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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 8h
Q&A: Filmmaker Rustin Thompson on Cinema Deserts in Rural America. One for the film freaks. @dailyyonder.bsky.social
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Q&A: Filmmaker Rustin Thompson on Cinema Deserts in Rural America | The Daily Yonder
“Ten states. 10,825 miles. 123 theaters. An elegy for small-town cinemas.” This is the tagline for Rustin Thompson's feature-length documentary, “The Last
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 19h
It's just so lovely. www.facebook.com/reel/9902545...
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 21h
My @propublica.org colleagues have no business running a private school for kids. And yet they were easily able to start schools in two states -- with a third ProPublica Academy pending that would be located inside a North Carolina bar.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
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Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/09/2026
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl's Night,” by Mahmoud Darwish, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones.” www.newyorker.com/podcast/poet...
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Carolyn Forché Reads Mahmoud Darwish
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl's Night,” by Mahmoud Darwish, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones.”
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hahahaha, sure. But NYC feels so good right now and @mayor.nyc.gov is a major reason why.
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 29/09/2026
Nobody wants to borrow $500,000 at an 8% interest rate After 10 years of payments you'll still owe $438,600 Nobody is buying a home today with an 8% interest rate. It's not happening.
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It still shocks me that media cover his unhinged, alarming, illegal, disastrous, dangerous and nonsensical pronouncements and actions as normal. Unspeakable national damage. Unspeakable global damage. wapo.st/4z23MwC
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How Trump’s sweeping changes are remaking Washington
No modern president has done more to personally reshape the nation’s capital.
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is America. In 2026.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Morning shadows
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'll lose all respect for any news org that doesn't boycott the White House briefings.
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
¡ THIS ¡ is The Kennedy Center! 💥💯 ❤️‍🔥👑🥲😍🤩😘 #KennedyCenter
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It saddens me to read about this loss. Dillard had a profound impact on me. #HollinsUniversity
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/14/r...
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Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. • Florida Phoenix
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn littl...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Retro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The FreeCreditReport .com band will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But Kraft is "super sweet." people.com/sports/ed-sh...
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Ed Sheeran on Why He Performed at Robert Kraft's Surprise Wedding: 'He's Super Sweet'
Ed Sheeran shares how he ended up performing at Robert Kraft's surprise wedding
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
. $900,000,000 was transferred from our defense budget to outfit the Qatari jet. The jet Trump is taking with him. .
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 15/09/2026
30-year mortgage rates just hit 7.17% A $500,000 mortgage over 30 years: $1,891/month at 2.17% $3,384/month at 7.17% That’s $537,500 more for the same home And the odds of a Fed rate hike this week are 92% Homeownership has become a luxury
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 14/09/2026
The 84-year-old senator and his team raked in over $930,000 in taxpayer dollars during his 92-day absence from Capitol Hill.
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The jaw-dropping amount Mitch McConnell and his staff made while he was MIA
The 84-year-old senator and his team raked in over $930,000 in taxpayer dollars during his 92-day absence from Capitol Hill.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A small point but worth noting that taxpayers spent 70+ million dollars upgrading the infrastructure surrounding Robert Kraft's stadium, in no sense should billionaires be able to dictate speech that occurs in publicly funded spaces
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great thread here.
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Seeing headlines that include "Trump pledges" or "Trump promises" alway make me laugh.
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And I'm not happy with @wellcaremedicare.bsky.social either. Deny prescription coverage twice (!), delaying care for weeks before finally approving it. Paying half on other prescribed care. It's not the criminal @unitedhealthcare.bsky.social, but it seems to follow its model.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/09/2026
Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. But for more than a decade, his hog business has employed undocumented laborers, The New York Times and The Flatwater Free Press found. nyti.ms/4h39V4B
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
9/11 is a tough time for NYers. I was running Comms for Brooklyn Friends School, just across the bridge. Rode train home in silence, back 8am next day b/c it's best to keep routine. Parents sat in lunch room to be close. Good to be in a Quaker space. A 1st grader created this 2 yrs prior. Kids, man.
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More disgusting lies. Not even front-page news. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Watch Trump falsely suggest he was pulled from Ground Zero on 9/11.
What on earth?
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And the list of contaminated food grows and grows...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Amazon AMD Axon Boeing Dell Microsoft Nvidia Palantir Just a few of the corporations and government contractors Trump has bought stock in lately. Many of his trades coincided with regulatory decisions his administration made that affected their profits. Understand what's really going on here.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The US imports 4 million barrels of oil from Canada every day. Car manufacturers in Detroit need Canadian parts. And 58,000 people in Maine get electricity from Canada Republicans better hope our northern neighbors don't cut it all off because of more mindless policies or statements from Trump
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Brilliant. Kind. Community building.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In good news: Henry Wise has a new novel out: Promised Land. I loved his Holy City. @groveatlantic.bsky.social groveatlantic.com/book/promise...
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Promised Land | Grove Atlantic
“[A] new master of Southern gothic.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Word is bond—until the past threatens to break it From the Edgar® Award-winning author comes a...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance
Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Impt new piece from @ehaspel.bsky.social on The Family Frontier: "This proposal pretends that there is or should be an either-or between 'stay-at-home parents' and 'working parents.' Repeat after me: we are not doing Mommy Wars: 2026 Edition." familyfrontier.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Stay-At-Home-Parent Child Care Proposal: It’s a Trap!
And how to avoid falling in.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026
For the first time since its inception the Ig Nobels were held outside the United States, after organisers said that they feared it had become unsafe for guests to visit the country.
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Optimised urinals and buried underwear at 2026 Ig Nobels
Underwear buried to test soil quality and urinals scientifically designed to prevent splashing were among the projects honoured as the Ig Nobel prizes again put a spotlight on the quirky side of scien...
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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA In all the recent coverage, this from @ninaburleigh.bsky.social is my favorite write-up.
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SIC TRANSIT GLORIA
Ms. Steinem Forever
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump calls then "small potatoes"
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Next week, billionaire donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to toast their own corruption. In the shadow of this Billionaire Ball, we’ll be collecting food to help Texans struggling with rising grocery prices. JOIN: bit.ly/GroceryDriveTX
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kroger, which wants to buy yet ANOTHER grocery chain: -Ranks among the largest companies with employees dependent on Medicaid & SNAP -Paid its CEO $14M last year, 417x its median worker's pay of just $34,552 -Spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 This is what corporate greed looks like.
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