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

The people who told you that Democrats must Only Talk about Kitchen Table Issues and not the Authoritarianism were deeply unserious (not least because this is a false dichotomy) & we should benchmark this when they give advice now & in 2028.

11/18/24 post: pundits and Dem hopefuls insisting Dems must talk only about kitchen table issues

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is certainly true. But this is a failure of democratic leadership, because there's no reason they shouldn't be more afraid of us in 2 years than they are of him now bsky.app/profile/emme...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/08/2026

ok well I have been forced to look at one of The Posts now and I guess I continue to just be like.... so? if you are confident that your AI use is the best possible thing for the future and the world and society, just block me and you'll never know I think you're a ding dong.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Also: the Trump presidency isn't even half over yet, and the maximum alarmists weren't nuts. ICE is operating as a death squad or is at least building up to it. Birthright citizenship nearly died in court. Mass corruption. Iran War. Haitian ethnic cleansing. Concentration camps. It's very bad!

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ain't no party like a pedophile party cuz a pedophile party is only party confirming Blanche

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Venn diagram of “people who promised to leave the city if Mamdani won” and “people who’ve been living here while paying taxes somewhere else all along” is a perfect circle.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ironically, the way mainstream papers lower the bar to give space to middling hacks in the name of ideological diversity is the closest real-world phenomeon to how MAGA imagines DEI works. Does anyone think we’d know the name Mark Thiessen if he were on the center-left competing for that slot?

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 05/08/2026

I never thought I’d see testimonies like this before the U.S. Congress. These are grown men who should know fact from fiction, yet they stand there shamelessly gaslighting the American people & performing for an audience of one. It’s both astonishing & deeply sad to see how far the U.S. has fallen.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There’s really no penalty for Islamophobia in media/political careers in the center, and massive incentives for it on the right

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There’s an intense focus on other forms of discrimination throughout the English speaking world and no attention to no-holds-barred Islamophobia in right wing outlets, and casual Islamophobia in mainstream outlets

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

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Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

CNN producer: El-Sayed is projected to win. Quick, get the biggest fucking loser you can find on air

John Fetterman looking like a dipshit loser on CNN

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Peter K is a sportsball knower compared to those guys @pjkaz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The narrative about “moderation” winning in today’s electorate cannot fail, it can only BE failed

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation.”

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Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Then vow to impeach. Stop pussyfooting around

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

Whitehouse on Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell: "It was to get exculpatory information about Donald Trump and then reward her ... How often does a prisoner allegedly facing threats or danger get moved to a less secure facility? Think about it. It doesn't pass the test of common sense."

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Later, the Seattle Times elaborates on this bonkers theory, saying explicitly that the mayor fired the police chief not for reasons, but because she's trying to "scapegoat" the former police chief to distract the public from her bumbling of a crisis that THE POLICE CHIEF MISHANDLED.

This must happen to assure the public that Barnes wasn’t scapegoated as an inexperienced mayor grappled with the first real crisis of her seven-month tenure.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What a batshit first sentence to an editorial excoriating the mayor of Seattle for removing a controversial police chief appointed by her predecessor, something our mayors have routinely done. The conspiracy brain at play: "How dare this scheming woman try to distract us from her incompetence!"

If Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson believed forcing out Shon Barnes as chief of police would put an end to questions about her leadership and lapses surrounding the Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26, she was very much mistaken.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And here's my piece from last week about his calendar this year (I received 17 weeks' worth), which showed that he was out of town 40 percent of the time that we know about, including four known trips to his family home in Chicago and mostly blank weekends. publicola.com/2026/07/29/p...

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Partial, Altered Schedule Shows Police Chief Out of Town Nearly 7 Weeks So Far This Year - PubliCola

Barnes, under fire after we reported on his absence from the city during Sunday’s mass shooting, had planned a half-dozen…

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Update: I asked SPD about KUOW's claim that they said Barnes' travel was no different than previous chiefs. They told me that's not what they said—according to the spokesperson, SPD told KUOW his travel to major police conferences like IACP was normal, not his frequent trips to his home in Chicago.

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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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Paul Chapman @poulchapman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

…when the story should have been about how SPD failed to issue any public information. How Chief Barnes held up information because he wanted to review it after he returned from out of town

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Erica Van Houten @epvh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The “heads we win, tails you lose” plan is pretty obvious. Immediate narrative after the shooting was “how could she let there be an absentee chief?” Then as soon as he’s gone it’s “how could she run this consummate professional out of town?” Police should live where they work.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Saka & Rivera bout to lose by double digits. Juarez not even elected. Hollingsworth will have to face the 2nd most progressive electorate in the city after signing off on everything Sara Nelson dreamt up & running council like a Republican from Broadmoor. These are dead enders flinging poo. Ignore.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The fact they're going full ragemonkey the week after the council majority just got their asses handed to them by Wilson on universal school meals is pretty telling. Tilting the scales, concocting a mirage of outraged consensus abt an absentee police chief who ran his dept like an honorary sinecure

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

It is “funny” that there are bums who wake up every morning and think to themselves, “i want nothing more than to simp for the pedo slaver aristocracy of the antebellum south”

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

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”

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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bruce Harrell hired Barnes, previously the chief in Madison, WI, with no public process; he received a $50,000 bonus to come here. I first reported a year ago that his family home is in Chicago; he rents an apartment here. Barnes makes $373,000 a year and is frequently out of town, as I've reported.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Multiple Sources Say Police Chief Barnes is Out; Mayor’s Office Not Responding to Questions The chief has been under fire over his frequent trips out of town, after flying back from Dallas partway through a planned two-week absence to respond to a mass shooting at Seattle Center.

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Multiple Sources Say Police Chief Barnes is Out; Mayor's Office Not Responding to Questions - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett On Wednesday night, multiple sources in several branches of city government told PubliCola that Mayor Katie…

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This story is so insanely 2026 -- I can't say how many times we double-checked that we had the right domain because of how uncanny this all is. But it's true: CambridgeAnalytic(dot)Org is now an AI-powered zombie site churning out slop content about data, privacy, AI, tech, and pop psychology.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 30/07/2026

me when im suffering from mercury poison and also im the emperor of china

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JT Cestkowski @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Blanche is now the subject of multiple federal court orders and rulings questioning his integrity and honesty and that of the DOJ. And he’s probably still going to get confirmed.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Racism is all #they have.... it's who #they are. Without racism #they have nothing.

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