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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h
This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1h
I am struck by how consistently transphobia and Islamophobia coexist in the same elite media circles as forms of approved bigotry, even as those same circles continue to whine about cancel culture and liberal censoriousness. It shapes and shades everything the industry produces.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1h
15 paragraphs to acknowledge “antisemitic fears” in New York, and 26 paragraphs to quote someone else calling this bigotry Islamophobia, in coverage of a gubernatorial candidate spreading explicitly Islamophobic lies about an elected official the paper wouldn’t name in its prior story about threats.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h
I am sort of curious what gives MAGA voters a permission structure to admit error - and a focus group context where they see other people doing so might be just the thing. Wonder if there is a way to scale this.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 11h
Right-wing online influencers: We can't prove Talarico *didn't* go to a rehab in Ohio NYT: We can, we saw video proof WSJ: Speaking of, we saw video of Paxton partying at the Burj Khalifa with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment for fraud, one of whom donated to Paxton's campaign
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h
If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."
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Jesse SingalO @jessesingal

1/ For the last 80 minutes I've been on a fascinating Twitter Spaces (or whatever they're calling them now) with Rhein Amacher, who broke the Talarico story. I was on the call when everyone found out the hospital was flatly denying it. Some interesting nuggets: 8:24 PM • Oct 11, 2026 • 329.2K Views
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
This man is 50 years old. Evil ages you.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 16h
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17h
How it’s going
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22h
"This year Gavin Newsom has shown that he would be a billionaire-friendly president. Which means he shouldn’t be president at all."
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 20h
So much about Watergate involved the President trying to screw over his opponents but also cover it up so it didn't look like he was the one doing it.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 20h
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) says Trump's raid of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home is a reminder that he's a "coward" who lashes out at Black women who challenge him www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
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Congresswoman On Ilhan Omar Home Raid: Trump Is A ‘Coward’ Who Targets Black Women
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20h
"When a small circle of private equity donors outspends the other side more than 30 to 1 to rewrite the rules for every state election, voters are entitled to ask whose interests the new rules will serve." baystatebanner.com/2026/10/08/w...
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 21h
Trump brought more destruction to DC this weekend, ordering the cutting of 400 mature trees before courts could stop it. Same tactic as when he knocked down the East Wing. Riverbend Landscapes & Tree Service of VA did the cutting. They knew it was wrong. And you can let them know how you feel. 1/
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Secondary point, but DHS should be abolished and the useful components distributed to other departments.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to stop cutting down trees at East Potomac Golf Links after preservationists asserted that more than 500 were felled Saturday and "hundreds more" were slated for removal.
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Judge halts tree removal at D.C. golf course that Trump has proposed overhauling
Plaintiffs had said “hundreds more” were slated for the ax, and the judge ordered a stop to all tree removal until 7 a.m. Tuesday or until she issues another order.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fuckin rails www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar's Home Raided By Federal Agents
The raid is part of a criminal investigation into the Minnesota congresswoman, DHS said in a statement.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As described this makes no sense. If her father committed a crime (highly doubtful) he can’t be prosecuted because (1) it’s past the 10 year statute of limitations and (2) he’s dead. But this could be part of a *civil* effort to denaturalize Omar. That needs judicial approval and will go nowhere.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 12/10/2026
This is what actual "weaponization of government" looks like
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/10/2026
Fox News is reporting this is a criminal investigation into the immigration paperwork filled out by Ilhan Omar’s late father when she was a child 40 years ago. I actually think this is so nakedly outrageous it will blow back on them. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
would love to know which judge issued this warrant
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The destruction of a major Russian data center has sent X traffic plummeting, including accounts designed to prop up Justin Herbert as a good NFL quarterback. The truth will prevail!
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I know we talk about Republicans’ brains breaking if they lose Texas etc and that’s obviously true as a general principle but it does feel as though they will break an extra level if they lose it to Talarico after spending the entire campaign in one of the weirdest Gender meltdowns I have ever seen
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They just don’t have the requisite goons for what they’re trying to do. Goon shortfall.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026
Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 11/10/2026
Kind of striking that only when it began happening to conservatives did it get coverage so it could be both-sides’d, anyway victims of GamerGate were begging reporters to pay attention to this dynamic over a decade ago and got laughed out of the room. Sorry it’s come for everyone now 😞
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Houthi attack on Riyadh's major airport today apparently killed an American. We'll see how Trump responds.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1. I think the president of the United States really believes "there's never been anybody" who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than he does. He really believes he "settled eight wars." He really believes he stopped "the total obliteration of the world" by going to war with Iran.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Heavy sigh.
“An unreleased, non-frontier research model was meant to fill out a practice copy of a government form,” Anthropic said in its blog post. “When the copy failed to load or the model closed it by mistake, the model instead navigated to the website where the real form is normally hosted and submitted the form there.”
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department."
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thousands have taken the streets of Syracuse, NY, to make clear: Donald Trump is not welcome here!
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was at an academic workshop earlier this week and a senior scholar presented a whole paper on this, based on testing messaging against extreme-right parties for what worked. This is basically what they found
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
President Trump and his cabinet have done more to erase the dividend of our WWII victory than anyone else in history, including our adversaries www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions (Gift Article)
U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just got a response from the National Guard, which says troops “are directed not to monitor or secure polling locations” and is “addressing this specific instance.”
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
Walter Kim, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the "need for justice" regarding Hasan's crime, "at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state's most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being."
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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i hate the "what are we a bunch of asians" meme so much i am in fact not thinking about their ethnicity at all when i make a comparison to the politics of North Korea, but it's good to know what your mind focuses on when you think about the subject!
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
HAHAHA, totally predictable. With his Canada bullshit Trump completely screwed Repubs here.
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