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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How many other issues have support from 91 percent of Republicans AND Democrats? Corrupt, bribe-taking Supreme Court Justices, who decide cases based on falsehoods and hypotheticals for their own personal gain, are unacceptable to ALL Americans. Corrupt Justices need to be held accountable.

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Marquette Law School Poll finds approval of United States Supreme Court declines from 47% to 43% | Marquette Today

Also: A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds approval of the United States Supreme Court dipped to 43% in September, down from 47% in July. Disapproval rose to 57% in September, from 53...

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

People who say “I can’t tell the difference between boys and (trans) girls” in sports are actually saying that they think girls who play sports “look boyish”. Pretending that the distinction is difficult to grasp is an insult to all girls that play sports. It’s telling them that they’re not “girly”.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you dig even one millimeter down into the bedrock of “boys playing girls’ sports” you’ll find a toxic layer of believing that girls’ sports should be banned altogether because girls who play sports are tomboys and lesbians that don’t adhere to traditional feminine gender rolls.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We don’t just need “AI” regulation, we need tech regulation and liability. It’s not just about “AI”, it’s about search, social, and commerce too. For far too long we’ve let algorithms push addiction and falsehoods that harm users, protect monopolies, increase division, and prompt people to hate.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Could you imagine if a car company said, “We’ve built a new car that uses tens of thousands of times more gas than previous models, doesn’t get you where you’re going any faster, and sometimes randomly veers off the road but we don’t know why”? That’s what “AI” companies are saying right now.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you have to set the device you’re on to impose limits on how long you can use the device you’re on…

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead, the list puts forth that there’s not a single anime produced in the last 26 years that’s better than Scandal (100) or The Gilmore Girls (99). That feels purposeful to me. Intentionally ignorant. And classist, to be frank.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 25/09/2026

This reminds me of explaining the rules of Kinky Mario Party on a live Our Relationship Pod at PAX that was billed as “a thing Ify is doing” to fill an open slot on Sunday and me watching as a small family stood up and walked out. Lol

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adorning the White House in gold, tearing down the East Wing, changing the colors of Air Force One, spurning Presidential Debates, defunding and dismantling certain programs but not others, paving over the Rose Garden, and tearing down the Kennedy Center all attack the legacy of one President: JFK.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All white supremacists hate JFK, whom they blame for integration. It drives them insane that JFK is the only modern President with Federal monuments erected in his name. The common thread of this administration has been erasing JFK, along with the norms and policies he originated, from our country.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why doesn’t it occur to newspeople that the public may have liked the sound of the “AI” sales pitch, but the more they’ve encountered and used the product the more they’ve decided it is just a bad product? Why do they assume that falling opinions about “AI” must be due to “ignorance of the masses”?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I use chronological feeds wherever possible, which means I can reach the “end” of the feed. I occasionally compare the feeds, and there is A LOT less rage-bait and misinformation in the chronological feed compared to the algorithmic feed. The result? Less “engagement” and time spent on the platform.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“…Engagement ultimately fell by as much as 50 per cent … ‘you spend a lot less time on the platform,’ he said.” That’s why “Meta” forces you to manually choose the chronological feed every time you open their platforms instead of letting you keep the chronological feed as your default setting.

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Instagram boss warns users will be 'overwhelmed' without algorithm

The head of Instagram says the average person who turns off their algorithm will have a much worse "user experience", as Australia debates new opt-out laws.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It might be too generous of an assumption, but he did say he’s trying to learn from his failure to cover your campaign the way it should have been covered. Maybe this is a result of that?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To be clear, *I* support free movement and trade between us and our neighbors, but does Frump? Are newsrooms going to ask any questions about it? Will they ask why Frump is wasting tens of billions of dollars building a wall on the border of a country he envisions as part of the United States?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Frump posted a (slop) picture of Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, central America, Greenland, and Iceland as part of the United States, so why are U.S. newsrooms focusing on Iceland’s and Greenland’s reactions, not the fact that Frump wants open borders with Mexico, the Caribbean, and central America?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My husband and I were just joking about what Lisa Calderon does between elections, since she runs for Mayor AND LOSES every single time. I get why Kyle Clark would interview Calderon, but I honestly don’t think she deserves his time.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Update: 7 lies to confirm your prejudices. 3 misleading claims to try and convince you to buy something. 6 falsehoods to show that you’re a good person, or someone else is a bad person. 1 obvious thing with an obscure headline. No way to just see articles from specific magazines. It’s disgusting.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you know of any polling that has asked why people voted against the Park Hill development? Anecdotally, NIMBYism/property values is not the reasoning I’ve heard. It also seems like the Mayor, not the community, pushed to make it a park instead of addressing the actual concerns behind the no vote.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It is more like 40 minutes, but I would be remiss if I did not suggest the hilariously ridiculous Junior High School (the musical). It probably doesn’t lose much if you watch it in two, 20-minute increments. youtu.be/R4s59ky-HxY

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Junior High School (1978)

