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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How to honour a scholar.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(Almost) every writer: If only I had some free time, I could really make some progress. Free time appears. No, not that sort of free time.

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Leftist Logician (she/her) @leftistlogician.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Aw come on, not Tim Curry too. This timeline sucks, my dudes.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“justice, like health, is a good which is enjoyed without being felt, which inspires no enthusiasm, and the value of which is felt only after it has been lost.” Rousseau Considerations on the Government of Poland

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

At my age you are expected to say that everything good is disappearing and everything bad is getting worse. But it’s so dispiriting to look around the world and to see leaders apparently on a crusade to make this true.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

He’s a man of his word. His word is junk and so is he.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Liberals have tended to assume the benevolence and goodwill of state officials. Conservatives and Libertarians were always sceptical. And, it seems, they are now trying every trick they have to make their prophecy come true.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Avner de-Shalit and my maxim for a City of Equals is ‘I’m proud of my city and my city is proud of (people like) me’. The US cities standing up to ICE are showing what it is to live this idea.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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⊢ @taciturnstile.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

MAGA death squads are not and will never be law enforcement. They use force to impose lawlessness.

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⊢ @taciturnstile.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

MAGAdoxa: anything can be bought or stolen.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Jack Smith: "Donald Trump was not looking for honest answers about whether there was fraud in the election. He was looking for ways to stay in power. And when people told him things that conflicted with him staying in power, he rejected them."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

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rosie1972.bsky.social @rosie1972.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is my favorite quote by the NYC Mayor Ed Koch during the 1980s "I wouldn't believe Donald Trump even if he had his tongue notarized"

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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thucydides’ real lesson isn’t about power forcing the weak to accept their fate—it’s about how hubris masquerades as realism.

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⊢ @taciturnstile.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

MAGAdoxa: the only way to secure the North Atlantic is to sabotage our alliance in the North Atlantic.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This is the precise mentality of a toddler preparing to throw a plate of food because it isn't candy. Or an abusive husband preparing to beat his wife. Except the President of the United States has the singular authority to call for and launch a nuclear attack. 25th Amendment Now.

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dyke siegmund @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 16/01/2026

I know some things are more important but I’m legitimately so fucking sick of the federal government posting like stormfront

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire. One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched. The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Trump addresses the United Nations

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/08/2025

The military has no place occupying DC or any other American city.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Suppose the US had a President that hates America. How different would it be to what Trump is now doing? Oh.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

It is even money at this point that a plank in the GOP platform for the 2028 election will be: "Kill The Poor." With all due respect to Jello Biafra.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"Friendship, too, tends to become totalitarian: there must be agreement in everything or disagreement in everything, and even the non-party members behave like activists of imaginary parties" Sartre in reply to Camus, when their friendship was threatened by disagreement. Never more true than now.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

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Ariel Elias @arielcomedy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It was easier to see my friends when they lived in New Orleans and I lived in New York than now when they live in Brooklyn and I live in Queens.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/05/2025

Anyone who claims that the decision to halt Trump’s tariffs is an example of judicial overreach is unserious, uninformed or a liar. Or all of the above.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

"The cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary and an independent bar willing to tackle unpopular cases, however daunting," Judge Leon wrote in a 73-page opinion. "The Founding Fathers knew this!"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Institutions take years to build up and can be destroyed very quickly, and so the burden of proof should be on anyone who wishes to make changes. It's come to something when progressives need to insist on this conservative wisdom while the ruling authoritarian anarcho-capitalists wield chainsaws.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off. Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

There's a view that the task of the historian is to show why the actions of historical agents seemed rational to them at the time. Best of luck with that.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Make no mistake: the tariffs are not transactional, they are meant to generate $ Trump believes the income tax was a mistake (invented "for reasons unknown to mankind", he said yesterday) and wants to replace it with tariffs It's a coherent (if crazy) ideology. Better to act accordingly

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Apologists for dictatorships have long used the cliché "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs," and to be fair, Trump is offering something new and bold: "We can make an omelette without having eggs."

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Ariel Elias @arielcomedy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

God never interferes in the story of Purim, but a man in power listened to a woman while giving her credit, and everyone was like, we gotta write that down and make it a holiday this is a miracle.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Things that are treyf: 🔹Non-Jews deciding who is & isn’t Jewish. 🔹Using “Palestinian” as a slur. 🔹Nazi-enablers trying to weaponize antisemitism.

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⊢ @taciturnstile.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Sovereign immunity thus appears to bar the sort of compensatory relief that the District Court ordered here." Shorter Alito: Sovereign immunity means never having to pay your debts.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If you're not tired of mainstream political and media figures publicly immolating themselves in efforts to provide radically off-base alternative explanations for Trump's behavior that diminish his malice and destructiveness, are you even American?

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Evergreen: Hard to overstate the idiocy of such a decision.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/03/2025

For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy. Now, in the middle of a horrific war that Putin started, Trump is turning his back on Ukraine and democracy, all to the benefit of a brutal dictator in Moscow.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

To the ignorant any contingency planning looks like waste.

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