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@markstahl.bsky.social
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FAANG software engineer, book lover, occasional singer. Know enough science to recognize conspiracy. Mostly here for bleeding edge political news. Repost more than I write.
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simplyskye.bsky.social
JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
Governor JB Pritzker joins the demonstrators during the second "No Kings" protest
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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purplesaxifrage.bsky.social
So, this happened😱 no one is talking about it.
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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steadystatevets.bsky.social
This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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chriscjackson.bsky.social
This entire weekend
in the pit
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.

We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
This is a real headline on the New York Times website.

Support independent media.
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The incompetence of this administration is staggering.
Picture of New York times headline that reads "U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows" Sub headline reads: "The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control."
December 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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cbsnews.com
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
cbsn.ws
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The Washington Post, everyone
=Q The Washington post Business Economy Economic Policy Media Personal Fina Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do Though Americans might be clamoring for relief on groceries, housing and energy costs, economists say there's a bigger downside to falling prices. November 30, 2025
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Too soon?
nytpitchbot.bsky.social NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d
How many of the liberals complaining about today's mass shooting even know that the A in AR-15 stands for?
December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
How many of the liberals complaining about today's mass shooting even know that the A in AR-15 stands for?
December 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
There you have it—the looming GOP health nightmare—in one clear, unadorned paragraph.

🎁 🔗

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The GOP plan for health savings accounts could help with out-of-pocket costs for people with eligible insurance plans, but it doesn't address the fundamental problem for individuals who are unable to afford insurance. It is also unlikely to be adequate for many insured people who need expensive care. Insurance plans that are paired with HSAs can be very skinny, with high deductibles, which could force some enrollees to pay more than $10,000 next year before coverage kicks in. That cost would far surpass the up to $1,500 the Republican bill would put into accounts to cover out-of-pocket expenses.
December 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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enrich12.bsky.social
Karoline Leavitt lacks empathy. She's evil.
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social
White House argues ASL interpretation at press briefings would "intrude on the President's prerogative to control his image." Translation: deaf Americans don't deserve equal access because accommodating disabilities damages Trump's brand. This isn't policy it's eugenics with a PR team.
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
There's ample evidence that Trump/Miller saw Abrego Garcia as a test for the broader MAGA project. Miller hopes to carve out power for Trump to remove people with zero legal constraints. JD Vance's dishonesty has been reprehensible. It all now looks even worse. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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gilmanhernandez.bsky.social
To go all Rhetoric Professor here, this is basically Adoxography, elegant writing for a base subject, in the tradition of Gorgias's Defense of Helen. The real problem with Azizi's take is that it has no stakes: he "wins" if he makes people mad, which is basically the easiest thing in the world.
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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alexbrangwin.bsky.social
Honestly, the majority of americans get it, there are just some bad faith accounts all over socials trying to get people fighting by calling "correctly identifying wrongdoing" as "merely a difference of opinion".
They're all automated.
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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us.theguardian.com
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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scruffyr.bsky.social
Every last ICE/J6er Agent needs to be charged, convicted then deported. They do not belong in America, they're the threat. I'm glad he spoke out. Nobody deserves that except the entire cabinet & they're lying prop spoxes.
www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...
ICE Arrested A U.S. Citizen For 'Looking Like He's Somali,' Minneapolis Mayor Says
Local leaders have increasingly raised concerns about racial profiling as ICE has descended on the Minneapolis area.
www.huffpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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mismatched.bsky.social
if you, like me, saw a couple "25 years since everything went wrong" posts without context and went "oh no i am bad at timelines/history need help"
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM