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Greg Moore

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West Virginian. Current middle school teacher. Former Charleston Gazette-Mail executive editor. Mountain State Spotlight co-founder. Longtime arts and sciences advocate and Pittsburgh sports fan.

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Greg Moore @gregmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolls and Bitcoin are both bits of make-believe, but the dolls are less likely to warp the user into a fucking weirdo.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are fine with this
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 24/08/2026
Refusing to certify the results of elections should automatically prohibit you from holding public office plain and simple. If you can't recognize the legitimacy of elections, then why should you be able to use them to gain power?
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Mountain State Spotlight @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Flood Resiliency Office was created years ago to protect the state from future floods, but it has languished with little funding until a recent $5 million appropriation—a figure advocates call a "drop in the bucket" for needed infrastructure. mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/07/29/f...
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Flooding in north central West Virginia highlights the need for flood plan funding
A flood devastating parts of north central West Virginia renews calls to address the threat as climate change increases the risk of flooding.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Call it a People's 250th birthday bash. Americans are coming out of their long funk by cheering Muslim soccer stars in Kansas, forming a rainbow coalition to party for the Knicks, and remembering the soft-spoken dignity of the Obamas A Summer of Love? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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In a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, why is Washington, D.C. still occupied by troops?
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Growing MAGA narrative: although the MOU is bad, it is good because it helps defeat the real enemy: Democrats
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So the two DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT to cut all those grants and programs and who struggled to define DEI in that viral deposition footage have a new startup: DOGE for the public sector. I wrote about them and the myth of the “builder” as a disguise for something more insidious
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The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot
Two former staffers have created a new, perplexing company.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The president took your money illegally and he won’t give it back
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The author who published a book about truth and AI that was embarrassingly revealed to have included AI-hallucinated quotes told @wired.com that he'd rather quit writing than quit using AI.
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We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/05/2026
NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
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Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/05/2026
The phrase “according to prediction markets” is functionally equivalent to “according to ChatGPT” which is functionally equivalent to “according to the vibe out there on the streets.”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
every single democrat in the senate voted to confirm marco rubio as secretary of state. every single one.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 19/05/2026

why does google suck now

Google search feels worse today because its core experience has been traded for ad revenue, clutter, and automated summaries. Several systemic changes have contributed to this decline: 

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Ad Clutter and Sponsoring: Top results are heavily dominated by pay-per-click ads and sponsored content, forcing authentic organic results further down the page.
AI Overviews: AI summaries frequently occupy the most prominent space above the search results, which can sometimes scrape and surface incorrect information instead of directing you to the original source.
SEO Gaming: A constant arms race between Google and websites optimizing for search engines means that many results are filled with affiliate links and keywords, rather than genuine, high-quality human content.
Reduced Discoverability: Google has heavily deprioritized exact-match boolean searches (like putting phrases in quotes) and natural language queries, meaning it hides the niche human-written content you are actually looking for. 

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If you are frustrated with the current state of search, you can bypass the clutter by modifying your habits or trying alternative platforms:
Add "Reddit" to Queries: Many users rely on finding actual human discussions by appending site:reddit.com or just "reddit" to their search.
Try Privacy-Focused Engines: Alternatives like DuckDuckGo filter out the heavily bloated tracking and aggressive sponsored widgets.
Consider Paid Search Alternatives: Platforms like Kagi offer ad-free, premium search experiences designed to surface high-quality human content rather than SEO-farmed websites.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"I remember smoking in the 90s. It was divine" "Im my 20s, smoking was sexy." GIRL, SHUT UP. Shut up. Shut up. SHUT UP. First off, you smelled like ashtrays. It was gross. And forced people serving you/around you to inhale your disgusting smoke, too.
I certainly remember smoking in the ’90s — it was divine. Before we stood around staring down at our phones, we used to stand around staring at each other. Talking and talking while we blew smoke in one another’s faces.
In those early years, I was a student at an artsy Brooklyn high school in Midwood. We were “teens” in chronology only — we worked jobs, we went clubbing, we rode the subway at all hours of the night. And generally, in varying degrees, we smoked. The serious smokers were committed. You’d find them out in the school courtyard no matter the weather. Often, they were the benevolent suppliers to those of us who merely flirted with the idea of being serious smokers. Happy, if you joined them outside “for a smoke,” to trade a stick of nicotine for some interesting gossip you might have heard. Sometimes, we even smoked with our teachers. Usually, they were from the English department.
The irony of my current jonesing for a cigarette is that I was, in those days, a dabbler at best. Mainly seduced by the smell of a clove cigarette, usually found in the hands of somebody from Park Slope. But I loved the culture of the whole thing: the intimacy of someone getting close to light you up. The matches, the Zippos. The way, over the course of five minutes, small talk could fall into something like deep conversation.In my 20s, the smoking got sexy. Dive bars and chic lounges, where we’d now have cocktails and ash into ashtrays and steal matchbooks with which to help one another light future cigarettes. Since nobody seemed to care that smoking was bad for us, our paternalistic mayor, Michael Bloomberg, decided he needed to care for us. Public indoor smoking was banned, and, inadvertently, we were armed with a new way to flirt. There was nothing better than breaking off from a crowd of friends with an invitation outside to share a cigarette. I realize now the excitement wasn’t in the cigarette. It was in the  possibility that it raised. Would this be a brief excursion to the sidewalk? Or might it end the next morning, in a bed you didn’t really know, sharing smoke-tinged kisses?
Smoking, in this phase of life, went hand in hand with chaos. The kind that is welcome when you are trying to create from your young adult existence something like a life. Every potential mistake was also a potential opportunity. Because maybe you woke up and never saw the person next to you again. Or maybe you fell in love and married them and ended up having kids and getting a few promotions at work and being a big success.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2026
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Calhoun’s theories have made a dramatic comeback with Trump, whose policies are guided by an unmistakable racial determinism. Trump warns that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and that many immigrants have “bad genes,” telling a white Fox News host that “they are not exactly your genetic.”

