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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every minute a business owner or town mayor has to spend begging their Republican Senator to shield them from the Republican president is a minute they could have spent actually running their business or town.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026
literally the first thing i wrote for liberal currents was about this, it turns out, and short version "william b. fuckley is right." the answer is that blue politicians need to start gaming out how to break cop strikes. it's not hard... but you need to actually be prepared for it.
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Power and the Liberal Tradition
I have long considered myself a liberal, in the following sense: I believe in liberal democracy. The ideal of a republic of free and equal citizens is my north star, guiding my own politics here in th...
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Warren is too professional to remind everyone that Pulte is on camera receiving a trophy that says “Bill Pulte Fucks Only the Young” but I’m not
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It remains odd to me The Onion has decided the thing to do in 2026 is mislead people about Democrats The DNC and prominent Democrats like El-Sayed! This isn’t even a joke, it’s a poorly controlled reflex
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It’s the president canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like. Republicans said they would never let this happen. Well here it is. If they have any integrity they’ll join us in ending this practice.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is honestly baffling to me how "read a transcript of what the Russians say and take it seriously" is apparently an incredibly difficult bar to clear for most "Russia Understanders"
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 24/09/2026
Trump's DHS sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed were noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote. "On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.
I know, buddy, you did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi.
No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war.
And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 24/09/2026
They’re panicking.
When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement. Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The end of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” is perhaps the most powerful early description of this conception of liberal internationalism
But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated.—Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic are, distinctly heard on the other.The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. The fiat of the Almighty, “Let there be Light,” has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading ​light. The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen, in contrast with nature. Africa must rise and put on her yet unwoven garment. “Ethiopia shall stretch out her hand unto God.” In the fervent aspirations of William Lloyd Garrison, I say, and let every heart join in saying it:God speed the year of jubilee
The wide world o′er!
When from their galling chains set free,
Th′ oppress′d shall vilely bend the knee,
And wear the yoke of tyranny
Like brutes no more.
That year will come, and freedom′s reign,
To man his plundered rights again
Restore.

God speed the day when human blood
Shall cease to flow!
In every clime be understood,
The claims of human brotherhood,
And each return for evil, good,
Not blow for blow;
That day will come all feuds to end
And change into a faithful friend
Each foeGod speed the hour, the glorious hour,
When none on earth
Shall exercise a lordly power,
Nor in a tyrant's presence cower;
But all to manhood′s stature tower,
By equal birth!
That hour will come, to each, to all,
And from his prison-house, the thrall
Go forth.

Until that year, day, hour, arrive,
With head, and heart, and hand I′ll strive,
To break the rod, and rend the gyve,
The spoiler of his prey deprive—
So witness Heaven!
And never from my chosen post,
Whate′er the peril or the cost,
Be driven.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The same point applies for members of the Cabinet. The secretary of defense has proudly and openly murdered hundreds of people as official policy. Leave the official record on that as an indifferent shrug and you're not doing anything to tell future secretaries not to do the same or worse.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He really, really, doesn't want to be impeached again. If nothing else, subjecting him to the thing he hates, and which less insane presidents are even keener to avoid, is a way to impose some kind of cost as a disincentive for the future. Otherwise the message is be as lawless as you want.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The CW idea impeachment backfires isn't true. Nor is there any value in surrendering in advance on conviction. But there's a more important long-term consideration. Looking at all this and saying nope, we're not even going to say he should be removed, is locking in a message for future presidents.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We need to stop calling this "deporting" and start calling it "marooning", because that's what this is. Tossing ppl into the middle of nowhere to die.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's such a big obvious lie that it comes with a neon flashing sign saying "big obvious lie" and an arrow pointing to it, which makes it seem kind of pointless, like an active dare to the voters: "Are you big enough suckers to buy this?"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The credulous coverage of Trump’s claimed “historic deal” in Greenland — which changes nothing of substance about the existing security agreement — is yet another embarrassing instance of the media “treating the kayfabe as real.” Why would a self-respecting reporter participate in this nonsense?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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thedronesneedyou.bsky.social @thedronesneedyou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They revel in the blood of children. I want to say 'anti-human', but they are, in fact, deeply in touch with humanity--just those worst, vilest, evilest parts of us, to the exclusion of anything good and decent.
