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@commonphoole.bsky.social
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Retired CPA and Attorney living in Seattle. Home town Wenatchee.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/09/2026
If Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House then why can’t they issue $5000 checks now?
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Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks for posting this—-Everything is FUBAR (Educate on your quarterback) (Good luck Monday)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Houthis just filmed a warehouse full of US-made armor they took off Saudi-backed forces after Mocha fell. Shot on an iPhone. Such a damaging image! The coalition’s decade-long war in Yemen is ending in captured American equipment & open humiliation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies" US oil subsidies are $40B. Brookings Institute lays the ground work toward ending them and the (minimal) impact on consumers. We would save billions of dollars we could use elsewhere like domestic programs. www.brookings.edu/articles/eli...
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Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies  | Brookings
Limiting subsidies for fossil fuels could raise revenue for the federal government while also benefiting the environment. Joseph Aldy proposes eliminating twelve subsidies to help level the playing fi...
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WFU88 @wfu88.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is an excellent article. Highly recommend.
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The Snowflakes and Petals of Influence NYT Chooses to Ignore - emptywheel
The lessons about why NYT won't report on a good policy news apply even to us old-school bloggers.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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Nick Hanauer @nickhanauer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Watch me debate Jason Furman on capitalism. youtu.be/VtuuvyLEmG4?...
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Is Capitalism Broken?
YouTube video by Open to Debate
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commonphoole.bsky.social @commonphoole.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wondering if Bazardo is a Canadian Agent.
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commonphoole.bsky.social @commonphoole.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#seahawks I think I speak for all Seahawks fans when we proudly award Vinod the right to wear the number 12 jersey!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“.. When asked later if JPMorgan sat on red flags in Epstein’s accounts, including the withdrawals, for years, Staley responded, “Seems like it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/08/2026
I'm sorry but it's clearly newsworthy that the President's decisions are being unduly influenced by a mentally unstable obsessive no one voted for who has attached themselves to him in an effort to live out weird fantasies they've had for decades. Something has to be done about Stephen Miller.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As you look at these comparisons, remember that Natalie Harp is just 9 years younger than Ivanka (35 and 44). And remember that Ivanka played this role in Trump 1.0.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
President Trump says that the Democrats are the bad kind of communists, not the good kind of communists like those found in North Korea.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics
Susan Collins campaign photo.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is the sweet spot of @vermontgmg.bsky.social's expertise: Nixon-on-steroids levels of corruption, intersecting with presidential security.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Malinowski's analysis is correct.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We’re all getting screwed—Democrats and Republicans alike. The billionaires who run this country don’t care about your politics, they only care about their profits. They don’t see Red or Blue—they see Green. They see us as one opposing team. So we might as well act like one.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It has been legally adjudicated that Trump is a rapist. His first wife accused him of rape in divorce filings. He was caught on tape bragging about sexual assault. So we know was Republicans do with someone credibly accused of rape: They give him their utter devotion.
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commonphoole.bsky.social @commonphoole.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Located another patch of radicals near Seattle.
Seahawks training camp crowd.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The silent agreement between the parties is to avoid actual issues that have supermajority consensus among voters and instead fight over wealth class-backed, think-tank designed wedge issues while corporate media communicates a 50/50 split, a need for moderation, and paints leftists as dangerous.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Absolutely 💯 “The best legacy we can leave our children isn't more infrastructure. It's healthier rivers, cleaner lakes, and protected aquifers.”
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sara filipovic @sarafilipovic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
LEFT TO RIGHT: Defeated the British, freed the slaves, raped the children.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"There remain serious unresolved questions about potential criminal violations of the laws prohibiting political interference in the tax system that may have occurred in the development of the sweetheart deal..." taxlawcenter.org/blog/stateme...
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Statement on Acting Attorney General Blanche's announcement on audit immunity and the anti-weaponization fund
Policy Director Brandon DeBot offers a statement in response to the announcement from Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche regarding the anti-weaponization fund and immunity from tax audits for the pr...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Bold move on the right, attacking German ancestry (45 million Americans in 2020) and Irish ancestry (38.6 million in 2020) and opposition to slavery, too! Helpful, though. Neatly encapsulates what the term "heritage Americans" is all about.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's noteworthy that the sticking point in getting Todd Blanche confirmed as AG involves financial corruption rather than Blanche refusing to release files about the sex trafficking of children by Trump's former friend. To Republicans, money is always more important than the welfare of children.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/07/2026
In which defense attorneys for the Olympic canoeist facing felony Reflecting Pool charges has to explain to newbie assistant U.S. attorney how 6(e) grand jury rules work!
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 27/07/2026
Across a range of authoritarian regimes, challenges to information control provoke stronger reactions than economic, diplomatic, and military tools, write Scott Fisher, Graig Klein, Juris Pupcenoks, and Juste Codjo.
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Authoritarians Keep Telling Us What They Fear. We Should Listen.
Research shows, more than military strikes or sanctions, authoritarians fear independent media, anti-censorship tech, and civil society.
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commonphoole.bsky.social @commonphoole.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
komonews.com/news/local/c... Wonder why Seattle did that?
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Seattle sues Glock over illegal devices that modify guns to allow automatic firing
City Attorney Ann Davison says illegal devices known as ‘Glock Switches’ are responsible for a dramatic rise in the number of shots being fired in Seattle.
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commonphoole.bsky.social @commonphoole.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. Seattle WA - Two killed more injured in a mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle. Finally Seattle may get the recognition it deerves in The Onion.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Well, where is he? If he's dead, we should know this.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD
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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Has DOJ commented on the fact that it is 0-15 in cases it filed to obtain state voter file data?
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commonphoole.bsky.social @commonphoole.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
On the evolving meaning of America the Beautiful The lyrics have been cleaned up in sucessive versions. The original poem had these phrases: Till selfish gain no longer stain The banner of the free! God shed his grace on thee, Till nobler men keep once again Thy whiter jubilee!
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Joohn Choe @joohnchoe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Read more here (now free):
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McConnell's hospitalization and what it means | Joohn Choe
TL;DR: Multiple top-tier outlets (NBC News, CBS News, CNN, NPR, Forbes) report today that Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 84, was hospitaliz
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keynesaddiction.bsky.social @keynesaddiction.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is correct! readsludge.com/2025/02/24/d...
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Palantir Goes on a Democratic Lobbyist Hiring Spree
The ICE contractor has hired Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff and a former Democratic senator as it builds out a Democratic lobbying operation on Capitol Hill.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What’s to stop the Court from ruling that the president can fire officials at congressional agencies at will as well? You just can’t beat Calvin by playing Calvinball, ultimately.
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Hairball 😡🙄😡🙄🌊✊ @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Elon Musk's contribution to the world is getting government contracts. He's a Welfare King." - David Cay Johnston
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Interesting.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 13/06/2026
Here are some of the emails I read in the Epstein files this week. Everyone involved in this ring of predators must be held accountable.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"Trump has agreed to the release of $24 billion of Iran’s frozen assets, but is unwilling to announce it publicly," Rezaie, who is a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said, according to YJC. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...
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Trump has agreed to release $24 billion of Iran’s frozen assets, military adviser to Iran's supreme leader says
Major Gen.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 02/06/2026
the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Here's some history for you.
'At the end of the war, when the concentration camps were finally liberated, virtually all of the prisoners were released except those who wore the pink triangle. Many of those with a pink triangle on their pocket were put back in prison and their nightmare continued
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So Tina Peters perpetrated another fraud to get out of prison.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/06/2026
President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season. n.pr/4us6kSh
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President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn
President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.
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