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Tim Watts

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Bicycling for joy; gardener; chickeneer; left of center-left Democrat; recovering programmer. Hemlock's caretaker. He/him.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 10h
Everywhere you look there's public concern and even outrage over ebikes, largely brought on by emotos, but that's not what bothers me. What bothers me is the blind eye to Suburbans, Tahoes, Wagoneers, and lifted commuter pickup trucks making our streets truly deadly and no one even takes notice.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h
About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous.
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 19h
Headline from the near future: Sam Altman Is Getting Fed Up With Your Insolence.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/10/2026
This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.
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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Golly, I wonder if that *majority* of legislators could put their heads together and figure out a way to change the law.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RAISES NEW QUESTIONS, New York Times? RAISES NEW QUESTIONS? How about REVEALS THE DEPTH OF WITKOFF'S AND KUSHNER'S CORRUPTION?
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Kerri The Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🌊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @rushgirl3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jamal Khashoggi quote

I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

10/13/1958 - 10/02/2018
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
"For a liberal watching this particular right-wing circlejerk, this all seems puzzling. It’s a bunch of kids going ape over their college football team, which is some quintessentially American shit." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism
That is the entire point.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/10/2026
Yale President McInnis is currently trying to cut a deal with Trump's white supremacist administration over admissions policies. Incredibly shameful. Demonstrators turned the hell out to say NO. Huge admiration for these students and faculty members and alums.
Yale students and faculty looking serious as hell at the demonstration - holding signs that read "DEFEND DIVERSITY / DEFEND DEMOCRACY / DON'T SETTLE"
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Summing up Hegseth with precision.
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Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Stocks surge on news of terrible jobs report.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“.. shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state ..” @nytimes.com #NCsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/10/2026
We surveyed 210 of the most active climate communicators across the US and Canada. Only one pair reported both collaborating with each other AND sharing information with each other. Key results below. Read the full report here: talkingclimate.com/landscape-as...
A screenshot of the top five results from our US/Canada landscape survey of climate communicators - they tend to work alone, funding is scarce, they're helping people understand & act, they're mostly talking to insiders and they need connection.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most dangerous part of Trump's corruption isn't the money he's pocketed. It's the precedent he's setting: that a president can be openly transactional and face zero consequences. #PayToPlayPresident
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s appointing the “weirdo, beardo, and fatty” he just banned from the military.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They voted in a secret ballot to stop memorials to slaughtered Jews. Because of course they did. Why stop? People will step on them, they claimed. That’s the point; the stones are in the course of everyday life. Gift article. German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews
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German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews (Gift Article)
Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Trump is selling nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia despite reported US intelligence that the Saudis still want a bomb—while the Trumps have taken billions in bribes from the Saudis. This is Trump corruption at the expense of US national security. Stop the deal.
Saudi Arabia Open to Possibly Developing Nuclear Weapons
An intelligence assessment examined Saudi Arabia’s military ambitions as Congress reviews a new civilian nuclear deal between the U.S. and the kingdom
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearson
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy to be speaking with @hcrichardson.bsky.social tonight!
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow!!! What a full house in Maine! Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for promoting Troy Jackson. Maine peeps, it is time to vote for someone who cares for you!
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo routinely boasts on main about the disingenuous tactics he plans to use to manipulate public opinion & the idiot press… and somehow it often works anyway. He’s not subtle about it!
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”
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Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
"It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity."
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Truth and reconciliation" sounds like "if you 'fess up all will be forgiven" which is, I think, what they did in SA. We absolutely do not want that. Accountability and Prosecutions.
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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026
Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why would an aspiring autocrat want to support the cultivation of critical thinking?
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you sure it didn't say "--Advertisement--" above the headline?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#WeekLforLookingIn #AlphabetChallenge Looking into an okra flower 🌱🐝
The burgundy center of a yellow okra flower with a black and tan bumblebee covered in pollen
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What is amazing is that it's becoming conventional wisdom AMONG REPUBLICANS that the war is going to lead to an epic wipeout yet Senate Republicans, including those in big midwestern farm states, where diesel is killing farmers, will not stand up to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Senate rejects measure to block Trump from ordering more strikes on Iran
The administration ignored passage of a similar resolution in June, arguing that it lacks the force of law.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wow. weird. you mean making republicans vote on things, even when the good side loses, generates news coverage and frames the story in the way that democrats want? wow. weird. obviously better to say "the votes aren't there" and never try, right? yep. yep. yep. yep.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hard to believe the person who hid in the trunk of the president's limo to be near him would do something like that!
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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 24/09/2026
I haven't come here for fundraising in a while but our trans health program needs $$ for adult patient surgery letters. We can't write, but refer& fund, and are trying to help people as fast as possible. We had more than 400 visits since Jan, and many of them are hoping to take this next step. TY!
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Help us support our trans patients
Gender affirming care is more than just appointments Obtaining affirming care when you are trans is not easy in Alabama. Hormones are banned until a person is 19 years of age, there are very few provi...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/09/2026
GREBELINGS ON TIMELINE 🪶 🐣
A western grebe with 3 babies on their back
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 24/09/2026
“That’s the danger, where it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He says he doesn't know his address. But when he expounds on it he's really saying he doesn't know the zip code associated with his credit card's billing address. That's a distinctly 1%er's problem.
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Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes we lost some fine intellectual dexterity. But for a beautiful moment we created some great shareholder value.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Raw Story: RFK Jr's security costs were partly covered by money to fight Black infant deaths by shifting about $12 million from the Office of Minority Health to help pay for Kennedy's protection. Nothing says pro-life quite like stealing from helpless black babies. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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