π PolitiTakes π
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Alabama-based writer. Blue dot in a very red state. No DMβs, please. Married. π He/him
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Itβs been a minute, but my new post on Substack. Have a great evening! π
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Even in Alabama, MAGA is breaking up with Trump
Dixie General Store in Heflin, AL stopped displaying Trump flags as the economy tanks in the Deep South
https://open.substack.com/pub/polititakespress/p/even-in-alabama-maga-is-breaking?r=5b1zyq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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True...
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Wow! Thank you Australia
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Such a horrible mess...
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Rut roh, Raggy! KEGseth and Ka$hy gurrrl are about to exit STAGE LEFT! Delicious!
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REPORT: TRUMP IS FIRING HEGSETH
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
https://youtu.be/sJsIJbcpsOY?is=wfbMOGHVDQRfsLBd
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I see this coming to a lot of cities in the future. People lack common sense and drive them recklessly more so than safely. I hate driving in downtown ATL at night because of these wacko drivers!
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New York Magazine
about 6 hours ago
The DoJβs mishandling of the Epstein files was even worse than we thought, writes legal columnist Elie Honig.
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The Fiasco Hanging Over Todd Blancheβs Confirmation Hearing
The DoJβs mishandling of the Epstein files was even worse than we thought, writes legal columnist Elie Honig.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/todd-blanche-senate-confirmation-fiasco.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence
about 6 hours ago
An interesting piece that looks at the increasingly murky use of terrorism being used and not used in some cases. The piece does err on the side of being supportive of PA, and doesn't appear to mention the serious assault of a police officer in the case that has led to a conviction.
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Skye
about 22 hours ago
AOC: βMAGA is the last dying breath of the confederacy β we have every freedom that we have today because somebody in each generation refused to accept the world as it wasβ
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NPR
about 6 hours ago
Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.
n.pr/4xDWSOs
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On a flight home, a stranger helped her understand what came next
Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.
https://n.pr/4xDWSOs
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Taint
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YES!!!!!!
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about 9 hours ago
Support HARRY DUNN for Congress He totally deserves a boost in his career and he can be a loud voice for freedoms GO HARRY!
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hopeful66
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MadGreek π§Ώ
about 13 hours ago
Last word by Robert De Niro. "I can't love a country that's led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it, I can't love the country that's led by Donald Trump. And a sycophant Congress." "I want my country back." So do I Bob, so do I.
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Outspokenβ’οΈ
about 13 hours ago
π―οΈ π This account should have 6 million followers.
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Hayden Black
about 13 hours ago
βI love the inflationβ is about to become the next βyou also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.β The Republicans will lie that it means something else entirely.
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Lucky Shitt π¨π¦ πͺπΊ π²π½ πΊπ¦
about 13 hours ago
You're fired That fixed it, right?
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πFoolAmongstManyπ
about 12 hours ago
The precident was set on day one = A full pardon for all American heroes of this type. We didn't make the rules...
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Eyes On Ice (@eyesonice)
A man dressed in all black scaled the Department of Justice building and tore down the Banner of Trump.
https://substack.com/@eyesonice/note/c-277657574?r=p64f5
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Tom Marshall
about 1 year ago
Lovely essay on the writerβs craft (and his mentor John McPhee) by Peter Hessler. I struggle to find the words, sensing their red pencils hovering over my shoulder. Iβm not worthy!
#literature
#writing
#journalism
lithub.com/please-keep-...
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βPlease Keep Caring.β What John McPhee Taught Generations of Writers and Journalists
In the spring of 1991, when I was a junior at Princeton, I took John McPheeβs seminar on nonfiction writing. Back then, I was an English major who hoped to become a novelist, and I focused primarilβ¦
https://lithub.com/please-keep-caring-what-john-mcphee-taught-generations-of-writers-and-journalists/
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Jody Rosen
16 days ago
This is a masterpiece. By the great Peter Hessler.
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The Paperboyβs Secret
In boyhood, guilt was a constant companion. I stopped mentioning the quarters that Mr. Wood put into my pocket.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/08/the-paperboys-secret
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Orange Dick Tater Hater
2 days ago
The UFC should be cancelled
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Perfection! ππΌππΌππΌππΌ
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JJay99
5 months ago
π π€£ I'm drawing a blue ribbon for dumb mob boss award. I'm mailing it to WH.
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Lexxi π¦ π¦ πΊπ² / π¨π¦ π
2 months ago
DEVELOPING: Democratic Senator Chris Murphy just called for exploring Trump's removal from office under the Constitution. Not impeachment. Removal. The 25th Amendment. After the "crazy bastards" and "Praise be to Allah" post. A sitting senator said it out loud.οΏΌ
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Econ Analytica
16 days ago
Cartoon by Steve Breen
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Social Media Lab
about 14 hours ago
"France to ditch Palantirβs AI data tools in favour of domestic provider"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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France to ditch Palantirβs AI data tools in favour of domestic provider
Move to ChapsVision is to avoid βstrategic dependenciesβ, says PM amid concern about reliance on US-controlled tools
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/france-ai-data-tools-palantir-chapsvision
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CHOAM VP of Community Impact
about 14 hours ago
a couple ideas for regulating social media: 1. Individualized user behavior data purged after 14 days. 2. Platforms that donβt employ mods speaking a language used primarily by more than, say, 100 accounts posting daily for 30 days lose 230 protections. 3. No content for kids. (YouTube Kids etc)
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Julian Sanchez
about 14 hours ago
Ok, I think Iβve sussed this out. Christian nationalist grifter Eric Metaxas wrote a pop biography of Bonhoeffer back in 2009. Metaxas routinely exploits Bonhoefferβs prestige as a model for Christian resistance to (leftist) tyranny.
