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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h
At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They’re both carrying the same number of people - and probably the same amount of cargo.
Woman wearing black riding, green lime bike. In the background is a blue pickup truck.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NYT reports that the Republicans' leading donor is a neo-Nazi www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You can thank Mike Rogers and his boss Donald Trump for your $5 gas and $7 diesel.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just glad we didn't elect a woman president so we didn't get trivial nonsense about what color her hair is today or how much make up she's using.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 02/09/2026
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Every and any vote for Todd Blanche is a vote for grown men fucking underage girls with legal impunity. This is a sentence that contains no hyperbole and that is nonetheless shocking and debilitating to write. That's how depraved this administration is.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Dems should run with "Trump give diarrhea."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Not for long. Not for long.
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celendine.bsky.social @celendine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Sign this union card"
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:
A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This chair is uncomfortable.
Rockwell guy standing up painting
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
Can confirm
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westerkamp.bsky.social @westerkamp.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Going thru the daily ritual of reading @themountaingoats.bsky.social entry for the day in "This Year" and pleasantly surprised to find it is 9 pages for April 1.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Seems like a bad reason
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This should be a campaign ad.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/01/2026
Great data analysis of what would US would be like if it were just an average country in its cohort of wealthy democracies, e.g. “the nation that would exist if our democracy functioned to serve the public rather than protect the already powerful”. [kottke.org]
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The America That Could Be
The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the US could be ripe for a Berlin Wall-falling moment that opens the door for a better future. I’m n
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 02/03/2026
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I know this is just naked white nationalism but listen up. Fucker, the fact that people come from all over the planet to be here TOGETHER is one of the coolest things about this country. It is JOYFUL and FASCINATING. The other coolest things: - First Amendment - National Parks - Blues music
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Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
ICYMI
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Ted Lieu: “Were there any underage girls at that party or any party that Trump attended with Epstein” Pam Bondi: “There is no evidence that Trump has committed a crime” Ted Lieu: “I believe you just lied under oath”
Rep Ted Lieu speaking at a congressional hearing
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Penalty Loop @penaltyloop.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Today is the Men’s 20km Individual Racers start every 30 sec 5 laps of 4km each After 1st 4 laps they go to the range for 5 shots. First time on the range prone, 2nd time standing, 3rd prone, 4th stand For each miss 1:00 is added to the time Best time wins It’s chaotic fun! #biathlon
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/02/2026
"You can’t just measure the value of something in terms of 'whether or not it makes everything worse for everyone.' The world is much more complicated than that."
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Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
“[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Just posted: The results of our fourth annual Reveal Subscriber Poll. Many thanks to our readers for submitting their ballots and their commentary on the year 2025. You're the best. thereveal.film/the-2025-rev...
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The 2025 Reveal Subscriber Poll
The Best Films of 2025, as selected by our paid subscribers.
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POSIWID 🇵🇸🏴 @posiwidowmaker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Indivisible Central Michigan @indivcentralmi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Today at 11:00am at the corner of Mission and Broadway in Mt. Pleasant. Dress warmly and we’ll see you there.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/01/2026
“It was a simpler time then, back when all people wanted to talk about was the leader of the country molesting underage girls,” said Denver resident Scott Munoz
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Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle
WASHINGTON—Expressing deep fondness for those long-gone halcyon days, the U.S. population collectively yearned Tuesday for the relative calm of the “president is a giant pedophile” news cycle. “It was...
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19/01/2026
I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/01/2026
1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
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Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
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westerkamp.bsky.social @westerkamp.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Moolenaar's statement from 5 years ago. When Republicans in congress almost showed an ounce of courage and honesty. @indivcentralmi.bsky.social
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026
Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."
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