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Richard

@subspace-eddy.bsky.social
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Husband, librarian, musical hack, cocktail enthusiast, haunter of the Colorado Plateau. he/him

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 9h
Hey, here's a random thought: maybe all of us who are Democrats and progressives should pause attacks on each other for the next three weeks and focus on beating Republicans. I promise our arguments will be so much more interesting in January after a blue tsunami.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h
The grift never ends. He just wants to be able to charge the government even when he’s out of office
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h
i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 9h
Gold Star families visited the White House yesterday, and instead of offering words of comfort for their lost loved ones, Preznit Fuckwit bragged like an excited child about his new heliport. he's that broken inside. thank you for your attention to today's post. link is here: bit.ly/4rXTb3O
This is not normal behavior. This is some sick psychopathic shit. It staggers the mind that the chief executive of our country not only can’t be bothered to pretend to care — he genuinely has no clue why he should care.

Seriously, if Donny can’t eat it, or fuck it, or make money off of it, he has no use for it — and there’s nothing in the world that’s going to make him care about it.

What an asshole.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 10h
motherjones.com
Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 11h
The Trump administration will start selecting lawyers for unaccompanied minors. Meaning the judges work for Donald Trump, the prosecutors work for Trump, and now the attorneys representing children will work for Trump. This is a rigged system that will result in more untold horrors for these kids.
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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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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 8h
If this isn't the most brutal of metaphors for the status of women in US politics in 2026. She's brave for running against MAGA and brave for reporting and I am wishing Greene-Placentia all the strength and healing I can.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11h
Minnesota, you have an opportunity to select an extraordinary person and public servant as your next U.S. senator. Please take it!
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 8h
Trump won't stop starting wars until he is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 12h
There is a term for this -> "Incestuous amplification". That's when leaders of a movement come to mistake their movement's propaganda for truth.
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Richard @subspace-eddy.bsky.social · 12h
This is gross.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12h
Now, 3 years later, as Israel’s genocide kills 100k+ Palestinians, as it kills 1000+ more Palestinians even after the alleged ceasefire, as Netanyahu continues to violate the ICC arrest warrant, I ask those who remained silent—was your cowardice worth it? www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-does-i...
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How Does It Feel To Have Remained Silent?
An Open Letter to Those In Power Who Silently Watched Genocide And Said Nothing
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Notice how the headline frames Cuba as the potential lawbreaker: a ship is “intercepted” while “smuggling” oil into the country. What the headline obscures is that the U.S. is the one violating international law by imposing an oil blockade on Cuba and hijacking oil shipments bound for the island.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear Leader's latest pathetic attempt to buy votes is to gift every old person 'nearly' a hundred dollars. fuck you, you cheap bastard. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I mock all this bullshit. link is here: bit.ly/4z6ucxe
Donny wants a cookie for doling out a tiny pittance to you, while at the same time grifting billions off his gullible worshipers. Fuck you, Donny — you don’t get a cookie.

Remember — Donny isn’t doing this out of the goodness of his heart. This isn’t the work of a great humanitarian. This is the desperate act of a losing loser who knows he’s going to fucking lose.
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
our fucked-up president invites Iran to 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego, and our shithole press can't be bothered to say one word about it. what in the actual fuck? thank you for your attention to today's post, in which my head once again explodes. link is here: bit.ly/3VuDJA0
Hello, and welcome to another exciting episode of Donny Says Stupid Shit, the show where our Very Special President gets away with blurting out the kind of crazypants dumbfuckery that would immediately end the political career of any mere mortal who said the same thing.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
here's Tuesday's post: "No biggie, it’s just our shithole president, inviting Iran to ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego" — What the fuck is wrong with this guy? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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No biggie, it’s just our shithole president, inviting Iran to ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego
What the fuck is wrong with this guy?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
with each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
"Whatever conclusions reached by the commission of an octogenarian crank and two billionaires, they'll be handed off to Hegseth, who believes wars are won by whichever side can do the most pushups, and whose obsession with creating an all-white, all-male military is dragging DoD down by the day."
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“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"In short, what we have here is a commission made up of an octogenarian crank and two billionaires who look at a future of chaos as an opportunity to remake the world and accumulate even more billions." This is perfection!
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
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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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says he's not a domestic abuser. Marx says his recorded comments about slamming his wife into a door causing her to cry and throwing his toddler across a room have been taken out of context.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The answer is no. He couldn’t care less about her or her country. He just wants to plunder their natural resources. As we said from day one, despite delusional or dishonest Republicans claiming he was going to “liberate” the people and hold elections.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today in “Imagine if Joe Biden had said this…” we bring to you:
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Related trend: There seems to be an effort on the right (X) to convince people Trump's efforts to get the USPS to play a role in challenging mail-in ballots worked... and accompanying fear being spread on the left (FB/IG) that seems to suggest they're falling for it. Lots of posts like the following
Screenshot of an X post by Q The Storm Rider (@Q_TheStormRider), a verified account, posted at 10:14 AM on Oct 3, 2026. The post reads:

"🚨 BREAKING: THE FLOODGATES JUST SLAMMED SHUT.
USPS just confirmed it — Trump's ironclad mail-in voting rules are LIVE RIGHT NOW and they hit the November 2026 election like a freight train.
No more games. No more delays. An activist judge's last-ditch block? DISSOLVED.
From this second forward:

Ballots ONLY go to verified U.S. citizens 18+ on official DHS + SSA lists.
States that refuse to hand over their voter names, addresses, and unique barcodes? USPS will refuse to even touch their ballots.
This is the wall they said could never be built.
The era of untraceable mail-in chaos just ended.
LFG. 🔥🇺🇸
Share this before they try to bury it."

Below the text is a 1:06 video showing the blue USPS eagle logo on a black background, with a "Watch again" button. The post has 45.9K views, 120 replies, 1.6K reposts, 4.7K likes, and 211 bookmarks.

The post has "Misleading" in red text displayed across it.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You couldn't have scripted a more fitting endgame for the Republican Party than the cult members desperately trying to distance themselves from the cult leader, with the cult leader being too narcissistic to let them go and dragging them down with his sweaty smothering embrace
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let it go. The Greenland of his imagination has penguins.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wait, does he mean super news?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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Richard @subspace-eddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I would add "The Famous Final Scene" from Bob Seger's Stranger In Town. youtu.be/9_Cqohz0188?...
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The Famous Final Scene
YouTube video by Bob Seger - Topic
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Historian Tim Snyder compares what Trump is doing in Latin America to Soviet tactics in Eastern Europe after WWII: rig elections, apply threats, install the leadership you want. His description of Trump’s approach: “smash and grab.”
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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