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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10/10/2026
Important info for California residents given Prop 40. Make sure your CA friends and family see this so they don't get tricked into opposing 40. Our state is awesome and only a handful of crazies would want to live elsewhere because of this initiative.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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ITEP @itep.org · 08/10/2026
NEW: Americans in nearly every income group are paying more under President Trump's second term in 2026. The overall impact of inflationary policies, OBBBA's top-heavy tax cuts, and expiring health care tax credits have left savings only for the wealthiest Americans.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is possibly the worst thing I have ever read. It should be the only headline on every news source. It won't be. If you've experienced sexual assault, maybe don't read the details.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like society is running on Aldous Huxley software and the government is running on George Orwell software
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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reynoldsmtwp.bsky.social @reynoldsmtwp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love the idea. Key question: will your admin defend you when the inevitable phone calls come from outraged parents objecting to the blah blah blah?
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/08/2026
When a handful of companies control the economy, a handful of CEOs dictate what you watch on TV, which doctor you’re allowed to see, what you eat, whether predators get online access to your kids, and what apartment you can rent. That's exactly why we need to block mega-mergers.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fellow Texans: verify that your voter registration hasn't been suspended without your knowledge. I just double-checked mine following a link in the article; it took all of 1 minute. Make sure your voice can be heard in November.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Once again, Trump’s foreign policy isn’t really realist, or imperialist, or neoroyalist, or about spheres of influence, etc. Its sexual predation/abuse elevated the level of the state
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/08/2026
This is fascism.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19/08/2026
🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...
A photo of Donald Trump sitting at a desk with national flags on it, seemingly at a meeting in an office. His omnipresent aide, Natalie Harp, is sitting behind him, staring at him with an unnatural smile, her eyes shrouded with pupils not visible.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 14/08/2026
this is the funniest political ad i've ever seen
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There are basically two types of AI users: (1) "I delegated all my thinking to the AI, I assume that's for the best." (2) "After 350 hours of coding I finally have a decent self-evolving harness loop that forces the model to actually follow the instructions in my prompt. It works 53% of the time."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder: progressive is mainstream
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 05/08/2026
You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...
Instead of spending
$1,760,726,880
or $4,810 per taxpayer on mass deportations, Fulton County taxpayers could fund
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School Teachers
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Firefighters
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People on Medicaid
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Jacob Gellman @jacobgellman.com · 04/08/2026
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
oregonlive.com
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
this is actually the wife-beatingest reply possible. this is the platonic ideal of how a guy who beat his wife would respond to a question about beating his wife.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And then class, humanity poured all its resources, its water, its books, the very air they breathed, into making the magic money machine and as we all know this started the second dark age as the machine did in fact, not do anything useful
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This hearing is driven entirely by Elon Musk's algorithm. Not a single normie voter alive today has thought about Anthony Fauci for at least five years. On X this is a pressing issue - maybe the pressing issue - of the day. It doesn't matter at all.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/07/2026
Republicans are trying to make the news cycle about anything other than Donald Trump and his incredibly unpopular domestic and foreign policy agenda. That’s why they set up this Fauci hearing. And everyone is taking the bait
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Democrats to me, a 40 year old to their left: whoa there junior, the adults in the room are talking. Why don’t you cool your jets and let common sense win? Republicans to a 17 year old in a bad suit saying slurs: perfect. Here’s a Ford F350. We will pay you 150k to record TikToks inside it.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/07/2026
Turning our democratic process into a casino, on a platform advised by the President's son, with an Administration failing to adequately crack down on insider trading - what could go wrong?
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Have kept thinking all day about this story, full of starving moms and grandmothers trying to feed 3-6 kids each on virtually nothing and Republican men cheering and patting themselves on the back for kicking them off food stamps. Congrats, boys, you really did it
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I couldn’t sleep last night, so I wrote about all of it. open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ursula K. LeGuin, "American SF and the Other," 1975.
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself-as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation-you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own real-ity. You have, in fact, alienated yourself.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“What do you rebuild in its place?” is so bizarre. Deciding what to build in its place is a POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY, not a vexed problem. Build it back the way it was, but better. Make it the home of your new Agency for Retribution and Reconstruction. Hell, put up a daycare center. PICK A THING.
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