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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. www.commondreams.org/news/ai-electi…
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Voters in Key States See AI Campaign Cash as More Politically Toxic Than AIPAC: Poll | Common Dreams
"Candidates should seek support from the AI industry at their own peril."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Veterans and activists protested in Washington, D.C. against President Trump's proposed 250-foot arch that overlooks Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The messaging is so weird, that the federal government has enough money to just issue every American $5,000 today if the president wants to, BUT ALSO, no, he doesn't want to right now (only if the GOP wins).
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Eugenia" is making raisins in Kern county CA. Workers must walk on hot sandy ground and pick enough grapes to fill a tub. They spread out a sheet of paper on the hot sand and put the grapes on the paper to dry. They get paid 36 cents a sheet for this difficult work. #WeFeedYou
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kligerman: The administration wants to argue, “We’re not building it for this election.” Well, why are you rushing it? Why are there people, like our whistleblower, who have come forward to say, no, they’re rushing to get it done precisely to have it ready for this election?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Journalist Arrested While Documenting Legally Contested Enbridge Line 5 Construction
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Workers in the Arvin CA or harvesting bok choy. The high last Monday was 105°. They earn California minimum wage of $16.90/hour. #WeFeedYou
Packers harvesting bok choy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Sens. Alex Padilla and Mark Warner are demanding answers from prediction market giants Kalshi and Polymarket over their payments to influencers accused of spreading election disinformation. Here’s what the Senators uncovered:
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Exclusive: Senators Padilla and Warner Demand Answers from Prediction Market Companies on Paying Influencers Who Spread Disinformation
A formal letter was sent by the Senators on Wednesday
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026
NEWS: Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to state health officials. They are Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years and the first reported measles deaths in the U.S. this year.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just cleared the way for Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting — although it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the midterms. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Supreme Court clears the way for Trump mail voting order in advance of midterms
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead on his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement be...
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is remarkable. Marco Rubio stated, "Iranians are thieves. They cannot impose tolls on the Strait of Hormuz." In response, Abbas Araghchi remarked, "Consider the speaker. Approximately half of Venezuela's oil production is now directed to the United States. Who is truly the thief?"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/08/2026
Back in March, our administration proposed new rules to get sidewalk sheds down faster — so New Yorkers could step outside and see the sky. 

Yesterday, those rules became final.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/08/2026
Wage theft is theft. Tenant harassment is illegal. Those who defraud vulnerable New Yorkers will be held accountable. We are working with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to share real-time information and crack down on crimes that target workers and consumers.
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Workers' rights at the heart of new NYC initiative, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg says
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner are partnering up to combat wage theft, tenant harassment and fraud targeting immigrants.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Cops had footage from a nearby camera of this guy destroying a Flock camera and the grand jury still tossed the case👍
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Felony charges dismissed against Clermont County man for destruction of Flock camera
A Clermont County man, who was facing felony vandalism charges for allegedly destroying a Flock camera in Union Township, had his case dismissed.
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Mike Satz @mikesatz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My sister is a licensed clinical social worker. She got laid off today along with 75% of her company’s people because of cuts to Medicaid. The pain is just starting. We’re only at the beginning.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ballou on Epstein Files Hearing: There were just long periods of silence in the courtroom as the DOJ struggled to articulate why it couldn’t follow the law here. I had never really been in a hearing like that, where one side was just silent on their own arguments…
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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Baseball Enthusiast @iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I don't know what to say anymore ICE is a dangerous institution and must be abolished
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San Diego Padres minor-league catching coordinator detained by ICE in Texas
Oswaldo Pirela is a Venezuelan former pro who works for the San Diego Padres. Relatives say he is in the United States legally and demand his release.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"José" is harvesting mandarin in Bakersfield CA. "We're paid $55/900lb bin. We start at 5am and usually get out by 12 noon. "Temps then are a very hot 98°. I'm ready to leave as working fast in that heat is too hard on my body. I filll 2-4 bins during these 6 1/2 hrs." #WeFeedYou
A farm worker harvesting Mandarin oranges
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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The Lever @levernews.com · 17/08/2026
NEW: Three days after Yale found Medicare for All could prevent 114,000 deaths and cut health care costs by $1 trillion a year, Hakeem Jeffries said he won’t support it. Meanwhile, health care PACs have poured $391k into his campaign — and a would-be primary challenge was crushed.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We could eliminate $7 billion in medical debt with the $70 million they spent to beat me in the primary. Those same corporations and special interests are trying to buy the seat for Mike Rogers now. In November we teach them once and for all: Michigan is not for sale.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW— Richard Hanania has become a celebrated “former” white supremacist with profiles and accolades in mainstream news outlets. But as the person who first exposed Hanania’s past, @letsgomathias.bsky.social argues in this piece that his current views on race show an unaccountable and unchanged man:
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You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Jaime" has worked in agriculture for 19 years in the Gonzales CA area. "Right now I'm working thinning lettuce. It's a very tiring job as you need to walk a lot on the uneven ground." #WeFeedYou
A worker thinning lettuce
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 11/08/2026
Families should be able to afford housing, groceries, healthcare, education, transportation, and other basic needs. Join us August 28th at the Lincoln Memorial!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here’s the thing: It’s not going with him after the presidency. We’re taking it from him.
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Grandma Orc @esoorc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Via Nick Valencia You need to see this video. Watch as a reported off-duty federal agent draws his firearm on a crowd of civilians. The troubling scene unfolded Saturday night near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. “
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Olivia" sent us this photo from Maricopa CA. "We're working in the table grapes in 95° weather. The high today is supposed to reach 103° F. This is hard work - especially in this high heat. When we're harvesting under the grapevines it feels even hotter." #WeFeedYou
Worker packing grapes
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How bad is the economy right now? Based on the latest jobs report... I'm worried.
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