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his answer is essentially, "no no no, not PEOPLE. Just women."

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A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“For Rufo integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism

That is the entire point.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

There aren't enough of us doing politics right now. We can tell, because our politicians are so contemptuous of the grassroots that they will sell us out without a moment's hesitation, smugly certain that they will face no consequences for doing so: pluralistic.net/2026/09/22/h...

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Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump’s oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

And yes, as part of a boycott, you make some consumption choices. You buy X instead of Y. But "shopping" by itself isn't a boycott. You can't "vote with your wallet" (especially not when billionaires get to vote against you with *their* wallets): pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/c...

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Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

It's also the same move that transformed "boycotts" into "shopping." Boycotts are a collective enterprise. Before a boycott takes place, small-p political groups hold meetings, organize alternatives and communicate their demands.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

It's the same move that convinced workers that the answer to bad working conditions is looking your boss in the eye and threatening to change jobs (not forming a union and striking).

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Turning "politics" into "voting" is absolutely in line with Margaret Thatcher's dictum that "there is no such thing as society."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The right's leadership understands this very well, which is why they've spent years attacking unions, community organizers like Acorn, and activist institutions like Planned Parenthood.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We can talk about re-engineering government <after> we: - Restore all the NIH/NSF funds - Restore at the Dept. of Education Title VI/FLAS funds - Rebuild USAID - Hire back as many of the fired federal workers as possible & replace those we can't with new talent as fast as possible - Etc. - Etc.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Government reform was what the United States Digital Service WAS doing before the Trump Adminstration hollowed it out like that the restaurant in Good Fellas. 18F WAS worried about digital security. We have major hacks of both the FBI and DOD after DOGE.

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Nick Rheinwald-Jones @spybrunch.com · 03/10/2026

Blue collar work was upwardly mobile when we had strong unions, but it’s also hard to imagine any of these pundits arguing for that either

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If blue collar work was inherently upwardly mobile, everyone would do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. And people who romanticize blue collar work as having a quiet dignity are being patronizing, even if they don’t intend to

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And note how many of the Republican pundits and elected officials saying these things are white guys with Ivy degrees. Their kids aren’t getting blue collar jobs. They’re unlikely to enlist in the military either.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The people talking about the dignity of being, say, a welder, have never welded anything. And as far as “the pay is actually good” arguments go, the starting pay is good. The pay a few years in is good. But there’s a ceiling and it hits at about the same time the physical toll of the job does

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So if a man in NY gets drunk and I steal his wallet, because he was voluntarily intoxicated does that mean no crime was committed? Of course it doesn’t and it’s the same thing with Jane Doe at Cornell Getting intoxicated doesn’t mean you consent to rape, or theft #IStandWithJaneDoe

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Uh oh, cat lovers. "Nearly all tested cat foods contain toxic plastic contaminants, the herbicide glyphosate and heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN." "100 top-selling cat foods [were tested] for www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/h...

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What’s in your cat’s food? New investigation finds lead and other toxins | CNN

Most types of cat foods contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury as well as toxic chemicals from plastics and fertilizers, a new investigation found.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I meeeeean where is the lie

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘“The money should be granted as Congress intended, and essentially, they’re ignoring what Congress did,” said Representative Zoe Lofgren.’ The Trump White House is instead redirecting the money designated for basic research towards pet causes like AI

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The author pretends Heritage hasn't been dedicated for decades to ginning up culture wars specifically to create polarization and create the conditions for RW legislation:

"In the past several years, though, voucher advocates have switched strategies to take advantage of the country’s ever-deepening political polarization. In 2022, the Heritage Foundation urged the voucher movement “to embrace the culture war” as a way of promoting school choice."

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The pretense is that the voucher moment including the fine folks from Heritage, innocently standing by, saw the "culture wars" happening around "woke," and decided to then push aggressively for vouchers. First of all, Heritage *created* the CRT panic.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

JFC this is some tremendous ahistorical bullshit. Another Atlantic piece blaming the "woke left" for the actions of the right. The argument hinges on a lie: that Heritage and the voucher movement simply recognized an opportunity in the 2020s "culture wars" to push for vouchers.

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How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk

Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/10/2026

I didn’t have specific knowledge of this, I just assumed that many industry leaders donated to Trump out of class solidarity and a mistaken/lazy belief that doing so would curry favor for policy, and you really can do this for any industry negatively affected by this administration.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026

"This sort of behavior is entirely in character for the Trump administration—and, as it happens, a vivid example of the very kind of interference that the architects of agencies like NIH were desperate to avoid in the first place."

