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@bigworker.bsky.social
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Lawyer, NYC-DSA, Sci-fi Socialist, Comrades with Kids, left YIMBY, history nerd, watching all the good tv twitter: @Big_Worker mastodon: @Big_Worker@ioc.exchange

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredibly funny that wannabe autocratic Brooklyn Dem leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn identifies as the heir to Dessalines, who famously appointed himself emperor of Haiti, massacred all the French on the island, and was ultimately murdered by former supporters and torn to pieces by an angry mob.
For six years, I’ve sat in the center of what many call Brooklyn’s political game of thrones — a place where power is coveted, alliances shift overnight, and battles erupt without warning. Some joked I was the Mother of Dragons, holding fire in one hand and strategy in the other.

But I never entered this arena as a character in someone else’s fantasy. I entered as the heir of Jean‑Jacques Dessalines — the revolutionary who led Haiti to become the first Black republic and the first nation in the Americas to abolish slavery. His courage shaped me. His legacy taught me that stepping into Brooklyn politics would be a war zone. I stepped in as a reformer, determined to change the culture, not just survive it.

https://archive.ph/0GLdg
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 14/09/2026
Brooklyn Dems Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's last-minute gambit to overcome the results of the June election and retain power over the county machine has failed, for now. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The old Sinclair Lewis quote that fascism would come to America "wrapped in a Hugo Boss uniform and carrying a swastika" was so prescient
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Early and in person is the gold standard, election day is next best, mail in ballot only if you really have to. I wish we didn't have to make that calculation but they are really going to try to disrupt mail in ballots, and possibly in person voting
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Current Polling USA Senate Model: Democrats are at 53 seats (+1) Republicans are at 47 seats (-1) (% Change With Previous Week's Model)
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hell Gate reporter Katie Way is not exaggerating when she says that "this video has the potential to become a certified NYC politics cult classic along the lines of the Eric Adams teenage room search PSA." It's cuckoo bananas from start to finish:
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Is this legit? I have been dreaming about this technology for many years
newatlas.com
Laser-beam mosquito shooter is now available for preorder
This personal air defense system that tracks and shoots mosquitoes with a blue laser is officially available now. The runaway crowdfunding hit has been scaled up by its makers and is available for pre...
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So anyway here's Jolene as horror story
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When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How I feel not watching almost any short form video must be how it felt to be one of those "I don't own a tv" people in the pre-internet age
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Huge story breaking right now in NYC: BK Dems party boss Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn announced that she's subverting the will of Brooklyn's voters (a majority of whom recently voted to change party leadership) by dramatically changing the rules in order to hang onto her position as party boss.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Is it illegal or *should* it be illegal?
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Influencer successfully gets perfect shark shot
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Republicans passed a tax on college endowments but McConnell added a loophole for a specific Kentucky schoo saying it doesn't apply to schools with below a certain number of tuition paying students. Now tons of schools are piling through that loophole by giving free tuition to a lot more students
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My three year old was pretending to be a veterinarian ("animal doctor") and when I asked her if she specialized in some type of animals she said "toy animals" - can't argue with that
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
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AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The A/B testing of running Jabari as a Green and losing and then as a Democrat and winning was a great moment in pragmatic socialist electoral strategy
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/07/2026
I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
So the message I'm getting here is that DSA / @chiosse.bsky.social should have primaried Hakeem Jeffries
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Victim blame women who are raped hard enough and they'll be too ashamed to report their rapists - right wingers have really found a system that works (for rapists)
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Man we lost the generation that beat fascism and instantly fascism came back huh?
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:
Social media analytics for different platforms and screenshots of James Talarico speaking on stage in his clip across platforms.

