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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/08/2025

Again: the right mounted a huge, billionaire-funded conspiracy to take over US media, degrade US institutions, & erode US rule of law. It happened right out in the open, over decades, & the US media & political establishment not only ignored it but punished all attempts to discuss it.

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless." James Baldwin

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The only thing standing between Trump and a fully authoritarian police state is the capability. He has the will, the intention, and the support of the other branches.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

These two things cannot both be true: 1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution. 2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Whenever the Mets are playing well it makes me think of my dad and how much he enjoyed a winning Mets team. The first part of this season was great. Now I'm just glad he's not alive to see this shambolic mess.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My Indiana prison allows some of us to raise kittens thanks to a partnership with a cat shelter. Lady, a delicate and regal Persian-domestic mix, with short, feathery ebony furis my only friend in this dismal mansion of dejection known as prison.

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In My Prison Cell, a Cat Lives Out Its Life

Indiana State Prison allows select residents to care for a feline companion in their cells.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left. AG Bondi this afternoon on right.

We turn next to the putative shutdown decision. The
plaintiffs point to no regulation, order, document, email, or
other statement, written or oral, purporting to shut down the
CFPB. Instead, they infer such an overarching decision from
various discrete “actions” taken by agency leadership to
downsize the Bureau, “including by issuing stop-work
instructions, cancelling contracts, declining and returning
funding, firing employees, and terminating the lease for its
headquarters.” J.A. 46–47. The district court found a “decision
to shut down the agency completely” and equated it to a
“wholesale cessation” of CFPB activities. NTEU, 774 F. Supp.
3d at 46.

Tweet from AG Pam Bondi in which she says "Another victory for President Trump! In a 2-1 ruling, the DC Circuit sided with my @TheJusticeDepartment attorneys in our effort to dismantle the CFPB and rein in crippling Obama-era regulations."

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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

"It is delusional to believe that good behavior by the public will usher us safely through this. That belief assumes that these operations are being undertaken for their stated goals. They’re not. They are pretexts."

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is the problem with having national news covered primarily by people like Haberman and Anderson Cooper who 1.) live in bubbles of extreme privilege and 2.) are not really experts on anything other than the general vibe inside those bubbles.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/08/2025

the gerontocracy's permanent defensive crouch has a lot to do with when they came of age politically and remains one of the biggest reasons we should move past them

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Convinced a lot of Democratic leaders and especially a lot of political journalists and pundits too

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

American universities pretend to be centers of learning, wisdom and freedom, but the reality is that the University of Chicago has a $10.4 billion endowment today. In 2013, it had the highest-paid university president in America. He made $3.4 million a year. These are lucrative businesses first.

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If there's ever an American version of the Nuremberg trials, whoever is running the administration's social media accounts needs to have their ass prosecuted too.

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/08/2025

i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/08/2025

people are mad about this but it's just on-its-face true. trump won the popular vote and because of a few decades of the media priming people to believe that only conservatives can truly represent The People, that popular vote victory was treated as a defacto enabling act

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Without downloading any new pix, where are you at mentally?

Man on the beach about to be eaten by seagulls

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

this is correct but also, lots of institutions are nonetheless treating him like a dictator, which is helping him despite the administrative capacity issue

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I've been into bodybuilding for 30 plus years now. I think it's awesome that so many women are discovering the power (both physical and mental) and mental health benefits of working with weights. Kudos @karenattiah.bsky.social you look amazing!

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This font makes me think of the "No Fear" t shirts which were EVERYWHERE in the 90s.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/08/2025

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A police state doesn't require a huge police force to effectively terrorize a population. It just needs enough snoops, busybodies, and bootlickers in that population to multiply its surveillance capacity

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

It's better — and more brutal — than you've heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...

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Introducing the Director of Homeland Security | South Park

YouTube video by South Park Studios

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level.

JOIN.ICE.GOV
06 Aug 25
[Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944
[Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Trump's worldview is any entity that doesn't exist to celebrate him as the greatest human who ever lived is rigged against him.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The most polite quote I can pull tonight is from a young a doctor who simply said “I plead with any democrat to please stop this moderate nonsense”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree. Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

At a town hall in PA-10 and I’ve never heard people so angry. Our Rep is the worm Scott Perry who deserves a dump truck of shit on him. But the people here are also furious that the Dem currently running against him is Janelle Stelson — seen as a worthless pawn of the rich.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

700,000 dollars for a 1294 square foot 3 bedroom house on a normal little side street. Today I talked to a working but homeless woman in tears saying her only prayer to god was a tiny space where no one would ask her to leave. The people who did this to our country should be forever ashamed.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/07/2025

Despite the fact that it is basically waterboarding me with anxiety, I think what I like most about The Pitt is its fundamental decency and its emphatic call for us to remember that we all need each other

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Quietly celebrating 12 years sobriety this weekend.

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I don't think anyone could express this truth any better than this.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

ive long held this view but the problem the post-clinton democratic party has is that it genuinely doesn't believe in anything. everything's negotiable, they're happy to veer rightward on crime, immigration, trans rights, fuck over labor, whatever they feel they need to roll over on they'll do it

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/08/2025

I wouldn't tell anyone else how to think or feel, but I will just say that, for me, the only way to stay sane after the 2024 election has been to pretty much abandon hope. The US is cooked. Everything I value about it is doomed. We're heading into a long period of dissolution & chaos.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/08/2025

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 31/07/2025

sigh, listen, the impunity is the point. lying to your face about something you both know is untrue and leaving you with no recourse for it is the point, and she will keep doing it as long as reporters keep showing up for it.

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Super Genius 🇺🇦 @superg1975.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Heath Ledger's tragic death. His performance in The Dark Knight was an all timer and you have to wonder what he would have done from there.

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