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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 07/10/2026
A Brennan Center poll this year found a wide and bipartisan desire for politicians to do something about corruption in government. Will they listen? bit.ly/4zE44KL
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The Midterm Issue Nobody Can Ignore
Candidates say they’ll curb corruption, but are the plans strong enough?
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every Democrat should be running on reimposing the oil export ban.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl
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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Florida is about to run a real-time experiment by kicking out immigrant workers. Spoiler: everyone loses. ⁣ ⁣ Kick them out and you don't just lose labor, you lose the people buying stuff that keeps other people employed.⁣ ⁣
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/08/2026
John Roberts insists that the Supreme Court remains nonpartisan. But as Chief Justice, he has found ways to align his legal reasoning with his policy preferences “in many, many cases,” Margaret Talbot writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Delusions of John Roberts
The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
you'll never believe it but bluesky has decided that me being alarmed by this extremely antisemitic joke makes me a transphobe
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
At best, Schumer is setting up to nibble around the edges, protect funding for Israel (and probably not Ukraine btw) then fold anyway. In reality, without a new War Powers Act with teeth, the Pentagon budget needs to be cut in half to help prevent presidential abuse.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Y'all early people can deal with it. I'm done with the sun going down by 5pm in the winter. You aren't supposed to wake up that early anyway. What are we, farmers?
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 25/06/2026
Those fleeing persecution deserve the chance to have their asylum claims heard, and Congress established a process to determine who qualifies for that protection.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My problem is centrism becomes entirely about style not substance. I'm open to centrists who are actually pragmatic - identify problems and solve them evem if they step on ideological toes, but more important entrenched interests. But it seems centrists lack pragmatism the most.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
You need to break out social vs. economic issues. Populist issues are popular in these states, but the Democratic brand is so associated with culture war issues it either pulls focus or prevents electable candidates from advancing from the primary.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The easiest way to deal with this is lifting the income cap for payroll taxes as Bernie Sanders has proposed for at least a decade now. Every month or year we wait, the harder it's going to be to pull the fund back into a solvent path.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Going back to Reynolds v. Sims, the Supreme Court dismissed arguments in favor of one man, one vote based on the 'republican form of government' clause. But gerrymandering is so egregious and offensive to the principle of citizens choosing their representatives I think it needs renewed attention.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I'm not sure getting oneself elected as the leadership of one's party in a chamber of Congress is 'by default' getting thrust into the position of standard-bearer. It's more damning that Congressional Democrats chose to vote for those jokers.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 17/05/2026
“If you, as a leftist, think [MTG] is better than AOC in any way, then I think you need help.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social breaks down the double standard that holds AOC to endless scrutiny while overlooking MTG’s years of extremism and conspiracy theories. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wqg...
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A DEMOCRAT IS NOT WINNING NEBRASKA. AN INDEPENDENT IS 100% BETTER THAN A REPUBLICAN.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The voter blue no matter who people had better show up...
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Platner test on here kind of proves that too many so-called progressives are just interested in a performative, self-gratifyiny symbolic exercise and can't even be bothered to engage in the substance of the issues and people they claim to care about.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16/04/2026
Alzheimer’s drugs that target the buildup of the amyloid protein on the brain don’t meaningfully help patients, a major review found, raising questions about medicines developed by the likes of Eli Lilly and Eisai
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Alzheimer’s Drugs Targeting Amyloid Don’t Help, Review Finds
Alzheimer’s drugs that target the buildup of the amyloid protein on the brain don’t meaningfully help patients, a major review found, raising questions about medicines developed by the likes of Eli Lilly & Co. and Eisai Co.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
All I'm saying is: DHS has been shut down while we're at war in the Middle East and...nothing has happened.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I just did 2.5 hours in an MRI and I’ve had COVID19 vaccines numbering in the double digits, so I think we can confidently conclude that the vaccines don’t, in fact, magnetize a person.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
​​We gave Amazon a $17.5 BILLION tax break last year. Meta got $13.7 BILLION. Citigroup didn't pay a penny—we gave them a tax REFUND. Those tax breaks didn't do anything to create jobs, let alone save them. We have got to stop with the corporate tax giveaways.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I generally really like what Hell Gate is doing, but this post is just flat wrong. I wrote about the problems with this "major new housing study" here: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...
