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@newsjennifer.bsky.social

This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."

people.com/ballerina-fa...

Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report

Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...

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February 3, 2026 at 10:42 PM

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Peter

@notalawyer.bsky.social

centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.

January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM

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AXEL LYCAN

@axellycan.bsky.social

This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18d

New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened.

www.salon.com/2026/01/19/s...

Some Trump voters are sneaking away

They'll never admit they're wrong, but polling reveals quiet GOP regret

www.salon.com

January 20, 2026 at 8:31 PM

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Jacob Peterson

@jacobpeterson.bsky.social

The consistent pattern of Republicans feeling no obligation to tell the truth and Democrats feeling even less obligation to call out that the former is lying has truly doomed us in ways that are hard to quantify.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18d

So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.

And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.

January 19, 2026 at 5:15 PM

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Adam Bonica

@adambonica.bsky.social

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM

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ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real.

Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking.

But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission.

It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.

January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM

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Charlotte Clymer

@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban.

“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”

Full remarks:

January 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM

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Ken Jennings

@kenjennings.bsky.social

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM

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Andrew Lawrence

@ndrew.bsky.social

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29d

"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.

The basic sequence of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday is not in dispute: A Honda Pilot reversed, then moved forward; an ICE agent was close to the vehicle; the agent fired shots. A 37-year-old woman was killed.

But that sequence has been interpreted in radically different ways. Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him? Was he positioned in front of the vehicle or to the side? Did he have a genuine, reasonable fear for his life in that moment, or did he create the very danger he then used lethal force to escape?

January 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

you don’t hold these people in enough contempt, imo

January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 29d

A constituent was just murdered you dingus

January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM

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Adam Serwer

@adamserwer.bsky.social

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM