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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Breathtakingly bad polling. If the political class hadn't preemptively declared him immune to all laws of political gravity, they'd be calling this a failed presidency and talking about resignation, impeachment, party splits, and other historical markers of full executive-branch collapse.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the Republican party HATES New York City — the people who live here, the ways we live, the things we value. repeatedly stating New York is dirty, sinful and dangerous is not just a side issue for them, but a critical animating belief not only do i not buy their sympathy, it infuriates me

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a Jewish person who has long been concerned about antisemitism, I think it’s fucking bananas that Republicans’ biggest donor is a neo-Nazi and that’s not really a political scandal—but we’re constantly talking about whether my friends on the left have a problem.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hey remember when the media and gop freaked out when bill clinton spoke to the attorney general for five seconds?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I dare you all to read this. Trump is a fascist, and the people hassling college professors are goons. But there is no denying that there is a real problem in academia and there has been for 40 years at least. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Why I Quit the Tenure Track

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It occasionally bears repeating that under a Dem admin this would be a world historical scandal. With Trump, journalists more or less ignore it, or accept plainly nonsensical explanations (he's shaking hands so much he had to use his off hand I guess)

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's an understudied element of our media environment that Republicans can insult Democrats in any way they see fit, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/04/2026

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If you live in a state w/a competitive Senate election, or if you're in a competitive house district, call the Republican and get them on the record whether they think the Republican Party should be coddling adjudged terrorists (like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/04/2026

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I am pretty sure that if a Democratic US President was in office, lashing out at the supreme pontiff, and blasphemously depicting himself as the savior, the headlines would describe this papal response as defending the church and not “hitting back.”

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“Democrats should not withdraw this growing demand for Trump’s removal” bc 1) “Trump chickening out does not obligate the rest of us to unsee what we all saw.” 2) “it’s correct to insist on a debate over Trump’s fitness for office in light of everything that’s happened in the past month.”

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

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RuffLandings @rufflandings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The real cure to the “male loneliness epidemic.”

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 06/03/2026

This is the way.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/02/2026

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy !

Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 11/02/2026

James Van Der Beek (1977-2026) 🤍

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This has a lot of implications well beyond this case. Many people put these devices in/outside their homes to see who is at the door or watch their pets becuase they think it’s livestream only and not recorded. If companies like Google and Ring have magic backend data, we need to know about it.

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Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’

It’s not yet clear how the FBI collected the video. Experts said in some cases it’s possible to collect data from the complex infrastructure that has enabled cloud-based cameras.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

They're still inflicting considerable, real harm, using the actual state power they _do_ possess to hurt people and destroy lives, but the movement increasingly feels like a backlash to itself -- the world was SUPPOSED to be different, so why wasn't it? Who lied to us? Surely not ourselves!

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privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

An underrated good the next Democratic administration could do with virtually zero actual political blowback from voters would be to come in with anti-trust laws like a wrecking ball and break up media and tech companies. It would fuck up The Other Side, too.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ICE agents act like they have no oversight because Republicans in Congress and Trump gave ICE $75 BILLION in the Big Ugly Bill (by cutting health care funding). But Congress has the power to claw back those funds to stop ICE’s violence.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator. It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 28/01/2026

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

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xpostfactoid @xpostfactoid.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The Franks' situation once summoned to a labor camp is analogous to that of refugees in Minnesota targeted by Operation PARRIS, who are summoned to ICE meetings and then shipped to Texas for detention and interrogation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

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They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

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atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove. donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.

What Is the Disqualification Clause?
Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment states:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Precisely the conduct that a federal judge held to be illegal on Friday, and which ICE continues, oblivious to the federal court order. This is a lawless organization.

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION The world has come to know Adolph Hitler for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints. In the course of relatively few years he has contrived to usurp such tre- mendous power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered millions of people without even firing a shot. When the world became tired of being frightened and concluded that it was all a bluff, he initiated the most brutal and deva- stating war in history - a war which, for a time, threatened the com- plete destruction of our civilization. Human life and human suffering seem to leave this individual completely untouched as he plunges along
the course he believes he was predestined to take.

Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amuse-
ment. Many people refused to take him seriously on the grounds that "he could not possibly last." As one action after another met with amaz- ing success and the measure of the man became more obvious, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. To most people, it seemed inconceivable that such things could actually happen in our mod- ern civilization. Hitler, the leader of these activities, became generally regarded as a madman, if not inhuman. Such a judgment, concerning
the nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory to the man in the street. It gives him a feeling of satisfaction to pigeon-hole an incomprehensible individual in one category or another and having classified him in this way, he feels that the problem is solved. All we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane indivi- dual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state
of affairs.

This naive view, however, is wholly inadequate for those who are delegated to conduct the war against Germany or for those who will be delegated to deal with the situation when the war is over. They can- not content themselves with simply regarding Hitler as a personal devil and condemning him to an Eternal Hell in order that the remainder of the world may live in peace and quiet. They will realize that the madness of the Fuehrer has become the madness of a nation, if not of a large part of the continent. They will realize that these are not wholly the actions of a single individual but that a reciprocal relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and that the madness of the one stimulates and flows into the other and vice versa. It was not only Hitler, the madman, who created German madness, but German madness which created Hitler. Having created him as its spokesman and leader, it has been carried along by his momentum, perhaps far beyond the point where
it was originally prepared to go. Nevertheless, it continues to follow his

lead in spite of the fact that it must be obvious to all intelligent people
now that his path leads to inevitable destruction. From a scientific point of view, therefore, we are forced to con- sider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people, not only in Germany but, to a smaller degree, in all civilized countries. To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure. It would be analogous to removing a chancre without treating the underlying disease. If similar eruptions are to be prevented in the future, we cannot content ourselves with simply remov- ing the overt manifestations of the disease. On the contrary, we must ferret out and seek to correct the underlying factors which produced the unwelcome phenomenon. We must discover the psychological streams which nourish this destructive state of mind in order that we may divert them into channels which will permit a further evolution of our form
of civilization.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/01/2026

The reality is that ICE and DHS actually CAN and ARE attacking people who are exercising their rights. I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We just had a week that changed everything, including my view of impeachment. Before: Wait until 2027. Now: Embrace it in 2026 and hold hearing-like forums to spotlight the many articles of impeachment filed against Trump and his cabinet. My latest @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/embracing-...

thebulwark.com

Embracing Impeachment

The case against Trump and his cabinet keeps growing—and the argument for waiting is no longer convincing.

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

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