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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just putting this out there. If Democrats win the midterms, we need a full-court press to reverse the damage Russell Vought and RFK Jr. have caused. No half-measures will do. Put on your big boy pants and get to work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.

If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is eugenics

Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 18/09/2026

Once again, as @nberlat.bsky.social has argued, Democrats should impeach. Assuming that Republicans will collectively defend RFK Jr./Hegseth in particular is preemptive surrender, especially if Republicans are truly hammered in the midterms.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

USians have extremely short memories. I remember numbers like this in 2020. Then folks put the fascist in chief back in the Presidency 4 years later...

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World BEYOND War @world-beyond-war.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The UN fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds to believe U.S. forces carried out indiscriminate strikes in Iran amounting to war crimes, including an attack on a primary school that killed 120 children. International law applies to Washington too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school in Minab and sports facility in ⁠February constitute war ⁠crimes

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're going to have a better understanding of the 19th century than of the 21st century. I don't think people are fully appreciating this.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

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Justice Department Secures Agreement with Mount Sinai to End Pediatric "Gender-Affirming Care"
Another result of the Department's nationwide investigation into hospitals performing sex-rejecting procedures on minors

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We can kink shame whatever this is right?

Official Secretary Kennedy account tweeting an AI photo of himself at a restaurant spoon feeding a war criminal couch fetishist cheese (or whale lard it's hard to tell) while Marco Rubio eats a pop tart in the background

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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it makes me furious that his requested evidence for USAID helping people was a "show orphan." he wanted USAID to find him an african kid who'd say "this specific program helped me during these specific dates because my parents are dead. you should continue to fund this program so i don't starve."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So let me get this straight. Democrats all have to publicly denounce Hasan Piker, even if they don’t really know who he is, have never met him, & never listened to his show, but it’s totally fine for JD Vance to be best friends with Tucker Carlson despite all the shit he’s said?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That would be JD Vance’s good friend Tucker Carlson.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 03/09/2026

"What would Jane Fonda do?" is a question we should probably be asking ourselves

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 03/09/2026

Remember how Greenpeace literally used to camp in trees and chain themselves to logging equipment?

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the argument against it is either that he didn't intend it (because he claimed he wanted to restore efficiency, not kill Black people) or that withholding aid is not an active genocide...which I think it is and I think the UN definition says it is.

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A nice reminder for why the problem isn’t just about Citizen’s United, but more fundamentally about the refusal to recognize political equality as a legitimate goal of campaign speech regulation

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I earnestly believe that one of our strongest tools for combatting the spread of fascism is good local government that is accountable to, and delivery results for, local communities in ways that they can recognize as making their lives better.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/09/2026

The NYT lost the Pulitzer for their transphobic podcast series with Azeen Ghorayshi to Pablo Torre and his reporting on the Clippers. They're salty about it so of course they're not going to properly credit him.

Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post by journalist Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist) criticizing coverage by The New York Times and The Athletic.
The post text reads:
"It is shameful that @nytimes @TheAthletic buried the fact that the biggest punishment in NBA history was the result of an investigation by journalist @PabloTorre. And to call it the result of a 'podcast episode' is a further slap in the face. He won a Pulitzer for this story and they call it an 'episode' instead of, at the outset -- crediting him with exposing this scandal. Really really lame."
Below the text, the timestamp shows "8:18 AM · Sep 3, 2026 · 32.7K Views".

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Jeff Greco @jeffgreco.com · 03/09/2026

Hey check out this cool new thing we built!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026

‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

More union joy to launch you into the weekend!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“.. almost half of Canadians surveyed would support joining the E.U., with only 28 per cent against it. In Europe, various prominent officials are also keen.” @newyorker.com 🇨🇦 www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

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Queersailorscout @queersailorscout.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watching #jesuscamp from 2007 and bro those kids voted in the last 3 elections

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Organized, state-funded, industrial scale child abuse

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When the Indiana Senate refused to do mid-decade gerrymandering, Trump posted about it nonstop & got directly involved in taking out the senators who voted against it. But when thousands of people in IN have been without power for 2 weeks, Trump posted nothing and doesn’t care.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Democracy takes many forms, and giving the bus its own lane so 40 people on a bus can sail by a handful of people driving alone in private cars is one of them.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mayor Mamdani Is Serving His Constituents, Not Himself.......

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One reason vote-by-mail remains under attack by Republicans is because of who it helps turn out.

Two New York Times charts on Colorado's all-mail voting, from research by Adam Bonica, Jacob Grumbach, Charlotte Hill, and Hakeem Jefferson.

Top chart, "Which Coloradans benefited most from all-mail voting," shows the difference between actual and projected turnout in Colorado's 2018 election. By race: African-American voters gained about 11 percentage points, Asian about 9, Latino about 8, white about 7.5. By education: less than a high school diploma about 10 points, high school diploma, some college, and bachelor's degree about 9 each, graduate degree about 7. By household wealth: $0 to $5k gained about 11 points, with gains shrinking as wealth rises to about 6 points for households over $500k.

Bottom chart, "Mailing every Coloradan a ballot increased voting across all age groups," plots actual 2018 turnout against projected turnout without all-mail voting, by age from under 30 to 90. Actual turnout is higher at every age. The gap is widest for the youngest voters, roughly 14 points near age 30, and narrows to about 5 points for voters in their 70s and 80s. Generations labeled Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, Silent Generation.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Joel" shared this photo of Gallo of Sonoma farm workers. These workers negotiated 9 paid holidays, a generous medical/dental/vison benefits and jury duty pay as part of their UFW contract. Let’s raise a glass of union label wine to these farm workers. Si Se Puede! #WeFeedYou

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

trump remains laser focused on raising prices for average Americans.

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Embarrassing for CBS and what's left of its journalistic integrity that Bari Weiss is destroying more and more each day

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404 Media @404media.co · 20/08/2026

And now, the video of “Darth Vader”on why he wants Flock in San Diego. Read the full story here: www.404media.co/darth-vader-...

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Genocide scholars do not consider the Gaza genocide a borderline case. I think non experts should take that very, very seriously.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

stop making me know about joe rogan jesus christ!!! i am a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN i shouldn’t have to KNOW about that my GOD

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MN Cargo Bike Library @mcbl.bike · 15/08/2026

Borrower feedback: "Last year I was able to borrow the electric trike here in Minneapolis. I am disabled and the experience gave me enough motivation to go out and buy my own electric trike that works for my body type." 🚲 ❤️

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's sociopathic that neoliberal leaders are smiling through all this while proposing more pipelines. They have the same access to information we do. What's even their end game? All marine life dies in the next couple years but worth it for the money no one can spend?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'll never steal your pen.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

pipe this audio directly into the PA system on the Lincoln

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“You coulda had a bad bitch”

If you need me I'll be balls deep in bourbon

Francesca Hong For Governor & @FrancescaHongWI
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