group of States

A group of 25 US states filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs that went into effect last month, adding to similar complaints by groups of small businesses who claim…

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 30/07/2026

Fed's no-guidance going well... Kevin Warsh’s stripped-back Fed communication 'already backfiring', say investors as.ft.com/r/d3931d85-4... 300 clicks free

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Instead of the left pic, we got the right pic

Ben Wikler @benwikler • 1/16/25
A full audit of DNC consulting contracts will begin on Day One if I'm chair.
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The Democratic Party is so short on cash that
leaders at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mask the severity of the problems: asking vendors not to send bills until after the midterm elections.
The bookkeeping maneuver, which was described by three people briefed on it, is the latest sign of financial duress for the Democratic National Committee and its embattled leader as money troubles threaten to undercut Democratic momentum with 100 days until the midterms.
So much is going politically right for Democrats these days. President Trump's approval is down, gas prices are up and an unpopular war with Iran drags on. But dysfunction and debt inside one of the party's key institutions - which is getting crushed in fund-raising by its Republican counterpart - are creating rising anxiety for top Democrats.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The same White House press corps that knifed Michelle Wolf for joking that Sarah Sanders burned lies to make her smokey eye makeup, claiming it was inappropriate to make fun of a woman’s appearance, hasn’t said a word about this line which isn’t even a joke

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

new political axis just dropped

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ICYMI — “4 months ago you said Iran’s military had been destroyed, declared victory, and said we had achieved all our objectives. Was that an accurate statement?” Trump’s unqualified Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth melts down as Senator @ossoff.bsky.social calmly takes him apart.

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