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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/06/2026

You've probably seen that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with four states with GOP attorneys general (Iowa, Nebraska, Alaska, and Texas), is suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). THREAD. www.ftc.gov/system/files...

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

when things are over, and stupid motherfuckers say shit like "see we made it through trump 2 fine" remember those of us who were murdered through intense and unrelenting cruelty they're destroying trans children as the easiest way to prevent them from becoming trans adults

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This point can’t be stressed enough. Just as Musk bought Twitter to try to make himself seem popular, he bought Tesla to make himself seem smart. The only thing he’s actually invented is a mythology about himself

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Kris Overstreet @krisoverstreet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is why "moving to the center" and "get elected first, then maybe think about more radical things" is BULLSHIT. When evil is pushing, and you fail to push back because you're afraid of what people will think, what people actually think is THE EVIL THING MUST BE RIGHT.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

FWIW, I think it's a mistake to say that FDR's court-packing plan "failed." FDR didn't care about the size of the Court per se; he cared about how it was deciding cases, and that did change, radically, in 1937.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I can see from some responses that people are still confused about what's going on. A lot of us liberals are very literal! So we assume Trump is "confused" about this. He's not. "Trans" is an all-purpose category on the right now to describe anyone who doesn't conform to rigid MAGA gender roles.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/05/2026

This is astoundingly weak. They can't even bring themselves to say "FREE CHILD CARE" - instead they talk about "giving parents back the power of choice." Centrist garbage that'll end up being another tax credit starting six years from now.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The reason why I feel so strongly about Platner and so angry about how everyone is like “oh, he had a Nazi tattoo, he was a young troubled man in the military, and he apologized for his pro-rapist comments on Reddit, and he was just standing next to the guy in the 88 shirt who endorsed Hitler…”

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Oozing back and just kind of being accepted is a longstanding and highly successful tactic for awful men. This is your friendly reminder that it only works if we let it. Block that waste of space.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026

People who dont even live in Louisiana finger wagging at us for voting against something they havent even read about when the whole STATE knows the “teacher pay raises” are a scam and the Republicans wanted to literally steal their constitutionally protected retirement funds

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/05/2026

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

You can apply lots of normalizing frameworks or you can just make a timeline of his calls with Putin. We don’t have a sovereign foreign policy. We have superpower suicide.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court — Not Both talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-c...

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You Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court — Not Both

It’s a good day to return to the question of the Supreme...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/04/2026

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

montana constitution stays winning

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This story is horrific. Worth noting that Target is not the only retailer using AI for theft prevention. It’s an entire industry. And if you’re looking for alternatives that are safer to shop at in this regard, you’re very likely out of luck. Small, non-corporate businesses probably your best bet.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics. A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.

This pattern holds a crucial lesson for America’s current moment. As democratic norms erode and elections become increasingly tilted, anti-corruption movements offer what partisan politics cannot: the moral authority to unite society against a rigged system. When traditional opposition fails, these movements succeed because they transcend party lines, mobilizing citizens around a cause larger than any candidate: the fundamental fairness of the system itself.
Research shows that in polarized societies, the most effective opposition doesn’t fight on the traditional left-right battlefield where positions are entrenched. Instead, it creates an entirely new axis of conflict.1 Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It’s as if we were asking a chimpanzee to negotiate peace in the Middle East and then continually expressing surprise when those efforts failed, never mentioning that they were devised by a chimpanzee.

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Virgíl Al-Hawkíns @crymsondawn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Great piece, Ronan, but I wish more emphasis was put on why Aaron Swartz committed suicide. He was sentenced to 35 years for simply trying to make academic articles accessible to the world while preserving them from becoming lost in privatized server hell. The government killed him

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

One of Altman's batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. "You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted," he told one. "He is a sociopath. He would do anything.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"she is like, using money to fund crazy politicians and laws and shit, she's like obsessed. It's kindof disturbing.... Ngl I don't even want to give her money anymore if she uses it to do weird political stuff..." You have to normify it

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We have to be more casually vocal about hating Harry Potter. I don't know if most people know what's going on Casually going "Ugh, you know jk Rowling is like, a crazy far right bigot now right? Yeah, she went off the deep end" has gotten a lot of people to look into this in my experience

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk.

The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship.

Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We must believe in a world to create that world

Battlemech looming over highway with sign

“Lgbtq rights enforced by battlemech”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/03/2026

This thread -- & the thread it links to, & @jamellebouie.net's original insight -- are super-important to understand. To the average Ivy-educated, DC-centric journalist, the MAGA base is almost entirely theoretical. They don't know any genuine MAGAts, they just construct a Noble Savage imaginary.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I don’t think it would’ve made a difference. But I do wonder why the Harris campaign decided to have Walz step back from this kind of hit on tv.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

tl:dr — the war has no justification, and has no plan. Absolute shitshow.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/03/2026

The thread this is attached to demonstrates what my dad calls the “Black aide” problem, which is: Does this non-Black politician enter Black-majority spaces on their own terms or with their one (always one!) Black aide as a buffer/interpreter? Most politicians are the latter kind.

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teej @unironichipster.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

if you gave amtrak 5% of the military budget every year it would have received more money in two years than it has in its entire existence up to that point

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/03/2026

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/03/2026

South Carolina started Biden’s march to the nomination and it can end Newsom’s

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