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Ken Bazinet
about 14 hours ago
"One major omission from what will likely be a star-studded guest list is President Donald Trump, who'd bashed the estimated $850 million center as a "total disaster" in a social media post. However, the Obama Foundation told USA TODAY Trump was "welcome" to visit and tour the grounds." πΊπ²π ππ πΆπΊπ½
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Obama gets star-studded performer list for presidential center opening
Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera and John Legend will sing at the opening of President Barack Obama's new Chicago campus.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/06/16/obama-presidential-center-opening-performers/90581229007/
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Khashoggi's Ghost
about 14 hours ago
This is the way. Let's make fossil fuels obsolete.
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Adam Keiper
about 14 hours ago
A MAGA influencer going around D.C. pretending to be a White House adviser (even apparently claiming to have ordered airstrikes!) while his buddy is LARPing as a Secret Service agentβwhat could possibly go wrong?
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-shocki...
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The Shocking Arrest of a MAGA Pit Bull and His Fake Secret Service Pal
Ryan Fournier and his friend were arrested on Friday. Strip clubs, counterfeit badges, and made-up claims of Trump world access contributed to their fall.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-shocking-arrest-of-a-maga-pit-bull-fake-secret-service-pal-ryan-fournier-jordan-daley
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Dennis "dejay" Koch
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Josh Hokit, Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, And The MAGA Male Identity Crisis.
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
#UFC
#Trump
#USA
#uspoli
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Josh Hokit, Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, And The MAGA Male Identity Crisis.
At the close of the Trump Administrationβs garish, bloated, masturbatory performance art on the White House lawn, UFC fighter Josh Hokit proceeded to punctuate his match by offering a monstrous verbal...
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/josh-hokit-joe-rogan-donald-trump?r=8djdwv&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club
about 14 hours ago
Trump turned the White House into a fight club for his 80th birthday, then smiled as a fighter called Michelle Obama βa manβ on the South Lawn. A racist, transphobic slur against the only Black First Lady, at the Peopleβs House. This is who they are. Not a word from elected Republicans.
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Hoodlum πΊπΈ
about 23 hours ago
Trump: βThe current Iranian leadership is very rational. They are nice to deal with. They are strong and smart people. They are not radicalized, and they are looking to help their country.β
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That officer better go to prison or better yet- get the death penalty!!! This makes me so angry!
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Happy Anniversary, you two! π₯
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Jeff Roush
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What happened with the Watertown High School band in Wisconsin last month is in some ways infuriating. But more importantly, it can serve as an object lesson in how citizens can push back when we see attempts to suppress. (Thread)
www.wpr.org/news/a-mothe...
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'A Mother of A Revolution!' composer conducts piece in Watertown
The Watertown School Board banned βA Mother of A Revolution!β from the high school spring concert, saying it violated the district's controversial issues policy.
https://www.wpr.org/news/a-mother-of-a-revolution-composer-omar-thomas-watertown
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MPWERED
about 16 hours ago
"America Reflecting Pool Full of Sewage" by Jonathan Brown.
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Melinda here 4 the defeat of evil π this shit ππ€¬
about 14 hours ago
This country has always been cruel and callus. The dyslexic child called stupid. The child who was different and dressed wrong as a girl or boy. The child of color brilliant but ignored because of color and were they lived. We have just hit a new low in cruel.
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TommyBoy
about 14 hours ago
Painfully accurate. Trump is a cancer. A Putin loving cancer.
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The Secret Service basically just told Ka$hy Gurrrl to sit down and STFU about their agency being the one to investigate the foiled drone attack this weekend. The Secret Service spokesman basically just told the world that Ka$hy was a LIAR! Epic! ππΌπͺπΌ
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Secret Service enraged at FBI Director Kash Patel over leaked UFC Freedom 250 terrorist plot
YouTube video by The Independent
https://youtu.be/UWy3CSliUk4?is=k0d3W-gnxxhOv6b-
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Hereβs mine! What movie gets better every time you watch it?
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about 15 hours ago
stochastic terrorism. Look it up, his picture is in the definitionπ€¬π₯
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MadGreek π§Ώ
about 14 hours ago
Have you heard? The party at Obama's Presidential Center opening on Juneteenth will be WILD!
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Just try to leave knowing that you were compassionate and helped people.
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Hayden Black
about 14 hours ago
Trump: Donβt believe what it says; believe what I tell you. Republicans: You got it!
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Olga Nesterova
2 days ago
If you talk about Michelle Obama today, please make it about this video
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hopeful66
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go.bsky.app/2o16Sjd
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