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Liz Pisares

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Liz Pisares @hildegardvsalinas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reposting not b/c social media thrives off lizard brain behavior, but b/c themomoftheyear writes beautifully
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/09/2026
We don’t talk about Russ Vought enough and he’s the most powerful villain in Washington, D.C.
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Bucket Mouse @mousebitelabs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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Liz Pisares @hildegardvsalinas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
reposting for posterity
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Anita Ridlehoover @anitaanne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Some coverage in CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pol...
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DEI policies brought no financial penalty for companies that kept them, study finds
Companies that stood by their diversity efforts faced no detectable impact from investors or shoppers, researchers found.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Doris "Dorie" Miller fought authoritarians. Facts.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/08/2026
The bond market is sending a warning about America’s debt. Now Trump’s Treasury is stepping in. Chief Economist Justin Wolfers explains what’s happening, what we still don’t know, and why this could matter for your mortgage, car loan, and credit cards.
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Justin Wolfers Explains the Economic Warning Signs We Can’t Ignore
MeidasTouch Chief Economist Justin Wolfers breaks down the Treasury’s unusual bond market move and what it could mean for interest rates, debt, and your wallet
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We’re in scary times, but lots of folks in media are doing their damnedest to defend democracy. My Stop the Presses newsletter praises 25 of them and also cites other fierce fighters. See if you agree.
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25 must-follow people in pro-democracy media
One way to fight negativity is to lift up inspirational voices
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Liz Pisares @hildegardvsalinas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Years from now, when asked why the present administration was so bad, I will simply say that the majority of the federal government neglected rule of law and let a mob boss rule the country.
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Steph Scythes: 1775-2025+ 💀☢️🇺🇸☣️💀 The American Devolution @stephscythes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Sometimes you fight and sometimes you even win. Coalition for Independent Tech Research sued the state department over a policy that weaponized immigration laws against content moderation researchers and won an injunction: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Coltrane, gone 59 years ago today — at the age of 40. “.. I want to be a force for real good,” he said. “I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force.” #RIP
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Liz Pisares @hildegardvsalinas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Binged S5 of “The Bear.” Ebraheim’s monologue in the final episode is the most optimistically American thing I’ve seen in a while.
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Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My go-to on this topic has always been Terry Pratchett:
So, instead, I give tips on how to be a professional boxer. A good diet is essential, of course, as is a daily regime of exercise. Pay attention to your footwork, it will often get you into trouble. Go down to the gym every day – every day of your life that finds you waking up capable of standing. Take every opportunity to watch a good professional fight. In fact watch as many bouts as you can, because you can even learn something from the fighters who get it wrong. Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do. And don’t forget the diet and the exercise and the roadwork.

Got it? Well, becoming a writer is basically exactly the same thing, except that it isn’t about boxing.

A quote from Terry Pratchett, in A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I thought it was nice
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
One of the saddest things I’ve written. Excellently edited and shepherded by the Bulwark team, and I’m grateful for the space to say these children’s names and write about their short lives
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.
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tombreihan.bsky.social @tombreihan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Reviewed the new Olivia Rodrigo album, which rules.
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Premature Evaluation: Olivia Rodrigo 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love'
Here’s the main thing I want you to know about Olivia Rodrigo’s new album: Track 12 is an almighty fucking banger. “expectations,” the penultimate song on Rodrigo’s third full-length you seem pretty s...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hi NAME, I’m sorry, I won’t be able to do this. I’ve resigned from academia. — One of the most satisfying sentences to write, which I’ve written a couple of times now. I had a hard time saying no as an academic, which was one of the reasons I had to quit.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
University of California professors are begging schools to reinstate the SAT www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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University of California Professors Are Begging Schools to Reinstate the SAT
An open letter cites “severe preparation deficits” among incoming students.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Amen
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.
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Liz Pisares @hildegardvsalinas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
What do you do with an English degree? Make Trump turn tail after just 13 minutes in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, that’s what. And Go Bears: www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ben Meiselas on The MeidasTouch Podcast winning the iHeartPodcast Award: “When we see injustice, we call it out with moral clarity. We’re not afraid to call out fascism when we see it. When we see ICE and Border Patrol on our streets killing our people, we call it out.“
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 14/03/2026
An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The Erasure of Black Studies
A report from the undoing of a field.
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
We've spent $19 BILLION in TWO WEEKS. For a technology that's already dying. If we spent that much on solar & wind, we could reduce our energy dependency by 12.5% in a year. We could be pollution-free and have electricity at a quarter of current prices in eight years. Instead we have war.
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Golden State Warriors @warriorsofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"They do have a timeout, decide not to use it. Curry, way downtown... BANG! BANG! Oh, what a shot from Curry!" 10 years ago today.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Disciplines reject what isn’t intellectually valid... If the discipline of Geology determines that the flat-Earth theory doesn’t meet its standards, geologists do not need to hire flat-Earthers and provide lessons in flat-Earth theory to their students." stanforddaily.com/2026/02/17/v...
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AAUP: Academic freedom on the line | Where ‘viewpoint diversity’ betrays the common good
History professor Priya Satia critiques Paul Brest's recent Daily op-ed. "To endorse the language of 'viewpoint diversity,'" Satia writes, "is falling for a feint in an existential war on academic fre...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“Indefinite detention” of refugees WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN SCREENED in a planned network of gigantic warehouses. A concentration camp is a concentration camp is a concentration camp.
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White House grants ICE power to detain refugees for aggressive ‘rescreening’
A new DHS memo details plan to allow federal immigration officers to detain legal refugees in the US indefinitely
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2026
from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring
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You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid
She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13/02/2026
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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Anthony @siromega.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Found the 90 deals in 90 days. Just not involving the US.
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Liz Pisares @hildegardvsalinas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Janet Jackson from the jazz choreo of “I Get Lonely”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2026
30 point swing you say?
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Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.” And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.
Wonder Woman defends herself from a Nazi as portrayed by Lynda Carter.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026
a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
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Abolish ICE
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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