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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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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gns1birdsong.bsky.social @gns1birdsong.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Man! That’s a satisfying read- sure captures my rage
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If you want to know what it’s been like in Minneapolis, read this vivid dispatch from my colleague @julialurie.bsky.social, who returned to her hometown shortly before the killing of Alex Pretti www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“We’re going to still be looking out for each other when they’re gone”
On the ground with the Minnesotans standing up to ICE.
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gns1birdsong.bsky.social @gns1birdsong.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Sherrilyn Ifill has two back-to-back columns on Substack that go into an analysis of the problems with HOW the continuing resolution/shutdown impasse was ended. And on the path forward. Well worth a read- Ifill is a the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
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The Bizarre End to the Shutdown
Part I - Democrats Fumble the Moment
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gns1birdsong.bsky.social @gns1birdsong.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Simon Rosenberg lays out the particulars against Trump. Worth repeating these OVER and OVER and OVER as far as as widely as possible. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Is It Time For Trump To Go?
Republicans are starting to come to terms with what a disaster Trump is and what a liability he has become
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In his decades-long pantheon of bone-chilling statements, this one’s hard to top.
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gns1birdsong.bsky.social @gns1birdsong.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen’s press conference following his meeting with the Vice President of El Salvador this afternoon. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZP...
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Van Hollen speaks to press after meeting with El Salvador VP about return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey
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gns1birdsong.bsky.social @gns1birdsong.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have ZERO idea of what I’m doing. I’m mostly an old fart here to read.
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