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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5B a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5B they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions. Kudos to these Autozone workers.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tampa, meet me at 4pm with @laurenunderwood.bsky.social, @valdemings.bsky.social, @micheleforfl.bsky.social, Commissioner Gwen Myers and State Rep. Dianne Hart-Lowman. Come spend some time with us and bring somebody with you. angie4us.com/AllHandsTPA

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

All of Iron Circus' banned-in-Texas titles are available in the ICC store, BTW. Y'know, if you're as contrarian as I am. 😘🖕 Banned Book Club: store.ironcircus.com/products/ban... Occulted: store.ironcircus.com/products/occ... As the Crow Flies: store.ironcircus.com/products/as-...

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Banned Book Club Color Edition PREORDER

This is a PREORDER edition and will ship before the official release date in September with special original art for the first 100 orders of the color softcover! The color edition includes an EXCLUSIV...

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The Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They should do a spider-man 2 ps5 dlc where Mamdani is mayor so there can be a subplot of Mamdani fixing problems before Spidey can get to them

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’ll be doing this when I get home btw :)

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026

"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/08/2026

Newsletter: Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the crypto industry–friendly Clarity Act market structure bill fails to reach a vote before August recess — likely dooming it. www.citationneeded.news/issue-108/

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Issue 108 – In a word, applesauce

Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the Clarity Act fails to reach a vote before August recess

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Can confirm. Show me what you can actually do, or I’m not buying.

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/08/2026

Here's the full second segment I did with Bloomberg last week, talking about the circular AI economy, SpaceX and how AI is a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Gc...

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Zitron On Bloomberg on why people are anti-AI, SpaceX and OpenAI’s worrying price cuts

YouTube video by Ed Zitron

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The biggest landlord in the US is being accused of civil rights violations. Greystar, the largest owner of apartments in the US, systematically breaks local laws designed to make housing affordable to the poor, according to civil rights complaints filed in six states and DC. /1

theguardian.com

Largest landlord in the US accused of civil rights violations

Fair housing complaints accuse Greystar of turning away tenants who use federal rent vouchers

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

You can't keep calling it inflation when corporate profit margins surged upwards of 75%, accounting for roughly 40% of the total inflation seen since the pandemic began. Corporations raised prices to boost profits, used inflation as a shield, and never dropped prices again.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Citizens United decision completely broke our campaign finance system and rigged it in favor of billionaires and special interests. The $1.3 billion wealthy donors have poured into the 2026 elections is proof. It's never been a better time to End Citizens United.

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Our Kick Out Corruption Tour is about making sure leaders in D.C. know the American people are tired of paying the price for their corruption. Enough is enough.

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The amount of money the AI and crypto industries have spent and plan on spending to influence elections is why we need robust campaign finance reform. @tiffanymuller.bsky.social and @molly.wiki break it down here:

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

To nobody's surprise, Susan Collins, who opposes banning congressional stock trading and owns the eighth most lucrative stock portfolio in Congress, failed to report up to $395,000 in stock trades. #MESen

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Susan Collins failed to report up to $395,000 in stock trades

Collins’ net worth is $9.8 million.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/06/2026

Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news

Bubble chart of largest spenders. Top are Andreessen Horowitz ($93.5M), Elon Musk ($85.2M), Jeff Yass ($83.8M), Coinbase ($59.3M), Ripple Labs ($55.1M), Crypto.com ($38.7M), OpenAI ($37.6M), Anthropic ($20M). Circles are colored in various shades of green and black to categorize contributes in crypto, AI, or both sectors

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Massachusetts AG is suing UnitedHealthcare Insurance, saying it defrauded the state’s Medicaid program of at least $100 million. AG Andrea Joy Campbell claims UnitedHealthcare Insurance manipulated the health status of certain members to get higher payments from the state.

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Kdin Jenzen 🏳️‍⚧️🐺 @kdinjenzenvo.com · 30/05/2026

We are at 73% raised with 7 days left until the due date!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/05/2026

Tomorrow's premium: The final part of my "What If We're In An AI Bubble" series about how this era could end, covering the end of data center debt, NVIDIA's bill-and-hold scam, and the death of OpenAI and Anthropic. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

OpenAI’s Q1 2026 Negative 122% Non-GAAP Operating Margin Means That We Have To Consider That OpenAI Could Die
It’s been a little under four years of endless confidence about the inevitable growth of generative AI, and by extension the eternal success and growth of OpenAI.

Yet in reality, its economics have only ever soured, and its growth appears to be collapsing.

In October 2024, The Information reported that OpenAI believed it would turn profitable in 2029, that its total losses between 2023 and 2028 would be $44 billion, and that its (non-GAAP, every one of these numbers is non-GAAP) gross margin would be 41% in 2024, though it would end up being a point lower at 40% in the end. OpenAI would then project a gross margin of 49% for 2025…but they ended up at 33% anyway.

