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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Retaliatory blocking amuses me.

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1. The Washington Sun called it "panic week." Republicans seemed to wake up to the fact that things are not going to get better. This was the week in which they realized, all at once, that the light at the end of the tunnel may be from an oncoming train. mailchi.mp/washingtonsu...

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Panic Week

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Meanwhile the state’s republicans are doing everything they can to destroy the Great Salt Lake.

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Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve never referred to anybody as a mug and I’d like to try it out.

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Please check out my latest article in @prospect.org! Seattle politics is a fascinating topic and I’m very grateful to all the folks who took the time to talk with me about their experiences and organizing in the city. prospect.org/2026/09/28/o...

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Socialist in Seattle - The American Prospect

A year after her election, Mayor Katie Wilson wants to upgrade housing and transit in the Emerald City. But moderate councilors and divisions within her own base are undermining her.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

One thing that I’m just very tired of is this attitude that being angry and hurt isn’t an emotion but a righteous state of being. The right and the left both traffic in it, and while the right deploys it more destructively it’s still an enormous set of blinders that doesn’t do you any good.

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You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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This got me thinking about a piece I wanted to write (and may yet) about Johnny Cash and Bitter Tears, his album about indigenous history. It was not well received by the mainstream country establishment and is sort of an interesting proto-example of how country music became what it has become.

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Lest you doubt this, read as much of this as you want and you can see the magazine getting things incredibly wrong from the get-go. It’s fine to get things wrong sometimes; that means you’re taking a chance. But RS did it again and again, to the point that you have to marvel at how it survived.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Spot on. But this argument is always slanted in favor of what I would call “culturally dominant” media, and mainstream country music has been made to be a proxy for white American writ large. (That plenty of country musicians themselves dislike mainstream Nashville sounds is ignored).

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Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Post your best skeet. bsky.app/profile/zebl...

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The Sopranos is interesting because it's a story of pathetic men, acting out an authentic gangster life substantially based on gangster media, seeing their lifestyle collapse & their lives end because they're weak-minded children. Naturally the Sopranos subreddit thinks this is all fuckin badass

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

It’s a good thing I like my rate, house, and neighborhood, because I guess I’m not going anywhere.

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Fyi If what you've been waiting for all your life is me espousing the virtues of being a beginner/bad at something, or you've wondered whether trying to learn Russian with no real reason has defeated me, you can listen to me talk with @guysegal.com about this here!

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No one alive has seen a president choose to walk into the teeth of American greed. A THREAD. PLUS: Ask me anything.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ATTENTION this is very important to me!!! my incredible bandmate katie fitz is honestly one of the greatest songwriters i have ever known and her album drops today. PLEASE please give it a listen. music.apple.com/us/album/a-l...

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A Light in the Window by Katie Fitz on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 12 Songs

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She’s Leaving Home is one of The Beatles most underrated songs.

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Every TTRPG player has experienced That Guy who 80% of the group actively hates and the other 20% merely and barely tolerate. It’s always a man and they get to hang around until either the rest of the group secretly forms another group without them or until everything falls apart.

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