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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 07/10/2026

Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.

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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands

The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we do not have to live this way.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tribes & students: Indian education changes break the law. Renewed federal lawsuit challenges Trump administration’s Bureau of Indian Education layoffs and restructuring of treaty-mandated programs. ictnews.org/news/tribes-...

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Tribes, students: Indian education changes break the law - ICT

Renewed federal lawsuit challenges Trump administration’s Bureau of Indian Education layoffs and restructuring of treaty-mandated programs

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Clinton: Crime bill Bush: Iraq/Afghanistan/torture Obama: Recession response prioritizing banks over people, not holding Bush accountable, deportations, drone bombing Trump1: his entire presidency Biden: Gaza/running again Trump2: The end of time.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

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Papageno but with IBS @papagenobutwithibs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Unironically would like to see Dem candidates hounded into disavowing Jonathan Chait and David Frum

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/08/2026

Gary, Indiana is without power for the 11th straight day after storms. This is climate injustice.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gary, Indiana, residents must wait until Tuesday for power, 9 days after storm knocked it out "We are being left behind every time something goes on. Gary is left behind."

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Gary, Indiana residents must wait until Tuesday for power, 9 days after storm knocked it out

Nine days after the storm that was to blame for it all, tens of thousands of people yet again woke up without power in Northwest Indiana on Thursday.

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The older you get in the workforce, the more transparent this truth becomes.

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is why I have nothing but contempt for Seth Bodnar’s calculated independent campaign. They have the gall to ask Alana Bankfield to drop out when she ran the right way. #mtpol

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Bruce Springsteen’s post 9-11 persona shifted from anti-capitalist leftism to patriotic neoliberal humanism. And no one seemed to notice.

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bluesky account with 50k followers: Why does everyone like this piece of popular culture that I think sucks. 30 minutes later: Muting this thread. What is wrong with you people?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Covering an area the size of Britain, Western Sahara is designated as a “non-self-governing territory” by the United Nations and remains on its official list of territories still awaiting decolonization." Eoghan Gilmartin for @africaisacountry1.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...

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Odyssey to Africa’s last colony

Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonia...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I saw The Odyssey twice in theaters so far, most recently in 4DX, and had a grand old time. I also read Emily Wilson’s review and loved it. We exist

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We don’t control Israel? I mean in strict terms of sovereignty, that is accurate but nearly all of their actions that cause outrage are made possible by the military supply and political cover the US gives them. Nationalist thinking is a helluva drug.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 07/07/2026

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

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Lauren Tackle @unlox.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

there it is

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“Merciless Indian Savages.” These three words set into motion centuries of brutal anti-Native policy from the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the Dawes Act to the reservation and boarding school systems — every policy carrying the weight of those three words into every new era.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 04/07/2026

I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.

Thomas Paine, a man who did nearly as much to write Amer-
ica into existence as Thomas Jefferson, shared his disdain for per-
petual constitutions. “There never did, there never will, and there
never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any
generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the
power of binding and controlling posterity to the ‘end of time,’
or of commanding forever how the world shall be governed, or
who shall govern it,” wrote Paine in Rights of Man. “Every age
and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the
age and generations which preceded it.”
And even as they defended a Constitution that they hoped
would endure for some time, the Founders appealed to our right

and capacity to reason new institutions into existence. “It seems
to have been reserved to the people of this country,” Hamilton
wrote in Federalist 1, “to decide the important question, whether
societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good
government from reflection and choice, or whether they are for-
ever destined to depend for their political constitutions on acci-
dent and force.”
The years since have given us much to reflect upon. We
have more than two centuries of experience with the Founders’
Constitution. We’ve seen governments across the world rise and
fall, peer Constitutions drafted, amended, and replaced. Political
science—a field that was still new in the Founders’ day—has de-
veloped to maturity; regularly, it tackles questions that vexed
them with tools they did not have and a rigor they were not ca-
pable of. Human equality, a principle they gestured at but were
unwilling to accept and act upon themselves, has come to under-
pin our society. So too, despite everything their institutions have
done to undermine it, has a faith in democracy that the Founders
never shared. We know more than the Founders did. We are more
practiced at governance. We are more moral, more just. What
privileges their intentions for this country over our own?
“The earth,” Jefferson wrote, “belongs to the living and not to
the dead.” As so many have labored to remind us over the last
decade, the United States has much to atone for, the sins of Jef-
ferson among them. But his words here—an intuition that can be
read in the Declaration of Independence and the act of the Found-
ing itself—are unassailable. Our present is shaped by all America
has done and all America has been, yes. But our future will be
shaped in large part by our own aspirations—what we decide this
country can and must be. America is ours. Not Jefferson’s. Not
Washington’s. Not Hamilton’s. Not Madison’s. Ours. Our iden-
tity is ours to establish and define.

