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Nate James
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Washed Michigan State Alum, Puff Cannabis, RIP sis

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powervertical.bsky.social
This is well worth reading
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Ukraine Is Now An Arms Superpower
The country has made itself too important to abandon.
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May 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA

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The ruling also rests on a methodological error that would earn a failing grade in a graduate statistics course. The court treats race and party as competing explanations, as if controlling for one neutralizes the other. But for millions of American voters, race explains party affiliation. The vast majority of Black Americans did not randomly sort into the Democratic Party. Already trending blue since the New Deal, they were pushed fully into the Democratic Party by Barry Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act and Republicans' Southern Strategy over the decades since. To "control for partisanship" when assessing racial gerrymandering is to erase the very mechanism through which racism travels. Consider the analogy of a court ruling that a company didn't discriminate by gender in pay because, once you control for being a manager or executive-positions from which women were systematically excluded — the gap disappears. Or that if you exclude people with high blood pressure, then a high sodium diet appears to have no effect on your risk of stroke.
May 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
infowars has been online for 27 years pushing right wing conspiracy bullshit

now its gone
May 1, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
My statement on the end of the old InfoWars, and the imminent beginning of a much better one.
“Good riddance to the world’s worst rubbish,” The Onion’s CEO, Ben Collins, wrote in a text to MS NOW. “The second this man is disallowed from abusing these courts, from paying out the $1.4 billion he owes to these families, we are ready to take over with something that will make you forget about what was ever there before. We have a deal with both the Sandy Hook families and the court-appointed receiver, and we look forward to taking over this hellhole imminently.” “War is over, if you want it,” Collins said, quoting Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
May 1, 2026 at 4:04 PM
puffnate.bsky.social
I have to use premium but i paid $6.10/gal today
May 1, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
LBJ on signing the Voting Rights Act into law in August 1965: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield."
President Johnson signed into law yesterday the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and immediately announced steps for its quick and vigorous enforcement. The signing took place in the President's Room of the Capital, just off the Senate Chamber. There, 104 years ago yesterday, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill freeing slaves impressed into the service of the Confederacy. In his speech, was was broadcast nationally, the President compressed into three sentences the history, the meaning and the hope of the occasion. He said: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield. Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds."
May 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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smadseli.northsky.social
My polite and effective way of saying this is this screenshot and a heavy handed but gentle stare at…quite a few of you.
post from tumblr: I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you're getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you're spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first Time Machine
April 26, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Last weekend's big bombshell didn't fall on Iran, but at the U.S. Supreme Court. A stunning leak both exposed the corporate hypocrisy of John Roberts and revealed 9 justices in open warfare

They are sending us a 'bat signal.' Democracy is in danger

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
New Civil War just dropped...at the Supreme Court | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, can Big AI buy off the Democratic Party?
www.inquirer.com
April 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
ariberman.bsky.social Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · Apr 22
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
April 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
April 19, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 18
TRUMP: *signs his name* Oh, that's a good one. Look at that, Joe. Do you think Biden can do that?
April 18, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich

Well, today we're taxing the rich...
April 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist.

100 days in — and we’re just getting started.
April 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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boxelderdust.bsky.social
If I were to state my honest opinion here I would have federal agents knocking on my door by the end of the day
April 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I'm sorry, what
ninazeelen.bsky.social Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · Apr 11
Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews
April 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
The press trying so hard to sell a product few people want he might as well change his name again to A.I. Vance.
owillis.bsky.social Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Apr 11
JD Vance PR team really getting their moneys worth from American papers. Blatant propaganda.
Vance, who wasn’t keen on Iran war, now tasked with trying to end it
The weekend’s peace talks in Islamabad mark Vance’s highest-profile assignment as vice president, with concomitant political risk.
Today at 5:00 a.m. ET How Vance Became the Point Man to End a War He Didn’t Want The anti-interventionist vice president is now inextricably linked to the outcome of the war with Iran
April 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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All initial evidence suggested that Pope Leo “was something entirely different from both Francis and Donald Trump: a quiet American, as I called him last summer. That description is now obsolete,” Francis X. Rocca argues: theatln.tc/ARoFjFUY

📸: Manon Cruz / Reuters
April 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
the year is 2026. you're a jewish american woman. the world leader you most respect is the catholic pope. everything's fine.
April 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
April 10, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Gasoline prices rose 21% in March from the prior month. That was the single largest monthly increase in gasoline prices since the series began in 1967
April 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
when even the fox news propaganda machine is having issues like this, its panic time
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 10
asked on Fox Business about grim inflation numbers, Kevin Hassett quickly pivots to egg prices. Varney says "that was a bit of a filibuster."
April 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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chadloder.dev
'All you had to do was pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory': video shows employee setting fire to Kimberly Clark warehouse in Southern California, destroying it completely
April 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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artcandee.bsky.social
Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez:

“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”

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April 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
Trump's insider opened a $52M oil short position right before the US-Iran peace deal announcement, making $174 million in just 3 hours.

It's pure graft! Corruption! It's all one giant insider stock futures trading scheme. They all need prison.
April 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM