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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: The Senate Banking Democrats' Trumpflation Tracker is putting the squeeze on working families into perspective. It includes our research. We found that for every $1 in additional income families gained since 2022, 52¢ was eaten up by debt: senatebankingdemocrats.substack.com/p/new-warren...
Trumpflation Tracker. Dashboard showing rising costs and economic pressures since December 2024. Cumulative inflation is 5.2%, costing the average household about $3,388; real wage growth is down 0.7%; and the 30-year mortgage rate is 7.6%, costing a typical household $4,330 more per year. Average monthly job growth has fallen from 328,500 total payroll jobs and 289,900 private payroll jobs in 2021–2024 to 38,000 and 48,300, respectively, since January 2025. Household debt has increased by $56 billion from Q1 2025 to Q2 2026. The cost of Trump’s broken promise to cap credit card interest rates is $94.9 billion. Fifty-two cents of each additional dollar of income is going to household debt. Since December 2024, costs have risen 12.7% for electricity, 5.1% for rent, 43.7% for gasoline, 3.7% for groceries, 7.6% for child care, and 14.6% for health care.”
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 8h
Nearly 1,400 Ohioans lost their jobs in a single day. These are families who worked hard, played by the rules and deserve an economy that works just as hard for them as it does for billionaires, special interests and corporations. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
This year’s election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 16h
Nearly Every JPEG on Earth Runs on Math a Reviewer Called Too Simple to Fund in 1972 by Alex Cooke fstoppers.com/historical/n...
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The Math Behind Every JPEG: Ahmed's Rejected 1972 Proposal | Fstoppers
How a rejected 1972 NSF proposal led to the discrete cosine transform, the mathematical foundation powering nearly every JPEG ever created. Ahmed's summer of 1973 changed digital imaging forever.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Btw this is infinitely worse than saying “America deserved 9/11”
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The Register @theregister.com · 05/10/2026
Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool
theregister.com
Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool
Meet RemoveMacAI
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/10/2026
The Army announced last year that it had enough of a model of armored vehicle and that any more deliveries would be “excess.” But Congress found a way to keep funding alive for the vehicle, and executives at the company found a way to flood key members of Congress with donations. buff.ly/nbAEUVa
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#MEpolitics: For decades, Susan Collins has been accepting bribes in exchange for federal contracts and working to protect herself from scrutiny and accountability for her rank corruption, well before she became a crony of the fascist Trump regime. She must be voted out, arrested, and prosecuted!
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 29/09/2026
Artwork by @topsypaints.bsky.social in solidarity with Wilber Rafael Garces Perez and everyone targeted by ICE. Damn the mercenaries. All ICE agents are kidnappers, torturers, and aspiring murderers. crimethinc.com/mercenaries
A painting by the graffiti artist Topsy reading "COWARD ICE" and showing ICE agents shooting a door dash delivery driver.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
she could go back to that august institution "university" of austin and take some remedial journalism classes perhaps and keep her pigeon feces-infested indoor statue clean.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Devout Christian" indeed - he probably would have slashed Jesus on the cross if he had been around during that age.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Perhaps he means to build a new civilization, in his colon: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Could this *be* any weirder?" ... oh wait, wrong 90s sitcom.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will the people that voted for this in 2024 ever figure out how these psychos are harming them?
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT is a useful paper for when there are toilet paper shortages. It jumped the shark with its manufactured WMD nonsense and now limits itself to jumping minnows.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome to the USA, i.e. the United States of Azerbaijan - the bananas in this "republic" are cheap and plentiful #TrumpTV .
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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
STOP HUNTING US ICE OPENED FIRE. AT LEAST 5 SHOTS. 8000 Anderson Square. Austin. Today. A man is in the hospital. Austin police did not fire. “The horror has come to our city.” — Rep. Greg Casar #USDemocracy #Austintx #ICEShooting #StopHuntingUs #NoKings
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I mean just look at this horrible, offensive, hateful statement by Macklemore! We must support his cancellation!!! We must!
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cancel culture for those who say “Free Palestine.” Free Palestine. Free Macklemore. variety.com/2026/music/n...
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Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After ‘Free Palestine’ Speech
Macklemore has been dropped from the remainder of Ed Sheeran's U.S. Loop Tour.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The Donald J. Trump Trade War has caused dairy, grain and livestock farmers to lose their Canadian market. Already reeling from the Trump Tariffs, farmers are expected to lose $31 billion this year and $32 billion next year.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UPDATE: @macklemore says he will donate all his earnings to pro-Palestinian orgs and wants to shift the focus back to them— highlighting Israel’s double-tap strike that killed 15yo Muhammad Al Zinati and a rescue worker yesterday. There’s video. TW⚠️: www.instagram.com/p/DdUqMqwkYy...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 16/09/2026
The United States must not send 40,000 taxpayer-funded bombs to Netanyahu for his war on Gaza and Lebanon and on Iran. We must block the sale of these weapons now. #BlockTheBombs
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
QUESTION: How tf is it a “sale” of weapons to 🇮🇱 if we 🇺🇸 taxpayers are the ones paying for these bombs? 🤔 💣 It’s really wild how dumb Trump & Bibi think we all are. Playing in our faces. A war & genocide nobody wants or understands, and we all pay - In multiple ways.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As we wrote back in July, Bo French has a long history of posting fascist and white supremacist rhetoric. By and large, Republicans have stayed quiet about it.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Watch my banned interview with Jimmy Kimmel on YouTube: youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
they use #Mastodon so just open an account on mastodon.social or etc. and then you can follow people that for some reason still want to put their junk in meta's hungry jaws.
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Mastodon
The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the English would say "bugger me!" and then make it happen by re-electing the "nasty party" for another 5-year term until the literal feces in their drinking water finally bought them to their senses.
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sacré bleu, as the French would say!!
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1200 pages of pablum, nonsense, and ranting - I forced myself to read it 20 years ago and I haven't forgotten the utter misery that resulted. Rand was truly a miserable old bag with no writing skill whatsoever.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
call it #trumpsalooza instead?
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/09/2026
United Airlines flies fighter jet and tank components on domestic US flights to Newark from all over the country and then consolidates them onto two specific regular passenger flights to Israel. Tl;dr: Boycott United Airlines. theintercept.com/2026/09/09/u...
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United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights
Unfriendly skies: On United, checked bags might ride next to tank parts bound for Israel. Direct flights to Israel are set to resume tonight.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 27/08/2026
Earlier Thu., Israeli warplanes launched 2 strikes on the Ali al-Taher hills on the eastern outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, firing several missiles that caused large explosions. In Marjayoun, Israeli forces accompanied by tanks & military bulldozers advanced into the western outskirts of Mays...
Earlier Thursday, Israeli warplanes launched two strikes on the Ali al-Taher hills on the eastern outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, firing several missiles that caused large explosions.

