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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 23h

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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In SAVE ruling, Supreme Court signals path to weaken key protection against last-minute purges

A crucial voter protection could hinge on whether the Supreme Court wants to narrow the definition of “systematic” as applied to purges. And there’s reason to fear that it does.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026

🚨The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a deeply flawed database of Americans’ personal information to initiate registration purges. Have questions? Marc Elias has answers. Here’s what this decision means for YOUR vote ⬇️

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Revives Trump's Voter Purge Scheme

In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of Americans’…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An important note here:

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The system combines citizenship information with Americans’ Social Security data, and eligible voters (including naturalized citizens) have already been wrongly flagged as noncitizens. With the midterms just weeks away, the consequences of this are huge.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a big deal and it will affect eligible voters! The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to allow the Trump administration to resume using its expanded SAVE database to check voter rolls, reversing lower-court orders that had blocked it over privacy and accuracy concerns.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DHS SAVE database has long and documented history of producing false positives of non-citizens voting, leading to sensational headlines of alleged voter fraud that turn out to be untrue on closer inspection. In St. Louis County, MO, for example at least 81% of the names flagged were incorrect

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026

🗳️ HEADS UP OHIO: Voters who want to register to vote while applying for a driver's license will now be required to provide proof of citizenship. Voters who register through other means will only need to sign a statement, the lone dissenting judge explained: demdock.com/4xOunfV

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

Equality PAC, the campaigning arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus, announced its endorsement of Marcy Kaptur and other anti-trans Dems days after political ads targeting trans people. Even the LGBTQ+ congressional caucus is throwing trans people aside. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Equality PAC, Political Arm Of Congressional LGBTQ Caucus, Endorses Marcy Kaptur Days After Her Anti-Trans Ad

“Do we need to endorse people in order to support them? Do we need to support them in order to have power in Congress?”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

More evidence, as if we needed it, that Trump, RFK Jr., and the GOP are just fine with letting children die. Especially if they're poor.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

NEW: Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.

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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move

Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?

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FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.

The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026

NEW: The Clear Labels Act was designed to help patients and doctors see exactly where a medication was made. But experts say the law’s most critical provisions have been cut: “It's just a clear watering down of the original bill.”

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“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote

The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16/09/2026

🗳️ HEADS UP DELAWARE: A Republican challenge to a law that allows some voters to automatically receive an absentee ballot each election cycle will be heard by the state Supreme Court today. It's the latest example of Republican efforts to restrict access to mail voting ahead of the midterms.

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Delaware Supreme Court to hear GOP challenge to absentee voting rules

“Tens of thousands of veterans, senior citizens, and Delawareans with disabilities rely on permanent absentee voting,” state Attorney General Kathy Jennings said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. (Published May w/ @adn.com)

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This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the ...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/09/2026

A cancer drug that improved the lives of ~2.7 million women was made by two doctors who were fed up with the current treatments available. The success of this drug laid the foundation for the now widespread use of lab-made antibodies as drugs. Read the latest version of Traces at the link in bio!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The GOP already controls Congress and the White House. If they actually wanted to do this, they could pass and send the dividends out tomorrow. Instead, this will be yet another example of Trump never paying people what he's promised them. www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62kzr1jg…

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Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms

Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/09/2026

On Tuesday, experienced AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the AI firm Anthropic—saying that both that company and OpenAI, his previous employer, were “gambling with our lives." It’s far from the first time researchers have tried to raise the alarm about AI’s dangers.

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Anthropic staffers sound the alarm—again—on AI catatrophe

AI developers are issuing more and more frantic wake-up calls.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/09/2026

📮 If the new USPS rule is greenlit by SCOTUS for the midterms, your mail ballot may never make it to you through no fault of your own. How would that happen? Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know ahead of the fast-approaching midterms: demdock.com/3T3Owjg

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/09/2026

NEW: A union representing more than 200,000 postal workers issued a stark warning Tuesday. They say a “catastrophic wholesale non-delivery” of hundreds of thousands of mail ballots will likely occur if states are forced to comply with USPS's new mail voting rule this November.

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‘Catastrophic’: Postal workers slam Trump’s mail voting restrictions, urge Supreme Court to uphold block

A union representing 200,000 postal workers said the restrictions "will inevitably grind the operation of the postal system to a halt."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/09/2026

A massive immigration operation is happening in Memphis. It’s been underway for just under a year now—hundreds of arrests, streets filled with officers. But most people have never heard of it. Why? It’s harder to record ICE in Tennessee than it is in many states.

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Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.

Watch as these officers arrest an activist for documenting from a reasonable distance.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Amazon AMD Axon Boeing Dell Microsoft Nvidia Palantir Just a few of the corporations and government contractors Trump has bought stock in lately. Many of his trades coincided with regulatory decisions his administration made that affected their profits. Understand what's really going on here.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My diocesan bishop just launched a substack and I just...

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Never ever ever! I despise the plagiarism machines that destroy the environment to steal from hard-working creators to vomit up slop for the envious and lazy.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is a delightful video showing Adam Savage utterly besotted with the elegance and beauty of these gorgeous mechanical wings made by Laura Mathews. They really are magnificent! youtu.be/WT7MLrxor1A?...

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Adam Savage Experiences Anatomically Correct Wings!

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/09/2026

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/09/2026

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026

Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/09/2026

The eternal question

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026

The Wonderful Company is the top sprayer of the herbicide glyphosate in California, according to records analyzed by Mother Jones. The couple behind Wonderful is also thought to consume more of the state’s water than any other family, farm, or company.

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Meet the California couple who uses more water than every home in Los Angeles combined

How megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick built their billion-dollar empire.

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