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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The maddening thing is that Trump is just doing everything he campaigned on. Nothing that has happened should have come as a surprise. The entire information ecosystem was a bubble of delusion in 2024.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What kind of person in the year 2026 does not know that you shouldn’t ask a disabled person why she is in a wheelchair? 🤯

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/08/2026

My theory on this is that most people aren’t mad at “woke” or whatever, they just experienced an upheaval of society through COVID and its aftermath and can’t actually put their finger on what’s bothering them. Woke is just a scapegoat for “I want things back the way they were”.

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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As an author, how have you addressed a generic AI-written referee report? Did you approach the editor before working on the revision, address the issue in the letter to the editor when submitting the revisions, or something else? How has it worked out so far, if you don't mind sharing? #AcademicSky

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here for fun @vagaries.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Lots of people are in denial about the fact that the “rural voters” they’re thinking of are confederates we did not fully punish, and they will not change until we make good on the promises of reconstruction. That’s what I know from growing up in rural Tennessee.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

wtf is this headline. NYT is a parody of itself.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 on Birthright Citizenship means it can go down in the future with a different composition of the court.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Everyone’s acting like the Dems taking back the House is a done deal and it is just so not obvious to me. Gerrymandering + stuff like this may create enough barriers that even a wave can’t overcome.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/06/2026

This is an unfathomably evil act that will be a foul stain on our nation’s history forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...

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U.S. Plans to End AIDS Funding for South Africa

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/06/2026

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The failure of Trump’s 2020 election subversion plot turned in part on the willingness of a small group of Republican officials to defy him — almost all of whom have since been purged from power.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It would be really ironic if we lost the House due to gerrymandering but won the Senate

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You can become disabled in an instant. People think those of us who are sick did “something” to deserve it. We didn’t. The just world fallacy is a lie. It just takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your life. Disability is not a moral failing.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

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Proof the New York Times is Biased in Trump's Favor

The paper that exaggerated Hunter Biden's corruption downplays Eric Trump's

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Does anyone know why this is better than expanding the court? Genuinely asking.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wrote and said this elsewhere, but Virginia Dems need to pack the state Supreme Court and should’ve leveled the threat as soon as the first Republican judge ruled against the map the Virginia public voted for.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If we treated poor people as full humans worthy of dignity, we wouldn’t spend so much time policing them in the first place…

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If you think wearing a mask is “too hard”… you really won’t like living with chronic illness. If you think people will judge you for taking precautions… you won’t like the treatment you receive when disabled. Protect your health & the health of those around you.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It’s obvious on reflection but bears occasional repeating that there’s no reason to think the ideological spectrum of professionally validated academic work should align with the contemporary political spectrum. Sometimes it’s left of it and sometimes right….

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Proud that my rep @liccardo.house.gov is one of few Democrats calling on Swalwell to resign now.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I am seriously worried that I am going to end up with a crazy MAGA governor. Democrats need to coordinate on a candidate (who isn’t an abuser) and fast.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/04/2026

Here’s a key reason why it’s very bad that we keep losing big, well-funded media outlets that publish real journalism: Only those organizations have the money and heft to protect reporters from inevitable legal battles with powerful people (like, say, sex offender politicians and tech CEOs).

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yikes! The knock on effects of climate change seem quite bad… The upside of this is that increasing agricultural productivity, and adaptation to a changing climate, can reduce deforestation pressures… Let’s slow climate change and increase agricultural productivity!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I said it back in early 2025 but Elon Musk seizing the Treasury's payment systems and the federal payroll systems from career bureaucrats was one of the most important steps in achieving Trump's coup against our Constitution and no one was paying attention

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If I were a senator, I’d be on the phone calling House of Representatives colleagues, helping build momentum for impeachment so that I could vote to convict and remove him.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Does anyone know why they are suing to block it instead of just ignoring it?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/03/2026

I worry that "Trump can't simply cancel the midterms" -- which is true! -- has somewhat dulled people to the many many smaller things that the Trumpies can do, and are doing, to *distort* the midterms.

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This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms

WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’d much rather that these ICE agents be standing around doing nothing in the airport than what they would otherwise be doing.

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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Many of us in higher education have observed students are struggling amidst *wave hands.* Is anyone collecting data or doing more systematic analysis on this that help us understand these phenomena beyond our anecdotal experience? Interested in both undergrad and graduate student experience.

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Daryl Fairweather ⛅ @fairweatherphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.

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Andy Garin @andygarin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Data-driven research, at its best, presents you with results that surprise you. 😲 When I began studying Seattle's minimum pay standard for delivery drivers, I personally expected to see high-attachment delivery drivers making more money after the policy went into effect. 1/13

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high stakes @postmistress.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The case for wealth taxes is entirely political. And if they cause billionaires to leave the US, good riddance.

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