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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Is this one of those moments you have been silenced because you aren’t “woke” enough?

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

History doesn’t necessarily look kindly on certain “lawful orders”, here is one example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...

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The Last Jew in Vinnitsa - Wikipedia

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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

These countries have had universal health care for their citizens, as shown below. There are more after 1995

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Agreed. But if we are trying to open the eyes of some people, this isn’t it. They will reason it away.

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Epstein clearly also says “no massage”. I find the paragraph about how Trump scams people out of money, or is in the money laundering business (I have never done a deep dive into that subject), very damning. No surprise though. People have always been ok with this. They even admire the immorality.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Dutch elections: first exit poll shows heavy losses for Wilders' right-far-right coalition. From 88 out of 150 seats two years ago to just 52 now. End of an experiment, fortunately.

D66 27 seats
Pvv 25
Vvd 23
Groenlinks pvda 20
Cda 19

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Saw a video a few days ago where a woman compared AI to a thneed and I can’t quit thinking about it…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2025

MacCALLUM: Andrew Cuomo tomorrow night in that debate, he's gonna say 'I'm gonna bring 5,000 more police officers to the street.' Will you match that? MAMDANI: I don't look to Andrew Cuomo for leadership

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This is how you do it! Appeal and risk a LONGER sentence for refusing to take responsibility and subjecting your victims to more humiliation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

New Yorkers pay the nation’s bills. The GOP repays us with punishment We fund roads in Texas, dams in Alabama, and watch our own projects get cut Block our tunnels. Starve our cities. Ignore our votes. It’s taxation without representation. #FairShare #TaxJustice #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Blue cities are and were as safe as is realistic. Sending in the federal forces to solve a problem that never existed, then claim that they solved that nonexistent problem is next level gaslighting.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Tonight on a NY1 interview, Andrew Cuomo described Zohran Mamdani as "an existential threat" to New Yorkers and the Democratic Party. I can't say strongly enough that this is despicable, dangerous, irresponsible language. I've never held Cuomo in high esteem; let this election be his banishment.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

“We usually talk about the individual perpetrator -- the Weinsteins, Simpsons, or O'Reillys -- but this framing is woefully myopic. It leads to a false narrative that abuse constitutes isolated anomalies in a largely safe world and ignores the entourage that supports the abuser's behavior.”

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/09/2025

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert Redford

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Oldie but Goodie: "These politicians care about shock factors and making the other person sound morally wrong as opposed to fully explaining their own opinion and relying on actual facts."

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The Right can’t debate

There has been a rise in the popularity of conservative pundits such as Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren and Kaitlin Bennett in the past few years, especially be…

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slaz44.bsky.social @slaz44.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Saying you don’t trust black airline pilots is “Practicing politics the right way”???

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/09/2025

The conditions that make a society vulnerable to political violence are complex but well established—and all of them are present today, @adriennelaf.bsky.social wrote in March 2023. Once a cycle of violence has begun, can anything stop it?

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The New Anarchy

America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It’s not a good faith point. They know it’s not true.

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Just James @bojabi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This administration is as faithful to the rule of law as Trump has been to his wives.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

They will never understand that restraint is an exercise of power.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...

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In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine

One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“That is them keeping the money that they were supposed to pay to the employees,” said LaDonna Lusher, partner at employment law firm Virginia & Ambinder, after New York Focus described the business model to her. “I do think that the New York attorney general could investigate that.”

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New York’s Health Companies Could Pocket Millions Meant for Low-Wage Care Aides

Offering hard-to-use benefits instead of cash could help two state-funded companies dodge a 2011 law meant to boost care workers’ pay.

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I tragically do not believe it matters now either. It just matters for a bit, because it serves another purpose. And this is coming from both “sides”. I will never understand. It continues to shock me.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

DAILY MEMO: Part 2 of 2, Camarillo Sees a Military Raid and ICE faces closed doors and protesters at an Oxnard Hospital~ @eltragon.bsky.social

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/07/2025

“It is up to all of us to fix this.”

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

“These people” “stupid people with stupid policies”. Dude even brings up “bike lanes” as something radical and “stupid”. Way to talk about many millions of people he is supposed to represent. BTW, in the 4 decades riding the NYC subway, nothing has ever happened to me. Nothing. Zero.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/06/2025

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

He is totally a true mensch. And not saying he isn’t savvy, but the Working Family Party laid the groundwork over a year ago to ensure the progressive candidates were a team. Lander is one of the main organizers at WFP.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

'The New American Gothic', Oil on Canvas by Criselda Vásquez

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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Proud of NYC! We chose care and courage in a world that dares us to go numb. Now: shoulder to shoulder, let’s build. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

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