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Zack Ford

@zackford.bsky.social
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Press/Editorial: AFJustice Formerly: ThinkProgress (RIP). Queer/cis, atheist, SJW, pianist, gaymer, IC alumni, union member. linktr.ee/zackford Opinions my own. (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈🖖

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 20h
Heather MacDonald of the same Manhattan Institute that employes Chris Rufo. When institutions show you who they are, believe them.
Ayfkm Heather Mac Donald?

She’s doing apologia for the Cornell 7
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h
Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.
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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 16h
Exactly one month out from an election that will decide who controls the U.S. Senate -- the chamber every judicial nominee needs to clear -- Justice Alito confirms in a television interview that he is considering retirement from the high court. 1/
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 19h
He doesn't see a problem with it because it mirrors his own behavior.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Republicans are very open about what they want to do. And they’re happy to tell you if you ask.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The unitary executive types never get too hung up on the "shall execute the law faithfully" bit of Article II
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He really shouldn't even be under consideration for 2028.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what's crazy about this premise is that local businesses in minneapolis hated the ice raids, made it clear they hated the ice raids, lost a ton of money because of the ice raids, and were generally quite sympathetic to the people telling ice to get the fuck out bsky.app/profile/will...
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can't help but think that we're all discussing the Cornell 7 thanks to local journalism (in this case a student reporter). The corporate absorption and dissolution of so much local media has deprived us of this kind of awareness and accountability in communities across the country.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: A judge has just permanently dismissed the Trump Justice Department's Reflecting Pool indictment against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Producer: “We need someone on to back up the state of Tennessee this morning.” Booker: “Well, our notes say this guy has expertise in this area.” Producer: “Let’s get him on the air.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Enten: "Congratulations to Ken Paxton. You are the least popular Texas Senate GOP nominee this century. No one was even in the negative, and you're at -16."
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They're essentially DARVOing the Civil War. "You made us come back and now we're the victims for it."
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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ORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a party to spend so much time fixated on whether students were born with a a penis or a vagina?
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Selene St. Satellite @stsatellite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Indeed: en.wikisource.org/wiki/End_Poem just with civic reference occasionally interspersed
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End Poem - Wikisource, the free online library
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay the screenshots other people shared did not properly prepare me for what happens when you tell America.gov to "play Minecraft." Here's the full response I got. (1/2)
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kirsten Dunst Says Buh Bye
ALT: Kirsten Dunst Says Buh Bye
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wasn't there some book we read in high school that warned us about an authoritarian government trying to control our language? Or am I thinking of a Taylor Swift album?
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He's the richest man in history and he still kisses the ring
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CoachN @coachn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS. Please read and share; as I think the fact that even more centrist Democrats are now realizing that the Carville Corporate D “triangulation”—trying to mute GOP power by ceding them issues & entire communities—is not just morally wrong, but a *political* loser as well, is a vital story.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies.
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: A coalition of 40+ organizations sent a letter to senators today drawing a connection between Trump’s judicial appointments and the nation’s affordability crisis. The letter urges senators to reject anti-worker, anti-consumer judicial nominees. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/coalition-...
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Coalition says Trump’s judicial appointments are worsening America’s affordability crisis
“Federal judges confirmed today will shape the rules of our economy for decades to come,” the groups say.
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh you rascal you! Always feeling up the ladies, that Russell! What can you do?
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They are so desperate to corner any opponent of Trump's, but if you see Sen. Klobuchar's response in the follow-up posts, they got everything totally wrong and look like damn fools.
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump wants you to bully LGBTQ+ kids as much as you want. That's what he and his administration already do.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We’re finally going to finish Reconstruction & do what we should have done after Watergate, Iran-Contra, & January 6”
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How is he even able to be here? I have questions both about the UK's bail conditions and our own willingness to let him enter the country.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
in 2024 trump said once he was elected that inflation would go down the day he was sworn in
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
The entire motto of this administration towards LGBTQ youth is "fuck them kids." thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Court's own ethics policy states that justices should explain the reason for their recusals. Only the liberal justices have honored this rule, and Alito continues to violate it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 28/09/2026
I enjoyed this small piece by Katelyn. Absolutely needed a modicum hope on this manic Monday.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
1/ On @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver cited our reporting w/ @texastribune.org about how Ken Paxton appeared to have violated Texas law. Paxton used an address where his estranged wife said he no longer lived while voting in 6 elections in the past 2 years: www.propublica.org/article/ken-...
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a Texas Tribune headline from July 7, 2026 reads: “Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on 'illegal voting.' He may have violated Texas election law.” An article excerpt below says: "... appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections ...”
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We've been saying it for over a decade, but the goal is to erase trans people from society. Completely lying about the science behind gender-affirming care is a significant step in that direction.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's Mary Ann Lynch popping up for a 'woman on the street' quote in an LA Times piece on Susan Collins in 2020. The unavoidable inference is that legacy media outlets let the Collins campaign choose who gets quoted in their stories. PR masquerading as journalism. Unforgivable. #MEpolitics
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DHS SAVE database has long and documented history of producing false positives of non-citizens voting, leading to sensational headlines of alleged voter fraud that turn out to be untrue on closer inspection. In St. Louis County, MO, for example at least 81% of the names flagged were incorrect
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh hey I was wondering where all the shittiest people in the city were tonight
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
While campaigning for AL Supreme Court, Cook repeatedly warned of the “woke mob” & told voters “we cannot let the Democrats win." “Wokeness is finally losing ground,” he said after Trump’s reelection. “Savor this moment.” Now up for a lifetime judgeship: nominationnotes.substack.com/p/alabama-no...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of multiple occasions where Collins is mad about the perfectly predictable consequences of her votes (see also, Kavanaugh, Brett).
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.
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