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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h

We simply cannot keep doing. We've been doing it since Iran-Contra, & really since 1865. It's the signal feature of American politics. It has to end, or democracy will. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

theres this mindset that because people just start paying attn to politics in october, you hold fire until then. no, you lay the groundwork for the october push all the rest of the year.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They may hold views that we think are racist, but you can’t write them all off as ignorant white racists either, it’s a relatively diverse group. Many of them are stupid or ignorant, but millions of them also probably understand politics about as well as you do. They want different things than you.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Mind boggling” implies that there’s something mysterious about this when the explanation is in fact pretty obvious.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THERE IS NO NONPARTISAN SOLUTION TO A PARTISAN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY

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Higgs @thehiggstape.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not a famous person secret, but my parents casually dropped that a friend of theirs was at tiananmen square, took photos, and smuggled the film back to the states. And they have the photos too, they think, somewhere...like it was just some random shit they've had for a min stuffed away

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

im your newest npc companion character in a billion dollar rpg. you need to follow me now but im going to be moving too fast for you to walk behind and too slow for you to run behind

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two peoples, divided by a shared history, is the norm in a lot of places.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls

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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026

Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Eventually we have to talk about the police themselves when discussing what’s happening.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026

The idea that Latino voters were experiencing a long-term realignment toward Trump in 2024, which was put forth by many reactionary pundits urging acquiescence to the Trump regime, turns out to be false. As some of us argued at the time, they are just very reactive to national conditions.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today. We should all get off work and schools should close.

An image of a young John Coltrane in the studio with his tenor, later used on the cover of Blue Trane

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

good explanatory thread but I know in my heart there's going to be some airport self-help bestseller called THE SECOND BRAIN: WHY YOU'RE ONLY USING HALF OF YOUR POTENTIAL in the next two years

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 22/09/2026

I don’t understand this revisionist history happening that says no one was opposing George W. Bush. There were street protests, email chains, songs by Green Day and the Chicks, Jon Stewart became our Walter Cronkite. No one was quiet about hating the president!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“.. Some people might think, wow, this is really, really cool, and the technology is really cool,” Ms. Anderson said. “But people around here, we’re thinking, ‘Ugh, is there anything we can do to stop this?’ We can’t live like this.” @nytimes.com $AMZN www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Drone delivery is one of those ideas that sounds great unless you've ever been anywhere near a helicopter in real life. No one wants this. It's such a bad idea

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

suppose there's a Blue Wave - there might be! we've spent the last 50 years making the President into a King. Trump will likely fight tooth and nail, and use every power granted his office since WWII and before to take us down with him. November is a battle in the war.

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

this might not sound like a big deal but I’m not sure there is any single thing that will upset trump more than not being on the teevee

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

These guys are doing this with regularity while everyone left of center is being subject to a constant loyalty test they can never pass.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the police are defunding our city

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can have all those things and no collapse, or bad stuff happens that doesn't amount to a full-blown collapse, but those are the general preconditions: long-term structural factors, a series of solvable crises, and people making decisions who shouldn't be in that position. /fin

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The American debate over "socialism" is almost entirely useless because nobody has a shared definition of what "socialism" means. Stop wasting everybody's time! www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/i-want-you...

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I Want You To Tell Me What “Socialism” Means

Before you tell me if it’s good or bad.

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Aqua King | ΦΒΣ ♒️ @louieluxinmotion.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

This is just a reminder that apple cider is the superior fall flavor.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This will only be true if we do fundamental institutional reform. Otherwise, a future far right president will absolutely dare such abuses, within years, let alone centuries. Democrats winning elections forever isn't a strategy. The platform <must be institutional reform>: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/09/2026

The Dems are doing exactly what Labour did before they were elected. One by one a few stick their head up with some anti trans nonsense and the leadership say nothing because they don't want to rock the boat. Their supporters tell you not to worry, it will be fine when they are elected...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Again, bigots will never choose bigotry-lite over the real thing. You're not going to win them but you're going to drive away people who otherwise would have voted for you. And this year -- when voters most of all want "a fighter" in Congress -- running ads about how you will not fight is idiotic.

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