OpenAI would also say on September 5 2025 that it would actually burn $115 billion through 2029, but that “burn” assumed that it would have revenues of $60 billion in 2027, $100 billion in 2028, $145 billion in 2029, and $200 billion in 2030, when it would “become profitable” in some undiscussed manner. Two weeks later on September 19 2025, The Information would report that actually OpenAI would spend “about $450 billion to rent servers through 2030,” but not otherwise update the burn-rate.

On November 4 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman would say that the company had hit $20 billion in ARR and had made $1.4 trillion in commitments “over the next 8 years,” and a few months later On February 20 2026, OpenAI would claim that it had targeted “around $600 billion in compute commitments by 2030.” The very same day, The Information would report that it planned to spend $665 billion on compute through 2030, that it missed gross margin projections (without sharing what those margins might be), and that ChatGPT had hit 910 million weekly active users that month, 90 million short of its goal of 1 billion by the end of 2025.

It’s very obvious by now that OpenAI has been making up all of its projections, and th…

For OpenAI to afford its compute commitments, it has to make or raise $852 billion in the next four years. It must have that cashflow, or it will run out of money or be sued out of existence by its numerous counterparties from CoreWeave, Microsoft, Amazon and Cerebras.

Sidenote: To be clear, Anthropic is in exactly the same boat, with $375 billion - and that’s only assuming a single year SpaceX compute (billed at $1.25 billion a month) - in compute commitments for a company that can only afford them if its supposed $50 billion of annualized revenue becomes its actual revenue and also fucking quadruples in the space of four years.

In the final part, I’m going to get into the depths of destruction - the unraveling of the greater data center debt industry, the massive damage to private credit to come, potential shareholder lawsuits against NVIDIA, and the consequences of the deaths of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Time. Space. Reality.

It's more than a linear path — it’s a prism of endless possibility. I am the Watcher, and I am well aware of how AI generated that sentence sounds.

I am your guide through these vast new realities.

Follow me and dare to face the unknown.

And ponder the question…

What If…We’re in an AI Bubble?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

theguardian.com

US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 20/05/2026

Here's a fun thing you can do: search for products on Amazon. When you find something you want, look it up on an internet search. You're going to find it's cheaper on the seller's own website, or on another large seller like eBay or Aliexpress.

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 16/05/2026

A special thank-you message from GAMEOVERSE showrunner, RubberRoss!

It doesn't feel real but we're finally here. Gameoverse is a long time passion project of mine and I'm excited to finally get to share it with you all. Thank you to Glitch for supporting me in bringing my vision to life, my amazing crew of artists, animators and storyboarders and our partner studios who assisted us throughout this production.
I'm very proud of what we've created and hope you like it enough that we get to make many more like it! This project was rejected for over a decade by all the major studios, but I refused to quit. I hope that can be a testament to creative perseverance and truly believing in something you're passionate about. To all the artists out there who have something they care about, fight on, don't quit. You've got this!
Thank you for everything. You really really helped out.
Ross O'Donovan.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/05/2026

GitHub Copilot allowed this guy to spend $25 for every dollar of subscription, or put another way, $11,432 of tokens for $451

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/05/2026

Every month, thousands of working class New Yorkers use Western Union to send money to loved ones. Now Western Union wants to buy its top competitor, Intermex, so it can jack up remittance fees and squeeze families even more. Families shouldn’t pay the price for corporate monopolies.

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Mamdani Urges New York State to Block Western Union Deal

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/05/2026

A recent CoinDesk survey found 73% disapprove of government officials having crypto business ties, yet 55% weren’t aware of Trump’s involvement, and only 17% knew he co-founded World Liberty Financial. This underscores why my work at Citation Needed is so necessary. www.citationneeded.news/signup/

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Citation Needed

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today Zohran has announced historic penalties against two Bronx mega-landlords, securing $31 million in penalties and new oversight of long-delayed repairs. The penalty is the largest ever obtained by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. /1

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Mayor Mamdani, HPD announce historic $31M penalty against Bronx landlords over long-running building neglect – Bronx Times

“For years, tenants at Robert Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers have been forced to live with vermin infestations, chronic elevator outages and a lack of

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

ding ding ding I also think it’s relevant that this is in particular a coding tool, and there was likely an effort to give it a masculine name as a result🫠

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Elon Musk and the Trump admin are suing to block Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI anti-discrimination law. The DOJ has joined a suit filed by Musk's xAI against a Colorado law that aims to regulate “high-risk” AI systems and protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The California ballot measure to tax 5% of billionaire wealth reportedly has more than enough signatures to make the ballot. Supporters say they’ve gotten over 1.5 million signatures, far more than the 875,000 required to make the ballot.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Sen. Mike Crapo blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren's last-ditch attempt to preserve the IRS's free Direct File program. In the last election cycle, Crapo was the top GOP congressional recipient of campaign contributions from the corporate PAC of TurboTax's parent company.

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Rosie B. 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sweetrosiebee.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A little late to the party, but I'm back with my 8th year of ExtraLife! I’m fundraising once again to support my local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Every dollar goes directly to helping kids get the care they need. Let’s hit this year’s goal together! www.extra-life.org/participants...

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Extra Life | Make Big Change For All Kids

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network hospital! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to Make Big Change For All Kids.

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