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Steve Kane

@concernedcitizen56.bsky.social
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Post-career IT professional. Concerned about the world my children and grandchildren will inherit. Doing everything I can to limit further damage and begin to heal.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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The Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Messier Than You Think with Michael Every | TGS 223
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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Bryan Lilienkamp @bryanlilienkamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/05/2026
Hawaii just passed a groundbreaking law directly challenging Citizens United and corporate money in politics 👀
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Hawaii's Power Play: SB 2471 Takes on Citizens United
Hawaii is giving Citizens United a run for its money
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Ben Norton @bennorton.com · 23/05/2026
It is so widely accepted that the USA is losing the war against Iran that now even prominent neoconservative hawks admit it. They lament that Iran’s victory reflects the decline of US hegemony, and the rise of multipolarity. www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/war-hawks-...
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Even American war hawks now admit Iran is defeating the US - and it will change the world
It is so widely accepted that the USA is losing the war that now even neoconservative hawks admit it. They lament that Iran's victory reflects the decline of US hegemony and rise of multipolarity.
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watch/listen: www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/220-...
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A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What? - The Great Simplification
In this episode, Nate welcomes back petroleum geologist Art Berman to break down the timeline of the looming oil shortages stemming from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and just how severe they could beco...
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 25/04/2026
In yesterday’s Aftermath newsletter, Executive Editor David Dayen argues that Wall Street investors want to believe that President Trump, a head of state, would not be stupid enough to plunge the world into an unnecessary economic crisis. Those investors are wrong.
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Aftermath: Wall Street Is Lying to Itself - The American Prospect
Financial futures indicate little damage from the Iran war. Reality begs to differ.
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Suri Crowe 🥷7️⃣ @suricrowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
omg ha ha ha ha ha ha 🤣
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/03/2026
it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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Beth Rivin MD MPH @bethrivin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
More than 500 patriotic Americans protesting at University Village in Seattle today at the #ICEOUTFORGOOD protest! Happy to participate!
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Indiana Capital Chronicle @indianacapitalchronicle.com · 09/01/2026
COMMENTARY: Revenue shift means more money. Will lawmakers spend it? indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/09/r...
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Revenue shift means more money. Will lawmakers spend it? • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana lawmakers got an early Christmas surprise back in December — newly projected tax revenue. But that money puts them in a bit of a bind.
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MADVoters @madvoters.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
⁨ Together, we can defeat bad bills and support good policy! Check out our bill tracker at MADVoters.org to see all the bills we’re tracking - we’re up to 130 and counting! #madvoters #mutuallyassureddemocracy #getmadindiana #indianastatehouse #INLegis⁩
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At MADVoters we are empowering Hoosiers by educating and advocating for a more equitable Indiana. Everyone deserves Mutually Assured Democracy.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 18/11/2025
Insurance companies have defrauded the government of hundreds of millions, while denying claims and lying to patients. Their schemes have helped triple the cost of subsidizing the ACA. From Maureen Tkacik: trib.al/uKmG5lP
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The Obamacare Boiler Room - The American Prospect
Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 14/11/2025
Democrats caved on the shutdown this week, but Harold Meyerson writes their surrender was inevitable. When confronted by Trump, “business-as-usual Democratic leadership, as personified by Chuck Schumer, is the wrong kind of leadership.” trib.al/6fsUhrO
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The Shutdown’s End as a Republican Victory? No Way. - The American Prospect
The shutdown enabled the Democrats to highlight the Republicans’ withdrawal of health coverage from millions of Americans, and Trump’s withholding food stamps—while he was praising himself for building a ballroom and rebuilding the Lincoln bathroom—only accelerated his descent in the polls.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
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Steve Kane @concernedcitizen56.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Democrats’ Shutdown Challenge: How Long Must the Hurt Continue? prospect.org/2025/10/28/d...
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The Democrats’ Shutdown Challenge: How Long Must the Hurt Continue? - The American Prospect
The problem the Democrats face in the current standoff is how to weigh these distinct forms of pain: immediate to a known universe of political allies; or long-term to a broader universe of, most impo...
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