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nicolefoy.bsky.social
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...
January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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nbedera.bsky.social
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.

@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
January 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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wired.com
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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tcraggs22.bsky.social
MTG on the Epstein scandal—"elites doing horrible things and getting away with it"—may have an egalitarian air about it, but only if you fail to read it alongside the rest of her conspiracism. She's talking about the Jews. She's always talking about the Jews. flaminghydra.com/marjorie-tay...
Screengrab of story text that reads: "Alternatively, you could choose not to shove your head into your ass. She is talking about the Jews. She has always been talking about the Jews. She was talking about the Jews when she was talking about QAnon. She was talking about the Jews when she was talking about the space lasers. She was talking about the Jews when she was saying outwardly comradely things about Gaza. She was talking about the Jews when she was saying plainly uncomradely things about trans people. She was talking about the Jews when she was talking about COVID and Fauci and vaccines and the lab leak. And even when she was complaining about college kids from China using their student visas to get a leg up on Americans, which is to say that even when she was talking about gentiles, she was more or less talking about the Jews." Screengrab of story text that reads: "Conspiracy thinking like this, centering as it does on infiltration by certain alien concerns and their secret rule over society, is at least structurally antisemitic when not manifestly, cartoonishly so. In Greene’s thoroughgoingly racialist way of seeing the world, there is always a figure in back of things, some agent of modernity’s corrupt design, a human form in whom recondite truths about the workings of elite control are said to reside—'the Jew.' (The precise form may change, of course. That might even be happening now, what with the Chinese century aborning. For the next MTG, and maybe for this one, suspicions of capital will likewise be fitted to the form of an equally furtive, globally integrated East Asian.)"
January 7, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR
Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.
<Later>
Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.
June 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com

cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
A satirical website for HiltonICE.com: "Experience Compliance at Its Finest." About Us Our Story Hilton ICE is a premium hospitality experience built on discretion, compliance, and selective compassion. Located wherever federal enforcement requires dependable accommodations, we deliver polished rooms, streamlined coordination, and an operating environment free from unnecessary complications. ​ Our properties provide the full range of services expected of a global hospitality brand, including thoughtfully designed accommodations, attentive service, and a formal commitment to cooperation. By aligning comfort with authority, we support continuity of operations and ensure expectations are met without interruption. ​ At Hilton ICE, hospitality is not a reflection of values. It is an operational standard. Unauthorized Use of Hilton Trademark To the Owner and Operator of the Website https://www.hiltonice.com/, Please be advised that the use of the Hilton name, including its incorporation within your domain name and its use in connection with a hotel-branded website, constitutes unauthorized use of a protected trademark and raises significant legal concerns. Thank you for your note. The use of the Hilton name on HiltonICE.com is intentional and expressive. The website is a work of political commentary and parody addressing Hilton's publicly reported cooperation with ICE, presented in the visual language of a hotel brand to critique that decision. No affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by Hilton is claimed or implied. The site does not offer lodging, accept reservations, or engage in commercial activity, and is protected as expressive speech. The purpose is commentary, not confusion. That said, I appreciate you reaching out and will review your concerns with counsel (a Ouija board and the ghost of the First Amendment). Dog Bless, Tobes
January 7, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."

Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.

www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
www.the-reframe.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?" Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸" Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City." Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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leyawn.bsky.social
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.

When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.

This is outrageous.
December 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
yabosmcgee.bsky.social
Uhhh....
acarsdrama.bsky.social ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 24d
Air to Ground Message:

SO WE LOST 1000LBS SOMEWHERE

Area: Lansing, IL, USA
A: #a4a56d2ed04
F: #fbe0aa348ac

#acars #vdlm2
December 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2)

""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."
sweet-faced tabby cat sitting at a table with front paws on the edge of the table.
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
My 11-year-old: [reading the Miners' Ten Commandments at the Gold Discovery Museum] What's this mean?

Me: It's telling the miners--you won't get to rest on Sundays, because you'll have to do the work you'd rely on women to do back home.

My husband: You find gender everywhere.

Me: Because it is!
Commandment IV Thou shalt not remember what thy friends do at home on the Sabbath day, lest the remembrance may not compare favorably with what thou doest here.- Six days thou mayest dig or pick all that thy body can stand under ; but the other day is Sunday; yet thou washest all thy dirty shirts, darnest all thy stockings lap thy boots, mend thy clothing chop thy whole week's firewood, make up and bake thy bread. and boil thy pork and beans, that thou wait not when thou re- turnest from thy long-tom weary. For in six days' labor only thou canst not work enough to wear out thy body in two years: but if thou workest hard on Sunday also, thou canst do it in six months ; and thou, and thy son, and thy Daughter, thy male friend and thy female friend, thy morals and thy conscience be none the better for it ; but reproach thee, shouldst thou eve: return with thy worn-out body to thy mother's fireside; The Miners' Ten Commandments, posted at the Gold Discovery Museum in California
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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arif.bsky.social
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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holybible.bsky.social
When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.

It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM