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Nick M. Velli

@archroadkill.bsky.social
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I am shuffling through the Texas sand but my head's in ... none of your business.

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DiveDoc @divedoc.bsky.social · 15h
👀🧐 per CNBC: * Ford CEO: It's not too late for U.S. to fend off Chinese automakers * www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/f...
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Ford CEO says it's 'too late' for Europe to fend off Chinese automakers, but not U.S.
CEO Jim Farley's warning comes on the heels of a high-profile visit last week by Chinese President Xi Jinping with President Donald Trump
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h
Why are we in a trade war with Canada, exactly? What was the country's alleged transgression? Check out my conversation with @samsteindc.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Trump’s War With Canada Has Officially Lost the Plot (w/ Sam Stein)
Podcast Episode · Receipts with Catherine Rampell · September 29 · 40m
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 18h
Puerto Rico is in a water crisis, as a US board slashes the island's social/infrastructure spend to protect corporate bondholders, and a developer tries to build a $2.5B private city on acres of untouched coastline. As one councilmember explains, much of this exploitation can be traced back to NYC.
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How Do You Protect Puerto Rico From NYC's Vulture Capitalists?
City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is urging the state government to rein in New York's "vulture funds" and opportunistic developers, while calling on Congress to dismantle the island's financial oversig...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/09/2026
The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey shows that Americans today feel worse about the economy than they did during either the Covid-19 pandemic or the 2008 financial crisis.
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Gas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows
“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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11th Hour with Ali Velshi @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ali Velshi does the math calculating how much more Donald Trump’s policies are costing the average American household.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/09/2026
I kid around a lot on BSKY but these are the top 6 Senate candidates where even a $5 donation will have an outsized impact.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“He has attended so many of her meetings that some foreign officials mistook him for her chief of staff. In fact, he is a top lobbyist for Aktor, whose CEO had flown Guilfoyle to the country on a private jet.”
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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ZER0 BILLIONAIRES @zer0billionaires.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hats off to these legends demanding real facts and stats. #Zer0Billionaires #Resist #VoteBlue #econsky
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turtlyburtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my favorite part of this interview is actually when dumbass #1 asked dumbass #2 about climate change and the response was, uh, really something (screenshots in thread)
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🗣️"When appraisal ignores these harms, prevention looks like worse value than it actually is – a systematic bias against precisely the investments that protect people rather than merely property." #EconSky #ClimatePolicy
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Prevention loses budget battles – wellbeing economics can change the maths - LSE Impact
Can wellbeing economics can make a compelling case for governments to invest in prevention over mitigation?
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 24/09/2026
30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps sharply Thursday to 7.45%
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30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps sharply Thursday to 7.45%
The 30-year fixed rate surged to 7.45%, the highest level since April 2024 as bonds sold off and yields rose.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He kept yelling "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. DHS calls it "without further incident." www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did. #EconSky
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Mark @njdoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Attempted murder? 'There is no bottom' isn’t a just a slogan, it’s an empirical observation! There is, laterally nothing that’s out of bounds for this GOP!: If you can visualize it, yes, they’re truly capable of it & it may actually happen in our lifetime! :( www.reuters.com/world/venezu...
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Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent hospitalized for paralysis treatment, returned to detention, lawyer says
A Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration ​agent in Austin, Texas, was treated at a hospital on Tuesday for paralysis on his ‌left side after he had spent a night in ICE detention with a bullet l...
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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When the BBC radio news reported that Mahmood had launched an investigation, we assumed it would be about Daniel Thomas slashing boats and intimidating the RNLI but no, it's about undetected migrant landings. Keep fanning those flames Home Secretary... 🤦‍♂️
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well this seems to have taken off - if you're interested in how atrocities are covered up and forgotten, I wrote a book about the worst massacre in American history that you have never heard about: Bud Dajo 1906 (more people were killed than at Wounded Knee and My Lai combined).
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When the Cincinnati Post shut down, it oddly had an effect on local elections. Fewer people ran for office, voter turnout fell, and incumbents became more likely to win. That's useful context for Trump's choice to ban 3 news orgs from the White House newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-econo...
