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Just Passing Through

@justpassingthru2.bsky.social
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I'm a older working mental health clinician, a father, a man in recovery, and a democratic socialist, who finds people over profit is a moral and ethical imperative.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 2h
A truck driver working 40 hours a week making $50,000 pays $3,800 in federal income tax. An investor making $50,000 in capital gains pays $0. That is the rigged tax code in plain English.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
This is crazytown. Why are they taking our money to run illegal ads? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump buys ads on CNN, MS NOW as he fights to bar them from the White House
Taxpayer-funded ads denouncing the “deep state” and “globalists” aired locally on the two cable networks Trump has sought to ban from White House grounds.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10h
Technology should empower people, not control them. In 2025, that core belief faced unprecedented challenges. But with the support of our members, donors, partners, and communities, we fought back and made meaningful progress. Our annual report explains how.
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2025 Annual Report: Standing Up for an Open Digital World
Technology should empower people, not control them. In 2025, that core belief faced unprecedented challenges. But with the support of our members, donors, partners, and communities, we fought back and...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 11h
1/ People are organizing to make gov’t say no to Palantir. The company is hiring political insiders who know how to get a yes. From Britain’s health service to Washington’s defense contracts, the fight is over who public institutions answer to. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 12h
Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?
Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances" 

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8h
AirTags make that noise "because you cannot make a tracker that does not alert a thief without also making ... a tool for stalking,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sixcolors.com. “I think these people have, in fact, considered the implications and decided that they don’t care.”
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Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence
ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9h
New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...
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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 7h
This.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
75% of the benefits from the lower capital gains tax rate go to the top 1% of households. Households under $200,000 earn just 7% of all capital gains. They pay the higher rate on wages so the rich can pay less on their stock portfolios. This is not a glitch.
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VeronicaAG @veronicatess.bsky.social · 13h
Inhumanity! www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched?
Only woman on Tennessee 'death row' is in hospital after two injections failed to kill her.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 23h
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 01/10/2026
www.thedailybeast.com/john-fetterm...
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Fetterman’s Secret MAGA Cash Grab Exposed in Leaked Message
MAGA’s favorite Democrat, John Fetterman, has been secretly fundraising with Republicans.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 22h
Schumer wants Angie Nixon and Abdul El Sayed to lose. He can't continue as paid opposition, and shill for corporate oligarchs, if there is real opposition winning. I would argue exactly the same for Jeffries. We must stop fascism. Part of that is adopting a Vote Blue, It Matters Who approach.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 22h
Gentlemen, this is how it is done.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
popularresistance.org/dismantling-...
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Dismantling Of Student Loan Aid Is Crashing Down On Debtors - PopularResistance.Org
“It is so much money,” Jacqueline Wheelock said to me about the monthly payment amount she will soon be forced to pay for her student loans. Until last summer, she wasn’t thinking about this bill. Under the repayment plan known as SAVE (short for Saving on a Valuable Education), she could afford her payments, so she made them, month after month, never missing one or paying late. At the lowest, Wheelock paid $35 each month, and at the highest, she paid $110. But now, in the wake of the Trump administration’s termination of SAVE, like 7 million other Americans, Wheelock must find a new plan — and soon — that works for her.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lol. America’s “super intelligence” is fun. The answers seem to depend on how you ask the question. 😂 Ask, “Is Trump in the Epstein files?” Get nothing. Ask, “How many times is Trump mentioned in the Epstein files?”
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, it's official, due to the life-threatening nature of an infection combined with a 12 month waiting period for the dental insurance I've been paying for since last year, my largest debt is going to be.... the personal loan I have to take out to cover dental work.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Malls killed Main Street. Amazon, et al. in the Broligarchy killed Malls. Broligarchs are now needing to be killed by Main Street. To each there's a season it seems.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
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Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That it has to happen to you for you to give a damn.... That as long as it doesn't affect you, you don't give a damn... That you actually go along with the bootstrap bullshit... That is Evil, and I am exhausted from pretending otherwise.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am still waiting out the year waiting period, with active infections under rather strong antibiotics, largely because the cost of the extractions needed are roughly the cost of a new car. And I wish that were hyperbole. Literally a base new car.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Correct. Base analysis state this is about construction of a privatized surveillance state and processing farms for cryptomining. Nothing else.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ They sanctioned a sitting president's wife and son. They pardoned a man serving 45 years for drug trafficking two days before an election. They put $40B on the table, on camera, tied to a vote. Six countries. One toolkit. Here's how it works. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ Imagine having cancer, autism or serious mental illness and being told you need medical proof to keep Medicaid. But you need Medicaid to afford the doctor who can provide the proof. In six GOP-controlled states, that problem is about to become real. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The horror!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“.. Very good one sentence summary of the economy.” - Kyra Scanlon
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Have to be honest, the nonsense that we have recently seen from Shaq... which, btw, he has been at *for years*... just shows some individuals think their wallet is more important than their folk.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
28,700 trades for Trump. 19,400 for the whole House. 2,900 for the Senate. Per Bloomberg, one man out-traded all 535 lawmakers, and he's the one who sets tariffs. Somebody's on the other side of every bet he makes, and it's your 401(k). #TrumpsCorruptCongress
#TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The face you make when Natalie forgets the baby powder...
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just did a thought experiment... I asked Google's AI just how stupid Donald J. Trump is.... Here is the result.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Too late, I'm a good son. That said, going to vote anyway.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's that look on his face again... really, I think that is just the face when he "uses" his diaper... Slavic Shoulderpads? I think that's just the face you make at the smell...
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's the irony... we have the potential to be exactly what we want to believe we are. We just need to do something about the rampant racism, religious psychosis, and absurd ride-or-die relationship we have with unfettered capitalism and it's foot-soldiers in private equity.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026
If Tennessee executes Christa Pike next week, she'd be the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years — for a crime she committed when she was 18 nearly three decades ago. Governor Lee must spare her life before it's too late.
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
People are exhausted, the news is relentless, but better days are ahead. Tonight: we’re going to paint a picture of how good it’s looking for Democrats right now. 🔥 DON’T STOP BELIEVING. Hang out with us, and jump in the comments. LIVE 10 PM ET / 7 PM PT
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Reformers Live: We're exhausted, but better days are ahead. Don’t stop believing.
YouTube video by Christopher Webb
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