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American Taliban
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October 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Way to go!
hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · Sep 25
Listen Russ, you are a malignant political hack.

We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings.

Get lost.
September 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Agreed!
smadin.net Scott @smadin.net · Sep 19
god dammit @whipkclark.bsky.social what the hell do you think you're doing, this is disgraceful
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Sep 19
Everything wrong with the Democratic Party in a nutshell.

95 House Democrats (including Jeffries!) just voted to honor the life & legacy of Charlie Kirk.

Only 58 voted no.

38 voted present.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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mobute.bsky.social
this is like if a far side cartoon grew up to be a real boy
vladimir putin, in profile against a blue background, smirking a little. he's shaking hands with donald trump, who's facing the camera, slouching, hunched a little, looking to his side with his mouth sort of screwed ruefully into one corner. he's the damp, fallen, swollen-faced expression of someone you'd assume was shitfaced
August 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Showing up Mass!
berkie1.bsky.social Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · Jun 14
A rapidly growing and high energy No Kings Day protest here in Salem.
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June 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
No Kings Melrose Mass
June 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
The plan is to break the parks, claim they must be privatized, take them from the American people and give them to their friends.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 3
Update: the Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Park System by $900 million, about one third of its budget.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 1
Please read/share if you love your national parks!
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.

They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...
May 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Great explanation!
normative.bsky.social Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Apr 2
One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.
davidheniguk.bsky.social David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · Apr 2
Well, the US will have to decide whether it wants allies or believes it can go alone while insulting every other country. Because if it is the latter, buying US military equipment would be daft. www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
April 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Republicans are the law as a cudgel and a shield; if they can't use it that way, it's corrupt
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Apr 2
Republicans have controlled the Supreme Court since before I’ve was born and conservatives have generally dominated the judiciary since Reagan, yet the “liberal” legal academy has been corrupting the judiciary the entire time? Delusional stuff.

They’re just mad that law exists at all.
April 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Meaningful thoughts on why we're there and the drive behind their sacrifice
markhertling.bsky.social Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · Apr 2
Four young soldiers were recovered after days of searching underwater & in the mud for them. This is why they were there…my homage in @BulwarkOnline to the “wrenches” and our allies. Be thou at peace www.thebulwark.com/p/why-we-tra...
Why We Train With Allies—Even When It’s Dangerous
When our soldiers were in trouble, our friends showed up and didn’t leave.
www.thebulwark.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Ann important thread
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · Mar 31
I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.

The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
March 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
This is a legit point I think about at least once a day now.
veronicahanson.com Veronica Hanson @veronicahanson.com · Mar 14
I don’t want a government where I need to track every single vote by every single lawmaker. This is madness. We elect these people to do a job so we can go about our lives. Instead, we are all becoming experts on all the shit we pay them to become experts on. 🤦🏻‍♀️😫
March 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Awesome!
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · Feb 21
This is the way
February 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It's time for Democrats to stop bailing out Republican craziness!
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are not tiptoeing toward autocracy
Democrats need to do more than put up speed bumps.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Yeah, way to go
paulwaldman.bsky.social Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Jan 28
Congrats to the Teamsters and their president Sean O'Brien, who spoke at the Republican convention and helped Donald Trump get elected so he could gut the National Labor Relations Board and make sure corporations can bust unions and violate labor laws with impunity, good job fellas
January 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You're welcome. From: MA
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In Praise of California
It has its flaws — what place doesn’t? — but it plays a big role in America’s greatness
open.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Me too
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jan 8
And reader, I did!
January 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Some goals for '25
www.fastcompany.com/90287193/25-...
25 simple resolutions you can make to improve your city in 2019
What if we picked New Year's resolutions that improved our individual and family lives, while also improving our cities and communities?
www.fastcompany.com
January 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Way to do it!
December 20, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
From one of my book interview subjects: "If you want to live, you have to be able to fight these battles. You have to have a level of literacy that is master’s degree or higher in public health or a legal background in order to navigate this. You have to get creative and look for back doors."
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Dec 12
If you, or a family member, are seriously ill, you are stressed and exhausted. This is the point where America, unlike most other countries asks you to also be your own health care administrator. People intuitively regard this as unfair and enraging.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
Tufekci: Dealing with health insurance companies when you are vulnerable — facing illness, pain and loss — and knowing that such a company is profiting off you is a visceral, enraging experience. Some people want to be rescued, even by an outlaw. A recent Senate report says UnitedHealthcare more than doubled the rate of denials for post-acute care for the elderly as it pressured the company’s human reviewers to strictly hew to the algorithmic recommendation system that it had introduced. The sense that a cold, calculating, profit-making automaton can come at a person when they feel the most fragile, and without accountability and recourse, is the type of environment that can find people cheering on vigilantes. Goldberg: Whenever I’ve had a health scare, or am waiting for the results of routine tests like mammograms, I tend to be as panicked about all the potential paperwork as about, you know, dying. And the thing is, these companies are purely extractive. Relative to a single-payer system, they create no value whatsoever.
December 12, 2024 at 4:13 PM
It always comes back to that
December 1, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Wow! I didn't know that but of German history
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Nov 17
I would like to speak up today for the trans community.

You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
November 18, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Can't believe what life was like before
mikeljollett.bsky.social Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · Nov 17
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:

Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47

Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429

Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3

Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2

Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0

Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 7:40 PM