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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
D+15 Midterm indicator
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Happiness Uzumaki @sonofether.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love how there is a brand of liberal/leftist who gets mad at me for saying Trump voters are dumb and evil when clearly the man they enthusiastically voted for agrees with me.
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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes, but you're forgetting the key point that Democrats are responsible for things Republicans do. If not, well, that would mean voters and non-voters are responsible for the people they choose to put in office and we can't have that.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the thing about Ossoff is that he genuinely hates these people for what they've done
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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The thing about being a liberal or progressive in the South is you do not entertain The Noble Savage/Trump Supporter in a Diner thought whatsoever.
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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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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When this group of goons is ousted, and I do think they will be, there is going to be tremendous media noise about finding common ground and coming together. Absolutely not. I will not forget the people who helped hammer at the foundations of civil society and helped imprison and kill my neighbors.
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Millie(let) @gyro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"polls are very in our favor" used to be a faux pas in left-leaning circles because of the assumption it will make people complacent. Now, however, I think we are in a different situation: We need to convince fatalists who gave up to start trying again. Push, and this era will give way.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am asking you to consider the possibility that a Dem Senate majority will protect trans rights better than a Republican one will, even if it includes some problematic members.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
Given that there is not likely to be a national, bipartisan demand for accountability in the wake of Trump — the major distinction with Nixon — any accountability, civil or criminal, will be a partisan and political project that I think should be pursued as vigorously as possible.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Accepting for the sake of argument the premise that Democrats are too ineffectual to do anything: what does that say about you? Your plan is to bitch about the Democrats
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Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
my uncle (hes white) is from bumfuck PA as an appalachian guy. and was poor. so i dont always agree with him but one time as a kid i talked about how exploited rural people are before he placed a finger on my mouth and said "they're exploiting themself." my time in southern VA and TX do confirm.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This whole, "everything I don't like is Israeli," thing people keep doing is getting closer and closer to just being mask off Nazis. And Sunrise doing it is making a bid for a red-brown ecofascist alliance based on shared conspiratorial thinking blaming Israel for everything they don't like.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/10/2026
“He just has a miserable life and wants to feel above someone” well it ain’t gonna be me, and I’m glad he has a miserable life. He deserves it for hating people like me. I still remember how to be angry on my own behalf, unlike you
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 06/10/2026
As a gentile it’s been horrifying and dispiriting over the past ten years to watch the left as a whole decide there’s one specific minority group they get to apply all negative stereotypes you’d get ostracized for for literally anyone else to, & gaslight anyone who points this out
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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The lesson of Brazil is you have to make sure none of them can ever come back
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.
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👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brazil is strongly indicating that just beating the fascists at the ballot box is not enough. You have to ensure that the cancer of fascism does not return again. Hungary’s model may be better - put them *all* in jail and rip out their support structures root and branch.
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 04/10/2026
i think the median voter needs to have their face violently rubbed in the shit. it doesn't work on dogs but i do think we should act like even these subhumans are capable of the extended reasoning involved that would make them feel some culpability for their actions, even if it's not true
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neuron activation @nohalmos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
yeah, my ideal outcome is that they try all kinds of bullshit like this and each attempt, success or fail, adds two more partisan hacks to the slate of justices we ram in a few months later
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s superpower has always been that he radiates an anti-gravitas field, such that anything he touches becomes seen as fundamentally unserious. This has allowed Trump to pursue wars, tyranny, and corruption of immense gravity, while everyone tries to avoid looking like they care too much.
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“But Dana, it was because of Gaza” Before 10/7 they were saying you should withhold votes for democrats because Biden wasn’t forgiving student debt fast enough. Before that they said his policy of four free covid tests per household was eugenics. There is nothing you can say or do.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is possible to be propagandized by things which are true.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i think a better way to say this is "the law shall be such that you can destroy them"
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes! What we’re seeing is the spread of a pervasive social norm where constant lurid expressions of misery and pessimism are de rigueur. People can’t see it because they’re part of it. But it’s obvious when you talk to groups who have every reason to be pessimistic, and they don’t have it.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 27/09/2026
you can’t stop them from trying, but we can do the work right now to help other folks not help their conservative friends from owning this world-renowned destruction of government under “conservative principles.” Let them make their bed with the hounds.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.
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neuron activation @nohalmos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
same. we must remember in infuriating times like these that even though singles basically sucks, it does give quagsire a weird niche fighting cover legendaries, and for that if nothing else it is awesome
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neuron activation @nohalmos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
my parents saw him around that time and really liked it, which is an equally bad sign
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Why does the far right keep gaining in the polls? What can we do?" "Maybe prosecute them for all the crimes they film themselves committing?" "What can we dooooooooo?"
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Former Trump supporter in media and/or politics? Opinion discarded. It's that easy and nothing of value will be lost. You helped create the dumbest stove-touching in living memory. Sit there and shut up while we try to clean up after you
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors
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credenza @credenzamostro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
my friend has been saying this since 2021
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(To the state) Cmon, maintain your monopoly on the use of force
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neuron activation @nohalmos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
oh yeah I think 90% of my political neuroses nowadays started in 2016 personally. I'm just trying to wave a little flag of concern, not attack. it feels a lot different going after someone who actively was anti-abstention to me, especially when divorced from the misogyny of the 2016 stuff.
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neuron activation @nohalmos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
yeah I mean cards on the table, I do not agree with her on specifically Talarico, but we're saying all this in the context of worse Democratic messaging than his and I don't think the resulting sentiment is fully dismissable. Democrats talking about "gender ideology" is actually bad news bears.
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neuron activation @nohalmos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I also feel like an outsider to The Community for a lot of the reasons you do, I just feel the same way with them that I do about democrats: there's gotta be a carrot along with the stick, if it's all yelling no matter what they'll tune out, and "you should vote blue" is THE thing I want to reward
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neuron activation @nohalmos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
oh I follow you and I agree with respect to almost every commentator this has been said about, but this person actually for-real did the thing I've been yelling at them to do. I think reacting to her almost the exact same way is going to damage perceptions an enormous amount here.
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