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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20m

Everything that Trump Touches Dies

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 12m

Hassert was kind of a case in point for @joestieb.bsky.social’s argument. There’s more continuity with the pre-Trump GOP than people may be comfortable acknowledging. Pedocon theory was already true

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18m

Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 52m

In case you weren't aware, the only competent Republican speaker of the House in the modern era was also a child molester

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 9h

@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.

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OpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easier

OpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

i’m not accusing the atlantic reporter of malice, but i do think these posts bring up questions that are pretty foundational to the framing of the story and ones that deserve answers.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11h

Especially since he claims in the story he was only vaguely aware of the things people were saying about Haitians in Springfield online. If he was spreading that slander himself, that seems real relevant

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23h

In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)

The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

Analyzing The Voters is mostly a fool's errand, but I do think we have at least two equally significant problems: a third of us are irredeemable assholes and another third are credulous boobs. It brings me no pleasure to report this

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Policy Vibe · by NoMAGA @policyvibe.bsky.social · 19h

That language matters because euphemisms erase the actor: this isn’t an abstract “crisis,” but officials choosing to put children through proceedings without counsel and remove them.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19h

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 13h

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice

Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 13h

Just to be clear, this isn't much different from what he wrote in Dobbs. To which Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan aptly responded: "This is to ignore as judges what we know as men and women. The interests women have in Roe and Casey are perfectly, viscerally concrete." [2]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 13h

"Countless women will now make different decisions about careers, education, relationships, and whether to try to become pregnant than they would have when Roe served as a backstop....For millions of women, Roe and Casey have been critical in giving them control of their bodies and their lives." [3]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 12h

And they're now making very different decisions without it." [5]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 12h

Would have been nice, I think, if Jan Greenberg had responded, as virtually any of us would have, that "For your information, virtually every woman I know made crucial life decisions--in the workplace, the bedroom, the doctor's office, deciding where to live, etc.--in reliance on Roe. ... [4]

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13h

This is essential. But has everyone in DC forgotten that Trump has a veto for the next two years? That word does not appear here once. The next two years have to be about getting everything lined up for 2029. And not overpromising deliverables in the meantime. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency

As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h

"Our rape statutes were written decades ago, at a time when women were gravely underrepresented in the legislature, and when we understood far less about rape than we understand now."

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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started

Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

👇🎯 Again, there are prior assumptions about believing in democracy & equal rights built into the "have lunch" argument, & they don't apply to authoritarians & 👇 groups: bsky.app/profile/mcop... Sure, have lunch with Jessica Riedl about debt. This is not the problem & I believe Justin knows that.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 13h

Back on planet🌎5% of our species, change sex during their lifetimes Men by the millions are born w/partial female reproductive organs Yet most people who'd say or believe Gabe's story would say Trans people are experiencing a dysphoria But KNOW this kid met THE one & only god, during massive trauma

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 14h

Impossible to believe in advance that Welker would be 100x worse than Chuck fucking Todd, but she's done it, like she was born to do it...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

I like how lazy media outlets just decided that because El-Sayed is … what, Muslim? he must be socialist. “Well, he sort of *looks* like Mamdani??”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Getting your understanding of "progressive thinking" from X is as bad as getting it from Fox News.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h

The use of "tries" in the headline seems particularly loaded.

Biden Appears to Insult Trump Supporters as 'Garbage, but Quickly
Tries to Clarify In a posting on social media, President Biden said he was talking
about racist language, not Trump supporters.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20h

No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

"No conservative who longs for an earlier age suggests cutting themselves off from the modern world in an intentional community, as the Amish have—because that would mean accepting an inferior place in the hierarchy of power."

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The Illiberal's Dilemma

In January of this year, media personality Matt Walsh tweeted “Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and ...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

yet also pathetic: trapped in the logic of the modernity they reject

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

i just think these people are profoundly evil

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

as ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Rufo boosted the conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, offering $5,000 reward for evidence, and posting grainy video (of other people from elsewhere) he cited as proof. Now the Haitians are being deported, because this is how colorblind meritocracy works I guess.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

One more: the one organization Rufo has helped to run, has turned into a gold-plated cancel culture mill, where unqualified hacks get high-paying gigs, qualified faculty are pushed out, and academic standards have declined to ensure more men are on campus. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

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The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Not on X, so I write about Rufo less though I am sure he is still destroying lives. On here, he usually pops up when a media actor presents him as a good faith defender or meritocracy or some such. Rufo's great gift has been to state publicly he will lie to co-opt these people and succeed.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

When Trump took over, Rufo personally led the campaign to get a hundred trans intelligence fired. Was this about merit? No. Rufo has been very clear. We protect our people, we denigrate and punish the others. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

He systematically targeted Black scholars, offering bounties for evidence of plagiarism. He's make the accusation, regardless of the evidence. In one esp bad case, I wrote a rebuttal and Rufo personally went after every faculty member who (rightly) disagreed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Rufo pioneered the tactic of calling any discussions of race Critical Race Theory, and used it to get people fired. He pioneered the strategy of labeling teachers as "groomers" if they talked about gender identity donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-qanoni...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

I used to write a lot about Rufo when I was still on X. His stock in trade is to attack public officials for espousing ideas he disliked on gender and race, presenting them as deviants who must be fired. From *2021* when he got a school principal fired: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-pub...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22h

Not a coincidence that only place far right wing operatives like Alito feels comfortable giving “interviews” is to far right or right-leaning media outlets. So they can gaslight like this ↘️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

It's insane that the president is this incredibly stupid and, moreover, weirdly proud of it. "You know, I never knew what the hell was a circle was. Most people don't, you know. Well, a circle has three sides and three corners. I call the corners 'rutabagas' but Democrats won't tell you that."

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Colin Robinson @fermiparasocks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“A vaygan is vegetables”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Government reform was what the United States Digital Service WAS doing before the Trump Adminstration hollowed it out like that the restaurant in Good Fellas. 18F WAS worried about digital security. We have major hacks of both the FBI and DOD after DOGE.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🧵⬇️ Stay for the final graph... lmao

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