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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2025
NEW: Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding. By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org
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Texas Lawmakers Largely Ignored Recommendations Aimed at Helping Rural Areas Like Kerr County Prepare for Flooding
Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Good morning 🫡
A poster with a cat and the words: 

THE WRONG AMAZON
IS BURNING
THE WRONG ICE
Is MELTING
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jvet95.bsky.social @jvet95.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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BOOM: Meta, Microsoft Lose on AI Regulation Ban in the Big Beautiful Bill
A ban on state AI regulation got stripped from Trump's giant tax bill, due to a combination of Democratic Senators, populist Republicans, and left populist tech and MAGA activists.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Stealing from the poor, giving to the rich, at a time when inequality is already at record levels. Inequality is the thing that holds us back most — and this Republican bill exacerbates it. (Again) #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Trivia for your next pub quiz — or perhaps trade negotiation: The United States already has a free trade agreement with Canada. It's called USMCA, and was negotiated by President Trump.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/06/2025
Low enrollment, high costs, a backlog of more than 5,000 applications: Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program — the only one in the nation — offers a window into how the GOP’s nationwide proposal could impact your state 👇
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Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and…
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jvet95.bsky.social @jvet95.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
@mcuban.bsky.social Maybe threads banning Tennessee Holler is your answer on how to increase BlueSky numbers. Eventually we just won’t have access to truth online. State run media brought to you by the tech bros and it will all soon be AI generated.
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jvet95.bsky.social @jvet95.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/06/2025
#ICYMI: In April, we reported that at least a dozen members of Congress wrote to the Trump administration with questions about citizens detained, questioned and even held at gunpoint by ICE agents. None of them received an answer. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social‬
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Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions.…
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
There is no deal Thank you for your attention to this matter
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/06/2025
“When they are cracking down on peaceful protests at a small scale, you’ve got to organize peaceful protests at a large scale. That is what works.” Leah and Ezra discussed #NoKings Day with @briantylercohen.bsky.social. We hope to see you in the streets on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 08/06/2025
It’s not just that the oligarchs don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes. Many of them literally do not believe in the concept of government. They are rich and powerful and have the “divine right” to do anything they want.
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Dr. Susan Winters ☕️ @docwinter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Some people think the problem is a shortage of Nazis. Ah yes, the classic startup playbook: 1. Build community 2. Add fascists 3. Monetize rage 4. Fire your ethics team, pivot to blockchain, radicalize some teenagers 5. IPO If this is the “balance” we’re missing, I’m happy staying lopsided
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Step 1. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country Step 2. When markets crash, pause those tariffs and say they're just leverage for deals Step 3. Promise deals Step 4. Fail to make deals Step 5. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country ...and yes, I find it hard to keep my cool, sometimes.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Yes, we noticed. You're still here.
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SPHINCTERPUSS @stanzman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We collected well over 180,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. It passed by 57%. These assholes don’t care about us. STOP VOTING FOR THEM.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
An X USER, to Grok: “Why are you launching into conversations about white genocide, unprompted?” 🤡
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/05/2025
There's always a tweet.
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jvet95.bsky.social @jvet95.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I need to vent. If you can afford to go to Europe for a couple weeks, you can afford to treat your dog’s periodontal disease. Don’t give me BS excuses for letting your dog have a mouth full of rotten, infected teeth. It is THE major issue that will improve your pet’s QOL!
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The truth is most countries haven't had substantial tariffs on the United States in decades. As a result, most countries are walking in and they say, hey, you know what? We already don't tariff you. Why don't we write it down in an agreement where I say something that was already true 6 weeks ago."
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“How much injustice will Americans take? Has the arrest of a judge crossed a line you cannot tolerate? How about the taking of three small American children out of the country in the middle of the night without due process? Have we crossed the Rubicon yet?” open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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How Much Injustice Will Americans Take?
A Saturday Prompt
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
You know what Biden didn’t do? Fall asleep at the Pope’s funeral. He was there. Wide awake. Who’s the doddering old man again?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/04/2025
Online, the company touted its use of “hidden food bags” — drugs concealed in shipments labeled as food. Its ads promised “strong safety delivery” with “packaging made to measure” to “guarantee” that illicit chemicals would elude border inspections.
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Fentanyl Pipeline: How a Chinese Prison Helped Fuel a Deadly Drug Crisis in the United States
While China enforces strict laws against domestic drug trafficking, state-supported companies have openly shipped fentanyl to the U.S., investigators say. One prison-owned chemical company boasted…
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/04/2025
In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
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Islay Scotch Socialist @gruntyginman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My Honda was made in Alabama! And my Ford was made in Mexico! Could it be this guy doesn't know what he's talking about?
