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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

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The War Against Accumulated Capital

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 07/10/2026

New: We’re excited to partner with @datasociety.bsky.social to welcome our three Good Life Residents focused on how government can ensure AI serves the public interest! Meet them and learn more about the work they’ll be doing: 👤 @advaitarun.bsky.social 👤 Danica Yu 👤 @matthewus.bsky.social

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Roosevelt Institute, Data & Society Announce AI Residents

The Roosevelt Institute and Data & Society announce three Good Life residents focused on shaping generative AI investment and policy in the public interest.

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In this News Brief, we discuss the Drop The Genocide 20 campaign, efforts to water down progressive demands around Israel and whether or not progressive electeds are following through on the implications and obligations inherent in their use of the word "genocide" to describe the destruction of Gaza

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News Brief: 2028, Israel's Progressive Rebrand and the Risk of "Genocide" as Rhetorical Box Check

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Fiscal sustainability should start from the commitments already made to the people of the United States and judge the current needs of the American people, then build a tax code that finances those commitments and investments responsibly." equitablegrowth.org/research-pap...

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The deeper argument at the heart of the federal budget debate

A federal budget that responds to current needs while investing in our future U.S. economy requires higher revenue collection.

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"It is not neutral to fund organizations tied to illegal land sales and the occupation economy... to repeat statistics that conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism... to allow the NYPD to repress protest in the name of 'protection.'” geesemag.com/articles/w2w...

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W2W Statement on MOCA “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism” — geese magazine

Mayor Mamdani's new strategy to combat anti-semitism hides an important compromise behind a friendly name.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"AI-led growth" is not a moral imperative. It's not an inevitable exogenous force backing us into corners of least-bad choices. It's an outcome that we have chosen to organize our entire political economy around, and it's an outcome we could collectively agree is not worth the costs.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/10/2026

Californians will vote on whether to impose a one-time, five-per-cent wealth tax on billionaires. “If it passes, it will be a revolution,” an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax

Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents.

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The primary danger of financial surveillance is not that the algorithm might make an erroneous match, though it frequently does. The primary danger is what happens when the algorithm is completely accurate." www.forbes.com/sites/chasti...

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Border Patrol Is Turning Financial Records Into Police Intelligence

Border Patrol is using Americans' financial activity to inform police targeting, raising new questions about surveillance, privacy and civil liberties.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The problem in this country is not polarization. The problem in this country is we have one neofascist party and a media and 'opposition party' who are hellbent on pretending that said neofascist party is normal and legitimate.

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

reading the article that primetime is based on and lol what is this lede

sergeant stripes—on the sleeve of his shirt. The cameraman zooms in past the cop to the patio area beyond, to a lattice of firewood and the blur of something green. The camera stills, focuses. The blur becomes a wheelbarrow. A green wheelbarrow leaning belly-exposed against a red wall.
While the shot of this particular wheelbarrow is superfluous to the television program being filmed here today and will be edited out along with most of the rest of this raw footage, there happens to be a story about the man inside the house in which a wheelbarrow plays a much more prominent role. The story begins more than two decades ago, at a party in another house not far from this one. The man inside was there, as were many of his

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And shame on everyone, including Bernie Sanders specifically, who talks about the importance of “securing the border” without acknowledging that it means precisely this.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 28/09/2026

Two-thirds of real income growth in NYC has gone to the top 1% since 2019. In @nydailynews.com, Noa Rosinplotz shows why policymakers shouldn’t fear taxing the rich. “Instead, they should focus on raising the tax revenue we need to invest in affordability for everyone else.”

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NYC doesn’t need to fear taxing the rich

While some New Yorkers see their fortunes rise, most aren’t getting a cut, as the cost of food, rent, and other necessities climbs faster than their salaries can keep up. City Comptroller Mark Levine ...

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Lena Bilik @lbilik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The author uses the fact that many parents want to stay home with very young children as an argument against universal childcare. This is a false choice. At Roosevelt, we recommend paid leave AND universal childcare, so parents can stay home for a year w/ their infants. (It's also cost effective.)

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Building a Vision for Universal Public Childcare: Principles for a Childcare System That Works for Workers and Families - Roosevelt Institute

In a new analysis, Lena Bilik and coauthors argue that the US needs bold, transformative public investments to create a universal early childhood care and education (ECE) system that can meet the need...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I end up going back to over and over again is: while the criminal justice system could do so much better in protecting rights, the only thing that can adequately address a pervasive problem like this is social/cultural change. Rape arises from and reasserts rape culture/patriarchy.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Run on the platform of “public goods shared in common and distributed to everyone.” That's it.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is an absolute disgrace that every major union in California is not backing the billionaire tax. Petty ass crabs in a pot doing the work of Sergey Brin. Wake up!

