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"Brighter than nothing. Smarter than nobody." Allegheny Dems committeeperson, Pgh ward 24

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
1868: Let's allow these people to save face so we can move one and get back to work fixing the country. 1974: Let's allow Nixon to save face so we can move on and heal the country. 2021: Let's not convict Trump so we can move on and get back to work fixing and healing the country. 2026: …
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She's much likelier to win Senate, but also not running for president pulls the field to the left more than running would. Running means she has the leftmost lane locked up and everyone else is competing over the rest. Not running means those votes are up for grabs, they're worth trying to get.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
it’s just not that hard. if a shit ass like mike johnson can do this all day, every day, the democrats can too
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I, Vermectin. 🦀 @engelr412.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Would you like to buy the Airbnb on my block? www.redfin.com/PA/Pittsburg...
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2130 Lowrie St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 - 3 beds/1 bath
(Compass International Holdings) Coming Soon: 3 beds, 1 bath ∙ 1280 sq. ft. ∙ 2130 Lowrie St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 ∙ $225,000 ∙ Coming Soon: Move-in ready Troy Hill classic. 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. Do...
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In modern American history has there been a single issue where Republicans consistently hammered Democrats for their position on a topic, Democrats responded by capitulating on it, and then Republicans just… Stopped attacking them over it, does this strategy even exist in reality, seriously asking
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yeah, I’ll just say that we, the Jews of Michigan, rarely have had an easier choice than Abdul over Mike Rogers. Rogers is only running because Trump told him. He’ll serve the fascist fundamentalism that denies us control of our bodies, loots the poor to serve the rich, and hunts our neighbors.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trumpian corruption poses a far greater threat to the credit of the United States and the dollar than the $40 trillion debt deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-40-tri...
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The $40 Trillion Debt and Trump Corruption
A government that ignores the law is a far greater threat than a few more dollars in interest payments
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
imagine you’re this guy and you’ve spent your adult life playing jam band sandinista in nicaragua wondering what the hell is up with your weird sister and finally, FINALLY someone asks. someone wants to know about the number one weirdo of your life
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to, which he used to inflate its stock price and cash out before the stock tanked. But his opponent is a Democrat. Our rating: Lean Republican.
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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There's a proposal to put a large maintenance complex in Schenley Park, right next to the Tree of Life Memorial Grove. Heavy trucks, salt, and chemical storage belong on nearby industrial-zoned land. for example the nearby Mon Riverfront corridor, rather than paving over protected public parkland.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Crypto has even become the stuff of attack ads in Dem primaries. Check out Peggy Flanagan's closing argument against Angie Craig tomorrow. "Angie Craig voted to let Trump make billions selling crypto coins. I won’t." bsky.app/profile/pegg...
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I, Vermectin. 🦀 @engelr412.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
no Jeopardy! NBC is showing preseason Panthers v Cardinals 😠 yet I am in neither Carolina nor Arizona
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I know this is Kansas, but Roger Marshall is an utter dipshit who has spent a lot of time on television saying stupid spiteful things and Democrats should at least be able to make this a tough seat to hold.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Teach your children ‘democrats are not always good, but republicans ARE always bad’ and in 2026 you’ve covered like 90% of their practical civic education wrt voting.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There it is. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Private equity has been scooping up life insurers that provide "permanent capital." Private credit has been financing the AI infrastructure build-out. Those two come together, and the result could be a bailout paid by state taxpaers, according to a fascinating new paper. I talked to the authors:
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Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts.
Instead of passing through bankruptcy, insolvent life insurers have all their liabilities—in particular the policyholder claims—paid for by state guaranty funds.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We have a president who is a convicted felon with civil findings of sexual abuse, business fraud and now a finding of money laundering It’s still hard to believe
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/08/2026
who the fuck is crafting these "new guardrails for AI," josh Hawley? And who is enforcing them, an FTC that fired all its democratic commissioners and spends ample time harassing trans people?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
to Iran's land neighbors: if we all stick our dicks in this beehive together we can probably lever mine free
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I, Vermectin. 🦀 @engelr412.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Wall Street Journal - ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire ... www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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I, Vermectin. 🦀 @engelr412.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026
This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?
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FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.
President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.
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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
If it can be automated you can make it mass transit instead
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
There are good reasons the U.S. Constitution requires congressional authorization for this sort of military action.
