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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23h
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h
The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit. Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need. Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.” Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.” Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In actual democracies, a National Voter Registration Day is completely unnecessary, since access to suffrage is easy, often automatic, & not the subject of endless pitched legal & political battles about its restriction.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wish the media had the same urgency about the state of Mitch McConnell as they did for Kamala's W-2 from McDonald's in the 80s.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe this, but a mere decade ago, we had a presidential election in which effectively the only issue on the table was the security of communications at the highest level of government.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Last night, the GOP members of the Senate approved Trump’s effort to destroy the rule of law in the US, wreck the Justice Dept., enable rampant corruption, defend pedophiles, and attack the president’s enemies. And they know they did those things. An egregious violation of their oaths of office.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Fauci targeting is a good case study in people who are barely doing any job at all demanding everyone else do their job flawlessly.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
But today in his cabinet meeting, Trump blamed it on American Democrats. Just as he has blamed things many times that Russia and China have done on Americans. He’s not a patriot, he’s the ultimate traitor.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The thing I wish that more Democrats and threatened universities and vilified news organizations understood better about Trump is this: He never has a second move. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...
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This Is Personal
YouTube video by TMZ
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"We estimate that COVID-19 vaccination was associated with over 8 million fewer confirmed cases, over 120 thousand fewer deaths, and 700 thousand fewer hospitalizations during the first six months of the campaign." But Ron Johnson does his own research.
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The impact of COVID-19 vaccination in the US: Averted burden of SARS-COV-2-related cases, hospitalizations and deaths
By August 1, 2022, the SARS-CoV-2 virus had caused over 90 million cases of COVID-19 and one million deaths in the United States. Since December 2020, SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have been a key component of ...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I hope when Democrats take back the house they remember the GOP ruthlessly weaponizing Benghazi against Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions when they bring Marco Rubio before committees.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17/07/2026
President Trump has no legal authority over elections and is running out of plays, so he has resorted to rehashing old tropes and nothingburgers. The only way his administration's campaign to undermine our elections works is if voters stay home this fall.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What the actual fuck? Look, I'm sorry to keep saying this, but the president is clearly a dementia-ravaged necrotic husk of a man whose addled rants bear no actual resemblance to reality and I, for one, think that is concerning.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Now that mystery has been resolved. But the episode reflects a grim reality of US politics: both that many of our elected leaders are far past the age of their greatest competence and stamina, and also that they are so completely insulated from the consequences of public opinion that they face no risks for staying in jobs that they’re no longer capable of doing. In other words: many American leaders are so old that it is plausible that they could drop dead at any moment, and so unaccountable that it’s not clear anyone would bother to tell us if they did.
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Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When you owe a university money: We're going to boot your car, repossess your diploma, and retroactively fail you on the swim test When a university owes you money: Sorry, what is money? We think there's a person on the 6th floor who handles that but they're out until January.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The problem with the "That's just Trump being Trump" excuse is that Biden was a gaffe machine through his whole political career, but that didn't stop the press from covering them as warning signs of dementia during his presidency.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In the 2024 presidential elections, the price of eggs was the most prominent theme in a campaign designed by Trump to attack Biden's economic stewardship and persuade Americans that it was disastrous. Now a series of studies of the egg industry have established conclusively that America's
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Family behind top US egg producer reaped $320mn after price surge
Descendants of Cal-Maine founder sold controlling stake near a record high after what authorities said was an effort to rig the market
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I wrote an essay for the nation's 250th, refusing, first of all, any definition that we are all one thing or another. Mamdani, Good, Pretty, Bad Bunny, and Liu have star turns further on in the piece.
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What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit
The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm not going to start with the requisite "I'm a nice person, but..." sentence, because I don't care what was wrong with him. Disappearing without explanation for four months is disqualifyingly inappropriate for an elected public servant.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Kean (like virtually all GOPers) also voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill last year -- leaving "millions without access to critical mental health care & support," the National Alliance on Mental Illness said at the time. NAMI said it was "devastated" by this vote. www.instagram.com/p/DLqEKSPRq9o/
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namicommunicate on Instagram: "NAMI is devastated that Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which will leave millions without access to critical mental…"
NAMI is devastated that Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which will leave millions without access to critical mental health care & support. While we are disappointed, we are encouraged by our advocates, who contacted Congress more than 155,000 times and who haven’t given up. NAMI will not give up either — our fight will continue to #ProtectMedicaid & #ProtectMentalHealth. Visit the #LinkInBio or in our stories to learn more.
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Allison Marsh @mamafoo2000.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Today's essay from @hcrichardson.bsky.social is one of the most succinct and sobering outlines of the trump admin's destruction of America that I have ever read. Shine the light people, shine the light. On all of this. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It is the highest indictment of the Republican party that Stephen Miller-a fully racist, xenophobic man with a heart filled with hatred-has risen to such a vitally impactful position in the Trump administration
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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Being an American right now is like screaming for help in some serial killer's soundproofed basement.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It really is fucking wild that Trump is having people arrested for putting a finger in a pool when he pardoned the people who full out trashed the US Capitol
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.
Three kittens in a small cage. Two are orange; one is black. The black cat wearing a blue scarf.The two orange cats in a blanket and wearing blue scarves.The two orange cats laying next to each other while wearing blue scarves.
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Angel Mendez🏳️‍🌈🦋 @akm6.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hunter is destroying maga
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 27/05/2026
The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I believe that the Democrats' public position should be that if you use your presidency to steal money from the IRS and make it possible for you and your descendants never to pay taxes again, that you should not count on a world of "norms," including pardons or courts, to save or protect you.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/05/2026
Love today's @marisakabas.bsky.social on AI hate (good for the body, good for the soul, good for the culture).
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:
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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe
A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“[W]e need a Supreme Court that is prepared to uphold a structure of laws that protect democracy in our country.” A tour de force from @sifill.bsky.social on why we need an expanded/constrained SCOTUS to save our democracy (& smash lawless white supremacy) open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
“That is why the effort by Trump and Republican state leadership to gerrymander Black representation out of Congress must be understood as not only an attack on Black people, but on democracy itself. If the Republican racial gerrymandering effort is successful, the U.S. will lose any claim to democracy for a generation or more.

