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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was deservedly embarrassing for the Senator and his staff.

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Aaron @aightandsound.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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Do not go gently into that hot tub! A luxury spa is the wrong way to remember
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All Oregon media talking about Christine Drazan being a couple points ahead in a poll, and I'm over here still thinking about this post she made when there was a man in a chicken suit standing outside the ICE Building.

A September 27, 2025 Facebook post from Christine Drazan reading: "The ICE facility in Portland has been subject to months of dangerously chaotic protests that have put residents and federal agents in harm's way. The governor's assertion that there is no national security threat and the mayor's assertion that everything is fine is tone-deaf. It's shameful that state and local leaders have allowed violent mobs and domestic terrorists to assault federal law enforcement, destroy property, and interfere with those seeking immigration services from obtaining assistance and case management. We need order, we need to restore safety, and Oregon's local leaders have failed to provide it."

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.

forever-wars.com

Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Plucky underdog Jess Pegula bests the fates, again gets the lucky break

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How it started… how it’s going

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

GOOD PARENTING RIGHT HERE,!!

A kid says his favorite band in public enemy and draws a picture of them

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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

And I hope never to see or hear D*vid Beckh*m again

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

3/ A party that somehow managed to ensure absolutely zero support from Black voters would effectively insulate itself from claims that maps it drew satisfied the Gingles preconditions for VRA liability. This is insane.

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Where racism becomes intrenched in partisan politics (and how many more of us have GOP-aligned family, former school friends etc freely posting racial, islamaphobic garbage online now than, say, 15 years ago) racism in redistricting becomes just another partisan activity, and thus sanctioned

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Justice Jackson’s concurrence in the 14th Amendment case is one of the most patriotic texts I’ve read recently. Well timed for dark days.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

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John Hollinger @johnhollinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

how was this only 6-3 (or really 5 1/2 - 3 1/2). Absolutely insane nutjobbery.

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So, every time Justice Thomas wrote an insane dissent from 1991-2005, that dissent is now controlling law. Got it.

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Basketball Fan, of the Sixers and LeBron James lmao! @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When it’s time for penalties

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Why retire before letting all of your best friends know first

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Awful news this morning — one of Oregon's best reporters has passed away, all too young. His absence will be felt by the media and by the public at large. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

oregonlive.com

Zane Sparling, reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive, dies of cancer at 33

“He wanted his identity to be a reporter, and that’s what it was,” his father said.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

i was trying to remember what the trump bday mma thing reminded me of and its the parties billy Madison has every time he progresses a grade

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Two former USMNT players are insufferable, emotionally broken, attention-craven, online trolls. The rest of the US Soccer media ecosystem is basically fine. This is my non-AI summary of Tom’s thoughtful reporting

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A colloquy that succinctly captures America’s hostage status with its federal government

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The people politically loyal to Graham Platner are, largely, rural people. The people baffled by political loyalty to Graham Platner are, largely, not; and do not understand that the things they consider demerits are a foundation of his political appeal. open.substack.com/pub/rickperl...

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"But Did You Die?"

On trauma, rural life, and Graham Platner

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Of course it will all work out. Take off your hat, Donnie, the air feels fine. Look across the river, Donnie, and I‘ll tell you so you can almost see it. We gonna get a little place.

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Dr. Cujii🔞 @cujirotic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

June 1st

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Patriotic Sunday: USMNT on the teevee, Jon Ossoff rally livestream on the laptop #GoGoUSA

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It appears that many of us dads in traditionally gendered household labor allocation roles discovered around 2020-2021 that, in fact, the other half, with the seemingly inglorious domestic tasks like preschool dropoff, errands, etc, was having all of the fun

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wonder if this might have some Streisand Effect for those Americans who somehow previously missed this litigation.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u... Fundamentally doesn’t get what makes us, us

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Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

/7 This encapsulates how Trumpism and Trumpist prosecutors have destroyed, probably for a generation at least, the reputation of DoJ and federal prosecutors.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hey hey, slow down there, Senator Antifa

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“The American people are a lot less homophobic than they thought they were supposed to be,” Frank said. “More racist, unfortunately, but less homophobic.” RIP to a legend. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

politico.com

Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left

The former Massachusetts lawmaker says progressives in his party have “embraced an agenda that goes beyond what’s politically acceptable.”

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Tonight was a big win for Tina Kotek. Ed Diehl was the strongest GOP OR-GOV candidate since Dave Frohnmayer and the choice between him and Kotek would have been clarifying. Instead, Republicans went back to the well with Christine Drazan. Kotek is deeply unpopular; also, Kotek is now the favorite

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scotchpope.bsky.social @scotchpope.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Chris Dudley survived this Shaq dunk. A 68,000 gap is nothing

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Court decided in Shelby County’s favor; in her dissent, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that Section 5 had “worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes.” Nullifying it, she warned, is “like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

The deluge is enough to refill America’s whites-only pools. The vaunted “progress” the justices cite at every opportunity to justify gutting the VRA was a result of the law effectively neutralizing racial discrimination, not an absence of the desire or intent to discriminate. Scalia’s remark that the VRA was a “racial entitlement” is illuminating in the way that statements from many ideologues are, in that they express their own motives rather than those of their targets. Until 1965, democracy itself was a “racial entitlement” in America. Much of the Republican Party is trying to make that true once again.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A judge in WY just dismissed 9 cases w/o prejudice bc Trump's US Attorney told the GJ: 1) They were all murderers (just one is accused of murder) 2) They “did what you are going to hear about.” Deliberations won't take long 3) Told grand jurors they were getting slam dunks.

3 bullets. They describe that the US Attorney:
1) Handed out business cards to grand jurors
2) Told the foreperson DOJ was only given GJers "slam dunks"
3) Asked for a list of grand jurors

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

THE SUPER BOWL FCC COMPLAINTS FINALLY PUBLISHED www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is how I party.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In other words, the 1st A protects you when you say “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” Unless you say it to some armed knights under your command and nod in the direction of Canterbury Cathedral.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

THIS is fucking backbone and judges using the rule of law to fight corruption.

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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Trump slowly evolving into dril

Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"Putting it all together, and we’ve devised a grim reality for younger Americans. If you want to watch porn or place a prop bet, the wind is at your back. If you want to go to college or start a business, the wind is in your face." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | We Are Gambling Away Our Future

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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⚔️ Michael Whitney @michaelwhitney.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Think about how many brains are being absolutely COOKED by sycophancy right now

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