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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Don’t let this fade away. Has Trump answered for this? Has @MarshaBlackburn ? apnews.com/article/wome...

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We said the push to erode diversity, equity, and inclusion was alarming because the push was rooted in anti-Blackness. Fast forward a few months and conservatives are defending fundraising for a grown woman because she called a Black child the n-word.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

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Rozenia Stanford @rystanford.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

“Home-growns”mean any of us. And with no guarantee of due process and administrative incompetence, this could be life sentences in El Salvador for any of us.

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LaMeep @lameep.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As the government flings itself apart, we will keep coming back to the grim reality. Trump can’t be restrained, or reasoned with, or babysat for the next four years. The only way to bring power back under the rule of law is to remove a lawless man from power. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Opinion | Some members of Congress are starting to talk about impeachment. They’re right.

It’s time to stop beating around the bush: Trump must be impeached and removed from office.

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Michael P-ahhhhhh-l 😱🐓 @michael.is-post.ing · 03/04/2025

my grocery store has a massive trade deficit with me. I buy from them every week and they never buy anything from me. in order to correct this injustice, I’m going to self-impose a sales tax on groceries so that I can’t buy as many.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/04/2025

ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses. It's the third highest monthly total on record.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

chronicle.com

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility

In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I think also they were unwilling to believe it has been falling apart. This was the whole idea of voting for Biden: all we needed was to go back to when things were normal. But it didn’t work because the wheels were already coming off, and people simply couldn’t admit it. Which accelerated it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A group of Musk staffers attempted to take control of California’s water pumps during the devastating wildfires. Inspired by Trump, the mission involved direct pressure on federal officials and even a failed attempt to activate the pumps themselves.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

“It’s a sad spectacle to see a law firm …rendering itself into an instrument for lawlessness. It’s also a cautionary example of how lawyers should not conduct themselves as the Trump regime proceeds with its effort to replace the nation’s justice system with one governed by cronyism and corruption.”

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/03/2025

Trump wants to fire 83k VA workers, many of whom are veterans themselves, decimating the VA & making it harder for veterans to get health care & benefits. When Americans put their lives on the line to defend our country, we must keep our commitments to them — not betray them.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/03/2025

The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is literally a matter of life and death. People in wealthy counties live SEVEN years longer than people in poorer communities. That’s unacceptable. EVERYONE has the right to a long, happy and productive life.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 08/03/2025

Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/03/2025

"Russia doesn’t have allies. It has nations it dominates and bullies and coerces, and nations it wishes to dominate and bully and coerce. How dissimilar is that foreign policy from America’s now?" ICYMI @nataliaantonova.bsky.social:

thebulwark.com

Ukrainians Are in Shock

What other reaction can there be when America turns against its allies, its values, itself?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China. Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Real chilling effects

A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

TENNESSEAN: “Constituents unable to directly address Q’s, my submission was heavily redacted, stripping it of its meaning & allowing Andy Ogles to deflect… parallels to ‘1984’…” Ogles won’t hold town halls, even his tele-town halls are censored. 🤔 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

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Barbara Sosnowski @basiasosnowska.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This needs to be brought up again, I think… get out those torches and pitchforks…

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Barring any last minute change, the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going into effect tomorrow What should these countries (and, tomorrow, the European Union) do? 🧵

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"The most striking aspect to Trump's crypto reserve and the scrapping of anti-money laundering rules, which together amount to a global charter for criminals, is that he's making no effort to dress them up. This pig has no lipstick." My column. on.ft.com/43kiBOu

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Trump’s heist in broad daylight

[FREE TO READ] Having previously declared bitcoin to be a ‘scam’, the US president now wants to add it to the Fed’s balance sheet

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax – Succession actor Brian Cox today in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax | Brian Cox

I played a fictional billionaire on TV. It’s time world leaders got serious about taxing the real ones, says the actor Brian Cox

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Know your history.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Without healthy oceans, we wouldn’t just be facing hardships, we’d be facing existential collapse. The loss of oxygen, food, climate stability, water cycles, and biodiversity would make the planet uninhabitable for humans within a few generations. If the oceans die, we die. This. Is. Extinction.

