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My god this story.

27.02.2026 02:24 👍 247 🔁 68 💬 4 📌 2

“We’re seeing the stock market over one Tom Homan bribe.”

15.02.2026 15:45 👍 1352 🔁 187 💬 33 📌 8

going to take the brave public stance of saying that we don’t need a profile on a minor bret easton elllis character

13.02.2026 19:05 👍 1892 🔁 141 💬 82 📌 3

6. I worked in this column while also finishing the final stages of our documentary on the Black Panther Party. It wasn’t hard to imagine COINTELPRO with an algorithm in a post citizens united landscape. Hoover would be vibrating at this kind of power.

03.02.2026 14:01 👍 389 🔁 56 💬 1 📌 5

Great writing as usual! I'm doing some research for my job on data centers and EJ concerns. Did you come across any scholarly articles about that in your research for your option piece?

03.02.2026 18:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

4. I’ve spent some time tracking and attending local populist responses to ai data centers. Despite some critiques from left that it’s all repackaged “nimby bullshit” (as I’ve been told), I have seen organic multiracial coalitions on this issue. Esp. in places with strong environmental racism orgs

03.02.2026 13:58 👍 427 🔁 60 💬 6 📌 8
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Meta drops $65 million into super PACs to boost tech-friendly state candidates The efforts launched last fall to counter what the company cast as a flood of overly burdensome AI bills from state governments.

3. Some of the superpac organization around Ai is just about having too much money to burn.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

03.02.2026 13:58 👍 263 🔁 52 💬 1 📌 1
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Get ready for most expensive Senate race ever Contest to replace retiring US Sen. Thom Tillis in NC is predicted to draw more money than any Senate race in history.

2. You aren’t crazy. Your local and state elections do seem even more supercharged than usual. Speculative finance means donor class has more money to spend while their national voter suppression means there are fewer races to influence.

carolinapublicpress.org/73700/get-re...

03.02.2026 13:58 👍 326 🔁 74 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:

1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI

www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

03.02.2026 13:58 👍 1065 🔁 470 💬 3 📌 30

You just know that the new Kennedy Center in two years is going to be fucking ugly and gilded with gold and who knows what else

01.02.2026 23:52 👍 1040 🔁 81 💬 62 📌 10
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

01.02.2026 21:10 👍 35196 🔁 17390 💬 2299 📌 2245

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

30.01.2026 15:45 👍 3257 🔁 859 💬 6 📌 18

Owned by right wing billionaire fascist supporters and/or welcoming to fascists:

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Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.

28.01.2026 13:44 👍 1290 🔁 479 💬 15 📌 62

Another thing my rep kept emphasizing is that congressional Dems can't do much if they can't get Republicans in board and that we should be calling them too

I'm going to count Fetterman as someone who should also be receiving lots of angry phone calls and correspondence bsky.app/profile/chad...

25.01.2026 00:14 👍 40 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

throwing this here as well

bsky.app/profile/chan...

24.01.2026 23:41 👍 137 🔁 48 💬 1 📌 2
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Tell the Senate: Not a penny more for ICE brutality | Indivisible

Indivisible has a tool here with a call script:

indivisible.org/actions/ice-...

24.01.2026 23:28 👍 177 🔁 89 💬 4 📌 4
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Friday’s 'ICE Out of Minnesota' day is a general strike. Here’s what that means.  • Minnesota Reformer Friday is “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike supported by Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders, Democratic lawmakers and community activists. The “ICE Out” day p...

minnesotareformer.com/briefs/frida...

23.01.2026 13:23 👍 2265 🔁 744 💬 59 📌 32

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

21.01.2026 14:26 👍 23536 🔁 6879 💬 1044 📌 381

I hope Jaboukie is having a fantastic day.

19.01.2026 17:02 👍 48 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
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Simon Rosenberg on Trump’s no good, very bad year "It’s grotesque. He’s become a grotesque figure."

"There comes a point where we have to start questioning whether or not he’s actually aware of what’s happening around him & the harm he’s doing. It’s similar to historical figures like Nero or Caligula. Their madness took over & they started doing wildly destructive things. Trump is in that place."

16.01.2026 14:55 👍 6053 🔁 1894 💬 443 📌 142

"We're the hottest country in the world."

Can you even hear yourself, man? Do you not have any self-respect left at this point?

18.01.2026 14:34 👍 2296 🔁 343 💬 265 📌 32

In 1943!!!

“Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun famously gave his Nobel medal and diploma to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a gesture of admiration for the Nazi regime, following his support for the occupation….”

16.01.2026 18:56 👍 1974 🔁 690 💬 179 📌 37

I can’t trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because of perfection. Because my friends are trans. You can’t be anti-my-friends. That’s not gonna work for me.

17.01.2026 14:58 👍 203 🔁 51 💬 4 📌 0

The Minneapolis AFL-CIO calling for a general strike is a big deal and we should treat it like a big deal.

Also it's a good idea. LFG

minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

17.01.2026 00:44 👍 528 🔁 156 💬 8 📌 5
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Pow Wow Grounds

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.

PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-

Venmo @powwowgrounds

www.powwowgrounds.com

16.01.2026 00:30 👍 1783 🔁 1183 💬 15 📌 60

The part of you that believes non compliance is justification for murder … is addicted to the lies of liars

08.01.2026 18:37 👍 428 🔁 110 💬 3 📌 4

The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.

08.01.2026 18:51 👍 695 🔁 196 💬 16 📌 8

i think this professional liar is one of the most disgraceful people in media

08.01.2026 14:40 👍 8712 🔁 1079 💬 231 📌 34

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

07.01.2026 12:15 👍 3823 🔁 844 💬 71 📌 10

Yes, this is exactly the time to demand Democrats "do something."

They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.

These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.

03.01.2026 21:02 👍 4377 🔁 1131 💬 138 📌 76