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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The new California Oligarch Index identifies the big-money interests that explain why a purportedly deep-blue state has so much trouble making progress. The 99 biggest donors to state candidates & causes spent $5.8 billion since 2005 on politics, more than the bottom 99.9% of CA residents.

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Why Some California Democrats Step Up to Fill the Republican Void - The American Prospect

How corporate pressure led legislators to kill a bill that would curtail surveillance pricing

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We have heard directly from within the Pentagon of good officers - “the ones you’d want to go to war with” - swept out on pretext, or no pretext.

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Street art seen in Seattle's Pike Place area. #EpsteinFiles

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When Mamdani was running and people questioned his experience, I said a mayor's job is to show up, cut ribbons, listen to people, explain things to them, make them feel good, then have a son of a bitch work the levers. He is world-class at the first half-dozen things; Fuleihan is his son of a bitch.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The fabulous 18th-century Abbey Library of Saint Gall in Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As bad as this is, it may be worse that we spoke to a number of baseball fans about this earlier. The predominant reaction was that there’s nothing wrong with it, or they don’t care.

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jerryb5495.bsky.social @jerryb5495.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@dicknixon.bsky.social Zach Wheeler. The Rodney Dangerfield of pitchers. No respect. No respect at all.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I agree 👍🏼 Do you? #BookSky

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The shotgun wedding between institutional (or even ordinary) investors & big-money investment firms masks divergent interests. Zachary Groz has an interesting piece on the origins of how private equity & hedge funds grabbed capital, plus how they've aligned with traditional foes like mutual funds.

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The War of Capital - The American Prospect

Asset managers, private investment firms, and institutional investors like pension funds have divergent interests, though as the SpaceX IPO reveals, the money power acts in concert.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here's our writeup of last night's big victories in New York, which were a testament not to one candidate or one mayor but the work of dedicated activists on the ground who have completely changed the calculus of politics in what was once a machine state. prospect.org/2026/06/24/n...

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The Machine Breaks Down in New York - The American Prospect

DSA and Mayor Mamdani’s candidates rocked establishment incumbents backed by unions and political bigwigs. In most cases it wasn’t even close.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/06/2026

The fact that @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social of Southern California has ended its policy of validating parking for patients receiving cancer care is the most nickle-and-dime-ass, bullshit nonsense I've encountered this week (so far).

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just looked at the "end" of the war in Iran. Really it's the beginning of a long, slow return to a status quo that we're buying our way into restoring. This week is likely the lowest oil prices get for a few months. And the U.S. humiliation is, frankly, a good thing. prospect.org/2026/06/16/a...

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Aftermath: The War Ends and the Aftermath Begins - The American Prospect

In today’s edition: How long will it take for global energy markets to return to normal? A long time, it turns out.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Iran is richer, their nuclear program is undeterred, the Strait will not be open soon, they are forever inclined to close it whenever they like, the regime is not substantially weakened, and the United States’s word is mud. The worst foreign policy choices on our part in 25 years.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's not difficult. Mace is one of those people who gets to the Hill and decides they want to be rich. They say screw constituent service, offer to do television every time someone sneezes, and build a national image at the cost of the local. And she's personally an asshole. People talk.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

This story is based on audio of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelley's stunning series of remarks left staffers on the newsmagazine wondering if he will resign.

In the meeting, Pelley pointed out that Weiss has "no qualifications for her job" and told Bilton "you have slender qualifications for this job." Pelley, the former anchor of "CBS Evening News," noted that the changes Weiss has made to that program "have been catastrophic."

"So why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Pelley asked Bilton.

Bilton tried to move the meeting along, but Pelley pressed on, challenging the new executive producer’s references in interviews to “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt’s vision for the program as he outlined his plans.

"I have another question," the veteran journalist said. "Did you at any point work with Don Hewitt, telling everybody about what Don Hewitt thought, and what his inspiration was? I worked for Don Hewitt from 1999 to 2004 and Lesley Stahl probably worked with him for 30 years. Just wondering how you have such deep insight?"

