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Not just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20h

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read the whole thread, but 1000% right here. It's literally my job to teach people how the system works. The system is imperfect and maddeningly complex, but it's also comprehensible. You can comprehend it. And you can also (as part of a group) use it to make the world better!

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And as icing on the cake, granting certiorari on "[s]uch other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case" is a giant flashing neon sign that the fix is in www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of the most maddening thigns about this court: Not just the substantive rulings, but how they think about “irreperable harm.” If the Most Special Boy has to wait a month to do a thing he REALLY wants to, that’s irreperable harm. Actual large-scale human suffering? Meh.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

weird who gets a response in 11 minutes and who gets one in 6-9 months!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone with no expertise in this I am delighted to see many of my priors confirmed, including "private school vouches are expensive dogshit" and "banning cellphones is not a panacea." 🙏

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wait Trump is blackballing CNN and Tapper is still bringing cabinet-level officials on air? Words cannot describe how gutless and sad this is. All the courage of a used piece of bubblegum.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 27/09/2026

It really is a wild fucking piece, presuming that we're not at a point culturally and technologically where the vast majority of people have curated and maintained their own personal musical bubble that is basically impenetrable. We're not listening to radio and watching MTV anymore; it's not 1986.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Woke up today to see that we're all getting yelled at for not having heard of some popular country song and folks, if we're listing popular songs I've never heard, we're going to be here for literal years. Not every demographic quirk is a "liberal silo."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/09/2026

It’s always silly when judges insist that they are magically nonpartisan and have no political beliefs, but it’s especially funny when you have a long track record of saying things like “ANY REPUBLICAN IS BETTER THAN ANY DEMOCRAT” (all caps in original)

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Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”

Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of saying, "US Supreme Court lets Trump…" as if SCOTUS speaks with one voice, the media should specify who voted for this. In this case, it's the six conservative justices.

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US Supreme Court lets Trump deploy voter database ahead of midterms

Ruling boosts the president’s efforts to overhaul election rules before the November vote

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👇 "Just win the next election & go back to governing like it's 2015" is not a strategy. It's delusional nonsense.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No one believes impeachment will work in 2027-28. But if Dems aren't even going to try, how are they going to have the will to adopt the institutional reform agenda (👇) we're going to need to become a real democracy? Again, just winning elections forever is not a strategy. It's delusional in 2026.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We simply are not going to get out of this by just winning the next election & going back to governing. We can't keep doing this total failure of elite accountability. We've been doing it since Iran-Contra, & really since 1865. And we keep not fixing our broken anti-democratic institutions. Enough.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026

I always get a lot of grief online when I write that the solution to America's problems cannot be "Democrats win every election forever." That's not democracy. The solution is having at least two parties where the major center-right and center-left parties accept liberal democracy.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026

More generally, pundits who interpreted 2024 as a permanent public embrace of Trumpism were wrong. Anyone a major party nominates can win. Power will alternate between the parties. No party will win long-term supermajorities. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think that was the idea amongst optimistic centrists. But unless you find a way to give him actual consequences, it doesn’t matter. Consequences matter. Moral approbation only works with politicians who mostly try to be ethical and fail

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know we're all used to Trump embarassing us on the world stage. But we are truly a rogue nation. A rogue *superpower*, and need to be sanctioned and defeated by the international community.

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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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billiecat @billiecat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't care that his co-conspirators will not vote to convict, I want Democrats to impeach him early and often. If nothing else, it will be a record of the many, many crimes this administration has committed for future generations. #ImpeachTrump #EarlyandOften

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The absolute silence - and stated approval by many Republicans - about these murders from our elected leaders in Congress is abhorrent.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/09/2026

This will be bullshit. "Appointed by the company's board of directors" is all you need to know.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

consultants should all be telling D candidates to enfranchise DC. the surest way to help moderate the 2032 effects is to have 2 solid d senate seats. there is absolutely no messaging that will have a bigger effect.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Periodic reminder that copyright law has, since the Statute of Anne, been primarily a form of industrial regulation for the creative industries. It has also largely been designed and drafted by the creative industries.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/09/2026

From my personal experience people don't want to pay you to tell them they can't do anything about, eg, the very likely anti-Dem. midterm backlash in 2030 (or, gulp, 34). But it's true. So consultants make up stuff like "Kamala Harris would have won if she ran anti-trans ads"

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Weird, she ‘moderated’ on trans rights and yet her opponent is still calling her a deranged leftist SJW. If only there was some kind of precedent for this so it could have been predicted in advance.

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