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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
and we can’t forget the multiple military jet flyovers
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ianneilschmidt1.bsky.social @ianneilschmidt1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We Americans need to start protesting as much as The Albanians do!
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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
40-45 times the usual fireworks. If they were to light the fireworks at the same pace, it would last a bit more than a day.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
NEW FROM ME: This morning, a federal judge in Maryland handed the DOJ its ninth defeat in a series of 31 cases the department has filed to gain access to state voter files. The DOJ has yet to win a single one. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...
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DOJ's losing streak just might save the midterms
We have already sued to block Trump's anti-voting executive orders. If the USPS adopts an anti-voting rule, we will bring litigation to stop it.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ted Lieu: “There is a 24/7 camera that shows the reflecting pool. If someone went into the pool and made a 250 foot gash, it would have been seen trump is lying again. Everyone knows it, but the people at the Justice Dept are randomly going after people to soothe trump’s fragile ego”
U.S. Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) at a press conference. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Treasury just waived oil sanctions on Iran for 60 days — citing "progress." Iran could rake in up to ~$10 billion off that decision alone. In contrast, the Obama admin didn't lift sanctions until a deal was signed and the IAEA independently verified Iran's nuclear compliance.
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readeradrift.bsky.social @readeradrift.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Duckling dead in reflecting pool. This debacle just gets worse and worse
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readeradrift.bsky.social @readeradrift.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bribes
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's easy to shrug off the idiots claiming that the incredibly accomplished politician Spencer Pratt was cheated out of a rightful win in Los Angeles. But they're going to make these same claims in November, so we need to carpet bomb this conspiracy out of existence right now.
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Helen Jeannine @helen-jeannine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#DR26 The U.S. democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times. Within only one year, the USA’s score on the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index (LDI) has declined by 24 %, from 0.75 in 2024 to 0.57 in 2025. 🧵1(4) #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PolDataSky
Graph showing how fast democracy has declined in the USA compared to five prominent cases of autocratization in the last 25 years. The U.S. line show a sharp drop over just two years, while it took Hungary over four years, Serbia eight years, and both India and Türkiye about a decade and Russia almost 14 years to reach the same total drop.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Humiliation for Trump. As expected, Netanyahu ignored his pleas not to attack Iran. Israel struck Iran several times overnight. Iranian missiles are now en route to Israel.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I had dinner w/pharma people a while ago and asked if they are discussing internally, the collapse of science. The response was “yeah, all the time. But we figure that the pipeline is about a decade long and we’ll have made our money and be retired by the time it completely collapses”. Me: ……………..
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
get Juror 96 on the lecture circuit, I like the cut of their jib
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13/05/2026
The Oklahoma governor has been accused of showing “rank political favoritism” to his college friend’s wife after she was sentenced to 8 years for drunk driving and causing an accident that maimed a young woman — but was released with an ankle monitor after having served just 73 days behind bars.
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Oklahoma governor accused of ‘political favoritism’ in DUI case
Gov. Kevin Stitt said that while he did call the Corrections Department about Sara Polston’s case, the 73 days she served after she nearly killed a woman was “too short.”
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case
Judge Breyer: Okay. Thank you very much. Juror 96, I think that you also have strong views. Could you set them aside?

Juror 96: I believe that in a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict. However, in a civil trial, I feel I can set those views aside.

Judge Breyer: That’s interesting.

Juror 96: I’m happy to expand.

Judge Breyer: Sure.

