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Abby Ruggiero @ruggie13.bsky.social · 9h

I filmed this at Stadium-Armory Metro Station in Washington, DC this evening around 6:30 pm. He was minding his business waiting for the train, he wasn’t fighting them, but all of them piled onto him without giving him time to react to that many of them surrounding him.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed. Get big money out of politics. Strengthen unions and boost wages. Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more... This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for. It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/10/2026

The biggest deception of the digital age is a media ecosystem that seems on its face like it offers a diversity of perspectives and open access to the public square, all while oligarchs’ algorithms imperceptibly control the entire discourse in service of their desired political outcomes.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/10/2026

A Democratic Party that refused to use its power to deliver for the working class ended up being a delivery system for Trump. If Democrats win power and once again do the same thing, they will be a delivery system for an even worse version of Trump - pass it on.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026

This week we saw an astonishing amount of blasphemy come from MAGA world. If only they'd practice the Word they preach. You don’t get to spend tax dollars telling the country God handpicked the president and then run an immigration system that tears families apart. Full video link in comments.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 03/10/2026

Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark: There's "not a single piece of empirical data" that campaigning with Liz Cheney hurt Kamala Harris in 2024. There is. In PA/MI, more independents said it made them less enthusiastic about Harris than more. New from @davidsirota.com: www.levernews.com/bulwark-2024...

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The Bulwark Now Wants You To Forget 2024

On the defensive, Sarah Longwell says there’s no evidence Democrats’ alliance with Liz Cheney hurt Kamala Harris. Swing-state polling says otherwise.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Are Democratic Leadership and Donors Actively Sabotaging Progressives?" Why do Never Trump Republicans have more influence and sway with Democratic donors and leaders than the actual base that is begging for progressive policies and massive reform? thelefthook.substack.com/p/are-democr...

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Are Democratic Leadership and Donors Actively Sabotaging Progressives?

Why do Never Trump Republicans have more influence and sway with Democratic donors and leaders than the actual base that is begging for progressive policies and massive reform?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@MichelleObama said when they go low, we go high. I'm saying when they go low, we get LOUD. Every single time a country has stopped its democracy from falling, it happened one way. People organized and mobilized. The people refused to be quiet. Let's Get LOUD #AngieforFlorida

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski had the best sound bite from the UN General Assembly calling out the Russians.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WATCH: “They’re trying to put a Christian mask on these ideas.” As J.D. Vance’s pimp Peter Thiel brings his secretive Antichrist lectures to NASHVILLE, here’s Gil Duran telling @chrislhayes the tech oligarchs are really “computer-worshipping satanists who don’t believe in God” using Christianity

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

Trump and the GOP's REAL base of support — the billionaires, Big Oil, Big Tech and AI, Big Crypto, defense contractors, and Wall Street — know that the midterm elections may limit what they can get away with in the future. Understand the stakes and vote accordingly.

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Bill from Brooklyn @billfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Serious questions. Why Netflix? And why not Apple TV?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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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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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21/09/2026

Newsom is now the nation’s most prominent Trump Democrat — a governor aggressively using his power to empower & enrich Trump’s billionaires. If a Dem candidate successfully spotlights this in the 2028 presidential primary, they will have a shot to defeat him & win the nomination

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So long as you’re doing your best, being mindful of your actions, and showing kindness to others, how other people feel about you is *their* problem. Trying too hard to control how others view you is a one-way ticket to losing your mind.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 21/09/2026

When I first met Ariadna, she was still inside Delaney Hall. She translated for the other women inside, helping me learn their stories. Now that she’s out, she’s still shining a light on their experiences.

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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc.

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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

terrific piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu for @theatlantic.com on those she rightly calls "the clan of predators currently in charge of the U.S. federal government." They are making a huge mess for us, while cleaning up for themselves. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing

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Bill from Brooklyn @billfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don't be so hard on @lostpictureshow.bsky.social and @goldwagnathan.bsky.social. They have job interviews with CNN and CBS next week. So they need to build up their social media credentials.

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Bill from Brooklyn @billfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not even close to being true. He has been supporting DSA candidates for years.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shameful.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2026

The only prediction about the AI crisis I feel confident making is that the crisis will involve the one thing that every American crisis involves: oligarchs and politicians attempting to rob the poor, while corporate media depicts that as the only prudent course of action.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 13/09/2026

This is about the prioritization of shareholder value over any type of concerns or threats. Thanks for having me, Anderson Cooper.

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Bill from Brooklyn @billfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'd hate to have been that guy who had to throw the baton in the air. He probably would've been executed if he had dropped it. No pressure.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ken Paxton’s former top cop who was fired after exposing Paxton’s corruption: After Paxton fired me, they started trying to hire somebody to take my place. The determining question was: ‘Are you willing to be loyal to Ken Paxton?’

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 09/09/2026

Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve heard Trump say more negative things about the Iraq war and bush from 2015-present than every democratic leader combined times 100.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 09/09/2026

Gavin Newsom says the American economy was “engineered for the very top” and needs an “economic reset.” Yet when California activists proposed a one-time 5% tax on billionaires, Newsom emerged as one of its most prominent opponents.

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

I used to be a Social Security trustee. How can we fix Social Security without cutting benefits or raising the retirement age? Scrap the cap. This is a plan that even some Republicans are starting to get on board with. Let me explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZuB7XSFys

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How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich

Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it.A CEO earning $20M/yr pays So

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Democratic leadership really has its finger on the pulse, folks.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh, honey . . . That money isn’t there anymore. Bless your hearts for thinking it was.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/09/2026

Nobody can afford the necessities of life, authoritarianism is on the march, oligarchs are immiserating everyone, the climate crisis is intensifying, AI is on the verge of getting out of control… …and this is the “one goal” Corporate Dems are singularly focused on

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

You have rights as a patient that far exceed the rights accruing to a mere customer. Same goes for other professions: Teachers have pupils, librarians have patrons, lawyers have clients. "Customer" is a demotion from all of these. 24/

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

BROWDER: Putin's waging war against a peaceful neighbor. War is spreading to NATO allies. Instead of using devastating sanctions that would affect Putin, Trump's threatening Canada, which is a peaceful neighbor, and the irony of that is not lost on people who care about Ukraine.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.

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