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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I grew up with LOTR. I know Middle Earth embarrassingly well, and can quote too much of the books If someone came out with like Asian-coded Gimli son of Gloìn, I guess I’d be like “weird but okay” and then drop it Unless the mini looked cool. Then all bets are off 🤘🏾 Because FANTASY
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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are so screwed.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Democrats should bring forward legislation tomorrow to send a $5000 check to every American. Do a discharge petition on it and demand every Republican sign on- and run ads listing the Republicans who refuse. Call his lying bluff
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 08/09/2026
“Make no mistake: The communications environment around this fall is going to be horrific. There will be vast quantities of noise, just garbage nonsense coming out of the federal government.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Trump administration gives DOJ civil rights unit a new focus: Voter fraud
Federal election monitors traditionally focused on protecting the voting rights of marginalized groups are getting additional marching orders for the midterms.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of many small laws to pass in 2029, to make ownership of the coin a felony. Don't let it become a collectors item except among criminals.
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Throngplough @throngplough.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I appreciate this cold water take, but I don't think I will be capable of voting for a candidate that doesn't pledge to deconstruct his illegal monuments.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tear it down in 2029- and put the Supreme Court in some random office building with poor plumbing.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is really bad. The Census Bureau has been corrupted and nothing it says going forward can be trusted. And needs to be fixed given Census determines representation in Congress & allocation of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal dollars. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-fak...
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Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business?
A once-trusted agency has dressed up partisan election claims as official statistics—and hidden the evidence needed to test them.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Whatever Trump babbles about, it can't override federal law which defines Lake Ontario as one of the Great Lakes and even gives its latitudes www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Jason Matthews @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Donald Trump can sign whatever Executive Order in crayon about Lake Ontario that he likes. This will always be Lake Trump to me.
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Throngplough @throngplough.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm a single issue voter. I will not support a politician who does not commit to tearing down every one of Trump's illegal construction projects. We must not give him the undeserved legacy of a great builder. No more Robert Moseses.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Throngplough @throngplough.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I endorse this conclusion.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/08/2026
I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Knocking this down is now obligatory as symbol of reining im corrupt Prrsidency and corrupt Supreme Court. Any candidate who hedges on this should be obliterated in primaries.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Throngplough @throngplough.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's almost like they don't want me to watch this film. And I'm happy to oblige. A watchlist for your movie? Please fuck all the way off.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 10/08/2026
I will never let semi-literate, poorly-read ding-dongs dictate how I write.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Nearly every one of El-Sayed's issue positions is supported by a majority. In fact, his stands are the center of American politics today. Saying he is far left/left wing is just so old. The center of American politics has moved over the last 30 years, and El-Sayed's position are center now.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Third Way should be tossed out of party meetings if they spend tens of millions THIS YEAR doing opposition research on DSA rather than on research against GOP-allied groups. That this is their top priority reflects their role as corporate moles inside Dem Party, not as actual Dem partisans.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The average American family - meaning the median family - is poorer than average families in nearly every other developed nation in the world. Read that sentence again. We appear wealthy only because the very rich have so much, but most European families own twice as much as median US family.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This does need to become Minneapolis-level focus for progressives. Allowing ICE to murder people in unmarked vans then deport the witnesses is a line we have to fight with every protest tool possible.
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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I guess there’s some consolation in schadenfreude here, but a country only turns 250 once, and it’s ultimately pretty sad that what should have been a grand, joyous, unifying national celebration has been turned into this sad little wet fart.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2026
i bet it smell crazy in there www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fi...
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Everyone in Trump’s Cabinet Is Eating Sauerkraut
JD Vance, RFK Jr. and other officials swear by a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods, even when the odors cause friction at home.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Inflation rose to 4.2% in May from a year ago, up 0.5% from April. The BLS announced separately that real average weekly earnings decreased 0.2% during May. Inflation up, wages down - quite the economy Trump has created in just over a year www.nbcnews.com/business/ene...
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Inflation jumps to 4.2%, the highest since early 2023
Inflation’s rise has surpassed wage growth, which was tracking at 3.4% as of the most recent jobs report.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
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Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...
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Throngplough @throngplough.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When you view the titles as accolades, not as jobs that require hard work and sacrifice, you can have as many as the leader allows.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“Anti diversity stance” there’s a shorter way to say that www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
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Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List
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Throngplough @throngplough.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It is essential that we destroy, remove, or repurpose any of his self-aggrandizing monuments. None can remain standing if we hope to recover from the corruption of this administration.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
When Dems take the White House, they should melt the gold down, sell it, and use the funds it to install toilets in national parks all over the country - and make sure those are the only memorials to Trump left on public land.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/05/2026
i was just saying to folks on my stream that the true measure of a writer who doesn’t actually know anything is that everything they write is about online discourse
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wow. So gop intellectual diversity is we will make you pay to take classes in conservative thought to graduate? The free speech crowd, everyone. shorturl.at/XxrII
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Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment
A last minute Republican legislative push could force University of Iowa college students to take classes at the newly-created Center for Intellectual Freedom. It's exactly what a report highlighted w...
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 21/05/2026
Oh, the DoJ letter to Senators about the weaponization fund says Senators can apply too. Senators, I may have stolen $1.7bn from the American taxpayer but if you don't block it, you can have some! A naked attempt at bribery.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns | Will Bunch
The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026
Trump allies keep bringing meritless lawsuits against the government, which Trump's DOJ then "settles" for enormous sums of taxpayer money now Trump is personally getting in on it, negotiating with himself for a "settlement" in the *billions* we're being robbed ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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DOJ Used To Fight Public Corruption. Now, It’s Facilitating Public Corruption Instead
The Justice Department keeps handing massive taxpayer-funded settlements to President Trump’s political allies.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/05/2026
none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
There’s dozens of us! youtube.com/shorts/M7oTO...
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We need to stop having all election and elect leaders through a random lottery!! Feat Riz Ahmed
YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Chuck Schumer is promoting a Senate candidate who is the darling of a dark money PAC also promoting Susan Collins - and of course is linked to AIPAC Fire Schumer, now. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I think the average American should be way angrier at the companies that build cars than the companies that build homes
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School.
The attempt to return Confederate monuments, the erasure of Black history, and today's Supreme Court ruling aren't coincidences. They're a coordinated campaign
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/04/2026
The State Department has finalized a plan to put a picture of Donald Trump in passports. A portrait of an actual president has never been featured in a passport before, let alone a living one in office. This is dictator stuff.
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An image presenting two vertical panels of a mockup for a proposed U.S. passport design. Both panels feature a background of the American flag with a light red and white wavy stripe pattern.

    Left Panel: Features a large, detailed engraving-style portrait of Donald Trump in a suit and tie. Above him is the header for the Declaration of Independence, and below the portrait is his signature in gold script. The words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" are printed at the bottom in a bold, serif font.

    Right Panel: Displays a classical illustration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence set within an oval frame. Below the illustration, the words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" are repeated, followed by a placeholder passport number, "A12345678," at the bottom.

The caption below the image reads, "The proposed new passport design. (Department of State)."
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Jeff Bezos has destroyed the Washington Post. Not a serious news source anymore
Op Ed by the WaPost titled “The Texas gerrymander freakout”
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James Graham @jamesgraham.theliberati.net · 16/04/2026
Superintelligent AI isn’t real and can’t hurt you, but even if it was then the only logical course of action would remain the same: dismantle this system of untrammelled corporate dominance over our lives that poses an real existential threat to us right now. This really shouldn’t be controversial.
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