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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh man, do I miss him and his work. That was a sad year, we also lost Graeber and Barry Lopez. Different genre for Barry but they were three of my greatest teachers.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it's like one of these armeggedon/meteor flying toward earth movies and the genius scientist is pitching his products in the meeting with the president

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's time we cancel all medical debt. All of it.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You may have heard of Greystar—the largest corporate landlord in the U.S. Until a week ago. Two corporate landlords—Equity Residential and AvalonBay—just announced a historic $70 billion merger. The newest biggest landlord you've never heard of is now 'Vivmark Residential'.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

See also Tim Scott’s recent Schooling for Silicon Valley. Which I expect is less journalistic, more academic, and let’s say…less tolerant. One reviewer describes it as appropriately scathing.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CNN's Dana Bash had a 12 minute interview with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and didn't ask her a single question about attempts to shut down the Department or about the nearly $2 trillion portfolio of student loans she oversees. Corporate media is part of the problem.

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Paint highways white? It’s like we’ll do everything to deal with climate change, except dealing with climate change . www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Why one highway exploded this summer — and why many more are at risk

Hotter summers are wreaking havoc across transportation infrastructure. One solution: Paint everything white.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The US is confiscating Venezuela’s gold from the UK bank All of Venezuela's gold reserves, totaling 31 tons, which are held at the Bank of England, will be transferred to the United States, per EL Nacional.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I saw The Invite last night and your comment came to me in Seth Rogen's voice. Followed by that terrific laugh of his.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

So true! And really quite close to the truth if you consider that all human labor comes from literally burning organic matter. It’s all about breaking those carbon bonds, whether they exist in fossil fuels or in food!

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

No one should listen to a word this corrupt creep says. He and his wife are rolling in more money than they can ever spend, but they are paid to undermine candidates who are fighting for you. Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires readsludge.com/2026/07/25/c...

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Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires

James Carville's firm has been paid by American Bridge, a super PAC funded by billionaires who also bankroll groups fighting progressives in primaries—and he advised a lobbying shop the crypto industr...

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So maybe it's more like a battered wife who's still engaging in their own battering? Or something like that.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yes, absolutely. But let's also keep in mind that Carney and his government are also pushing a new tar-sands pipeline, even as their some of their First Nations are literally being burned out of house and home by climate-induced forest fires .

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Well yeah, but generally when someone makes a joke and someone replies with something oblique and implicitly corrective it does give a certain dickish impression. In any case, best of luck with your instructional pursuits!

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Dude, he was just making a joke. :)

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yes. I think it is also the general ethos of American business.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

hand, remained unroaded until the 1970s and so were not as intensively harvested (river drives are far less efficient for getting wood out). Clearcutting in Maine didn't take off until the 1980s.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1880s, because the forests there had been decimated. Have a look at aerial photos, or just Google maps, where you can still see, 150 years later, the roadbeds that were built then throughout the Whites, including steep slopes and high elevations. Most of the paper lands in Maine, on the other

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

p.s. It had nothing to do with the "quality of the rivers." Lots of pulpwood was floated down the Connecticut to mills in Holyoke, and also down the Merrimack. And NH was for the most part hit much harder and earlier than Maine--that's why the White Mountain National Forest was created in the

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

we are losing this country. So please stop.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

places. First, I have known people like this guy and they have been screwed every which way for a long time. Second, this kind of totally inaccurate blaming of working class people, and in the process protecting capital and corporate money and billionaires, is one of the main reasons

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

pay was withheld. Clearcutting in Maine, as elsewhere, was (and is) caused by massive private fortunes and capital more generally, as well as, of course, by lumber demand from the cities and suburbs and by paper demand (i.e. by me and you). You'll have to excuse my vehemence. It comes from two

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Loggers worked like hell (and still do) at one of the most dangerous occupations there is, and in the 19th century they had to spend the entire winter (which in Maine is very long and very cold) working in remote camps with crappy housing. And if they got fed up and left their entire season's

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Excuse me but this is not right. Loggers worked for paper companies and large family-landowners in the north woods because it was one of the very few options they had, especially after farming in New England became untenable in the late 19th century as the midwest opened up.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I also think it’s important to not forget all the people (and there are a lot) who have tens and hundreds of millions of dollars and so far more political influence than they should. Tax the living shit out of the top 10%. If Eisenhower could do it, so can we

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Um. Both? Including way way more than a 50% reduction. I realize that’s not exactly likely in the current climate but we should lay out what is right and appropriate so we can at the very least start with that as a bargaining position.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I dunno. Wouldn’t it be better to arrange things so the working class actually has the power to make this decision itself? was the working class wrong, back when they did have this power, to elect Roosevelt four times?

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thank you for this. In addition to platinum’s behavior, I am really disturbed by how many people here take a sincere and thoughtful apology as another opportunity to pile on and beat up on someone. Bullying and vindictiveness seem to be everywhere these days.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I think I see where you’re coming from. Best of luck!

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You know Naomi is Jewish right?

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I explained a specific error in an article on Trump accounts. Is your point that because you like the NYT's coverage of Trump I shouldn't call attention to a major error in their reporting?

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Oh that sounds prudent jn today’s world.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Good lord the self womping in this thread. He’s very imperfect candidate. Wasn’t my candidate. But acting like a whiny little bitch isn’t going to win this one. roll up sleeves, folks or maybe take up golf

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Everyone should see or read this Krugman piece on Elon Musk paulkrugman.substack.com/p/on-holding... The guy is a malicious clown who is clueless 90% of the time and lies the other 10%

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On Holding Elon Musk Accountable

Why aren't we talking more about DOGE?

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oh no! Eludes... I shoulda used my ai spell-checker.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

very nice form, too. downright Obamaesque.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I mean, I’ve had to reduce my hours at work because I have chronic tendinitis in my right ankle. But it’s not because my workplace is elitist. It’s just because I have tendinithis.

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Daniel Smith @danielsomers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Surely there is some form of accommodation that could work for your situation, which I believe is pretty much the case for all physical disabilities. But how his suggestion is “ elitist” is really beyond me. Unless there’s some class basis for tendinitis that alludes Me?

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