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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The POTUS who tried to fight green energy is probably going to have done more to advance green energy than any other President, because closing the Strait for this long has moved so many countries to get away from oil and gas faster.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Earlier this year, I made the grounded case for why we should still believe in the promise of America. Today’s America is something we inherited. But tomorrow’s is still for us to make. America’s problems are solved problems. The blueprints exist. Better days are ahead.
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The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Potter Stewart said “I know it when I see it” about pornography. Alito just said it’s not racist if he doesn’t see it.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Selective Service registration becoming automatic while voter registration becomes subject to more constraints is emblematic of the entire problem. Their power over us is assumed. Our power over them is subject to their limitations. The Revolution demanded the inverse. Jesus too, FYI.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is, apparently, a real post. The “Art of the Deal” is apparently to reveal how much their leverage is impacting you and getting under your skin.
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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 29/03/2026
Surveillance is a one-way ratchet toward authoritarianism. Yes, even by private companies. Even when people “consent.” Even when the company gives you “free” stuff, or let you stand in a shorter line, or make your life more convenient somehow.
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Abdelilah Skhir @abskhir.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is a REALLY big deal. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: “…we are on the ground floor with this day in and day out — looking in the eyes of these folks that, yes, came here inappropriately. But some came here inappropriately only to do better for themselves and their family.”
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Florida Sheriffs rebel against Trump's, DeSantis' mass deportation efforts • Florida Phoenix
Florida Republican sheriffs want President Donald Trump to end mass deportations of undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes, a striking shift from law enforcement in the nation’s most agg...
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Time to rewatch Terminator
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life" - Carl Jung
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In no real surprise to anyone, the tariffs and their overturning result in a massive transfer of money from the people to corporations. The media failed to convey this clearly from the start, and still fails to convey it even now.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
You'd think this was posted ironically, but given the publication, it likely wasn't.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Votes matter more than words, Senator. You voted for this, and you'll probably keep voting for it.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's amazing that the "compassionate conservative", "moral majority", and "religious right" party cannot fathom love of others or empathy.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Is he trying to say he plans to introduce penguins to Greenland? There aren't any penguins in Greenland.
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
💯 Every. Fucking. Word.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
They know they're on camera and they do it anyway because the government has told them they have immunity. It's unthinkable, except for the fact that it's happening daily.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 21/01/2026
Pastors working for ICE Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants Which one looks more like Jesus???
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
What would happen if millions of Americans contacted their congressional representatives each and every day?
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Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“The report shows that really we are not just talking about some money that buys luxury goods of consumption, but it's really money that buys politics, elections, that buys judges, that influence politics,“ Chiara Putaturo from Oxfam told EUobserver.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:
Five panel meme arranged vertically. The first shows a grey haired mustachioed man saying "socialism never works." The next panel has a younger man wearing a hat saying, "Norway is socialist and they're doing great." The third panel has the mustachioed man apparently yelling, "They're not socialist they're capitalist countries with strong welfare policies." The third panel shows the hatted man throwing a chair and apparently yelling, "then let's adopt those policies!" The final panel has the mustachioed man yelling back, "No, that's socialism."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
New tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
We must unconstitutionally impose more taxes on Americans because the threat of illegal aggression against a heretofore American ally hasn't worked out as smoothly as we imagined.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Job growth has stopped (and may even be in decline). It stopped right around "Liberation Day."
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Am I to understand that the position of the US administration and the court system is that foreign presidents are accountable to the US court system, but the US president is not?
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Tha GOP always says government should run like a business. No business would give a vendor access to cut checks.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Not understanding basic economics while running a government...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.
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bwalling.bsky.social @bwalling.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
$25,561.50 in health insurance costs in 2024, and I found better prices on prescriptions and care by eschewing my plan rates and shopping on my own. This system does not work.
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