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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He was driving 106 mph at the time. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers hit fleeing vehicles at speeds far faster than they practice, killing seven people and injuring 114 in an eight-year span.
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State trooper seriously hurt after he 'straight up rammed' a fleeing shoplifter's pickup
He was driving 106 mph at the time. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers hit fleeing vehicles at speeds far faster than they practice, killing seven people and injuring 114 in an eight-year span.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2026 was the hottest summer on record since records began in 1895. Shockingly, Republicans are trying to stop ALL federal heat safety protection regs-NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. HR6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. Let's stop this! 1/
Graphic reading “Not having shade, water, breaks is not just dangerous it is inhumane,” with a  hand holding strawberries chained to gray links with the link breaking up top; the stark design conveys urgency
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Earth’s monitored wildlife populations have fallen 73% in the past half-century. Animal-sourced foods are the leading driver of biodiversity and habitat loss globally, with grazing cattle bearing disproportionate responsibility. Extensively farming uses more land per KG (some est. 2x per KG).
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We overestimate the benefits of highly adopted actions like recycling & underestimate highly beneficial ones like plant-based. The latter would be even higher ranked if CO2 drawdown on land used by animal ag was incld. New study 2,924 US adults testing 34 climate actions: doi.org/10.1038/s418...
Fig. 1: Adoption of climate actions by their climate change mitigation potential. Average adoption rates and objective emission mitigation potentials in kilograms CO2e per capita and year of 34 individual-level climate actions aggregated across the three US samples included in the present research (n = 2,924; Supplementary Table 2). The data illustrate the negative relationship between the adoption of climate actions and their mitigation potential (r = −0.51, 95% CI [−0.72; −0.21], t(32) = −3.37, P = 0.002, one-sample t-test, two-sided, against r = 0). Only short labels of the climate actions are shown; see Supplementary Table 2 for full descriptions. EV, electric vehicle.
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Tulsa Flyer @tulsaflyer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.... tulsaflyer.org/2026/08/10/news/post…
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Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands
The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Did you know that in the second quarter of 2026, ExxonMobil and Chevron raked in a combined $26.6B in post-tax income, while people struggled to afford basics like food and utilities? That's why we're calling for a ban on fossil fuel exports and a windfall profits tax on industry majors.
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Following Record Fossil Fuel Industry Profits, Groups Call for Oil and Gas Export Ban, Windfall Profit Tax on Majors
"Congress has an opportunity to step up and advance real solutions that would help families and small businesses."
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
600 homes burned to the ground. 60K people evacuated. This is huge and we’re barely even noticing anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
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Spokane Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Buildings as Thousands Evacuate
Firefighters were hopeful that improving weather conditions in Washington state could help efforts to contain the blaze, which officials described as the largest natural disaster in the history of Spo...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. Using this framing: "Two people died of a preventable infection. But don't worry, its just disabled/vulnerable people!" should automatically mean you are eligible for a fiery, pus-ridden, painful, endless and eternal toil in the depths of Tartarus
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KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oklahoman Martha Lillard spent nearly her entire life using an iron lung, a respiratory device used to facilitate breathing for polio victims. The last known American to use the technology, she died at 78 last month.
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Martha Lillard, last American using iron lung, dies in Shawnee
Martha Lillard spent nearly her entire life using an iron lung, a respiratory device used to facilitate breathing for polio victims. She died at 78 last month.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Guy standing up meme
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
When you think about how fireworks cause serious harm to the environment, wildlife, pets, and vulnerable people but they still happen every year because most Americans value a few minutes of entertainment more than all of those things. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black-and-white photo portrait of a long-haired tabby cat with an annoyed, exasperated expression on his face.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 30/06/2026
Oklahoma City Pride has banned Starbucks from their parade. You can't be for LGBTQ+ rights and union-bust workers asking for fair protections, fair pay, and accessible healthcare. It's as simple as that.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why: 1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Oklahoma Voice @oklahomavoice.com · 12/06/2026
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank. buff.ly/JHezWAn
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Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds • Oklahoma Voice
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/06/2026
this is worth highlighting again this is domestic abuse from platner, this is not just 'guy who was kind of a dickbag towards women' completely beyond the pale
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Here is a woman running against Graham Platner in next week’s primary. Maine has options.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
if you are a man considering weighing in on the latest graham platner story i urge you to take a beat. women who are your peers are watching.
