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Log Off. Live More. ✊ @logofflivemore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
330,000 people lost SNAP between May and June. Over 5 million since July 2025. Arizona's rolls fell by half. Illinois lost 368,000. The farm bill expires Sept 30 and most people will never hear it happened. Who in your life would you want to have told? #SNAP #FoodSecurity
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.' — Anne Frank
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Total Active Cases: 203 Active Voting Rights Cases: 163 Active Redistricting Cases: 40 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 82 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 81 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30 www.democracydocket.com
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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
TW ⚠️ — former @UTChattanooga basketball player “Teddy” Washington Jr. gets hair viciously pulled and punched in the face by an Arkansas State Trooper (From @AttorneyCrump) More: thegrio.com/2026/08/29/t...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Latest example of "You Can Just Do Stuff" governing taken to the extreme. The judge can't physically enforce his or her own ruling, the White House controls law enforcement and Congress won't impeach.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the 100 lowest-paying major corporations — including Walmart, DoorDash, and Amazon — CEO pay averaged $17.5M in 2025. Median worker pay was just $36,571, a ratio of 614 to 1. Those same 100 companies spent $108.6B on stock buybacks last year. How can anyone defend this?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Federal corporate political spending has already reached nearly $650 MILLION ahead of the midterms, according to @publiccitizen.bsky.social. That’s an all-time high — and we’re still months away from Election Day. Big Money is the real threat to “election integrity.”
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
This is not ok. www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy!
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NPR @npr.org · 09/08/2026
A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon. n.pr/4ccdiEt
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This rising painter reimagines Renaissance art in a cocoa plantation in Cameroon
A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Dasia Taylor,now 22, developed a surgical suture that changes color in response to pH changes associated with wound infections. #Invention #Innovation #MedicalBreakthroughs
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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ross Douthat has been hired by Bari Weiss to be a correspondent on SIXTY FREAKING MINUTES! I decided to repost my review of an episode of Ross’s New York Times podcast that he titled “Did Women Ruin The Workplace?” I stand by it.😬 wkamaubell.substack.com/p/did-the-ne...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Back when I was a young man, CEOs made about 20 times the salary of their employees. Today a typical CEO makes over 280 times more. Here's what we can do about it.
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cliffdubya.bsky.social @cliffdubya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is good because we waste a lot of food in the US.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
5/ What’s more, anyone is free to open a private school. In Morrison’s case, she wasn’t a licensed educator and had never run a school. But she presented herself as an expert in autism and ADHD. “I am the best,” she texted one parent.
Excerpt from article: Known to parents and students as Dr. Tracy, she wasn’t a licensed educator and had never run a school before. Her resume says she has a doctorate in occupational therapy and cognitive neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis. The university said that degree is only in occupational therapy.

The Delta Institute didn’t look much like a school — it operated in a white colonial house set down a gravel driveway off a country road, its bedrooms transformed into classrooms. But it had seemed like the answer that parents of students with disabilities, including autism, were desperately seeking. Families said they put their faith in Morrison, who presented herself as an expert in autism and ADHD. “I am the best,” she texted one parent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
4/ But even after hundreds of new private schools and microschools opened in Arkansas, the state remained largely hands-off. Some of its only requirements: conducting fire drills, keeping immunization records and having an American flag and a flagpole.
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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Egypt fans being pulled aside, patted down, and double-checked before the Argentina vs. Egypt match, while Argentina supporters were allowed to walk through security without the same level of screening. And this is exactly why people keep accusing FIFA of double standards.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NO 👇 BULLSHIT DETECTED
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/07/2026
The largest part of the Supreme Court's 194-page decision on birthright citizenship is Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent. To Thomas, the 14th Amendment applied only to the freed people after the Civil War. In a concurrence, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes on Justice Thomas.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Socialism for the wealthy, feudalism for everyone else.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol
From mid-2022 to early 2025, the egg producers communicated with each other to coordinate bidding activity on a widely used pricing service, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Iowa.
The complaint details instances of executives for the companies calling and texting each other in an effort to push prices higher.
Under the settlement, the state DOJ says the three companies must end their price coordination, adopt compliance measures and cooperate with
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Democratic socialists are still partying in New York City… 🎉 Wait — *checks notes* — sorry this is Colorado. Apologies! We got confused since we were told this only happens in NYC 😬 @melatkirosco.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DaO9NqR...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19/06/2026
On Juneteenth, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers whose struggle and determination brought us closer to justice. At Foley Square, Lorenzo Pace's sculpture stands as a powerful tribute to that legacy.
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Triumph of the Human Spirit
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/06/2026
The founders of Return to the Land, a whites-only community in Arkansas, say they aren't breaking any laws. On "The Daily," our investigative reporter discusses the community and why its members are convinced that in this political climate, no one is going to stop them.
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One Town’s Blueprint for Resegregating America
The founders of Return to the Land, a whites-only community in Arkansas, say they aren’t breaking any laws.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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independentct.bsky.social @independentct.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
time.com/5836444/blac... considered myself well read and had not read this
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just want to remind everyone again that in the city of Seattle, which built that unimaginable wealth and continues to not see any of it returned to our community, has a public school shortfall in the millions. Elementary kids are holding move-a-thons while he’s not paying those taxes
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/05/2026
Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 19/05/2026
This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026
critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Seattle is testing a one-year pilot with four new free public restrooms in Pioneer Square, available 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Access is linked to a personal account via QR code, text or app, and is revoked from the system in the event of restricted behaviors (damage, etc.).
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We're adding four new public restrooms in Pioneer Square. - SDOT Blog
Blog stats: 960 words | 5-minute read At a Glance Mayor Katie B. Wilson is taking a step to deliver on her promise to create more clean, accessible, and safe public restrooms. We are partnering with T...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Since Callais came down, Democracy Docket has published 81 pieces of redistricting content: 74 news stories 4 analysis pieces 3 op-eds I challenge you to find another news outlet with more detailed coverage. Support independent and pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026
as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026
yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/05/2026
Amy Goodman and Juan González will appear together, in-person, at the Chicago screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" on Saturday at 6 p.m. The new documentary from award-winning directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tells the story of Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman's remarkable career.
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Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez in-Person at Chicago Screening of Steal This Story, Please!
Amy Goodman and Juan González will appear together, in-person, at the Saturday, 6 pm Chicago screening of the new documentary about Democracy Now! and her career as a journalist, Steal This Story, Ple...
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 07/05/2026
Salary needed to buy the median priced home: $458,500 San Jose CA $321,500 San Francisco CA $235,300 San Diego CA $224,200 Los Angeles CA $200,300 New York NY $190,900 Boston MA $188,200 Seattle WA $161,500 Washington DC $157,000 Miami FL $155,000 Denver CO I’m sure everything is fine.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here is what the Democracy Docket team is tracking: Active Voting Rights Cases: 161 Active Redistricting Cases: 42 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 81 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 77 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 Help them by spreading the word and subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI
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This Graph Exposes Our Rigged System
What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess
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