Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...

Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.

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"At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns," www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

As usual, @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains the reasons why the latest order in Missouri will have the lifespan of an adult mayfly. But if those aren't enough, I've got some others for you...

Missouri gerrymandering: you'll get whiplash from the speed of the SCOTUS reprimand #ELB

Missouri is currently holding a general election using its 2022 congressional map. It’s going to continue holding its general election using its 2022 congressional map. But the Supreme Court is going ...

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The affordability crisis is quite literally destroying kids' dreams.

Talk about affordability.

Politico@politico.com · last yr.

‘Talk about affordability’: Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory.

The Federalist Society is setting up a University of Austin law school?!?! www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Federalist Society and University of Austin team up for new law program

The University of Austin — a five-year-old Texas institution that bills itself as an oasis of free speech and academic freedom in U.S. higher education — is working with the conservative Federalist So...

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The Search for Austin Tice A podcast series by Sophie Fullerton and Rena Netjes, produced by Hayan Imadi renanetjes.substack.com/p/the-search...

The Search for Austin Tice

A podcast series by Sophie Fullerton and Rena Netjes, produced by Hayan Imadi

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Molly Crabapple’s book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”, tells of a Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party | Michael Hindley

A History of the Jewish Labour Bund

Molly Crabapple’s book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”, tells of a Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party

northwestbylines.co.uk

Tupac trial spotlights decades of US police failures in solving the case

Tupac trial spotlights decades of US police failures in solving the case

Police received information nearly immediately after the killing. It took Las Vegas police 27 years to make an arrest

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“i can’t leave twitter, i need it, it’s where my audience is”

"If feminism means each of us finding our unique power, and helping other women do the same, Dolly Parton certainly has done both," wrote Gloria Steinem in 1987.

Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (January 1987)

Woman of the Year Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (From the January 1987 issue of Ms. Magazine)

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the extraction class (and the brunchlord trust fund editors they seed at outlets like The Atlantic) are positively desperate to redirect attention away from the popularity and real-world potential of progressive reform

Sasha Baron Cohen. Wizjoner.

The Dictator - Final Speech

YouTube video by Movies Verse

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“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.” - Mark Twain

We’re not changing it.

Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

Six of the current nine Supreme Court justices are members or affiliated with the Federalist Society - John Roberts (Chief Justice), Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett. This one s America yaledailynews.com/articles/how...

government health official (US)@rastawolf.bsky.social · last mo.

Keep following the Federalist Society and the judges they groom and back to preserve Citizens United. File as You Can’t Make This Shit Up: “When viewed correctly, Citizens United was perfectly consistent with the wording, spirit, and intent of the First Amendment.” fedsoc.org/fedsoc-revie...

Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live

Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French…is properly called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy…known as longest lasting participatory democracies in the world…made up of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/who-we-are/

Who We Are - Haudenosaunee Confederacy

ABOUT THE HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFEDERACY Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five Nations by the English, the confederacy is properly called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy ...

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NEW: Daniel Siad, the primary modeling scout and recruiter for Jeffrey Epstein, has been discovered dead in his home in Paris. Siad, himself, was also accused of raping young women. I’m gathering the latest and will report on my YouTube channel, Katie Phang News.

Inside the Rise of America’s Oligarch Class: The Impact of Decades of Widening Wealth Inequality on American Politics #booksky lithub.com/inside-the-r...?

Inside the Rise of America’s Oligarch Class—And What It Means For All of Us

In early 2014, a pair of political scientists published a striking study on the health, or lack thereof, of American democracy. Authored by Princeton University’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern Uni…

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Our corporately funded (Citizens United) two-party system is exploiting single-issue voters (“their base”) to distract from wealth inequality, which allows both parties to serve the interests of the wealthy while the majority struggle over limited resources (88% of US households make < $200k)

The only time Hakeem Jeffries should've come face-to-face with jared kushner is when kushner is under oath before Congress

Jared Kushner couldn’t even get a security clearance in Trump’s first term. What was he privately discussing with Hakeem Jeffries that couldn’t have been discussed with someone else?

Trump has a positive approval rating in precisely 3 out of 50 U.S. states: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Delighted to see my Trump Tariff Fire cartoon is part of this week’s Politico Cartoon Carousel. Have a look: www.politico.com/gallery/2026...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...

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Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement, ending a three-decade career at the organization amid Pentagon efforts to expand oversight over its operations and content. He was the second full-time civilian to hold the position of publisher. #Flashes

Even as the hurricane settled into a tropical storm, it bared down across the island chain, hitting rural Big Island harder than other areas.

‘Utter Devastation’: Lala Turns Hawaiʻi Upside Down, Spares Some

Even as the hurricane settled into a tropical storm, it bared down across the island chain, hitting rural Big Island harder than other areas.

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Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built