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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 23h

Louder for the folks in the back. Trump's been doing this for the entire decade.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every time I see that photo it looks like Neil Gaiman cosplay.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's only true if one thinks (as Alito clearly does) that religious “liberty” includes the liberty to impose one’s religion on others.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bottom line: can we stop both-siding everything? Trump is unpopular for reasons that are not the same as why the Democratic Party, as a brand, is unpopular. Maybe also look beyond the headline numbers before making pronouncements?

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At least some of it is because Democratic voters want Democratic officials to fight harder against Trump. Not all approval/disspproval is the same. Plus: a lot of people just don't like politics or parties. Maybe if we had more representative elections, people could find parties they liked.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I accept the empirical fact that the Democrats, as a party, have a low approval number. But I need mainstream media (this week on both The Daily and NPR) to stop acting like this is the same kind of disapproval as Trump's. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favora...

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was listening to The Daily this week, and they had to mention Hasan Piker as being linked to El-Sayed, as if some streamer is more important than any number of elected Republicans that Rogers is directly linked to, not to mention POTUS. "Both sides" dontcha know.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I give library talks about misinformation, the rise/return of measles is one of the first examples I cite of the stakes.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She’s a Republican politician. Partisanship is the best explanation.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The Two Minutes Hate was… a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.”

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This has been one of my concerns since the start of Trump 2.0: that the lesson for the next D president is to be an autocrat for things Ds want and spiral into a cycle of D and R dictators that do as much as they can get away with for their time in office (until the system utterly implodes).

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And some who were “cancelled” who are back.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is a lot to be said for all of that.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And it shows the inevitable logic of rigid bipartism: you have to vote for your abhorrent "family" because the only other viable choice on the ballot is the enemy. A system that locks us all into strict two-party competition leads to this kind of strategic thinking.

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's going to be an urge from Millennial & GenX Dems to treat Nov. '26 & '28 like '06 & '08, respectively "Let's not bother to reform any institutions and blow our wad on a policy push" theyll say Except this time we are Weimar '32 & Vance, Eric Schmitt, et al are gleefully opposed to democracy

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I 100% guarantee you that The Nates and Ezra Douthglesias and the Deciding To Win folks are going to do 👇, and it is going to be as wildly unserious in the other direction as the post-2024 unseriousness was when Harris lost

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am concerned that a big win in November will be interpreted as a template for the future and induce short-term thinking. I need public voices of consequence to get politicians to focus on long-term problems and not give permission for the reversion to "normal" politics. (6/6)

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If both DSA types and moderate Dems win House seats, what's the lesson? I point this out because I see another round of "messaging" debates coming when the real discussion needs to be about small-d democratic reforms while big-D Dems have power- not thinking a recipe has been discovered. (5/6)

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Those prices and other key factors are not anything that can guide future Democratic strategizing. Candidate quality matters, but I can already hear all the theorizing about how 26 will tell the Dems the magic formula for 28. But if both Talarico and El-Sayed both win, which is "the model"? (4/6)

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If there is a Blue Wave that crashes over places like Iowa and Kansas, diesel prices will be a key "ingredient" that has nothing to do with the Democrats. It will not be something they can count on in the future. It is part of a "recipe" that cannot be duplicated in future elections. 3/6).

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A "recipe" is something that can be purposefully replicated in the future simply by acquiring the right ingredients. But to continue with the metaphor, future Dems can't run down to the store and procure a highly unpopular president and force the Rs to nominate bad candidates. (2/6)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David Whamond

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I thought he said no fatties, no beardos, and no weirdos?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We beat the NFL by four times" is just deranged, and not simply for the syntax. Trump's midterm convention averaged 2.5 million viewers The NFL kickoff game he's claiming they beat had about 28.3 million viewers. But ... one-tenth the size, four times the size, whatever.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure.Let’s ask the torture guy about a botched execution.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Generational damage being done right now

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a party to spend so much time fixated on whether students were born with a a penis or a vagina?

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agreed. It is laughable and worthy of mockery, but I hope people see beyond the absurdity to the sloppy willingness to defame a public servants using flimsy “evidence” in service of a corrupt administration (and in hopes of furthing a career). This was not a one-off goof; it is part of a pattern.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess they don't even use basic AI tools to proof their documents. Or do they?

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's important to note that this is a real thing that is actually happening. You are not having a dream or in a coma.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 30/09/2026

Amazing video of Republican Senator Katie Britt as the Hawks/Hawkeyes mistake is revealed. This should be viewed with Curb Your Enthusiasm music. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...

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MAGA Senator Caught on Camera Watching Colleague Self-Combust

No one appeared more mortified by Sen. Eric Schmitt’s humiliating blunder than Katie Britt.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I expect that if there is an opportunity to have a Dem cabinet in 2029, there won't be many GOP votes for anyone.

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Tony W @tonywrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quote of the day - referring to Trump's stupid and illegal TV ads over the weekend: "Leni Riefenstahl must be looking up from Hell and shaking her fists in anger over what she could have done with today’s tech." - @sltaylor.bsky.social

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