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Vesper

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5h
This is f#cking chilling. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h
As much as “I’ll be president for all of America” is a sturdy Democratic campaign line, on a practical level it also reflects that they still have supporters even in states they lose. Any politician with a world view not stuck in toddler gets this.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10h
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h
Oh, that's a bigly relief.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 12h
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 18h
literally every single person in the real world: the only time i want to see Rahm Emanuel's name in a headline is his obit in 20 years, until then he can fuck off the media, somehow: omg do you think Rahm'll text me back for my piece about how he's The Coolest And Savviest Political Operator 🥺
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 16h
"Under the McConnell Rule, SCOTUS vacancies that open during a presidential election cycle are left up to the voters." That's all they need to say.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
Israel is at risk of civil war or state collapse, a classified CIA assessment warns, as years of genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon and Iran deepen political, economic, and social fractures within the country. The report, titled “Fracture From Within,” was compiled by experts in the CIA’s Red Cell
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CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse
U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15h
The Army announced last year that it had enough of a model of armored vehicle and that any more deliveries would be “excess.” But Congress found a way to keep funding alive for the vehicle, and executives at the company found a way to flood key members of Congress with donations. buff.ly/nbAEUVa
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h
A $550 million dollar bribe.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14h
Vote Republican if you want fewer jobs and more shit in your lettuce. 🫡🫡🫡
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h
megyn kelly is the exact sort of woman who mocks a rape victim for their appearance. she's a loathsome, awful woman.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h
As it's currently constituted, the US government is in many ways the house than Dennis Hastert built. Mainly bribes and pedophiles
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 05/10/2026
As an aside I love how CBS News was hollowed out to platform these guys and all it does it make them look more crazy and craven.
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paintgarden4.bsky.social @paintgarden4.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What an arrogant, condescending, man.The ONLY people for whom pregnancy is “abstract” are MEN as it’s impossible to become pregnant. It’s NOT abstract for any woman. Alito shows exactly why men have NO business intruding into this personal women’s issue. It’s pure arrogance to think otherwise.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
what an asshole
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h
And it doesn’t help that liberals think that is fundamentally a bad move because somehow if you adopt the winning army’s superior battle techniques it makes you as evil as them. I would ask: if we steal the Nazis tank tactics do we become Nazis? No. youtube.com/shorts/L9DSI...
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Rommel I Read Your Book! Patton #shorts #youtubeshorts #movies #movieclips #georgespatton
YouTube video by Military Conflict
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h
The reason you see people falling behind Mamdani, El Sayed and even Newsom (at least his social feed, the real guy is a dud) is because they show signs of fucking life. It’s insane that the Democratic Party of FREAKING BARACK OBAMA thinks that we should just quietly shamble through things
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Vesper @vesperevening.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cool cool
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Employer health-plan costs are projected to surge 11% in 2027, the steepest baseline increase since 2003
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Always be impeaching. ALWAYS be impeaching.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a sharp closing argument. A real benefit to his party heading into the midterms.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The community note says it all.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026
This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter). And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 03/10/2026
Lethal injection was first authorized by Oklahoma in 1977 and first used in Texas in 1982. Its introduction was part of a tortured history of trying, in part, to increase the humanity of killing people. buff.ly/ibxHmv7
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Would a firing squad have been more 'humane' for Christa Pike?
Lethal injection dresses up the death penalty as something clinical and civilized. But the goal is the same: to kill someone.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 03/10/2026
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UPDATED: ‘I’m hoping we hit him at least once each lol’: SPD texts from 2024 killing show lack of probable cause
In messages, SPD officers hoped they inflicted maximum damage when they shot Joshua Musselman, mocked the police chief’s response to the killing.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The GOP is the party of law and order. Except it's led by a convicted felon who approves of rape, sexual assault, pedophilia, and bribery and corruption in all forms. And the MAGA base fully buys in. Cornell is another demonstration of all of this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2026
My fundamental gripe with originalism beyond its practice being indistinguishable from divination, it's also an implicit framework that forces us to be governed by the dead or worse, the malicious interpretation of the dead.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
First Blacks, then Hispanics, then Gays and Trans people. Now the GOP takes on Indian-Americans as the preferred target of their daily Two Minutes Hate, with Chris Rufo and Bo French leading the way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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The Mainstreaming of Anti-Indian Bigotry
A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A chart covering the latest Kushner/Witkoff grift.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/10/2026
There is a line between "pushing the law rightward" and "acting as an enemy to the U.S. Constitution", and I think Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have crossed the line quite a while ago (seeking to nullify Reconstruction-era birthright citizenship constitutional amendments is just one example)
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 03/10/2026
If you ever talk to press you need to be aware of this reprehensible conduct:
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.
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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump instinctively supports and identifies with rapists... because he is one himself. Indeed, adjudicated as such. bsky.app/profile/head...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With a 90% degree of certainty, the person who leaked the Dobbs decision to WSJ is the same person who routinely appears in the WSJ editorial pages, namely, Samuel Alito.
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