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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As Transportation Secretary, I could always count on a Congressional Republican to take credit for an infrastructure win that they had voted against. That's the type of behavior that makes people cynical about politics - but it doesn't have to be that way.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 06/10/2026

10/6 The story of Senator Susan Collins refusing to meet with 17 female Maine elected officials who went to DC to talk to her about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination #maine #MEpolitics

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And at the turn of the 20th Century, the American people saw the wisdom of antitrust, food and drug regulation, child labor laws, and national park preservation. Let’s go!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congrats, Don, John, Mike, and John, you broke it.

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ramblingj @ramblingj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just got a shipping notice for my signed copy of #AmericanHagwon from Yu and Me Books. I cannot wait!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Think about how long it has been since you first saw headlines about Harvey Weinstein’s violence. Nine years after #MeToo went viral, his case(s) are still working their way through the criminal justice system. This is (one of a long list of reasons) why survivors don’t report.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026

UPDATE: They steal billions from us to build robots that kick the crumbs out of our mouths.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/09/2026

i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything? it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.

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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...

wired.com

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Chaotic Good @indyugh.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

Also we haven't had adequate raw materials for most disinfectants since the US decided to play war. 3M couldn't even make surgical scrub for months. Hospitals were like "use these lesser products and hope for the best!"

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Forget treating Donald Trump as a politician. Donald Trump is a crook.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 03/09/2026

Thank you, Gloria, for fighting to make this world a better place for women and LGBTQ+ people — at work, at home, and in every community. May her memory be a blessing.

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ramblingj @ramblingj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How wonderfully specific… yet, not.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Textbook racist. Piss-frosted incontinent incompetent fucking racist.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

After a lifetime of being prophylactically *pleasant*, I adore being mean instead. I love how being strong makes me embrace the conflict of the dialectic. Let’s. Go.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026

Max Miller is cruel and abusive.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He and his consultants think we are all too stupid to understand a woman trapped in an abusive relationship, with a child, would "act normal" to stay safe. If someone HURTS YOU and they are stronger than you and you can't get away, this is A PROTECTIVE RESPONSE.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We spent early July watching Graham Platner's campaign implode because of abuse; now it's a Republican's turn. Let all this be a reminder of how pervasive violence against women and children is across the political spectrum.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Social scientists have found that when men think their masculinity is being questioned, they may dismiss that challenge as irrelevant, they may quietly feel bad or insecure, or they may overcompensate by trying to behave in a more stereotypically masculine fashion. And that last reaction is where the dollars are. Be a man and buy a gun. Get the manly cereal for men. Wipe your butt with the wet wipes for men. Get the manly-smelling deodorant. Eat the manly steak. It’s no coincidence that gambling apps and crypto companies have spent so much money on ads that make giving them your money seem adventurous.

Just as the manosphere and its galaxy of hucksters want you to fork over your cash so you can feel better about yourself as a man, Republicans want to make you feel insecure about your masculinity so that you vote Republican. Masculinity, in this sense, is a lifestyle product: one that comes with a set of political beliefs predicated on the subjugation of women, minority groups, and anyone else who men are told are their inferiors.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...

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Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026

Have you noticed the tributes to Lindsey Graham don't cite any actual legislative accomplishments that benefited his constituents? It's a lot of "he was a strong voice" & "got along with everyone"- generic stuff you could say about anyone. His actual legacy is fluffing Trump & reckless war-mongering

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Rand Paul, a man deemed unscrupulous and appalling by people who sift through celebrities’ garbage cans to opportunistically cash in on their most personal secrets.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/07/2026

GOOD: A unanimous official statement condemning a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell BETTER: Voting NO on Todd Blanche’s confirmation

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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

YES HE IS - he is destroying the USA, one department by department. He is there only for HIM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

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