Reposted by JD17Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here. 1765416988512786
Reposted by JD17Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 02/02/20251/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.” 792115803664
Reposted by JD17George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I did, in fact, say this, and it is, unfortunately, in fact, true 1131376708028
Reposted by JD17Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥. 1877904838973
Reposted by JD17Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024This article highlights why more “crazy motherfuckers”are likely going to kill more extremely wealthy, “heartless, motherfuckers.” Society has reached the tipping point on inequities. Especially those leaving the masses to suffer and die. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...cnbc.comGoldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain. 1251169314471
Reposted by JD17Ron Stonebear Shields @stonebear4747.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Archaeologists have discovered a series of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that housed at least 10,000 people about 2,000 years ago. This discovery, located near the Andes in the Ecuadorian Amazon, was made possible thanks to advanced LIDAR technology. 21743133
Reposted by JD17The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/12/2024‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential electiontheguardian.com‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential electionNearly 90 million Americans didn’t vote – which is more than the number of people who voted for Trump or Harris The 2024 US presidential election had been widely characterized as one of the most consequential political contests in recent US history.… 93328110
Reposted by JD17Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇propublica.orgUnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With AutismLeaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’... 936226589963
Reposted by JD17Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/12/2024Morning in the Walz house. 1047240941828
Reposted by JD17George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Time, January 1, 1940 and January 4, 1943 2332867652
Reposted by JD17Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/12/2024Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows. People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Associationbloomberg.comAmericans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study FindsEven as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows. 40567881803
Reposted by JD17Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/12/2024You may not understand why, but the healthcare insurance and PBM contracts YOU have signed for Tesla, SpaceX , @X, along with CEOs of other big companies , have more impact on healthcare costs and quality of care in this country, than anything you can do with DOGE 2209488299772
Reposted by JD17MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/12/2024BREAKING: Renowned former federal prosecutor Harry Litman announces he has resigned from his role as a contributor for the LA Times. "I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons."harrylitman.substack.comWhy I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles TimesBy Harry Litman 1650438149928
Reposted by JD17The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/12/2024"I had observed the enormous amount of power that the FBI director wields. It seemed to me that the commission should filter out anyone who lacks the capacity to recognize his own fallibility and is not able to laugh at himself."thebulwark.comKash Patel Is Unsuited to Be FBI DirectorAnd he certainly doesn’t pass my own tests from when I was considered for the job. 1428439
Reposted by JD17StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy. 12264412510544
Reposted by JD17George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Sound of Fear on AirIt is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said. 3652294849515
Reposted by JD17I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 04/12/2024For all of our pro democracy newcomers and anyone who has anything important to say but never had an audience to listen, you will not be left behind here. *REPOST* this, follow these instructions, do the heavy lifting every day, work together, and become powerful voices here. #NoDemUnder1k 99485267
Reposted by JD17I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"I can't vote for Harris because of Gaza." Cool, you just got Gaza wiped out of existence. Congrats. 66559791725
Reposted by JD17Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Dems/media condemning Joe for pardoning Hunter right after a psycho who has spent 4 years ranting that he was going to go after him is the most toxic kind of phony virtue signaling imaginable. Don’t forget to pat yourselves on the back from your perches on the moral high ground. 1463337355767
Reposted by JD17Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"thelondoneconomic.comEuropean Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on XThe EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries. 20488040815186
Reposted by JD17George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Alexander Vindman is a patriot. Elon Musk, himself an oligarch, is drunk on power and out of control. 1441422268324
Reposted by JD17Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Trying to get home from Dallas to DC. Flight delayed for hours, finally canceled. Airline tried to rebook me on a flight to Denver(!), and then take a red eye to DC Thanks to a Biden reg, I was able to get a refund and rebook on another airline Trump promised airline CEOs he’ll get rid of the regapnews.comDelta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under BidenThe chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden. 305100023246
Reposted by JD17Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/11/2024Tesla Cybertrucks are being mistaken for trash dumpsters by raccoons, and they’re getting thrashed as a result. Honest mistake. 🤣 1817260114976
Reposted by JD17Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024For those asking why: This launch would have been detected by the US in real-time. It could have looked to us like Russia was nuking Kyiv. Russia wanted to make sure we didn’t jump to that conclusion and attack them. 17888971415
Reposted by JD17George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years. 1505461449695
Reposted by JD17steenbeans @steenbeans.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20) #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge 171355
Reposted by JD17Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024In the Battle of Thermopylae (480BC), a small force of Greek soldiers fought valiantly against a mighty Persian army, knowing they could never win. Their task was to slow down the Persian advance until reinforcements across Greece could be mustered. ...🧵 385106461949
Reposted by JD17Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 19/11/2024"Rome was not destroyed by outsiders. It was the work of barbarians from within." My column. www.ft.com/content/379d...ft.comTrump’s demolition of the US stateOne irony of the president-elect’s campaign of destruction is that the government is in dire need of reform 30540142
Reposted by JD17Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Morning Joe jumped the shark. 1829198731894
Reposted by JD17Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Thanks for noticing. 651116418515222
Reposted by JD17Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/11/202418M + 1. 💙, Mar🐫 6325823817510
Reposted by JD17MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/11/2024Remember: fascism thrives on apathy. The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up. Don’t give them want they want. Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building. 926344047698
Reposted by JD17Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Be vigilant about keeping abusive right-wing trolls off your accounts by reading replies and blocking. We all have a responsibility to keep this platform from becoming the toxic sewer that the other one is. Don’t look to others, do your part. 851232904620
Reposted by JD17The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/11/2024A multipronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.wapo.stInside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris votersA multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed. 147923276
Reposted by JD17Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Do yourself a favor and read this from Fox News contributor Ben Domenech. I’d like to report a murder 1320287887647
Reposted by JD17Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Congrats to @bluesky for all the new users My 2 cents. Find every news source the has an RSS feed or equivalent and create accounts that that show their public deeds on here under @johndoetimesfeed That way we all get access to news without having to wait for them to create accounts first. 1386668905736
Reposted by JD17I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 12/11/2024If you have fewer than 1000 people following you, it's more important for you to repost this than anyone. My friends from the other place will eventually find me one way or the other. Let's make sure YOU find your friends and comrades and make sure you don't feel isolated and give up. 180834563
Reposted by JD17Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Good morning. It's official. The resistance is rebuilding on Blue Sky. 1698467955245
Reposted by JD17I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 12/11/2024We're going to take over this place the same way we took over threads: by building up all of you First, hit the like button, reply with #NoDemUnder1k, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button. Then follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts. Here's how: 7605133487633
Reposted by JD17Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 07/11/2024Welcome to everyone new to Bluesky! Here are 4 (illustrated) steps you can take to make your experience here more pleasant than what you left behind on X and/or Threads. A 🧵 80245721847
Reposted by JD17Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/11/2024When you realize the only choice you have is to fight, because who you are and what you love will not let you give up or capitulate, that clarity of purpose will melt the fear away. 334111451804
Reposted by JD17Simon and the BlueBeats 🎶🥁🎸❤️🔥🎤✨🎶 @simonjester007.bsky.social · 20/10/2024Precisely 🎶💙🗽🎶 this is not coincidental but by design ~ I will not give in or go back ✊ 12410
