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Adam Bowen

@theadambowen.bsky.social
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SF Bay. World Citizen. Pro-Democracy 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈. No F’ing Fascists.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
San Francisco needs a strong transit ally in Congress, not someone who will “hold their nose” when it comes time to advocate for the hundreds of thousands of working people who ride BART, MUNI, and Caltrains every day.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Conan O' Brien Throws to Commercial @conanintro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@jstreetdotorg.bsky.social nails it here…
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gotta love this endorsement of Scott Wiener. It’s not even a choice!
sfchronicle.com
Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Bobak Esfandiari @bobakkabob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
San Francisco, don’t elect this conservative cosplayjng as a progressive: growusa.org/everything-c...
growusa.org
Connie Chan Opposes Everything
Twenty-three votes and positions where Connie Chan said no to homes, transit, police, treatment, and the school board recall, each linked to the record.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The midterms are coming. 45 days to turn things around ... @theonion.com
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wonder if the NY Times has a Euphemism Desk to soften its stories. Trump lawlessness is an “expansive interpretation of presidential power”? A Trump-UAE crypto scheme “blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise.” This thread imagines history as written by NYT’s Euphemism Desk.🧵
NYT newsroom in the 1940s
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My favorite thing about this poll is that ‘Accepting a luxury jet from Qatar while the Trump Organization pursues business opportunities in the Gulf’ came in last. Deeper bench than the ‘92 Dream Team.
Bar chart from Data for Progress titled 'Trump's Handling of the Epstein Files Is Seen as the Most Concerning Corruption-Related Action.' An August 28–31, 2026 survey of 1,167 U.S. likely voters asked which of Trump's second-term actions are most concerning, selecting up to two. Results: declining to fully release the Epstein files, 22%; directing federal law-enforcement investigations against political opponents, 17%; using the presidency to enrich his properties like Mar-a-Lago, 17%; growing his family's cryptocurrency business including Trump meme coins, 15%; family and associates moving between government roles and private ventures, 15%; pardoning allies including Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, 12%; easing regulations in industries where his family has financial interests, 12%; selling early access to his social media posts for up to $100,000 a month, 11%; accepting millions in White House ballroom donations from companies with business before the government, 11%; accepting a luxury jet from Qatar while the Trump Organization pursues Gulf business, 9%, last among the listed actions. 'None of these are concerning to me' drew 18% and 'Don't know'
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
HAARETZ is newly reporting Netanyahu was warned about an attack before 10/7 and didn’t tell 🇮🇱 security chiefs. Will American media even mention this? The new report: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wouldn't it be weird if the racist billionaire who bankrolled and took credit for the neo-Nazi victory in Germany was somehow involved in American politics too? Can you even imagine? I bet the media would have a field day asking politicians who aligned with him and took his money for statements!
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026
A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."
Other platforms will soon follow, a senior administration official told POLITICO on Tuesday. “We got Lake America changed on Google Maps, and many other maps are changing in a couple days. And Wikipedia is going to change as well,” said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak frankly.
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Hope ☄️ (NO DMS!) 🇨🇦🇬🇷 “Know Thyself.” @xtrahope1515.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
America, vote PEDO prez out, & his despicable Republikkkan enablers out! Too bad animals can't vote! 😏🤷🇨🇦
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement. Act like it.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social is a Never-Trump Republican political strategist:
Stuart Stevens @ • 8/29/25
When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and
SpaceX
-defund ICE
That's the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Absolute insanity. And if you try to do something about it they call you a communist.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your ever-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress fully support what Hegseth and the president are doing to the American military. It’s disgraceful and disqualifying
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
A (messy) Excel spreadsheet tracking all of the Trump administration's emergency applications, when they were filed, when they were decided, what kind of ruling they produced, and how each justice voted.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"If any of the defense secretaries under Presidents Biden, Obama, or Bush had gotten this degree and range of pushback from top uniformed personnel, there would be immediate congressional hearings, calls for resignations, and talks of impeachment."
charlotteclymer.substack.com
Our Generals Have No Confidence in Hegseth
It is abundantly clear.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I assume what AP means is: "Lies about noncitizen voting are being used by Trump to attack elections his party is set to lose and to set up an authoritarian effort to overturn the results" If so, they should just say that.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Can’t wait for this fucker to be in shackles.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I don't know if any would necessarily want it, but some governors should be reaching out to officers Hegseth has purged to offer commissions in state defense forces. Not the hybrid state-federal Guard, but their state-only units. Even if it's just a symbolic gesture, it's a way to make a statement.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2026
There’s no bigger threat to your public lands and parks than Donald Trump
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What if we just started renaming things "AmeriKKKa" spelled the Ice Cube way. I'm Gen X and I think we could be talked into this.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You'd better believe it.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is Stars and Stripes' own very good article on the firing of its EIC and Middle East correspondent. Read their work.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
During these awful times it’s always great when something amazing like this pops up on the timeline to give you hope for better days ahead
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Nazis made a special effort to include gays and lesbians in the Holocaust, but now it's illegal DEI to notice that historical fact.
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One more ICE thug identified for future accountability.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
BAD: GOP Sen Jim Banks lying about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social’s positions, falsely claiming that El-Sayed called for open borders and abolishing prisons. WORSE: @kristenwelker.bsky.social letting Banks’ lies go uncorrected. I was able to fact check on Google in 2 min. WHERE ARE HER PRODUCERS?
Welker & Banks on meet the Press, seen on tv screen.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your regular reminder that there are two minyanim worth of people who can end the lawless authoritarianism, & all of them are <Republicans> in Congress & they are shameful, oath-violating cowards & everyone should stop giving them free passes everyday: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
It's going to be shit like this, on an endless loop, in the NYT, the WaPo, the Atlantic, in every Free Press & Free Press wannabe ... when elite journalism really cares about something, it can create a public impression. And they care about nothing more than lecturing/suppressing the left.
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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s unacceptable that gay people should live in fear, especially in a place like Berlin. The far right is an enemy to global civilization and must be defeated.
nytimes.com
Even Before Attack, Berlin’s Gay Community Felt ‘More and More Unsafe’
The killing of a woman in what officials called an act of Islamist terrorism rattled a community that has seen a surge in threats, including from the far right.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a CA publication speak plainly about both the stakes (and the basic distributional politics involved) The FAIR plan is a ticking time bomb and the primary problem is it promises to insure uninsurable property for rich people. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
latimes.com
Californians are subsidizing mansion wildfire insurance as FAIR risk explodes
As commercial insurers have fled California in the wake of wildfires, FAIR has become the insurer of first resort for owners of multimillion-dollar properties in exclusive but fire-prone communities.
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Whoever did this needs a beatdown. Don’t fuck with our nice stuff!
sfchronicle.com
Popular giant crow sculptures defaced in S.F.’s Panhandle
Graffiti covered the bronze birds from beak to tail, prompting a warning that repeated vandalism could end the installation
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Today in "It's not polarization": bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hahahaha 🌎
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have MR. KELLY

MR OSSOFF
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Another level of evil and greed from the White House and their supporters. NYT has comments switched off on this, not surprisingly.
nytimes.com
Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Who could have seen this coming? Besides every liberal arts faculty member in the country, I mean.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What a picture from cheney orr of @reuters.com — a Black woman on a train surrounded by masked white supremacists, emboldened in Trump’s America. One for the history books.
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