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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 09/10/2026
Join us in our fight to hold USPS to their promise to reopen the Allston Post Office. Send your comment to allstonpostoffice@boston.gov by this Sunday, October 11.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m honored to be endorsed by @jayapal.house.gov! We share a commitment to ensuring that every person we represent has safety, economic opportunity, and the ability to thrive.  Floridians need fighters in Washington & I’m ready to take on the job. #AngieForFlorida
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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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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21/09/2026
Newsom is now the nation’s most prominent Trump Democrat — a governor aggressively using his power to empower & enrich Trump’s billionaires. If a Dem candidate successfully spotlights this in the 2028 presidential primary, they will have a shot to defeat him & win the nomination
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
ALT: The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Voters in a Missouri city have recalled their councilman after he voted to approve a data center in March. Independence City Councilman John Perkins is out of job due to the data center backlash sweeping Missouri, and the country. www.kctv5.com/2026/09/02/i...
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Independence voters recall councilman tied to data center tax vote
With 100% of precincts reporting, a 68.05% ‘YES’ vote toward a recall of Perkins was submitted by voters on Tuesday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 23/08/2026
Ladies and gentlemen…the House Democrats’ leader!
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Walmart just received a $2.9 billion tariff refund, massively boosting the company's profits. Regular people paid the costs of tariffs by and large across America. But now corporations are getting huge checks from the government, while working people get nothing.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Target's profits just doubled, because the company got a massive $1 billion tariff refund. Ordinary people have yet to see tariff refunds from the government or these corporations. www.ft.com/content/c555...
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Target profits double after $1bn tariff refund
US retailer reports higher sales as net income boosted by Washington’s tariff return programme
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/08/2026
As I've been saying: The corporate Democratic faction is willing to sabotage populist Democratic nominees, effectively make common cause with MAGA and potentially lose the 2026 midterms if that corporate faction believes that is the price of maintaining its own power inside the Democratic Party.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14/08/2026
Michael LaRosa is all over Fox News purporting to speak for Democrats while trying to help MAGA destroy @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, which could prevent Dems from taking back the Senate. When he's on TV, they aren't disclosing what he does for a living. I pointed that out, and then LaRosa freaked.
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 11/08/2026
Punishing Nithya Raman for running for against Karen Bass is ridiculous. Vote for @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social for Mayor in the November election to help make LA a better place to live.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The books that saw it coming (with alt text):
A bookstore display rack labeled “The Books that Saw it Coming” featuring: 

1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.seattle.gov · 07/08/2026
After months of extensive engagement with labor and industry partners, we are proud to announce legislation that will stop price gouging, promote equal discounts for all, and make groceries more affordable. Read the full press release here: wilson.seattle.gov/2026/08/06/c...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 06/08/2026
61 years ago today, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, aimed at ensuring our democracy's promise for every American.   Today, after SCOTUS gutted the VRA, that promise is in peril & it's on all of us, from state legislatures to the Congress, to fight back.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 06/08/2026
James Talarico is now recounting what @levernews.com unearthed in MASTER PLAN. Amazing. Find the book and podcast at masterplanpodcast.com - and pass it on.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 02/08/2026
"The people who think our healthcare system should be less about health or care & more about monetizing you because you get sick think they get to decide who your next senator is going to be. That’s what’s dangerous." - @abdulelsayed.bsky.social tonight on Dem & GOP elites calling him "dangerous"
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/07/2026
Members of Congress are continuing to buy and sell stocks as if they’re on Wall Street. They’re not doing it for the interest of their constituents — it’s in the interest of their pockets. We need a FULL ban on congressional stock trading.
Screenshot of a headline from CNBC, "SpaceX stock-purchasing by Congress members fuels conflict concerns."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Their plan is to say as little as possible and win by default, which in their mind is the safest path that doesn't alienate anyone. This misses the opportunity to galvanize the public around important issues, and then they throw up their hands about how the voters are ignorant and apathetic
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/07/2026
Rahm's piece is not a real argument. It is fundraising. Choosing the right-wing WSJ oped page is a move to speak directly to billionaires. Shitting on populist Dems aims to get billionaires to write checks for his campaign. @rahmemanuel.bsky.social's piece isn't an oped. It is a solicitation.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wolfers: For nine out of the last 10 presidencies, if you’d said, “How much should we blame the president for what’s going on with the economy right now?” I would have said that the president is just one factor among many. That’s what I would have said nine out of 10 times. This is the 10th time.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/07/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's illegal for landlords to:
- Lock you out or evict you without a court order.
