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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 16h

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Again, bigots will never choose bigotry-lite over the real thing. You're not going to win them but you're going to drive away people who otherwise would have voted for you. And this year -- when voters most of all want "a fighter" in Congress -- running ads about how you will not fight is idiotic.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This song, by Merle Travis, is a cry for help from the depths of a coal mine. It's the exact opposite of a glorification of the job. In a culture where miners are often used emblematically as symbols of honest blue collar labor, this song is about their pain and exploitation. youtu.be/eQy9N8B5yBw

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YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Jamie Fox @whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When I started teaching in law school I was asked to speak to an undergrad meeting sponsored by the lit and phil depts. I stressed that the best prep for law school would come in poetry or analytic phil classes, or any classes with close reading. Because that's a foundational skill for lawyers.

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the rallying of support for Cofnas, a fucking nobody, compared to the relative silence in defense of Claudine Gay and other Black academics really shows the rot at the core of the whole damn enterprise

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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We Need To Talk About Kevin @kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This boils it down to its essence, right here. Anyone who says that the Charmin bears taking a knee for racial justice or some shit in 2020 was an outrage that demands societal restitution but says nothing about what the backlash has wrought is an unserious person to be safely ignored.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is absolutely no reason for any trans person to give Democrats cover to abandon full trans equality on any issue, in any region, in any race, to even the tiniest iota.

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The fuckers called Eisenhower a commie and the interstate highway system a commie plot to make America commie, just so you know how long this commie bullshit has been going on.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Trump years have been instructive because it's been clear that nobody in the GOP actually hates the inevitably bad things about communism. Secret police, personality cults, gulags, kleptocracy, party loyalty tests, martial law, even central planning. Just the concept of people with less having more.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026

Seriously: everybody loved the walkable downtown vibe of Seattle during the World Cup. *Everyone.* They wrote articles about it in newspapers around the world! We cemented our reputation as a global city! And now ... we just have to let all the cars back in? Why?

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've been walknig around Pioneer Square, looking at the food trucks and streets where people can walk without fear, and saying "we can do this ALL the time" throughout the World Cup. Pedestrianization works best when you just do it, rather than Seattle Processing the concept until it's a no.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Every authoritarian movement in history began by identifying a vulnerable group whose rights were framed as negotiable. How hard you are willing to fight for trans rights is the litmus test for whether or not you understand solidarity. It’s all of us or none of us.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The same way that just a dozen people are behind over half of all the book bans, this entire goddamn nazi movement is a fucking handful of freaks who are loud enough in billionaire nazi sex pest social media empires to be confused with an entire crowd. This *is* their irl numbers and popularity.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The trans panic and vaccine refusal are, like the Satanic Panic before them, niche beliefs seeded by fringe lunatics and built whole cloth by the media Just Asking Questions. Normal people have to be taught to think this way. They can be taught to forget.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 22/06/2026

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Suraj has a point.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

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Nathaniel Hoffman @paleomedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Andreessen and his friends... also took time out to fund Substack specifically so they could undermine major newspapers that they thought would criticize their interests. And it worked, obviously."

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/05/2026

Hundreds of wonderful responses to this prompt. Question is… given that lots of those are still running, how come folks don’t still check those sites? Are we beholden to only looking at what the algorithm shows us?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2026

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

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

Roberts Court doing the judicial equivalent of “we can’t consider a Supreme Court nominee in January, it’s an election year” and “of course we’ll confirm a Supreme Court nominee in October of an election year when voting is already underway.” Deeply bad faith. Liars whose only principle is power.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

If you're a young leftist looking for an inspirational model for politics and can't come up with anyone better than Stalin or Mao I'm going to encourage you to read a second book.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

the 2024 election was probably the easiest combined morality/IQ test ever created and yet so many Americans not only failed it, but are now acting like they’re the victims after doing so

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

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Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs

An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to pe...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Yeah, as a lawyer I don't know what to tell you about "SCOTUS rewrote a 43-year-old voting rights statute to restore the exact holding the law abrogated, which makes the situation worse now than then because SCOTUS's other decisions obliterated the rest of the VRA." No clever lawyering around that.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orban eating shit would be incredibly good news. That was the Epstein/Bannon/OG alt-right pet project for years and their model for how they want to gain permanent power. If they flip every lever there and still lose, there's real hope.

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Birds of a feather 🏳️‍⚧️ @robinyourgrave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Because Vance is a living node in a Russia-funded propaganda machine; everyone should please notice that there is nothing American about having to fly to a foreign country to try to influence its election so that your own career can continue as planned.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Another beautiful Easter message from the President who loves Jesus with all his heart and soul.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

We live in an era where factual recounting of leading figures’ (Musk, Trump, Hegseth) words and actions plus the most rudimentary dot connecting sounds incredibly evil, so many people assume it can’t be true, or don’t want to deal with the implications of it being true, and therefore simply do not.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You really do gotta hand it to Carl Sagan on this one.

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

For actual military commanders to be treating this fever dream as some kind of strategic guide is horrifying and incredibly dangerous.

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