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Andy Flach

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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 48m
These people are such embarrassing fools
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1h
Meanwhile, on SNAP
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 22h
Lol this is *actually* gonna annoy people. People hate their shit getting renamed more than they hate ICE kidnappings, expensive gas, etc
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23h
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
She does realize that a 360-degree turn puts you exactly where you started? Right? RIGHT??
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hilarious. Trump apparently appeals to men who are insecure about their Testosterone levels
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I knew this would last only a couple days. Pathetic.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How are these fraudsters making money?
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Joe Ferguson @joeferguson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On my way to cover a @joannamendoza.com event this morning, I drove by the weekly Saturday morning protest - led by LD18 Democrats - outside of Ciscomani’s office.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE is erasing immigrants with final deportation orders from a searchable online database, leaving families and attorneys in the dark as they try to find out where someone has been taken. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator
The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can’t have your Cuba until you’ve finished your Iran! How can you have any Cuba if you don’t finish your Iran?
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What an embarrassment for America
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vance-Led Task Force Set to Remove 760,000 Allegedly Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Vance-Led Task Force Set to Remove 760,000 Allegedly Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments
The Trump administration is planning to impose stricter eligibility requirements for ACA subsidies as part of a campaign against fraud.
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At this point you really just have to ignore people who categorically say "AI can't do X" where X is basically any cognitive task that humans can do as not up to date on capabilities of the best commercially available models.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
32% approval overall. 9% drop among Republicans from the same Reuters poll one week before www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump approval falls to record low of 32% as high costs bite, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to 32% - the lowest ‌of his political career - as his fellow Republicans soured on his handling of the cost of living amid the unpopular Iran war, a new R...
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
MAGA meltdown incoming
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Btw, Don Jr is a defense contractor now. What’s he doing accepting gifts from Putin associates?
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump: I’m going to demolish the Lincoln Memorial and erect a solid gold 100-foot replica of my penis. Courts: You can’t do that. Trump: It will have drones and snipers on top, for national security. Courts: Okay.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Looney Tunes: Porky Pig - That's All Folks!
ALT: Looney Tunes: Porky Pig - That's All Folks!
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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🌵🌵🌵 Tucson 🌵🌵🌵
Orange Shirt Day honors the Indigenous
Children who are survivors and casualties of the residential & boarding school system implemented by the Canadian and United States government's Department of Indian Affairs. It is estimated that more than 3,000 Native American children lost their lives while in the custody of the U.S. Government between 1868 and 1970.
Today we can educate ourselves of the negative impacts of this era on our Indigenous communities and honor the memory of those who never made it back to their homelands and families.OCT 1
4-6 РМ
PROTEST LOCATION:
La Cholla Blvd & Ina Rd, TucsonWE THE PEOPLE VOTE!
Let's gather in community to share information as we prepare for election day-November 3
ITAA
• Speakers
• Defending our Elections
• Neighbor 2Neighbor
• Party at the Polls
• Tucson Shutdown
• Singing Resistance
DEMOCRACY
UNITES US
DemocrocyUnitesUs.org
SINGING
RESISTANCE
When: Sunday, October 4, 2026
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson
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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🌵 🌵 🌵 Tucson 🌵 🌵 🌵 Sep 19 Write Postcards to Voters & Song Practice 4pm at UUCT Sep 30 Wear Orange in solidarity with our Indigenous community Oct 1 Protest 4pm at Ina & La Cholla Oct 4 Party & Prep for Elections 2pm at UUCT 🌵🌵🌵 Stand Up 🌵🌵🌵 for What You Believe In! JOIN US!
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If their testosterone is low, the Pentagon will help them get a gender affirming pickup truck
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh yeah, this is clearly part of Bluesky’s absolute willful ignorance on the subject. “Typing a prompt into ChatGPT” has become an ideological litmus test; as a result many won’t do it. Doing minimal investigation and discovering its remarkable capability is reframed as “getting AI psychosis.”
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
there are not enough federal goons to hold a single american city of a million people
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meltdown mode
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A nonprofit group with ties to HHS Secretary RFK Jr. solicited payment from companies in exchange for access to top agency officials at an upcoming event. $300k gets you a speaking slot + private dinner with RFK Jr and Mehmet Oz www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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RFK Jr.-Linked Group Offered Access to US Officials for Payment
A nonprofit group with ties to US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solicited payment from companies in exchange for access to top agency officials at an upcoming event, accord...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
America is led by a coalition of crooks & dingbats, but many Democrats are running on “affordability” as if the only thing wrong with this situation is that the crooks & dingbats failed to deliver a deep recession
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is insane.
Under a new interpretation of the law’s language outlined in the memo, the accidental killing or injury of an animal would no longer be considered illegal; only actions specifically intending to target an animal would.

The change would be transformative because, in the United States, the killing of endangered animals almost always happens incidentally, in the course of economic activity. Until now, industries and individuals could be held accountable for those foreseeable deaths and, as a result, they have been incentivized to avoid them.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous
The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Under Trump, the IRS is refusing to release its usual annual estimate of how many taxes go unpaid. Gee I wonder why www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Billions in Taxes Go Unpaid. Under Trump, the I.R.S. Won’t Say How Much.
The absence of the annual estimate on the tax gap could make it more difficult to assess whether more taxes are going unpaid since President Trump took office.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is insane. Inflation is under 4%. We’ve genuinely created a monster here: a public that hallucinates intolerable inflation no matter what the actual figures are. It is a bullet to the head of the entire progressive project *and progressives can’t even be made to care.*
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Sure, Jan. (Brady Bunch Meme)
ALT: Sure, Jan. (Brady Bunch Meme)
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICE is so cooked even Republicans are campaigning against it now.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also, a guy who destroys a federal memorial because judges won’t let him put his name on it isn’t a guy who will leave office because he lost an election.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump’s Green New Deal is real
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes, let’s not import chip lithography machines from the Dutch. Let them sell to the Chinese instead.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What is the over/under on how long it takes before Trump invokes his new congressionally-granted authority to put ***100% tariffs*** on virtually any country he wants? www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-vot...
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Senate Voting to Give Trump a Tariff Nuke
A bill supposedly aimed at Russia is really an unprecedented new tariff power grab—yet prominent Democrats are backing it.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As of today, both the House and Senate have passed this idiotic bill. It now heads to the president's desk.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why are we sending a truck driver who had legal work authorization to Gitmo, when the only thing that happened was his status was changed from under him? He broke no law.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It is very smart to impeach Hegseth. Yes, Republicans in the Senate can save him. They should be made to do so, and have it dominate headline for the next several months. Then rinse and repeat with RFK Jr and whatever horror is next.
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