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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have actually fantasized taking over the government for a day and doing this. Bravo.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics. [September 18, 2026] Postscript: after this video was finished, the Wake County District Attorney announced they're settling with 3 of the 4 special interest lobbyists who worked with Greater Carolina to cozy up to Republican NC lawmakers.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gastonia, where Trump is speaking tonight, had the highest murder rate in the nation for part of the early 80s. That’s not an important data point in this Senate race. But he obviously doesn’t know or care about crime data.
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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Drawing from our new book Supremacy, @nikobowie.bsky.social and I argue in @slate.com that limiting judicial supremacy is the only way to bind the president with law. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court
If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.
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Dogpile On The Rabbit @bartleby6316.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If he’s buying it for $2/pound, that “beef” isn’t coming from a cow.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Partisan gerrymandering doesn't just rob North Carolinians of their political representation. It also fosters dysfunction and widespread political corruption - which is exactly what we see today in the North Carolina state legislature. Vote Jessica Bichler for Senate District 7!
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don’t understand why Collins asked Vance to take care of the widow instead of asking him to respond to the fact that this unsanctioned war is leaving widows w/o traditional veterans’ benefits.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Political corruption is rampant in North Carolina's state legislature, and it makes a lot of people feel hopeless. If that's you, hey - that's totally understandable. But you should know that there ARE good people working in our state's politics. But more of them need to speak up.
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a fascist bill.
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I dunno how this will go. I think Collins is extremely vulnerable. But nothing has changed in Maine wrt abortion which is when shit actually hits the fan. But absolutely support putting justices in political ads. Wish it weren’t so
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Susan Collins standing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Andy Bowline, the Democratic candidate for State Senate District 31 (Forsyth & Stokes), created this remarkable dashboard where you can break down the new budget by topic, provision, browse appropriations and earmarks, and more. Super impressive! andycantwin.com/budget
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The discourse around the Supreme Court term would be much improved, I think, if people focused on the center of the Court as being very much part of the GOP coalition, rather than focusing entirely on whether it is or is not doing Trump’s bidding specifically.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Question: do you know who your representatives are in the North Carolina state legislature? Most people - almost 80%, in fact - don't. That's why we created a source where anyone can find basic information about how our state legislature works: carolinaforward.org/legislature
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is correct
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
NC Republicans continue to attempt to suppress the vote of college students whom they fear might actually be informed. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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Republican officials say GOP and NC auditor pressured them to reject voting site
One member resigned ahead of the meeting, saying his “moral position” had been called into question by entities outside the board.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In 1984, two things help explain this. First, we had just been through a period of inflation that was vastly worse than the pandemic inflation, and had lasted much longer. As in, well over a decade. www.dallasfed.org/-/media/Imag...
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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This resource, also authored by Ann McColl, is a terrific introduction and primer on all things Leandro/Hoke v NC www.ednc.org/everything-y...
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Everything you need to know about the Leandro litigation
The Leandro ruling established the right to a sound basic education in North Carolina. Here are the parties of the case and a timeline.
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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The @ncjustice.bsky.social’s statement on today’s Leandro ruling #ncpol
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NC Supreme Court’s overturning of the historic Leandro IV decision will cause irreparable harm to students’ educational opportunities
RALEIGH (April 2, 2026) – The North Carolina Justice Center forcefully condemns the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision today to overturn its own …
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
By a 4–3 vote, the North Carolina Supreme Court's Republicans toss out a long-running lawsuit seeking to enforce the state constitution's guarantee of a quality public education for all children. The one reasonable Republican dissents, as do the two Democrats. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
What should North Carolina do about datacenters? The biggest problem with datacenters is that they're forcing everyone else to pay more to subsidize their business. Our lawmakers are completely capable of putting an end to the subsidies - here's how.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...
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The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape - emptywheel
One day before Jeffrey Epstein suicided, the woman who claimed Donald Trump had abused her told the FBI that Epstein and Trump had spoken about blackmail in front of her.
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👻BOOryan BlessDEAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'm a bit obsessed by this picture, gang. I mean, there is absolutely no context you can apply to it that doesn't scream evil intent, is there? Just, why?!
In a Great Escape context maybe?In a Star Wars context perhaps?
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Turns out, Bruen is a stupid, unworkable decision just like everyone said.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Update: I'm working on legislation to ban corrupt and destabilizing prediction markets, where insiders who know the outcome (especially in government) can rig the game to favor certain bets.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
CHATTANOOGA: “DO Y’ALL HAVE A WARRANT? What’s the suspicion of crime, they’re brown?” ICE trespasses on private property as they conduct their racial profiling terror campaign. An ex ICE lawyer just testified they are trained to disregard the law. Full: www.facebook.com/share/r/1CPF...
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
1936 Olympics
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The feeling of having known something to be true, deep within your very being, only to have it confirmed as such. There's just nothing like it: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor | Defector
As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math a...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20/02/2026
New piece Sen. Cortez Masto told The Daily on Thursday Dems are fighting for ICE reforms in part bcuz it helps them electorally — by changing what "immigration" means to voters. Strength In Numbers has been writing about this exact dynamic since last April! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-shutdo...
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The shutdown helps Democrats by redefining what "immigration" means
Trump's approval on immigration varies by up to 20 points depending on whether respondents are asked about border security, deportations, ICE, or immigration in general
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny will now kick fgs for both teams
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Remember Greenland?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Wrote about how John Roberts and Donald Trump have turned the Department of Justice into a corrupt mobbed up law firm whose only purpose is to enable Trump’s persecution of his enemies and protection of his allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Under the new conservative consensus on presidential power, Trump is welcome to refuse to  investigate when government agents shoot Americans in the face, and he is welcome to try to charge their loved ones with crimes. He can openly blackmail government officials to manipulate the economy or to silence political opposition. No one can stop him from directing the Justice Department to indict his enemies for non-crimes while ignoring or pardoning the actual crimes of his political allies. He is free to be a tyrant, because the boss is the boss. But to me, it seems unlikely that the founding generation, in rebelling against a monarch, was looking to replace him with an even more wretched class of despot.
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Doomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Great. We've pushed people to the point that "The Germans are coming" is good news.
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I am a Spacex Starfleet Academy recruiter. Send $10,000 and I can make you a Lieutenant.
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I think this is the bell that hasn’t rung. Kudos to them for doing it, I guess. But the issue is much broader. Everything Trump does is offensive to Christianity. Trump/Miller view Christians as a cult to be led and not a restraint on ambition. So far, they’ve been right.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this isn’t a bad editorial board piece but—no they are not. Law is often quite bad and never coextensive with political morality. You shouldn’t turn your moral sense off because someone found a plausibly relevant OLC opinion. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
NYT op ed: The legal arguments against Mr. Trump's actions are the more important ones,
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Just a trifle
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Tamales are just really good in December.
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Even if Vance’s claims were accurate, it’s a losing msg. Only the darkest souls would delight in the idea they got a choice apartment because Trump deported the people. People want to believe they are responsible for their own success.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
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poor-yorick.bsky.social @poor-yorick.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My condolences to the Reiner family. May peace be with you.
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