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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23h

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 23h

JESUS CHRIST DUDE

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23h

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

a bar chart depicting a huge bar Wealth of the Top 1% "$47.80 trillion" dwarfing bars for the Federal deficit ($1.83 trillion), tax revenue ($4.92 trillion) and Government spending ($6.75 trillion)"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.

The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and
edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our
YouTube channel.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22h

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

Financial Times headline says “critics accuse” Trump of extrajudicial killings

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 22h

the degree to which people nominally affiliated with the democratic party have decided that embracing misogyny is Good Politics probably shouldn't have surprised me, but it still has

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 22h

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 1d

Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22h

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 22h

Relatedly, I think we underrate the extent to which Trump is a fully normal politician to young people. There's an abstract awareness that he represents a break from the past, but they don't personally remember it. This year's college freshmen were born in 2006-2007.

Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:

1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad

Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22h

It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

I’m very happy, and proud of my fellow Americans, at how many (though not enough) are reacting to ICE abuses. I’m also scared for them, because I think this escalates to more government (and government-supporter) violence, to a tipping point.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 23h

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Any Reagan Foundation staff, and any lawyers who help them, should be named and humiliated into the Stone Age, made socially and legally radioactive, if they try any bullshit.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.

The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21h

Remember: Vance knows this. Because he could just ASK HIS FUCKING IN-LAWS. But he doesn’t think they’re people.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 22h

In the aftermath of 9/11 it was dangerous to be brown in public. People were assaulted, shot and even killed for being or looking like Muslims/Arabs in the eyes of chuds around the country. This included Sikhs as in the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

This is the third death that I'm aware of this year where a person died trying to flee from ICE.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

A man fleeing ICE agents ran out onto a busy highway and was struck and killed in Virginia, authorities say.

Man was fatally hit by vehicle while fleeing ICE on Virginia highway, officials say

A preliminary investigation indicated that the man was fleeing a pursuit by ICE when he left his car and attempted to cross the interstate, Virginia State Police said.

nbcnews.to

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 21h

Resistance is possible, and it’s happening right now.

How Chicago’s MMA gyms, cyclists and pet shelters are uniting to resist ICE

Teachers, clergy and MMA students are finding ways to counter immigration authorities’ attempts to detain undocumented neighbors.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 21h

bulldozed by trump now.

designed by trump megadonor timothy mellon's stepmother.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_...

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 21h

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

www.kuow.org

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h

The evidence of Andrew Cuomo's Islamophobia is substantially greater than the evidence of Zohran Mamdani's antisemitism, and the former deserves far more media coverage than it is getting.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21h

the slop presidency has me tilted

nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 22h

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21h

when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...

Tripitaka Koreana - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

Pro-Israel talking points are basically contingent upon you never reading about anything that has ever happened. It is not like we revolted against the British in 1936, or were immediately suppressed politically by the Jordanians from 48 to 67 or engaged in civil war in 71, or fought Egypt in Gaza.

If the West Bank was occupied by Turkey or Jordan do you think that the Palestinians would have done the Second Intifada and launched hundreds of suicide bombings against Turkey and Jordan.
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The idea that Palestinians hate Jews is one of the most nefarious lies ever told.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without

“President Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,” one governor said, “and our communities are the ones who will pay the price.”

www.msnbc.com

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