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n0z0n3.bsky.social @n0z0n3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

All these attempts to psyop us into accepting their software packages as “beings” rest on the platform built by Citizens United. As unintended consequences go, this one seems pretty apocalyptic

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Grappling with the history of public executions and public tortures is a difficult thing. Humans have made spectacle out of some truly horrifying things. Despite the progress we have made, we are closer to that history than we would like to think.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 07/10/2026

The cavalry began showing up for Ken Paxton on Aug. 20, when Elon Musk's America PAC started spending. Since then, GOP groups have shelled out more than $200 million to rescue Paxton. In that time, the polls have climbed from D+2 to D+4. Via @fiftyplusone.news fiftyplusone.news/polls/senate...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Contrary to billing change over time as our beat, as a historian I'm here to tell you that violence against women is an absolute constant. Not generations but centuries of activism & policies have made that violence only somewhat more public. Our daily news reminds us how and why.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

For the Tompkins County DA to go from "I recognize the reality that it can take years of therapy & healing for victims of sexual assaults to fully process & understand what happened to them" to "the evidence did not support the filing of criminal charges was legally correct" makes my blood boil. 1/

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As is the case in higher ed, calls for civility are actually demands for docility.

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Nayna Gupta @naynagupta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am here in Congress as Democratic Senators prepare to hear live testimony from those hit hardest by the Trump admin’s delegalization campaign—the largest effort in US history to strip protections and status from immigrants, many who have lived here for years. Over 1 million are already impacted.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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RedMaple2324 @redmaple2324.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Know the Party affiliation of judicial candidates, too and then:

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

Rep. Jamie Raskin

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This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News.

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't know anything about this guy, but this is undeniably a clever and fun ad.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026

JD Vance is using AI to kick hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance. These are AI death panels.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski's photo of Trump checking out a Pulte visual aid has now become a court exhibit in Joyce Beatty's heroic fight to save the Kennedy Center. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A picture taken through the rounded windows of what may be the Flying Bribery Palace. Trump is visible, wearing a red cap with a flag on it (probably made in China). Someone who could be Bill Pulte is standing next to him.

Through the next window to the left, a placard from which part of the title can be read: "dy Center DEMOLISH."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

good sentence imho

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.

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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I agree that Republicans being seen as more "elitist" than Democrats is a potentially important transformation, if it sticks. For decades, Republicans have been able to marry plutocratic policy preferences with the claim that they stand against elitism.

Goldmacher: And I think the elitist one is a particularly rough one. This is a term that the Republican Party has used to cast the Democrats as outside the mainstream. And the idea that voters see the Republican Party under Donald Trump right now as more elitist —

michael barbaro
Can you translate that? Why elitist?

shane goldmacher
It’s tied into the ballroom, potentially. It’s tied into the lack of empathy for people’s cost concerns. The single worst finding in this poll is cost of living issues. Trump was at, I think, 28 percent support on the most important issue for most voters. If you had to pick an issue to be really bad on, don’t pick the one people care most about. And so this is the challenge that Trump is facing right now. And he seems disconnected from that reality of how voters are perceiving it.

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Jak @jaksays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The ability to change is a critical part of being a good person

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/09/2026

fresh #video #content: I'm taking stock of the health care policy landscape and sketching out some suggestions as to how we should fix it (Medicare for all) youtu.be/oUJe8a4xuio...

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American Healthcare Is Broken...

YouTube video by Ryan Cooper

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“AI IS INEVITABLE AND YOU BETTER ACCEPT IT AND IT MIGHT MURDER YOU BUT ACTUALLY SLOW DOWN SO WE CAN MANIPULATE THE MARKET A LITTLE MORE” this is all such bullshit.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dear Americans, if there were ever a ‘most impeachable high crime’ by the President, and a ‘most repugnant crime that demands prosecution’ by the DOJ lawyers… faking a crime to charge & arrest an innocent person to please an insane teetering would-be tyrant would be that crime

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's what I think about Trump's pledge to give everyone $5,000 if he wins the midterms: It's as real as Trump's promise to lower costs on Day 1. Check the receipts from Groundwork for the 15 times Trump promised Americans $$$. Remember the DOGE dividend?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Crow: When I'm out in Michigan, Virginia, New Hampshire, Wisconsin—nobody ever asks me about politics on the coast. It's only the other side that's talking about it and they're obsessed with politics in other places. Meanwhile, our candidates are talking about the cost of living.

