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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 4h

I am morbidly curious what would happen if you did reply "stop."

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 5h

Wordz: The Gym For Your Brain. Only $14.99/month (ad free for $29.95!)

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians Texans 34% more likely to be raped earn 13% less and pay 3.8% more in taxes" (overall) Every MSM only mentions the word "crime" right before an election! "Germans call this "a permanent bailout." We just call it "Missouri."

Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022
The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year.

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TEXAS - LOW TAXES FOR WHOM?
TOTAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES AS SHARE OF FAMILY INCOME BY INCOME GROUP

Texas Tax Rate California Tax Rate

Income Bracket

0-20% 13% 10.5%
20-40% 10.9% 9.4%
40-60% 9.7% 8.3%
60-80% 8.6% 9.0%
80-95% 7.4% 9.4%
95-99% 5.4% 9.9%
99-100% 3.1% 12.4%

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Here's another secret about federalism: blue state taxpayers are subsidizing the lower tax red states
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Federal Aid as Share of State Budget
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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 7h

I'm beginning to suspect a tiny bit of bad faith in their arguments.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

I think @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is really onto something here and that it's related to something @polphilpod.bsky.social has said in a few places; what collapsed was not liberalism, which in some ways is more strongly felt and committed to by more people than ever, but conservatism

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Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did

We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV’s top ally in Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy has told Catholics to convert the politicians who tolerate Trump’s war on immigrants “or replace them.” He was met with a standing ovation.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18h

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of Dem politicians caught serious flak for saying the country needs a sane Republican Party... But the country absolutely needs a sane Republican Party. If the only choices are Democrats or fascists, the fascists will occasionally win. And "occasionally" is far too often.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...

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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

Posting Through It · Episode

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/10/2026

Democrats will block Trump’s Supreme Court nominees if the Senate flips. trib.al/VsoteCU

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The Democrats Are Finally Growing a Spine

Democrats will block Trump’s Supreme Court nominees if the Senate flips.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm increasingly sure that a mid-term blue wave would make Trump even more convinced to run for a third term in 2028, imagining that only he can save Republicans.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you "some Democrats." Now please go and have a frank talk with the other Democrats.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New: Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump BLUMENTHAL: "I think it is slim to none that we would support a nominee from this administration." GALLEGO: "No, we’ve got to do exactly what McConnell did to us." Big 2026 court stakes: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump

Democrats need a net gain of four seats to capture the Senate. If so, they’d control what happens in a vacancy, as Justice Samuel Alito admits he’s thought about retirement.

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PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is SO COOL! And it's free. Popular Information is releasing PaidForBy.info, a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail — and who is paying for it. All you have to do is take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.

paidforby.info

Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Delivery driving was a real skill. Drivers were proud of their obscure bits of knowledge, and traded tips about clever routes.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very important - today 10/5 is the last day to register to vote if you live in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For many folks, I suspect the feeling is: "I used to be important because I was better than [insert marginalized group here], but now people are saying I'm not better. But [fascist man] says actually I am better than those people!"

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Talarico win would be huge. An Hinojosa win would rock the very foundations of the Republican Party.

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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Texas is in play-and my friend Gina Hinojosa can WIN. She's leading Abbott in the polls. But polls don't win elections. Investment and organizing do! Now's the time to go ALL IN on Gina. Let's give her the resources to finish the job and flip Texas! GIVE HERE: secure.actblue.com/donate/ads_m...

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Donate to Gina Hinojosa

Gina Hinojosa is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas to take on Greg Abbott and his corruption. Will you join me today in supporting her campaign?

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's striking that Brazil did exactly what so many on the left blame Biden for not doing: prosecuting and imprisoning the would-be authoritarian. Yet here we are. The message, I think, is that there is no legal or procedural means of safeguarding democracy if enough voters want a dictator.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think there are two messages here: 1. Lots of voters want a dictator (especially when marginalized communities are gaining equality). 2. Legal guardrails can never protect democracy when enough voters want to destroy it. The only way to preserve democracy is to ensure it's popular.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"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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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was a student in a creative writing class she taught many years ago. She was very gracious in her feedback.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New CBS poll shows Democrats with their widest lead in the Generic Congressional Ballot. Democrats 54% Republicans 45% It's the gas prices, stupid. www.cbsnews.com/news/midterm...

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CBS News Battleground Tracker poll finds Democrats maintain House advantage amid concern about prices

Here are 10 things to know about the 2026 midterm elections, in no particular order, based on what voters are telling us today.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Glad to see the lead, but the fact that it seems Americans will accept any political party so long as inflation and gas prices are low is rather depressing.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just hope Dems realize such things are as much (or more) public performances as essential reform. Politics isn't just about doing good things; it's about showing the public you're doing good things.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kelvin–Helmholtz clouds, a rare and spectacular phenomenon caused by wind shear, form when faster air glides over a slower, denser layer and curls the clouds into stunning ocean-wave shapes. Original post

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Schnörrfried&Oi! @gutzpe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I added vatican's models into yesterday's graph and it might confuse people

Satirical Graph comparing grok fable and GPT Release Dates to model Numbers. I added the Last popes Benedict 16 Franciscus 1 Leo 14.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

liberalcurrents.com

We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kansas! Republicans are spending big money in Kansas!

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone knows it's men's job to do pushups, take peptides, and bet on sports. Working is for women.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The mere fact of us being able to notice that, no, this is not an assimilated group... is sort of definitionally the case that they're not yet assimilated." He's 98% of the way to openly saying that only white people are Americans.

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.” - Carl Sagan #RadioFreeAmerica #politics

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bigotry is decreasing with every generation. The stuff that was totally normal this Gen-Xer as a kid is rightfully abhorred today. The worst bigotries of today were hardly even seen as bigotry 50 years ago.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anti trans hatred is the same as any other anti-gay, religious, or racial hatred we have ever known. This includes the efforts to dress it up, hide it, and make it about protecting women or children. That's exactly what bigots did to Black and gay people.

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it

In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another of the "only the left has agency" articles.

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not mine, but a medieval English lit prof I had once spent twenty minutes talking about some fellow, describing his physical characteristics and his distinctly antisocial manners. And then closed with, "I guess you could say he was nasty, British, and short." I *wish* I could work that into chats!

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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