And the forces that stand today against citizenship and political representation for Black people won’t stop there. They will not tolerate meaningful political representation for any group that opposes their oligarchical Christian nationalist ideology. They seek a one-party political system in a country ruled by authoritarians. The political oppression of Black people is not the end. It is the conduit.

We must work together to dismantle that conduit. We know the formula that is necessary to put rampant, lawless white supremacy and its democracy-destroying force back on the leash. It is the same formula that briefly brought us back from the abyss during Reconstruction and again during the Civil Rights Movement. We need to build a strong, determined, even radical Congress to recreate an infrastructure of laws and protections that cannot be easily undone. And we need a Supreme Court that is prepared to uphold a structure of laws that protect democracy in our country, and that has the integrity and vision to do what is needed to hold democracy in 21st century America.

That reformed Court will need to be expanded in size, constrained in power, adherent to ethics, and populated with justices who have the legal, intellectual, moral, and experiential skills, combined with the integrity, courage and sophistication to fairly adjudicate the complex array questions and controversies that emerge from a multiracial democracy of three hundred and forty million people in the 21st century.

At the same time we also need a cultural reset – not a look backwards, but a new cultural vision that invites all of us to imagine and strive for who we might become as…
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judykas.bsky.social @judykas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Please watch. Sherrilyn Ifill breaks down the supreme court’s gutting of the VRA with all the accompanying history.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026
yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?
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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’
In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Well, he’s not dead yet, but @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s essential time capsule makes it clear he wants to take the country down with him in his fear, racism and dementia. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-3-2026
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May 3, 2026
Late on Friday night, President Donald J.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Conservatives have spent generations teaching this lie. They take control of governmental functions, destroy them on purpose, and say, "See? We should priviatize this because government doesn't work." It's absolutely intentional, and it's why we have billionaires.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026
All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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