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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

kinda amazing in hindsight that this dude was significantly cooler than any of the actual supervillain billionaires we wound up getting

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026

it is incredible to see folks complain that good people don't run for office, that lawmaking is a hobby for the rich, that our state legislators are run by car dealership freaks, and then insist that we shouldn't pay lawmakers any more than we do.

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window” – Steve Wozniak

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Excellent piece. I'll admit I'll basically vote for any congressperson with a D next to their name due to their policy bundle and the limited damage they can do with their office. For executive positions if the Dem was monsterous I'd vote GOP or if very terrible then 3rd party.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/04/2026

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"To ensure that the person who earns investment gains pays the tax bill, taxes should be paid on gains whenever property is transferred—not just by sale, but by gift or at death as well. A rule like this has worked in Canada for decades. It will work here too." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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How to Tax Billionaires

Step one: Abolish the estate tax. No, really.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 09/04/2026

This is a prime example of the very worst kind of symbiotic "insider account" journalism -- in which you can tell who the "sources" are, because they make themselves look good. It is therefore of extremely suspect accuracy. But.... 1/

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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The Onion is still undefeated 🧅

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Old: Freedom of Navigation New: Joint Trump-Ayatollbooth

This morning, I asked President Trump if he’s okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls:

“We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people.”

“It’s a beautiful thing”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I love these people.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

One of my favorite “history fun facts” I often share in class is that Notre Dame is called “the fighting Irish” because in 1924, UND students beat the shit out of a local Klan that tried to harass them for being Catholic. stories.nd.edu/stories/a-cl...

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A Clash Over Catholicism

It was May 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan wanted to showcase its power and cement its sudden grip on Indiana politics by holding a picnic and parade in South Bend, the most Catholic area in the state. Abo...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Amazingly the Hegseth-picked press isn’t asking him tough questions in an attempt to hold his feet to the fire, hold power accountable, and inform the public. They’re asking these basic questions because they assume Hegseth knows what he’s doing, is succeeding, and will therefore have good answers.

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Emanuela Paoletti @manupaoletti.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Big fan of David Roberts @volts.wtf and @pkrugman.bsky.social but their conversation on clean energy, environmentalism, EVs and so much more is next-level. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Talking with David Roberts

Climate, energy, and America left behind

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/03/2026

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

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Tony Paradis @tparadis27.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Gotta love the Canadians... Right now there is a big push for them to forego buying the US-Made F-35 fighter jets in favor of buying Swedish-built jets instead. The proposed designation for this new jet would be the FU-47.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Maybe Baker should have spent less time complaining about black people winning journalism awards and spent more time accurately describing the man running the most powerful country in the world bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"A team of British military planners has gone to the United States to help draw up plans to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to a British official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly." Good someone who hopefully knows what they're doing. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

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Iran War Live Updates: Oil and Gas Prices Soar After New Attacks on Gulf Energy Sites

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Ryan Clark has a more serious discussion and understanding about the morality of war than nearly everyone in DC www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9i...

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Ryan Clark reacts to White House war video using hits from him and other NFL players| The Pivot

YouTube video by The Pivot Podcast

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🧚‍♀️Mother of Dragonflies🧚 @miamiportland1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oh how I wish this wasn’t satire. 💙

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Trump can't declare bankruptcy on the Iran war. He can't get his dad to bail him out. There's no one to sue. His usual lies and bluster aren't working. Iran isn't Venezuela. The global energy market isn't something he can bully. This has already spun out of control. I wrote about the war in @ms.now.

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Opinion | Trump is failing at the business of war

Nicholas Grossman: The president needs the Strait of Hormuz opened, but the lie-filled bluster he relied on to succeed in business and domestic politics aren’t working.

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edacuk.bsky.social @edacuk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"Brian Stelter posted a December 9, 2017, quote from the New York Times: "Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals." Stelter wrote: “I think about this quote a lot.” "

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Okay: Hear me out. How about hydrogen filled airships to avoid the strait?

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“We have bombed the shit out of places and napalmed the jungles but the Viet Cong keep shooting at us from the bushes, we don’t get it, that’s not fair.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“This is the greatest tragedy this state has ever felt" (said by venture capitalist Ron Conway) is such an unhinged statement for someone to make about the prospect of a wealth tax. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

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California’s Billionaire Tax Battle

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

All of this incredibly obvious and infuriating welfare fraud happened under the first Trump administration and I don't recall them ever threatening to block funding to the state of Mississippi as a result.

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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Playing around with OpenDataPhilly's building footprints. Here's Philly, by population density, in 3D. sstirling.github.io/philly-3d/do...

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Philadelphia in 3D

3D map of Philadelphia's 546,000 buildings extruded by height and colored by Census tract population density.

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@msoto.bsky.social sorry I didn't get back to you the other day. This is an example of an article i think was written in bad faith with a terrible headline. The Atlantic has been better lately just because their foreign policy is solid and that's what I've mostly been reading.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 13/03/2026

Man, @donmoyn.bsky.social's substack remains one of the best places to get concrete political science insights into our authoritarian consolidation. His guest authors today talk about secret police. I will definitely be getting their book open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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The Secret Police Playbook

How DHS reflects historical lessons from dictatorships

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes. prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

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The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect

Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Excellent article. Government agency budgets are f***ed up and bullshit because Congress won't pass timely budgets. And we have to feed all those people in the military, y'know?

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I think people who say things like this, especially prominent people with power, should be shamed and shunned and reviled — cancelled, if you will. “Free speech culture” disapproves of that sentiment — says that it’s worse than what Ogles said. Judge it thus.

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We should be thinking about how to forgive the politically ignorant Trump voters in our lives as I suspect they'll come to realize they've been conned. Give them some room to come around, no they won't admit they've been conned. But I ain't Jesus, I can't forgive the true MAGA believers.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Renewable Energy and National Security The wind and the sun don’t need to transit the Strait of Hormuz open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Wondering if they’re trying to cure leprosy.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

MAGA Stole Obama’s Playbook How the right learned Obama’s game. And what Mamdani and Indivisible show about taking it back from the mucky mucks LIKE RAHM EMMANUEL who tossed it aside.

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MAGA Stole Obama’s Playbook

How the right learned Obama’s game. And what Mamdani and Indivisible show about taking it back from the mucky mucks LIKE RAHM EMMANUEL who tossed it aside.

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Hugh Mann @normalhughmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It's dumb politics that the Left/center left rarely make the national security arguments for renewable energy. Yes I fully understand climate change is much more important! Walk and chew gum!

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