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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

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Trace Brown @tracebrown.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

David Brooks is a republican. He's anti-maga but he's also a chronic "both sides bad"/ false equivalency moron. I enjoy watching Jonathan Capehart stuff him in a locker in their segments. Democrats will be wise to ignore him. He can't even fix his own party.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/06/2026

YES. WOW!! Thank you, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social advocating for ADDING SEATS to the Supreme Court because term limits don't go far enough. THIS is what will get my vote in 2028. No good law passed will survive this rogue Supreme Court.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

NEW AD: Ken Paxton just released a pedophile back on our streets. Adam Hoffman abused a little boy for 3 years. He should have faced life in prison — but Ken Paxton and his wealthy lawyer friends let Hoffman off the hook. Ken Paxton’s corruption is hurting Texas.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The right are so obsessed with the idea that leftist agitiators on are secretly being paid is simply because their movement is being secretly financed. They also can't imagine why you would take a position that you weren't being paid to take, since they have no actual principles beyond self-interest

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.

There’s no clean way to hive off terms like “fascism” or “authoritarianism” from Trump’s policies. Even if you disagree that the words apply, their use is backed up by a genuine attempt at intellectual justification for it. The use of these terms just is deeply linked to assessments of Trump’s actual policies, from the lawless renditions to foreign gulags to the unleashing of heavily-armed militias in American cities to the naked intimidation of large swaths of civil society.

By contrast, when Trump and MAGA media figures call Democrats “communists” or “antifa,” all of that is entirely disconnected from any policy realities. Many press figures would like it if there were an Archimedean midpoint between the two parties on all these matters. But there isn’t. At the most basic level, one party continues to function as an actor in a liberal democracy, whereas Trump and much of his movement, with the eager participation of many Republicans, simply do not. Dispensing with harsh but accurate descriptions of his real goals would whitewash them.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I think the main problem with mainstream political journalism these days is the credibility given to clearly preposterous people

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

One of the only things I appreciate about Trump is the way he exposes small-government conservatives and evangelical Christians as being completely full of shit.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s increasingly obvious that the one consistent ideological standpoint of many US conservatives is racism: the small government, states rights, pro-second amendment positions were always mere instrumental, defensive positions. /1

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 12/01/2026

the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Arrest the murderer and arrest Bovino. Not complicated.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Yes, Fox makes people dumber, but I think many of you underestimate how many Trump supporters go to Fox because they already know he’s terrible and they don’t want to hear about it

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism. It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The use of the exonerative voice here is almost artistic. Gunfire somehow erupted when an ICE guy’s gun somehow fired? JUST SAY WHAT HAPPENED. I mean, sincere questions for journalists—is there a valid reason for why cops never actually fire their guns, but just hold gun that shoot themselves?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

block this shit

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I am so tired of our media letting weaselly little shits like Mike Johnson slide on these evasions. Why *aren’t* you aware of blatant violations of the Constitution, Mike?! What makes you at all capable of holding this job?? Why should anyone believe a word coming out of your shitty little mouth??

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

They already cut down so many trees (USAID, CFPB, Dept of Edu, etc) that there aren't many left they can cut down without causing trouble for themselves. There are reasons why they stopped cutting where they did before the shutdown, and those reasons did not include a change of heart.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/09/2025

Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff. It only works if you let it.

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Trace Brown @tracebrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Looked at that website where the right wing is doxxing people for their posts. Looks like half of the posts are just people quoting Kirk verbatim, expressing apathy, or lamenting that Kirk is a victim of a cycle of hate he fueled. Really mild stuff compared to mainstream Republican views.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Trump totally does new awful stuff in part to "distract" from other awful things that aren't going his way, but that doesn't mean the new awful thing is trivial. There's nothing wrong with opposing many things at once. We're decades into "the most noise usually wins" politics. We have to do it too.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Before the election, my focus group of Trump voters said their top priorities were lowering prices and releasing the Epstein files. Now the same respondents say their top priorities are building a gold ballroom for the White House and putting tariffs on Ford and GM.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Elon Musk is a symbol of American collapse in many ways, but one of the big ones is how for years he has constantly engaged in multi-billion-dollar securities and consumer fraud, and the "consequence" has been him making billions more, including from the federal government paying him directly.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Tedious to point this out, but: - When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story. -Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/06/2025

Mamdani should win but he's the latest example of the Democratic Party closing ranks to keep anyone young and exciting and full of energy out of the party - and then they spend countless millions on consultants trying to figure out why they're struggling with young voters

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

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