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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 13h

The Arizona Young Republicans chairman mentioned in this, Luke Mosiman, was one of the Turning Point affiliates demanding that Phoenix Suns sports writer be fired for not properly mourning Kirk to their liking

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a res publica, not a democracy, say people who support the wealthy demagogue ruling without the senate or popular assembly and suggesting paying the army from private funds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 16h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 15h

A late 1970s article?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

From 2016:

Milo Yiannopoulos: "The Jews run everything…the Jews run the banks…the Jews run the media…this is not in debate. It’s a statistical fact."

Ben Shapiro: "So Milo seems to be making two points here. The first: not all stereotypes are rooted in falsehood (true)."

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 3d

And hair!

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 3d

Just the best.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

The loss of Keaton is a blow to any fan of 1970s cinema. So iconic.

“It made my career,” she said of “Annie Hall.” “It was everything. It’s the reason we’re sitting here having this nice conversation. Everything always goes back to that.”

#RIP

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 3d

Sad to see this. Remembering Annie Hall parking very far from the curb…..

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Diane Keaton — the news of her death sent me looking for this excellent piece about her and her serious interest in photography by her friend Larry McMurty

www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

Diane Keaton on Photography | Larry McMurtry

1. My friendship with Diane Keaton began about twenty-eight years ago, when I found her, one morning, sitting in the flower bed outside the Madison Hotel,

www.nybooks.com

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t dispute any of that. But with the near-death of local journalism, it’s tough even for residents in the same state to hear about nearby local events if those residents are not already mobilized.

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously corporate media’s downplaying of the protests is a problem but it seems wrong to say that’s the only vector by which protests have meaningful impact

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 3d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest story you should read today is that dozens of federal judges are willing to talk about how alarmed they are by SCOTUS’ willingness to step in on an emergency basis and allow the Trump Administration to do things that seem illegal. Their candor is unprecedented.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for posting. This is a lot of optimism from Prof. Rocco (whose article, “Why Democrats Are So Useless,” my students will soon read (maybe)), but I’ll take it.

Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 3d

This podcast episode is a sort of masterclass in how governors can repurpose the tools available to them to contest federal govt encroachment. Perfect example of what Paul Nolette and I are calling "repertoires of federalism", and why they work. A short thread:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

And, This is Trump's Invasion With JB Pritzker & Tina Kotek

Podcast Episode · This is Gavin Newsom · 10/10/2025 · 43m

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 3d

This is America’s default setting. ‘65-2015 was an aberration that we need to crawl back to asap.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

The Gilded Age may have revealed the excesses of an unchecked oligarchy, but at least it left behind centers of learning, culture, and philanthropy. Today’s roster of plutocrats seems uninterested in that. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 4d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 5d

Good thing you can’t die twice because this shit would kill Karl Popper all over again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 5d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d

Trump just threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if governors/judges act *lawfully* within the constitutional system in ways that displease him.

Miller's statements reveal their real position: Trump's power to invent pretexts for emergency actions is limitless.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

Football is a waste of time unlike scolding people on a website

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 8d

This is the single most shocking part of federalism pivot.

It's one thing to switch from pro-states' rights to pro-federal power. That I sort of expect. But to embrace Jade Helm-style military operations against civilian targets in American states still retains the power to shock.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 8d

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 8d

New CBS head Bari Weiss' devotion to reporting on "the world as it actually is" is so great that when confronted with multiple large factual errors in one of her site's articles, she... did nothing to change or correct the article radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

Hughes’s response includes a defensive introduction by Weiss, which takes issue with both my criticism of his column and a separate piece I wrote for the Unpopulist that’s more broadly critical of “heterodox” thinkers — the cadre of academics and pundits Weiss once dubbed the “Intellectual Dark Web.” I don’t think there’s much in Weiss’s introduction that merits a response. The Free Press did not publish any corrections or clarifications to Hughes’s original column, which I think really only confirms my point that their vows to cover “the world as it actually is” and to pierce “ideological narratives” ring fairly hollow. They then published a response from Hughes that, as I’ll show here, is just as problematic as his original column.

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