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Oklahoma Policy Institute @okpolicy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Today, a minimum-wage earner in Oklahoma would need to work about 93 hours a week — more than two full-time jobs — just to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. No one should have to work that much simply to survive." otherwords.org/wages-havent...
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Wages Haven’t Kept Up — And Working Families Are Paying the Price - OtherWords
Lawmakers have passed the buck on raising the minimum wage. Voters are taking matters into their own hands.
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KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Boley, a historic all-Black town and destination on the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail, has plans to open a 12,500-square-foot plaza. The complex will include a welcome center, restaurant and full-service gas station.
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Boley plaza project will greet visitors at Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail destination
Boley, a historic all-Black town and destination on the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail, has plans to open a 12,500-square-foot plaza as part of an ongoing revitalization effort. The complex will include ...
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month!
a drawing of a seal wearing a pink sweater and a bow. the seal says "Marriage equality isn't achieved until disabled people can marry without losing their benefits."
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KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thanks to the drought, Oklahoma farmers are harvesting the state’s top crop extremely early. Across the state, it is not expected to be very good.
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Oklahoma faces poor, early wheat harvest following warm winter
Thanks to the drought, Oklahoma farmers are harvesting the state’s top crop extremely early. Across the state, it is not expected to be very good.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Please. For the love of god. Never use the phrase “left leaning billionaire.” That isn’t a thing. It doesn’t exist. For a billionaire to be even remotely leftist they would be a class traitor and wouldn’t engage in anything even remotely related to the system that made them a billionaire.
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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Sharing this fun autism matchup activity through ND Connect! www.ndconnect.app/tism-twin-qu...
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Meet your tism twin
A recent viral study found that people with similar levels of autistic traits are drawn to each other when their opinions align. Take this quiz to be matched with a possibly compatible internet str...
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Oklahoma Voice @oklahomavoice.com · 14/05/2026
Oklahoma's public TV broadcaster, OETA, is at risk of closing after the state Senate failed to override a governor's veto of the station.
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Veto override to save OETA fails in Oklahoma Senate • Oklahoma Voice
Oklahoma senators failed to override a governor's veto of the state's public TV broadcasting station, OETA.
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Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷 @beth72.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
That happens to me too, so annoying!
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Oklahoma Voice @oklahomavoice.com · 13/05/2026
Oklahoma is now the 17th state in the United States to ban child marriage.
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Oklahoma ban on child marriage becomes law • Oklahoma Voice
Oklahoma is now the 17th state in the United States to ban child marriage.
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NonDoc @nondocmedia.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Members of #FoodNotBombs, which hosts weekly feeding events to protest war, is claiming #Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols has targeted them for not following the instructions of his senior adviser on homelessness. The city argues the group is skirting the law. nondoc.com/2026/05/13/t...
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Tulsa police arrest 4 Food Not Bombs members, others allege mayor targeting group
Four members of the Tulsa chapter of Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday May 6, 2026, during their weekly food distribution event.
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Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷 @beth72.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Disgusting behavior by the cops and the mayor’s office. So much for him caring about people experiencing homelessness!
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our 300th article: The world wastes 766 million tonnes of grain every year by feeding it to farmed animals. Then we’re told beans are unrealistic, veganism is extreme, and animal agriculture feeds the world. It doesn’t. It manufactures scarcity.
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Animal Farming Turns Abundance Into Scarcity
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
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KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill Wednesday that would extend the life of Oklahoma’s Educational Television Authority, or OETA, to 2031. The House has overridden that veto, which kicks the measure to the Senate.
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Gov. Stitt vetoes bill extending life of Oklahoma's public television, two dozen other measures
Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill Wednesday that would extend the life of Oklahoma’s Educational Television Authority, or OETA, to 2031. It’s among the latest of about two dozen vetoes so far.
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Tyler Talley @tylertalley579.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
JUST IN: The House PASSES (just barely though) SB504, which would set the minimum age for marriage in Oklahoma at 18 years of age. It now goes to Gov. Kevin Stitt for final consideration. #okleg
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
fuck the met gala and fuck jeff bezos. that is the official stance of the handbasket.
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Okla City Free Press @freepressokc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
NEW - At least 10 people are hospitalized, with more expected in coming hours, after a shooting at Lake Arcadia late Sunday night | Brett Fieldcamp reports:
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Mass shooting at Lake Arcadia leaves 10 hospitalized, more expected
At least 10 people are hospitalized, with more expected in coming hours, after a shooting at Lake Arcadia late Sunday night.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families.
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Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷 @beth72.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
and eugenics
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/04/2026
You can tell by the truck driver's reaction that she just never saw the car she ran over and didn't really understand what stopped her truck.
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Rowdy Girl Sanctuary @rowdygirlsanctuary.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We wait for the rain out here. We depend on it. This year… it didn’t come in time. Now 69 cows are relying on hay every single day. Help us fill the hay barn. 🌾🐄 Please Donate Today🙏 ➡️ bit.ly/4cxOLsY
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you start to pay attention to this you'll realize how much we're socialized to associate 'mentally ill' with 'morally reprehensible' and how eager folks are to reach for mental health vocabulary to describe issues that are fundamentally moral.
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Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷 @beth72.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Tulsa City Council passed a nine month moratorium on data centers last month, it doesn’t apply to the data centers they approved before that. I think there are three currently planned for the Tulsa metro area. Hopefully the council sees the damage from those and doesn’t approve any more.
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Tulsa Flyer @tulsaflyer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Meta reveals it’s behind east Tulsa data center attracting praise and protests State and city officials trumpeted $3.3 billion in economic activity over the next three years. But protesters worry about the impact on resources.
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Meta reveals it’s behind east Tulsa data center attracting praise and protests
State and city officials trumpeted $3.3 billion in economic activity over the next three years. But protesters worry about the impact on resources.
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KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Last year, Oklahoma lawmakers removed the option for individuals to replace their ID through fingerprint verification, meaning it now requires a birth certificate or another personal document — which many unhoused Oklahomans don't have.
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Lost identity: How an Oklahoma policy change made ID renewals harder for the unhoused
An Oklahoma policy change made state ID renewals harder for the unhoused.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is the “personal responsibility” lie we’ve all been fed by big business for decades. We’ve allowed industry to convince us we’re at fault for their harms. And we’ve allowed them to turn us against each other so we spend more time finger wagging individual people then we do fighting bad actors.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump said Direct File was too expensive to operate. This feels like an indictment of our willingness to build things. Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, had *more lobbyists* than the Direct File team had employees. The cost of Direct File is a fraction of the tax breaks given to Intuit.
The average American spends about $290 to file. They also spend about 13 hours, often giving the government information it already has, which works out to another $486 worth of time assuming the average BLS hourly wage.

The Trump administration says that Direct File was too expensive. Compared to what? Direct File cost IRS $16 million in its final year of operation. Between 2021-2025 Intuit also got almost $500 million dollars in federal tax credits.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Presidents since Reagan have been promising a tool like Direct File. Elon Musk even proposed an IRS app for taxpayers. IRS actually built it! Users loved it, but then DOGE killed it after a meeting with the private tax preparation industry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
graph showing positive evaluations of Direct File by usersheadline saying DOGE putting Direct File on the chopping block after meeting with lobbyists
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