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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Unions power the economy. Unions build the middle class. Unions fight for fairness. I'm so honored to be endorsed by strong Michigan unions.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 06/09/2026

The Michigan internet lawyers are going to be operating at a Jordan-in-the-Finals level on this

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

clock at zero, ball still not touched (hard to make out, I get it)

the clock is at zero on the first Michigan Hail Mary play

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace to the inimitable Wendell Berry

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026

Quite a community note here. Reminder that your taxpayer dollars are paying for these Nazi social media accounts.

Readers added context to this video: The clip is from the film Darkest Hour, and the “tiger” in this clip refers to Adolf Hitler

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the american context communism is mostly unrelated to economics. Any progressive redistributive policy is communism, as is any egalitarianism of race, gender, or sexual orientation. Integration is communism, women in the workplace is communism, marriage equality is communism. It's deeply stupid.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19/08/2026

Parents, what would you do with four hours of child-free time?  We launched a Parents’ Night Out program with NYC Parks to give NYC parents a little time back for themselves, because we’re committed to making it easier to raise a family in the greatest city in the world.

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

historians.org

How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/08/2026

Donald Trump has bent many democratic traditions, but there’s one he’s discarded all together—he’s put his name and face on things while still in office, @rosesheinerman.bsky.social reports. See the places where he’s affixed his name and image, and where he still hopes to. theatln.tc/DCUVXX0B

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is REALLY important. “Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll.” They want you to think you’re alone. You’re not. #ClimateCrisis

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Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same

That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll....

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/08/2026

This should be illegal.

Speaking in a promotional video for Compliant Technologies published in 2024, Adam Glueck, then-assistant chief of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, explained why his officers had grown so “attached” to the devices.

“In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said, adding that the glove “looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.”

Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department recommended the glove for “anybody that’s looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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NPR @npr.org · 11/08/2026

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029. n.pr/4gp0FID

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A year in, thousands of armed troops have quietly become a fixture of D.C. life

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/01/2026

Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms. Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Verge headline: The rise of the slopagandist
by Mia Sato

Photo: Nick Shirley's head pasted onto an old timey newspaper boy's body. He's also holding a selfie stick with a phone attached

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New York is a-changin'.

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Troy Distelrath @troydistelrath.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

New Fascist cosplay in DC. And on the Frances Perkins building, no less.

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.eurosky.social · 04/07/2025

"“I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did with Ice,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Bluesky. “This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion – making Ice bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, [the] DEA and others combined...”

theguardian.com

‘A dark day for our country’: Democrats furious over Trump bill’s passage

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned bill’s expansion of immigration enforcement and cuts to social benefits

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

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Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Weingarten: Their attacks on public education are relentless and why? Because they fear knowledge. Why do they fear teachers? They fear us because we teach critical thinking… their brand of greed, power, and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse educated citizens

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2025

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Best read as a reasoned call to action, not a question. And we will need vivid terms for where we are going — oligarchy and fascism — as well as what we are seeking — freedom and equality. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Tarik Skubal just threw a 95-pitch, 13K complete game shut out. His last pitch clocked in at 102.6. lol. lmao A WITCH

Tarik Skubal struck out Gabriel Arias with a 102.6 mph fast ball to secure his first shutout

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts

"You will kill me."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

AOC: This administration — and Noem — spits on the American flag every time they engage in that nonsense. So I don’t want to hear anything about “America First.” These people, and this administration, are putting America last by acting like their allegiance is to a man instead of the Constitution.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Your Mother’s Day weekend reminder that the so-called “party of family values” has historically blocked: -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Expanded Child Tax Credit -Programs to support reproductive health Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We are not under invasion. There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights. Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This regime is gutting vital services relied upon by millions...all to extend even more tax cuts (and subsidies) to the super-rich. (Art work by @doodlebymeg)

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Your School House Rock moment......

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

axios.com

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip

Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

As with FDR's Fireside Chats in days gone by, all of America comes together on Sunday nights to read posts where the President of the United States is like "due to 'you know what' and Incidents pertaining to your favorite President (Me!), Hugh Jackman is as of this moment Null and Void in AMERICA."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Trump administration has agreed to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt. American taxpayers will now be forced to give likely millions of dollars to the family of a January 6 insurrectionist who stormed the Capitol.

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Trump administration reaches settlement with family of Ashli Babbitt, rioter killed on Jan. 6, 2021

Ashli Babbitt's death was a rallying point for Trump loyalists and Capitol rioters who alleged police used unnecessary force in stopping the mob on Jan. 6.

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