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Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 3h

As the situation in Russia unfolds, separating fact from fear matters. So does remembering that infectious diseases know no borders—and neither should our commitment to protecting public health.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3h

“So many systems are not responsive to the needs of Americans,” Anand Giridharadas told me, which creates “the sense of abandonment,” that “no one is listening, no one is coming.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Hope, Struggle and The Need for Belonging

In the latest ‘Six Questions,’ Anand Giridharadas explains why our politics are so fractious, the dangers of ‘civic pessimism’ and how we get to a better place

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jfc, ppl. 😳 Vote early, AND ALSO be ready to grind everything to a halt in Nov if Republicans mess with our votes. We don’t have many options to stop them besides the courts, but a multi-day national strike killing the market is one thing GOP billionaires would HATE.

'Grind the country to a halt:
Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms
In wake of Donald Trump's call for Republicans to 'take over' voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the 'ultimate response'
David Smith in Washington

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 14h

President Zelensky and UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband visited the site of the strike on a residential building in Pryluky, where 22 people were killed, including five children. #Ukraine

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sam Altman: We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology. I do think the lighter touch regulatory stance we advocate for comes with an accepting of the fact that some bad things are going to happen.

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 14h

The cost of shipping US crude to Asia by supertanker surged to a record $77 million per voyage, adding about $38.50 a barrel to delivered costs. Markets @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“.. Preliminary data showed just 4mn barrels transiting the strait on Tuesday.” @financialtimes.com ⛽️ www.ft.com/content/ec86...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h

The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14h

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why Megyn Kelly is a cankle. Read and subscribe! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/megyn-kell... Music by CMAT.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Guilfoyle also offered to help her mark get favorable treatment from the government, including getting his IRS problems quashed. No dice, but it did result in this great line: “I have paid you $300,000 over the years. As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker."

She also sold her connection with the Trumps to help Deters solve his tax problems. When Republican Congressman Billy Long was confirmed as head of the IRS, Guilfoyle reached out saying: “Don Jr. and I are very close with Eric Deters and his wife and I know he sent you a letter. I am hoping I know how busy you are that you could give some time and attention to it.”

Deters was unhappy with progress, and sent a memo saying: “I have paid you $300,000 over the years. As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”

When you pay someone $300,000, you expect some favors! That’s how bribes work!

She would later text that the IRS Commissioner had responded to her, but that did not seem to be enough to encourage her mark to hand over another $100,000.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two decades before Epstein came under federal investigation, Goldsmith – who died in 1997 – told a confidant that Epstein was a “sexual deviant” who was recruiting children for illicit activities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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British billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuser

Sir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, add to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026

As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:

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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

how are we still fucking doing this

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Democrats are suing the Trump administration for using $20 million in taxpayer money on campaign-style TV ads promoting Trump. The ads carry explicit disclaimers saying they were paid for by the U.S. government, which the party argues violate federal law.

Court document with case title: Democratic National Committee vs. Donald J. Trump, The White House Office, Office of Management and Budget, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint alleges misuse of taxpayer dollars for political advertising.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Samuel Alito owned oil stock and sat on a giant oil case for seven months anyway. A week before the hearing, he remembered. He called it “the prudent step.” Prudent was February. Big Oil got eight justices Monday. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-has-...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fox is not journalism. It’s anti-journalism. The more you watch, the less you know.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PPI: “U.S. government decisions in 2025 and 2026 simultaneously raised farm costs and diminished farmers’ income.” Here are the three main ways: Trump’s tariff taxes. Trump’s war tax on fuel & fertilizer. Lost foreign customers. Are we great yet? www.progressivepolicy.org/us-farm-inco...

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

GOOD!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

WKRN: “A Utah school admin filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was pepper-sprayed, sedated, beaten, sexually assaulted by correctional officers inside Nashville Detention Center after an arrest last year… officers remain employed by sheriff, no criminal charges filed…” www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

total behind the music shit

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026

Amy Miller, an attorney with Disability Rights Nebraska, travels the state helping elderly and disabled people vote. Congress funds the work. But a new White House proposal threatens the efforts of Miller’s group and more than 50 others like it.

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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Ron Johnson, still relitigating covid all these years later, pimps ivermectin, but then immediately acknowledges "I'm not a doctor, I'm not a medical researcher"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Monopolization: great for executives, terrible for everyone else.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Burgum blames Ukraine for "taking about 2 million barrels of day of diesel production off the market" and says "that's one of the things that's putting pressure on the market"

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4017xan.bsky.social @4017xan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You know how some owners of a mean dog that they can hardly hold back, as it strains against the collar jaws snapping, say: “Don’t mind him! He’s just noisy! He doesn’t bite!” Trump is incoherent, but also malign, & mean. He bites any chance he gets. For the fun of it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026

President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)

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The $1 Trillion Black Box

The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

here's Tuesday's post: "No biggie, it’s just our shithole president, inviting Iran to ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego" — What the fuck is wrong with this guy? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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No biggie, it’s just our shithole president, inviting Iran to ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego

What the fuck is wrong with this guy?

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let’s hear it for Troy “Action” Jackson!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Susan Collins supports a dictator and brags about getting him to fling a few crumbs toward the peons.

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought Sandy Hook would be the line. I thought Jan. 6 would be the line. Now trump encourages Iran to bomb American cities I feel grief for a country that keeps showing us there is apparently no bottom, no line that can’t be crossed & no guarantee that cruelty will ever come with consequences.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW: Colorado's elections officials are scrambling to sort out an error that led the Front Range Passenger Rail project to be listed on the wrong voters' ballots across several counties. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026

Phew guys, we're in safe hands. 🙄 After reports from Russia’s Irkutsk region revealed a potential public health crisis, Donald Trump gave his thoughts on a seeming outbreak of the rare and often deadly pneumonic plague. Given his handling of COVID, some fear his approach to public health concerns.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026

In our poll of Democratic voters nationwide, 84% said they would feel positively upon hearing the news that, "using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, President Donald Trump has been declared unfit by a majority of his cabinet and removed from office." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...

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What Are Democrats Thinking?

Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Jim @thebstardsback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“You see, Annalise, hew I am holding my hend? Now, whet would a good essistant think is missing? Hmm, Annalise? Should, or should there not be one corndog bitween each of these fingers, with curried meyo on each? Am I to just curl my tongue and lick the air? Impossible to find good help!”

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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A history of presidents naming things after themselves (It's short. They rarely do) While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets. www.npr.org/2026/10

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