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hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social @hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Is the internet Information Age a mirror or did it cause the idiocracy. Either way it seems it had so much potential and promise with access to so much knowledge but the majority result is actually disinformation and the acceleration of stupidity and incentive to say the most vile things for fame
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social @hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Even if AI produces big productivity gains – which is still an open question – it’s far from clear that workers will see much, if any, of the benefits.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The historical term for this is "looting." The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
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Trump Official Who Helped Kill USAID Now Using Its Funds for Himself
Russ Vought, White House Office of Management and Budget director, has decided what is happening with USAID funds.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Reports published today indicate that Russell Vought, who played a central and direct role in the dismantling and defunding of USAID is using $15 million of those same funds to pay for his personal security detail. This is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history, hands down.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are all the worse off for the loss of these foreign bureaus and reporters who brought news from the rest of the world to American homes. You can probably trace a direct line from the lack of knowledge to current issues facing the rest of the world, to growing xenophobia in the U.S.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Yet another way Trump is hurting our standing in the world, in addition to costing us billions in tourism dollars by shutting out visitors, is by crushing the power of the American passport and making it harder for his own citizens to travel. My latest: www.cntraveler.com/story/the-am...
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The American Passport Is Losing Its Power
As the Trump Administration makes it more difficult for people to visit the US, other nations are starting to respond in kind.
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hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social @hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
@religionprof.bsky.social Have you written about the trend in American Catholicism on its attack on Jesus the Jew and how politics continues to influence theology and how people fight over historical realities. Jesus was not catholic. And yet there seems to be a struggle to admit the obvious.
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Russell Moore @drmoore.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The Epstein files reveal many things- but one is that dark and cynical people have an interest in keeping us divided and distracted while they prey on the innocent and plunder the vulnerable. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/jeff...
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Jeffrey Epstein and the Myth of the Culture Wars - Christianity Today
Some leaders of different political stripes teach us to hate each other, but they’re playing for the same team.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 09/02/2026
When parents are shot in the face and ICU nurses are shot 10 times—when terror is the goal—it evokes early 1930s Germany.
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Scott Galloway breaks down the economy, markets, and consumer led protest movements | CNN Business
Professor Scott Galloway joins Smerconish to break down the state of the economy, the stock market’s surge, and his arguments for consumer-driven protest.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My new single, “Minnesota.” It’s free for all credited uses, by anyone. Do with it as you will.
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Minnesota
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Rep. Jason Crow: "Trump wants to gauge people's reaction. He'll float these trial balloons about stopping elections or changing elections or taking control of elections…So what's important for me and others to do is to call it out, say it's unacceptable, it's un-American."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers. And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate. Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.
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Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Everyone’s favorite leftist (Chomsky) is being exposed for his connections with Epstein. However, I find it peculiar that this is where many people’s red line with Chomsky begins, and not his years of genocide denialism and whitewashing of Assad/Putin’s war crimes. (1)
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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Original commentary from the Headline Lab in the comments, and worth the read.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024 UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M. HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.
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Pen2Net @pen2net.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Trump is a cartoonists wet dream
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Layoffs for journalists, hiring spree for propagandists.
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/01/2026
Thou shalt not arrest journalists for practicing journalism.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Independent journalists, media, and commentators - especially people of color - we have to stick together. Solidarity. We have to protect ourselves and our community. The institutions won't protect us, and this fascist Trump regime will use "our scalps" to placate their base.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE has an acronym for when they detain US citizens, which, of course, should not be happening. They call them "USCs" — US citizens in custody. And after Pretti was shot, they grabbed a bunch of USCs, held them in custody, not for any investigative purpose. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Minneapolis man says he was detained for hours after witnessing Alex Pretti shooting
New affidavits filed in court detail how witnesses were arrested immediately after the shooting of Alex Pretti.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“The arrogance of proclaiming that one’s wealth is entirely a product of one’s own unique genius, and not the social matrix in which it’s rooted, is not likely to win friends for the tech industry or rebuild its rapidly depleting social license.”
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hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social @hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
@noadalzell.bsky.social Thank you Noa for speaking up about the abuse of power. I wish more nba players and owners would. Maybe if it starts to impact the money 💰 If the people are in turmoil the games become less important.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They're murdering innocent Americans trying to practice their constitutional rights. Why? Because this regime has decided it's in the business of killing innocent Americans and then smearing their corpses. That's the whole story.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Roughly a third of Americans are bugfuck crazy”. Worth a read for why all elections everywhere are a battle against the crazies.
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immacule.bsky.social @immacule.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
by @democraticwins.bsky.social CNN just aired a devastating compilation of all the times ICE brutally attacked Americans. Remember, Donald Trump sponsored this. This is done at his command.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
/2 Anyway, America was never about everyone loving liberty; America was always about enough people loving liberty and being willing to defend it to keep down the people with totalitarian souls.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 30/12/2025
Nobody wants to be told that pain & trauma are inevitable — inherent to being alive. Nor that joy is survival — that we're still here feeling anything at all after trauma tries to destroy us. But pleasure isn’t the perfect absence of pain — it’s the imperfect resilience in tiny glimpses beyond it.
A photo of a sunrise coming over a steepled horizonA photo of white azaleas blooming, with the sun coming through themA photo of a Dalmatian in a blue sweater, standing in a square covered in snowA photo looking up at Spanish moss hanging from an oak tree, a clear blue sky above it
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
An additional 500 National Guard members have arrived in Washington, D.C., bringing the total deployment to 2,750 troops, according to the National Guard and bringing the cost to taxpayers to roughly $1.6 million per day.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/11/2025
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Plutocrats and accommodationists. They put profits and power over decency. This meal is tainted by murder, grift, and corruption.
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hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social @hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
@nickvanexit.bsky.social Hoping you may discuss this: www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/los-a...
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Anthony Davis bombshell reveals there was much more to Lakers’ Luka Doncic trade than we ever thought | Sporting News
The writing was on the wall for years at the point of the trade; we just didn't know it.
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hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social @hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
@realbobmanning.bsky.social @noadalzell.bsky.social @johnzannis.bsky.social I heard there were AD trade talks between Boston and LA before the Luka trade? who do you think was being discussed as the trade pieces? Holiday maybe? Porzingus? D White?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 31/10/2025
Systems either die young or live long enough to be corrupted.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Noa Dalzell @noadalzell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
NEW EXCLUSIVE: Jayson Tatum has found joy in community as he continues to eye a return to the floor. "It really helps my mental health a lot." My 1-on-1 with Tatum, re: his love for St. Louis, why timeouts are now extra special, and much more: www.sbnation.com/nba/1087674/...
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Jayson Tatum opens up about community work, rehab journey in first interview since Celtics opener
The Celtics star discussed his philanthropic work, Achilles rupture recovery, special relationship with St. Louis, and more, in an exclusive sitdown with SB Nation.
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hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social @hokaheyiskandar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@noadalzell.bsky.social @realbobmanning.bsky.social @johnzannis.bsky.social Good job 👏 Noa on your coverage and interview with Jayson Tatum
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