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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 7h

“For years, Amazon has relied on a convoluted subcontracting system that denies last-mile drivers the protections other workers get, while maintaining extraordinary control over their schedules, workloads, and uniforms.” -Julie Su, NYC's deputy mayor for economic justice 1/2

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gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social @gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social · 6h

Here is a cartoon I did of Danny Trejo & Harvey Keitel. Fuck ICE. Pen and ink on paper.

Here is a cartoon I did of Danny Trejo & Harvey Keitel. The cartoon is a drawing of them saying: “Hi we’re Danny Trejo and Harvey Keitel, and we’re starring in a currently filming movie portraying ICE in a positive light. We should never know a moment’s peace for this, but we’re banking on the decades-long mass casual acceptance of ethical apathy toward actors starring in political propaganda like pro-war films and movies promoting fascist values to enrich our careers and boost our social status. It’s pretty fucked up, and it’d be a shame if people stopped letting this happen”. Pen and ink on paper.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 9h

People will look at you in the eyes and tell you speeding isn’t a big enough problem to justify cameras.

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crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social @crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social · 6h

i'm a bit of a gamer* myself *enjoyer of 2+hour cultural criticism podcasts about video games

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 08/10/2026

Organizations working hard on transit cost reform, like @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social and us, support measure RTM and transit operations funding in general. Cutting operations funding does nothing to bring down capital costs, and the end goal for lower capital costs is to run more trains.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social @crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social · 8h

TIL the head of Olympics LA, Casey Wasserman, is an Epstein admirer

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 11h

Put another way, this is 5(!) times the average daily travelers at LAX, the busiest airport in the US.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

Your calculator has been locked until you upload age-verifying documents proving that you are allowed to turn your calculator upside down after typing 5318008

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

If you share your location we can recommend numbers near you that you may be interested in calculating

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

US Big Tech putting its thumb on the scale for Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Boba Cyclist 정 @bobacyclist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

About 99% of drivers would agree that it’s a valid reason to speed. Speed limits and red lights are oppression. I guess the second woman perished. So two killed.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23h

it is Very Interesting to me that there's an element of the Republican base that is anti school voucher esp. in rural areas, where $2k vouchers don't mean shit because there's no charter schools that aren't basically Big Jimmy's Charter School and Nail Tech Salon run out of a trailer park

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Trump voters turn on Republican governor they call ‘scarier than a communist’: NYT

Some of President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters are turning on a powerful Republican governor, with one flipping a common Trump attack against him.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is bleeding support fro...

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

slowly looking into the flood of state and local propositions and initiatives on the ballot in los angeles this year and there's one for a sales tax increase to fund the fire department, written by the firefighters' union, and there are ads against it paid for by the police protective league lmao

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

a fake fucking autopsy! a totally fake narrative! like holy fuck man i was there, no, they very much did not want it to be public

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rhetoric like this is going to do more to ensure that young generations do not take the Holocaust seriously than any actual denier ever could.

“If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner.

Her role in the relentless, politically motivated demonization of Israel and promotion of the genolie speaks volumes.

Awarding Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a recognition of justice. It’s the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.

Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell.”

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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BREAKING: automated ticketing for bike & bus lane violations expands city-wide in Chicago. Passed today.

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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NYC Comptroller Mark Levine urges Target's board to commission an independent review of any coordination or cooperation between Target and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), following the shooting involving ICE agents in Marble Hill on October 8.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE agents are pathetic drunks and i can tell you from experience that every time you say something along the lines of "hey man if you hit the bottle hard enough you won't have to wake up tomorrow" you WILL hurt their feelings

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Ben Dillon @benjdillon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yep. We’re being led to believe the same people who spend over $100 million fighting a wealth tax would be in favor of universal basic income? lolnope

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We've all heard the right wing claim about the *liberal media* but the truth is that right coded zillionaires own most of the media we consume. Just look at this list of what the Ellison's now own. It's astounding & very concerning. (h/t @thedesk.net)

a list of all the media properties now owned by david ellison.

shows all of the media logos.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminded of this infamous article in Slate from 2002 where Anne Applebaum argues that Palestinian journalists are legitimate military targets. "Kill the Messenger". Journalist @ahjohnson.bsky.social asked her about this piece and if she still stands by it in 2024; for which he was promptly blocked.

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Targeting radio and TV stations.

To date, most of the Israeli attacks on Palestinian Authority targets have struck me as utterly pointless. I understand their logic, as far as it goes....

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cw rape Something that's never discussed ever in the whole "why don't women report rapes to the police" "debate" is that the cops use sexual violence as part of their arsenal on a system level, for example one of the ways Occupy was suppressed was by the cops Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the thing is I think he can - if City Council does not immediately undermine him. and right now they would.

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Matt @mplewis.com · 09/10/2026

i appreciate my town's firefighters and i am enthusiastic about funding them when they separate their staffing requests from those of the cops

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

perfect tweet

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Studio89 Designs @studio89designs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The US slaughtered over a million Iraqi civilians in response to 9/11. Their country had subsidized education and a burgeoning middle class. Now they deal with rolling blackouts as the norm and many universities destroyed by America haven't been rebuit.

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crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social @crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's obviously valid to verbally disparage civilians who are *patriotic* about their country's war-crimes and atrocities. e.g., it's valid to say any American who supported the war on Iraq is a stupid violent pig etc

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Gonna be tough trying to commit heinous war crimes across the world when you can no longer make pit stops for ass, cash, and grass wherever you want.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The US will never, ever get to put its military outposts back where it is pulling out, which is a win/win for everyone except a handful of the worst fucking people who have ever lived.

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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW: asylum-seeker Martin Soto, who helped organize a hunger and labor strike in ICE’s notorious Delaney Hall, was released late last night with an ankle monitor. He spent 8 consecutive months in ICE custody, much of that time in solitary confinement. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.

The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.

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crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social @crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

seems necessary to exhaustively enumerate and examine the potential consequences of admitting personhood of a machine/mechanism built by and for corporations, moneypeople, and military/intelligence entities that are, basically, evil. and the consequent changes in understanding of our own personhood

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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AltTaxPro @alttaxpro.altgov.info · 06/10/2026

FORCED overtime. On-call standby. Staffing shortages. Mismanagement of the state ferry system. 0% pay increase for certain employee categories. Worst take possible from both @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov & @governorferguson.bsky.social to point fingers at MEBA instead of fixing the system.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well

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crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social @crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

genuinely tricky philosophical questions don't do too well in a forum where the default discursive affect is condescending self-certainty no matter the topic

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

like, most people who were recently activated into being pro-Palestine just assume that Jewish identity works the same way as Christian identity

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I find the focus among many in the AI field on “curing death” to be fascinating. Freud theorized that the fear of death was displaced castration anxiety, which seems relevant.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why I'm so in favor of accessory commercial units. Just getting people in the US used to **walking** for a cup of coffee or a sandwich in the neighborhood may finally do something to rid Americans of our terminal car brain.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Obviously I’m entirely made of Housing but a real good zoning reform we could make is re-legalizing corner stores on residential streets. Banned by the same 1957 code that banned ADUs, so maybe that’s next

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"[A]ll visitors are required to walk through body scanners in each of the state's 41 [prison] facilities ... [O]fficers can simply decide if they want to be screened."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I knew this guy was a dick when he opened a taco joint asking $8 for some stunt food even though you could get a bomb ass Baja fish taco for $2 at the stand half a block away from his place and they sent the cops to force the stand to shut down

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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