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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 18h

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 18h

Every single Democrat elected this November should be followed by a staffer whispering: “Remember, liberalism has a specific solution for those who want to return to the state of nature by attacking the liberal state itself.”

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Annihilating Iran”—which can only mean the widespread use of thermonuclear weapons against Iran’s nearly 100 million citizens—is, I’m afraid, the Chekov’s gun of Trump’s second term. He has spoken too often and too explicitly about unleashing such wanton destruction for it to be an idle threat.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hadn't really encountered Rich Kids until I went to college and then law school. Of course, they're not all bad. But the ones who are bad are bad in such a distinctive way. Like they are insulated against accountability and are intoxicated by that fact.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 14/09/2026

“If you know what it’s like to work three jobs at a time and take classes and still come up short on rent, you might fight harder on housing.” Progressives running in swing seats will come to define where Democrats go as a party. buff.ly/cHsXfTf

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The New Majority Makers - The American Prospect

A group of unapologetic economic populists are defying the conventional wisdom that only moderates can succeed in swing seats.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In my office I have a picture a dear parent gave to me of her daughter and I on the First Day of School, September 9, 2001. I was a new Kindergarten teacher at Bancroft Elementary School in Washington, DC. Those fateful days, the memory of that same mom rushing in two days later…1/2

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The DC blob line is that this doesn’t matter, but it obviously does.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New revelations from Spain's failed Francoist coup in 1981 got me thinking of how we balance the contingencies of the moment with the long view of history in battling Trumpism. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/in-an...

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In and Outside of History at Once

Yesterday I was kind of randomly rereading some details about Spain’s transition...

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/09/2026

This image.

An image of a man in a grey shirt, standing in a doorway, embracing another man in a red shirt, both man in a posture of grief. Affixed to one nearby wall is a calendar. On another, a sign that reads "blessed."

Below, a caption reads: "Carl Ruby, pastor of Springfield's Central Christian Church, comforts Pierre Ronal Bel after the death of his son, Pierre Damas Bel, 20, on Aug. 31, 2026, in Springfield, Ohio. (RNS photo/Carol Guzy)"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 31/08/2026

in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An update to the syllabus, a chance to pay tribute to the 👸🏼 #DollyParton #ScrippsCollege

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Adapted from archive.ph/WVpag

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

damn its almost like preferences change and consensus can shift

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026

I feel like white people would flip the fuck out if the rest of us went around saying things to them like you can’t possibly be an expert on whiteness

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

US national debt just hit $40 trillion. Why? HINT: It's NOT because the government is trying to provide its citizens healthcare or childcare.

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"It doesn’t have to be this way." To work and write on Iran is to experience futility in its most bitter forms. Six months and four days ago I wrote the following plea against war with Iran, a calamity that was eminently predictable to anyone willing to see and listen.

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"I Wish I Could Go Back to Iran and See My Real Identity" 🧵 That the first to arrive after the revolution were the pioneers who struggled to secure the benefits enjoyed by the subsequent generations has become integral to the story Iranians tell themselves 1/n

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An update to the syllabus, a chance to pay tribute to the 👸🏼 #DollyParton #ScrippsCollege

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The beginning of my best year of teaching, the fruits of 16 years of learning @pitzercollege.bsky.social

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some warnings reach back even further

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Nonsense. ~70% of Americans agree on all kinds of things. The problem is our deeply antidemocratic institutions, which empower the 30% to control the government & regularly block all of the many policies favored by the 70%. That, & the fact that the GOP is now a far right authoritarian party.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today in “It’s not polarization”

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton

Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just the most remarkable legacy 💔❤️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

they still want cleaners and nurses, but they want to pay them less money, cut them off from their families, give them no route to citizenship, and be able to deport them at will.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 10/08/2026

This is a thing that more people really need to realize. Once you get above a certain level, basically 100% of academic hiring is an unholy brew of internal department/school politics and idiosyncratic personal preferences of the people who get a vote

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I need you to consider how funny his first appearance would have been after Iran killed a plane full of journalists plus, say, Marco Rubio. Picture his face not even hinting at the idea that he should show sympathy or empathy. Instead, a goofy pride that he tricked them. He can't stop grinning

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We still haven't heard a lot about this reported Iranian assassination threat; just the weird reaction to it

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