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Rick Coelho (he/him) @rickcoelho.bsky.social · 15h

I an rooting for the Brewers but my buddy has a saying that is appropriate for a moment like that: Baseball is magic.

Rick Coelho (he/him) @rickcoelho.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My wife got through. I didn’t need to wish you luck, I needed to wish you an extra zero or two in your bank balance. I knew it would be expensive but sheesh.

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Rick Coelho (he/him) @rickcoelho.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Godspeed to my fellow Wisconsinites subjected to the whims of the waiting room. May your surreptitious avoidance of work be rewarded.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The immediate task if Ds can take back power is wins. Little fixes, lots of fanfare. A lot of this is because of the electorate. I can’t tell you how angry people are. Across the board they see all politicians do nothing liars—all while the lives of normal people get worse. Book. Immediate. Wins.

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Rick Coelho (he/him) @rickcoelho.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Family used to live just across the border from York County in MD. York County puts the T in Pennsyltucky.

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Rick Coelho (he/him) @rickcoelho.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bonus points for fingering the Moscow trip in 1987.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The victory over Reconstruction was not confined to one state. By the last decade of the 19th century it was complete. The violence was targeted, and the terrorists won. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core

Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence - Volume 83 Issue 2

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not for nothing, but the span from 2012 to whatever we have as a society when we get through this is an object lesson in "They're called the 'humanities' for a fucking reason, you fucking morons."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"for less than an entry level job at google, everyone will know you and hate you, 95% of the time incoherently, and only 5% of which vaguely accurately" which is sort of why we end up with a lot of multimillionaire sociopaths who can brush off the hate and don't care about the salary

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026

My lukewarm takes on the permitting bill draft: - It'd accelerate dirty energy and clean energy. - Anyone who claims to know how much it'd accelerate dirty vs. clean is lying to you and/or themself. - Most important consideration is how it'd affect Dems' odds of kicking fascists to the curb.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026

Good god

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A. Hinson is prob Repubs’ best candidate B. 2024 POTUS margins narrower in OH/FL/AK than IA, which was about same margin as TX, only 3 pts closer than KS & 5 closer than SC C. This is consistent w polls from other races across the country D. Need to take seriously flipping 10 or more Senate seats

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

Musk seems to have genuinely thought the government was Twitter. This was one of the rationales for hiring him - he dramatically cut Twitter’s personnel and underlying costs, and no big deal! But one major difference is that unlike a tech firm, personnel for the federal government is a minor cost. Because federal employee salaries make up only about 5% to 6% of spending, you can fire a huge proportion of them, and barely put a dent in federal spending.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.

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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"moderator of r/doordash by the reddit username u/i_love_femboys6969 attempts to commit an act of terror on behalf of ISIS" is the most 21st century headline I've ever read.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Opinion Haver @asinmarx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A D+9 poll where Latino voters have an above average swing towards Democrats from 2024 implies that an average Democrat would beat an average Republican in Texas, fwiw

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bernie is living off his big hit in 2016, he's that whole Sick Boy speech in Trainspotting about one day you've got it and then the next day you realize you can't hack it anymore

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

lotta people focusing too much on “will Dems blow the Michigan senate race” and not enough on “things are about to Get Weird in places we don’t normally think about”

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026

It's National Suicide Prevention Month, so you've likely heard a lot about 988 and the Crisis Text Line. This is different. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a guide to the numbers you can call before things get to the point of total despair: warmlines and other forms of peer support.

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Peer Warmlines and Specialized Support

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The media is why we have Trump

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026

THE PACIFIC OCEAN HAS TEMPERATURE DEVIATIONS OF 4-6 DEGREES CELSIUS RIGHT NOW AND WE HAVE LOST TRACTION ON CLEAN ENERGY GOALS AND RENEWABLES BECAUSE OF LLMS DRIVING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GIGASCALE DATACENTERS

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Panda Enojado Destruye Monitor en Oficina

Alt: Panda Enojado Destruye Monitor en Oficina

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

Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The next Congress can & must fix this: - No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - No docket control at all in fact - No pay raises - 25 justices - 47 justices - 101 justices - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

I know we're all supposed to be herding onto the anti-data center bandwagon, but man, I worry a *lot* that it's going to overspill its borders & become a more generalized anti-wind & solar, anti-battery, anti-grid-infrastructure, anti-transmission, anti-anything mega-glonzo that leaves us worse off.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 04/09/2026

Getting arrested on a contempt of court bench warrant related to divorce proceedings while you’re serving as an extra on a Christian film set is CRAZY work.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All government contracts obtained during the Trump administration by any company with ownership stakes held by members of the Trump family must be canceled immediately by the next Democratic president. Reverse the corruption on day one.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 31/08/2026

To paraphrase Emerson: means testing is the hobgoblin of liberal minds. Lots of people who like means testing genuinely mean well, but it always becomes a tool for stripping social benefits away from people.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31/08/2026

This idea that the way we survive climate change is through hardscape, essentially militarizing our environment is EVERYWHERE and it is WRONG The way we get through this is connection, community and flexibility. To quote one Bruce Lee, "Be Like Water My Friend"

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 30/08/2026

Something tells me these MAGA goons are not going to like “just enforcing the law” under Nuremberg 2.0

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"The unpopular President calls upon government regulators of the media to make the bad polls disappear" is a statement that can only possibly describe an authoritarian regime.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a good example of what @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have been warning about for years: US tech companies are uniquely susceptible to extra-legal US government pressure (Google isn’t compelled to change Lake Ontario’s name.) Because of this, they represent a direct threat to Canadian autonomy.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

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Jan @butwhosjan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy 30-year anniversary to the Democratic National Convention dancing to Macarena

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.

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Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.

Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My suggestion is to cancel your subscription to any media company that refers to Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I remember when not everything was embarrassing

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