Steve

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

I think one of the more important skills you can have in 2026 is knowing when someone is performatively using progressive coded language to argue for something that is fundementally not progressive because they can claim a perceived moral high ground.

dame@dame.is

my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

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Brendan Nyhan

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

@marbleliberal.bsky.social

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Wallenstein Appreciator

the beggars out of here getter

Jews and gays stand and fall together because the original Nazism was a hysterical overreaction to the emancipation of both

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger@avishaiw.bsky.social

God, that Cenk Uygur ad for Abdul El-Sayed about how his opponent is for “they/them” (meaning Israel) (sorry I mean (((Israel))) ) is so gross in so many ways, both scarily antisemitic and transphobic, and I’m judging everyone involved

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@milesklee.bsky.social

@lethalityjane.bsky.social

one of several things making me crazy about the latest report on the president being a rapist is that the response more or less comes down to "we knew that already"

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Snowden St.

@snowden.st

14h

a kinda interesting thing that The Files have shown is “the limits of corporate media’s control of information.” like, this stuff has been frozen out of the discourse of DC and political elites, and the national legislature and news coverage, but it’s still widely known and cared about.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

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ex-Lethality Jane

14h

This is why it was a good line, because yes there are Americans who think of The Cheesecake Factory as a special occasion restaurant but Trump is not one of them. So thank you very much Donald for taking the bait.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

15h

Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

15h

have they ever fucked up in the opposite direction, quoting some guy they say is a rando but is actually a dem operative? why is it always republicans?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

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Julian Sanchez

@normative.bsky.social

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟

@nied.bsky.social

bit.lyHow Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American FascismI’m angry at MAGA leaders every day for the lies and manipulation and wreckage they’ve wrought on the very people who voted for them—not to mention the rest of us. I’m angry when I see faith manipu…

Literally doing this post unironically.

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social

Why the road to American fascism was paved by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟

@nied.bsky.social

We don't talk enough about how the Roberts Court slow-walked multiple executive privilege cases that were crucial to building the J6 case against Trump.

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River_Tam

@rivertam.bsky.social

Secret third thing (American angry about having to hear about British politics)

Mike Goodman@themlg.bsky.social

Even money whether the sane Brits are angrier about always having to hear about American politics or the sane Americans are angrier about having to hear insane Brits opining on American politics with negative amounts of knowledge.

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Don Zeko

@donzeko.bsky.social

@hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social

Our political system hasn't decided that Donald Trump isn't a rapist. it has decided that it's ok that he's a rapist.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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HudsonRiverCroc

@abeardedpanda.bsky.social

Well. There’s that Republican guy in PA who invited people to vote using his address. There is also the president.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Sam (ABeardedPanda)

readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

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Vaquera Elisa

@boxelderdust.bsky.social

@quincunctial.bsky.social

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

Waldo@waldo42.bsky.social

Something happened in the 70's that crystallized politics (and many other topics) into a new set of assumptions and priors. It gave rise to Reaganism and completely crushed New Deal Socialism; Dems that eventually reemerged were and still are centrists scared of their own shadows.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱

“Brother Musk is a generous man”

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

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Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social

18h

After several years of calling anyone they dislike a pedophile or a groomer, the GOP has discovered that it can be done to them too, and the chairman of the Ohio Republican party is not happy about it

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rimidar

@rimidar.au

Replying to @mikesenters.bsky.social

I was kinda pondering this the other day, there’s really quite something about how all the Soros stuff was astroturfed to provide a permission structure for creating their own international patronage networks that could be considered a form of globalism

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Will Stancil

@whstancil.bsky.social

As far as I can tell, Minnesota’s system for choking ICE out of our communities was pioneered in Chicago, massively expanded and refined here, and is now being deployed nationwide

Michael Anderson@michaelander45.bsky.social

Will is right here, but we Chicagoans did our part too. Operation Midway Blitz was also a callosal failure.

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

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Toby Buckle

@polphilpod.bsky.social

erininthemorning.comDon’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans DemocratsThe Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.

i think "vote dem across the board, but for the 4 very worst dems on trans rights you can leave them blank" is a reasonable position (& a reasonable compromise between vbnmw & fears about dems going full uk labour)

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

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Will Stancil

@whstancil.bsky.social