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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility.”
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There has been no accountability around DOGE as a project or as a theory of governance. For the first, we need a credible Congressional commission. For the second, explaining why DOGE failed feels like a useful exercise for informing what we should do next. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m actually disappointed with the “Super Intelligence” label because it would’ve been so much easier and on brand to just declare “The A now stands for AMERICAN”
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 22/09/2026
The bottom line is that Democrats need to be prepared to take advantage of a potential tidal wave—one that's even bigger than 2018. In fact, a lot of signs—not just primary turnout—are pointing in that direction.
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
reuters.com
Deep in Trump country, a revolt against corporate money could reshape political spending
More than 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped American politics with its Citizens United campaign finance ruling, Montana voters will decide whether to make their state the first in the ​na...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle provides zero context that this "NRCC Battle Station" program is for districts they are worried about losing. Not a good sign for the GOP if they have to put one in a district Trump won by +11 in 2024.
bozemandailychronicle.com
Flint opens Bozeman Battle Station: 'Get this Iran war done'
Republican congressional candidate Aaron Flint opened his National Republican Congressional Committee field office in Bozeman Monday as he and Democratic opponent Sam Forstag compete in Montana’s 1st ...
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Christ Wright is of course lying. During Trump’s first time, the number of operable refineries declined from 137 to 124. During Biden’s term, the number increased from 124 to 131. Source: www.eia.gov/petroleum/re...
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Refinery Capacity Report Archives - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They're trying to steal it. Steal our country, steal our freedom and enslave us
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.publicdomain.media/p/montana-go...
publicdomain.media
Montana GOP Doubles Down On Public Land Transfer In New Party Platform
The document also appears to leave the door open to selling federal lands that are not national parks or wilderness areas.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 02/09/2026
This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And just 5 years ago, 47-50% supported transgender youth participating in sports that match their identity, and 67% outright opposed laws regulating participation. Increasing anti-trans opinion is not natural or organic; it has been driven by the right-wing misinformation-rage-distraction machine.
pbs.org
New poll shows Americans overwhelmingly oppose anti-transgender laws
Two-thirds of Americans are against laws that would limit transgender rights, a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll found. That opposition includes majorities of every political ideology from liberal to ...
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Electrek @electrek.co · 28/08/2026
Private equity bribed Trump $1M, then got $900M for a methane terminal
electrek.co
Private equity bribed Trump $1M, then got $900M for a methane terminal
The largest benefactor of the Interior Department’s most recent illegal wind buyout is an Australian-American billionaire whose private equity firm will receive $900 million in exchange for a stake in a methane gas terminal in Louisiana. The near-billion-dollar buyout comes after the same billionaire gave a $1 million bribe to the originator of the deal.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
dailymontanan.com
Leader of Montana Freedom Caucus defends push to steer state money to private company • Daily Montanan
Montana Freedom Caucus Chairman Jerry Schillinger tried to direct $600,000 of state money to a private company even after it lost the bid.
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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I also want to be very clear: Heidi has been a tireless ally and partner to the Jewish community in fighting antisemitism. If we can’t stand up for her now, I don’t know what we’re doing.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW! Calling for a moratorium on ‘Trump says’ headlines Includes 18 New York Times ‘Trump says’ headlines in a recent 3-month period that spread misinformation presswatchers.org/2026/08/call...
presswatchers.org
Calling for a moratorium on ‘Trump says’ headlines | Press Watch
18 New York Times ‘Trump says’ headlines in a recent 3-month period spread misinformation
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
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NPR @npr.org · 08/08/2026
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
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A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 03/08/2026
After years of hype, and trillions of dollars, the AI boom will leave us with a captured economy, a corrupted democracy, and a devastated environment. We can't let them get away with it. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.
mediamatters.org
ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change
From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 31/07/2026
In fifteen years, the UK has deleted coal power from their power system, halved fossil gas use, replaced most of that with wind and solar, and the country has not suffered the hellish blackout apocalypse conservatives and media outlets promised would happen. ember-energy.org/data/electri...
Stacked area chart showing UK electricity generation (terawatt‑hours) from 2000–2025, highlighting a steep fall in coal, declining gas and nuclear, and steady growth in wind, solar and other renewables over time.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 30/07/2026
DOGE grant freeze left Minnesota forest vulnerable to wildfires heartlandsignal.com/2026/07/30/doge…
heartlandsignal.com
DOGE grant freeze left Minnesota forest vulnerable to wildfires
A DOGE funding freeze delayed $10 million in Minnesota wildfire prevention. Now, thousands of acres in Superior National Forest are ablaze.
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Dems should offer an amendment to the SAVE Act actually require ID for all the stupid things that Republicans say require ID and see what happens. (Also, ffs, it is not about ID it is about showing proof of citizenship, which a lot of IDs don’t even do…)
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The University of Chicago Press held its launch meeting for my book today. Respectability Politics will be out Summer 2027, with a cover featuring original letterpress work by the artist Amos Kennedy, Jr. whose work I greatly admire! So excited to share this book with y’all. I’m really proud of it.