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 28/02/2025

No more NEPA? This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act from the CFR. In addition, this interim final rule requests comments on this action and related matters to inform CEQ's decision making.

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Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations

This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

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Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

MAGA leaders undermine govt, dismantle our global standing, destabilize our economy, decimate soft power through foreign aid, and destroy our health, all to consolidate more power and wealth in the ashes. Cruelty and malicious destruction is intentional, not a side effect. Pure, self-serving evil.

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/02/2025

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I will remind folks every day for as long as it takes until working class Americans hear it and act: Elon Musk called you, me, your grandma, little children, veterans, disabled folks, farmers, ALL OF US "the parasite class". Everything they're doing is to make us suffer and die. It's eugenics.

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Call it what it is: MAHA is Eugenics

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info · 27/02/2025

Once bad actors get your personal info, they can use it for fraud for years. Read our explainer on data security & how to protect yourself. ⬇️ 🔗 www.wethebuilders.org/posts/real-r... #GovTech #TechForGood #SaveOurServices #altgov #altUSDS #linkinbio #CyberSecurity #DataProtection #PrivacyMatters

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 26/02/2025

For billionaires, "free markets" are the ones where they don't pay taxes

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/02/2025

Democrats thinking that the answer to their failures is "we didn't have a popular podcast" just is... so Democrats. It's looking at the superficial, not the substance. It's the kind of decision a committee makes, not someone in touch with the public.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Salute to @jonossoff and others who got this HBCU program restored, helping Tennessee State & others. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/02/2025

Once again, just like with Musk and Twitter, these fucking idiots don't understand what was already happening, rip it down, and then try to rebuild the same thing, but way dumber, because they can't understand nuance and complexity.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Congress voting to gut Medicaid will kill Americans and create untold suffering. Moms + babies. Grandmas in memory care. Disabled folks. The GOP has blood on their hands. Congress is now enacting a genocide on its poorest and most vulnerable. This is eugenics in action.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

*Musk pushed for removal of FAA head that regulates one of his businesses *Planes crash *Musk says he will help FAA *FAA ends up purchasing products from another of Musk's businesses

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Some AI is going to tell a college age nazi to fire almost every incident and natural disaster response team in the federal government because they didn’t have much to do during February 16-23, 2025.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real
techie in the cafeteria of a software company.

The project team is having lunch and discussing how long it would take
to wipe out a disease inherited recessively on the X chromosome. First
come calculations of inheritance probabilities. Given a population of a
given size, one of the engineers arrives at a wipe-out date. Immediately
another suggests that the date could be moved forward by various
manipulations of the inheritance patterns. For example, he says, there could be an education campaign.

The six team members then fall over one another with further
suggestions. They start with rewards to discourage carriers from breeding.
Immediately they move to fines for those who reproduce the disease. Then they go for what they call “more effective” measures: Jail for breeding. Induced abortion. Forced sterilization.

Now they’re hot. The calculations are flying. Years and years fall from
the final doom-date of the disease.

Finally, they get to the ultimate solution. “It’s straightforward,” someone
says. “Just kill every carrier.” Everyone responds to this last suggestion
with great enthusiasm. One generation and—bang—the disease is gone.

Quietly, I say, “You know, that’s what the Nazis did.”

They all look at me in disgust. It’s the look boys give a girl who has
interrupted a burping contest. One says, “This is something my wife would say.

When he says “wife,” there is no love, warmth, or goodness in it. In this
engineer’s mouth, “wife” means wet diapers and dirty dishes. It means
someone angry with you for losing track of time and missing dinner.
Someone sentimental. In his mind (for the moment), “wife” signifies all
programming-party-pooping, illogical things in the universe.

Still, I persist. “It started as just an idea for the Nazis, too, you know.”

The engineer makes a reply that sounds like a retch. “This is how I know
you’re not a real techie,” he says.

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Derek Rae @raecomm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Most Americans on Bluesky (if not on other platforms) get it. Last few weeks here in Köln talking to German friends there is a sense of incredulity/unease about the USA under this regime. Yes, a regime is how it’s viewed. How to get that across to people who have been brainwashed by the far right?

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