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BeckyIB

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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share. ~ Maya Angelou

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
Really have a hard time getting over all these guyAIs looking at this world simply teeming with problems with well known solutions & deciding the best way they can help is to create whole new global problems that no human alive even remotely understands never mind knows how to actually fix
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Iran War, the slush fund, now this Wake up, everybody. You are living in a dictatorship
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Montana Plan is bipartisan, common-sense, and one of the best opportunities in a long time to put Citizens United where it belongs: in the ashbin of history.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/05/2026
The 30-year Treasury yield just hit its highest level since 2007 — right before the financial crisis. That means more expensive mortgages. Costlier car loans. Higher credit card interest rates. Trump promised to lower costs. His reckless agenda is doing the opposite.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Sarah Longwell: Best offense opportunity for Democrats in a while is that for the next 7 months they’re going to have some really pissed off lame duck Republicans to potentially work with. Get these guys while they’re in YOLO mode!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Now that we know Trump's "settlement" with IRS will nix audits, potentially saving him millions, Jamie Raskin's push to force Repubicans to vote on this whole fiasco looks more urgent. Make Rs defend this with Trump 31 points underwater on the economy: newrepublic.com/article/2106...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New Quinnipiac poll has Trump's approval on the economy among registered voters at 33-64. Among independents it's a staggering 27-70. That's *43 points underwater.* Independents hate corruption. A good time to make House Rs vote on Trump's fund handing out taxpayer money to his political allies!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2026
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AXIOS: “Fetterman’s chief of staff resigned Wednesday…” — yeah that checks out. “The Pennsylvania Democrat has had a serious staff retention problem as he's faced scrutiny over his health struggles and changing political brand.” www.axios.com/2026/05/20/j...
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Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"They recognize that this is toxic." @pbump.com and @stephruhle.bsky.social react to a Republican congressman in a moderate district saying he'll try to kill Donald Trump's massive settlement fund.
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Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#UkraineWar, Day 1,546: #Russia Refined Oil Output Falls 10% Amid #Kyiv Strikes #Ukraine eaworldview.com/2026/05/ukra...
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Ukraine War, Day 1,546: Russia's Refined Oil Output Falls 10% Amid Kyiv's Strikes - EA WorldView
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hails a 10% drop in Russia's refined oil, with wells shut, amid Kyiv's strikes on Moscow's facilities.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Latinos have been a majority in Whittier for decades, but they've rarely had representation in city government — until now. A groundswell of political engagement & immigrant activism sparked by ICE raids last year has ousted 3 conservatives and elected Whittier's first ever majority-Latino council
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How Immigrant Organizing Flipped Nixon’s Hometown - Bolts
The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos and kept them out of city government.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Tennessee Republicans have stolen political power from the state’s 2 largest cities, Nashville and Memphis. Memphis is split in 3 districts; Nashville is split in 5. This is not democracy. This is a vandalism of democracy.
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How GOP's Tennessee redistricting map impacts Nashville, Memphis elections
On day two of Tennessee's special session, the GOP proposed its ambitious redraw linking Memphis and the greater Nashville area in two separate districts.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/05/2026
Not only has the mission of every government attorney been redefined as serving Trump personally; ICE, with its cowboy culture and contempt for the law, knows it is a favorite of Trump and Stephen Miller, and that it can operate with near impunity. trib.al/WSOaRyz
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How ICE Withheld Info From a Federal Judge—and Then Smeared Her for It
ICE issued a press release accusing the jurist of freeing a murderer. Problem: ICE had withheld that very information from her.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/05/2026
This isn't a priority contest. We have to fight on every front. Not give up an inch. But historically, white women were oppressed 'subjects' still within the human category, while Black people were legally 'objects' outside of it. Anti-Blackness is the foundation the whole hierarchy is built on.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/05/2026
There is no compromise to be had with a movement whose whose whole reason for being, whose core identity is their hatred of Black people and their desire to dominate them. The right wing have their side quests and folk demons of the week, but the whole foundation is anti-Blackness.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/05/2026
The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.
washingtonpost.com
Louisiana governor prepares to suspend House primaries after court ruling
Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told Republican House candidates he plans to suspend the May 16 primary elections so lawmakers can redraw the congressional map.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/04/2026
Okay, good. But... "The settlement calls for members of the Sackler family who own the company to contribute up to $7 billion over 15 years. Most of the money is to go to government entities to use to fight the opioid crisis." Why give them 15 years? Why not take it ALL RIGHT NOW?
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Could a bubble made of nothing but grifts, graft & stock manipulation be about to burst if it does THIS?
OpenAI Newsroom on X today: OpenAl & NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10GW of NVIDIA Systems
This enables OpenAl to build & deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Al datacenters with NVIDIA systems representing millions of GPUS for OpenAl's next-gen Al infrastructure.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
That Fortune piece says nothing and is paywalled so here's the Techspot piece that says the same things which are basically that we should put techbros into a blender and "At Uber, spending on Al coding tools has ramped up so fast that it has exhausted the company's planned 2026 Al budget."
