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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The corporate media will demand a Democrat disavow words of a supporter a thousand times more than they will demand a Republican be accountable for the actions of their president
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The media wants this world ao bad, where Mamdani is controversial and Trump Is beloved
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026
When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.
Ocasio-Cortez isn’t convinced. She’s not sure that these are the kinds of proposals Democrats should start building an agenda around.

“When you actually look at the totality of what’s being put forward, we are seeing a total gutting of a resource base,” Ocasio-Cortez told NOTUS. “If people want to choose between whether they want guaranteed health care or a 5% tax rebate, people are going to want guaranteed health care.”

“It’s not to say that I object to any and all like tax cuts or tax rebates, right? We can help people who are struggling, but I don’t think that the biggest impact in how you help someone and how we help people make ends meet is through that avenue,” she said.

For Ocasio-Cortez, who has long been an advocate of taxing the wealthy and transforming social services, wiping out significant tax revenue goes too far.

Ocasio-Cortez said “across the board” tax cut proposals on the table amount to an “attack” on young people.

“It is a complete defunding of the world that young people will have to live in, and they are asking young people to foot the bill,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
perfect weather to bike home
a photo of a citibike at a crosswalk
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2026
thanks again joe manchin!
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe? Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban. Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion. If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We need better Democrats. Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/02/2026
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
trump wants to kill you. whether it’s an ICE agent shooting you, a cancer drug trial being defunded, increased air pollution, or defunding safe streets funding, the one universal thread in all of their policies is that they think the very idea of making the world a better place is a liberal hoax
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity. So pathetic and weak.
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Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Evil. No other word for it
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
need more cosmopolitan chauvinism imo. to be able to go to a world city and do this without crossing a border is something you should be proud of, it means you're a great country. To want to tear it down means you are inbred provincial hog with no greater drives than envy and fear.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Democrats should demand the dismantling of ICE, congressional hearings into its operations and prosecution of its worst offenders, but at the VERY least they must refuse to spend our tax money to fund these masked goons who are terrorizing our communities.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/01/2026
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 24/12/2025
“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
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Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Don't know how many different ways I can say these are actual Nazis, minus the bureaucratic skill and esthetics
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
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Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ukraine doing an anti-corruption sweep in the middle of a hot war on its own territory is also evidence that the fortress communism excuse that governments can be excused for their corruption or authoritarianism because of the looming threat of imperial capitalist powers is bullshit
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/11/2025
this is just gutter racism
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
He has been giving the same answer for months but he's asked about it every interview. These questions aren't being asked to inform the public. They exist to continually suggest to viewers that Mamdani secretly hates Jews.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/11/2025
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/11/2025
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12/11/2025
“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
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Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10/11/2025
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
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