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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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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 18h
I am still confused about where the money comes from. I know, home health aides are paid very badly. But we're talking about almost 1M additional healthcare workers. After cutting Medicaid etc
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 22h
Well I am gonna have to forward this to a couple people who keep telling me Trump won because of, erm, the downtrodden forgotten working man etc
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 22h
But we've got the richest and most dickish billionaires!
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In 1976 DAVID BOWIE played a gig in New York and got busted by police for having 182g of marijuana. Here he is effortlessly styling out his mugshot.
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What Palantir can’t do is stop government agencies from sharing information with each other, which Trump ordered them to do in March. ELITE, the app they created for ICE, sources its data from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which manages Medicaid." via @kalwradio.bsky.social
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Nurses rally in San Francisco against Palantir’s work with ICE
Nurses marched in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest Palantir’s involvement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 02/10/2026
If your reaction to Wemby saying this is a hearty “hell yeah”, it behooves me to let you know that @theguardian.com does not take business from betting companies, we have a great sports section, no paywall, and a great app. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
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‘It’s sad seeing players promote it’: Wembanyama says he will never endorse gambling companies
Spurs star says it is ‘very sad’ to see NBA players promote gambling companies and insists money no longer drives his sponsorship decisions
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hahaha of course they would try to rewrite the history of every right-wing crook they can find
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Newt Gingrich is still crawling around DC looking for a new mistress, I didn't know
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/10/2026
The episode mocked billionaires by depicting them as being obsessed with appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast and spreading COVID conspiracies on social media.
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New ‘South Park’ Episode Depicts Town ‘Infested’ With Podcast-Obsessed Billionaires
The episode mocked billionaires by depicting them as being obsessed with appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast and spreading COVID conspiracies on social media.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/10/2026
The moment Katie Britt realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But Steve it's all roses now because the PCE came in lower than expected
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Miller Lite stats o' the day 463,561 461,974 -BYD sales in China <in September only> -TSLA global sales estimate <for the entire third quarter>
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They don't have many options. They're landlocked and have only two neighbors: Russia and China.
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am a bit mystified by this. If people are supposed to spend more they'll have to make more. I don't see any indication that wage growth has picked up. Also, are these inflation adjusted numbers? Because if not we don't need to waste our time here.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In this very moment I am sitting in a community center, from 7am to at least 10am, to try to secure a spot in the city-run camp for my kids for Thanksgiving and this smattering of random days where schools are closed that are coming up. I might get lucky. If not, I will have to figure something out.
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Basically, once you were silly enough to get pregnant, you're trapped. We don't let you abort, healthcare is unaffordable, if you have any at all. Child care is a luxury. You got yourself into a pickle and it will be used to exploit you ruthlessly. After that comes the war against public education.
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can confirm that, including the numbers, from my own experience. 48% of all children in the US are both on Medicaid. Because giving birth is already so expensive. Child care: $1300 is the norm around here. It's a mystery to me why people have as many children as they still do. It's ruinous.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/10/2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
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FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’
Brendan Carr said the ads are “normal-course public service announcements” and nothing that would “merit any sort of” review by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 30/09/2026
NEWS: Zehn Tarifverträge gekündigt, 50.000 Stellen weltweit auf der Streichliste. VW will profitabler werden. Bezahlen sollen die Beschäftigten, während Aktionäre profitieren.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exactly, because we're blowing hundreds of billions on AI data centers and South Korea produces a lot of the parts
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He wants them to empty their reserves while preparing an export ban. Yeah right.
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DiveDoc @divedoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👀🧐 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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So I guess we have come to the point where Republicans no longer need to pretend they're doing this whole constitution thing. I mean, they couldn't shut up about it in the past. But everyone with eyes in their head always knew it was just a means to an end for them
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well you know how this "makes sense". The fossil fuel industry has set up an impressive propaganda apparatus that has to a large extent become the Republican party. Trump and these old geezers have become what FOX told them to be. The young ones will be shaped by fascistic social media instead
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now here's a quiz question, will that influence the voting behavior of people 50+? We always say "Congress is beholden to the rich". Which is undoubtedly true. But , at least so far, we get to choose who's in Congress. Half of Texas, the state with the most uninsured, is willing to re-elect Abbott
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You really have to wonder what Xi thinks after meeting this bumbling old fool. He probably can't believe his luck.
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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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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here I was thinking stuff like that would be illegal for government officials. I am a bit naive and old-fashioned sometimes.
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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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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's really an act of deliberate misrepresentation to call this "clawing back". They're not getting anything "back" at all, they refuse to spend the taxpayers' money on what Congress appropriated it for. So that they can spend it on whatever they want and damage the original intended recipients.
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But that's something they already fantasized about in the 80s. "Starving the beast" is what they grandiosely called it. They wanted to rack up govt debt to precipitate a crisis that'll allow them to slash benefits programs. Amazing how people kept voting for them even after they said it out loud
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The article states "delay securing power to the site" is what Oracle invoked. If that's force majeure then I guess all responsibility for delays will soon be fair game
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What kind of force are they claiming? Not being able to offload loans doesn't usually count
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