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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah. Also... We can't know. But if another 2.3M Dems in CA, NY, IL, etc. had voted for Harris? No change in the EC but there's a decent chance that a lot of the compliant behavior from the media, universities, law firms, etc. doesn't happen...and *maybe* Hegseth et al. don't get confirmed.

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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 05/10/2026

This is the same as “too many people found out about a thing I like”

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Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing is that we have lots of historical examples of new communication media drastically reconfiguring politics. It's not a unprecedented phenomenon

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

why can we never just have housing. why does every single fucking development in this god damned giant city have to get snipped at and corner cut to appease nobody but random thumb-twiddling municipal paycheck-cashers and unemployed retirees.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore

The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

In 2016 people revolted against North Carolina bathroom bill. 10 years later and the country is up in arms over 15 athletes and there are Democrats who are insisting that this is a real concern. It is not. I won't pretend that it is. I won't say nice things about people who are pretending that it is

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Best editorial I’ve seen all year from the Chicago Tribune yesterday. It’s undeniable that local communities have historically been excluded from consequential decisions, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. We now live in an era defined by weaponized resistance to change.

editorial: Northwestern's Ryan Field, Amtrak, Emanuel, Quantum, O'Hare Flyer all beset by objectors

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 08/09/2026

Facebook as currently constructed is incompatible with multiracial, multicultural, electoral democracy

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/09/2026

It’s very surreal seeing social media algorithms suddenly start pushing German-language AfD content while in Germany 4 of the first 5 reels on my Facebook are just AfD posts, plus one random Star Trek reel (I’ve never engaged with AfD content other than checking their FB page for event info)

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Milwaukee Ave Bike Lane @milwaukeeavbike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sorry to be a hater but the fact you need to wake up super early on a Sunday (and pay a fee) to enjoy a car-free DLSD is a sick joke. If you get there at 9, you have 90 minutes before rolling closures begin. G-d forbid drivers are inconvenienced. ATA has been content with scraps for 25 years.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/09/2026

Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. The New York Times tracked the activity and found evidence of patrol roads and vehicle barriers already being built. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/46JAhUc

An image of a road along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. A white square box is on the image with the word "excavator" above it.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 28/08/2026

Wrigley Field bike/stroller valet on a weekday day game

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Josh @shuabragg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This dude’s gonna lose by like 20 points lol

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E J Foxie 🦊 @ejfoxie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tornado warned storm front viewed from Navy Pier in Chicago, today

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If El-Sayed crushes Stevens tonight, as seems likely, it would be nice if we could finally do away with this notion that AIPAC can single-handedly buy elections. If anything, this race shows how much their influence has diminished inside the party over the past few years. Good riddance, too.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

jeanine pirro spent years as a trump shill. she wrote books defending him. she spent hours on tv dancing around for him. but she has the wrong genitals and said he was wrong. so now its her turn in the barrel.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“‘Should I keep paying my mortgage?’ Haitian families confront impossible choices around #TPS. As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.” haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...

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'Should I keep paying my mortgage?' Haitian families confront impossible choices around TPS

Many Haitian TPS holders are beginning to grapple with the potential domino effects of TPS ending, including financial, family and mental health impact due to job loss and potential detention or depor...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/07/2026

It is worth hearing that discontent and taking it seriously, but it is a mistake to try to derive information about the actual economy -- like, flow-of-money stuff, as measured by conventional metrics -- from that discontent.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

At the Malört 5K, runners competed for last place as much as they tried to win. blockclubchi.co/4fpL9dQ

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Brad Panovich @wxbrad.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Near-surface smoke forecast for the next 30 hours. #wildfires #smoke #cltwx #ncwx #scwx #wcnc

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Alderman La Spata @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Coming soon to Wicker Park: The city's first all-pedestrian crossing phase outside of the Loop!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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Mike 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @notkissinger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I despise this “vat grown human politician is bad” & “the people want chuds” thing going on currently. I definitely want my nation’s politicians to be highly-competent, intelligent, experienced, and with an acceptable/clean background. Politics is hard & candidates should be up to the task.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 30/06/2026

just feels like it doesn't take much these days to make people demand your head on a platter and i think it's because there are much more important and deserving heads we'll never see on a platter so people are willing to take what they can get

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/06/2026

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Here’s the discourse we’re missing out on by not engaging on Elon Musk’s microblog

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.com

A White House Makeover, Brought to You by Struggling National Parks

Park projects are being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Excellent @polphilpod.bsky.social piece. www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

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SleepingGiant @sleepinggiant69.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"how do we ensure voters don't kick us out 2 years into power before we can fully restore American institutions because the rage machine will be pointed at us?" is a very fundamental question we should really want to answer before 2029!

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/05/2026

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Construction photo of the Sen̓áḵw housing project in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Lmao holy crap: new Emerson poll out of NY-10 Brad Lander - 57% Dan Goldman - 23% emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-cit...

NY-10: Lander 57%, Goldman 23%
In the Democratic primary for New York's 10th congressional district, Former Comptroller Brad Lander holds a significant 34-point lead over incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, leading 57% to 23% with 20% of voters undecided.

NEW YORK 10th DISTRICT 2026 POLL
Democratic Primary for Congress
Brad Lander
57%
Dan Goldman
23%
Undecided
20%
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ECY
Likely NY10 Dem. Primary Voters, May. 16-17, 2026, n=450, +/- 4.6%
"While all age groups break for Lander, his most significant support comes from voters under 40, who break for Lander over Goldman, 73% to 15%," Kimball said
1. "Voters over 70 are more
split; 38% support Lander, while 31% support Goldman."

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I can't say I'm having a great time, but it is sort of fascinating watching people try to build a red-brown electoral coalition around a new antisemitic consensus in real time.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is what I hate about Platner: His love of dumb macho bullshit. His belatedly covered Nazi tattoo is a symptom of that.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I have my quibbles with how the project has come together around the edges, but at the end of the day I'm really happy with this development almost as a visual statement. This is the level of space we should be dedicating to alternate forms of transportation wherever we can fit it.

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