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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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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026
it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.
The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.
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Chris Fleitas @fortysixcheeses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The only thing I wanna hear about Lake Ontario is that she takes in what Lake Erie can send her.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hey #sanfrancisco and friends who use tik tok. If you see a video of a couple (man with dark curly hair, and woman with black short hair, tall, white) in San Francisco, crossing Chez Maman in Hayes Valley, they just pepper sprayed the entire restaurant, my mom, me and our foster dog. If you see
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I still think every day of my life about the fake Richard Karn biography of Ty Cobb from DETROITERS titled 'Karn on the Cobb'
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In addition to the fact that hundreds of land-grant colleges exist, Deep Springs has TWENTY-SIX students, and a 4.6% acceptance rate. It’s not the opposite of an Ivy League school, it’s literally an Ivy feeder program for a tiny group of elite students.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 11/05/2026
can I walk you through my favorite things about this site, which I made *with these hands*??? (thread lol) petobits.coyotemedia.org
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The Rainbow Bay Bridge — COYOTE Media Collective
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
some things you can really only do the once or they become rote but if I could relive one moment this here would be high on the list www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s67...
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The Mountain Goats - Sugar, We're Goin' Down [Live]
YouTube video by notasfarwest
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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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deneb @v3gaaltair.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
demeter when her daughter goes missing
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
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Old Fashioned Boologna Salad @bolognasalad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ideal relationship dynamic
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Got my first bag of potato chips in months. Cracked it open. The first chip out of the bag was... soggy? The second chip was almost fungal. Baffled, I explored the bag and discovered AN ENTIRE POTATO. Unsliced, brined, like a wad of seasoning juice. It had survived, and now was juicing the chips.
A flavor-blasted potato, like a gallstone from Satan's own bowels, sits atop the worst bag of Herr's Kettle Chips ever dispersed for public consumption.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...
Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, Concealed Two
Children After Cesar Chavez Raped Her
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/03/2026
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/01/2026
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
this is the way.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
When the NRA finds out that a citizen was shot and killed by Federal troops merely because he was carrying a gun, there is going to be hell to pay. This is the exact scenario they have been warning us about! These are the jack-booted government troops from which we need unfettered liberty!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
Two small children hold signs they made. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 22/01/2026
kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 18/01/2026
We love seeing this guy
The Sunfly karaoke guy
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/01/2026
Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We do not have a functioning federal government, and I see no reason to pay taxes to thieves.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Doc Bullfrog, you smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. They’ll kill you.
Doc Bullfrog absolutely KILLING IT
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