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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)

@spencerwindes.bsky.social
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Former magazine editor. Rugby old boy. Bike rider. Book geek. Bear. Proud resident of America’s Zion. Opinions my own.

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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This fucking narcissist needs to be impeached and removed from power. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...
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Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The GOP: Grifters On Pay.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Four months since the United States murdered 160 little girls at their schoolhouse, and absolutely no one will ever be held accountable.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Our country is behaving in a disgraceful fashion.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you don’t believe in gathering facts with evidence, you believe in nothing.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Data centers have become a physical, tangible way to oppose the digitalization of modern life.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New from me: radleybalko.substack.com/p/how-bari-w...
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How Bari Weiss's Free Press laundered MAGA talking points about refugees
As Weiss rebuilds CBS News and 60 Minutes in her own image, her flagship publication continues to whitewash some of Trump's cruelest policies
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It helps to understand the Supreme Court if you accept the premise that John Roberts’ entire career has been working towards re-igniting the civil war.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just a reminder that three months ago, the regime murdered 160 little girls at their schoolhouse, and absolutely no one will ever pay for it.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This thread, about Salt Lake County’s kook-infested Republican Party, is pure gold.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our country gets poorer every day these racists are in charge.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand." A real thing that was said, without shame, at a Christian prayer rally.
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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A trail cam check on Monday revealed 3 clips of a beautiful male jaguar in a Sky Island south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham. Jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by border wall, mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. @biologicaldiversity.org
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...
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Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tears in my eyes.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If John Roberts set out at the beginning of his career to drive America towards civil war, he’s been a great success.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Even when you know it's coming, it's a shock. I think that's good, given the circumstances, inasmuch as it signals that we retain the belief that fascism is never a foregone conclusion. But worth also remembers we knew it was coming, and we know more is coming, & quick fixes aren't. Long struggle.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...
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Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Cruelty is their entire personality.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Americans were fleeced of $159 billion by the deranged narcissist in the White House, and he’s furious it’s getting paid back.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
How much of our money is this deranged narcissist wasting?
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Cool cool, when do arrests in the administration and Trump family start?
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A sure sign of a disordered narcissist: they come alive when they are talking and can’t even pretend to care when they aren’t.
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WIRED @wired.com · 23/04/2026
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil. www.wired.com/story/palant...
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Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Favorite scene in All The President’s Men: Woodward & Bernstein attend White House Correspondents Dinner, hobnob with Nixon Administration officials, have such a swell time that they back off Watergate investigation so they don’t lose their access.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Excuse me? Trump is UNDERWATER in Utah?
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
————————————————- PBS NewsHour: Tracking the Trump family's business deals and profits in his 2nd term www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Always a no-miss thread.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 22/04/2026
Major #EarthDay win 🎉: H.R. 1897, aka the Endangered Species Act Amendments Act was just pulled from house floor consideration following outcry from both Republicans and Democrats who oppose the bill.
Image description: A black wolf pup leaning over a log howling. Text overlay reads, "breaking news. H.R. 1897, the Endangered Species Act Ammendments Act, has been pulled from the house floor due to opposition.
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I’ve said a lot of nice things about France over the years…
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...
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In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control
In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Once again need to remind everyone that the supposedly crime-infested hellhole of New York is one of the safest cities in the country in no small part because most people in the central area don’t drive. America has a much bigger car problem than a violent crime problem.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/04/2026
Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We must use US taxpayer dollars to backstop the UAE Which is facing economic problems caused by the war Trump started and doesn't know how to win A war encouraged by leaders of the UAE Who have given hundreds of millions in bribes to Trump, his family, and associates
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
God, I cannot express how much I love this.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The man sent by the regime to negotiate with Iran is on the payroll of the Saudis—an agent of a foreign government. It’s part of the worst corruption scandal in US history—the Trump family’s solicitation of foreign bribes—and should be mentioned every time Jared Kushner’s name appears in print.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
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