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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I am reflecting on the three perfect words in our Constitution that were written by imperfect people: We, the people. ALL OF US. Those words guide my campaign for Congress. votejustinj.com
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/10/2026
In a win for Americans, a federal judge ruled the Trump administration must stop the taxpayer-funded propaganda. But U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon was concerned about how the admin moved $20 million in less than two hours. Support us in holding Trump accountable: demdock.com/3TDHBhv
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richardob.bsky.social @richardob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Resolutely pro rapist.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.
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richardob.bsky.social @richardob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Persia.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jon Husted doesn't give a damn about working people, and no amount of dark money can convince Ohioans otherwise. We're going to win, billionaires are going to lose.
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richardob.bsky.social @richardob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.amjamboafrica.com/the-alleged-...
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richardob.bsky.social @richardob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
… where in Boston? …
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How can they justify leaving right now? Diesel costs just hit an all-time high. Our nation is at war. The bond market is quivering. The urgency of AI regulation has come to a critical moment. Congress should be working overtime. Instead Speaker Johnson sent them home.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/09/2026
BREAKING: In a win for voters, Missouri will not be able to use its gerrymandered map for the midterms after the Supreme Court refused to wade into the state matter. The denial from Justice Brett Kavanaugh ends a year-long bid by Missouri Republicans to grab another congressional seat this fall.
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In big win for voters, Supreme Court won’t revive Missouri gerrymander before midterms
The Court's order ends a year-long bid by Missouri Republicans to grab another congressional seat this fall.
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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New, one-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 Black Wall Street Narrated by Kahlil Greene #WeAreAmerica250 #RaceMassacre #BlackExcellence #GreenwoodDistrictTulsa youtu.be/dcB2Fd1tUxY?...
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Black Wall Street, Narrated by Kahlil Greene
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🌺Red Hibiscus🌺 @redhibiscus23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Seattle understood the assignment
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I had an incredible time attending the Farm Progress Show in Boone. It was great seeing the incredible new technologies available to our farmers, and discussing how we can better support farmers at the federal level.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 01/09/2026
From our August poll: Here's what voters really mean when they say the Democrats should "fight" more, in their own words www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-01...
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What voters really mean when they say the Democrats should "fight" more
81% of Democrats say their party should focus on ending Trump's corruption, while 54% want it to prioritize affordability. In open-text response they write leadership should "put regular people first”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/09/2026
"JD's whole political identity is that he is fighting for one group at the expense of others." @timmiller.bsky.social slams JD Vance over his attacks on Abdul El-Sayed.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fingers crossed for @markey.senate.gov, the great progressive who brought the Green New Deal to the Senate and who's stood on principle in so many ways that matter.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/09/2026
Whether out of ignorance or dishonesty, DSA is not understanding or presenting the Nordic social democracy model accurately to its American audience:
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The DSA and the Real Lessons of Scandinavian ‘Socialism’
Today’s American socialists love to namedrop the Nordic model—but they don’t mention that it works because of capitalism and broad-based taxes.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/08/2026
Karoline Leavitt performed perfectly well the job of press secretary, as defined by an administration in which everybody’s main priority is to lie on television, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
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How Karoline Leavitt Debased Her Job
In an administration where everybody’s job is to lie on television, the role of the press secretary is redundant.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/08/2026
New in PN: Desperate to appear strong, Trump shows pathetic weakness "How many voters watch him changing the name of a lake, then posting deranged AI slop in which geese w/bouffants carrying assault rifles march to seize Lake Ontario, and say to themselves, 'Wow, I'm definitely voting GOP now!'"
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Desperate to appear strong, Trump shows pathetic weakness
Renaming stuff isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/08/2026
It’s not an easy task to look crazy by the standards of Trump 2.0, but former U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino managed it in his interview with Tucker Carlson, posted yesterday.
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A Dream Delayed Will Not Be a Dream Denied
The country that beat fascism, communism, and Jim Crow still has some promise left.
