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Funny how they always ignore the war The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments essentially were the Second Founding

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dude, a statute does not get to preclude the consequences of a constitutional amendment ratified 78 years and a whole-ass civil war later

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

He didn't use procedural shit to try and overthrow the 2020 election, he sent a mob to try and kill people in Congress because the procedural and court shit didn't work out for him. That's what happened. I think people forget what J6 actually was. It wasn't about states rights or courtroom antics

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

variety.com

David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22h

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.

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Pete Manzo @pmanzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So true, and same is true for any social care for the needy -health and human services, education, counseling, housing and so on. No way private charity and philanthropy can make up for when government pulls back.

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Joel Lesko @sunshowerlearning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in the city, the rest of America can sort of say, Ah, look at these cities. But we are holding a lot of your people, who you fail to love and take care of." ❤️🙏🏽🙌

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Bill @billn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Funny how none of the countries of origin of refugees have ever actually invaded Britain, but Britian has, at some time, invaded all of them.

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Pete Manzo @pmanzo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Free public education should go K-16, and let’s forgive student loans in next admin. (Biden forgave loans twice, but SCOTUS blocked each time, somehow that was “too much” but they allow _this guy_ to ignore Constitution and Congress altogether…)

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Pete Manzo @pmanzo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Would love to see it, esp. re the 14A3. Since they likely won’t be able to override a veto, they unfortunately can’t fix things like devastating cuts to SNAP and Medicaid so there should be no argument they have any higher priority than imposing consequences

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?

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Pete Manzo @pmanzo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Normally I‘d even agree with that, the Senate has other priorities (as they did in 2021), but now, even if Ds control House and Senate, presuming not veto-proof majoirity, this will be most important thing they can do

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Pete Manzo @pmanzo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did you get to touch them though? (They’re what made the great stained glass windows possible, if I recall correctly)

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

liberalcurrents.com

We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/10/2026

Mamdani holds Sliwa's hand so he doesn't faint getting a flu shot. No wonder the right wing media has stopped talking about our Scary Radical Mayor.

A doctor gives former Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa a flu shot on camera while the mayor, who already got his, holds his hand. Everyone is laughing.

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i am very in favor of not replacing anyone this senate term

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One more time for the cheap seats in the back!

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and Republicans in the 1950s could agree on many things, as long as
they also agreed that Jim Crow oppression in the American South was
acceptable and that women belonged in the home. Once they started
disagreeing about these things, and especially once they were no longer
the only people allowed in the room, U.S. politics became significantly
more contentious. Not everyone wanted to peacefully extend power to
previously marginalized groups.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

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lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 years later, here’s what the Trump campaign’s promise of mass deportation looks like on the ground: prioritizing young people who filed for asylum as children 10 years ago who now speak perfect English and are at the forefront of American cancer research. Ask me how I know

abcnews.com

JD Vance says mass deportations should 'start with 1 million,' defends 'thought experiment' giving parents extra votes

GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance spoke with ABC News' Jonathan Karl about a wide variety of topics including immigration and his views on childless Americans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/08/2025

if you had the political will to do it you could defang the senate just by passing a set of rules that holds that everything passed by the House is deemed as passed by the Senate. (i might add an option for the Senate to take up legislation if supported by 60 senators)

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All possible through normal legislation:

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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Pete Manzo @pmanzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like in “One Battle After Another”…

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Peter Thiel's obsession with Pope Leo borders on the pathological. bsky.app/profile/chri...

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