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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Ken Veerman @kenveerman.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

“The future isn't something that happens to us. The future is something that *we* make.” Doctorow again with one of his trademark must-read threads.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People keep asking why Bush isn't saying anything about *all this* and the answer remains 'He was and is a massive piece of shit'

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026

I closed my trade imbalance with the grocery store, now I just eat the money I would have spent there.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For those in the UK and other countries where the lie is called a “war on motorists” rather than a “war on cars,” here’s a poster version for you to use and share. Either way, never forget, if there’s REALLY been any war in cities, it’s been a century-long WAR ON WALKING. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking

Black text on white background. “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on motorists. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century. Via the Urban Truth Collective.

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L. B. 🍂❄️🌱🌻 @elbosque.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This! I mostly walk, and rarely cycle, but we all must remember that we are allies, instead of allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other. Who wins, then?

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I need a roof mounted RPG on my car so that every time someone pulls up behind me and honks while I'm waiting for a pedestrian to cross the street instead of turning right on red and running them over, I can blast their car into smithereens.

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Misty Sparkle The Underhamster @mialynneb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Political scientist here that grew up rural - lol no. And when I say rural, it was deer carcasses hanging in the basement of the HS for FFA to make sausage. I'll give you a hint - white people are racist. The end. Tada! Your book title should have been "Keep Touching The Stove."

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L. B. 🍂❄️🌱🌻 @elbosque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

genuinely so angry about this. absolutely speechless.

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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think what’s important to remember about Dolly Parton’s philanthropy in the world of the wealthy is that she was a poor woman who became rich through talent rather than a rich guy who was born rich and got richer through failing up.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Cheradenine Zakalwe (2nd Edition) @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How did people decide that things need to change constantly otherwise they're bad? Every website and app that works is being touched and rearranged and fiddled with over and over and its always worse.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The right answer is "this is a diverse party and the voters of individual Congressional districts decide who belongs in the party. I don't agree with colleagues on many issues, but that's because our members think for themselves, unlike Republicans who in lockstep do whatever Trump tells them."

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/08/2026

All of this just because not enough people were willing to vote for a Black woman. I think about it every day.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

when people are like 'but we do teach statistics' well, no, we mostly don't*. we might teach the *mathematics* of statistics, but we don't teach the practicalities of statistics and how to read them. *there is no national curriculum in the United States and what you are taught varies wildly

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I often wish I lived in their imagined world where academics, queer people, socialists, and so forth hold such disproportionate power.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/08/2026

some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/08/2026

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

once upon a time, we cut off the trolls’ oxygen and they got bored and wandered off. that’s how this place became the so-called “bubble” they hate so much. the end.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The GOP goes on about protecting women in sports and then goes on to protect Max Miller.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 30/07/2026

coming back to this: if you genuinely love women's sports, you would not be engaging in the trans women question because you would already know there are many other things the women who play are concerned with: low pay, lack of job security, shitty facilities, and lack of media support.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/07/2026

pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I love this so much. Most people advocating for active transportation and safer streets aren't saying *no one* should drive. We're saying that driving should not be the *default* for everyone. We're saying that people deserve *choices*. Yet we are viewed as extremists for this suggestion.

The defendant is not comfort. The defendant is comfort installed as the default; provided at zero cost, written into the code, made compulsory for everyone including the people it does not serve, and then quietly removed from the list of things a citizen is permitted to ask about.

Accommodation is something a society provides for a person who needs it. A default is something it requires of everyone, whether they need it or not. The first is care. The second is a mandate that has been mistaken for natural law so long that we now defend it the way people defend a god; which is to say, not with reason but with faith and devotion.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The revocation of TPS is a disgrace and tragedy on so many levels. Haitians face horrific conditions and risk of death if deported. Families will be broken up. The health and human services workforce will be decimated. All because the people running our country are gutter racists.

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Worried Haitians prepare for expiration of federal protections - The Boston Globe

Anxious and fearful, more than 40,000 Haitians in Massachusetts are bracing for an uncertain, dangerous future if federal approval to live and work in the United States is not extended past Monday, wh...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/07/2026

we know you’re still his lawyer, he knows you’re still his lawyer, and republicans will vote to confirm you anyway because they don’t believe in rule of law except insofar as the ruler makes the laws

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 14/07/2026

Graham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...

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Graham Platner Was the Perfect Twitter Candidate

Social media transformed his campaign into a political mirage.

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L. B. 🍂❄️🌱🌻 @elbosque.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I drive, but being a pedestrian has made me a better more attentive driver. When I'm in charge (/s), everyone will have to walk for their errands one week a month. (Exemptions, obviously, for disabled folks and for places you genuinely can't walk to things.) Cities and towns, though, are fair game.

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