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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

That's a Rhode Island record. In Boston, this didn't match the April Fools' Day blizzard of 1997, let alone 1978. I was flying back from London in 1997. The pilot "pulled some favors" and took off early, landing at 1:50, before they closed the airport at 2:00 (scheduled arrival 2:30).

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I find it really incredible that the concept of “vote blue no matter who” is so hard for some to grasp. It doesn’t mean “all Democrats are good.” It means “vote for the Democrat against the Republican.” In their November races, Fetterman, Masto, Platner, Booker, Newsom are the correct choices

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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If your parents say things like “China is going to eliminate The Stanley Cup” you need to have the hard conversation about elder care solutions

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If you knew who Dick Cheney was, you were in a class of high-info voters who Kamala won

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter. It’s 2026 and one of the few Republicans who seem capable of acknowledging that 2+2=4 is the person who was first politicized by Qanon.

I support American's 1st and 4th amendment rights.
There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing.
MAGA, consider it like this.
We lost our minds when we watched Biden's FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest on peaceful J6'ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors.
Imaging if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6'ers house while Biden's
FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest.
Then Biden's FBI goes to the MAGA guy videoing it all and shoves a woman with him to the ground and sprays them with bear spray then throws the
MAGA guy to the ground as MAGA guy was trying to help the woman off the ground. Then Biden's FBI beats MAGA guy on the ground, disarms MAGA guy, and then shoots him dead.
What would have been our reaction?

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Law is a technology, and it has saved easily as many lives as antibiotics.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

All this talk of the 25th Amendment is great, but I repeat: it was never designed to deal with a senile or malicious President who wouldn't go quietly. If Trump pushes back, it takes a 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress to oust him. Impeachment is a lower bar. (And yes, we should do that.)

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Roger Reynolds @rreynoldsjr1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Hey, NATO/EU: He’s a liar. He’s a fraud. He doesn’t have a mandate. 80% of us can’t stand him. We want you to do what our Congress won’t do, which is stand up to him and tell him to go fuck himself.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The condescension from some of these people is off the charts. You think we aren't doing everything we can to oppose Trump? Fuck off and enjoy your peaceful, well-run democracies and at a minimum have the decency to shut your mouth.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Don, slamming down an Uno card on the chessboard- “BINGO!”

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16/01/2026

The first step is to admit that you fucked up massively by refusing to do the One Simple Trick which would have prevented ALL of this: Filling in a little oval next to the Black lady’s name on a piece of paper. OWN your colossal fuckup. THEN we’ll listen to your ideas about how to fix things.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

One possible frame for this running debate is that, for the repliers' world to come about, a variety of other institutions would have to fail, amounting to total constitutional collapse. Is that possible? Yes, more than many of us realized. Is it here? No, and it's less likely than it was 6 mo. ago.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is not a novel observation, but I really don't think the admin quite understands the level of radicalization that is happening to opposition elements that were not previously radicalized in the slightest.

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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The digital editor of the National Catholic Reporter has written the most cogent and hard-hitting critique of JD Vance I've ever read, worth a thousand couch jokes www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

[slaps roof of liberal institutions] this bad boy can assimilate everyone and everything, provide shared prosperity, and the only culture it can't tolerate is intolerance need to end decades of civil strife? generate economic growth? have you tried LIBERALISM? order now, supplies are unlimited

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.

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P Collirigger @pcollirigger.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Stewardship. Understanding that you didn't make it, you don't own it, but you are 100% responsible for it and responsible to it. The polar opposite of Trumpism.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/12/2025

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I'm all for giving people different transport options and making cycling and transit into good ones, but I am always entertained by anti-car advocates who simply refuse to believe that people drive because it's fast and convenient, or think the world would be better if they made it so it never were.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/12/2025

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have.

"So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Analogizing the EU to the Nazi regime is embarassingly ignorant of history, and it's shameful that our new national security strategy seems to say that those promoting international cooperation in Europe are bad and those trying to rehabilitate violent nationalism are good

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I have every expectation we'll have an economic crash at some point. And I expect it to put an end to the use of AI to replace human labor to about the same extent the dotcom crash put an end to the Internet. We'd be wise to focus on how to make sure AI's benefits flow to all, not just a few.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Looking ahead past 2026-28, one of the biggest risks to the Democratic party is that it adopts the mantle of opposing technological progress.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 07/12/2025

The Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Liberty and equality for all in a constitutional republic. Not blood and soil nationalism. America is not an ethnostate where your rights depend on ancestry.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The MAGA left is fascinating. I bet this guy will claim he is against what ICE is doing to immigrants, and yet he will be working hard in the coming years to make sure it continues.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I love this political tack and I encourage Republicans to keep repeating it.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I shouldn't be surprised by this, but apparently the National Park Service is doing a fee-free day at national parks in June for President Trump's birthday. Seems like a good time and place for some No Kings rallies...

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

When we talk about refusing illegal orders, this is what we mean.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”

So, we asked Pritzker to weigh in on the go-to debate for every "Star Wars" nerd: Which movies are the best? Here's his ranking of the 11 major films in the series:
1. "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980)
2. "Star Wars" (1977)
3. "Return of the Jedi" (1983)
4. "Rogue One" (2016)
5. "The Last Jedi" (2017)
6. "Revenge of the Sith" (2005)
7. "The Force Awakens" (2015)
8. "Solo" (2018)
9. "The Phantom Menace" (1999)
10. "Attack of the Clones" (2002)
11. "The Rise of Skywalker" (2019)

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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It seems worth getting very crisp on whether the presumptive 2028 Republican nominee for POTUS agrees with his boss that members of Congress should be killed.

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"If Democrats don’t change course, they won’t just lose a constituency; they’ll lose a critical governing asset," Wendy R. Anderson writes. Here’s what Democrats should do:

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Opinion | A suspicion from 2016 is becoming Democrats’ monster

The Democratic Party is falling behind while Trump accelerates technology innovation.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/11/2025

a take which I thought was too basic to write up but I clearly should have written up lol was that one underrated success of the 2024 Trump campaign was to manage to make it *look* like the Kamala campaign was back-to-back culture wars, they did a very good job on that front!

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The Biden administration could be pretty damn good if we don't have the fallout from COVID to deal with and had a leader who was less ancient and better at communicating and keeping the groups in check.

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zinā' warrior princess @melifonos.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

even if/when we make through to 2026/28 it's a temporary win unless we commit to doing Reconstruction For Real This Time

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/11/2025

I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not

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PlayfulPiano (he/him) @playfulpiano.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Do you call for Schumer to step down as leader by the end of this year?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

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'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

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Darjeeling Tea Ltd @darjeelingltd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

All the yes votes came from Senators who are retiring or not up in 2026. Voters spoke clearly on Tuesday. We wanted a fight. Dems now know reopening is an electorally indefensible position. So they plotted to give themselves cover. Why? They’re afraid of their own voters. Good. They should be.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10/11/2025

Hey 2028 Dems, You should call for Schumer to go now. I promise it'll only help you.

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