Trump has focused his ire on immigrants from “third world” countries. He has virtually reimposed the eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions of the early 20th century, while instituting a Jim Crow–style system for refugees that prioritizes white South Africans. Trump’s reasoning for what he called a “permanent pause” in “third-world migration” was that instead of people from countries such as Norway or Sweden, we “always take people from Somalia,” which he called “disgusting.” The Democrats of Calhoun’s day, similarly, were not anti-immigrant, so long as only white people could naturalize. After all, the protection of slavery required white men, even those born in Dublin or Berlin.

In January, the Trump adviser Stephen Miller posted something even more revealing on X: “Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights.” Miller’s disgust here is not with the “importing” of a “foreign labor class.” It is with such a class having the same rights as he does.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
So much this. Also, the tech bro mafia doesn't really like reading. They don't *appreciate* reading. So just because *they* can't spot the difference between good writing and bad writing, they think most people can't either.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
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Greg Moore @gregmoore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“Imagine being so entitled that when the marketplace rejects your offering, you insist that it must be an antitrust attack on your rights to their money?”
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Greg Moore @gregmoore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I was a Pirates fan who thought Eric Davis, when he played for the Reds, was cooler than Barry Bonds.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:
NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.NYT on March 16, 2026:

On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said.

Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M. Do you see how this works?
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Yes, you do.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/03/2026
Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its artificial intelligence models.
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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training
Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for allegedly ​misusing their reference materials to train its artificial intelligence ‌models.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Inadvertently makes a case here for why we need to keep the humanities in school
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Greg Moore @gregmoore.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Fort Necessity. George Washington getting his ass kicked so he’d know what not to do later.
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Mountain State Spotlight @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The West Virginia State Police is helping ICE arrest immigrants, who are often held in state jails for weeks without a hearing. Judges say this violates the Constitution. buff.ly/hqCbSRt
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State officials won’t answer questions about ICE partnership after judges rule arrests violated the Constitution - Mountain State Spotlight
State agencies have worked alongside immigration officers to make unconstitutional arrests. Elected officials wouldn’t answer questions about it.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
By this logic, the US has been at war with Iran since 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh to ensure that western oil companies, and not the Iranian people, controlled Iranian oil. It’s brutal puppet the Shah tortured & killed for 25 years. That’s why they chanted DEATH TO AMERICA in 1979
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Underground...stations, if you will, perhaps connected to a means of transportation that became popular in the 19th century.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.
MEMORANDUM OPINION

February 16, 2026
“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.”
George Orwell, 1984'

As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto
"Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government
has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain
over historical facts. It does not.
The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that
commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there,
including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National
Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and
information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House.
Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative
Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…CONCLUsION
For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can b
no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place.
Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any
kind to the President's House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reachec between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Once you see it you’ll never not see it again
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire
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Greg Moore @gregmoore.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is great.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The central political divide today in the U.S. is not between two sides offering slightly varying iterations of the same underlying political bargain but between a tradition affirming the historic liberal-constitutional order and one that enthusiastically strips rights from ideological opponents.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Fuck this! RIP, legend. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71
Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 30/01/2026
Protesters carried a giant rendition of the U.S. Constitution through downtown Minneapolis on Friday, chanting "ICE out now." 📷️: Kyeland Jackson
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 30/01/2026
Last night, Trump’s DOJ arrested Don Lemon in a clear violation of the First Amendment. It was also a blatant throwback to the Constitution’s long-discarded Fugitive Slave Clause. Here, @elienyc.bsky.social explains why the arrest is even worse than you think. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Trump Administration Arrested Don Lemon Like He Was a Fugitive Slave
Lemon’s arrest is not only a clear violation of the First Amendment but also a blatant throwback to the Constitution’s long-discarded Fugitive Slave Clause.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Relevant question. The answer is, "Bet your ass!"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Remember who you are, American. Part of a nation that proudly went to war against the kind of fascists who embrace stupid white supremacist slogans like "one homeland, one people, one heritage"
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It really is upsetting to see the Department of Labor—once headed by Frances Perkins, the woman behind the New Deal, who unapologetically bent immigration rules to save thousands of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany—posting fascist Reichslop like this
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