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🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 17m

Yikes, that is brutal.

🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 19m

As a Texan, you have my deepest sympathy. I hope Sherrill can magically squeak out the win so y’all don’t have to have abysmal leadership like we have.

C’mon, New Jersey, you can do better than Texas, right?!?

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 1h

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 48m

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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One Who Walks Among the Dead @anubisthejackal.bsky.social · 1h

And when questioned on it, just pull a Republican:

"Look, I don't know, I understand there are videos and people are asking questions, lots of questions, and I think the American people demand answers."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Jenn M-S @jlms-qkw.bsky.social · 9h

Are you registered to vote? At your current address? And when is your next election?

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21h

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 1d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

I’m starting to think they might not have been serious about wanting to stop fentanyl smuggling and child sex trafficking

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 3h

*list. stupid typo.

🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 3h

This is so depressing. Every day we find out more and more of the celebrities we respect/support are scum deep down.

🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 3h

God fucking dammit. This is the lost of fucking losers who are performing at the Riyadh music festival and Idris Elba is one of them. What the actual fuck is wrong with these people?

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Soundstorm 2025 Lineup | MDLBEAST

Explore music in the Middle East from the region's music platform. Uncover Soundstorm festival - the loudest music festival in Riyadh, XP Music Futures & more.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13h

But his DMs

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 14h

Why is the President of the United States trying to communicate with the Attorney General about government business via direct messages on the social media site he owns?

And is a direct message on a privately owned social media site kind of like a private email server?

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 14h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4h

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.