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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary. The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister. What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/02/2026

Else the Puck a liar call.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

For a decade, Trump has wanted to be a dictator. The only changes during that time are 1) the realization by Republicans across the board that they might be able to use his cult of personality as a *permanent* power grab, and 2) the speed of our institutional degradation and collapse.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 12/06/2025

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 05/04/2025

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

[text from the Declaration of Independence]

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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Emily K @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

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P.T. McNiff @ptmcniff.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

One episode away from finishing the first season for the first time, and these are my thoughts, word for word.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It's fun to be living in a moment when it seems like we are about to enter an era of terrifying authoritarianism OR an era of authoritarian overreach that immediately crumbles and gives way to something better, and these two things might happen simultaneously, and we won't know for sure for A BIT.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

theatlantic.com

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/12/2024

my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

LA TIMES: Greetings, President Trump! Our billionaire owner is personally approving every headline in order to ensure we never treat you unkindly. WASHINGTON POST: Here is one million dollars for your inauguration, sir. ABC NEWS: We got you a Christmas present. It's fifteen million bucks.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

warning signs that the North Carolina supreme court may end up overturning the results of a major election:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 29/11/2024

I was listening to an interview with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson a few days ago who said we need more stories in Hollywood depicting a solutions oriented future beyond dystopia. My first thought: Star Trek’s been there this entire time. Gene Roddenberry+ have given us a lot on which to build.

A collage of 9 images from a scene in Star Trek: The Next Generatoon TV series (“The Neutral Zone” 1988) showing Picard in dialogue with Ralph Offenhouse.

From left to right:

Picard: A lot has changed in the part 300 years. People no longer obsessed over the accumulation of things. We’ve eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We’ve grown out of our infancy.

Offenhouse: It has never been about possessions—it’s about power.

Picard: Power to do what?

Offenhouse. To control your life, your destiny.

Picard: That kind of control is an illusion.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It is all going to get so, so much stupider

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P.T. McNiff @ptmcniff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The fact that, a week and a half after the country resoundingly elected Trump, everyone is focused on a boxing match between a 60 year old and a YouTube dipshit is huge “I’d buy that for a dollar!” dystopia energy.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Feeling my sanity slipping away as more and more (genuinely awful) stories about what Trump said or did accrues. Because: HE PLOTTED AND ATTEMPTED TO EXECUTE A VIOLENT COUP ON LIVE TV! HE ATTMEPTED TO END THE REPUBLIC! HE'S THE BIGGEST TRAITOR TO THE CONSITUTIONAL ORDER SINCE THE CONFEDERACY!

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Every writer still on Twitter thinks they're Christopher Hitchens in a war zone instead of just someone with credulous brand loyalty (to a Nazi particle machine)

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

I hope this reminds people of what I have said all along. Trump is beyond beatable whether it’s Joe, Kamala, or someone else. Fucking act like it.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

From reading the article, there’s a ton of “yay for police!” to get through before the information that the city deployed social workers who referred troubled kids and their families to Social Services instead of putting them in the system.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

One of the meanest, dumbest assholes on the planet got clocked on 34 charges, let yourself enjoy it a little

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As we approach the summer of 2024, the economy is growing, migration to the border has declined at least temporarily owing to what appears to be a new crackdown by Mexican authorities, and in many major cities, crime is returning to historic lows, leaving protests as the most suitable target for demagoguery. The Biden administration’s support for Israel divides Democrats and unites Republicans, so the longer the issue remains salient, the better it is for the GOP. More broadly, the politics of “American carnage” do not work as well in the absence of carnage. Far-right politics operate best when there is a public perception of disorder and chaos, an atmosphere in which the only solution such politicians ever offer can sound appealing to desperate voters. Social-media bubbles can suffice to maintain this sense of siege among the extremely online, but cultivating this perception among most voters demands constant reinforcement.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/03/2024

real marked difference between a country with a recent experience of dictatorship and one blithely convinced It Can't Happen Here, We're Too Special and Good

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Vladimir: Well, shall we log off? Estragon: Yes, let's log off. [They do not log off.]

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

The answer to every story about elite college admissions is to make sure every American has access to a low price high quality public education within a reasonable drive of their hometown. The wild thing is we mostly achieved this. Then destroyed it.

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