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Luke @yankeeluke.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I hate that the bald eagle is the US’s national animal. It should be the turkey, the raccoon, or the bobcat.

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Luke @yankeeluke.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

My scruples! My scruples!

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The Civil War never ended.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/08/2025

164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

She runs a large anti-ICE TikTok account—now agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest. Agents drag her out of Tesla & throw her on ground where she lay unresponsive—then rushed by ambulance to hospital. She is well-known to ICE as community activist who films raids Los Angeles.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16/08/2025

The next Democratic President needs to burn ICE to the ground and re-imagine immigration enforcement to be humane and apolitical. ICE has repeatedly shown that it seems itself as a vehicle for MAGA’s policies, they need to be abolished. Saying this shouldn’t be controversial after all this.

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Jeff Coltin @jccoltin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

New York should look into cutting off electricity to 26 Federal Plaza and other federal buildings, AM Robert Carroll said today. “It’s federal land, as they like to articulate very often” to any official who tries to visit. “So great. We don’t have a duty then to provide power.”

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...

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Exclusive | Rep. Hakeem Jeffries pays just $200 in property taxes thanks to sweetheart subsidy law

Public records show that Jeffries and his family reside in a condo unit in Prospect Heights, paying just $213 a year in property taxes.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.

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Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country

Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"Liberals already ruined it" shows the plot here. These aren't impartial law enforcement officers protecting all citizens. They are partisan paramilitary militia, terrorizing domestic opponents.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

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Luke @yankeeluke.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This is incredibly implausible. My guess is that this is an intentional leak. This would be too comically incompetent even for these clowns.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

militarily disarming what little remains of the democratic world in the face of the rise of fascism is actually another hippy viewpoint that seems leftist but is really quintessentially rightwing

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Luke @yankeeluke.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

My take on the Kat stuff is that when I said “I want more crazy, unqualified, kinda trashy people to run as progressive Democrats” I meant it. It just makes me root for her more. The more ludicrous scandals, the better. That’s my ideal Democrat. In an insane world you need to be insane to win.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

which words in the letter were the strongest

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Luke @yankeeluke.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

People have way too many precious principles on this site. “Oh no it’s wrong when our side does it too!” No, no it’s not. It’s good when we do it and evil when they do it. “It” can mean literally anything. We are always right and they are always wrong, regardless of circumstances.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Remember the old anti-Bernie line that the "socialist" label would scare away conservatives?

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I mean, they are setting up Mamdani to do a big explainer on rent controlled vs rent stabilization where the outcome is people finding out their landlords have been stealing from them!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I am once again asking you to knock on doors to win a city we can afford. zohranfornyc.com/events

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/08/2025

zohran mamdani won his district by double digits, someones gotta primary and oust hakeem jefferies

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Luke @yankeeluke.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

As soon as Democrats control the houses of Congress, they could simply refuse to seat every Republican member-elect and totally wipe out Republican seats in Congress.

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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Why is the leader of the Democratic Party in the House going on TV to back up attacks on the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York? Can you imagine the Republican leader doing this?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

“Where do you land in this mayoral race, and in particular on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ?” @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social STILL won’t endorse Zohran — gives gutless, rambling answer instead. (Related: Per @trackaipac.bsky.social Jeffries has received nearly $2 Million from AIPAC)

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15/08/2025

The Democratic Party leadership does not believe in the legitimacy of their own party’s primary for the largest city in the USA because they’re Islamophobic and anti-Arab racists who believe Mamdani is an illegitimate upstart who was not supposed to win. They are anti-democratic, in short.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Gavin Newsom, Secretary of Revenge

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It’s not, they have, and by doing this, Hakeem Jeffries is once again supporting a narcissistic sex pest with a record of corruption (who is the reason NY’s gerrymandering is what it is and why Jeffries is not speaker!!) over the rightful winner of the Democratic Primary.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This seems like a complete stab in the back to the party’s base. Like your voters, NYC isn’t even an open primary, voted for this Mamdani.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It's a surreal experience to find myself on the cover of Time Magazine but it's truly a reflection of what we have built together over these past ten months. Read the story: time.com/7308924/zohr... ...and sign up to canvass: zohranfornyc.com/canvasslaunch

The cover of Time Magazine. Zohran fixes his tie and looks into the camera. The headline reads, "The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

UPDATE: After backlash to his “mealy-mouthed” answers on Gaza to @podsaveamerica.crooked.com , now @petebuttigieg.bsky.social says: -YES to Bernie’s Israel arms embargo -YES to recognizing a Palestinian state -NO to another 10-year military aid agreement for Israel www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/08/2025

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Constitution “was not some kind of sacred compromise that came down a mountain on tablets,” and we should consider ourselves empowered to make dramatic changes to our political system, Osita Nwanevu says on this episode of “Interesting Times With Ross Douthat.”

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Opinion | Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.

Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.

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𝕊𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕥 ℙ𝕒𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕟 @maxwalrus.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My friend who is an Iraq war veteran was out tonight walking his dog in DC and came up on this scene – with federal agents, including secret service, hassling a citizen and violating his rights while intimidating the public

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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Nancy Pelosi is still missing from this list. If elected, I would be on this list.

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Luke @yankeeluke.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The world would be a lot better if Carthage won the Punic Wars tbh. I think about that a lot.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

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OPERATION MAKING D.C. SAFE & BEAUTIFUL
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15/08/2025

Illinois stands up for the hard-won advances made for workers. The Pullman Strikes. The Haymarket Affair. It has been the people of this state who have led the charge for progress, not just for Illinois, but for the nation. We are ready to do it again — whatever it takes.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Just saw someone call Mamdani a “Dem op” because Obama called and congratulated him after he won the primary and they chatted for a bit and for the love of god y’all have got to stop being such fucking weirdos.

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I wonder if dehumanizing rhetoric about an urbanized, cosmopolitan population being supposedly elitist and all-powerful, and yet also contemptible and weak, has ever led to anything worse than just words.

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Look at where we are now. Los Angeles and DC under occupation, the former against the wishes of its representatives and the latter with no representatives at all. Philadelphia under crushing austerity. And what’s the latest discourse, even here? “Those fucking New Yorkers.”

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The default acceptance of anti-urbanism is coming home to roost. Repeated over and over again that urbanites are both snobby elites but also dirty takers, calling cities out-of-touch bubbles but also unlivable hellholes. Demanding they apologize for their privilege while denying them representation.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Kind of feel like it should be bigger national news that the poorest major city in the country is being forced to accept devastating service cuts to our public transit system because PA Republicans actively hate Philly and want to cause us pain

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