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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1h

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

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Defector @defector.com · 23h

Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector

At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h

BIG result, folks:

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was ground zero for the conservative takeover of school boards & anti-LGBTQ policies in 2021, on the Central Bucks and Pennridge boards.

Dems flipped both boards back in 2023.

Tonight, Dems have ousted *all* Republicans from both school boards.

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Emily @catnipcrew.bsky.social · 10h

generational speech.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 14h

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

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Emily @catnipcrew.bsky.social · 22h

cold open, bowen yang in a sandwich costume sitting in the courtroom gallery.

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Emily @catnipcrew.bsky.social · 23h

"Do you recognize that sandwich?" is an all-timer cross-examination question.

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Emily @catnipcrew.bsky.social · 23h

Freeze the rent, fast and free buses, and free childcare. Michigan.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

Protesters hold lighted signs that say RESIST ICE on a elevated train platform in Chicago.

Atena Danner, a Black woman poet, speaks into a microphone in front of protesters holding lighted signs that spell the word "RESIST."

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 5d

Begging people to understand how big of a deal a net 40-point shift against Israel among your base within two years is for the Democratic Party

Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 5d

Only about one-third of likely Georgia Democratic primary voters believe supporting Israel is in the U.S. national interest. It’s the latest sign of a widening internal rift more than two years after the start of the Israel-Hamas war. #gapol

www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia Democrats are shifting their stance on Israel, poll finds

One-third of likely Democratic primary voters say supporting Israel is in the U.S. national interest. That's down from 54% two years ago.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America

when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink

unconscionable evil

NPR @npr.org · 6d

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 7d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”

@apnews.com #Chicago
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 7d

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.

Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.

Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 8d

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11d

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 11d

really liked this about how racism isn’t just a moral failure, but the operating system for authoritarianism. we treat "talking about race" as a strategy question. but the reason to talk about it is to prevent the power grab that we're going to face
rashad-advisors.kit.com/posts/we-re-...

We’re at the Beginning, Not the End

We’re at the Beginning, Not the End - How We Win by Rashad Robinson

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 13d

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

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Emily @catnipcrew.bsky.social · 15d

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit overturned the lower court's (first) injunction on the national guard's federalization in Portland. An appellate judge is now requesting that a larger panel of the court re-hear the case. Now the parties will argue why the case should/shouldn't be reviewed.

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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 got a few spoons back from Zohran's triumph @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 17d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 19d

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 19d

Segregationists spoke of the “long civil rights movement” as the “Second Reconstruction” and for inspiration turned to the Redemptionists, who declared war on the first Reconstruction and after many decades of legal and extralegal efforts Installed
Jim Crow regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 21d

This @eric-reinhart.com piece was clarifying. Reinhart argues that there is no saving the cultural norms and edifices that held our society together, and the only choice is to build new institutions fit for our times.

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

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