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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Actually pretty funny for a bunch of ex-Republicans to join the Democrats and then immediately start asking other Democrats if they're secret Republicans

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

An emboldened Democratic majority must immediately pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, fight the far-right's redistricting scheme with every power we can summon, and expand the Supreme Court. We need Democrats who are ready for this battle. (2/2)

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We can’t nominate any Democrat who doesn’t put Supreme Court reform at the top of their list.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/03/2026

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daugh…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/02/2026

why is it more necessary to attempt to prop up an industry than warn about the blatant, deceitful marketing campaign going on right now, and the high likelihood of mass data center insolvencies?

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 08/02/2026

Before the charity stream began, content creators from @minnmax.com and @giantbomb.bsky.social weren't sure what number to aim for — maybe $30,000 or $50,000. Within 15 minutes, they raised $58,000 for local food pantry VEAP. Within an hour, $100,000.

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Minneapolis video game livestream raises $250K for rent aid during ICE surge

Podcasters from MinnMax and Giant Bomb, two video game media outlets, played games for eight hours during their “ICE Out” livestream.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026

i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/01/2026

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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Sophia Freuden @sophiafreuden.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

not the point, but Tillis calling Miller Grima Wormtongue is absolutely d e v a s t a t i n g 😭😂 I can't think of a worse insult

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

firing and incarcerating the officers who did this is not enough. ICE is rotten from the top down. yesterday’s murder wasn’t an accident. it was a culture.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/01/2026

And the fact that the government is blatantly lying about it without shame: THAT is also part of the story. Write about that.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Second amendment advocate Stephen Gutowski reposted by conservative Christian radio guy Erick Erickson.

Gutowski tweets: “It's still early in the aftermath, and more video or audio might come to light that changes the analysis. The videos we do have look very bad, though, and appear to contradict DHS claims. Minneapolis police have also already said the man who was shot had a ccw permit.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

If you're being at all honest, you know that, at this point, "abolish ICE" is the mainstream moderate position.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There should be no future in the Democratic Party for any Member of Congress who votes to give more funding to these death squads.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/01/2026

You know what a market supported by vibes needs? Volatility

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Sophia Freuden @sophiafreuden.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

so... are the markets going to like this tomorrow, or..?

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 23/12/2025

The State Department has just banned five Europeans from entering the U.S., falsely alleging they are involved in censorship of American citizens. The only censorship here is coming from the Trump administration. My statement is below. www.state.gov/releases/off...

The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose. These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states—in each case targeting American speakers and American companies. As such, I have determined that their entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.

Based on these determinations, the Department has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on agents of the global censorship-industrial complex who, as a result, will be generally barred from entering the United States. Further, based on the foreign policy determination, the Department of Homeland Security can initiate removal proceedings against certain individuals pursuant to INA section 237(a)(4)(C), which renders such individuals deportable.

President Trump has been clear that his America First foreign policy rejects violations of American sovereignty. Extraterritorial overreach by foreign censors targeting American speech is no exception. The State Department stands ready and willing to expand today’s list if other foreign actors do not reverse course.

These actions are pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which renders inadmissible any alien whose entry into the Unites States the Secretary of State determines “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” Certain family members may also be covered by these restrictions. In addition, Section 237(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act renders an alien deportable from the United States if the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to believe the alien’s presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.

The premise of this action is a years-long conspiracy theory promulgated by the Trump Administration and its allies. There is no such thing as a “censorship industrial complex,” as I explained in a Congressional hearing this April (https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118072/witnesses/HHRG-119-FA19-Wstate-JankowiczN-20250401.pdf).

This lie originated with people who were professional internet trolls before they took up government positions. Now it’s government policy. As we’ve been tracking at The American Sunlight Project all year (https://americansunlight.substack.com/s/last-week-in-censorship), the Trump Administration has been taking a hatchet to the free expression rights of Americans and U.S. residents. Here, the Administration is barring entry to people who are using their own speech rights to advocate for an internet that reflects reality.

They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship—they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims! They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates who have stood up liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them because this community represents a formidable challenge to their power and their profit.

They cut off our access to data because they were worried that our findings would undermine them. They are using the legal system to keep us preoccupied and scared, to distract us from our work. They are trying to delegitimize us through alliances with unscrupulous media organizations. They have defunded and decried fact checkers because the facts aren’t on their side. They are threatening us because we are a threat to them.

And now, they’re barring brave advocates like Clare Medford and Imran Ahmed from the US for the same reasons.

It’s meant to be a warning, but it only re-ups the conviction of this community to stand up in the face of what is the biggest censorship regime in modern American history.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

First Elon Musk at Twitter, now Bari Weiss at CBS. What’s next, finding out others who loudly proclaimed themselves free speech champions never valued free speech at all, and were always doing “speech I like must be widely distributed and cannot be criticized, speech I don’t like must be censored”?

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Sophia Freuden @sophiafreuden.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Late-stage capitalism is what's out of ideas, and genAI is the most on-the-nose embodiment of that: slop machines that recycle others' (often stolen) work to make nothing actually new, which self-idolized tech CEOs try to package and sell under the false promise of profit and productivity. No thanks

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/11/2025

not to bring the vibe down, but my guess is that after tonight Trump will probably double down on gerrymandering, voter suppression, and intimidation as tactics to disincentivize Dem turnout ahead of next year‘s midterms. (with margins like these, it won’t matter, but it’s a time to be vigilant)

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It is just nice for something good to have happened

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We did it for you Dick Cheney

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025

Duck you, Trump.

A photo of someone outside the Portland ICE facility wearing a duck costume holding a sign that reads “Portland will outlive him”

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

“It makes it extremely difficult for us to deal with, as the folks that are on the other side of this fence have been, night after night, actually instigating and causing some of the ruckus that’s occurring down there,” Dobson said.

“Okay. So it’s your testimony ICE is creating the problem?” Rask asked.

“I’m saying that they’re not following best practice,” Dobson replied.

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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Sophia Freuden @sophiafreuden.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

As a Portlander, let me just roll out the welcome wagon by saying fuck off. PDX has been victim of right-wing disinformation painting it as a hell hole, with a lot of buy-in from the liberal media on that front. It's not a wasteland, but none of you bother to check if that's actually true.

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Sophia Freuden @sophiafreuden.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

In 2019-21, I wrote my master's thesis on why the Russian government pursued info ops--disinformation and propaganda campaigns--against individuals, with George Soros being the primary case study. I hate how relevant it is now.

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Sophia Freuden @sophiafreuden.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The same goes for tech. Instead of "AI", I wish people invested in alternatives to the handful of social media platforms--especially YouTube--so that independent creators can actually be independent.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

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