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esqyesq.bsky.social @esqyesq.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@authorzogarth0.bsky.social in the Colosseum of Mortals are the announcer and battle master the same person?
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esqyesq.bsky.social @esqyesq.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Why isn’t childcare entirely tax deductible?
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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Why is nobody on a national level discussing how data centers have working Americans paying extra to utility providers? Bills more than double in some cases?
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 24/04/2026
You and your neighbors should not be subsidizing the electricity needs of a data center run by a trillion-dollar corporation.   My Power for the People Act would force Big Tech to pay for their own power needs. We should pass it today to protect consumers from rising costs NOW.
baltimoresun.com
Maryland electric bills to rise this summer as PJM faces data center strain
Mid-Atlantic electricity costs may rise this summer as PJM struggles with data center demand. Maryland relief may help, but supply issues persist, analysts say.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/03/2026
We need to know how much energy data centers use – and if YOU are subsidizing the costs of Big Tech companies. Making this data public is the bare minimum.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.
statescoop.com
New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice | StateScoop
A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress. He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
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Consequence @consequence.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
consequence.net
Dropkick Murphys' Unveil Anti-ICE Song: "Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop"
Dropkick Murphys are releasing an anti-I.C.E. song, "Citizen I.C.E.," as part of their tour-only split LP with Haywire. Learn more.
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE policy requires the use of bodyworn cameras. Video should be available from every agent who was involved in the death of a citizen in Minneapolis. ICE should release all of that video so the public can have clarity about the Secy's claim the shooting was self defense. www.ice.gov/news/release...
ice.gov
Archived: ICE announces updated policy for body-worn cameras
The policy calls for the use of BWCs in all aspects of ICE enforcement activities conducted by ICE personnel in furtherance of the ICE mission, excluding certain investigative activities. ICE is worki...
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esqyesq.bsky.social @esqyesq.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Oh hey we’re running fucking Venezuela now, fantastic
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses. The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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Sandra Kelly @2020willbelit.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Hence the call for government $$ to backstop. This bubble will effect all of tech apparently and they just keep shoveling billions into it “Too big to fail” my ass
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net
runforwhat.net
Run for Something
Find offices you can run for
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer is about to lose his job (positive).
newrepublic.com
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This was written months before J6 magnified the intensity and urgency. If a subsequent administration cannot hold its predecessor accountable for crime, including barring a return to office, then the political system allows and even encourages the crime foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/29/a...
foreignpolicy.com
America Needs to Prosecute Its Presidents
Pardoning Trump, like Nixon before him, would be a disaster.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 04/10/2025
👏💪"After the Trump administration closed the organisation (USAID) down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’
After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A challenger to Jeffries in NY-8 is stepping up on a pro-worker, anti-corruption platform. Running for Congress without party backing takes courage. Give him a look: vancebforny8.com @vancebnyc.bsky.social
Candidate information summary from the FEC. Seat: New York House, District 8. Type of candidacy: Challenger. Political party: Democratic Party. Statement of candidacy: Current version (PDF, FEC-1913005). Filed 08/25/2025.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 22/09/2025
"Sweden offers 16 months of paid parental leave. Canada is initiating $10 a day child care. Portugal has free child care for all. This affirmed what I already knew in my gut: Moms in the U.S. are struggling due to systemic issues and policy failures."
otherwords.org
Child Care Doesn’t Have to Be This Terrible - OtherWords
It was only after months of expensive child care stress that I learned other countries don’t do it this way.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/09/2025
"As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media" fair.org/home/as-elli...
fair.org
As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media
The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism.
The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White
America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
Department of Homeland Security boasted of
"the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced.
Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2025
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Orctober Law @orcishlaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Hey lawyers, are you aware of any good training for lawyers about what we should do when we get a call that someone has been arrested, like at a protest? All I know is from concrimpro and tv. I'm not talking about long term representation, just short term practical stuff to get the client out asap.
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esqyesq.bsky.social @esqyesq.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Every single day is somehow dumber than the last
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Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive information about Americans, including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers www.wired.com/story/cfpb-...
wired.com
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Oh oh. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time
Peer-reviewed study’s findings raises fresh question on the toxic substances’ impact on fertility
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It seems that Trump wants a recession. Why? A recession will drive down the prices of real estate, companies, and shares of stock. Trump and his fellow billionaires want to buy up everything on the cheap and then enjoy the ride upward — no matter the cost to working people.
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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
freedom.press
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Jeffrey @standuphookup1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We need people in government who only know of the Republicans as the evil enemy of civilized society that they are. We need to kick out all the members who still look at Republicans as someone you can debate banking regulations with and then go have a highball together.
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esqyesq.bsky.social @esqyesq.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@schumer.senate.gov if you’re too tired, too weak, or too old to fight then step aside
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
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esqyesq.bsky.social @esqyesq.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
@radiofreetom.bsky.social you were absolutely correct, we are not serious people
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
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esqyesq.bsky.social @esqyesq.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thinking about the capricious nature of our leader and the maniacal nature of his immediate circle and I’d be willing to bet that they flood his social media with bot praise and so he’s sure that he has more support than he does
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