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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 11h

They are overt white supremacist misogynists

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 15h

Fact check: true.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 15h

Truly it is a victory for all of us cool-uncool bookish creative sensitive weirdos ❤️

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h

This was my reaction too and I don't even know whether the "we" is humanists, women, people with the ability to read, Canadians, fans of Sappho, fans of Emily Dickinson, translators, classicists, or people who appreciate the feelings of sad red monsters. Either way, yes

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 16h

oh my god we won

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 11h

Well that would have ruled against Musk.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 11h

Garble garble garble. He doesn’t even pretend to respect the public by giving a misleading but defensible argument.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16h

Fun fact about Obama and Susan Collins: In 2009, Collins was a firm NO on passing ACA. The other Maine Republican, Olympia Snowe, was torn—voted yes in cmte, then no on floor under GOP pressure. By 2017, as ACA became popular, Collins got behind it, voting to sink a repeal bill.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Social Security is a sleeper 2026 campaign issue. Senate candidates like Talarico (D-Texas), Turek (D-Iowa), El-Sayed (D-Mich.), Osborn (I-Neb.) are calling to lift the payroll tax cap to avoid a 22% benefit cut. The shortfall hits in 2032, or six years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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Senate candidates run on raising Social Security taxes for higher incomes to prevent benefit cuts

Social Security is projected to dip into insolvency and force a 22% benefit cut in 2032, or less than six years, meaning the class of senators elected this year will have to address the issue.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 16h

This is some timing. We just led this morning's newsletter with #MN01! A Dem group called Your Community PAC has spent $1.5 mil so far to help Jake Johnson flip a conservative seat that has remained out of Democrats' grasp ever since Tim Walz opted to run for governor in 2018.

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Morning Digest: The House battleground has moved deep into Trump turf

We look at three longtime GOP districts that are seeing heavy spending

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 16h

And Trump wants more of this!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Chalian: "Look at Donald Trump's approval rating in the Buckeye State. He is down to 36%, 28 points underwater."

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 16h

See…a humanities degree helps you realize that “Cat’s in the Cradle” isn’t a guide to successful parenting.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15h

New from me for MS NOW (part of deal with 50+1): Republicans have a bad candidate problem. Democratic candidates are viewed more favorably than Republicans in every Senate battleground, sometimes with a net gap (fav - unfav) up to 20 points higher (Paxton v Talarico) www.ms.now/opinion/ken-...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15h

the nerds have taken over ms now

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

This whole thing is why the Butlerian side is so attractive—people who could have been doing something else instead have to do actual work to try to prove that an insultingly inherently absurd use case is in fact worthless

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.”

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15h

FiftyPlusOne is proud to announce a new deal with MS NOW to provide polling averages and interactive data journalism for digital and broadcast platforms!! blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

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FiftyPlusOne to power MS NOW’s midterm election coverage

We will provide data for use on MS NOW shows and websites, and build custom polling and election interactives for the midterms

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

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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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 18h

Republicans have spent around $2 million to defend a Nevada seat that has *never* elected a Democrat in its more than four decades of existence. But GOP nominee David Flippo is a particularly bad candidate who keeps getting unwelcome questions about his record during his time in the Air Force.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

New in PN: Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet "Should November be the disaster for Rs that analysts predict, Trump will morph overnight into something less than a lame duck POTUS with a ticking expiration clock: he'll become politically bankrupt in ways all-too-familiar to him as a businessman."

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Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet

His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 18h

And LOTS of new surveys in our Poll Pile, including several that were released this very morning.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

in case it's not clear this is a commentary on the defenses I'm seeing from some surprising quarters of Trump daydreaming about cities in California getting nuked

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Trump cratering by many fresh metrics: *approval below 35% *underwater in every red state with competitive Senate race *Ds +8 in generic ballot *Rs admitting their gerrymanders might not deliver *Rs privately fear "worse than 2006" On the pod we bring you all of it: newrepublic.com/article/2163...

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Trump Polls Take Brutal Turn as Allies Grow Rattled: “Worse than 2006”

As Republicans start fearing they’re heading into George W. Bush 2006 territory, a leading forecaster explains how Trump’s low approval is expanding the map for Democrats in hidden ways.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17h

Good pts from Kyle. Many indicators are significantly more Dem than 2018, including POTUS approval and the generic ballot, but the big diff is Democrats are polling about 6 points better on average in red-state Senate seats

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17h

👀 fiftyplusone.news/polls/govern...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h

an interesting list. everyone's got their elections to watch this. and this includes some of the standbys. but what's different is the focus on stuff close to wired's reporting, races turning on data centers, doge vets, etc. www.wired.com/story/wireds...

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WIRED’s Midterms Races to Watch

From data centers to Elon Musk funding to the AI lobby, the 2026 midterms are the most WIRED elections yet. These are the candidates we're following closely.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 17h

After a few days in San Francisco having intense discussions with leading AI folks, it's clear that there's a universe-sized gulf between what they think their tech can do and what the rest of the world is expecting. Someone is going to be massively wrong!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20h

imagine explaining to yourself in 2015 that Canada will be replacing the UK in the EU

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 16h

Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile?

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 13h

The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:

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Poll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans

Plus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 23h

—Martha McFerren, “Archaeology at Midnight”

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 23h

But in the dark I dream about the altars. Knossos with the roof off. Newgrange. Malta.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 23h

all kept me back. I also lacked the spleen for its vendettas: who'd become whose mentor; the provenance of jumbled figurines a major stew about each little splinter

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 23h

Always I've dreamed of archaeology, the pots and beads that decorate a death; the gold. Poor health, an inability to master languages, and general sloth

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 23h

His knees drawn up, my husband lies asleep, so like Tollund Man — the sacrifice found pickled in a bog. He sinks night-deep, a similar repose upon his face.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"My kingdom for an eel!"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here is a link to the CourtListener page. I've purchased all of the relevant documents to make them available to anyone here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/74798...

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Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

More interesting research that shows the relevance of understanding the deep past to understand the present and for making sustainable decisions for the future theconversation.com/colonisation...

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Colonisation, not climate change, first primed these forests to burn

For more than 800 years, frequent cultural burning kept this land as stable, open woodland.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 08/10/2026

Happy birthday, Sci-fi Queen. 🥳 Sigourney Weaver has also voiced a spaceship two times (the Female Planet Express Ship in Futurama, 2002, and the Axiom from Wall-E, 2008).

Sigourney Weaver in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026)

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 23h

This is why anthropologists need to keep writing and speaking. Forces that are inimical to creating better knowledge are as strong today as they have ever been.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23h

This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“There! There,” I say, “is a memory worth keeping.”

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So, one by one, I drag them across the page and when one cuts into the white, leaves a trail of blood, no matter how narrow the stream, then I know I’ve found the real thing, the diamond, one of the priceless gems my pain produced.

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