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There Is No Housing Affordability Without Building More Housing
If we make it easier to build dense housing in cities, then the resulting supply boost will ease the cost burden on renters and put homeownership within closer reach for millions of households.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12." Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/01/2026
Publishers Break Down Door As George R.R. Martin Escapes Through Bathroom Window
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Publishers Break Down Door As George R.R. Martin Escapes Through Bathroom Window
SANTA FE, NM—A set of billowing curtains signaling that they had arrived moments too late, staff from Penguin Random House reportedly broke down George R.R. Martin’s door Monday as the writer escaped ...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/01/2026
The cities that built the most new housing consistently saw the biggest price drops in older rental units. What can it mean?!?1? www.statesforum.org/january-book...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/12/2025
“I’m a Christian, and I believe in a Christian set of principles based on my faith.” —Vought, June 2017. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work…. We want to put them in trauma.” —May 2023. trib.al/pCVtFXZ
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that cutting back on saturated fats reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke. A roadkill-eating, whale-decapitating heroin addict says Americans should eat more saturated fats. For busy eaters, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/11/2025
People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I can't trust her apology, but there has to be a way to try to get gettable people when they finally see some light. There's value in someone apologizing even when they haven't changed as a person because it's the first crack in the wall.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Chait's idiotic commentary reminds me that whites typically think candidates of color are more economically liberal than they are, find them deceitful, and punish them more on character. Racial prejudice on full display here.
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Gonna stop responding to people trying to make vibe explanations to me about the 00s and just posting 80s-00s era controversies today. Starting with: Fox news used to love photoshopping jewish journalists into der sturmer like creations:
Journalist Jacques Steinberg edited to look like an antisemitic cartoon.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls  while praying outside an ICE facility.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/10/2025
America is not building enough housing and Americans are facing sky-high housing costs as a result. Today, the Senate took a historic step to change that. The ROAD to Housing Act will help communities – urban, suburban, and rural – build more housing and bring down costs.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Ironically, this reminds me of political science research showing voters assume women are more liberal than they are.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/09/2025
Morning walk
Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
No. Creating such an enormous political coalition enabled the passage of the civil rights act. Yes, leaving segregation untouched until the 40s was terrible, but the New Deal provided enormous economic help to Black Americans and enabled the ending of pro forma segregation.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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pettilabel.bsky.social @pettilabel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Mr President, I wish more people would follow your example.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is actually another example of how reducing political debates to private, interior feelings has been a mistake that too much of the center-left has made in recent years. See also the language of "feeling unsafe" on campus, now used to shut down student protests.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Interesting shutdown politics thread by health policy expert and former OMB official Topher Spiro.
Topher Spiro & @TopherSpiro
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Agree with @ezraklein: Democrats must not be party to a government funding bill that does not meet key demands. As a former OMB official, here's what Democrats could demand:
Opinion | Stop Funding Trump's Takeover
From nytimes.com
10:26 AM • 9/7/25 • 3.3K ViewsTopher Spiro & @TopherSpiro • 1h
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1. Restore Medicaid cuts, or increase other Medicaid funding, so that no one loses Medicaid coverage (as certified by CBO).
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Democrats have the upper hand politically on this. And this demand leaves a lot of flexibility for negotiation, while fulfilling a core, popular principle.
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2. An iron-clad requirement to spend congressionally-appropriated funds.
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The Impoundment Control Act (ICA) already prohibits the president from withholding funds.
The problem is judicial enforcement is too slow.
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Amend the ICA to give the appropriations committees (chair or ranking member) an express cause of action to bring an action in federal district court to enforce the ICA.
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Require the court to hold a hearing and issue a ruling within 30 days, and allow for direct appeal to the Supreme Court within 10 days.
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In addition, make the OMB Director personally liable (civil penalty up to $50,000) for withholding funds.
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Ban "pocket rescissions." Under the ICA, the president can propose rescissions (cancellation of funds) and withhold the funds for 45 days; but if the proposal is transmitted <45 days from the expiration of funds, the funds will expire!
This is a pocket rescission.
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3. Provide for fast-track congressional review of tariffs that increase prices for consumers (as determined by the CBO). This can be modeled after the Congressional Review Act (i.e., disapproval can't be filibustered).Topher Spiro @@TopherSpiro •34m
4. Require insurance coverage of all vaccines recommended by the CDC as of September 1, 2025. Parents and doctors must retain choice.
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5. Provide funding for states and localities to hire and train local police officers, and prohibit the president from deploying the National Guard for local law enforcement purposes.
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