Joan McRobbie
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Policy, communication, former journalist, HKS MPA.
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Norm Ornstein
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Brent Toderian
1 day ago
Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, and more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs 2025. Via
@modacitylife.com
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jamelle
2 days ago
this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it
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Polling USA
3 days ago
California - Governor Polling: 🔵 Becerra: 19% 🔴 Hilton: 17% 🔵 Steyer: 17% 🔴 Bianco: 11% 🔵 Porter: 10% 🔵 Mahan: 8% 🔵 Villaraigosa: 4% Emerson / May 10, 2026
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Treat yourself to this read.
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/were-diversifying-the-university-by-hiring-more-crackpots?utm_content=buffera317a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Tragedy after tragedy under Trump for the U.S. & all it long stood for.
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Roxanne Darling 🌱
7 days ago
Watch the whole thing and start getting your dance moves ready! I mean, just dance, bring the joy, grab this energy and bring it to the USA!
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Holly McCall
9 days ago
Crowd in Tennessee Capitol is singing "Which side are you?" and hollering at state troopers: "You don't have to do this! You can join us." Democrats are out and speaking to the crowd.
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Tony Michaels 🎙
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@paulwaldman.bsky.social
details the long, now successful, push to resurrect the Confederacy.
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jamelle
8 days ago
as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society
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Susan McPherson
9 days ago
One lesson to take from this abysmal moment is that no victory is permanent and politics never ends. The right knew it, and the left can no longer ignore it. But that also means that the horrors now being unleashed on the country can be undone. By
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
in
@atrupar.com
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The Confederacy rises again
Undoing the 1960s isn't enough. They're even taking aim at the 1860s.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/trump-confederacy-rises-again?r=opib&utm_medium=ios
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Scott Horton
13 days ago
A new Iranian LEGO propaganda video drops. Brilliant stuff.
youtu.be/mzldC7hz1v8?...
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We Share the Same Pain 💔 | An Iranian’s Emotional Perspective on America (LEGO Rap Story)
YouTube video by stephan poetsch
https://youtu.be/mzldC7hz1v8?si=hw35QdZ4mIXzk8lx
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The DNC should take
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
's idea & run with it. Sue CBS news for $20 billion.
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@nikobowie.bsky.social
points to tools at hand to save democracy from a hostile SCOTUS.
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The heroes among us.
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Once the answer was "plastics." Today the future is "humanities." Says none other than Reed Hastings.
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With the gutting of the VRA, this is a good time to be reading
@isabelwilkerson.bsky.social
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Nicholas Grossman
16 days ago
The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
17 days ago
One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."
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Kevin M. Kruse
17 days ago
He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.
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Michael Podhorzer
17 days ago
RIP VRA, 1968-2026. RIP all of the civil rights leaders who were murdered while fighting for the rights it secured.
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@larryglickman.bsky.social
shows how SCOTUS's conservatives eagerly participate in the white supremacy agenda, walking backwards in history to Jim Crow, voicing support for sunsetting civil rights law.
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Brian Finucane
17 days ago
Three words for the next administration: Big Beautiful Bulldozer
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Info released by the Justice Dept on what happened at the DC Hilton doesn't add up, says
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
, an expert on government security. The "shooter" may not have fired any weapon at all.
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Is the Justice Department lying about Saturday's "shooting"?
A central point of the government's case doesn't add up.
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-justice-department-lying-about-saturday-s-shooting
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
19 days ago
"Those in power may pretend not to know where the present political trajectories are taking us, but they seem to sense that they’ll have to hide."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-year-of-magical-thinking/
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As Trump uses his not-close-call to make spurious claims about the need for his ballroom/bunker,
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
points out that everything about that project is fishy.
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The Trouble with Trump's Bunker and Ballroom
Is he building it to sustain an attack — or the end of democracy?
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-trouble-with-trump-s-bunker-and-ballroom
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davidrlurie
22 days ago
Elections matter (this time in Hungary)
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E.U. approves a $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine after Hungary lifts its veto
Hungary and Slovakia have been locked in a feud with Ukraine since Russian oil deliveries to the two countries were halted in January after a pipeline was damaged.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/eu-approves-106-billion-loan-package-help-ukraine-hungary-lifts-veto-rcna341834
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The Bulwark
22 days ago
"The more episodes a show makes, the more crew members and actors drawing a salary there are. And in Hollywood, a town rocked by AI disruption and larger tax incentives for filming in other states and overseas, this level of employment is a godsend."
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The Anti-Prestige Prestige Show: Why ‘The Pitt Is the Cure for What Ails TV
Good art, healthy business.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3Qt3rCs
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Republicans don't like the taste of their own bitter medicine.
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Helen Kennedy
24 days ago
Priceless post from the official White House social media
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Eyal Press
24 days ago
This should go over extremely well with families struggling to get by in the heartland.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
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U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/economy/us-uae-financial-support.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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G Elliott Morris
24 days ago
With the VA yes vote, Democrats will emerge with +1 House seat in the redistricting wars Trump kicked off last summer. They are very, very likely to win back the House in November
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This will break your heart & fill you with rage against the likes of RFK, jr. Required reading for vaccine skeptics.
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@volts.wtf
: “However low your opinion of the Roberts court, it should be lower.”
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Mike Luckovich
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@froomkin.bsky.social
is right. Highlighting Trump’s mental instability can’t be a one-off for the NYT. No issue is more urgent, alarming, & consequential.
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James
about 1 month ago
Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
about 1 month ago
Step 1: big enough victory that they can’t claim fraud Step 2:
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Wendy Thurm
about 1 month ago
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
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"Refusing to be a country without consequences."
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Triumph for democracy in Hungary buoys hope for U.S. mid-term elections. Key lesson underscored for U.S. Democrats: turnout matters.
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Eric Topol
about 1 month ago
The turning point for rare diseases, which affect >300 million people around the world. A call to get rid of its many structural obstacles, to consider it as molecular surgery unlike drug treatments gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...
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Garrett M. Graff
about 1 month ago
"Moon joy" is real, but it has an important lesson for us too: Public service and public life is a gift and something to treasure—the uncommon chance to do something for a cause bigger than yourself.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...
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The Pure Joy of Joy
You can't fake the happiness of Artemis II — or Zohran Mamdani
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-joy-of-joy
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Garrett M. Graff
about 1 month ago
As I’ve said: We elected the one person in the whole world who is NOT interested in reading the President’s Daily Brief.
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Thought things couldn't get more bizarre?
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Timothy Snyder
about 1 month ago
An excellent briefing before the hugely consequential (also for the US) Hungarian elections.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-orban-l...
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If Orbán Loses Hungary's Election, It Will Dispel the Air of Invincibility Around Strongmen
This would prove that consolidating power does not protect authoritarians from self-destructing, especially when a smart opposition exploits their vulnerabilities
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-orban-loses-hungarys-election
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Rick Steves
about 1 month ago
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at
www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran
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Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran
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Deborah Pearlstein
about 1 month ago
What humanity could have been focused on today...
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All of us today
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