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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 8h
“At Cupertino's top schools, administrators, parents and students say white students end up in the stereotyped role often applied to other minority groups: the underachievers.” Gift link: www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...
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The New White Flight - WSJ
In Silicon Valley, two high schools with outstanding academic reputations are losing white students as Asian students move in. Why?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7h
This is such a sad little list of petty obsessions, and… half of these things aren’t true.
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Freddie Mercury's Pajamas @libbityboo.bsky.social · 10h
white people will really do any other motherfucking thing than just listening to Black people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h
It’s notable how many anti-trans activists who claim their actions are motivated by a desire to “protect women,” are currently attacking Jane Doe and defending the men who she says assaulted her. It’s almost like “protecting women” never had anything to do with it.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h
Last night Abdul El-Sayed taunted Trump to come to Michigan. I’m not listening closely to MS NOW but I think Troy Jackson just taunted Trump to go to Maine. I think every Dem should be doing the same bc I can’t imagine anywhere that he would help, & Trump will want to take the bait.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h
you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18h
He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 10h
I’ve thought for months we’d win my “original 6” (AK/TX/IA/NC/OH/ME). I’ve been saying since last year that Marshall is so bad KS could be in play. I said after the primary that Lindsay was vulnerable I’ve been pointing out that in 2024 FL was closer than TX/IA/AK But do we have enough money? /1
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h
I don’t disagree, not at all. But his significance is that other elitists think he’s smart.
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Herculez Gomez @herculezg.bsky.social · 11h
Dream window for the #USMNT. 🇺🇸 Four games. 13 debuts. 8 teenagers. Four debutants with goals. 12 goals scored. Two wins over South American opposition. And clean sheet wins over your two biggest regional rivals, Mexico & Canada. New faces. Young talent. Big results. #USMNT
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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 10h
Old enough to remember when Andrew Gillum ROASTED Ron DeSantis with “a hot dog hollers” and won not one but two terms as Florida Governor.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 10h
Perhaps an understatement. Definitely an understatement
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h
legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15h
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 13h
Schrödinger’s whiteness
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13h
The immensely wealthy men who run the AI companies are forcing the economy to serve their dreams and crowding out everyone else's.
paulkrugman.substack.com
AI Versus Everything Else
The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21h
The Baltimore Sun got the data on Maryland athletics alcohol sales and found that exactly one person got a Bud Light Seltzer at a Maryland football game last year www.baltimoresun.com/2026/10/06/m...
Only five Heineken cans were sold at Maryland baseball games.
Xfinity Center sold eight Hoop Teas.
And at SECU Stadium, among more than 105,000 alcohol sales, the records list exactly one Bud Light Seltzer can.
One.
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U.S. Women's National Soccer Team @uswnt.ussoccer.com · 17h
our home ❤️
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 18h
oh baby we are having a good day today "Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has issued an ultimatum, saying he will not return to the national team while Jorge Jesus is the coach, sources have told ESPN." www.espn.com/soccer/story...
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Cristiano Ronaldo won't return to Portugal team while Jesus remains coach - sources
Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has issued an ultimatum, saying he will not return to the national team while Jorge Jesus is the coach, sources have told ESPN.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 20h
Yea the elections havent happened yet
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h
A fun detail: Poirot repeatedly describes the Macho Jesus his leetle grey cells dreamed up as like a “Mustang.” You might think this is merely weird and homoerotic, but it’s actually linked to a bit of misinformation evangelicals like to use to retcon Jesus as a high-T alpha male.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h
the author of this 2022 piece has a book coming out about the collapse of her marriage. While there are heterosexual couples in open relationships that survive, I don't think any of them are writing articles about it. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/06...
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Scenes from an Open Marriage by Jean Garnett
June 29, 2022 – “Marriage might be the ideal place to process a bad sexual encounter with someone else.”
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 22h
They last had USA made goods about 20 years ago. Obama made it a point to wear HartMarx stuff, which was union label and domestically finished.
