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Scott Forbes

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This is my personal account and these are my personal opinions, which are mostly about politics, but may randomly be about other things.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13h
This is one of the most maddening thigns about this court: Not just the substantive rulings, but how they think about “irreperable harm.” If the Most Special Boy has to wait a month to do a thing he REALLY wants to, that’s irreperable harm. Actual large-scale human suffering? Meh.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 6h
I'll say it again: It doesn't matter what Democrats say now, or intend now. They will impeach Trump, because he won't give them any choice. So I hope they're preparing themselves for it.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10h
I heard through the grapevine that Sen. Eric Schmitt has 18 staffers on his legislative team: 17 men and one woman. The woman on his staff deals exclusively with foreign policy, which means today's disaster during the hearing was all by conservative men who don't know sports.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14h
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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ArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I support Rahm Emanuel running for President because he might distract the wrecker caucus online long enough that they fail to ratfuck the actual eventual winner because they were so obsessed with making sure he failed to reach 5% in New Hampshire.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 13h
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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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 10h
The greatest playoff performer in Atlanta Hawks history
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 10h
It's a myth that's more unbelievable than Bigfoot, crazier than CRT and wilder than "wokeness." Its existence can't be supported by scientific, historical or biblical evidence. Yet we believe it. There is no such thing as an "evangelical Christian"
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Media’s Little White Lie: There’s No Such Thing As an ‘Evangelical Christian’
How evangelical Christianity became part of the biggest myth in American media.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18h
It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.
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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 18h
On the one hand, conservatives deny climate change exists and oppose policies to address it. On the other hand, liberals haven’t convinced conservatives that climate change exists and haven’t offered pain-free solutions. Hence, it’s complicated.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 18h
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 22h
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social In light of the recent news out of Cornell, it is far past time to update New York State's rape laws and bring the bill closing the "voluntary intoxication" loophole back to the floor for a vote. Women are watching. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/n...
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New York’s Rape Laws Leave Out Many Victims Who Drank Willingly
Prosecutors say accusers who chose to drink or get high have a “very high burden” of proving they were physically helpless and unable to consent. There is a push to change the law.
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is also The Plot to Enslave America — monomanical focus on destruction of our education system comes first
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
The settlement trade ban initiative has already proven to be more effective at shaping Israeli action than virtually anything else done by the West since 1956
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Israel's AG postpones West Bank E1 construction tender until after election
The attorney general's office said the deadline for bids on more than 2,100 housing units should be postponed by a month to prevent the internationally condemned project from being used for election c...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s pretty funny because there’s actually no possible way to cancel her: she’s been wrong about everything possible and people repeatedly point that out but she still has a job writing the same warmed-over culture war tripe every week as a columnist at WaPo. She’s proof cancel culture isn’t real.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That meme about sending men off to war on ships was actually praxis and theory
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Scott Forbes @scottforbes.net · 28/09/2026
During the dot-com bubble I worked for Lucent Technologies, which at the time was one of the most widely held stocks in America. They were making barrels of money selling networking gear to all the high-flying startups… and then the bubble popped, and sales went from $$$ to 0¢ in a single quarter.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Scott Forbes @scottforbes.net · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name The Beastie Girls
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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How did they proceed to get rid of the president? They passed a law they knew he’d violate. He violated it. They impeached him for it. I love those guys.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been surprised by how much capital has been willing to sell out the labor it needs to operate but I guess everyone has a limit
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is, btw, entirely a product of Wilson Derangement Syndrome that we are still talking about why a press conference in July didn't happen sooner than it did. If you rely on mainstream press for your news, you'll think this is all that's happening (that and rampant murder sprees across Seattle ofc)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When will reporters ask Republicans why they’re taking campaign help from a white supremacist named Elon Musk?
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just one observation about this proposal (link to my coverage below): It's extremely Seattle for the sponsor of a bad bill say "we're out of step with other cities" when those other cities have tried this and seen it fail abysmally. Our response is never to learn from other cities' failure.
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Strauss Legislation Would Require RV Residents to Get Permits, Accept "Appropriate" Shelter - PubliCola
RV residents who violate the permit terms— for example, by declining shelter too many times or failing to “comply with…
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We? Bitch YOU do the messaging for Democrats, and it’s always “be more like Republicans.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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