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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 4h
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 8h
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1h
If anybody was feeling weak in the knees about shopping at Target with the Christmas season coming up, please don't. Target deserves none of your money.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h
The war in Iran is the reason gas is $5 and diesel is $7. Mike Rogers has been cheerleading the war since the beginning, calling it a win, win, win. I don't know about you, but when I fill up my tank I don't feel like I'm winning.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Sen. Ossoff: "We're going to repeal the tariffs. We're going to end this disastrous war in Iran…If you want to understand whether the Trump-Collins budget has helped you, just go fill up a tank of gas, go to the grocery store, try to buy food for your kids."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
El-Sayed: "Weak, cowardly, won't stand up until his poll numbers drop ... he has the audacity to do an ad looking at the drugs prices in Canada, expect he voted four times to keep you from buying the prescriptions drugs in Canada. It's incoherent."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
El-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy."
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 16h
What's interesting is that these types of things were never an issue for 18 year old recruits. It's completely a facebook boomer issue that pensioners on Tricare get worked up about.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 23h
"Rubio’s speeches are dime-store rhetoric grasping at profundity and failing. Because Rubio is play-acting as an adult. A real adult would acknowledge after eighteen months that it’s insane for a single person to serve as secretary of state and national security advisor."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🇺🇦🇬🇧🕯️ Zelensky and British Foreign Secretary visited the site of a house attack in Pryluky, where 22 people, including 5 children, were killed
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*hotdog guy*
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
10 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world”
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!
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Josep Goded (Backup Account But Still Active) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Farewell to Mohammad Tammous, a Gaza Civil Defense paramedic killed in an Israeli drone strike.
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Talking Climate Collaborative @tccollab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our survey of climate communicators found many work in isolation, with few connections beyond their fields. We're here to help change that.⁣ ⁣ Watch our @wedonthavetime.wsocial.eu conversation:⁣ youtu.be/4KI64HDmG9s⁣ ⁣ So let us know: Who do you want to connect with? Tag them in your reply!
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins supports a dictator and brags about getting him to fling a few crumbs toward the peons.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/10/2026
@crampell.bsky.social talks with Jasper Hill Farm's Mateo Kehler about how Trump’s tariffs and threats against Canada wiped out what had been the fastest-growing part of his business: "Our sales basically dropped off a cliff."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In 2020, a pharma CEO’s relatives donated to Susan Collins. That company got a $4.5M contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Collins was on the Appropriations subcommittee. …The company went on to pay $47M to settle claims it defrauded US health programs. @andrewperez.bsky.social:
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First Draft: Forget Hasan Piker, Donald Trump Is America’s Worst Campaign Surrogate
The president went to Nebraska – and showed yet again why Democrats including Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed are desperate for him to visit! In Maine, Susan Collins faced more embarrassing reporting.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We live in a police state now
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/10/2026
Disgusting and disqualifying.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Do not use milk, antacids, honey, lemon juice, onions, vinegar, urine, baking soda or anything other than clean water to deal with tear gas or pepper spray. Most of the time it’s best to just do nothing.
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn sarge, check out this review someone just left for The Most Dangerous Man. The last thing I ever want to do is blue ball the reader to where they feel like the book doesn't live up to its own premise. Check it out below:
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He was a registered sex offender.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
@eggerdc.bsky.social reflects on his experience going to Pierre Damas Bel’s funeral: “ It was hard to be there. It was good to be there…I mean, it's real. It's human beings who are impacted by all this.”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The thing that is happening is not that the explosion of growth in the southwest has strained water supplies, it's that a steady rate of water irrigation for cash crop agriculture has met a steady decline in Colorado River flows due to climate change. Human settlement basically doesn't matter!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: "Elon Musk knows damn well what's going on on X. He turned Twitter from a sort of centrist political platform into a right-wing sewer, and there's all sorts of evidence he did this intentionally."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
Watch the full episode of Receipts:
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BREAKING: September Jobs Report Falls Far Short of Forecasts
A recording from The Bulwark's live video
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
@crampell.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social react to Trump suggesting inflation could help wipe away the national debt, and what that reveals about why he wants control over the Federal Reserve. “This is an interesting little aside here that should terrify people.”
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shorter Trump administration: Data centers good. Homes bad.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)
By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When people talk about rape culture this is exactly what they mean: Michaels and Herbstreit minimizing and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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