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Ossof: “You are robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” That line should be used by every Democratic candidate facing an incumbent.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The owner of the Baltimore Sun fired their editorial cartoonist Kevin Kallagher for drawing anti-Trump cartoons. A year later, the Sun is generating pro-Trump cartoons with AI.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“.. Rafael Ramírez, who was president of PDVSA from 2004 to 2014, .. said that the deal reached with Washington represented ‘the greatest looting in our country’s history.’” @financialtimes.com 🇻🇪 www.ft.com/content/b3c9...

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Street art in her honor from SE Seattle

A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Who really governs America? Just a few wealthy people: “economically elite Americans...a tiny group whose political influence stood out of all proportion to the size of their cohort—but which rose instead in direct relation to the size of their wealth.“

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

They will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. (Revelation 14:10)

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

16 months ago: Never forget how it started.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026

Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?

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Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)

The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/08/2026

Because the threatened billionaires are directing the media they own to split the opposition.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Talarico: “We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Artwork by Hope Gangloff, contemporary New-York based artist #womensart (via Artstoheartsproject) #Caturday

Painting of a stripey tabby cat looking outwards while lazing on a striped sofa wilth head against the arm

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If the world bores you, look closer. There are unseen universes you might have missed. 🌿🤗

Wild reflections on the surface of the water between tiny floating leaves.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

US inflation is the highest in the G7.

Line chart titled "The United States currently has the highest inflation in the G7" showing year-ended consumer price inflation rates across G7 countries. The United States leads at 3.5%, followed by Canada at 3.2% and Italy at 3.1%, while Japan has the lowest rate at 1.5%. The 2.0 percentage point gap between the highest and lowest rates reveals divergent price pressures among major advanced economies, with the US experiencing notably stronger inflation than its peers.

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Janis Kluge @jakluge.de · 13/07/2026

Today's situation at Russian gas stations, compared to the previous 3 days (where data is available).

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Absolutely fucking exhausting that our elected leaders continue to see the moves the administration makes as “failures” and not what they really are: wildly successful *intentional* plans to steal wealth and move money from public services to the pockets of their billionaire buddies.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Trump has earned $2.3 billion since the beginning of his presidency through 4 different crypto schemes. The common denominator for each: the Trumps win big, and you lose. Data from @reuters.com.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2026

The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The guardrails continue to fall. It is functionally impossible to regulate a bank owned by the president. Yet it can imperil the entire banking system if it runs off the rails. For heaven's sake, this has to be stopped.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Talarico: “Call me old fashioned, but a man takes responsibility.” This is exactly right. There are traditional values of what it is to be a man: protect the weak, support the family, stand up for what’s right. The MAGA view of a man is about appearances and bullying, the opposite of manhood.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/06/2026

Over half of the publicly identified corporate donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have secured over $50B in new or expanded federal contracts, per a new report from Public Citizen. Many donors also have pending federal enforcement actions that have been suspended.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This advice from Octavia Butler is the way to respond to dangerous politicians: show the personal relevancy their words and deeds have to the individual voter. The politician who calls opponents childish names will lead you as a child would, incapable of forethought and caring. And so on.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

FEDWATCH: “.. parabolic moves are reaching extremes (SanDisk), with others following closely, which makes the mathematical chance of one of these stocks ‘crashing’ by nearly 100 percent.” $SNDK

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Welcome to “the unnecessariat”. ”We’ve devoted *trillions* of dollars to *replacing* people with pliant chatbots, in the hopes that these chatbots can be made so effective that we can just dispense with other people altogether.“ There are many fine observations in this piece.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“The ignorant man does not know, nor does the fool understand this: The wicked may spring up like the grass and the workers of iniquity may flourish, only to be destroyed forever.” - Psalm 92

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

GS: Household equity ownership is concentrated at the top of the wealth distribution. The top 10% of households own 87% of total household equity assets, while the bottom 50% of households own just 1% of the total.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

just to emphasize again, closing Malacca means 'taking a couple of extra days on a trip.' the economist had a great recent graph on various straits and their relative levels of direness.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Karen Attiah has a perceptive metaphor for where we are heading. “Now, on my part, going to X, or even Threads, feels like a strip mall turned into a flea market that is now overrun by drug dealers, bots, half-naked influencers, and the neighborhood skinheads.”

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

GS: We Now Forecast Only 1.3% Real income Growth in 2026 due to Energy Price Headwinds, With Significant Underperformance Among Lower-Income Households

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

The inhabitants of “Gilligan’s Island”, looking forlorn.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hillary and Barack called Trump ”unfit” in 2016, but they did not explain what this means. Tim O’Brien finds the right words in this article. Presidents “should come to the job with tangible aptitudes for management, leadership, policy, rationality and decency, regardless of party or persuasion.“

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“Legality is the decoy...The debate about whether any given [executive order] memo is constitutional keeps everyone occupied while the thing the memo was about quietly ceases to exist.”

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/04/2026

Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs were explicitly imposed to reduce the US trade deficit, but it reached an all-time high (in real terms) in 2025. Check out the new analysis from Cato Institute scholars. ow.ly/HzxH50YCvKy

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