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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For all the reporters asking me if this is illegal vote buying, the Supreme Court has said slouch generalized campaign promises are First Amendment protected supreme.justia.com/cases/federa... (And why would anyone believe him anyway?)
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Brown v. Hartlage, 456 U.S. 45 (1982)
Brown v. Hartlage
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great summation of the Bootleggers and Baptists coalition that created the post-2024 trans panic: "This two step dance, between anxious centrists and liberals who are both extremely online and extremely concerned about trans people..." (1/2)
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026
TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 13/05/2026
Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.
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The Thing About Griping About Bluesky - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Let a thousand mutually suspicious communities bloom.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hello DC-area friends! Do you wanna hear more about tariffs? Do you like Books?Do you want a CUSTOM NPR tote bag? This Wednesday, I have the honor of joining NPR's Planet Money for a LIVE show as part of their book tour! Come out and join us—tickets are here: calendar.gwu.edu/event/politi...
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Politics & Prose and GW Present: Planet Money Live - with Jeff Guo, Jack Corbett, Alex Mayyasi, and Joseph Politano
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Hans Schattle @hansschattle.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
* Abolish ICE. * Close the concentration camps. * Hold DHS and its past and present officials fully accountable for the growing number of wrongful deaths. * Redo immigration policy to open up more pathways for more people to receive full US citizenship.
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Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures
Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained
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Defector @defector.com · 18/03/2026
Let's catch up on the hilarious Afroman defamation trial: defector.com/lets-catch-u...
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Let's Catch Up On The Hilarious Afroman Defamation Trial | Defector
Afroman, once world famous for his song about being high (though I always preferred “Crazy Rap” myself), has emerged as a new kind of internet folk hero in the aftermath of an incident in 2022 with…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
These people aren’t just devoid of empathy, they don’t believe it actually exists. They also took a $50K bonus to terrorize immigrants. So the idea that regular people would spontaneously come to the aid and defense of their neighbors is just utterly foreign to them.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Every prosecutor complicit in this should have their bar admission revoked ASAP and should be prosecuted for weaponizing DOJ by the next Dem administration
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Just passing copies of this out to ice agents and reminding them they could be making 100 K as an assistant general manager in two years without threat of prosecution
Buc-ees sign, advertising wages and open positions
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Even before Polymarket and Kalshi, I know lobbyists who would bet on legislation passing using PredictIt. It’s all rife for abuse by DC insiders.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 13/12/2025
"Although AIPAC’s campaign and lobbying machine have attracted more critical attention, paid trips offer another way to provide policymakers with a curated perspective on America’s most controversial ally." mondoweiss.net/2025/12/insi...
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Inside the Israel lobby’s lesser-known tool for influencing Congress: free travel
This year, Israel will account for nearly one-quarter of all free travel gifted to Congress members, and AIPAC is overwhelmingly setting the agenda.
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Trump, Noem, and Miller are precisely effectuating the Richard Spencer/Nick Fuentes immigration agenda. Their disagreements are merely about the pace and means of remigration. #AbolishICE
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"Miles said the men, whom she worried could have been bounty hunters, did not identify themselves when she asked for their names and badge numbers while they detained her at a bus stop by the shopping center." #AbolishICE
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/11/2025
A racist TV show made with the assistance of Sora has attracted millions of viewers. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it could be “the harbinger of a new entertainment landscape where extremist AI shows will jockey for our attention with more anodyne ones”:
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The Will Stancil Show Could Be the Future
A racist TV series making fun of a minor social-media celebrity has attracted millions of viewers—and demonstrates the alarming possibilities of AI.
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Imagine a family applying for Medicaid. DHS will now know where to send ICE--assuming that when a married Latina and her children apply, they will find an undocumented spouse. #AbolishICE
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 26/11/2025
Less than $1600 until we hit the matching threshold, meaning another $35k gets sent to us. Let’s see if we can’t get there in the next half hour! gofund.me/b62d52480
$68415 raised of $500000 goal 455 donations
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
There’s a long-term increase in housing costs combined with an acute shortage in California, NYC, a few other places. We should build lots more housing but this idea of a population living in a desperate universal shortage, where no one young will ever own a house, is clearly wrong
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The next Democratic administration cannot simply return to the pre-Trump status quo. #AbolishICE
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Love seeing ICE being criticized on late night TV #AbolishICE www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...
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"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations. I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
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Don’t Build Housing, Just Deport People: The Nativist Right Recoils at Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 22/10/2025
listen we all know how to solve this make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It will probably not come as a surprise to learn that Pete Hegseth is a member of the church with which Haymes is affiliated.
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urgotft.bsky.social @urgotft.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Fuentes won and Charlie Kirk lost the ideological battle for young Republicans. Kirk himself would go on to support the great replacement theory by 2024. www.gq.com/story/white-...
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Why White Nationalists Are Turning on Trump Republicans
An outgrowth of the alt-right has become impatient with the white nationalist promise of the Trump presidency.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
>”It begs the question of who’s funding it.” To account for the lavish self-funding of my own #NoKings participation: poster board cost me about $8.00 at Staples, I already had Sharpies, and gas downtown and back runs maybe a buck & a half. Same with my friends. I feel like we’re all mini-Soroses.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I agree with Patrick intellectually, but practically I think any statement - especially from the Right - that violence is un-American is good right now, however untrue it is.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 05/09/2025
The “pro family” party platform: anti child credit, anti childhood vaccination, anti parental leave
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
no. we shouldn't. there is no evidence that the election was anything but free and fair, and this conspiracy theory bullshit helps no one. the entire history of this country makes it clear that many, many people are fine with or affirmatively prefer fascism. stop making excuses.
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