Heather Duke
@theroly.bsky.social
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If we just accepted that public opinion was always the thing our leaders should be chasing, things like the civil rights act and suffrage would have never happened. It takes leaders with moral backbone to say THIS IS WRONG and public opinion FOLLOWS THAT.
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If we just accepted that public opinion was always the thing our leaders should be chasing, things like the civil rights act and suffrage would have never happened. It takes leaders with moral backbone to say THIS IS WRONG and public opinion FOLLOWS THAT.
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Brilliant thread, encapsulating everything I hate about our stupid tech bro-worshipping society. These guys have all this $$ and all these resources and they do almost nothing that actually helps people.
literally the only thing these guys are good at is convincing tech-illiterate boomer politicians that their highly specialized tech company with no competitors is absolutely essential to the advancement of the human race, that is their only talent
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Brilliant thread, encapsulating everything I hate about our stupid tech bro-worshipping society. These guys have all this $$ and all these resources and they do almost nothing that actually helps people.
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
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I just remembered when Dick Cheney shot a dude and dude apologized for putting his face in the way
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I just remembered when Dick Cheney shot a dude and dude apologized for putting his face in the way
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📣 NEW: In which I finally put that absurd 2013 WSJ graphic to good use.
2026 #ACA Window Shopping is LIVE in Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New York and Virginia.
Here's how much premiums will ACTUALLY spike for 4 households starting January 1st if they don't shop around.
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2026 #ACA Window Shopping is LIVE in Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New York and Virginia.
Here's how much premiums will ACTUALLY spike for 4 households starting January 1st if they don't shop around.
acasignups.net/25/10/05/whi...
In which I finally put that absurd 2013 WSJ graphic to good use
Twelve years ago, the Wall St. Journal ran a story about the impact of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which was a sweeping tax bill signed into law by President Obama which locked in the Bush tax cuts for lower & middle-class households while allowing them to expire on schedule for wealthier Americans: A compromise measure, the Act gives permanence to the lower rate of much of the Bush tax cuts, while retaining the higher tax rate at upper income levels that became effective on January 1 due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. It also establishes caps on tax deductions and credits for those at upper income levels. It does not tackle federal spending levels to a great extent, rather leaving that for further negotiations and legislation. The American Taxpayer Relief Act passed by a wide majority in the Senate, with both Democrats and Republicans supporting it, while most of the House Republicans opposed it. The WSJ story, titled "How Much Will Your Taxes Jump?," led to widespread derision at the time for wringing its hands over wealthy people having to go back to (gasp) paying a few percent more of their sky-high incomes in taxes.
acasignups.net
October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📣 NEW: In which I finally put that absurd 2013 WSJ graphic to good use.
2026 #ACA Window Shopping is LIVE in Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New York and Virginia.
Here's how much premiums will ACTUALLY spike for 4 households starting January 1st if they don't shop around.
acasignups.net/25/10/05/whi...
2026 #ACA Window Shopping is LIVE in Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New York and Virginia.
Here's how much premiums will ACTUALLY spike for 4 households starting January 1st if they don't shop around.
acasignups.net/25/10/05/whi...
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats.
So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Threatening Vulnerable People Is No Way to Mourn Someone Who Was Murdered
Those who had nothing to do with the violence against Charlie Kirk are being menaced—just like always.
www.thenation.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats.
So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Not having the majority is not some magical get out of jail free card for Democrats to play dead. Their job in opposition is to oppose, not make life easier for the fascists destroying America.
Let's be clear. The Dems do NOT have the majority in either house. Their hands are tied. But ours aren't. When Lewis said Good trouble he meant ppl get out of YOUR comfort zone
Had the Black community did what Americans are doing now, do you think the Civil Rights would have happened?
Had the Black community did what Americans are doing now, do you think the Civil Rights would have happened?
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Not having the majority is not some magical get out of jail free card for Democrats to play dead. Their job in opposition is to oppose, not make life easier for the fascists destroying America.
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Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Friendly Nazis Next Door
Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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I wrote about how Democratic leaders Jeffries and Schumer are MIA while Republicans openly wage war on more than half the nation. open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...
If You Bump Into Chuck Schumer Or Hakeem Jeffries, Could You Mention That MAGA’s Declared War On Us?
Napping towards Bethlehem
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I wrote about how Democratic leaders Jeffries and Schumer are MIA while Republicans openly wage war on more than half the nation. open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
September 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
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This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters.
The latter understand what's going on.
The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
The latter understand what's going on.
The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD
It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this.
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September 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
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"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com
Alert the media: The White House is lying about Trump's health
Their explanations are absurd and it's time to start asking questions.
www.publicnotice.co
August 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”
Thoughts and prayers won’t stop gunmen with assault weapons or keep our kids safe. Banning assault weapons will.
Thoughts and prayers won’t stop gunmen with assault weapons or keep our kids safe. Banning assault weapons will.
August 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”
Thoughts and prayers won’t stop gunmen with assault weapons or keep our kids safe. Banning assault weapons will.
Thoughts and prayers won’t stop gunmen with assault weapons or keep our kids safe. Banning assault weapons will.
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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being fussy and precious about fairness, bending over backwards to *perform* virtuousness, all while MAGA rips the Constitution to shreds, is not defending American democracy. it's conspiring with Republicans to destroy it
July 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
being fussy and precious about fairness, bending over backwards to *perform* virtuousness, all while MAGA rips the Constitution to shreds, is not defending American democracy. it's conspiring with Republicans to destroy it
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I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.
July 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.