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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 18h

What a lede ☠️ www.washingtonsun.com/sports/washi...

As soon as the clock hit zero, Dan Quinn ripped the headset off his backwards-ballcapped head and spiked it to the turf, in much the same way a well-prepared quarterback of a well-coached team might be expected to do with the football, when his team is out of timeouts and well within range of a game-winning field goal in the final, ticking seconds of a critical NFL game.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

This is correct, but...tomorrow's news today: This will 100% not happen & all the post-mortems will either be about (1/good) how it was individual personalities & not structural factors (e.g., Talarico if he wins) or (2/bad) how Dems' messaging & policies were too lefty (e.g., AES if he loses)

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.

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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is 💯 pct correct:

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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Embarassing moment in American history

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I get that this is SpiderKA$H Special Birthday Boy stuff but wanna point out what a counterintelligence nightmare this is given the UFC/MMA landscape is full of guys cozy with Putin, Kadyrov, MBS, foreign PMCs and legions of oil baron failsons with Instagram pages.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A wild figure from the Kansas Senate campaign. In the last FEC reported donation cycle, Roger Marshall took contributions from 77 donors within the state of Kansas. Adam Hamilton took 3,000

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

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“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's America

Kimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump is basically claiming that he pardoned a crook who didn't deserve it for purely political resasons. This alone is worthy of impeachment and removal; overall, Trump's abuse of power pardons are easy calls for legitimate impeachment and removal. Whether he brags about it or not.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hunter Biden says wtf

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn’t it great that free speech advocates are in power now? After the dark days of America’s Free Speech Crisis (2015-2024) it’s a breath of fresh air. Congrats to the people who stood tall despite the brutal crackdown of the US Cultural Revolution, banged the crisis drums, and helped get us here.

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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges

Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats to UW Madison on the Nobel in Physics! He is an immigrant to the US. Immigrants make up 40% of US wins in science chemistry, medicine, and physics in this century.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All offseason we said CJ Stroud just had to be *average* for the Texans to contend. Instead, he’s been great.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think that evacuating strategic bombers from an allied nation 3400 miles or so from the conflict area is probably a bad sign.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

The unplucked goose
US, revenue from corporate-income taxes, $bn
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If Dems flip executive offices in GOP states, expect lame duck legislatures to strip what powers they can before Dems take over. They did it in NC, MI, WI, and KY last decade. Iowa’s GOP 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 did it in 2026, expecting a loss for governor. But in Texas, Dems could block it by denying a 2/3 quorum

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What is the purpose of having a liar on your show? One in an administration that is barring your network from covering the president? Is to help spread the lies even as you give tepid pushback?

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My father worked in construction all his life, sometimes in physically demanding jobs, and he was explicit that the point of me going to college was so that I wouldn't have to do that. People who work in these trades want better for their children, and that never seems to be part of this discourse

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Scott Crichlow @scrichlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seems notable that none of the pro-Ashley Hinson/anti-Josh Turek ads that are playing during the Iowa State-WVU game mention Donald Trump.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin, but there really is not a Wisconsin Republican Party any longer. When three people are paying for 90% of a gubernatorial campaign and 80% of legislative campaigns, you have a club, not a political party, owned and funded by billionaires.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People do not understand that, irrespective of income, Black people shopped for clothes in particularly dehumanizing ways. In some instances you measured yourself with a ruler before you went to the store because trying on clothes was not allowed. Neither were returns. This isn’t ancient history.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 02/10/2026

Now that I have this travel data I am of course messing around with it further. Here’s all monthly visits Jan 2015-June 2026, smoothed. The size of the Canadian reaction to the Trump administration’s attack on them really is remarkable. Elbows up, Canada. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Big drop in Canadian visits to the US. Mexico trending up, everywhere else declining slightly

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Basically: assimilation is not something immigrants do or don’t do; it’s something US citizens do or don’t do with respect to them. It’s an acknowledgment we can always withhold. It’s power over immigrants that lasts forever.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"tweets referencing divisive issues ... receive substantially greater engagement than tweets about the issues voters care most about" but "candidates predominantly discuss voter-relevant issues" abhinavramaswamy.com/main_(userEn...

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I expect this’ll be used to bypass, then eclipse, & ultimately replace the Chief of Chaplains/Chaplaincy because Hegseth thinks they’re woke since they try to minister to anyone who needs it & wants chaplaincy support.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In July, I led several Senators in a request to the Secretary of the Air Force to disclose how much money is being stolen from taxpayers to pay for Trump’s luxury Qatari jet. Today I got a reply. 100 words. Telling Congress to screw off. Can’t wait for a Democratic Senate!

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