There's a lot of data in the analytics and it shows that Bluesky has the highest engagement rate with the least amount of followers at 19.62%
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Gerrymandering
Snail says: I might not know what I'm saying, but I AM saying it loudly!
Bird thinks: This fucking idiot has a point
Bird says: OK I'M IN CHARGE NOW!
Mouse says: Bird is in charge now?
Snail says: Would he be that loud if he wasn't?

https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/loudly/
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
When bluesky doesn't like my posts
static.klipy.com
Pablo Narcos: Alone and Reflective
ALT: Pablo Narcos: Alone and Reflective
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Can anyone pass on this message to Bright Limm?
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The UK really needs proportional representation
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Above all, Dems/libs should deal with Trump, the media, SCOTUS, Trump-friendly oligarchs, knee-bending institutions and more with this principle in mind: "We will not submit to being governed by unprincipled actors. We are taking notes, and you will pay a price." www.offmessage.net/p/dnc-sue-cb...
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Time For The DNC To Sue CBS News For $20 Billion
A free idea for Ken Martin.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Monthly dues payments to DSA (and therefore the number of dues paying members?) have doubled since the 2024 election. Time to do your part:
act.dsausa.org
Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ever since I met the senior partner at my new law firm and discovered he looks exactly like Nathan Fielder I've been a little suspicious that all of my new co-workers are actors doing a Rehearsal on me
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Okay fine I'll admit it - I DO know who Hasan Piker is
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We should stop referring to the potential solutions in Israel-Palestine as "one state" or "two state" and instead say "democratization" or "partition"
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a man talking to a woman with the words " i haven 't even begun to peak " below him
ALT: a man talking to a woman with the words " i haven 't even begun to peak " below him
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Does Palestine have a right to exist?
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I just asked my three year old what her favorite dinosaur was, expecting that she would indeed say triceratops (or "topatops" as she calls them) but instead she told me her favorite kind is "rosa" aka pink. Fair enough
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW — Iran had already presented a 10-point plan. Then Trump wakes up today and threatens to blow up Iran's "whole civilization" if they don't bend. And then, just an hour before his deadline, he announces a ceasefire, citing Iran's "workable" 10-point plan.
zeteo.com
Trump Begs Off Pledge to Genocide 90 Million
Trump says that Iran has presented a 'workable' deal, calling it a 'double sided ceasefire' for two weeks.
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Die Republikaner die
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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Try extending that graph to the left. There's a reason it was truncated there. This is a perfectly normal usage profile. Whenever a user joins a given site, there's a standard falloff curve where a fraction leaves. Since Bluesky's users have mainly come in spikes, that's just the normal curve.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
When will the conspiracy theories about Platner being an antisemite or secret Nazi die down?
 A Campaign Event Unlike Any Other for Graham Platner
The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate breaks matzah with Maine Jews for Passover.

    By Drew Himmelstein 4 hrs ago 

Graham Platner Seder

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a Passover Seder April 2, 2026.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Even the hawkish Rahm Emmanuel...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026
If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I hate when politicians politicize science by making scientifically informed policy
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Woke NYC court building bathroom door
Door with sign: 

Men
Watch your step
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As Socrates once said, accepting that apparently you are an idiot is the beginning of wisdom
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Real microcosm of the counterproductive "warrior mentality" to decommission these badly needed but not directly violent mine sweepers in favor of more redundant firepower
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Screaming
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This is literally the Dr. Strangelove situation with Israel in the role of General Ripper going rogue with an attack and demanding that the US follow through or be hit by the retaliation anyway without the advantage of striking first
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
My neighbor told me that he keeps losing his girlfriends on this mountain so I asked how many girlfriends he has and he said he just goes on the apps and gets a new one afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding girlfriends to the mountain and then his new girlfriend started crying
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Highlights from judging the elementary school science fair. An investigation of which household objects conduct electricity. Can cheese conduct electricity? Apparently so. Me: You and cheese both conduct electricity. What do you two have in common? Student: We are both thick Me: Ah yes of course
a erratic looking poster board with squiggles and a circuit board glued to it that says "What conducts electricity" with random shit glued on the side like construction paper that says cheese and metal
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Best time to join DSA was as one of the first 100,000 members, second best time is right now
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