Juror 96: I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race were Mr. Musk to be sent to prison. However, I don’t believe a loss of several hundreds of millions of dollars in a civil trial would be even a drop in the bucket to his wealth, so it doesn’t really matter. Therefore, I would be able to consider the facts.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Open reentrenchment of white supremacy, across the South, at a staggering speed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2026
War is peace
NEW: US military just carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas: Senior US official tells me, but this is NOT a restarting of the war.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
Democratic women are more likely than Republican men to say they could win a fight with Donald Trump
Who do you think would win in a physical fight between you and Donald Trump? (%)


Bar chart shows the following think they would win in a fight vs Trump

Dem men: 82%
Dem women: 71%
Independent men; 69%
Independent women: 46%
Republican men: 46%
Republican women: 19%
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today Howard Lutnick changed his story and avoided taking accountability for lying about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Why is he changing his testimony and lying? Rep. Ro Khanna and Oversight Dems are investigating.
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readeradrift.bsky.social @readeradrift.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
When you wear a white collar...they let you do it
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🎃TimRivard @timrivard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
update: white collar crime is now effectively legal
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just got the following email from the NYC bar association: "Update: All attorneys from the United States Attorney's Offices have withdrawn from participating in this year's White Collar Crime Conference."
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Visas revoked for journalistic outlet board members who criticized Trump allies. Very bad for First Amendment freedoms of the press & to speak truth to power. Fits alongside the attacks on Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, & tech researchers for their free speech. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...
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U.S. Revokes Visas of Board Members at Costa Rica’s Top Watchdog Newspaper
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readeradrift.bsky.social @readeradrift.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I hate the Atlantic for click and shits bait but at least someone picked this up
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Sir, the voters are furious that you keep talking about your plans for a billion dollar ballroom at the White House when they're facing soaring prices on gas and groceries. Please, we're begging you, just talk about something else." "No problem, I got just the thing. You'll love this."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Once again, the kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. I’m sure the eventual books from Haberman & Tapper/Thompson will be fantastic bestsellers, though.
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readeradrift.bsky.social @readeradrift.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Calling Jake Tapper!!!
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the #EpsteinFiles for public display 📍The library is the Epstein files in analog, intended to represent the staggering scale of Epstein’s crimes and the impunity with which he carried them out. www.wired.com/story/a-libr...
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A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York
The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Hegseth today: We’re fighting for freedom and democracy so anybody who questions what we’re doing must shut up and obey our supreme leader.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 01/05/2026
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has treated voters of color as obstacles to be navigated rather than citizens to be represented. This isn't just a setback, it's a structural demolition of the American experiment.
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A Dark New Chapter for American Democracy
The End of Federal Voting Rights Protection as We Know It
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/04/2026
Note: Democrats generally avoid the topic of religion altogether at public hearings for a variety of reasons — especially since some have stumbled while asking such questions in the past. But Reed does so here, and even doubles down after Hegseth's rebuttal — which is unusual.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I said to my students that the Civil Rights movement was ended by a slew of assassinations&they looked shocked.This is something people know but do not interpolate.The mythology that nonviolent strategy equals peaceful politics has been so deliberately&well made that folks are genuinely confused.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Because MAGA is a sex cult.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Trump administration rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men instead
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S....
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Just hours after the Roberts Court legalized stripping Black Americans of representation, Alabama moves to do just that, repeating a pattern begun in 2013 with Shelby County v Holder. Within a day of that decision, Texas & North Carolina advanced broad spectrum vote suppression bills.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 30/04/2026
In the past we had “Jim Crow“ laws. The next phase should be called “John Roberts” laws
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
American soldiers killed and died for this btw
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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readeradrift.bsky.social @readeradrift.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
They are very angry and shit scared about #MeToo too. It's why we have a pussy grabber, rapist as President.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Marking our 250th year by having the British King visit to remind us about the development of the rule of law, while the president reads lines presumably written by Stephen Miller about the transcendent nobility of the mythic English blood.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The widow of Renee Good claims that the federal government has refused to allow access to the SUV in which she tragically lost her life.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The new passports are crazy y'all
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
They have more money than they could spend in 100 lifetimes and they're still terrified of losing any of it. This is scared loser shit. It's pathetic. I just ordered takeout that will cost me more of my net worth than any tax would cost these fuckers. That makes me braver than all of them combined.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/04/2026
Earlier this year, Trump released a bizarre executive order touting the controversial herbicide glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup). Why? Our new investigation shines light on that—and a whole lot more.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have seen no coverage of this in the Anglophone news media.
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