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How to defeat tech billionaire power? Look at Solano County. When billionaires invaded their community with plans to build a "tech utopia," Democrats AND Republicans banded together to fight back. In a triumph of local democracy, they stopped the project...for now. 🎁 www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

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Silicon Valley’s Dream City Has Crashed Into Small-Town Politics

A bitter standoff between tech-backed developers and local county leaders helped doom a $3-billion project at the edge of the Bay Area.

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shanley @shanley.com · 11/10/2026

The message needs to be about venture capital. Venture capital is where this all coming from and we can prove that with a GIANT array of data and pieces of evidence.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. So when people wonder why JD Vance does those bonkers mental gymnastics and lets himself be trotted out to defend Trump’s fuckery, it’s because - in his mind - he thinks when Trump finally kicks, Thiel will install him as the first Opus Dei-anointed theocratic leader of the U.S.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’d vote for Ted Cruz before I’d vote for this chucklefuck… and I’d only vote for Ted Cruz if some Republican chucklefuck stole my identity and tried to vote with it.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When he starts using taxpayer money to fund his own campaign madness, that’s when we need to start thinking about an organized, mass-scale tax sit-out. As in, I’ll eventually pay my fair share, but not while he’s doing that shit and not until he pays back every damn nickel, with interest.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah just tell everyone where you’re hiding all the munitions, super genius, in a structure probably built and secured by the same incompetents that resurfaced the reflecting pool. This is gonna go GREAT.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And a malignant narcissist is a narcissist who ends up trying to destroy everything he hasn’t contributed to and isn’t entitled to. ht: @narceducator.bsky.social

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They weren’t gifts to HIM. And his immensely insecure ass has to tear down legit monuments so the lame-ass ones he does for himself don’t have real ones to be compared to. You can just feel how much the legacy of JFK towers over his fragile little ego.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

By that he means, “we’re just gonna do it without planning. It’s pretty much how we roll, TBH.”

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Trump’s life … illustrates the typical trajectory of a malignant narcissist. Instrumental lying for personal benefit … ultimately gives way to massive self-deception. … ‘Pathological narcissists … can become dangerously psychotic.’ “And that’s where he is, and we are, today.”

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A note on the president’s psychosis

Trump lives in his own world—not a good place for someone with nuclear weapons to be

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Also - and hate to say this - but… your scenario might be the healthiest one for the world, long-term. 😞

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah. They’re probably freaking out beyond what their ketamine doses can handle because he is rapidly eroding the US’s massive economic leverage every day… to the point where their bit flip gambit wouldn’t work even if they could somehow pull the trigger on it.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They can’t take over the world financial system without him.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They deserve to squirm, ad infinitum.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Man, fuck this narcissistic buffoon and the grifters he rode in on. Got duped into this OBVIOUS briar patch by Bibi, doesn’t have the first idea how to extricate from it, and we foot the bill. Oh wait… that’s been the pattern his whole miserable parasitic life.

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s a sad indictment of the media that a billionaire can compare a 5% wealth tax to the Soviet Union in an interview with the NYT and the NYT journalist does not laugh in their face and write it up as an insight into the mind of somebody who has lost touch with reality

"I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don't want California to end up in the same place," he told the New York Times in a statement in April.

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Matatoes Lasagna @matatoeslasagna.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The failure of Biden and Garland to seriously lay down the hammer after J6 on both the insurrectionists, and more importantly, the politicians who enabled them will go down as a failure on par with the failure of reconstruction. A historic fumble I will go to my grave thinking this.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Weekend reading: I wrote about cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Right. Some thoughts from this week’s piece - on power, opportunism, and ideology in Republican Politics: 🧵

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Power, Opportunism, and Ideology in Republican Politics

About cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Right

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And that, more than anything else, is the promise of Trumpism as a political project: Look at me, Trump says, this is what you can have if you follow me, enable me, elevate me. Complete impunity, shamelessness, domination without restraint. Please consider subscribing:

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Democracy Americana

A newsletter on U.S. politics and history - and the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

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Watching the show trials

Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

America can be reassured to know the Republicans in Congress are laser-focused on the issue that matters most: some scapegoat they invented in 2020 so they wouldn't have to blame Trump for the worst COVID response in the rich world.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If your response to the data center backlash is "oh no, those poor hyperscalers! People are using inexact data in their arguments against OpenAI and Grok. Everyone should just let them proceed with their buildouts and focus instead on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY," then you're either a grifter or a mark.

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Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Never been a better time to be a political cartoonist. (sadly)

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/07/2026

The President's war with Iran is such a fiasco that he's now back to threatening to commit war crimes. This is wrong and must stop. Congress needs to end this war, not rubber stamp a $1.5 trillion military budget.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14/07/2026

These talking points come from "Unhumans," endorsed by JD Vance. It argues that the USA faces an existential communist threat. Therefore—cue Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt—we must declare a "state of exception" to save the country from...democracy. Danger ahead. www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-...

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'Unhumans': J.D. Vance and the language of genocide

Trump's VP pick endorses the tactic of dehumanization

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Peter Thiel’s errand boy sez what???

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 15/07/2026

@warnock.senate.gov on how faith is a commitment to marginalized people: “For me, the asset test of one’s faith is the depth of your commitment to the most marginalized members of the human family.” Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Jesus H. This is what happens when you put a gigantic poser in charge of important shit. He and his “chosen nutjobs” at the pentagon will blow every tax dollar on planet earth on shit that makes HIM feel like a real boy.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/07/2026

I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Gil Duran holding physical copy of Nerd Reich book

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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ifreezn.bsky.social @ifreezn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s ok to celebrate that feckless or cruel people are no longer around to inflict suffering on the good people that remain. We do it at work all the time. 😉

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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Here's a thought: Putting solar panels over asphalt parking lots will generate a shit ton of clean, domestic energy that doesn't have to go through the strait.

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Eric Apricot, spooky (pu)g @ericapricot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

From Thursday… The story of Angel Jackson, a college star basketball player, and her journey from the SF Bay along the edge of the WNBA to all over the world. Angel is playing summer pro ball at the WPBA @womenspba This piece is a real labor of love and I hope you enjoy it.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This really isn’t hard

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2026

The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool

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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Michael de Adder deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his work....

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller cannot have competent Somalis celebrated in public life bc his hate depends on dehumanizing Somalis. Thus the focus on Omar.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/06/2026

Muslims don’t recognize Jews as God's chosen people, Jews don’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah, Protestants don’t recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world, and Evangelicals don’t recognize each other at Hooters.

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