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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm going to become the Joker

The Atlantic: Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. “There’s nothing wrong with being masculine,” Poindexter told me. It’s okay, he said, to be “a manly man.”

Poindexter’s own manliness credentials are fully in order. The 46-year-old started working in a machine shop as a teenager and spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker. He drives a Ram Big Horn pickup truck and built, with his buddy turned campaign manager, a shed in his backyard. Now Poindexter is running for Congress, trying to flip a Republican-held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democratic Party over the past two decades: men.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I think a critical thing about liberalism is that it requires moral and intellectual labor because it goes against our tribal nature, our innate intolerance, etc. It's a moral adaptation that lets people of different backgrounds and value systems and definitions of happiness co-exist and cooperate/

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/07/2026

when i say he had "a life well lived" i don't just mean a lengthy career on stage and screen, nor a healthy relationship with an adoring public. i mean he got to be friends with laura dern

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

mandatory reading

"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We're gonna find out that an hour ago someone placed a $100,000 Polymarket bet that Mitch McConnell would outlive Lindsey Graham

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Stupid question. Do Sikhs have a religious exemption? If the black community in the military suddenly mass converted to Sikhism for mysterious reasons, could Hegseth do anything about it?

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

[Me after getting thrown out of a bar] I own this bar, actually

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There is only one real American. He lives in a suburb with real american values. He has never had a matcha latte. He is a great favorite. He knows that real education can’t happen at universities. He has never used a laptop. His feet are light and nimble. He says that he will never die.

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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Closed out the final day of the Great American State Fair tonight. Here’s a quick video showcasing some of the architecture on its last night.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The media’s language in coverage of sexual violence is so wild compared to any other subject matter. Instead of “it rained” they’re like “Several women allege that they received nonconsentual water upon their persons. We interviewed men they know, who confirmed that the women seemed damp.”

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

oh hai moana

the rock dressed as maui but he's on the rooftop from the room

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rimidar @rimidar.au · 11/07/2026

You really get the feeling that for a certain kind of pundit, Platner dropping out is the best possible outcome because now they have a new and fresh ‘stabbed in the back by the DNC’ lost cause to justify being wreckers about

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

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mrsomerton @mrsomerton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

stupid libs, calling a guy a Nazi rapist because he has a Nazi tattoo and he raped a woman. for shame!

He runs an electrifying grassroots, socialist anti-Empire campaign demonstrating the potential to transform American politics — finally, the Left’s Trump. As he skyrockets in polls four toxic and compromised media outlets launch a propaganda campaign to defeat him. He is not guiltless but a massive smear campaign distorts, reframes and exaggerates actual events utilizing pejoratives like “Nazi” and “rape” to brainwash a politically superficial public for the elites’ ulterior agenda.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One minor thing that annoys me personally about this shit is that some people romanticize a blue collar white boy aesthetic but can’t tell an actual working class backwoodser from a rich aspiring dirtbag who went to Hotchkiss

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's not the Senate Majority Leader's job to go beat the bushes in a rural state to see if he can avert the nomination of a completely terrible candidate. Never, never let the voters off the hook

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A values system that views Pete Buttigieg’s time at McKinsey as disqualifying, but Graham Platner’s time at Blackwater as not, has beclowned itself regardless of the subsequent scandals.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

McConnell called me today apparently just to softly sing MOON RIVER and then hang up

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

honestly this is what anarchists always sound like to me

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

i'll take a stab at translating this: one of the theorized risks of an outsider movement is that you get more Badly Vetted Candidates, but this year we've had two real huge blowups and one of them was a decade-plus officeholder, so it's not just an outsider thing

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

had an Algerian Uber driver yesterday, asked him who he liked in the match, he said "well, the French killed my grandfather, but I really don't like Moroccans."

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Like most such people in this sub-tendency, Platner himself is downwardly mobile from an upper middle class family and seeks a variety of conspiracies and groups to blame for it, despite his failures being very obviously his own doing.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

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Chris Sinclair @chrissinclairrr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Flavor Flav shared that he’s secured “the tickets, the glam, wardrobe” for the entire US women’s hockey team to attend the 2026 ESPY’s. In an update, Paris Hilton is now covering the hotel rooms for every player. Talk about a bunch of words I never thought I’d say.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I don’t really have anything to add to the discourse that isn’t already being said but a lot of people I thought were shitty have proven it and we should be keeping tabs on who is being shitty so we don’t listen to them in the future.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Onion Bill DeBlasio headline, changed to "Fetterman: 'Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find An Oaf That Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh?'"

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John @jcasey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Well, I guess a big part of it is the politicians aren't authentic working class, and neither are their base. It's just a bunch of cosplay, suburbanites with expensive trucks and lots of guns and resentment of responsibility and obligation.

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Mr. Poop @mikesettele.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There’s a thread weaving through 200 years of American politics that is basically “recreate Andrew Jackson”.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Platner is the answer to the Madison Cawthorn question that nobody is asking.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

fantasy GOP: salt of the earth blue collar guys who really connect to regular non-coastal-elite folks actual GOP politicians in R+73 seats: Harvard law degree, has worn a suit and tie every day of his adult life, half-heartedly affects an accent that sounds like a drag queen doing Foghorn Leghorn

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One thing about the whole "we have to run rough-hewn manly dudebros to beat them at their own game" theory is this describes, to within a rounding error, zero notable Republican politicians.

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Veronica @vmcombs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

He is suspending his campaign “because of the structures being taken away from us by those in power.” What does he think it’s like to be raped? The structures of safety, of trust, of confidence in your own judgment! It’s still not his fault and he still has done nothing wrong. 🤮

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

guy who uses the phrase “party apparatchiks” in his withdrawal video: I’m just a dumb ignorant guy and had never heard of a totenkopf

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/07/2026

Every conservative pundit’s working overtime to try to make Platner’s sexual assault the face of the New Democratic Party and Donny can’t help but go “well hold on a minute, maybe she made it up”. What an incredible political specimen.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If we need a new Maine candidate I know this lovely duck. Now he’s not one of your vat-grown perfect candidates, he’s said some things because he’s passionate about the American working class

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

oh, man, this is great. finally a Senate candidate without a bunch of skeletons in his closet. hear he did really well with the big storm a couple years back

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ATTENTION: Your two week ceasefire trial period has expired. Renew access to the strait for ten billion USD a month or save with a 12 month 100 billion USD subscription!

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Good to see that Platner's campaign died as it lived: without a single ounce of grace or dignity from the candidate or his staffers. What an absolute disgrace.

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

people can change, for example a rapist with a nazi tattoo can change into a guy who lies about and justifies being a rapist and having a nazi tattoo

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Feels notable that Platner was presented as the archetypal “FIGHT!” guy and his campaign was run by “Fight Agency” and now at the critical moment, the only thing they’re fighting for is their own cash flow and reputation. When the chips are down, they simply don’t care about actually fighting Trump

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sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If energy vampires were actually real and existed secretly, who do y’all think would be one? My money is on Ken Klippenstein and, obviously, Donald Trump. JD Vance and Russ Vought as well.

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