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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026

Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission. (Published July)

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This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor? AOC: I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center at Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1. Alexi Giannoulias promising 1000 more cops but not saying crap about libraries says a lot. 2. A single year of police abuse lawsuit payout would cover an expanded library staff for far longer than that.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/06/2026

I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Hawaii thing is a big deal so of course the Koch’s want to kill it

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“They were careless people, …they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

He’s going to try and steal an election… Again.

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

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New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling

Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics. This move comes after the 2010 U.S.

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 05/05/2026

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Jeff Bezos could have just written a check for $42M to fund the Costume Department for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. No one stopped any of these people from simply donating. The display of wealth was a choice.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Am i a scold for thinking given the state of the world that the Met Gala is grotesque?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Trump administration has taken over full control of what appears on National Park Service websites. For decades, park staff managed their own sites, working closely with local communities and tribal nations to tell the stories of the places they know best. That’s over now.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tell us you’ve never worked a shift in a restaurant by defining “86.”

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It can’t be “ballrooms” for them, and “thoughts and prayers” for everyone else.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

We need a new president more than a new ballroom. These theatrics don’t benefit the American people in any way, and he remains unconcerned about helping anyone but himself.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

Roger Sollenberger: Péter Magyar, the new Hungarian prime minister, says CPAC was paid by the Hungarian government and will not be any longer

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It’s unclear where Melania would need to be that merits any private jet.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Easter Bunny looks shocked that their life choices led them there.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

No sitting president has ever appeared for a SCOTUS oral argument because it looks like this.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Repeat after me: If they can overturn Roe v. Wade, we can overturn Citizens United.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Russians work to pay Michael Flynn. Americans shouldn’t have to do it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk.

The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship.

Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Maybe Bailey takes another yacht tour or rents a place at Hancock Tower to “immerse himself” in Chicago. Let him do 2022 again.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

With four prior losses, James Marter (R) will be joining the Five Timer’s Club in 2026. Big moment for him.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Let’s move on… and celebrate Pritzker’s inevitable win in the general.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So dark. Kushner raises billions for his fund while the family of a soldier killed in Truml’s war gets help on Go Fund Me: www.gofundme.com/f/major-alex...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I woke up punchy. I’m so sick of these motherfuckers and their bombs and their rapes and their violence. We could be happy. We could have nice things like healthcare and childcare and UBI. It actually wouldn’t be that hard.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/03/2026

U.S. forces likely bombed an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28 during an operation targeting a nearby military base, a New York Times analysis suggests. It is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.

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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father and Donald Trump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling. No word on where Donald Trump's children were, just that they were 100% *not* wearing a uniform.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Where was FedEx when seven small business owners sued over Trump’s tariffs? Nowhere. But now that money is in air, FedEx is happy to show up. F*ck these big corporations for making small businesses do the hard work.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/02/2026

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

There is a major political organization allied with the president that got so mad a Latino artist was tapped to play at the Super Bowl they made a whole alternative show. We should all take a moment to reflect on that. It is so blatantly racist.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I can't think of anything I'd want to do less with my time than attending a protest against taxing billionaires. This is an insane amount of bootlicking energy.

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An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax | TechCrunch

The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If only Antifa existed and was this organized.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Apparently a guy worth over $200 BILLION can’t afford to keep a newspaper going.

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Illinois Blue State Watch @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

How many bad things happen in the world because a “social media influencer” does something horrible to “expand their reach?”

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