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"War on Terror-levels of comfort with civilian casualties ... That, in a nutshell, is how they see America on the world stage. The message to other countries is: if you don’t get in line, you don’t matter. It is a bone-deep commitment to primacy." www.equator.org/articles/bid...

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Guilty Men • EQUATOR

A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I fear that most liberal leaders are in deep denial about the urgency with which we need a Gaza reckoning before we save this country from fascism. Must-read interview: www.equator.org/articles/bid... @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.social

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Guilty Men • EQUATOR

A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a genuine advantage to being outside the traditional DC Israel/Palestine foreign policy ecosystem because it means you don't automatically reject radical ideas like "ending the Occupation would involve ending the Occupation" and "a Palestinian state should have Palestinians in charge of it".

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World Impact News - EN/ES - ⚡ @worldimpactnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 1/2 · Nepal's PM Balen Shah: We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food. And this is not Nepal’s private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka,

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is extraordinary that Netanyahu mentioned Hassan Piker and Mamdani in his speech; in a speech in which he also held up a pager... A deranged and utterly shameless genocidaire who has been basically given a carte blanche by the US and Europeans.

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CWA for Palestine @cwa4palestine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’re proud to be part of the Break the Chain coalition with @socialists.nyc and others, fighting to end the transfer of weapons to Israel through the exploitation of civilian labor and infrastructure at JFK airport. Organized labor can transform the economy itself! ⛓️‍💥✊

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:

Netanyahu showing off a pager during his speech at the UN

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Netanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Billionaire talking points fed to an LLM ⬇️

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Six Nobel laureate economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Peter Diamond, have penned an open letter backing California’s proposed one-time 5 per cent levy on billionaires, saying it could kick-start a movement to introduce wealth taxes across America and the world. www.ft.com/content/94ec...

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Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax

Progressive laureates say November ballot measure could ‘start reining in the power’ of ultra-wealthy

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 19/09/2026

"On Thursday, organizers launched the @dropthegenocide20 pledge: A “baseline accountability commitment pledging to not hire, consult, or otherwise promote top Biden White House officials who were responsible for promoting, lying about, and covering up the Gaza genocide,”

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A profound disappointment & major blow against any hope for democratic governance over our media system. Individual policymakers & media owners keep failing us, succumbing to perverse incentives. It's a systemic failure, requiring a structural overhaul of our entire media system from root to branch.

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 20/09/2026

The organizers said the “culture of bipartisan elite immunity” was why “Biden officials knew they could arm, defend, and cover up the genocide in Gaza for 15 months, and simply move back into liberal spaces.” #DropTheGenocide20

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The purpose of the #DroptheGenocide20 pledge is to demand these officials be removed from future Democratic administrations." Good and important effort here. www.dropthegenocide20.org

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Sign the Pledge Today

Sign the Pledge to demand top Biden officials be removed from future Democratic administrations, think tanks, and academic and liberal spaces.

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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

90% of the panic about Hasan Piker is that people who are terrified of the status quo changing don't want Americans to break through the propaganda they've been fed their whole lives

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 15/09/2026

A lot of people argue that AI food imagery is bad because it's gross. And I agree! But not everyone is so bothered by it. Here, I write about how focusing on aesthetics is a losing game, and how it would still suck if it were beautiful www.weareravenous.com/for-ai-food-...

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For AI Food Slop, Gross Is in the Eye of the Beholder

AI food imagery would still be a problem even if it didn't look horrifying.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today, a coalition of orgs including Palestinian Youth Movement, Peace Action, and DSA, announced a campaign to "Drop the Genocide 20." They identify "the top 20 officials most responsible for promoting, lying about, and covering up the Gaza genocide in the Biden White House." dropthegenocide20.org

Head shot photos of Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk, David Satterfield, John Finer, John Kirby, Matthew Miller, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Karine Jean-Pierre, Barbara Leaf, Dorothy Shea, Jack Lew, Lloyd Austin, Samantha Power, Stephanie Hallett, Mira Resnick, Julieta Valls Noyes, Michael Kurilla, Uzra Zeya, Deborah Lipstadt

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love they think this is some sort of gotcha and not the most stone cold indisputable facts you've ever seen

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American Prestige @amprestigepod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

E266 - The Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza w/ @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social Journalist and author Akbar Shahid Ahmed returns to the show to talk about his book covering the Biden administration's handling of Gaza. americanprestigepod.com/episodes/390...

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🧵Today we remember the 44th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacres. Between 16–18 September 1982, Israeli forces encircled Beirut’s Sabra neighborhood and Shatila refugee camp, established observation posts overlooking the area, and facilitated the entry of Lebanese Phalangist forces.

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Democratic voters are overwhelmingly anti-war, yet foreign policy hawks remain massively overrepresented in leadership roles. It’s a problem we need to fix. My piece in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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The Reality Today Is That Foreign Policy Hawks Are a Minority in the Democratic Party

It is damn time we all started acting like it.

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