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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research

Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was the argument of my grandfather's book, Capital Punishment: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake Says right at the beginning, he's against it absolutely for moral reasons, but he ain't here to talk about any of that Published in 1974

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026

The student got excellent writing instruction--they went to an IB school, one of their parents is a professor, and they got through high school without ever using AI tools. But now, they feel they have to abandon all they learned about good writing, to avoid being accused of cheating with AI.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026

So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Both, I think. The WSJ article last year (Make peace, not war) documented that the Russians has been working on the Trump admin for a long time. Admin seems convinced that there are "deals to be made", if we just can remove the "Ukrainian problem", that they can make money with the Russians after.⤵️

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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now, I can't tell you exactly what a "safe" level of wealth distribution is, but I can tell you that the US Gini Coefficient is well outside the range seen in reasonably functional democracies.

OECD data showing wealth inequality within major democracies. The USA is an outlier, about 10 points higher than other nations.

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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where they can no longer skew markets and regulations ever in their favor. One point is fairly clear: a deeply skewed wealth distribution is unhealthy for the economy and democracy. It often leads to political instability.

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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

to a point where the US no longer has an obscene level of wealth (mis)distribution. Where they can no longer have so much wealth that they practically run our government. Where they can no longer dominate or even dictate economic activity.

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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a strong argument to be made that the super-billionaires need to be downsized by a wealth tax in addition to the income tax they already (mostly don't) pay (that should also be increased. One Economist proposed a measly 2%. Why not 10% or even 20% - A YEAR until their wealth drops

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When Truman proposed his national health plan in 1945, he ran into a trap that was laid in 1917. The AMA and corporate interests took the old “Prussian plot” playbook, updated it for the Cold War, and used the financial might of the newly enriched private insurance industry to kill the bill. /end

President Harry S. Truman uses a chart to explain his proposed National Health Insurance bill at the 1949 Convention of the American Federation of Labor. Having seen a large number of WWII enlistees and draftees rejected due to poor health, Truman saw the need for universal health insurance coverage for the middle class. On Nov. 19, 1945, the proposed his national health insurance program to Congress, becoming the first president to advocate for a comprehensive federal healthcare system. Truman’s plan sought to expand public health services, increase medical research and lower individual medical costs, with funding provided by monthly prepaid fees or payroll taxes. However, the proposal faced organized political opposition from the AMA and corporate interests. Critics labeled it “socialized medicine,” drawing on Cold War communism fears. The bill ultimately failed to pass in Congress. Photo credit: Free Speech Radio News Archive.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When FDR took office during the Great Depression, he wanted to include a national health insurance program in the Social Security Act of 1935. Corporate leaders and the AMA threatened to derail the entire Social Security Act if healthcare was included. FDR dropped the health insurance plan. /8

FDR signs the Social Security Act, Aug. 14, 1935. When FDR appointed the Committee on Economic Security (CES) in 1934 to draft the Social Security Act, the staff explicitly included a mandate for national health insurance. The corporate-medical alliance reacted with swift fury. The American Medical Association mobilized doctors nationwide to flood Congress with letters. At the same time, big business coalitions threatened to back lawsuits that would strike down the entire bill as unconstitutional. Roosevelt personally believed that national health insurance was a necessary leg of the social safety net. However, when forced to choose between passing a compromised bill or losing the entire New Deal welfare state, he chose survival. His decision was purely tactical, driven by cold, political pragmatism.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots The fight for universal healthcare may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, dating from President Truman’s failed proposal for a national, publicly funded health insurance system in 1945. However, the fight goes back to the 1910s, and it’s linked to anti-labor forces. /1

President Truman addresses a joint session of Congress. On Nov. 19, 1945, Truman sent a groundbreaking Special Message to Congress recommending a comprehensive national health program. His five-part strategy included constructing hospitals and health centers, expanding public health services, investing in medical research and education, providing cash benefits and disability insurance to workers, and prepaid national health insurance. The American Medical Association launched a campaign against it, condemning the plan as “socialized medicine” and comparing it to communism during the early years of the Cold War. By 1946, “conservative” Repubs controlled both houses of Congress and blocked the bill. Truman tried again with subsequent messages to Congress, but the legislative effort ultimately failed. Truman later called this defeat the most troubling disappointment of his presidency. Photo credit: Harry S. Truman Library.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s not just that getting 5-10 of these a day is annoying, although it is extremely annoying. I think polluting political communications channels like this is actively corrosive to democracy.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish there was a way to figure out which of my donations got me on all these spam lists so I could never donate to those causes again

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

Imagine how we could do this and capture attention and change public opinion. We know that public opinion can be changed on long timescales, contrary to some popular(ist) views that people don’t change their opinions.

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From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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