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Does the self-perpetuating cycle of the wealthy propping up stocks and stocks propping up the wealthy ever stop, or will it continue forever despite all the other signs pointing to an impending economic collapse of massive proportions?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A near supermajority of spending now comes from the wealthiest few, who mostly hold their wealth in stocks. As long as those wealthy few can continue to spend, stocks can continue to do well. As long as stocks can continue to do well, those wealthy few can continue to spend.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good for Mark Carney. Good for Canada. Bad for the United States. Frump has significantly harmed us once again, while pushing our close friend and ally farther away.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s far more likely that I just accurately highlighted the United States’s strengths, and that, since then, Republicans have done everything they can to attack those things in order to make the US dramatically weaker, especially when it comes to our country’s capacity for combating corruption.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Logically, I know that a single conversation with me, a nobody, probably didn’t lead directly to anything, but the corruption of today seems to specifically attack the institutions I highlighted in that conversation all too closely.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I once told a Chinese exchange student that part of the United State’s economic success comes from courts holding corrupt officials accountable, and I sometimes worry that conversation somehow lead to the ridiculously corrupt, bribe-taking, delay-until-it’s-too-late courts we have today.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I still think markets and local governments are downplaying the medium-term risks that quantum poses to data centers. Colorado’s history with abandoned mines and oil wells is a cautionary tale of the environmental and economic disaster that awaits us if we fail to plan for this inevitability.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In a few years, Democratic leaning states will lose votes because Republicans are spending over $100 billion to forcibly remove millions of people from their homes. Republicans also seem to be following the disgusting, genocidal playbook of stealing homes and possessions from the forcibly moved.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Democrats seem unaware that the “immigration crackdown” is largely about the census. It is one of the reasons Republicans forcibly move people to “red states” upon detainment. That way, even if deportations are not successful, “red states” can count the imprisoned as part of their population.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Why is social media abuzz with woke 1? Is there a woke 2? Is it time for woke 2?

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Here's a line from it: "Colonists under the rule of King George III could expect more transparency and more commitment to justice than Americans can expect under President Donald Trump."

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 12/08/2026

I get so surprised when I log on and see a hubbub on what social media has the most users because I don’t think the migration to bsky was about being the most popular social media site, it was about having a social media site that was pleasant to visit and be a part of.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Apple offered me 3 free months of “Apple News” and, as the saying goes, “Holy clickbait, Batman.” “Apple News” is less newsy than “Fox News”. It’s not even fluff and distraction. It’s just straight up falsehoods. I am appalled.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Social scientists have found that when men think their masculinity is being questioned, they may dismiss that challenge as irrelevant, they may quietly feel bad or insecure, or they may overcompensate by trying to behave in a more stereotypically masculine fashion. And that last reaction is where the dollars are. Be a man and buy a gun. Get the manly cereal for men. Wipe your butt with the wet wipes for men. Get the manly-smelling deodorant. Eat the manly steak. It’s no coincidence that gambling apps and crypto companies have spent so much money on ads that make giving them your money seem adventurous.

Just as the manosphere and its galaxy of hucksters want you to fork over your cash so you can feel better about yourself as a man, Republicans want to make you feel insecure about your masculinity so that you vote Republican. Masculinity, in this sense, is a lifestyle product: one that comes with a set of political beliefs predicated on the subjugation of women, minority groups, and anyone else who men are told are their inferiors.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I know dissing BlueSky as an unnecessary extra, and saying that it isn’t as good as the anti-sex (and thus doomed to fail) Threads, is what all the cool and popular kids do, but if you’re a Democratic politician that still posts on “X” but DOES NOT post on BlueSky, that says something about you.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you haven’t heard how protectionist and pro-oil policies have destroyed the US auto industry’s competitiveness, that global sales of US brands have plummeted over the past 2 years, and that we pay the highest prices in the world for cars no one else wants… You may be living in a US media bubble.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“AP Opinion Poll: Americans divided on blue grass, green sky debate.” “NYT Opinion: Democrats can win if they endorse turquoise skies.” “WSJ Editorial: Voters hate green grass and blue sky, but elitist Democrats defend it.”

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Experts point out that, under certain circumstances, grass can be blue and sky can be green. It was not immediately clear if this is what Frump was referring to.” - Every US News Organization

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If Frump got elected while Obama was President, and Frump got elected while Biden was President, but Frump did not get elected when Frump was President because of a lack of election security, isn’t the logical conclusion that Democrats run secure elections and Republicans run insecure elections?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Astronomy, biology, and history tell us that DST is a bad idea, which didn’t live up to its promises, and making it (instead of Standard Time) permanent is anti-fact and anti-science. Democrats who support permanent DST are pandering to this era’s worst qualities. Is this really the best we can do?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It should be a much bigger scandal that Frump was legally required to get Congressional authorization to continue the war, attempts at providing that authorization failed decisively, and yet the war continues.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Why is every newsperson in the United States just Cher in Clueless saying, “I thought they declared peace in the middle east”?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Am I the only person that thinks the image of the Democratic Party could be improved if they stopped sending texts and e-mails that are indistinguishable from spam?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Frump would rather have one $100 million airplane over one hundred $1 million drones, because oooo so big and it’s expensive so it must be better, but guess which one is actually better, not to mention cheaper to operate and safer for American military personal?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

That’s not even to mention how Frump has repeatedly refused to properly fund a 21st century military because, in this day and age, small and cheap defeats big and expensive, but Frump is obsessed with size and thinks bigger is always better.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It’s wrong to say that Frump’s personally terrible performance on Iran is an indictment of US military capabilities. Frump fired all of our top Generals and Admirals and has promoted based on personality instead of merit. With that kind of leadership, is it even surprising that our military failed?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Soon, you will be eating it frozen and telling people that it’s just as good as ice cream. #Bananagenda

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It’s an “interesting new take”, says the news, and a “departure from his campaign promises”, but not a moment to question whether he has a grasp on reality and can remember what inflation is?

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