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Bill Hogseth

@billhogseth.bsky.social
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Community organizer in rural Wisconsin. Building independent political power at gro-ww.org

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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The best way for rural communities to contend with corporate power’s extraction of our water is for people to get organized and fight it in their own backyard. Proud to be part of a homegrown grassroots organization that can fight and win
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Judge says permit for western Wisconsin CAFO fails to adequately protect groundwater
An administrative law judge has found that Wisconsin environmental regulators failed to ensure that a large livestock farm in Pierce County would meet standards to protect groundwater under a modified...
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s interview offered one of the clearest previews yet of how the department’s Civil Rights Division intends to approach the 2026 midterms.”
democracydocket.com
Trump DOJ readies 1,000 election monitors for midterms
Dhillon offered one of the clearest previews yet of how the department’s Civil Rights Division intends to approach the 2026 midterms.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Everything starts with listening to people. “At the doors in western Wisconsin’s small towns, people show a willingness to slow down and talk, even to a stranger…By the end of the conversations, many people move up in support of expanding access to BadgerCare and want to get involved by the end.”
theguardian.com
Where healthcare could sway voters, organizers ramp up an old tactic: talking to people
In Wisconsin, voters weigh candidates who backed cuts to Medicaid, and those who want to expand it
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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We had a perception of reality before that this was just inevitable: "What are you going to do? Social media is here to stay.“ Now suddenly we’re all saying, "Wait, everybody agrees this is harmful for kids. So why are we giving it to kids?” Including my thoughts:
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1 down, 1000s to go: A landmark verdict could reshape social media | CNN Business
A first-of-its-kind decision marked a crucial moment of accountability for social media companies. It’s just the beginning.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Zohran is cancelling the NYC Department of Social Services' $9 million contract with McKinsey. Starting in 2022 under Eric Adams the City of New York paid McKinsey $1.6 million to research trash cans.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/03/2026
Whoa.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"In a letter to employees on Friday, Kirby said United is planning for oil to hit $175 per barrel and stay above $100 through the end of 2027." yeah don't fucking listen to the news but do listen to the airline ceos because they get the real data
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'Cataclysm': United CEO's Iran war memo spooks travelers as oil prices skyrocket
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is warning employees that jet fuel prices have more than doubled in three weeks due to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and that the crisis could cost the airline $11 bill...
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
PLEASE DO NOT PATRONIZE JBS
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2026
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
States have a moral obligation to develop universal health care systems, Pope Leo XIV said, stating that "health cannot be a luxury for the few."
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Pope Leo calls universal health care a 'moral imperative'
States have a moral obligation to develop universal health care systems, Pope Leo XIV said, stating that health cannot be "a luxury for the few."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/03/2026
The Arizona desert community of Martinez Lake hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the record for the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S.
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Arizona community hits 110 degrees F, the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S.
The Arizona desert community of Martinez Lake hits 110 degrees F, breaking the record for highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Reaction of CVS in Tennessee demonstrates how state legislatures offer a real arena in which to wage fights vs the consolidation of corporate power Lets not assume the fight against monopoly power only occurs in federal agencies & courts
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 27/01/2026
On our Commentary page, from @billhogseth.bsky.social ... Before the wave hits: Rural Wisconsin organizes against the One Big Beautiful Bill
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Before the wave hits: Rural Wisconsin organizes against the One Big Beautiful Bill • Wisconsin Examiner
Congress unleashed an economic earthquake, triggering a tsunami of devastating after-effects soon to crash down on our rural communities.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
There's been a lot of discussion about the echoes of the civil rights movement in the protests today, with people obviously drawing comparisons between the strategies, tactics and coalitions that were vital then and are still vital now. But this post has me thinking about a different echo ...
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good [and Mr. Pretti] aren't those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They're those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything.”