mocracy and its possibilities to collapse. “Giving the world back
to its inhabitants is too big a job for the merely practical,” the
director Orson Welles once said. “Only the devout deserve the
trust of government, for only the devout can face the unimagi-
nable vistas of man’s destiny.” A characteristically grand state-
ment, yes. But as Welles understood, this is a country that runs on
grand visions. The cultivation of them is a core political compe-
tency. And the absence of them is an opportunity—not just for
those who’d like to pull America forward, unfortunately, but
for those who’d like to set America back. It should be plain by
now that defending ourselves from the depredations of men like
the president—those who would trade our future away for per-
sonal profit and the indulgence of their prejudices—will take
more than the defense of American institutions as we’ve known
them. The American project will be saved only by a return to the
spirit that first inspired it. Each day, the darkness that shrouds
this republic as I write these words makes new claims on our free-
doms and our livelihoods. But we have known darkness—we
have seen it thicker, deeper, and more suffocating than the pall
over us now. Through it all, these words set down by Paine in
Common Sense more than two centuries ago—his benediction
for this country—have remained true: “We have it in our power
to begin the world over again.”

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Reminder that 250 years (or 534 years) is a drop in the bucket of the 15k plus years of human history in North America.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

100 years ago.

The klan marching in front of the US Capitol in 1926

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Recommend listening to the podcast The Fragile Juggernaut on the history of the CIO. Some of it’s biggest successes - achievements we still benefit from - were do to the work of communists within the organization.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 28/06/2026

How much does normalcy bias affect media reporting? Here is a chart of global sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) from 1982 to 2026 with the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 omitted. As of June 27th, global SSTs have set 26 daily record highs in a row. Media? Is there anybody out there?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"It feels that this ceasefire agreement is the biggest lie that has been told to the whole world" Maram, a student in Gaza, speaking to Hind Khoudary

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Breaking the power of the supreme court is not just about mechanisms, you also have to bring an entirely different vision of what our constitutional framework should be and should it accomplish. You have to disavow their vision by expressing a different one, not simply repeal its impact.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I know I’m being a sucker by responding to this, but for the life of me I’ll never understand how grown ass men—most of whom also have laptop jobs—can talk like this without dying of embarrassment.

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Great 🧵 Also recommend Philip Foner’s - Organized Labor & The Black Worker

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 04/06/2026

Ken Jones, a retired San Francisco firefighter, has died from lung cancer after Blue Shield denied his treatment claims Any 2028 candidate who does not champion universal healthcare is a non-starter. I will not vote for someone who kills my neighbors for "shareholder value." You can go burn in hell

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Anyway, I’ve got the same drum I’ve always had. No way forward without forgetting the way back. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

There is, however, another path. People are living it every day. It is what got us excited about Minnesota. It’s what has us excited about Zohran Mamdani. There is something that is just as hopeful, that is just as pro-human as conservatism offers you, that does that without building it on other people being excised from the future. The problem we have is that we do not sell it that way because I fundamentally believe we don’t believe in it enough that way.

We have to believe that something is better and possible, and that we are building it. We do have something better than a small “c” conservative politics to offer people. There is a future where the government can work for you as surely as a megachurch works for you. And we can do that, and it’s not necessarily hard, but it isn’t easy, either.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Always remember that, regardless of their political persuasion, a head of state will almost invariably view their first duty as ensuring "order" over any other obligation

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/05/2026

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Construction photo of the Sen̓áḵw housing project in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself w/ 12 bands you’ve seen live: Wolf Parade Prince Nation of Language Steve Earle R.E.M. Daft Punk MF Doom Spoon Camper Van Beethoven Amy Winehouse My Bloody Valentine Ween

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Shame on all the Rs plus 8 Dems who just voted for a bigoted bill to harass trans kids by requiring parental consent before they can change their pronouns in school. The 8: Henry Cuellar Don Davis Cleo Fields Laura Gillen Vicente Gonzalez Marcy Kaptur Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Eugene Vindman

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Man, there are some crazy “labor vs. capital” charts, lately. @ianbremmer.com

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Back to back posts on my feed. Take B is correct.

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

There are so many reasons to be supportive of tribal sovereignty and supporting land back efforts. (The Stillaguamish shouldn’t have had to buy this but what they’re doing with it shows the power of tribal governance). www.npr.org/2026/05/03/n...

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Why this tribe is buying up hundreds of acres of farmland — and flooding it

The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington state has been buying land in its traditional territory and removing levees. The goal is to turn farmland into wetlands with the hopes of restoring Chinook salmon...

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026

Not enough people are talking about this. The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

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Greg Martin 🇵🇸 @yablonowitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The sad thing is that they don't know they're losers. That's how out of touch they are. The future they think is there for them was gone a while ago.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century

This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.

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