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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 2h

Start a blogblog. We helped increase voter turnout by almost 30% in the last municipal election cycle. We are funny. We throw parades. We hand out stickers. It works.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h

“But she doesn’t tell us what to DO about it 😭😭😭!”

Do something.
Do something with other people.
Do it again.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 8h

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...

The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project

In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1h

h/t: @offline.mountainherder.xyz (bsky.app/profile/offl...)

President Macron told me The National Assembly keep eating his Prime Ministers so l asked how many Prime Ministers he has and he said
he just goes to the shelter and gets a new Prime Minister afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding Prime Ministers to The National Assembly and then his daughter started crying.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 5h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 6h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 2h

What if the pee tape was just the Epstein Polaroids that we had in DOJ custody all along?

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

This is fascinating. I would bet trump doesn’t care if we see photos of him with topless girls - but he certainly does not want us to see them laughing at him and pointing.

Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 2h

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.

If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.

So...🧵

(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah here’s Dolly on IG cleaning up her sister’s mess. Hair done, makeup done, shooting promos. Alive and well: www.instagram.com/reel/DPjkor7...

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 4h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Raffle Victor Solis ❌👑 @tacomentarian.bsky.social · 5h

Good read about Miller's strategy to push propaganda until the middle of America sleepwalks into accepting an autocracy:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 5h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

A quick walkthrough of the latest right-wing effort to downplay Jan. 6 and play up purported "weaponization" by the Biden administration.

Dethawing ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

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gregorg @greg.org · 5h

i was just going to hate it quietly until i saw this

Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 5h

omg

gretelny.com/philadelphia...

From the branding company's description of the project: "Along the way, the museum’s name shifted to what much of the city had already called it: Philadelphia Art Museum. It’s simple, casual and approachable. In short: PhAM."

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 5h

omg

gretelny.com/philadelphia...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

It will be bad for the townsfolk if the data mining billionaires are allowed to control the mountain and the water tower.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 5h

Chucky has sauces inside Paramount Skydance, which is not at all surprising.

Anyhow, they're looking to get PE involved in the WBD bid.

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance talking to Apollo, buyout firms to join possible $60B Warner Bros. Discovery bid: sources

“These companies bring a lot to the table since they own stakes in Hollywood properties and have a lot of money,” said one source.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 6h

the new brand ambassador

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 6h

"You can sense complacency now in the debate over extending Trump’s budget authority, which somehow doesn’t touch on his establishment of a secret police force, his deployment of armed service members into U.S. cities, or his selective prosecutions."

Paul Ferguson @fergdawg.bsky.social · 7h

"The point isn’t that we’re headed irreversibly toward totalitarianism, but that we should at this point be on guard against complacency, exploiting all legitimate means to change our course."

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The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

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gregorg @greg.org · 6h

saw this on tumblr this morning and couldn't stop wondering what the world might be like if instead of Angelus Novus, Walter Benjamin had gotten inspo from a different Paul Klee drawing greg.org/archive/2025...

paul klee drew this dancing figure with its leg raised and arms contorted over its head in a single spare, continous line, except the line changes from brown to red ink. it's called dance of horror, the german term for danse macabre, though it looks more voluminous than a skeleton would. Tanzt Entsetzen, Dance Macabre, is in the collection of the MFA Boston

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 8h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 12d

How will SCOTUS justify none of this applying to the next president? Easily: it never justified why it applied to Trump. No written opinions, no precedent to contradict.

It's an even cleaner perversion of the law for its special boy than "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances."

Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to see how they Justify none of this applying to the next president

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.

Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 7h

Change is coming.

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: Justin Pearson of the "Tennessee 3" is challenging Rep. Steve Cohen.

There's an age dynamic: Cohen is 76, Pearson is 30.

And an ideological one: Cohen left CPC last year + is pro-Israel. Pearson says war in Gaza is a "genocide."

@axios.com www.axios.com/2025/10/08/j...

"Tennessee Three" member Justin Pearson runs to oust Rep. Steve Cohen

Pearson is one of the most high-profile primary challengers to an older House Democrat.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

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