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Minnesota Mary @minnesotamarys.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2026
The Imagination Library, founded in 1995 by Dolly Parton, has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But the organization is not immune to the state-level budget cuts threatening public libraries and other educational nonprofits across the U.S. trib.al/9X75g83
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is the Bush/Cheney legacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Judge Throws Out Key 9/11 Confession as Tainted by Torture (Gift Article)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 28/08/2026
When Trump blocks clean energy, he raises your costs. Period. Worse, he’s doing it on purpose, to steer your money to his cronies’ expensive fossil fuel plants — a payback to his big donors, at your expense. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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Clean energy still beats fossil fuels on cost, despite, well,…
Even as renewables lose federal incentives and face other hurdles, Lazard finds onshore wind and large-scale solar again have the lowest levelized cost of…
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 29/08/2026
“A second wave of movies about childhood wartime experiences appeared around the time of [WWII]’s fortieth anniversary…. Amrum may be the last of these memory films.” —J. Hoberman
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Ghosts of Amrum | J. Hoberman
The story of Amrum—a German movie about the last days and immediate aftermath of World War II as experienced by a twelve-year-old boy on the isolated
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richardob.bsky.social @richardob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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richardob.bsky.social @richardob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A Challenge: Identify this place. I know you know …
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/08/2026
in fairness, i can see why N. Biggar might want a little leeway here specifically
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 18/08/2026
Offering options to vote early has been shown to increase turnout, shorten lines at polling places, and strengthen voter confidence. Here’s how it works: bit.ly/4y5yhSb
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A Guide to Early Voting
Many Americans will vote before Election Day.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New: the National Park Service is using Flock. Current/former rangers I spoke to are pissed. “I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.” www.404media.co/the-national...
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The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
These guys really want to have this conversation? OK. What’s the legitimate reason she‘s the president’s constant companion, by his side 24/7? Does the president need round the clock medical assistance?
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 18/08/2026
We tested how well chatbots can debunk election falsehoods. Our research shows they can fight election disinformation, but they can also be used to generate deceptive images. Watch The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/4xLCvxX
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Americans deserve a government that makes housing, healthcare, and basic safety within reach for ALL Americans, not just the lucky few.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this from upenn's student paper is worth reading as the term starts: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought."
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Editorial | Penn has an AI problem
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern says that "countless others whose First Amendment rights have been chilled by Carr’s antics should follow Disney’s lead," stating that "it's about time for someone to take Carr and his FCC to court over their endless campaign of intimidation."
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM
Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms."
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
New in PN: "Suckers & losers" as policy "Trump doesn’t see himself as a public servant. Rather, he sees himself as a king, entitled to the reverence, awe, & lives of everyone he surveys. Servicemembers aboard the USS Lincoln should spend even longer at sea just to prove what a great job he's doing"
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"Suckers and losers" as policy
The plight of the USS Lincoln lays bare Trump's disdain for the troops.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The five biggest defense contractors spent more than $100B on buybacks and dividends since 2020. I have a simple question for defense contractors: If taxpayers are giving you billions to build military equipment, why are you buying back your own stock? This needs to stop.
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Craig Wright-St Clair @craigwrightstclair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As I walked out the north gate with my small box of belongings, I finally understood the warning: “Be discreet.” The White House had needed me. Trump officials had known I was trans from day one. This hadn’t been an issue until it was public—­and then nothing else I’d done mattered. Not my service, not my war-zone tours, not even which restroom I used.

I was the wrong kind of American.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“No one has affirmed my gender identity quite like Mike Pence. On my last day, I gave him a letter. I wrote: ‘I’m a trans­gender CIA officer, a wife and mother—­and I served the Vice President. Anything is possible in America.’ ...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
... I told him many people at the CIA hadn’t believed that a trans officer like me could serve someone like him. “‘Well,’ he said, ‘I’m glad I passed the test.’”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/08/2026
“Trump officials had known I was trans,” Julia Curlee writes of her time as an intelligence official staffed to the White House. “This hadn’t been an issue until it was public—and then nothing else I’d done mattered.”
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 17/08/2026
Such a joy to be in conversation with the very thoughtful @kateshaw.bsky.social on Strict Scrutiny about ON COURAGE Topics discussed: - Revolutionary playwrights! - Lawyers doing badass things! - The best iPhone settings for authoritarianism - Turning your community into a political force & more!
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Trump LACKEY Swears in Trump HENCHMAN (w/ Liz Oyer)
YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
OK. Folks are asking for my research seminar AI statement in my syllabus. Here it is. I just wrote it. Might still tweak it.
I want to emphasize this. I see our time together in this seminar as a kind of pact. I do my best to give you a love of the topic under debate and to make you better writers; you, in turn, give me your best in class and in writing without Al assistance. Our mutual meeting place --student to teacher -- matters to me tremendously; I teach because I want to give you something of value. Use of AI erodes our pact, devaluing my teaching and your efforts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Paxton, when asked about Talarico hiring Cornyn's Deputy Legislative Director. "I guess if you get offered enough money you make the move." (Paxton was previously impeached by Texas House Republicans for bribery and corruption.)
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