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R D Thorsett

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19h
Sharing this because NYers who are unenthusiastic about casting a vote for Kathy Hochul need to know that the alternative, Bruce Blakeman, is a genuinely evil piece of shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/n...
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Blakeman Launches Graphic Attack on Mamdani in Meeting With Hasidic Jews (Gift Article)
While seeking support from Hasidic leaders, the Republican candidate for governor, Bruce Blakeman, said Mayor Zohran Mamdani would not act if riots hit their community.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21h
just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Slightly later I was a fairly early Fleetwood Mac adopter, but senior year in high school was mainly defined by disliking the really awful top-40 pop that seemed endemic (Seasons in the Sun, Having My Baby, You and Me Against the World...)
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I really don't think the MAGA base follows the poll discourse....
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Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Voting in local elections including for school boards really matters. Kudos to progressives who run for election.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In any normal parliamentary democracy, the no confidence vote would be taking place tonight.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nothing has ever been more real than the Trump Putin collaboration
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There seems something almost 19th century about his style to me... I think maybe it's the slightly more form-fitting tailoring and the short-but-still-obivously curly hair...
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Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔵 Kotek signed a bill protecting Oregonians from predatory lending [1] 🔴 Drazan voted against protecting Oregonians from predatory lending [2] 🔵 Under Kotek, Oregon joined lawsuit to protect vote-by-mail and challenge Trump’s attacks [3] 🔴 Drazan sponsored bill to restrict the mail-in voting
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh
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MYinSF @myralevysf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And do the work of talking with voters. At the door or on the phone. YOU can do it! 2026.indivisible.org?_gl=1%2Aqhzi...
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Home - Indivisible's 2026 General Election Program
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 08/10/2026
Remember that a blue wave might not crash evenly across all areas. In fact I believe it will wash further ashore in red states than in blue. Polling hints at an anti-incumbency drag, regardless of party. So to blue state Dems: Do NOT get complacent and assume easy victories in your elections.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
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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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's seeing the legality or illegality of abortion only as grand statement about "the value of life" and not as something that shapes --in the most fundamental ways -- the real lives of actual people.
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How does he think it's about "what kind of society they were going to live in" rather than "what kind of family they were going to have" and what kind of life they -- the particular individual -- were going to lead??? 1/
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An old-fashioned expression because it's been barred by international law for several decades now.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Or if books count, the poison mushrooms in Barbar
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Pinocchio
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think it's generally not good that the intrinsically difficult problem of adjudicating student-on-student sexual violence on campus is now administratively seen primarily through the lens of Title IX compliance, & that each new administration in DC announces a new set of micromanaging rules.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You wouldn’t believe how much this is true
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the things I completely don't get is: even if NY law makes it hard to bring a rape charge, a whole bunch of other illegal stuff was going. Where are the charges around serving alcohol to under-21, let alone "encouraging" ketamine use???
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dems haven't had a singular king-maker in the way R's with Trump, so fewer hopeless hacks have made it through primaries.
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is why i’m not interested in “Bibi told Trump to do this war so it’s Bibi’s fault.” Bibi had told every president since Clinton to bomb Iran. It’s the President’s job to know when a foreign leader is being a bloodthirsty idiot and NOT LISTEN TO THAT GUY. This war is because of Trump.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s always been my view that she should run for Senate. She can handily win and keep this seat. And she’d be the right hand a democratic president needed and a legendary lioness of the senate besides. She’s shown real talent as a legislator & the caucus respects her.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They can't all be this stupid. It's obviously a tactic to send the ACA into a death spiral.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can only conclude from this that not enough of our aspiring fascists played sim city
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Schwappek @schwappek.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this story is truly 2026 in a nutshell. AI is super intelligent. but it's expensive. so it'll pass off your task to a grunt in the phillipines. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oregon, let’s talk. Yes. I know many of you are frustrated. I hear you. Things are hard right now. Everything is expensive. Christine Drazan will hurt us. Tina Kotek is willing to hear our feedback and criticism. This post is not paid for by anyone. #NotSponsored
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nuclear regulation developed for low-chance, high-risk scenarios. Similar to the risk of AI. A simple place to start is mandatory incident reporting. If something goes wrong, everyone gets to know. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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How Much Would You Pay to Prevent the AI Apocalypse?
And what economists say we should spend. Hint: we're nowhere close.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent post on the vile Russell Vought. "Russell Vought is the kind of man who would deprive every child in America of a drug that saved his own daughter’s life because it advances his own."
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If your goal is to break the system...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.
The White House •
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WALLE HOUSE
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Communism directly opposes the United States
Constitution and American values.
While every Democrat voted against the largest tax cuts in American history and over 100 refuse to condemn socialism, President Trump will ensure that communism never has a place in America.
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PLACE IN AMERICABenny Johnson • • Follow
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TRUMP TV IS OFFICIALLY LIVE 24/7
The White House just launched "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station" — a nonstop stream featuring President Trump's speeches, major announcements, past highlights and administration updates, refreshed in real time.
The launch comes amid Trump's escalating fight with
CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which have sued his administration after being barred from White House access.
Americans can now watch the White House's own selected footage and announcements DIRECTLY,
24/7.
The media landscape just changed in a BIG way. •*
TRUMPOV
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Amanda Hoey @amandahoey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I like Abdul El-Sayed, I hope he wins the Michigan Senate race, and he is absolutely correct to put as much distance between himself and this idiot streamer as he can.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I always enjoy when Obama gets in on the imagine if Obama did that game
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 18/09/2026
This is absolutely mind blowing. The RFK-ization of our nation’s healthcare system encapsulated in one video clip. This was unthinkable even a few years ago. Such a disgrace.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026
It is a philosophy that always devalues life in the moment that is lived. Longtermerist thinking always makes us expendable, in every time.
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
HUGE NEWS: Just now, the US Supreme Court rejected Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting. We’ll keep fighting to ensure Oregon’s elections will be safe, smooth, and accurate this November and beyond. #orpol #oregonelections
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
there is no presidential candidate jon ossoff unless keisha lance bottoms is elected governor of georgia. why? we can’t afford to lose that senate vote, so he would need a democratic governor to replace him with a democrat.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
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R D Thorsett @rdthorsett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have wondered if states can have the National Guard deliver ballots.
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