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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA slate.com/news-and-pol...

The ruling also rests on a methodological error that would earn a failing grade in a graduate statistics course. The court treats race and party as competing explanations, as if controlling for one neutralizes the other. But for millions of American voters, race explains party affiliation.
The vast majority of Black Americans did not randomly sort into the Democratic Party.
Already trending blue since the New Deal, they were pushed fully into the Democratic Party by Barry Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act and Republicans' Southern Strategy over the decades since. To "control for partisanship" when assessing racial gerrymandering is to erase the very mechanism through which racism travels. Consider the analogy of a court ruling that a company didn't discriminate by gender in pay because, once you control for being a manager or executive-positions from which women were systematically excluded — the gap disappears. Or that if you exclude people with high blood pressure, then a high sodium diet appears to have no effect on your risk of stroke.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

infowars has been online for 27 years pushing right wing conspiracy bullshit now its gone

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My statement on the end of the old InfoWars, and the imminent beginning of a much better one.

“Good riddance to the world’s worst rubbish,” The Onion’s CEO, Ben Collins, wrote in a text to MS NOW. “The second this man is disallowed from abusing these courts, from paying out the $1.4 billion he owes to these families, we are ready to take over with something that will make you forget about what was ever there before. We have a deal with both the Sandy Hook families and the court-appointed receiver, and we look forward to taking over this hellhole imminently.”

“War is over, if you want it,” Collins said, quoting Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

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Nate James @puffnate.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have to use premium but i paid $6.10/gal today

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

LBJ on signing the Voting Rights Act into law in August 1965: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield."

President Johnson signed into law yesterday the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and immediately announced steps for its quick and vigorous enforcement. The signing took place in the President's Room of the Capital, just off the Senate Chamber. There, 104 years ago yesterday, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill freeing slaves impressed into the service of the Confederacy.

In his speech, was was broadcast nationally, the President compressed into three sentences the history, the meaning and the hope of the occasion. He said: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield. Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds."

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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 26/04/2026

My polite and effective way of saying this is this screenshot and a heavy handed but gentle stare at…quite a few of you.

post from tumblr:
I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you're getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you're spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first Time Machine

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Last weekend's big bombshell didn't fall on Iran, but at the U.S. Supreme Court. A stunning leak both exposed the corporate hypocrisy of John Roberts and revealed 9 justices in open warfare They are sending us a 'bat signal.' Democracy is in danger My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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New Civil War just dropped...at the Supreme Court | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, can Big AI buy off the Democratic Party?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich  Well, today we're taxing the rich...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/04/2026

I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist. 100 days in — and we’re just getting started.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If I were to state my honest opinion here I would have federal agents knocking on my door by the end of the day

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The press trying so hard to sell a product few people want he might as well change his name again to A.I. Vance.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/04/2026

All initial evidence suggested that Pope Leo “was something entirely different from both Francis and Donald Trump: a quiet American, as I called him last summer. That description is now obsolete,” Francis X. Rocca argues: theatln.tc/ARoFjFUY 📸: Manon Cruz / Reuters

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

the year is 2026. you're a jewish american woman. the world leader you most respect is the catholic pope. everything's fine.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Gasoline prices rose 21% in March from the prior month. That was the single largest monthly increase in gasoline prices since the series began in 1967

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

when even the fox news propaganda machine is having issues like this, its panic time

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/04/2026

'All you had to do was pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory': video shows employee setting fire to Kimberly Clark warehouse in Southern California, destroying it completely

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Trump's insider opened a $52M oil short position right before the US-Iran peace deal announcement, making $174 million in just 3 hours. It's pure graft! Corruption! It's all one giant insider stock futures trading scheme. They all need prison.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Imagine having to pretend that a piece of shit like Trump knows what he’s doing. Couldn’t be me.

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/03/2026

The U.S. just lifted sanctions on Russian cargo ships and multiple high-profile narcotics figures. Dozens of names were removed from the Specially Designated Nationals list—including vessels tied to major Russian leasing operations and individuals linked to Mexican and Colombian drug networks.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital

Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

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Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is a heck of an interview

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Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Before today, no F-15 had been shot down in more than 35 years — since January 19, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War. Before today, the U.S. had never had more than one aircraft shot down by friendly fire in a single day, let alone three.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/03/2026

So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record. Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.🤡

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2026

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default “I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/02/2026

There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 01/03/2026

The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises

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