In Marjayoun, Israeli forces accompanied by tanks and military bulldozers advanced into the western outskirts of Mays al-Jabal, in the Al-Dabsh area, as artillery struck several homes. Israeli forces also set homes on fire and bulldozed agricultural tents.

An Israeli strike killed a newlywed Lebanese woman in Arabsalim today and wounded six others, the health ministry confirmed. 

Journalist Courtney Bonneau reports from the southern town of Kfarshouba, where she says Israel’s occupation is effectively imprisoning the Lebanese population in conditions similar to those imposed on Palestinians in the West Bank.courtneybonneauimages
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Short report from Kfarshouba as Israeli forces bomb Arab Selim. 

Cameraman: Ali Ezzedine
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/08/2026
The future of Parton’s Imagination Library has become uncertain due to the quiet machinations of Republicans in the Midwest that have sought to unravel public funding for the cause. trib.al/Z9f1GpD
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
huh - isn't ChatGPT known to drive people to suicide?
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"explosive money diarrhea brought to you by Taylor Farms"
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
on the plus side, he has a surplus of bedbug-infested pillows in which he can bury his face and cry.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Karoline decided to Leavitt" :)
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 11/08/2026
It has now been more than two months since 20-year-old Palestinian American Sama Safi—a U.S. citizen—was abducted in the middle of the night from her family home in the West Bank by armed Israeli soldiers. I recently met with Sama's parents to hear their story.
A graphic that reads:

Free Sama Safi, an American citizen unjustly detained by the Israeli government
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
wouldn't the person most capable of answering the question, besides the person who is being imagined as "coming back", be Charlemagne 'The God'?
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Snopes @snopes.com · 04/08/2026
Posts claim Katie Miller, a former White House adviser and the wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, received medical advice from from Dr. Fauci in 2020 before calling for his imprisonment more than six years later. That's true. ✅ www.snopes.com/fact-check/k...
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Katie Miller, who called for Fauci's imprisonment, got medical advice from him in 2020
The ex-White House adviser, who is married to Stephen Miller, claimed Fauci was neither her friend nor her doctor.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
more vending machines that dispense vending machines. let the planet be overrun with vending machines. imagine hopping over vending machines to walk between rooms in your abode. vending machines to the moon, all over the planet. vending machines.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/08/2026
💢🇵🇸 At least 5 Palestinians, including 2 children and a woman, were killed in 2 separate Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Sunday, according to the Quds News Network. 🔹 In central Gaza, Sheikh Kamal Nabhan Hamad Abu Muailiq, 68, known as “Abu Nabhan,” & his wife, Hoda Khaled...
💢 🇵🇸 At least 5 Palestinians, including two children and a woman, were killed in two separate Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Sunday, according to the Quds News Network.

🔹 In central Gaza, Sheikh Kamal Nabhan Hamad Abu Muailiq, 68, known as “Abu Nabhan,” and his wife, Hoda Khaled Arar Abu Muailiq, 59, were killed when Israeli helicopters bombed the family’s home in the al-Mashaala area, west of Deir al-Balah. Local sources said Abu Muailiq headed the administrative body of Hamas in Deir al-Balah.

🔹 In Gaza City, three members of one family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the al-Susi Tower in the Mina area, west of the city. Quds identified them as Abdullah Adnan Abu al-Taif, his wife Abeer Kamal Kazim Anan, and their son Azzam Abdullah Abu al-Taif.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/08/2026
⚠️GRAPHIC: 4 Palestinians were killed, including children, & others wounded, in Israeli airstrikes targeting a residential apartment in Deir al-Balah. Footage from Palestinian journalist Mohammed Abusalama. At least 12 people have been killed since the early hours of Sat. Vid: @AnasAlSharif0, X
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
that's just what she looks like always, i.e. the "born with a sour pickle in the mouth" look.
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ab101.bsky.social @ab101.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
he mentioned them in his book as well.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One of the few real insights from Fauci's diary is that he was friendly with and gave time to console Katie Miller during her pregnancy with Covid. Then Miller blasted him. Then Paul belatedly redacted the sections featuring Miller, because political allies get privacy. people.com/dr-anthony-f...
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Dr. Fauci’s Private Diary Says He Frequently Consoled MAGA Mouthpiece Katie Miller During Her COVID-Era Pregnancy
Entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary that were released by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., last week suggest he had a close relationship with Katie Miller during the first year of the COVID-19 pandem...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 31/07/2026
As costs continue to rise, Trump is cutting a Medicare program that helps seniors afford their medications. This year the program cost less than 2 days of Trump's Iran war. This isn't about money, it's about priorities & Trump is showing us his.
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.
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