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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17h

The part that struck me was their insistence that they know the kids at the UT game "aren't assimilated" because despite being at a football game and having the same shitty fashion sense and the same goofy hand gestures as white fans, they still look Indian. Gives the game away.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Among other things abstaining *makes a national GAC ban much more likely* and Dems losing to frothing bigots is going to pressure candidates to move right, not left Worse now, worse next time

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19/09/2026

This miracle is the fruit of generations of enormous and bipartisan investments of public research support for our universities. Future versions of this miracle are what we are currently losing, due to the US Administration’s decision to shatter the public’s partnership with our universities.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Garcia: There’s a group of Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors that are here in Dallas. And the survivors are saying that they are also disgusted that Todd Blanche is out there giving speeches while refusing criminal convictions, while refusing to release the rest of the files.

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Nico B. @sneakynics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m less offended by the fact the GOP is overrun by hack trolls than by the fact that they’re so first thought and unimaginative about everything

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Commented today in an interview that the operative theory of law within Trump 2.0 is “what I can get away with” which boils down to everything is permissible unless SCOTUS explicitly says “no.” Holds true for the boat strikes, the Iran War, the ballroom, destruction of USAID, etc.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

just talk about musk the way republicans would if he was a democrat a bigoted antisemitic weird foreign billionaire with a weird breeding fetish and a nazi pedo chatbot is funding the republican party. if republicans don't denounce, we know they are pro-nazi pedo bot and the voters should know.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026

‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yep, this is empirically true. Sentence length is largely no impact; certainty of punishment is high impact, as is short time between crime and punishment The US system* gets it exactly backwards, with draconian sentences sometimes levied a long time later (*probation violations excluded)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This only "becomes a political and moral crisis" if reactionary centrists relentlessly frame it as one. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Abdul El-Sayed’s Hasan Piker Problem
In Michigan, the Democratic Senate candidate’s alliance with a hard-left streamer has become a political and moral crisis.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

no one out there believes in "vote blue no matter who" less than the centrist shitheads like Gottheimer

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Corporate Convictions Have Plunged Under Trump. So Where Are the Prosecutions of Executives? Under the Trump Justice Department, fewer corporations are being convicted of wrongdoing, while prosecutions of their executives are falling too. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/under-trum...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I can entertain the argument that reacting to this stuff with alarm isn’t obligatory, may even be counterproductive. But it HAS to go hand in hand with the promise of GRINDING accountability that makes everyone complicit atone. Otherwise it’s just a unilaterally imposed degradation of standards.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

GROUNDWORK: “.. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have grown 52% since 2019. Wages have grown just 12%.” @groundwork.bsky.social

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a fun and telling thing to track will be whether twitch streamer hasan piker or sitting united states congressman max miller receives more mainstream news media coverage between now and the election www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

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Morning Digest: Thought Max Miller would become a GOP pariah? Nope.

Republicans in competitive races are still backing the congressman—and keeping his contributions

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 26/08/2026

Some people with power haven't learned anything from the past six years. When someone attacks your electoral system, being passive just invites more attacks.

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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hasan Piker is simply not famous enough to normies to warrant this level of attention! He does not demand these endless statements! Nick Fuentes dined with the president and Republicans just played the “I don’t know her” game. No reason to play into this bad-faith shit.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

zohran [waving power broker in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh [audience going berserk]

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Kacey Musgraves asks fans to donate to the Chicago-based Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights in honor of her birthday

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good evening. Your regular reminder that Juan Linz was right & presidentialism was a grave mistake.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Democratic revival requires a bare majority willing to wield power aggressively. That's it. Moreover, Dems know the peril of NOT wielding power, and have more than two years to get everyone in line. If they win slim majorities and don't do it the failure's on them. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The ballroom is a good example of the "harmless" sort of thing Roberts likes to give to his special birthday boy. Doesnt fuck with the money and doesnt critically undermine the courts legitimacy (in his mind) if he lets it happen.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026

john roberts, basically: "trump can lawlessly destroy the white house and build a new installation with unauthorized taxpayer dollars, as a treat"

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Congrats again to Chief Keyser Söze, whose greatest trick was convincing the world that actual John Roberts - the hyper-partisan authoritarian hack who ignores the law, history, data, the actual Constitution, decades of legal precedent, & the plain meaning of words - didn’t exist

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Keyser Söze's Intense Gaze in The Usual Suspects

ALT: Keyser Söze's Intense Gaze in The Usual Suspects

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Easy rule: Don't do PR for a regime of pedophile protectors paying police a 5 figure bounty to seize immigrant kids and torture them in concentration camps till they can traffic them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is extraordinarily dark: government agents surveilling peaceful protestors and trying to entrap them into breaking the law. It’s a classic measure of an authoritarian state.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026

one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here

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Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The problem with Woke 1 was its lack of proportionality. That's why everyone who tweeted about how racism is bad should be sent to the Hague. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

ossoff effect. turns out when democrats *actually say things* people listen and act.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/08/2026

oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing

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Who is Natalie Harp? Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Trump aide in spotlight

The former TV news anchor began working for Trump in 2022 and has become a close aide during his second term.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We have a major Democratic law firm, two major party committees, and two media outlets dead to rights suppressing research into how digital fundraising firms scam seniors and barely a peep from the national press corps or elected officials. A goddamn shame.

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Axios @axios.com · 18/08/2026

NEW: ABC has filed a lawsuit against the FCC, arguing the agency has violated the First Amendment by retaliating against the broadcaster for its editorial decisions.

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ABC files First Amendment lawsuit against FCC

The broadcaster argues the accelerated review of its licenses is retaliation for its editorial decisions and part of efforts to silence a free and independent press.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I propose we lock Gingrich and Carville in a room with no access to the internet and let them pretend it's still 1992 and anyone still gives a shit about their opinions

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