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Machine Gun Netiquette @nodurians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

look, this type of communist talk may go over just fine in Kentucky, but good luck trying it in Washington state

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026

So close and yet The far right's real weapon is the mainstream elite hyping it to distract from the crisis of democracy. It's not rising because it's popular or because immigration is a "legitimate concern", it's rising because it is being built as the only alternative by those currently in power

The Guardian view on the far right’s real weapon: it is the politics of powerlessness
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From Dover to Saxony-Anhalt, extremists thrive when voters believe established parties can no longer deliver security, prosperity or meaningful change

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is the sort of thing that sounds insane but Americans, if they have not already, need to grasp that Ottawa would be insane NOT to treat Trump as a massive threat to national *integrity*

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026

and what makes them less qualified? well, don’t you see that they are black people and women (and sometimes black women!)?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

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Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power

What does a power-shifting agenda look like?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Alito: doesn’t look like anything to me bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As I've said many times, Republicans want to frame the election about a choice between parties' policies while Democrats' best election strategy is to make the election a referendum on Trump. Reporters and pundits focused on the few DSA candidates are providing in-kind contributions to Republicans

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is why, speaking as a reporter who has covered a lot of this stuff, I find it bizarre that a lot of the commentariat don't see where anti-trans stuff is going. Gaines et al are pretty clear about how they see sports as a way to win battles that bathroom stuff didn't like a decade ago.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The president is a liar. He lies constantly & without hesitation. His lies about American elections are among his most dangerous b/c they are meant to convince a susceptible public that democratic outcomes cannot be trusted. They are antidemocratic lies in service of holding onto power. He’s a liar!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

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Truth Without Reconciliation

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

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Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.

Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

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

Vile: Mike Johnson just said GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using sleazy new language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is very much alive. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2127...

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Trump’s Vile New Birthright Stance Is So Toxic, Even Fox Admits It

Mike Johnson is now floating a “legislative fix” to birthright citizenship. That’s an assault on the Constitution—and a vote that vulnerable Republicans will hate, if recent polling from Fox News is a...

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Trump’s speech then segues from talking about Americans as “a breed,” to talking about “our culture” and the existential threat posed to it by those who would criticize the country. As if being critical of America isn’t the most American thing ever.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The GOOLLLLLLLL while he’s clearly fighting back tears…..electric

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

To be quite blunt, the Court is undermining the legitimacy of the Constitution itself

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026

absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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My claim is not that the framers were 21st-century progressives. But there is little doubt that they understood themselves to be universalists and opposed to all distinctions conferred by birth, even as their own position within a patriarchal slave society blinded them to the full implications of this universalism. The fact that they failed to recognize these implications does not mean they didn’t exist; Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martin Luther King Jr., and Harvey Milk were among those who saw the Declaration of Independence’s full meaning even more clearly than Thomas Jefferson did. Each of them enlisted the Declaration in the liberation struggles of their own time. Closer to the present, even the late philosopher Charles Mills—one of contemporary academia’s sharpest and most eloquent critics of the latent racism in Enlightenment liberal thought—called for the left to embrace political liberalism.

If we accept the premise that the meaning of America’s creed goes further than its original authors grasped, that leads us to a couple of other conclusions. First, it suggests that the American Revolution is, in fact, unfinished; that the Civil War, Reconstruction, the New Deal era, and the Civil Rights movement, among others, can be understood as efforts to bring this revolution to completion. Second, we can conclude that the cosmopolitan and egalitarian ideals of the founding, once unleashed on the world, are too powerful to stuff back in the box for very long.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026

i really, truly, find this offensive

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

this to me, is the promise of america

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In a world where a growing number of people embrace blood-and-soil nationalism, it's nice to see a video where a national team says you can proudly represent the country no matter where you come from.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Elements of the worst case scenario for autocratic consolidation in the United States can now be readily identified in our daily news feed. Ho-hum, just another day of...*checks notes*...federal agents pursuing an organized, coordinated program of election subversion & civil society intimidation.

FBI raids Ohio voting-rights organization

“Just straight up intimidation tactics”: Sources tell MS NOW agents also fanned across the state, showing up at staff members’ homes.

FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.

Agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of the group’s leaders and staff members, carrying some subpoenas and seeking information and electronic devices, according to the people, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive ongoing investigation. Members of the group had made contact with lawyers on Thursday to determine their legal options, the people said.

Agents were “basically trying to fish for information,” said Haney.

“They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask,” Haney said, adding that agents “asked them if they’re committing voter fraud, just on their doors, in front of their houses with their children, and just following them to work and school.”

Haney said some of the people said the agents approached without warrants.

“Just straight-up intimidation tactics,” he said.

Those sources familiar with the investigation said they are concerned this new effort in Ohio is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to sow doubt and distrust in voting integrity in key swing states ahead of the midterm elections.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Watching Europeans discover our culture is delightful.

Why did no one tell me ranch sauce is like crack? EUROPE WE NEED RANCH ASAP

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Would be nice if the USMNT players and coaches said something to push back on this racism. As the host team, they have a higher obligation to make such gestures and hold a more privileged position to do so than visiting teams and delegations.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

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It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Suspending elections is not a thing that happens in democratic countries.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It’s interesting what some people consider social problems that we must solve collectively (men being sad) and ones we consider not worth solving at all (anyone else’s problems) bsky.app/profile/volt...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

In 1982, when Congress passed a series of amendments strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lawmakers wanted to make one thing very clear: that minority voters seeking to prove violations of the Voting Rights Act do not have to prove that lawmakers intentionally discriminated against them based on race. Instead, under a provision of the law known as Section 2, Congress said, it is enough for voters to show that a given policy—a redistricting plan, for example—has the effect of making it more difficult for them to actually participate in democracy.

At the time, Congress had good reason to be specific. Two years earlier, the Supreme Court in City of Mobile v. Bolden had held that a facially neutral electoral map did not violate the Voting Rights Act, even though it had the practical effect of reducing Black voting strength. In the 1982 amendments, Congress explicitly overruled Bolden; in its final report on the bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee affirmed that requiring challengers to prove discriminatory intent would impose an “inordinately difficult burden,” and would make it too easy for racist lawmakers to disguise their true motivations by leaving a “false trail” of non-discriminatory justifications.

In Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court decided on Wednesday, the six conservative justices took it upon themselves to reimpose the “inordinately difficult burden” Congress lifted five decades ago. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito strains to present Callais as faithful to the law passed by Congress: His opinion, he says, merely “updates” the tests that courts use to evaluate Section 2 claims, and “realigns” that framework with the text of the Voting Rights Act.

In reality, what Alito and the majority have done is make it functionally impossible for voters to prove that a given map is an illegal racial gerrymander, no matter how discriminatory the map’s real-world impact. Their opinion in Callais preserves only a husk of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, leaving intact the ability of minority voters to cast ballots while simultaneously guaranteeing lawmakers’ power to ensure that those ballots are meaningless. Going forward, the same racist lawmakers whom Congress sought to bind in 1982 will be freer than ever to draw lines that gerrymander their Black and brown constituents out of electoral existence.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026

there is something genuinely clarifying and useful about this kind of stuff. they are totally hoods off and proud of it, which means we should not hesitate to describe them accordingly

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is straight up, Nazi "dual state" shit. If a naturalized citizen commits a crime, we have mechanisms in place to hold them accountable. It's called the legal system and it applies to all of us. This extra targeting of only *some* people accused of crimes is part of a broader, expulsive project.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

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