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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026
How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
American Samoans are nationals, but not citizens. Do you know what this distinction means? Neither did they, and the result was they were prosecuted for voting in a local AK election. The good news is that the prosecutions were dropped, but when you hear about voter fraud, its often cases like this.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026
Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm
Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
for all the paxton talarico voyeurs this is what we talk about when we talk about texas voter suppression bsky.app/profile/jswa...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 01/09/2026
This is what I’ve been up to at work — $200m for local news jobs over five years if Gov. Newsom signs AB 2222, fully paid for by taking away corporate tax breaks for overpaid CEOs. www.rebuildlocalnews.org/california-l...
rebuildlocalnews.org
California Legislature Passes Nation’s Largest Proposed Investment in Community News
Historic effort provides support to local news outlets for hiring or retaining local journalists, AB 2222 now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One more thing you can pattern recognize from the 1930s.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Media coverage of Trump’s armed robbery of Venezuela's oil shows “a news industry that has been laundered of a basic sense of right and wrong. Shockingly few people in the media are asking: Do we really want to be a country that blows people up and steals from them?” My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Trump’s armed robbery in Venezuela draws values-free coverage
A “might is right” mentality consumes our government and infects the media
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As @brianbeutler.bsky.social argued, the next Democratic president should send bulldozers to the Supreme Court and tell them they have 15 minutes to decide if the Unitary Executive Theory is real.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Russell Vought has been deleting some of your comments on the proposed OMB rule to politicize grantmaking. Particularly ones that mention him by name and that his daughter was treated for CF with an NIH-funded therapeutic.
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is what SCOTUS considers an emergency.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026
john roberts, basically: "trump can lawlessly destroy the white house and build a new installation with unauthorized taxpayer dollars, as a treat"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/08/2026
Listen to Commander Adama.
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The death estimate is very uncertain but the lower bound is over 8 million and the upper bound is over 19 million. All while US spending has increased overall. Just a monstrous policy choice by monstrous people.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is maybe the best example of why you don’t ever run in a way to avoid criticism from the right. Because they just make shit up.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
“The new gas-burning plant, if built to specifications, would be permitted to release more planet-warming gases than any other power plant in the country.”
nytimes.com
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.
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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Extreme heat waves struck the U.S. in July, bringing dangerous temperatures to most of the country over the Fourth of July weekend. In over 200 segments on ABC, CBS, and NBC, coverage failed to connect climate change to the extreme weather.
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ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change
From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
Finally, *someone* in America with the courage to shit on marginalized, powerless minorities! Truly stirs the heart.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
burkegroup.law
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
WSJ tracks what @charlesgaba.com has been tracking state by state: More people are dropping Obamacare than expected. And it's hurting hospitals. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The ACA drop-offs varied by state. Some of the steepest were in Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona, according to KFF, a health-research nonprofit. Insurers and actuaries expect enrollment will fall even more over the course of the year. 

Nearly all of those letting their ACA plans go appear to be dropping insurance altogether, hospital company executives said, which is more than HCA and some others had expected.

“For us, obviously, it’s not a good thing,” said HCA Chief Executive Samuel Hazen in a call with analysts last week. “We still have to take care of these patients, and we do, and our people do a wonderful job, but it does put pressure on” the profit and loss statement.

The problems for hospitals are set to grow, with Medicaid adding federal work requirements next year. Already, Medicaid enrollment is ticking downward this year. The Congressional Budget Office projects a further 4.1 million people will lose coverage in 2027.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wrote about this. www.offmessage.net/p/andrew-tat...
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The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal
The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 29/07/2026
Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits
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Hipster Doofus @hipsterdoofus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
FUCK THIS COUNTRY
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/07/2026
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cartoon villains
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2026
Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
propublica.org
8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Crazy how People is the remaining publication that just goes for the jugular.
people.com
Mitch McConnell Was Rolled into Ambulance with ‘No Urgency,’ According to Eyewitness Who Filmed Him Lying Still Under Blanket
A video reportedly depicting Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized for nearly a month, being placed in an ambulance on a stretcher in mid-June has been published by CNN
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 10/07/2026
In 'Death Knell for America's Wildlife,' Trump Admin Guts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
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In 'Death Knell for America's Wildlife,' Trump Admin Guts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
Trump administration weakens Endangered Species Act, allowing corporations to destroy habitats. Environmental advocates vow legal challenges.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Guy standing up meme
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Elsewhere, less tactful conservatives expressed directly what the dissenting justices chose to do in euphemism. Stephen Miller, who runs immigration policy for the Trump administration, told Fox News that “we have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel.” He went on: “They can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?” Miller’s long-standing view is that what ruined America was the repeal of eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions that had banned immigration from Asia and Africa and from nations in Europe deemed to be composed of lesser white races.

There is very little difference between Miller’s position—if you come from a “Third World nation,” you are inferior—and that of antebellum Democrats and the opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time it was adopted: American citizenship is degraded by having to share it with the biologically inferior. The justices are elite lawyers with the ability to obfuscate this project and ignore its aims, but the rest of us need not pretend. To put it bluntly, Miller’s objection, as articulated here, is not to birthright citizenship. It is to the idea that “all men are created equal.”
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 03/07/2026
Still one of the best things written about him but really about corruption in sports generally, puts so many pieces together in brilliant ways.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'll just add that between handwringing Dem centrists and young Dem-adjacent socialists is a large group I would label "self-described liberals who are enraged/sick of this crap" and are ready to vote left/progressive. Don't underestimate them. And FFS don't scold them; they're also sick of that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I think overturning Humphrey’s Executor - during a DONALD TRUMP ADMINISTRATION - is best understood as a collateral attack on government itself. They want to destroy the administrative state, but can’t directly, so instead they’re going to let a chimpanzee drive the car and just see what happens
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is a “color-blind” Constitution that the architects of Jim Crow could love. Many of the devices employed during segregation, such as poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests, were superficially race-neutral. In fact, slavery itself could conceivably be race-neutral—after all, one does not need to be a racist to seek cheap labor for a profitable business!
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today's TPS decision is so fucking cruel because Haitians and Syrians followed all the rules that they were supposed to follow and now they're all of a sudden here "illegally" because a bunch of racists said so. I'm feeling so much fury on behalf of the many Haitians I know.
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Cactusdan @cactusdan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Panel 1: A man is riding a bike (labeled Bari Weiss)
Panel 2: the man puts a stick in the spokes of his bike (labeled Fucks up 60-Minutes)
Panel 3: the man writhes on the ground in pain, the bike bent in the background (label says "This is a hostile work environment!")
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 28/05/2026
Probably a good time to remind everyone that the big Freedom 250 event that may or may not have musical performers to be named later displaced the Smithsonian Folklife Festival from the National Mall this year.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.
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In unusual deal, a $1.8 billion fund that could help Trump allies is created
The agreement to end the Trump family's lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority to distribute nearly $1.8 billion to those who, like the president, have claimed they have been targets of a
"weaponized" justice system.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Of course, in Virginia voters specifically said they wanted the redrawn maps, while Florida voters specifically said they didn't, so the courts will overrule the voters in both states because judicial activism is very bad unless it benefits Republicans.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.
propublica.org
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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