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/01/2026
A temperature of around minus 10 degrees did little to slow Minnesotans around the Twin Cities on Friday, with businesses closing, workers and students staying home, and demonstrators demanding that federal immigration agents depart. nyti.ms/3Zu4tiB
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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Many sympathetic “radical King” accounts still cling to a American fairy tale—the Great Man who had it in him. But MLK Jr came up inside a web of socialist organizers who treated racial & economic justice as inseparable & treated organizing as a teachable craft www.laborpolitics.com/p/who-taught...
laborpolitics.com
How did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?
A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It was 10 degrees when they did this.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Important work here from the NYT. Ross wasn’t run over. He dropped his cell phone, which he had shifted to his left hand to draw his weapon. And then he shot and killed a person with the gun in his right hand. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
nytimes.com
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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Peter Bukowski @peterbukowski.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Great stat from Joe House on Bill Simmons’ podcast: Teams that play on Thursday after playing an OT game are 6-25 against the spread since 2000. Lions defense played over 37 minutes vs the Giants. Packers didn’t even play 23 minutes. That’s half a game difference on a short week.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/11/2025
Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars
Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Faiz Shakir @faiz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Big Corporate Cash Grab substack.perfectunion.us/p/the-one-bi...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Big Corporate Cash Grab
Here’s a look at the industries that won in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and one that didn’t quite get everything it wanted.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We cannot afford HR1.... While western WI counties brace for reduced support to essential services, the bill simultaneously delivers substantial tax benefits to the super rich. HR1 delivers $1T in tax benefits to the top 1% of earners, as counties absorb cuts to the budgets for basic programs.
wispolitics.com
GrassRoots Organizing Western Wisconsin: Residents in western Wisconsin warn county officials of HR1’s looming budget crisis
Federal cuts may overwhelm local systems, force WI counties to reduce, slow or cancel services towns and families depend on Western Wis. — Residents from Dunn, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix counties war...
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Fortune @fortune.com · 23/11/2025
“The latest and most flagrant example of the government’s enabling private sector companies to expand and entrench their power under the guise of protecting American tech supremacy was the launch of Project Stargate,” Singh’s writes. trib.al/5ZCV68J
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AI rivals like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Oracle are collaborating to build ‘Stargate’—but a Yale expert says it violates 135 years of antitrust law | Fortune
Six AI leaders are uniting to form a single company. How is this possibly legal, asks Madhavi Singh of Yale’s Thurman Arnold Project, an initiative dedicated to antitrust issues.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This month, our members stood up at county budget hearings across four counties in western WI to warn how HR1 (aka One Big Beautiful Bill) will create a fiscal crisis for our county govts and threaten the local services our loved ones rely on every day. Western WI cannot afford HR1.
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Axios @axios.com · 24/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Bernie Sanders says on The Axios Show that OpenAI should be broken up. He is the first prominent Democrat to suggest that the government should intervene in OpenAI, potentially opening a key fault line in 2028 politics.
axios.com
"The Axios Show": Sanders says OpenAI should be broken up
His comments signal that antitrust scrutiny of AI giants could become a key dividing line in 2028 politics.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“The answer to federal threats is municipalism. Doubling down on protecting our communities and making sure we have the resources to keep our neighbors safe”
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Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
One of the most brutal days in American history, on the brink of 17M losing Medicaid, 3.2M losing SNAP, massive wealth transfer to billionaires, 20x expansion of ICE. But the National Apartment Association (landlord lobby) celebrates this cruel bill as a "95% win for the housing industry."
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“It takes more muscular forms of protest and noncooperation, like walkouts, labor strikes, and economic boycotts, to stop autocrats in their tracks…. Coordinating mass action, including organized noncooperation across different sectors and pillars, takes a commitment to big-tent organizing.”
justsecurity.org
Big Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat Authoritarianism
The journey from individual angst to collective action takes time, vision, and commitment. It is also the pathway to victory.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest *and* dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:
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156. Federalizing the California National Guard
President Trump's Saturday night "memorandum" federalizing 2000 California National Guard troops is a tentative step toward abusing authorities for domestic use of the military, but a dangerous one.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 07/06/2025
On this day in 1920, the Ku Klux Klan hired publicists to grow membership for the white supremacist organization. Within 16 months, nearly 100,000 new members had joined, and by 1924, there were three million active members nationwide.