Bilton replied that he was simply quoting Hewitt’s own words from past interviews and asked Pelley whether he had any other questions. Pelley said that he did.

"I have many questions," Pelley responded. "What was wrong with Sharyn Alfonsi?"

As Bilton started to say he would "defer," Pelley interrupted: "This is not the crowd to dodge."

Bilton insisted he was not dodging.

"Nobody talked to you about that?" Pelley continued, pressing him on the firing. "They're taking one of your correspondents away and nobody mentioned to you what was wrong with Sharyn?"

Bilton acknowledged that he "had conversations with people."

"And what came out of those conversations?" Pelley asked. "They are private conversations?"

Bilton reiterated that he "did not fire" Alfonsi or Vega. Pelley pointed out that Bilton had nonetheless discussed the matter with others. Charles Forelle, a top Weiss deputy and managing editor of CBS News, interjected, telling Pelley that he was being "rude."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," Pelley replied.

"Anybody came into our house—this is '60 Minutes,'" Pelley added. "I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Pelley then asked Bilton "what was wrong with" Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of "60 Minutes" who was fired on Thursday.

Bilton again said that he did not fire Mihailovich. Forelle one more told Pelley that he was being "rude."

Pelley did not let up, however. The veteran newsman told Bilton and Forelle that the way management handled the firings was "cruel." Forelle—yet again—responded by calling Pelley "rude."

"I'm not being rude," Pelley shot back. "I have some pretty—you know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock. Sending Draggan Mihailovich to HR to get fired, because nobody could look him in the eye. Not talking about Tanya's contract. Not talking about Sharyn Alfonsi's contract. Not talking about Cecilia Vega's contract. Just calling them up and telling they were fired. That's rude. This is a conversation. That is rude, and you were part of that."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026

Patty Murray to Blanche: "This is corruption that has never been more blatant. What's happening is you write the check, Trump and his cronies cash it, and American taxpayers who are already being whacked with high prices are gonna foot the bill."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/05/2026

"Object permanence" is the ability to understand that even if you can't see something, it still exists. Most toddlers acquire a thorough sense of object permanence by the age of two. But when it comes to technopolitics, object permanence eludes even full-grown lawmakers. 1/

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

daaaamn london

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jerryb5495.bsky.social @jerryb5495.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@dicknixon.bsky.social By that logic, other countries should have basing rights in the U.S. But as we know, Rubio logic tends to be a bit twisted.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026

Good news/bad news for Trump. Good news: you can get elected by promising to do something about the cost of living crisis, and the president actually has a lot of ways to improve people's daily costs. Bad news: everything you do to fix working people's cost of living maked an oligarch worse off. 1/

wo men in suits seated next to each other. The younger man is pointing at a brochure. The younger man's head has been replaced with a whole roast chicken. The older man's head has been replaced with a large beef roast. The brochure has been replaced with vintage meat ads. The background is a cropped section of of a high-magnification scan of a US $100 bill, colors faded and shifted.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2026

Buttiigieg: "Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still be trying to blame the previous administration, it really shows that you are out of ideas, out of solutions, and unwilling to take ownership of your own choices."

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

text on image: 91% of hourly met staff in our unit earn less than a living wage

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 04/05/2026

THREAD: Chewbacca at MLB stadiums Throwing out the first pitch at Fenway

"Star Wars" character Chewbacca throws out the ceremonial first pitch, right, before the start of a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday, September 28, 2005, to promote an exhibit at the Museum of Science. The characters Princess Leia and Han Solo are also seen. (Photo by Jim Rogash/WireImage)

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

OMG this is hilarious

NEW YORK, NY — The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room opens in Manhattan on Friday, May 8, 2026. This first-of-its-kind physical library contains all of the unsealed Epstein files, bound into 3,747 volumes. The installation invites the public to participate in a real-time, open-source investigation, inviting everyday citizens to supercharge the biggest unfinished criminal inquiry.

Housed in a 5,000 square foot storefront, the Reading Room is an exercise in radical transparency designed to move the Epstein Files out of the digital abyss and into a physical space where the magnitude of the evidence is impossible to ignore.

