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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Do Senate Democrats really believe that Americans will hurt any less when the government is reopened and Trump and his sycophants can hack away at whatever programs they dislike? Deals with this regime and MAGA Republicans are worthless. [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
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Blue Laura @bluelaura.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I think 🤔 I see the problem.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 18/07/2025
I believe in abiding by what the Founding Fathers intended, which is why I don't think any presidential documents are valid unless signed on a yellowing scroll using a giant feather dipped in iron gall ink.
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wise words from Mr. Rogers. We are all in this together. Let us all renew ourselves to strive for the common good.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
….they’re touching Medicare, Medicaid, Snap, etc
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🦋Debra Laurie Surman🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ☮️ 🐈‍⬛ @debfromillinois.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The Trump regime and DOGE are rolling out this playbook to attack Social Security — one of the most popular and effective government programs. They're deliberately sabotaging it by firing SSA workers and cutting services. Why? Because they don't want it to work.
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Chris Klitzing 🦋🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hosea6.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Brian McDonnell @criticalbrian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Republicans have redefined "Government Waste" to mean any program that helps regular Americans.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Reading some early Captain America comics and found this great panel of Elon Musk
A comic book panel from the 1940s Captain America series. A man with a red skull and a Nazi sweatshirt points at a board and says: Of course you realize the main item and overthrowing a government is money.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
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WriteWhale @writewhale.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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