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I wonder if any reporters have asked Olive Garden to share their reaction to various elected officials telling the public that they can't eat there without photo ID.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1. Trump just signed a landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, paving the way for the Saudis to enrich their own uranium. Meanwhile, Trump's top foreign policy advisor, Jared Kushner, is being paid tens of millions of dollars anually by the Saudis That fact was IGNORED in almost all the coverage
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
On May 26, a healthcare executive received a letter from the FDA that created an existential legal crisis for his company — and his career. Days later, he sent $1 million to MAGA Inc. (1/2)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Crude Oil has 43 days of supply left in the U.S. — the lowest inventory in 45 years @barchart.com ⛽️
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Enjoy some photos of agrivoltaics.
theguardian.com
On a Colorado farm, solar panels bring shade for plants, power – and cash: in pictures
More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profitThe Guardian receives support for visual climate coverage from the Outrider Foundation. The Guardian’s co...
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The only evidence that anything Trump said might be true is the absence of anecdotes where somebody called him “sir.”
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14/07/2026
$81 billion in tariffs you paid given to companies.
theguardian.com
US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal
Government had been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffs
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 13/07/2026
Pundits have a special disdain for political science because political science specializes in explaining the vacuity and incoherence of pundits
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trump to sign order as soon as Monday to dismantle Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments www.abc4.com/news/politic...
abc4.com
President Trump expected to shrink Grand Staircase and Bears Ears National Monuments as soon as Monday, sources say
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to shrink the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments as soon as Monday, three sources with knowl…
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Whitney Zahnd @whitneyzahnd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Marketplace insurance enrollment has dropped 12% in non-metropolitan areas (more than in more urban areas) from 2025 to 2026. It has dropped more than 20% im non-metro areas in 5 states. dailyyonder.com/the-data-is-...
dailyyonder.com
The Data Is out on GOP Budget Bill: Rural Americans Are Losing Health Insurance Coverage | The Daily Yonder
Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I get the need to work in a bipartisan way, but it is baffling that @padilla.senate.gov is teaming up with someone who says that Senator Padilla should not even be a US citizen. helenair.com/news/state-r...
helenair.com
Sheehy, Padilla look to secure hazard pay for prescribed burns
Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate this month from Sen. Tim Sheehy and Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla seeks to extend firefighter hazard pay to prescribed burns and training jumps.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
medium.com
To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago
A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And some of us are neither naturalized citizens or 14th amendment birthright citizens…for those of us born abroad to an American parent, our citizenship is not even in the Constitution, it is based only in statute.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/06/2026
🚨 NEW: "Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefited from his policies" Tom Bergin and Koh Gui Qing for @reuters.com
reuters.com
Trump reports more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures
U.S. President Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefite...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Co-sign @stevevladeck.bsky.social. It may feel good to purge Trump holdovers under the next Democratic president. But the deeper damage that Slaughter inflicts on the infrastructure of our democracy will ultimately cause way more pain. www.stevevladeck.com/p/236-three-...
I saw lots of folks claim online yesterday that Slaughter is a good thing (or, at least, that it has a silver lining) because it will make it easier for the next Democratic president to simply clean house-and fire many, if not most, individuals who were appointed/hired/installed by President Trump. That may be true in the short term, but that comes at the enormous expense of (1) Congress, which will find itself increasingly hamstrung in trying to exert any control over how the executive branch exercises the powers Congress authorizes and delegates; and (2) the American people, who will find themselves subject to executive branch agencies doing the bidding of the incumbent administration rather than the goals Congress set for them by statute.
That may feel good when we like the current administration, but it's a recipe for instability and for the elimination of expertise in almost every
facet of governmental regulation. And in the interim, it also gives even more power to the courts (the Supreme Court, in particular), to sort out all of the subsidiary questions that Slaughter has already raised.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/06/2026
This is a great example of what's called "pluralistic ignorance" -- the phenomenon whereby most people share a particular view, but they *don't think other people share it*. In this case: most people are concerned about climate change but think others aren't.
sherwood.news
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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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“However, if you have some bear spray and want to beat some Capitol Police with flagpoles, you can expect a full pardon from President Trump.”
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Messaging suggestion, we ought to start referring to adding seats to the Supreme Court as “UNpacking” the Court.
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@startribune.com seems like you have a stake in this too…
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Chadwick @wick47.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
dailymontanan.com/2026/06/23/f...
dailymontanan.com
Former congressional candidate joins Transparent Election Initiative • Daily Montanan
Russell Cleveland will lead national efforts in support of 'The Montana Plan' to get corporate money out of elections
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
National guard soldiers pause to inspect the pool, where you can see vacuum tubes and green plumes
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