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James Click Admirer

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you see bipartisanship like this in the Senate, always be wary. This is advancing a bill to union-bust college athletes.
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Bennet (D-CO)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Hawley (R-MO)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kennedy (R-LA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moran (R-KS)
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Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Scott (R-SC)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Smith (D-MN)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Warner (D-VA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)
Young (R-IN)
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”
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What Texas A&M Will — and Won’t — Let You Teach
Newly obtained records reveal that two courses for the fall were canceled outright, while administrators demanded changes to others. Instructors say the deliberative process is a black box.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/06/2026
i think this is treated as a proxy for "do you want to let tech titans guide us towards their version of future?" and people are struggling for ways to say "no, we want a more democratic process for deciding who to be."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I waited a while to write this one. The time finally felt right.
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A tale of two media women
On Bari Weiss and me, and what journalists owe this world.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
a big part of being a republican is cutting programs that keep disasters from happening because we dont need to try to prevent something that isnt happening
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Another red alert for American science
Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:
Social media analytics for different platforms and screenshots of James Talarico speaking on stage in his clip across platforms.

There's a lot of data in the analytics and it shows that Bluesky has the highest engagement rate with the least amount of followers at 19.62%
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Many of Trump's second-term judicial nominees share his commitment to resegregating American institutions. For that, they are being rewarded with lifetime judgeships (and yes, almost all of them are white). My new @ballsandstrikes.org piece: ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...
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How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary White Again
Many of the president’s nominees share his commitment to resegregating institutions across the federal government.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/06/2026
Republicans and Democrats all compete together in the unusual primary to set the one-on-one race in November. Two Democrats and one Republican were in close contention. n.pr/4u7C8eR
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California's primary for governor is undecided as candidates vie to be in the top two
Republicans and Democrats all compete together in the unusual primary to set the one-on-one race in November. Two Democrats and one Republican were in close contention.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Bari Weiss butchering of CBS News(max) continues. So dark. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/sco...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net. The Trump administration is not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. They are revolutionaries undermining the constitutional order. Any competent response from Democrats needs to face this reality squarely.
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I think on some level Bari Weiss probably sees herself as a “real journalist” and not especially a Trump fan. But she is also, at her core, before all else, a oleaginous lackey to the wealthy and powerful, and cannot comprehend how those values are incompatible with real journalism.
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James Click Admirer @ramzeldamsel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If there’s ever been a sweet spot for Divorced Republican Election Twitter lmfao
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We all complain about headlines on here, so we should be ready to praise this one, which gets it exactly right (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
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White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants
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will @willduh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
again i argue threads is actually what people think bluesky is lol
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Here’s how I ended tonight’s report: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ala...
In addition to the majority's degradation of voting rights with Tuesday's order, Sotomayor also noted the broader problems of the order:

“In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court's decision inflicts two grave harms on the public. It debases the democratic process by upending Alabama's entire election in the name of permitting Alabama to discriminate against Black Alabamians. It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama's gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders.”

The Republican appointee supermajority on the Supreme Court did corrode the rule of law on Tuesday, debasing not just the "democratic process" but also the court by short-circuiting its precious processes and undermining its legitimacy — all to let Alabama kick a Black person out of Congress.

That is what "our colorblind Constitution" apparently requires under Chief Justice John
Roberts's leadership.
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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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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/06/2026
calirornia voters boldly asked “could we get a governor worse than gavin newsom” and they discovered yes, easily
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Anyways, the existence of a Guardian Council selected by a priesthood is completely incompatible with democratic self-government, and establishing that consensus is a prerequisite for any actual structural reforms.
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Delegitimizing the Juristocracy
A week ago, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for Southern states to reimpose discriminatory maps that strip representation from A…
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
American journalism and the American legal establishment are very similar actually; both demand all the rewards and accolades of fulfilling an important role in society while violently rejecting any of the obligations. Both defined by fawning sycophancy that they've defined as courage.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Yes because leftists like myself actually care about the platforms and policies of candidates and not labels and meaningless “experience” bullshit
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/06/2026
We took it for granted, we let it be killed right in front of us, and now we're going to find out what it's like to live in a society where there's no way to reliably know what's going on. History suggests it's not going to go well.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.
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James Click Admirer @ramzeldamsel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It is so embarrassing that our media ecosystem is rotting by the hand of these whiny fucking losers. I mean good LORD how do bitch and moan about your own cultural domination while canning your opponents
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Well, about that:
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
scott pelley's litigation objective
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Every structure of power in this country is desperate to cling to, reclaim, and retrench its original sin, and that is unfortunately why I fear America is fundamentally unsalvageable. I mean I think I can think of ways it can be salvaged but to speak them is a crime which only strengthens my point
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/06/2026
my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
There was a mass shooting yesterday near my hometown in Iowa, killing six people plus the gunman, and gun shootings are so common in the U.S. that I didn’t even hear about it on social media or national news; only from my parents. It’s believed all were family members. www.abc27.com/news/update-...
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Seven people dead after Muscatine shooting; school district responds
UPDATE: The Muscatine Community School District has sent a letter to district families in response to shootings that left seven people dead on Monday. “Dear Muscatine Community School Distric…
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.
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Ben S. Pumpkins @benzajdel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It’s infrastructure week at @channel6.bsky.social
A Channel 6 newsletter subject line arguing for the nationalization of Taco Bell
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
i hate everyone in this administration so much
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's a well placed fear. Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 20/01/2026
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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Honestly might be the most incredible story in college football history.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’m dying, he’s like hey look at us, two winners, just two guys who like winning, unlike the rest of you losers I have to see all day.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Tired: resist him Wired: make him fall in love with you!!!
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 14/10/2025
blake i will see you in hell, which for him is probably a large and diverse major city
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Jason Voorhees Darr @jasondtx.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I'm constantly thinking of the moment on Game of Thrones where Cersei mocks Ned for thinking a legal document would protect him and tearing it up in front of him.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
He doesn’t act like he’s going to have to survive through a democratic administration at all, and we should take that seriously.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You can think what you want, but from where I sit there is no indication Trump intends on giving up power in 2028, and we should just assume he’s not.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The president of the United States, wearing a novelty hat that says he’s always right and sitting next to the World Cup trophy he stole, insists that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are demanding he invade Chicago with the military.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Kind of funny how they finally admitted that they thought that the problem with "cancel culture" was that it was cancelling their Nazi rapist friends and not people who evidence even a minimum of progressivism.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It's a Saturday night massacre every day of the week in Donald Trump's America.
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