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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3h

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h

"The US role in Brazil's election is criminally under-discussed in the US, though obviously front and center of the conversation in Brazil." - @ishaantharoor.bsky.social US has done Lawfare & Economic Warfare against Brazil & the continent & it is shocking how few americans know/care about it

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 4h

Remember, things can always get worse, and when you suggest otherwise, the universe takes that as a challenge.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 5h

You should watch all my shows at 2x speed, because I talk and process really slowly in real time. But if you play it at 2x speed, everything sounds more normal.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 10h

It's [Current Date] and I'm Playing [Video Game] 10/04/2026 Minecraft Home improvements, sometimes adjustments need to be made. youtube.com/live/mG0DhyX...

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It's 10/04/2026 and I'm playing Minecraft - Home Improvements

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

1️⃣ Alaska One of most important states this fall, no doubt: —Senate seat could flip, determine majority. —Dems hope to flip governorship, too. —An Indy is making a bid for US House. —Measure to repeal ranked-choice voting (again). —Bipartisan coalition seeks to keep legislature.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Renee Good's death was a moment where the pro-ICE movement lost standing by demanding people ignore the evidence of their own eyes. Reality mattered. So they will reshoot it as fiction.

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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

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
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

"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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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

4. According to new reporting last night by MS Now, the text messages from 2024 from Smith's team that Eric Schmitt presented at Tuesday's hearing were provided by the US Department of Justice, which is to say, by US Attorney General Todd Blanche. www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...

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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.

As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After you've seen how Republicans lie and then twist that lie on right-wing media, you'll realize everything they say and do is a lie in service to power. Republicans are confederates. youtu.be/F5q65K1OFaI?...

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It's 9/30/2026 and I'm playing Minecraft - Self-Made Propaganda

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So you combine the two, and the filibuster essentially allows a few sparsely populated (and very conservative states) to block popular legislation. It is basically why the US Congress hasn't done anything significant in the last 20+ years.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

We’re making all Meidas+ news updates completely paywall-free through the midterm elections. Quality information shouldn’t be locked away right now. This may hurt our business, but some things are more important. Spread the word and join us: meidasplus.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

White people are literally saying the image of dependency should be premised upon racism and people are acting as if we can’t all see what they’re saying.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Officially, the confederacy was defeated 150 years ago. Unofficially, the confederacy holds vast swaths of territory through control of state and local governments. While USA moves away from the death penalty, confederates move towards it. Confederates just have a different value system than us.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sack of shit Donald Trump makes explicit his demand that Supreme Court Justices appointed by Trump are supposed to serve Trump and not the rule of law. First order of Dem business should be to expand, reform, and term limit the Supreme Court.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In this video, I show how Eric Schmitt tried to create a conspiracy theory out of whole cloth. He was immediately shot down by the truth; but then he went on THE CHARLIE KIRK SHOW and played an EDITED clip of his crash that made it look like Scmitt was the hero.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's 9/30/2026 and I'm playing Minecraft - Self-Made Propaganda youtube.com/live/F5q65K1... Nobody else is going to show you the complete picture. You have to see it to really understand.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am going to say what I've been saying for some time. If they succeed in restricting and criminalizing abortion pills, more people are going to die. ALSO, I think that the public is overly complacent right now.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We’re at a period where our molecular understanding is unprecedented,” said Dr. Paul Mischel, a physician scientist at Stanford. “But the infrastructure is really falling apart.” “It’s a problem — it’s a big, big problem,” he added. “People should be really angry.”

nytimes.com

New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?

Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Representative Gus Bilirakis is a slaver from Florida who wants to overthrow the USA and replace it with the Confederacy of Slavers. Got a fundraising text from this guy. He's evil, and if you vote for him, you're evil too.

Rep Gus Bilirakis with the word RACIST written over his face.

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Ｓｉｒ５０００, was at Worlds/XP 😔 @sir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh the chatbot's literally doing its own version of the Minecraft end poem

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It looks like someone took the end poem from minecraft and fed it through the AI to make some corrupted version. The end poem is really cool, and it's a little disturbing to see it corrupted into fascism. en.wikisource.org/wiki/End_Poem

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End Poem - Wikisource, the free online library

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.

CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is an entirely correct take. Trump has allowed us to discover how much of American governance is reliant upon norms, and to a bad person norms are nothing but requests from the past. You can ignore a request.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's simple: if you're supporting white supremacy, the confederates will let you break any law. White supremacist attempting to overthrow democracy, go ahead and attack police officers. Police killing people in the name of white supremacy, don't you dare harm those police officers.

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A Woman of a Certain Age☘️☮️💟 @leslieesc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are now becoming totally isolated exactly how Putin and Jingping want it. trump us so stupid he bows to them who are plotting America's complete downfall.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When all our mainstream media has been captured by fascists, congressional hearings turn into gotcha clips for fascist media. JUST AFTER SCHMITT got caught in a lie, he's on the CHARLIE KIRK SHOW where they edit-out the part when SCMITT is caught in his lie.

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the coup plotters, Sen Cruz, is going to question the guy who is going to prosecute him. Cruz is using rapid-fire question/interruption to trip up Smith, to make a good clip for Trump. Remember, these are racist confederates who want to overthrow USA to establish a white ethno-state.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FWIW, Dems on SJC are not doing a very good job of learning any new facts.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's hard to read, but the "gotcha" texts seem to be his staff asking if their seats for the game are reserved. Like, that's it. Even if this were the Hawks game, there's absolutely nothing to it. What an incredible clown show.

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