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What Economists Know About Kicking Out Reporters
Trump banned three news organizations from the White House last week — and there’s a research literature on exactly where that leads.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE brutally detain woman's gardener-right in front of her house. 4 goons drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out. Incident occurred in Everett, Washington.
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Tracy @wacket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Karen Bass’s LAPD is openly defying a judge’s order to hand over moonlighting records, and it's obvious why. They are desperately hiding a shadow workforce where cops moonlight for ICE contractors, creating blatant conflicts of interest. It's time to enforce the subpoena and demand accountability.
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Hairball 😡🙄😡🙄🌊✊ @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is horrific. This man was shot in the back by ICE and has been taken out of the hospital and put back in detention, *with the bullet still in his back and his entire left side paralyzed.* He was forced to sleep on the floor and given no pain medication. www.macombdaily.com/2026/09/22/i...
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Man shot by ICE in Texas is back in detention after leaving hospital, attorney says
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was being held Tuesday at a federal center in South Texas.
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Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/n: Because of record-breaking diesel prices, the Trump Admin is reportedly considering a diesel export ban. There is one part of the country that this would squeeze tremendously, risking physical shortages that would prevent people from heating their homes in winter: New England (PADD 1A).
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/09/2026
Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures reveal that he’s investing in Elon Musk’s SpaceX. trib.al/JusUA2n
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Trump Financial Disclosures Reveal He and Musk Are Best Friends Again
Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures reveal that he’s investing in Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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FactsVsFake @factsvsfake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Citizens United: Dark Money Democracy for Sale www.marytrump.org/p/citizens-u...
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Citizens United: Dark Money
Democracy for Sale
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
NEW: A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the hacking group told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse.
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now, imagine the response to a column asking why a Premier League team has a Jewish supporters group.
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Why do Man Utd have a Muslim supporters’ group?
Sir Jim Ratcliffe must go, declares an organisation for the team’s Islamic fans. There’s just one thing puzzling
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22/09/2026
🚨 Breaking: Vance/Oz to kick ~760,000 off of ACA coverage and/or subsidies based on "fraud" claims "predicted" in part by an AI model: acasignups.net/26/09/22/bre...
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Breaking: Vance/Oz to kick ~760,000 off of ACA coverage and/or subsidies based on "fraud" claims "predicted" by an AI model
via the Wall St. Journal: WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance’s antifraud task force is set to remove hundreds of thousands of enrollments from the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges, saying those ...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let’s be clear—health care is a human right, not a privilege. This is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to kick hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Americans off their healthcare. Millions are already struggling to access healthcare—and this is their plan? We will be fighting back.
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Trump officials cut 760,000 enrollees from ACA, claiming fraud
Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force concluded that the people were wrongly signed up for the government health care program.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ What is Marco Rubio referring to here? It's true that Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure have hit some American interests, specifically the US oil companies Chevron and ExxonMobil, but that's a distraction from the real issue. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NC5 NASHVILLE: “Workers should brace for biggest health insurance cost in decades” Not mentioned even once: the role played by Trump’s bill cutting OVER $1 TRILLION to (partially) offset his tax cuts for the rich. www.newschannel5.com/videos/news/...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026
They’re about two weeks away from telling people they can always eat bugs
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The hot political takes coming out of the West, whose bottom line is that the solution to every problem is letting Russia murder enough Ukrainians to break our resistance, are honestly horrifying. ​Western democracies’ refusal to recognize Russia-paid influencers as a real threat is
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A typical morning at the Anthropic head office
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WaPo Page One: @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ 
Two horses chatting, one with its hind Quarter striped like a zebra and saying "I can't say I am entirely pleased with my hip replacement"
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“ICE has been terrorizing our country for far too long,” said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, who represents the district where the shooting occurred. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-sho...
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'This Violence Cannot Continue': ICE Shooting of Man in Austin Sparks Outrage | Common Dreams
"ICE has been terrorizing our country for far too long," said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, who represents the district where the shooting occurred.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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