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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
X is the platform of choice for these smears. Musk himself pushed this conspiracy from his own account three times. Democrats need to go to war against Musk because he's already attacking them. He's deeply unpopular. And, as we saw in Wisconsin, voters recoil when he becomes an issue in a race.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Jenny Green: Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time
ALT: Jenny Green: Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time
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Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Anonymous GOP official." Cowards to the bitter end.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After Abdul El-Sayed’s triumphant debate against Mike Rogers, Trump threw a tantrum and posted a dig against him. Of course, El-Sayed dished it out back. By addressing POTUS by his middle name “John” “Habibi” 😆😆😆😆😆
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The only thing they get is due process.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
in nazi germany david brooks would be bravely running around telling Jews not to call Hitler antisemitic.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Every single bit of this thread.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is what happens when you elevate “civil discourse” to be the greatest good. All of the sudden, it’s worse to call someone a Nazi than it is to be a Nazi.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/10/2026
You can hate the Constitution, but you can't claim it's silent. Did you even read it?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Exactly right. 1) the US is the world's largest exporter of diesel; and 2) Russia does not currently have spare diesel to sell us, even if it wanted to, due to Ukrainian attacks. This is all about Republicans financing Putin so he can continue to murder Ukrainians; and
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I guess I’m in the minority for focusing on how Trump’s oil deal helps Putin while most are focused on how little it helps US oil/diesel prices.
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Following Trump's abject surrender to Russia with the diesel scam, this cartoon is particularly appropriate
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how you get frustrated voters to haul themselves to a midterms voting booth. When ppl see you fighting, it makes them want to join in. They want to be associated with Guy Who Takes No Crap. They're going to think of this moment when filling in the little oval and they're going to _smile_.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cartoonist: Dave Whamond
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 06/10/2026
He said it. They cheered. Don’t ever let them rewrite that. #SheShed
Graphic with white text on a dark background reading: “Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities. Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed. Not any Muslim. Trump. A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As Trump demonizes cities, remember this: Residents of "blue" states send more tax money to Washington than they get back in federal help, while residents of “red” states send less money to Washington than they get back in federal help. Just thought I should point that out.
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How Blue States Help Red States | Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains how states that vote Democratic send money to states that vote Republican.Watch More: The Monopoli
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The sitting president of the United States just stood before a “crowd” of his supporters & suggested Iran “take out” two American cities, adding that it would be a “small price to pay”, and somehow that’s not the lead story on every newscast this morning. Not even in the top 5.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Whether it's Obama telling farmers to plant arugula in Iowa or Donald Trump telling Iranians to take out Los Angeles, both presidents made deeply insensitive statements about regions of the country.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Democrats have to explain what we're trying to build, not just what we're trying to block.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
USA easily could’ve achieved this years or decades ago, if not for corrupt Big Oil/Corporate owned, pseudo “Christian” Climate Science denying, ignorant, arrogant, greedy, power-mongering GOP Republicans who’ve defunded and sabotaged all clean renewable energy & EV policies since Reagan. GOP IS EVIL
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Billionaires ain’t broke, but they’re broken.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Correct 🎯
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I Completely Agree, Coach!
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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RV Nomad @rvnomad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I case you weren’t sure Mike Lee is a asshole…
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US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval
Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reality is going to put @theonion.com out of business.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Democrats have nothing to do with Communism. Job growth under Democratic presidents far surpasses job growth under Republican presidents. Both parties support mixed economies. Republicans subsidize corporations and the investor class. Dems subsidize basic human needs. The choice is simple.
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Nonya Bidniss @nonyabidniss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump, SCOTUS, and Congress are a right wing trifecta aggressively undertaking regime change in the U.S. ... How is it that people haven't figured this out, we're living through a regime change and we might not beat it
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To the lefties who could not get themselves to vote for Harris, part of this is on you. There are two choices in elections – the Democrat or the Republican. If you are a progressive and you refuse to vote for the Democrat, you hurt yourself and your causes. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/w...
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The US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target | CNN
Aylin says she fled her home country after her life was threatened. She sought refuge in the US but was deported to a country where her sexuality puts her at risk.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Republicans do not get to call it courage when they distance themselves from Trump only after the polls turn bad. Courage would have been refusing to enable him when it cost something. This is not a moral awakening. It is a campaign calculation. November is coming!
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