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I, Vermectin. 🦀 @engelr412.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
No bodycams, already had the guy on the ground and surrounded. Defund www.wpr.org/news/shootin...
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Madison protesters shut down Capitol concert after police shoot, kill man with knife
One officer fired shots, although a total of four officers were involved in the incident and have been placed on leave.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's right to be outraged. Just as it's right to be outraged when ICE guns someone down. But I also want us to remember all of the people dying due to deplorable conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, bc they are also being murdered by the state.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The new McCarthyism is a C minus World History 101 essay at Liberty university
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privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I want old school Chicago throat slitting. You don’t just punish your enemies, you privilege your friends and clear space for your enemies enemies. Example: have the UAW write a bill that encourages mechanics at dealerships to unionize and get auto industry support by adding direct sales. 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 15/07/2026
"The shooting death of Tyrin Johnson is the predictable consequence of the legal system letting Trump turn the American military against Americans."
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Judges Paved the Way For the Killing of Tyrin Johnson In Memphis
The shooting death of Tyrin Johnson is the predictable consequence of the legal system letting Trump turn the American military against Americans.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14/07/2026
Hey, look, it's another six-hour scandal that would have brought down any other presidency in the history of the country. Well, let's never talk about it again.
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Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation
The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/07/2026
This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
”abolish ICE“ means (1) abolishing a particular agency and (2) salting the earth so that nothing that does what it does can ever emerge again—no matter what it‘s called or who is in charge of it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE killed a person they weren't even looking for AGAIN. Second time in the past week.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
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Brett Sholtis @brettsholtis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
coming back to this thread b/c an intern at @spotlightpa.org turned a good story about this: www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/07...
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PA state senator profited from property sale for data center
PA Sen. Greg Rothman says while he did make money on the 2025 sale, he had nothing to do with the actual data center deal.
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Peteski @peteski.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Dead at 87, Louise Lasser ➛ is.gd/QMZTdo ★ via
Dead at 87, Louise Lasser
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i can all but guarantee you there are other women out there who have been sick to their stomachs for 24 straight hours praying that this will be enough. hoping like hell they won't have to rustle up their own traumas for an angry, hateful audience
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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Trump's father was born in New York to a non-citizen mother who arrived six months pregnant
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.
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I worked at Smithsonian, specifically raising money for 250th. What I want people to know is we secured millions of private philanthropy to host a month long Folklife Festival on the mall, "The Festival of Festivals". Was going to feature well known festivals, think Burning Man, Farm Aid, Grand Ole Oprey etc. as well as smaller local and regional festivals from across the U.S. and territories. Goal was to feature truly the best and most beautiful creative expression in music, dance, arts and craft traditions, food, community etc. Can't name names but plan was to have headliners every night for free concerts.... Think the types of names who might be affiliated with the aforementioned large festivals. Stars were willing to perform because was under banner of Smithsonian. It had to all be scrapped bc the administration would not release permits to host on the mall. The money went elsewhere, but our nation was robbed of what would have been a once in a generation cultural moment.
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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
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Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
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Sean’s Pen {technically speaking} @seangon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@karlbode.com and I wrote this piece for @theverge.com on what happened to the Biden-era program that aimed to close the digital divide and what it has become under the “benefit of the bargain” Spoiler alert: it benefits Elon and Bezos and is anything but a bargain for those being left behind
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...
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American police killings are rising, even as murder rates fall
More aggressive cops are less restrained
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ruwa Romman, who in 2024 was denied a speaking slot at the DNC on behalf of the Uncommitted movement, has won her Democratic primary runoff in Georgia tonight to join the state Senate. (Romman was in the state House.)
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Mark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One might wonder if the pandemic response helped underline the power of collective action & the ensuing spike in wages due to tight labor markets helped solidify the resolve that if they do this for a disease what if suddenly they take climate change seriously.
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I, Vermectin. 🦀 @engelr412.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Côte d’Ivoire !!
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One thing that I've been thinking about is how today's rise in White Supremacist ideology mirrors what we saw in the lead up to the Civil War during the 1840s and 50s. I don't think we're going to have another civil war (for a lot of reasons), but there are a ton of parallels. 1/x
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Mark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So the big news out of the Stewards of Cumberland Co meeting last night is State Senator Rothman was the real estate broker on the Middlesex data center. He likely made millions from a deal that will subject his loyal voters to 64 gas powered turbines. He is up for reelection.
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