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one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

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Stevens: Endorses Abdul Slotkin: Endorses Abdul Nessel: Endorses Abdul Peters: Endorses Abdul Whitmer: Endorses Abdul Harris: Endorses Abdul DSCC: $30M helping Abdul OBAMA: Endorses Abdul Leftists: "WHY DO MODERATES WANT ABDUL TO LOSE???" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/b...

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Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit

Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 33m

Is a more self-aware Trump a good thing? Going out to rallies could teach him that he is toxic, that his policies and behavior are wildly unpopular. But nope, he has no learning curve and will find someone else to blame. At least he is dragging down the rest of the party with him.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1h

Only one lifetime ago, child mortality IN EUROPE was ten percent. Everything you understand about the normal conditions of everyday life is a fragile, precious achievement won at great cost. Shun and denounce anyone who talks as if it isn't.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 36m

The immunity decision is among the very worst, hackiest decisions made by the Roberts Court and that is saying something. Giving anyone immunity is bad, but Trump? Talk about changing permission structures. And the basis of it? Pulled directly from their asses.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 45m

i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 43m

Really sad to see the Ohio Democrats choose bigotry over winning elections. There’s solid data on this (breezy post-24 commentary isn’t data): transphobia makes Democrats lose. Amy Acton and the ODP are choosing bigotry over flipping Ohio. Really damn sad.

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Democrats’ big election wins showed they don’t need to hide their support for trans rights

Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 42m

Newt? Please let it be Newt!

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 13h

Goose: "WHOSE sexual abuse of teen boys?" FFS, he wasn't just misguided in how he went about supporting a local Boy Scout troop that made a bad hiring decision. He wasn't a cardinal approving payments to keep the church from getting a black eye. DENNIS HASTERT HIMSELF was the abuser.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

With Orban going down and MAGA appearing to be collapsing in on itself, things were looking up for democracy. AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt was a setback, but it’s just one German state. Brazil heading for a Bolsonaro restoration really stings. Shows that this global struggle will go for a while.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h

Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 15h

The five Ws of journalism: Who, what, where, when, and why the fuck isn't the president's madness the lead story every day, all day

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 23h

The idea that better things aren’t possible is fertile soil for reactionary politics.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 18h

the first thing I will stop doing when I retire will be reviewing for journals/presses/tenure cases.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 19h

"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]

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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Iran destroyed naval base in Bahrain, we just withdrew (under an agreement Biden made) from Iraq, and now Whiskey Pete has cut and run from the UK. But sure, we're winning the war.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 19h

Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 19h

Good lord folks. I know we have been real slow to come around to the idea of consequences for the administration but between this and the uses whistleblower, and the taxpayer funded campaign ad, can we gear up against this election interference? Please?

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19h

Given that subtlety is gone, the plague coming from Russia this time is inevitable.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...

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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

Posting Through It · Episode

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 20h

“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The big question: will there jobs for newly minted Phds in 5 years?

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 05/10/2026

Every day, the war in Ukraine is becoming more of a drone war. From: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Russia’s new drive to crush Ukraine

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

I gave up begging queer orgs to not rely on Facebook. Too many didn’t care. The ones who ignored the warnings — Facebook systematically censors openly queer accounts — are now facing hard disruptions as a result. These companies are our enemies, not neutral platforms.

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Meta caught censoring LGBTQ+ content & says it was "mistakenly restricted" - LGBTQ Nation

The company reversed the restrictions after a journalist asked about them.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To do strategy, one must have empathy and self-awareness. Trumpers are entirely lacking in both.

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 05/10/2026

One of the biggest consequences of Russia's war will be a changed Germany. It took a long time, but Germany is changing its approach to military force, to intelligence, to the arms industry. The result will be a huge expansion of European military power, firmly directed at Moscow.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The backpedaling-to-come will be something to see….

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

GFY!!!!!

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For an article, sure. For a tenure letter, that is a big hunk of time especially during the semester

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually, you are the famous one, Dominique, so we hate your husband.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reminder: Not only is widespread voter fraud a Republican myth, but vote-by-mail is critical to safeguarding the voting rights of those with illnesses and disabilities, who may find waiting in an Election Day line to be physically taxing. These voting laws are key political determinants of health.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These splitters realize that Trump may not govern the US forever, right?

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With Hegseth in the news this week, I’ve noticed him using a particular rhetorical tactic: packaging highly ideological messaging to the military & public w/ (superficially) reasonable & substantive policy proposals. Before I explain what he is up to and why it matters, here are three examples:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"It's important for you all to stay on the same team as Ken Paxton," says the woman who filed for divorce and ended their marriage

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They should focus group how Ken Paxton's ex-wife's ad does with all of Ken Paxton's girlfriends.

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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The cruelty is the point 😡

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026

1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Canada could absolutely do this. Instead, we get Carney and Ford pushing pipelines.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

they should definitely demarche the shit out of him

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