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Jun. 7, 1920 | Ku Klux Klan Mounts Publicity Campaign to Attract Members
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Evelyn Quartz @evelynquartz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The pro-democracy establishment talks about threats and norms, but rarely about the material conditions people are living in. This piece isn’t an attack. It’s a structural critique of a system managing decline while blaming the public for noticing. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...
compactmag.com
Why the ‘Pro-Democracy’ Center Can’t Save America
Donald Trump is back in the White House, and the “pro-democracy” movement that emerged during his first term is warning once again that America is on the brink.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Learning how to practice democracy at a small scale can teach us how to rebuild it at a large scale Yesterday, over 30 people in Menomonie WI gathered to discuss, plan & commit to win tenant protections in our town This is what it looks like to build an independent political home in your backyard
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
That means we must recalibrate what we expect going forward. The political conflict isn’t over, nor is the outcome determined, or democracy destined to be extinguished for good. But let’s finally discard whatever residual notion of “It cannot happen here” is still floating around.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is our local food pantry here in Dunn County, WI. Last year, 5,000 people used the food pantry’s services. More than 10% of the 45,000 people who live here. Don’t tell me this isn’t class war.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The ruling class wants us hopeless. Because hopeless people don’t fight back. At GROWW, we organize working-class people in small towns & rural areas to win real fights in western WI. Hope is a skill. We build it through action. That’s why I stood with Bernie Sanders yesterday in Altoona, WI
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Bill Hogseth on Hope
YouTube video by John Calabrese
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Make no mistake that corporate media is a mouthpiece for the billionaire class. When they say "personal liberties and free markets" what they really mean is "an ideology that rationalizes the suffocation of working people for the benefit of the super-rich"
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Wisconsin is the Dairy State. Today, that means corporate “farms” extract wealth and leave behind poisoned wells while big dairy lobbyists & their politician friends gut regulations that keep our communities safe. If the DNR won’t do its job, then we’ll do ours. We’ll organize to protect our homes
wisconsinexaminer.com
DNR approves permit for controversial Pierce Co. CAFO • Wisconsin Examiner
The Wisconsin DNR approved a permit allowing the Ridge Breeze Dairy in Pierce County to expand despite heavy local opposition.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A first excerpt from @chrislhayes.bsky.social terrific new book, published this morning: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I can think of no other way to properly eulogize Garth Hudson’s passing than to put on Chest Fever, turn the volume up, and allow the full-throated power of his organ intro to wash over me in waves
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
MLK was a great man, but he was just one man. Today, I’m reflecting on the entire movement of people who struggled, strategized, took risks, faced violence, all while keeping a laser focus on human dignity, justice, forgiveness, and truth. Let’s take a moment to let their examples sink in.
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Bill Hogseth @billhogseth.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The notion of there “being good billionaires who share our values” is an excellent example of why the Democratic Party is currently a failed political institution
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Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · 19/01/2025
The family of David Lynch announced that a worldwide meditation is set for Monday, January 20th, to celebrate the legendary filmmaker's life. Here's what you need to know... / #DavidLynch
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The family of David Lynch announced that a worldwide meditation is set for Monday, January 20th, to celebrate the legendary filmmaker's life. Here's what you need to know... / #DavidLynch
The family of David Lynch announced that a worldwide meditation is set for Monday, January 20th, to celebrate the legendary filmmaker's life.
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 19/01/2025
Costco workers affiliated with the Teamsters have voted in favor of going on strike if no deal is made ahead of a January 31 contract deadline.
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Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize a strike
Costco workers affiliated with the Teamsters have voted in favor of going on strike if no deal is made ahead of a January 31 contract deadline.
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