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A shameful decision by the Trump Administration for the second year in a row. Sidelining the only existing Palestinian governing institution committed to a political process with Israel does nothing to build a better alternative. 1/2
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US rejects Abbas’s entry visa, forcing him to again address UN virtually
Palestinian official tells ToI that State Department notice on rejection of PA president's own request for a visa cites alleged association with a terror group but doesn't elaborate further
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
CASTEN: Trump said 'we're taking in billions and billions from Venezuela.' Who is the 'we'? That suggests flows to US persons BESSENT: Again, this is one of the largest assets ever to go on the US balance sheets CASTEN: You can't testify whether or not they're flowing to US persons? BESSENT: No
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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Trump excuses Xi for helping Iran kill US troops 👇 Q: On the topic of Xi, we recently reported Chinese entities may have provided Iranians w/ satellite imagery of airbases in Jordan-- TRUMP: He's behaved reasonably well. When they say China spies on us, I say, you're right, and we spy on them too.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NYT lame: “It was not clear how he would go about that.” AP honest and unafraid: “The proposal, which could cost at least $1 trillion, was financially and politically implausible.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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Republicans slam Democrats and declare devotion to Trump during unusual midterm convention
Republicans opened their unique midterm convention that's being described as a “Trump-a-Palooza.” The two-day event in Dallas kicked off Wednesday and puts President Donald Trump at center stage — whether candidates like it or not.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
Obviously we MUST not let this blood-spattered beast get away with it.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Going to toss a tiny pebble into the ocean here by saying this is completely insane and unacceptable and it's absolutely surreal that we tolerate it today and every day.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The kind of sweaty conservative defensiveness I think we're all familiar with even today
Within two years proslavery writers had answered Uncle Tom's Cabin with at least fifteen novels whose thesis that slaves were better off than free workers in the North
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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Eagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(Also part of eugenics is putting the onus on the individual to thrive, even if that’s under the direction of the state. It’s not contradictory that MAHA wants people to individualize “responsibility” as well as control what individuals do along with blaming individuals for getting sick and dying.)
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Eagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Right. Like, MAHA isn’t a push for equitable access to care. It’s eugenics under the guise of “healthy living.” There’s plenty of somewhat normalizing woo and almond mom and ~natural~ in the mix, but that’s just noise. The signal is the strongest survive, and no regard for the lessers who don’t.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Rosh Hashanah in 2026 begins at sundown on 11th September. Here is depicted a man blowing a shofar. BL Or 10641; Maḥzor for the entire year, Western-Ashkenazi rite (Worms); 1650 CE-1651 CE; Germany (Worms); f.22v @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
there it is, biggest draw for the AfD came from non-voters
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 05/09/2026
Which is why hostility to *business* is really false consciousness too. Business is how people who have to work move up in the world. Billionaires would sacrifice all of it in an instant.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Besides the 2025 Yemen war, the Trump regime has fired advanced missiles in other theaters, including shooting some tomahawks into Nigeria in late 2025, accomplishing nothing besides a PR stunt for US evangelical christians. They launched the Iran war after all that.
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Opinion | The logic isn't apparent in Trump's strikes in Nigeria
Nicholas Grossman: Add Nigeria to the list of countries Trump has bombed this year
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Iran war is the main reason for the US munitions shortage, but the Trump regime has done multiple things to cause it. They tried a similar cowardly bully strategy in Yemen in 2025: talk big, fire off advanced missiles while avoiding riskier action, fail to accomplish anything, then quit.
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Trump operation against Houthis cost more than $1 billion
President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the U.S. and the militant group, but there are still real questions about what the expensive strikes achieved.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The best example of gender is how the guys most likely to have uttered the phrase "god made man, Sam Colt made them equal" also have very strong opinions on women in the military
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Trump Pentagon is trying to steal NIH funds for "research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens." They want to steal the $ to pay for Trump's idiotic war on Iran.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A practical channel for putatively legal purges: revoke musk’s clearance, prosecute officials and contractors who still have clearances who leak things to him (this will 100% happen).
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/09/2026
In addition to eugenicist and neo-Nazi social media posting, Musk is a big supporter of the neo-Nazi Party in Germany and spoke at one of its rallies last year. He has a 1st Amend right to be a Nazi, but he’s a security risk and should have his govt security clearance and contracts revoked.
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Reiss Center on Law and Security @rcls-nyu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On 9/2/25, the Trump admin first struck a vessel allegedly trafficking narcotics. 1 yr into the ongoing US boat strikes campaign, 227 have been killed. @rcls-nyu.bsky.social & @justsecurity.org cohost the latest analysis w/ legal experts. 🧵 w/ key takeaways👇
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The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part VI
A special episode of the Just Security Podcast, co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security   Co-Hosts Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to di...
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sen. Benjamin Wade after Dred Scott: "I stand here, clothed with the same power, to proclaim what is the Constitution ... as that or any other court.... I beg of the Senate never to yield to this arbitrary doctrine that the Supreme Court can bind the other departments of the Government."
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago.
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