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Joe Kraus

@joekraus.bsky.social
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Equality enthusiast.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
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Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.
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Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only
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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The system is rigged, exhibit 4,357: Long-shot Polymarket bets on military and defense actions have an average win rate of 52%. The average win rate across all of Polymarket is 14%. (from new analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, linked below)
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Wars are dumb.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW: Hospitals in Beirut are now posting photos of children in an attempt to identify their parents. This photo was shared by senior Al Jazeera producer, Suddaf Chaudry. Hospitals are also appealing for blood donations. Israel’s actions in Lebanon today have been another stain on humanity.
A young child who is covered in dust and wearing a grey sweatshirt and is looking down to the floor is held by an adult
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It’s 12 degrees and snowy in Minnesota, so unless hell has frozen over…
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The UN held a vote to end torture last week. 3 countries voted against it. Argentina. Israel. United States.
The final vote tally on a UN resolution to end torture. 169 countries voted in favor, 4 abstained, and 3 voted against (Argentina, Israel, US).
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The feds are now lying to local politicians to hide their racial profiling kidnappings.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.
According to the forecasting models, the current steep funding cuts— coupled with the potential dissolution of the agency—could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2·4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4·5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700 000 deaths annually.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A sobering read on climate change from those anti-capitalist hippy tree huggers over at the FT. www.ft.com/content/9e5d...
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How the next financial crisis starts
The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Legacy media keeps pushing “young man have radicalized” narrative, to fit their equally wrong “the people have become more right-wing narrative. Real story is “radicalization” of young women… but, like their sisters in previous generations, they only live in shadows (negations) of their male peers.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The president of the United States is selling access to political office for personal gain, the literal definition of corruption.
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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
By this logic, thousands of school children are being paid / bussed into Washington DC every year to boost the admissions numbers at area museums.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 14/02/2025
StopTB has a new report estimating the impact of the foreign aid freeze. It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“It’s like setting a building on fire and then selling the fire extinguishers outside." www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Rich nations are earning billions from a pledge to help fix climate
Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the donor nations, a Reuters data analysis found.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
As Musk and Co. frantically work to kill foreign assistance, new research shows that funding development is a far more cost effective way to achieve peace than handing the military $850 billion each year.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Want to be an insider at Davos this week? Follow along with the Insider on WhatsApp, where we're sharing daily updates and behind the scenes insights from the yearly pilgrimage the wealthy and powerful make to the Swiss Alps. Here's a sample. Link to subscribe is in the comments below.
*THE INSIDER from The ONE Campaign* (Wednesday, 22 January)

*M.I.A.:* January is typically the snowiest month in Davos. Not this year. There’s less snow than usual and the weather is unseasonably warm. Surprisingly few people here are talking about the climate crisis.

*Talk of the town:* Perhaps that’s because everyone is busy dissecting the implications of the US withdrawal from the WHO and the Paris Agreement and its pause on foreign aid. In a poignant sign of the times, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave an address to a half empty auditorium.

*Zeitgeist:* AI is also a hot topic here; add those 2 letters to every sentence and you fit right in. There’s a lot of excitement about its potential to transform education, health,
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Sara Harcourt @saraharcourt.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is THE most important finding from the latest 🌍 #ODA statistics drop from the #OECD. 🚫It's NOT that foreign aid hit record levels in 2023. ✔️It's that more than 25% of global aid is spent dealing with protracted crises, including COVID, refugees in donor countries and aid to Ukraine.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The system is rigged. The 3 largest US oil companies - despite doing most of their business in the US - paid 8 times more to foreign govts last year than they paid the US. Meanwhile, FEMA hit funding shortfalls for hurricane season, which is growing worse thanks to the burning of fossil fuels.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
AI is expected to consume more electricity than 161 countries by 2027. 1.1 billion people don't have access to electricity or can't afford it. Big tech keeps solving the wrong problems.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Impunity is having a very good run globally. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/w...
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Brazil Cracked Down on Corruption. Now It’s Undoing the Case. (Gift Article)
Operation Car Wash, which started in Brazil, revealed a bribery scheme that spanned at least 12 countries. Brazil’s Supreme Court has reversed much of its impact.
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s great to see the UK taking action to crack down on dirty money. It’s been a long time coming. The UK is one of the world’s leading destinations for illicit money. That robs other countries of $$ that could be used to improve people’s lives. Just how much? www.gov.uk/government/n...
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UK cracks down on dirty money with fresh sanctions
UK sanctions kleptocrats, firing starting gun on a new Foreign Secretary campaign against dirty money
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Joe Kraus @joekraus.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Some #climate relevant news ahead of COP29: New analysis reveals that rich countries spend 6 times more on fossil fuel subsidies than on climate finance to vulnerable countries. data.one.org/data-dives/c...
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Climate finance hypocrisy
A climate finance hypocrisy There’s enough money to support low- and middle-income countries’ climate needs. But
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