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Liz
@gingerlizard.bsky.social
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Strategic communication grad student. Tolkien/Dragon Age fan. Jersey for life.
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colleenodea.bsky.social
If you live in one of 46 towns in Essex, Morris & Passaic in NJ CD11, you've got another 24 hours to register to vote in the upcoming special primary to fill the seat of Gov.-elect @MikieSherrill. Deadline Jan 15. Find more info from @njspotlightnews.org www.njspotlightnews.org/nj-decides-2...
NJ Decides 2026 - NJ Spotlight News
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January 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
January 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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drjoehanson.bsky.social
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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cjciaramella.bsky.social
Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke
Tweet from Jack Posebiec, above a picture of the tanker bug from Starship Troopers (1997): "From this angle it is clear the Tanker Bug had just dropped her larva off at school and panicked when Rico threatened her"
January 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
gingerlizard.bsky.social
Fascinating to see the share of indies tick steadily upward from 30% (Silent Gen) to this
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 4d
Party Identification Among Gen Z:

Independent: 56%
Democrat: 27%
Republican: 17%

Gallup / Dec 2025
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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jnatc.im
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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darinself.com
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 24
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:

"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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theodramatist.com
Really feels like just telling military to draw up plans to invade an ally should be an impeachable offense regardless of party
January 11, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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meredithshiner.com
I’m begging Democratic leaders to understand that outlining and forcefully articulating their vision for accountability now is an electoral strategy.
murshedz.bsky.social Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7d
"The Democrats’ plan: TBD. There has been a lot of rhetoric, but ... the caucus is largely shying away from using its leverage in the appropriations process and threatening another government shutdown."

“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time" - Hakeem Jeffries
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
gingerlizard.bsky.social
Really disturbing how “Western Hemisphere” has crept into Republican rhetoric over the past couple weeks
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Trump: "The departure of Maduro makes possible an incredible future for both nations, Venezuela and the United States. We will more closely integrate the economies of two major energy powers in the Western Hemisphere."
January 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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josie.zone
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:

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First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind, In fact, kindness radiated out of her. Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn't wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine, Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it Where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole. Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles, What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy: And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever. We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns. Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way. We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee's legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love. E
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
I love passing this bridge and realizing that if a whole city can be this petty, I am not holding onto too many grudges.
Bridge reading TRENTON MAKES, THE WORLD TAKES.
January 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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mikehixenbaugh.com
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
gingerlizard.bsky.social
He still controls the nuclear football! Sleep well tonight!
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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rickstengel.bsky.social
1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination.
2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan.
3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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artologica.net
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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tommysiegel.bsky.social
some christmas New Yorker rejects, for you.
December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
One of my roomies in Philly was an old school Piney and he once said "Living in the Pine Barrens is like, 'meet me at the haunted abandoned plane fuselage. No, not that one the other haunted abandoned plane fuselage'
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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liamjscott.bsky.social
Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.
slack2thefuture.bsky.social David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 28d
Until the mid-1970’s, a man could not be convicted of rape in New York State based solely on the testimony of the woman he raped. A second witness was required because the female rape victim was deemed unreliable.

Feminism has not failed women.
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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amanbatheja.bsky.social
Holy crap chart from Gallup
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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annecaprara.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
craigcalcaterra.bsky.social Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Dec 17
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
gingerlizard.bsky.social
Makes me weep for both my country and the rules of grammar
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Dec 17
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM