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Bruce H. McCosar @bmccosar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem has passed away. Long ago, my parents used to force me to go to church each Sunday. One time the pastor made a comment about "people who were destroying America, like Carl Sagan and Gloria Steinem." I liked Carl Sagan. Gloria Steinem was new to me. I took it as a recommendation.
My original trade paperback of Gloria Steinem's "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" (1st edition, 1983).
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donnadeka.bsky.social @donnadeka.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
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Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
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Talah Reed @talahreed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
— You do realise Stoicism and Romanticism are pulling in opposite directions? — Constantly. — And you believe in both? — Inconveniently, yes. — So what do you do with that? — Give each one a verse and let the chorus fail to decide. #writerscommunity #poetry #songwriter
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Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Forty years. Ten presidential terms. One scoreboard. No opinions—just the numbers. Compare the record and decide for yourself.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Discovery The human vision is not a photograph.
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The visual test that humans pass with 96% and the best AI fails with 10% - Sinaptica
The Discovery The human vision is not a photograph. When we look, our eyes jump restlessly from one point to another, guided by hypotheses that are corrected on
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BetterTrouble @bettertrouble.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Why? Just, why?
Image of swimming orca captioned, "Watch an orca ram a sunfish so hard that the fish explodes"
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Talah Reed @talahreed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I woke up optimistic, which was suspicious, so I made coffee and waited for further evidence.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/06/2026
A Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD
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BetterTrouble @bettertrouble.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
250 yrs ago today, on this spot, Thomas Jefferson (and the other 4 members of the Committee of Five) were working on the final draft of the Declaration of Independence
Declaration House. Landmark building where the Declaration of Independence was written
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Kobe (She) @kobe1991.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
TRUTH
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.
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Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Everyone gets richer after the White House—time, access, opportunity. But one didn’t wait. Same office. Different timeline. Skip the politics. Look at the pattern.
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This smart dog knows about politics, he literally gives a shit.😆😆
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/video/100269... #Artemis 🧪🔭
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#BidenFundedNASA In 2025 Chump tried to defund NASA but he failed. He is trying again this year.
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Callinectes Sapidus @csapidus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Found the link www.youtube.com/shorts/SU7n3...
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Iran Ceasefire Explained
YouTube video by Dave Columbo
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
To cap off his first 100 days in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked the full 6 miles home from New York City Hall last night — greeting New Yorkers along the way. 🍎
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Average wage growth for workers is now at the slowest pace in 5 years — and could soon be eaten up by inflation. Meanwhile, CEO pay continues to skyrocket through the stratosphere. Imagine what our economy would look like if worker pay grew like CEO pay.
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This Graph Exposes Our Rigged System
What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess
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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier-Journal
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AtlantaDon💙🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones. We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in. Everything is for sale.
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Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
War isn’t just ideology, it’s an industry. Every million dollars in arms sales carries a human cost. Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex in 1961, but the machine grew anyway: military power, defense contractors, political influence, and oil. The math behind war tells the story.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Like clockwork.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
From @perrybaconjr.bsky.social : “New York is a unique place, but Democrats across the country need to do what Mamdani did: create a more liberal electorate.” newrepublic.com/article/2058...
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ACW1234 @acw1234.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/02/2026
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
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Every Bite Counts @sandybeach805.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026
Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 30/01/2026
If the president cannot be sued while in office, then the president should not be able to file suit while in office. Fair is fair.
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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is priceless 🤣😂 Senator Thom Tillis
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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SharkusG @sharkusg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Damn, "the voters" are quite angry with the Democrats for being in the minority. Do they not know how that happened?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/01/2026
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We need to campaign just as hard for increased voter access as we do for candidates we like.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2026
Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A veteran goes off. “I've bled for this country, I've fought for this country—they're disgracing this fucking country and what it fucking means!“
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Wonder Woman 🐝 Demands Justice @alsowonderwoman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Any account blaming dems for what repubs have done and what voters did should be treated with suspicion. It's a midterm year and they've come here to suppress the vote.
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Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This video isn’t opinion — it’s math. Big numbers without timelines are how people get misled. Add time back in, and the story changes completely. I’ll keep breaking these claims down one lie at a time — with sources, timelines, and receipts.
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