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Is Bluesky only filled with tankies? Or are they mostly Chinese and Russian bots to help fuel our own internal divide now that we've left Twitter? Would their followers even care if they were?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026
when you said not to vote in 2024 you chose a future where the Republicans got to take their swing at governing, which meant they got to hurt trans people and other marginalized groups. you chose that future with every post you made about your disappointment with Biden & Harris.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will never forgive the Chinese government for ruining Reddit with their blatant propaganda and bot farms. Who’s even dumb enough to fall for it (besides the tankies)?
Chinese bot account that is 19 days old with 16k worth of Reddit karmaChinese bot propaganda posts praising ChinaChinese bot propaganda posts praising ChinaChinese bot propaganda posts praising China
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump: "I’m surprised CNN is here is covering me. You shouldn’t be here.” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: “The United Nations allowed us in, sir.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mao was bad. It’s insane that that’s a potentially divisive statement on this website.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now see when people talk like this I’m led to believe that their issue isn’t so much the committing of genocide (of which both Israel and China are guilty) and rather the presence of Jews. Also, a poor historical understanding of modern China.
In WHAT FUCKING WORLD are you equating Xi's China with fucking Israel? Absolute baby brained bullshit 1/2
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It is very telling that this is the argument for Israel only. I want Putin and Xi gone and for Russia and China to be democracies. But you don't hear people saying those countries, which are engaged in imperialism and oppression, should be erased from the map.
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China is not doing imperialism and you are mouth-drooling moron if you think otherwise.
Comparing the state of Israel, an apartheid project that's less than 100 years old to the Chinese State which has existed since BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN, this is rabidly racist bullshit
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Did anybody else read it: “Meryl Streep cast as Asian”?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU
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yogaskidogs.bsky.social @yogaskidogs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What do we tell kids? We’re no longer free? We must ignore injustice? Don’t stop, don’t record, don’t march? How do they identify criminal impersonators if someone masked in an unmarked car in a vest that could’ve come from Amazon attacks them? VOTE against this GOP nightmare #GetReadyToVote #Vote
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't think the Secretary of the Army should retweet Russian propaganda.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can't stand this kind of "I'm not saying I want the Republican to win, I'm just saying I want the Democrat to lose" evasive non-sequitur, but it's also a dispositive tell that the person making the argument knows perfectly well that they're advocating an indefensible position
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
trump is trying to sue himself for 10 billion dollars of american taxpayer money
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From "very fine people" to "stand back and stand by" to Jan.6 "will be wild".... @davidkurtz.bsky.social writes about an America where someone like Marshall Rawson can win public office: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ve identified the worst account and worst rhetorical tic on Bluesky
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Felicia @feliciarondo.com · 12/09/2026
“A Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term” what a flowery way of framing the victory of our worst enemies. Meanwhile, an imperfect Democrat getting “one seat for one term” is framed as an existential blow to my rights. Good god. WHAT DO YOU THINK REPUBLICANS DO IN OFFICE
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
boy, sure is awesome when Republicans are more interested in settling factional scores than beating Democrats. probably no larger lessons here
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Carney standing by Zelenskyy: "Ukraine will never submit"
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This never happened.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My expectations were low but god damn Jared Kushner says peace should be a “win-win” deal that helps Putin achieve his “aspirations.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Donald Trump is destroying the national capital to build Trump monuments. I wish liberal leaders would stop acting like it’s embarrassing to care. It’s an abomination, just like the war, the corruption, the racism.
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They openly hate us. They spend all day, every day on apps like this one and in caucus meetings and on streams talking about how much they hate liberals and want to destroy us. And we've spent 10 years trying to win them over. Enough. They failed the most important test in 2024. So, fuck them.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s cool how no one will trust previously trustworthy institutions for like a generation
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Insane. Fascist. Un-American.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 30/08/2026
Trump calling on the FCC to "punish" Kristen Welker. (That's not a thing.)
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you did not vote or voted for anyone other than Kamala Harris in 2024, then you helped Trump get re-elected. Disagreeing with this fact simply tells me you don’t understand America’s two-party system.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/08/2026
USAID was a free space for tankie and tankie adjacent dingbats to score edgy contrarian points by wildly exaggerating how imperialist it was, confident in the belief that it wouldn’t just disappear, except now it has and everyone is uncomfortably looking elsewhere
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In terms of people who would otherwise have lived dying there’s a case for it being the worst thing any leader has done this century, easily one of the worst, but people usually on about Amerikkka are often silent because it is something good the US was doing that stopped in the worst possible way
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026
So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How authoritarian regimes evolve. A general tells his superior its best not to investigate rules violations that involve an ally of the President. The superior proceeds, is fired, and the general who advised killing the investigation is promoted in his place. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Before Hegseth fired him, top general was advised to drop Kid Rock probe
Gen. Randy George appeared troubled by the encounter with Gen. Chris LaNeve, the Army’s No. 2 officer now favored for the service’s top job, people familiar with the matter told The Post.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/08/2026
The Kennedy Center will eventually have to be demolished unless President Trump is allowed to save it, Justice Dept. lawyers representing it said in a court filing, marking the first time Trump’s allies have explicitly raised the prospect of demolishment.
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DOJ says Kennedy Center could be demolished if Trump’s plans are blocked
The filing marks the first time President Donald Trump’s allies have explicitly raised the prospect that the Kennedy Center itself could be demolished.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Spoiled child Trump will smash things if he can’t get his own way.
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Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
President Trump has spent the morning on Truth Social trashing Canada and praising totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un. Congrats, America!
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What a cool fascist tweet from DHS
The Department of Homeland Security X account with a photo of Donald Trump and the text: Did you remain loyal?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“The president had a stroke and is now secretly wearing devices to disguise his physical incapacity” might not be a TRUE story, but it’s a PLAUSIBLE story, and if it is true, a lot of people must know, and the journalist who breaks it will be famous forever. Seems like a real incentive to dig!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is Occam's Razor and maybe Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are interested in exploring this, since The Mental And Physical Capacity Of Elderly Presidents was, until recently, the defining issue of our politics and our time.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I haven’t been posting much because I’m trying to be off social media — and so should you. But I’m making an exception bc this is wild: the president of the US is openly laying the groundwork to try and steal an election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Trump Has Quietly Sought Control Over Postal Service to Transform U.S. Elections (Gift Article)
That effort got new attention on Monday, when the Supreme Court allowed preparations for mail voting curbs to proceed. The justices said it is not a final determination on the order’s legality.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Trump is just a natural extension of George W. Bush - we’ve always had politicians like this,” we tell ourselves. But other countries and places know how utterly wrong this is. Trump is a complete breakdown of the system and what’s most alarming is how the system refuses to see it as such.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/08/2026
The most corrupt president in American history.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Person to the camera operator: “I need the cameras off the president right now… Turn the cameras.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Carney knows this and Trump isn't his real audience, but trying to explain trade deficits to Trump is like trying to teach algebra to a golden retriever. Except the golden retriever is a million times friendlier.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Shapiro: When he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office, making $2.2 billion off his corruption for him and his kids, it costs you money. When he sits behind that desk, he’s not thinking about how to put money in your pocket. He’s thinking about how to put money in his own pocket.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Shapiro: Understand every time we cut taxes, every time we put money in someone’s pockets, Donald Trump and his enablers want to take two bucks out.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A very common DC tourist reaction to the White House is "oh, it's smaller than I thought." And damn right it is, as it should be.
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