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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

REAGAN '80
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
10/5 Santa Maria: ICE crashed into a parked car after jumping out to kidnap a community member this morning. ICE Has been terrorizing our neighbors in Santa Maria ALL MORNING! If you have any information on the incidents today, please call our hotline or send a message! 805-870-8855
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed. Get big money out of politics. Strengthen unions and boost wages. Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more... This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for. It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thousands of Cornell students have taken over the main plaza on campus to demand the Cornell 7 be held accountable for their crimes. 21% of undergraduate women are raped or sexual assaulted during their time on campus.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You don’t have to be a former City Comptroller to know it’s a corrupt, hideous idea for Trump’s SEC to roll back “pay-to-play” regulations that prohibit investors from bribing State Treasurers and other public pension fiduciaries with campaign contributions.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Solid dose of hopium from @doctorow.pluralistic.net
As seas rise, we're going to have jobs for every person who is willing, building sea defenses and moving whole coastal cities inland. Two generations of neoliberalism has left us with massive shortages of housing stock, crumbling highways, inadequate schools and hospitals. That means that we need to build *lots* more of these, and they can be built with state-of-the-art climate hardening, including geothermal heat, "passive home" designs, modern insulation, and heat-pumps. The rights-of-way for the interstate system would make dandy railbeds for arrow-straight, all electric high-speed rail powered by solar, wind and tides.
All of this has the potential to yield a second peace-dividend prosperity. A post-oligarch world can recover industrial capacity by diverting it away from destructive activity (data centers, luxury housing) to essential functions (climate defenses, decent housing for everyday people). A post-oligarch world can recover democratic excellence by removing the malign influence that morbid wealth exerts on our policy choices: for example, if we don't like the quality of public schools, we can fix them by giving schools more resources, not by letting billionaire dilettantes privatize and starve them in the name of "school choice":
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
They might be woke, but don't call them weak. After a historic setback in 2024, the Democratic rebrand appears to be working out. No, seriously—the rebrand is that they’re all filming themselves working out. But turning around the party's national reputation will be a heavy lift.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Scrutinzed; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/10/05/p... #Pluralistic
Medieval peasants working the fields in front of a walled city. Their overseer rides a horse; his head has been replaced with a robotic camera. From all sides, gory, anatomical eyeballs intrude upon the scene, each one with a different colored iris.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Jason Pohlman (an-tē-fä) @pohlman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Funny how these clowns so naturally settle into SA and DA language. "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News: "I don't want to choke anyone out. What I'm interested in is making sure that everybody can breathe. And right now you've got an economy where folks are getting choked out because they don't have the basic means of a dignified life."
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catinthehague.bsky.social @catinthehague.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’ve been handling some things backwards ! www.scottsantens.com/the-toothpas...
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The Toothpaste Argument for Universal Basic Income
The following argument is based on the words of the late Götz Werner, who was a long-time supporter of the concept of unconditional basic income in Germany, who gained a unique understanding of UBI as...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Wolfers: Imagine we had a female president who was so idiosyncratic and so moody and whose policy decisions were up and down like crazy... Could you just imagine the coverage? It’s utterly bizarre what we allow to happen.
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
Title IX has never been about giving justice to survivors of sexual violence and always has been about giving institutions the appearance of accountability.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
"Few seem willing to contemplate that the story of social media might not be that of still-unfulfilled democratic potential, but rather the opposite: that social media has been actively good to autocrats." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
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Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
And despite the horrible death toll that's locked in by waves of climate shocks - presided over by the dying, fumbling "drink bleach" guy - it's conceivable that the future we get will be a *good* one, if not an easy one.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
A post-oligarch, post-American world could be a post-*austerity* world, one where we recognize that the limiting factor on public investment isn't *money*, but *resources*: energy, material, labor, expertise: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATQ...
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Stephanie Kelton: The big myth of government deficits | TED
YouTube video by TED
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
This creates mounting instability, thanks to the misrule of a shrinking class of increasingly powerful hereditary, unaccountable oligarchs whose whims and follies trump the material and political needs of the vast majority: memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/t...
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congrats, Don, John, Mike, and John, you broke it.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And by a current Cornell student: "This putrid treatment of women did not originate in this house. It is a culture created over years of “tradition,” and it is what fraternities are built to produce, no matter what we say about the usual exceptions to the rule."
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Cornell, abolish your fraternities
The case surrounding the ‘Cornell 7′ is as lurid as it gets; whether or not these men face prosecution, it will not change the structural issue with Greek life
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's good news that NY Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Leticia James special prosecutor in this case, and here remember that Hochul became governor because Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign in disgrace because of his serial sexual harassment...
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dismantling ICE means dismantling the surveillance regime that powers it.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AOC understands this and I'm extremely excited to campaign for her because of it.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
"New survey data from Siena suggests close to 50% of men aged 18–49 have an active sports betting account… Instead of fighting what is clearly an emerging crisis, we have some of the biggest names in professional sports acting as spokespeople for DraftKings and Kalshi."
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology
“The Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz’s search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle’s whereabouts across the country for an entire month,” Hill wrote. “The Court finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California.”
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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jessielauren.bsky.social @jessielauren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
About damn time
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology.” — Pope Leo XIV
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✠ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽 @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Forget political parties for 10 seconds- watching Curtis Sliwa tough guy beret and all, sheepishly holding Mayor Mamdani’s hand through a flu shot is the purest thing on the internet today. We really are all just human.💙🥹
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's keep sharing it.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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NorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're now 3 for 3 with our habeas petitions! After 1.5 years in a Texas detention center, an elderly Afghan couple is finally home with their family. You can help us do this by donating at tinyurl.com/NCRBAIL If you want to volunteer, send an email to norcalresist@gmail.com
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Habeas Corpus
We Are Doing It Right
We're now 3 for 3 with our habeas petitions! After 1.5 years in a Texas detention center, an elderly Afghan couple is finally home with their family. NorCal Resist help them put together their petitions from translating documents, mailing it, to supporting the family through it all.

Help Free Them All!

You can help us do this by donating at tinyurl.com/NCRBAIL
If you want to volunteer, send an email to norcalresist@gmail.com
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hardly a surprise Hegseth is saying this stuff so publicly now, when one of the Pentagon influencers has: • Called women a "pestilence" • Praised dictators like Pinochet and Franco • Said only people with children should be allowed vote www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
basically this
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
“More than any other digital service, my email is a window into my brain. Now Meta has it. If that's not enough, Muse also suggested I give it my bank accounts. No thanks. I didn't let the AI run wild on my computer hard drive, either.”
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'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying
Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you are justifiably concerned about the current crop of Republicans serving in public office, they pale in comparison to what's coming. Complete and total lunacy, detached from reality and the concerns of the people they're supposed to represent. Conspiracy theorists and bigots.
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