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At Nvidia, compute already costs more than employees. The rest of corporate America is catching up
At Nvidia, that shift is already visible. "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees," Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of...
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
And who set that system up 🪿
Fortune, in the middle of the damn night this morning at like 3 am: "The cleg of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees:" Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers, and a photo of Bryan Catanzaro who clearly thinks of himself as an eccentric with his silly longish hair and Dan Flashes complicated shirt and velvet cerulean blue blazer and oversized glasses frames that I'm certain he thinks are very cool. They're just okay.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
LMAOOO, trump was unable to convert any post-WHCD sympathy into a bump for Senate Republicans: Polymarket's prediction model STILL has DEMs flipping the Senate. We need a John Fetterman-proof majority. Do you think THAT is doable?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
France plans to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050. “France announced a ‘first of its kind’ plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 & gas by 2050…The roadmap was published as dozens of nations gather for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.”
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France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050
France on Tuesday announced a “first of its kind” plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels.
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Jennifer Glensdottir @jecathre.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Megatron, hunter of minnows, destroyer of food pellets, absolute drama queen, is 144 grams today. 42 days until she is released back to her native waters in the Chesapeake Bay.
A juvenile Diamondback Terrapin, being held in a two handed hamburger style hold, twists her head up to look at the camera. She's hoping for snacks. A juvenile Diamondback Terrapin flails her legs about making it much harder to measure her shell height with digital calipers than is strictly necessary.A juvenile Diamondback Terrapin, held about six inches above a countertop, positioned like an upright biped, wondering if the indignities will ever cease.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🔥 WATCH: “Do you believe it’s fair to ask him to cite his sources when you’ve been making claims and not citing yours?” After Rep Ogles lashed out, telling a Belmont student to “Sit down. You’re done”— another student had his back👇🏽 (Yes, Pinocchiogles 🤥 lied: www.instagram.com/reel/DXplRg1...)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Reality: They’re kicking people off food stamps then bragging that it’s a good thing While Trump cuts taxes for the rich, building ballrooms, raiding the treasury for himself and his friends and family, and spending $1.5 trillion on the military. They are laughing at us.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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BeckyIB @beckyib.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Staged assassination attempt, again.
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a woman is sitting in a hammock eating a green apple .
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression
The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/04/2026
“It is no longer enough—or even that useful frankly—to discover the hidden forces of reaction in the world. There just aren't that many hidden forces to find, because reaction has stopped hiding. What is necessary is to fight it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...
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What Is Woke 2?
Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power.
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“This is the other great payoff from a radicalised liberalism: if you believe you are in a fight between freedom and fascism, you will entertain far more radical proposals than you would in normal circumstances.”
prospectmagazine.co.uk
The radicalisation of the American liberal
How US liberalism found the will to fight Trump—and what we can learn from it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/04/2026
The gap between how AI companies talk about themselves and how the general public has experienced the technology (and its side effects) has grown into a chasm. And now the results of these divisions are starting to show. trib.al/VYLEH2P
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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I've been anticipating this shift for years but it's interesting to finally reach the tipping point where tech isn't cool.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“Since 2020, my father, Jimmy Lai, has been held in solitary confinement for the crime of defending democracy,” Claire Lai writes. She shares his letters and sketches from prison:
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Opinion | My father is a political prisoner. His letters give me hope.
Faith guides Jimmy Lai’s struggle against tyranny.
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 22/04/2026
A woman is suing MrBeast's company for alleged sexual harassment and verbal abuse She claims MrBeast's mom runs his HR department and that the company handbook allegedly says 'It's okay for the boys to be childish.' kotaku.com/a-woman-is-s...
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MrBeast's Company Sued By Woman Over Claims Of Sexual Harassment
The lawsuit claims that MrBeast's company handbook says: 'It’s okay for the boys to be childish' and 'No does not mean no'
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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Hollywood is literally going to kill itself because it was taken over by corporate goons and silicon valley dipshits who lobbied a corrupt government to permit vertical integration and the supposedly better government that replaced them (biden) did not rectify.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“They said we will separate your head from your shoulders” Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil spoke about threats from Israel before they ultimately just killed her, then bombed rescuers. The timeline of her murder: today.lorientlejour.com/article/1504...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
PHIL WILLIAMS: “Lots of people are lying about the SPLC indictment.” www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/the-splc-i...
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Center for Ballot Freedom @centerforballotfreedom.org · 23/04/2026
The near-destruction of fusion voting didn’t just shrink ballot choices—it weakened something deeper: the ability of ordinary people to build lasting political organizations, develop civic skills, and push new issues onto the national agenda.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. An elderly convict who regularly shits himself in public says it's open. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Imagine the hysterical reaction from the right had Hunter Biden gone on TV and bragged about getting millions of dollars from his father's government for doing something he had no aptitude or experience for?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.
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