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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Again, imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two men who should be in prison for the rest of their lives for unprecedented corruption & crimes against the Constitution & ~all of the laws.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A world in which citizens of each nation are taught to be rigid and bellicose nationalists, while nations unapologetically pursue maximal national power. Luckily History contains no examples of that going badly.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

👇🎯 Not a single elite journalist with an Ivy League degree is practicing this advice, & the lifetime income returns to college have not changed despite The Narrative™️ that cannot fail (it can only be failed). Fund the damn public universities, & stop telling people they shouldn’t pursue education.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/10/2026

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal, writes columnist Moira Donegan

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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The last time survivors spoke up en masse, the public embraced fascism rather than have uncomfortable conversations. Not saying that this influenced the actions of the Cornell Seven, but I’d bet it influenced the inaction of their 50 fraternity brothers who were on the group chat.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Much of our sitting government is in office because it ignored rape or committed rape. At times, it seems like a job requirement. Much of our media has learned to ask evidentiary standards of survivors that they’d never hold a powerful man to.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I end up going back to over and over again is: while the criminal justice system could do so much better in protecting rights, the only thing that can adequately address a pervasive problem like this is social/cultural change. Rape arises from and reasserts rape culture/patriarchy.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What people are starved for is leaders who will stand up to the lawless authoritarianism & unprecedented corruption & demand both accountability & institutional reform so it never happens again 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Again, just this week, the @nytimes.com & everyone else ran front page stories & headlines about how the AfD in 🇩🇪 was a far right party. Not only do they still not refer to the Republican Party this way, despite all of 👇 happening daily, but 👇 doesn't even make the news. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They all say “I’ll leave!” and then what actually happens is they stay and pay the taxes they just do it like Paul Rudd cleaning up the cafeteria in Wet Hot American Summer

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.

"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/09/2026

This is the crux of it. We can't have nice things because too many Americans would rather make life harder for themselves than let go of the belief that they're inherently superior to anyone lower on the ladder than they are (especially if the person lower on the ladder has darker skin).

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These men shouldn’t be able to walk into a room without being spat on, shouted at, having their teeth knocked clean out. They’re THAT bad. They cannot be part of a civilized society. But instead so many with power have accommodated them, either with support, or simply the presumption of regularity.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is correct, but also another reason why Democrats have to lean into accountability and oversight as hard as possible when they retake Congress. It's not just about punishing criminals. It's about making it clear to the country the depth of the damage done to ready them for the repairs.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/08/2026

If and when we make it through this we need a constitutional convention, because the fact that this insane person hasn’t been impeached and removed 47 times over — and indeed that no one ever has in 238 years — proves the mechanism DOES NOT WORK.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Is “Woke 1” in the room with us or is a convicted rapist the President, with a cabinet full of mediocre white people, institutionalizing racism across the federal government?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

👇🎯 Actual elected Republicans sh*t on American cities & urban citizens (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), call people “vermin,” & do actual authoritarianism every day, & we don’t see these op-eds asking “conservatives” to “acknowledge & reject” these things.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Again, I never want to hear the GOP referred to, or allowed to refer to itself, as the “party of national security” or the one that “supports our troops” ever again.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Perfect summation of the antiwoke worldview: trying to destroy democracy is bad, but not nearly as bad as sitting through an HR training

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When we talk about "civil rights," it's important to keep in mind that the right of women and girls to access the public sphere without being subjected to sexual violence or harassment is usually considered less important than the free speech rights of men to harass them.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a good answer, & no one in the Wisconsin media frames or asks Tom Tiffany questions like this about being too extreme. Whatever one thinks of Hong, it's a wildly different double standard & Tiffany's/the WI GOP's embrace of authoritarianism is more extreme than anything she has proposed.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Who could have known that taxing the extremely rich would be an easy way to fund a massive expansion of the welfare states? Who, I ask, who?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Thug Life Meme

ALT: Franklin D. Roosevelt Thug Life Meme

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The corporate media will demand a Democrat disavow words of a supporter a thousand times more than they will demand a Republican be accountable for the actions of their president

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

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