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CBS Sports Golazo @cbssportsgolazo-m.bsky.social · 23h
RT @WGolazo: Lily Yohannes is back with the @USWNT and ready for Spain 🇺🇸🇪🇸 #UWCLToday
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Objectively the best breakfast taco. Salt, fat, starch and protein in precisely the right proportions. bsky.app/profile/fain...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gregg Abbott, now in a genuinely competitive race for reelection, will be a no-show at Trump's event this week in Texas, lauds Trump for doing a "good job." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sign-...
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Sign Of The Times … Texas Edition
It’s surprising to see Donald Trump campaigning in Texas a month before...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/04/2025
Jon Stewart admits folks here were right & he wasn't: "I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't. I'm sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps."
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Matt Gaetz is a 3rd generation Republican politician whose primary accomplishment is life is being born the son of a wealthy 2nd generation GOP politician. His grandfather served in the 14th Traffic Regulation Group during WWII. He was the train master of the White Pass and Yukon Route.
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He clutched a photo in the mud so the country would still be here. Not so a later generation could skip the midterms and let the gavels flip.
YOU MUST VOTE RED.
The border. The ballot. The classroom. Democrats already blocked photo ID. They want the courts packed and the gates open again. A stay-home vote is a blue vote. Show up. Vote the WHOLE ticket.
The foxhole was the hard part. November is the easy one. Do not waste it.
YOU MUST VOTE RED
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Your great-grandfather did not sleep in a foxhole in some foreign land clutching a photo of your great-grandmother so you could vote communists into office.
Vote red.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/10/2026
people keep saying "when trump campaigns, he gets the base out" but trump keeps campaigning and GOP poll numbers just keep going down
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lots of people are trying to square the circle by saying dems outperform in midterm years and republicans outperform in presidential years when trump is on the ballot, and I ask you to consider that Trump has simply lost the juice entirely.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Curious how newsrooms in Maryland are avoiding saying phrases like “the Moore Cox debate” or “voter apathy concerning the Moore-Cox race.”
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In general, we Dems and left leaners more broadly tend toward sad sack-ism, like “I will not allow myself to hope because one time I hoped and it didn’t happen and it made me sad.” I don’t say this unkindly but please shut the fuck up.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I get the worry that no matter how well Dems do, the media will paint it as a disappointment, and as a counterweight to that worry I suggest we all have some self respect and fight like hell and celebrate the wins where they come rather than letting someone else tell us what we’re allowed to do.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This doesn’t make legal what he’s already done, and probably adds additional crimes to the list.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
was zach there
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Toxic in Texas
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, he’s lost the juice.
Mon Oct 5
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Breaking News
Facing backlash, President Trump said his super PAC would pay for ads promoting him that had been paid for by taxpayers.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a big deal for me and, as I've said a thousand times on here, I think the doomer-narrative of nothing being a win bc Trump and his people lie and cheat is dangerous. They lose. A lot. And rightfully so because they're doing illegal things. And taking those wins is important for democracy.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 06/10/2026
Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso, suspended after his arrest on allegations he molested a young child, said he still “intend[s] to win” the November election. And the Palm Beach County Republican Party endorsed him today. Via @miamiherald.com
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Palm Beach County GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
Suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso said he has not abandoned his campaign, nor has the local Republican Party abandoned him, even after his arrest on child sex abuse charges.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Morello has some great music and he's on the right side of most if not all issues, and yes he's correct that being a California voter makes his individual vote less important. The problem is that he's a dude with a huge platform and he's advocating AGAINST doing the one thing that can stop Trump.
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Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't know about mail-in ballots, but early voting in person has started in some states, and reports show that turnout is high. In Virginia, early voting is up in heavily Democratic districts and down in heavily Republican districts. cardinalnews.org/2026/10/02/e...
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Early voting numbers show a shift toward Democrats. If those hold, two House seats in Virginia could flip, and a third could be close.
The past week has seen forecasters shift their ratings in three Virginia districts, upgrading Democratic chances in each. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has put money into the state to defend Re…
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