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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 4h

lol man you're not supposed to just say that

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h

*10/8/2025 noncooperation thread*

More Dem electeds telling the simple truth, pls! The most important thing comes at the end of Murphy's thread, though:

"It's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully & forcefully mobilize now. We have the power."

We sure do 💪

Here's one way to mobilize:

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6h

If you are Sam Alito, every case is a chance to uncork some demented pro-Trump conspiracy theories about mail-in voting

Sam Alito Is Just Asking Questions About Mail-In Voting

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the Republican challenging the law some free advice.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Dizzying how some of the biggest doofuses who skulked around the most feverish, fetid corners of the internet now whisper in the ears of the people who run the government.

Ten years ago, Posobiec was an Infowars clown who was throwing out 1488s and parenthesizing Jews on Twitter.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 4h

Rockwell Kent, "Moonlight in the Adirondacks", 1960, Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

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Samuel Durso @samueldurso.bsky.social · 12h

Billionaires are failing us.

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Samuel Durso @samueldurso.bsky.social · 12h

Now ask J.B. Pritzker if there's anything else they can take a stand on.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

Congressional Democrats Find That Taking a Stand is Popular

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 13h

Fun fact: Cicero IL is where Dr. King's Chicago Freedom Movement was met with white protest in 1966. Now it's 89 percent Latino. The arc of the moral universe bends, that's for sure.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

And we've already seen the transformative impacts of eliminating the fare when we won and implemented a historic fare free bus pilot on one line in each borough.

Ridership went up. Assaults on operators went down. And people saved money.

A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot

Albany must embrace transformational change to bring NYC transit back on track and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow.

www.thenation.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

How do we speed buses up? There are plenty of tools already in the city's toolbox.

Just look at the 14th St busway.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 14h

lol

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 14h

O'Neal is pushing "The Post into video podcasting, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to launch a show hosted by Megan McArdle next month and a flagship program in January. The marquee show, I’m told, will be helmed by O’Neal himself."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 13h

Resident assistants and peer mentors at Temple University have voted to unionize, joining a wave of student-worker organizing on local college and university campuses.

Resident assistants at Temple vote to unionize

Resident assistants and peer mentors asked the university's leadership to recognize their union last year. Now, they've voted to join OPEIU Local 153.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions?

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

www.thenation.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h

I'm about to vote on the SAME Republican budget proposal for the 6th time.

Why?

Instead of working with Democrats to lower health care costs, Republicans are forcing us to vote over and over again on a budget that would let 15 million Americans lose their coverage.

youtube.com/shorts/FoV3B...

I'm about to vote on the SAME Republican budget proposal for the 6th time.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 14h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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PopMatters @handle.invalid · 1d

Certain books make you dream; Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train wakes you up to the blunt fact that you are alive and living in an ever-rollin' mythology. #PMPick

READ: tinyurl.com/GMarcusRollin

Greil Marcus' Mystery Train Keeps on Rollin' » PopMatters

Certain books make you dream; Greil Marcus' Mystery Train wakes you up to the blunt fact that you are alive and living in an ever-rollin' mythology.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 14h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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