Members of the public can make a free reservation for a 60-minute visit to the Reading Room at TrumpEpsteinReadingRoom.com. The exact address is provided upon reservation confirmation, along with a guide to citizen journalism developed by expert investigative reporters.

“The truth is hard to deny when it’s printed and bound for you to see,” said David Garrett, one of the organizers of The Reading Room. “We are opening the Reading Room to keep public attention fixed on the crimes of Epstein and the Epstein class, and on Trump’s desperate attempts to bury them.”

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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I made penne with pulled beef bolognese and ricotta with homemade honey whole wheat dinner rolls. #kai #dinner 🍝🍽️🍜

A shallow bowl with penne and bolognese sauce garnished with shaved Parmesan and chopped herbs, and two dinner rolls.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/04/2026

McClatchy has fallen.

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Lee Heffner @leeheffer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

#PhotoShare Paris 1932

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Spring in Philadelphia.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This was in Scotland. The Queen told them she'd been coming up since she was a child, her family had land nearby. She told no lies. She enjoyed it.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The context is of course different but I was reminded of the late Queen Elizabeth visiting an American housing project. An older lady rushed up and hugged her. The Queen smiled, betrayed no surprise at all. Everything is political. Everything.

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Nana's CookBooks @nanascookbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

On the Menu tonight from Nana is baked beans. Nana plans to serve it with Pineapple Juice, Cole Slaw, Bread & butter, and Grapefruit shortcake for dessert. 1950s, Betty Crocker has a recipe for all baked bean lovers to enjoy. What do you think? 🍽️ 🍜 #FoodSky #Cooking #Recipes #RecipeOfTheDay

From 1950, The Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book.

SPECIAL BAKED BEANS

Mrs. Nels I. Matson of Seattle, Washington, wrote, "This was given my husband by a man very fond of real baked beans. He carried the recipe in his pocket and offered it to all lovers of baked beans."

Soak overnight in cold water ...
2 cups navy beans
In morning, drain. Save the bean liquor.
Put through medium knife of food grinder...
½ Ib. salt pork (scalded, rind removed)
6 sprigs parsley
1 large onion
1 clove garlic
1 green pepper
2 sweet red peppers
Mix above ingredients through beans with...
2 tbsp. maple syrup
6 tbsp. catsup
Cover with fresh water. Simmer 2 hr.
Put into 2-qt. bean pot. . . add just enough bean liquid to cover beans. Cover pot. Bake. Uncover last half of baking.
Serve hot . . . with hot Brown Bread.
TEMPERATURE: 300° (slow oven).
TIME: Bake covered 2½ hr., remove cover and bake 1½ hr. longer.
AMOUNT: 6 servings.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A clear warning to Vance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/04/2026

i bet this goes crazy if you’re a dumbass

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Several important nuggets in here: • Swalwell was rebuilding Newsom's inner circle; he was the establishment hope • One lobbyist: "Were we willing to delude ourselves or not ask questions that should have been asked? 1000%" • His campaign started sending cease-and-desists last year

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The whisper network that caught up to Eric Swalwell

Warnings about the lawmaker had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/04/2026

When I hear about how much money the richest people get paid and see how woefully bad most of them are at their jobs, I'm convinced they're not being paid for their work; they're being paid for access to and use of the power they already wield.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It's hard to have amassed a worse record as a public official and a human being than Pam Bondi over the past 15 years. I have big "the food is sure great at this funeral" vibes prospect.org/justice/2024...

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When Pam Bondi Protected Foreclosure Fraudsters - The American Prospect

The new attorney general nominee, while serving as AG of Florida, fired the first two prosecutors to investigate the use of false evidence to kick people out of their homes.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The US had bombed a 2nd school in Iran using missiles previously untested in battle What a monstrous state www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

good lord www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This thread fits with a theme I've been writing, exasperatingly, for more than a year. Congress has decided not to exist, and with 2 years of abdication, even if Democrats win control, the new normal will be hard to reverse. Might as well sell the Capitol, who needs it prospect.org/politics/202...

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The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months - The American Prospect

Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

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