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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 5h

A tale as old as Chicago: Person 1, an average voter: Corruption, self-dealing and conflicts of interest in city govt are bad. Person 2, highly invested in the above: So you’re a perfect and pure person, huh? Sigh. I’d almost rather deal with Republicans—they’re upfront about their own depravity.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope we get some real reporting on how this came to happen. Did Schmitt know it was a lie, but believe that Smith somehow wouldn’t be able to disprove it on the spot? Or was it that he really just jumped the gun in the most idiotic possible way? What was with them yanking away that placard? Etc.

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not all men. Jesus Christ, don't you think women *know* that? Use your heads instead of getting defensive. Most of you would be terrified of swimming among sharks, even though sharks are stastically far less dangerous to you than men are to women.

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MarySez @marysez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are not voting for Rahm Emmanuel!! How many times do we have to say it?!

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's impossible to despise the DOGE crew as much as they deserve. The result of their work includes the death of millions, and a possibly irreversible decline in America's scientific and technological capacity, and they actually increased the debt to do this. World historical villains.

“There’s this misconception that we all just went in there and didn’t really think about what we were doing,” Hassen said, speaking virtually from a hotel room in San Diego. “I spent 24/7 thinking about it, waking up at three in the morning thinking, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’ … And I know I did.”

To Hassen, whose pre-government career involved turning around distressed companies, “DOGE was not radical,” he writes in the book. It was “not a wrecking ball, but a catalyst.”

“Did we eliminate the deficit? No. Of course not,” he said. “But we made it on the top of everyone’s minds, albeit briefly, for a few months, that this deficit is something that we need to fix.”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do sometimes wonder what would happen if he asked, "Who are you with?" and the reporter, knowing what's coming, said, "Your mother." Not a good idea or anythign. I just wonder.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Everyone have a nice two days and get it out of your system, because between Tuesday and Election Day, we are not doing the Bsky "You have to EARN my vote" and "I live in a blue state so my protest vote is fine" and "The two parties are the same" thing. Take all that look-at-me shit somewhere else.>

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This shouldn't be happening to them or anyone else, but the fact is they were fine with it happening to other people as long it did not happen to them, and the same is true of tens of millions of other voters. It certainly says something about the American electorate bsky.app/profile/brad...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It is a sign of the total failure of our constitutional order that, a mere six years after we were all desperately praying for a miraculous scientific breakthrough to end the worst global pandemic in a century, that the President of the United States can do what he did today & face no consequences.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

IT'S REAL! IT EXISTS! YOU CAN BUY IT! mplwdnoveltycistern.etsy.com/listing/4551...

Preview image of a red bumper sticker . The bumper sticker reads

KEEP HONKING!
I HAVE FOUND MYSELF
BEHIND THE WHEEL OF
A LARGE AUTOMOBILE

There are two figures facing away from each other, wearing suits, in an exaggerated "dance" pose. Small versions of the same figures form a border around the sticker. Speech bubbles from three of them say "Well... how did I get here?," "How do I work this?," "Where is that large automobile?"

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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I like Gausman just fine, but Marquee doing a 20-minute interview in the middle of play is uncool

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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you need to speak to Mitch McConnell he has been sitting in our bingo room for the last two months.

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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Folks, don’t do this to your loved ones. That phrase now has one meaning and one meaning only.

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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Esteemed friends, neighbors and colleagues, you do not need to start a letter with “My name is…” Really, you never do. That’s what the signature is for.

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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of the most beautiful sights in town: the lights of Mario’s on a summer’s night.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What I'm watching for: Don't be party to his claims of voter fraud but do report the hell out of them. Treat it as a big story, but not the one he wanted. The main character is the American voter, not a renegade president. For the free press we're entering a danger zone. Use it or lose it.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When things are going great

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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A few decades back, half the Republican homes in America, including my grandma’s abode, had this rendition of a blue-eyed Jesus hanging on the wall. I don’t remember a single Middle Eastern group kicking up a fuss and insisting that they were being “disrespected.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/07/2026

What nobody wants to hear is that Democrats would have done a lot more progressive shit under Biden if there had just been more of them.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

caring about victims of sexual assault is a feminine-coded concern, and there are some left wing men who seem like they'd prefer being called a misogynist by a woman on the left than a betacuck soy boy by a man on the right

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Playing badminton with Mitch McConnell. We talked about the midterms and Iran. I took the first game 15-0 because he is unresponsive and lying on the ground.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And burnt the hell out of the topless towers of Ilium

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It should probably go without saying, but if you for any reason are calling for a public policy that involves sterilizing people, it's time to take a step back and ask yourself where the fuck you went wrong.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There is some small comfort in how Trump absolutely, positively refuses to give his enablers the smallest fig leaf of dignity.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Saw a guy with a bumper sticker that said "good people dont defend the suffering of others" and also "i eat glue" We contain multitudes.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.

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nil desperandum @nildesperandum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It blows when you’re talking to your favorite CSO usher at the bus stop after the concert and apropos of nothing, she starts slamming various Black politicians and defending Trump. But I’ve been a big girl for a long time, so I enjoyed yelling NOPE and briskly walking away as bystanders laughed

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/06/2026

The Supreme Court believes that there are exactly two forms of racial discrimination that the law must prohibit: Black people going to college, and Black people voting

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

a big flag that says “SHAME” on it but just to fly when the Supreme Court issues rulings

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Reminder: If you're the kind of person who complains about how "divided" we are, but not the actual reasons for that division, you are always welcome to adopt someone else's better and smarter opinions in the name of unity. :)

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Finally, a politician who speaks for the owners of S corporations and other passthrough entities

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The heck you say

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is asinine and betrays Khanna's complete lack of understanding of the conservative movement's intentional strategy of lying about elections in order to destroy democracy. There are ways to improve CA vote counting but the current system does not "spawn conspiracy theories." Liars lie.

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