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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Toad-faced ne’er-do-well @southpawdinkous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
About 30 seconds of discomfort away from shaving off my eyebrows
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goof_off_artiste746393@yahoomail.com @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The main project of the US now is a line-item vindication of the most histrionic and paranoid stuff ever said by Jello Biafra
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Full blown fascism. We have the Fourth and Fifth Amendments for a reason: to stop government agents like ICE from becoming the president’s secret police. Where's the outrage from “constitutional conservatives”?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/10/2026
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Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking.
I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Ivy @ivyashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is also important to note that Cornell doesn't have a journalism major. These are students who may not even plan to make journalism a career, but their dedication to the field is tremendous.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026
None of these dudes look like they could bench press a Pokémon card
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m quite certain that he’s no more fit to command a whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. In fact, tell him from me he’s a baboon.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We could have just not done any of this.
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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026
Breaking News: CNN and MS NOW journalists were denied access to the White House after President Trump announced a ban on three news outlets because of reporting he disliked.
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CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
DHS is actually accusing hundreds of cruise line employees of possessing CSAM materials and revoking their visas without filing criminal charges. It's a way of bumping up their numbers without having to prove anything I wrote about it last year and NPR did this June www.npr.org/2026/06/06/n...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“These are images 🇺🇸 servicembers want you to see…” ABC News reporter Rachel Scott (who Trump recently snapped at) shares images of destruction on 🇺🇸 military bases
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THECapedCaper @tccschreiner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My @talkingpointsmemo.com investigation into Marshall Rawson among the many disturbing stories about the GOP's Nazism listed in this @jamellebouie.net piece www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End
The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every democratic candidate deciding to moderate on a social issue to 'take it off the table'
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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Democratic voters are overwhelmingly anti-war, yet foreign policy hawks remain massively overrepresented in leadership roles. It’s a problem we need to fix. My piece in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The Reality Today Is That Foreign Policy Hawks Are a Minority in the Democratic Party
It is damn time we all started acting like it.
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On A Midnight Run @midnight-runner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Cynicism is for losers" should be everyone's political guiding phrase. It's actually cool to care about things.
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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The interesting thing about this is that the chairman of the board, who has specific fiduciary responsibilities, is Donald J. Trump in his capacity as a private individual.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"They can self-police. They can self-regulate." As even AI execs themselves call for regulation, and some say there's a chance humanity itself is on the line... Spineless Speaker Johnson makes it clear this Republican-led congress will do nothing.
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Toad-faced ne’er-do-well @southpawdinkous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking of buying myself one of those dog vests that say ‘NOT FRIENDLY’ in like neon orange to combat my baby face.
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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 09/09/2026
jessica lange from american horror story saying your liberation is bound up with mine you stupid slut
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Angie Nixon is amazing! When Ron DeSantis and his cronies started coming up with schemes to ban books, Nixon opened a bookstore that puts the banned books on display up front. The store places an emphasis on Black History and telling the whole story of America. Nixon fights for the right to read!
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Angie Nixon Is Fighting for the Right to Read
The Florida Senate candidate responded to Republican book-banning schemes by opening a bookstore.
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Toad-faced ne’er-do-well @southpawdinkous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Goin out tonight? Bro, have you even considered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?
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Toad-faced ne’er-do-well @southpawdinkous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Has anyone ever counted how many times Frederic Henry is jacked off in A Farewell to Arms? I’m thinking about starting a record here.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It would be nice if someone could explain this community note to him. Having a president with a basic understanding of how trade works doesn’t seem like a ton to ask. Meanwhile our farmers are getting crushed.
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
turns out the guy who looked, talked and dressed like he didn’t give a shit about the job…doesn’t give a shit about the job
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is one of the most disgusting and racist things I've ever seen
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
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What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/08/2026
In “An Open Letter to the Rich,” a small-town teacher wrote of his respectable salary was being reduced each year—not “in dollars and cents,” but “in butter, milk, and eggs.” “And you,” he told the rich, “though you do not know it, are to blame.” trib.al/S4iwu5M
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Doctors say that measles can kill young children. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his car says they'll be fine as long as they eat enough beef tallow. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/08/2026
Defying historical precedent, Texas Governor Greg Abbott opted not to comply with Minnesota’s warrant for his arrest. trib.al/82MHMQc
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
STARS & STRIPES: “A further 60 🇺🇸 service members wounded in the Iran war were added to the Pentagon’s count of military casualties in recent days, bringing the total number of service members killed or injured to 775…” www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Toad-faced ne’er-do-well @southpawdinkous.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Whoever is clearing Tua to play football probably needs to be charged with medical malpractice at this point.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Donald Trump and Elon Musk killing women and babies in Nepal.
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"
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