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Wendy @wlw876.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Important information and a warning her to avoid the Musk voter registration check site. Pass it on. popular.info/p/the-hidden... Pretty sure he’s not just doing it in the US either! This is scary stuff he’s doing.

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A moment to reflect.

Ten years ago today, we shared the first CPSC meme.

I thought I'd be in for a sensible three or four years at CPSC. Job hopping to make more money was the norm at the time. Then, I heard the words of parents who'd lost children in product safety incidents. Almost all of them said the same thing: "If I had known about this hazard, I would have done something to protect my child."

And then, there you are - the person who hears those words from too many parents and every day gets to put your skills to good use to do something about it. How do you walk away from that mission? Where do you go from social media content that saves lives? I still don't know.

In the meantime, I've had the honor of flying our social to the edges of the atmosphere. Hull bending. Warning lights blinking. Cats, dogs, and birds talking safety in meme form across the internet.

Thank you to every leader, supervisor, and colleague who has allowed me to take our social media to unexpected places near and far. It's not easy to say yes to this kind of work, but you always have.

A decade in, it remains a privilege to serve the American people and I am grateful every day for the opportunity.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dear gutless press, WHERE IS SENATOR MCCONNELL. Maybe less breathless podcaster coverage and more, hell, any, coverage of WHERE IS SENATOR MCCONNELL. stop being stenographers and do your job.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/08/2026

The US has built a mythology internally that relies on the entire world to sustain, but to admit this would be to shatter the narrative we have that We Are The Greatest and The Rest Of the World Needs Us And Sometimes We Deign To Help Them.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@adamjentleson.bsky.social argues Dems can’t revive democracy without a supermajority, in part because rebalancing the Supreme Court will take “years.” Both claims are false. A supermajority is a worthy goal, but it can’t be a prerequisite for democratic renewal. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

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This Is How Democrats Talk Themselves Out Of Wielding Power

Every party wants to win as many elections as possible. But a supermajority can not be a prerequisite for democratic renewal in America.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/08/2026

"Disney asked Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, to issue a declaratory ruling that Carr and the FCC are retaliating against them for exercising their First Amendment right — something the president and Carr have effectively shouted from the rooftops." — @lizdye.bsky.social

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Disney runs out of patience with Brendan Carr’s bullsh*t

Mickey Mouse hits back after a year of fascist harassment.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The way the right wing is hysterically reacting to Jon Ossoff’s mere mention of Natalie Harp means he hit a raw nerve. “How dare you suggest that a man who bragged about walking in on naked underage girls at a pageant he owned would have an inappropriate relationship with an employee!!!!”

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nothing he’s saying here should illicit the reaction we’ve see from so many in the admin tonight. He scored a direct hit on something.

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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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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

READ: A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-a-...

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READ: A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated

The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

El-Sayed is Dem nominee "because he compellingly speaks the language of economic populism...and I cannot understand why anyone who calls themselves a Dem or a liberal would oppose this." Great @mjtoma.bsky.social corrective to debate over Third Way + intra-D warfare: newrepublic.com/post/214081/...

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Yes, El-Sayed May Lose. But Democrats Shouldn’t Try to Make It Happen.

The party establishment is lining up behind the Michigan Senate nominee. So why are some moderates throwing a fit?

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

JUST THE FACTS…👇 Ears are made of cartilage. Cartilage does not heal/regenerate without plastic surgery… Trump's ear was never harmed. Trump squashed the investigation into the shooter. You do the math. 😎✨

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

3. One Nation, which collects anonymous donations for Senate Republicans, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on Meta ads driving people to these fake news sites.

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