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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love my induction. It had knobs, and is as intuitive as gas. The ones with push-button controls often come with a timer which can be handy (but tedious and not as intuitive imo). Consider how you cook before you decide on knobs vs push-buttons.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1/ The biggest safety-net cuts arrives not with a Republican announcing them. They arrive as a computer decision: denied, flagged, delayed, reduced. As benefit rules tighten due to GOP, the machinery deciding who qualifies matters just as much as the law. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don’t forget Netanyahu, who talked Trump into attacking Iran. Every other US prez had the sense not to, because they understood the risks. Trump didn’t put an ounce of thought into it and naively expected an easy win.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Michigan farmers are getting crushed by Trump’s disastrous tariffs.

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Because iwillvote.com is run by the Democratic Party, so it’s a political organization. Vote.org is a nonpartisan and non-profit organization dedicated to promoting voting rights and verifying registrations

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I Will Vote

Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.

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

In 1937, Stalin's census found the famine killed millions.⁣ ⁣ His government suppressed the report and shot the statisticians who made it.⁣ ⁣ Three weeks ago, that kind of suppression was illegal in America. Now it isn't. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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The Sentence That Used to Protect American Statistics

"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly disappeared it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🚨 ICYMI: This is one of the most offensive and egregious things I’ve ever covered (and that’s saying a lot seeing how it’s Florida):

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rice: The world is looking at this and seeing the United States and Israel throwing the military kitchen sink at Iran and failing. So it’s more than the lies and the bluster and the memes and the threats. It’s the real perception of a weakened American deterrence…

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This study does not include additional savings from liability claims and insurance. No more medical claims on auto, home or business policies for accidents or “slip and falls”.

Text excerpt from Yale School of Public Health report: “The model identified five major sources of savings: lower pharmaceutical prices, Medicare-level payments to providers, reduced administrative overhead, less fraudulent billing, and fewer avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Even under more conservative assumptions about drug prices and fraud reduction, the researchers projected that the savings would reach at least $663 billion a year. Both figures account for an estimated $304 billion in additional spending to meet unmet medical needs, reimburse care that now goes unpaid, and provide universal dental coverage.
A universal healthcare policy would also save tens of thousands of lives, the researchers project.”

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”

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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I believe that’s Prince George County (Maryland) Public Schools

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla paid just 4.9% of their profits in federal corporate taxes in 2025. They've seen their collective tax bill drop by $95B thanks to two rounds of Trump tax cuts. Meanwhile, tech layoffs in 2026 have already surpassed 2025. Trickle-down economics was always a scam.

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Auto and liability insurance costs should decrease also, since healthcare claims costs would essentially be reduced to zero.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Fascism works not only by the passage of arbitrary, dehumanizing laws but also by the arbitrary, dehumanizing enforcement of the laws.” A deeply and sensitively reported piece by M. Gessen about how “soft fascism” is being operationalized against trans people—gift link:

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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It took me a few days to read @mashagessen.bsky.social's piece on Kansas. It is as necessary as everyone says. Set aside some time for it--it is long. It is also important there are things chipping away at NYT's transphobia. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Highly recommend Ethan Allen. Have bought multiple pieces from them over the years. You can pick your upholstery fabric. And when they have a sale their prices are very reasonable for the quality. I have chairs 20+ years old.

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Dem leadership refused to take up the issue, thus turning it over to the most vocal (and extremist) voices. Dem leadership repeatedly refuses to step up to meet the mood of a broad segment of dems and independents.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Reminder: progressive is mainstream

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

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Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A reporter at a robust high school newspaper in Marin did some actual investigative journalism and searched for his community in the Epstein Files. He says he was just doing his homework. Gisele Attias Bonnouvrier immediately threatened to sue. www.wired.com/story/epstei...

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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I suspect he’ll justify staying in office by claiming he has “proof” he won the 2020 election. Constitution be damned.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026

After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Used to be potential candidates would come up through the ranks of city and county elected positions. That provided a built-in vetting process.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/06/2026

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

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Hayes: Musk wants you to forget his deadly DOGE legacy

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Who knows if there will be a final agreement. But if there is, two things will be true at the same time: a) It's essentially surrender to Iran. b) We should be glad about it, because every day this insane, illegal war continues, we get weaker. 1/ Let me explain.

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Exactly. Imagine meta glass wearers in restaurants and stores recording all the other patrons. And that’s in addition to all the street-level surveillance. Privacy is something we should seek to protect. Especially in private settings.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he cannot fully articulate, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected and closed the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Reminder that Congress can step up and stop this.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

An estimated 8-9 million Americans turned out for the March 28, 2026 No Kings protests across the US. There was only very moderate media coverage of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_King...

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No Kings protests - Wikipedia

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Gosh, maybe female “looksmaxing” over the past few, I don’t know, patriarchal centuries, maybe should have been considered dysfunctional?

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

By “bottom up” I mean money flows from the bottom up to the top. That’s how the ultra rich accumulate their wealth

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I would argue we don’t have a “top down” economy. That has always been a lie (nothing ever trickled down). It’s a bottom-up economy. And the bottom (which now includes the struggling middle class) can’t make ends meet anymore. They’re pessimistic because they don’t see how it will ever get better.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Trump's weaponization of government to hurt companies he dislikes get a lot of attention. Probably not enough coverage of how he also accidentally kills companies he likes because he doesn't understand economics www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

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The ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard

An (economic) serial killer is on the loose, and he’s murdering U.S firms left and right.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

So uh, precisely the types of people the US economy is going to most need in the next 20 years as the crisis of aging Boomers overwhelming our care systems reaches its fevered peak

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Newly liberated by SCOTUS, anyway

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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Oops - Paul mentioned gas

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Diane @dianefurst.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Certainly some locales offer more opportunities and others are more challenging. It will take time and effort. Gas for shortfalls in the meantime as you previously mentioned

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