- Shut off your heat, hot water, electricity, or other essential services to force you out of your home.
- Retaliate against you for reporting unsafe conditions or exercising your tenant rights.
- Leave serious health and safety hazards, like mold, unrepaired.
- Discriminate against you because of your race, disability, or other protected characteristics.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Let me get this straight... Trump is blocking $1B in Medicaid payments to blue states over spurious accusations of mass fraud. Meanwhile, he's literally pardoned over 70 convicted fraudsters — including a nursing home owner who stole over $1.3B from Medicare and Medicaid. Hello?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 21/07/2026
I am formally calling for an independent, impartial, and credible investigation into the Philippine Army’s recent killing of 19 people in Toboso, Negros Occidental province. Among those killed were U.S. citizen civilians Kai Sorem, a resident of Seattle, and Lyle Prijoles.
Overlayed a letter to the ambassador to the Philippines is a photo of Kai Sorem and text that reads, "NEW: Jayapal Calls for an Independent Investigation into Toboso Killings, including seattle resident Kai Sorem." Smaller text reads, "Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is calling for an independent, impartial, and credible investigation into the Philippine Army’s recent killing of 19 people in Toboso, Negros Occidental province. Among those killed were U.S. citizen civilians Kai Sorem, a resident of Seattle, and Lyle Prijoles."
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If Congress could do literally anything about this, that'd be great!
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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.seattle.gov · 18/07/2026
Join us next weekend to celebrate our newest local icon Jimothy as we present a proclamation in his honor to commemorate Jimothy Summer. We invite all local artists to bring their Jimothy-themed art for a friendly art competition. Long live, Jimothy!
A poster for an event celebrating Jimothy the raccoon on July 26 at 12:00pm at Bergen Place Park
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trump and Republicans know that their agenda is unpopular, whether it's foreign policy, tariffs, or their failure to address the affordability crisis. So now they're resorting to the oldest of rightwing tropes — accusing a rising generation of new, people-powered Democrats of being communists.
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Johnson Says Pentagon Needs More Money for ‘Fighting Communism on Our Own Shores’ | Common Dreams
​Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the "enemy within" and has recently promoted the idea that "democra
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 13/07/2026
This is a video of ICE agents pulling a man out of a car and handcuffing him after shooting him in broad daylight in Maine — just days after killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. (1/2)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is what governing on behalf of the people looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New York City becomes first in the US to ban deceptive subscription practices
Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and ‘junk fees’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ICE agents weren't wearing body cameras when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. The three men who were with him are reportedly being detained separately and getting pressured to self-deport — while refuting ICE’s story. What is ICE trying to cover up?
washingtonpost.com
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is absolutely devastating and infuriating. ICE officers in an unmarked car shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three, on his way to work. Then the smear machine immediately kicked in. Read the words of his son, and demand accountability: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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He saw a video of a Mexican man shot by ICE. It was his father.
The eldest child of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said his father was “a family man” who was likely frightened by the unmarked vehicles following him.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
(Reuters) - More than a thousand protesters chanting "ICE out of Houston" marched on Wednesday near the spot where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a man driving ​to work, the latest in a spate of lethal encounters www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 09/07/2026
🚨NEW: How elite Dems in D.C. and their big donors are trying to weaponize Graham Platner’s withdrawal to pull off a corporate coup and thwart the anti-oligarch policy demands of the largest primary vote in Maine’s history. Find the story at LeverNews [dot] com — and pass it on
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 04/07/2026
California is deploying emergency resources to support Colorado's response to the Aspen Acres Fire. We know firsthand the devastation that drought and critically dry conditions can bring. Colorado isn't facing this alone. California stands ready to help.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 02/07/2026
Extreme right-wingers will continue to use birthright citizenship as a litmus test. They want to dismantle the American project so people like me can’t come to America, serve in Congress or even live and work in this country. We must continue to fight this.
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