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Chaplin going hard in THE IMMIGRANT (1917), cutting from a shot of the Statue of Liberty to the dehumanizing treatment of the immigrants aboard a ship (with a tiny dallop of slapstick thrown in).
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/04/2025
Help us spread the word about Saturday’s nationwide mobilizations. Share your story on why you’re hitting the streets: bit.ly/April5...
Text on a dark textured background encouraging participation in a campaign called "Hands Off!" It invites viewers to record a short video explaining their participation on April 5th, using hashtags #HandsOff or #WhyApril5 and to share it at a provided URL. The "Hands Off!" logo features a hand with a prohibition sign over it.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/04/2025
Reporter: April 9th, these tariffs come in place. Do you plan on having negotiations before that date? Bessnet: I-I-again, I'm not part of the negotiations. So you know, w–we'll see. Reporter: Canada and Mexico, notably missing on that chart. Why is that? Bessent: Um. I'm not sure.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30/03/2025
Early voting ends today and Election Day is Tuesday. Help us elect workers’ rights champion Susan Crawford, stop Elon Musk, and secure the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority thru 2028. WI residents: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/2025_s... Everyone: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Ben Wikler on Bluesky: “If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/03/2025
HUD concluded a Texas state agency had steered $1B in disaster funding away from Houston and nearby communities of color after Hurricane Harvey. On Jan. 15, HUD referred the case to the DOJ. On Feb. 13, it rescinded that referral with no explanation.
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Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey,…
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/03/2025
IN ONE WEEK: We’re mobilizing to show the strength of our movement — because the fight against President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump is just starting. Please join us next Saturday: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Legalize skinny bois on all commercial corridors
Milwaukee Ave
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demosthenes1959.bsky.social @demosthenes1959.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Idiocracy:
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Once again, the “open school” movement regarding COVID was heavily influenced by child labor advocates. sciencebasedmedicine.org/child-labor-...
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Doctors Shouldn’t Legitimize Pro-Tobacco, Child-Labor Advocates
As the adage says: "A man is judged by the company he keeps."
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“Based on Phil Hegseth’s publicly available resumé, his past experience includes founding his own podcast production company, Embassy and Third, and working on social media and podcasts at The Hudson Institute.” Well there you go 😑 www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...
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Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role inside the Pentagon
Phil Hegseth’s publicly available resume includes founding his own podcast production company and working on social media and podcasts.
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jvet95.bsky.social @jvet95.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
202) 224-2934 John Cornyn Washington office if you want to leave a voicemail.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape? Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/03/2025
Early voting has started in Wisconsin, where Elon Musk is trying to buy another election. Winning on April 1 would secure the liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court through 2028. Help us get out the vote for workers’ rights champion Susan Crawford: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Musk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges"
The move reflects how Musk is throwing his considerable wealth behind Trump's priorities — including an upcoming election in Wisconsin for a crucial seat on the state's Supreme Court.
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DBeach @beachnic.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"The Republicans Who Sold Their Souls to Vladimir Putin The Russian strongman has yet to topple Ukraine, but he’s conquered the GOP." newrepublic.com/article/1793...
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The Republicans Who Sold Their Souls to Vladimir Putin
The Russian strongman has yet to topple Ukraine, but he’s conquered the GOP.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Sanders: Our life expectancy is about four years less than in other wealthy countries. If you’re working class in America, you live 7-8 years shorter than people who are wealthy. Now, why is that? The answer is not just healthcare. But it is the day-to-day stress that working people live under.
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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
this chart appears as if it couldn’t be real. But it is. The GOP reconciliation plan is nothing short of highway robbery of those in the middle and at the bottom, all to pay for tax cuts for the richest people on earth.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/03/2025
The fight against President Musk (and Kennedy Center chairman Trump) is just starting. On April 5, we’re mobilizing to show the strength of our movement: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
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AOCincinnatus @aocincinnatus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Unless, of course, they try to unionize, in which case they are greedy and ungrateful with an overinflated self importance, no longer deserving of drafting off of elon musk’s prolific genius
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FrankenGardner @glacierpique.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you doubt whether any American’s political pressure can budge the needle at Congress or stop executive damage, know that your economic headwind is powerful, effective, and international. Keep applying political pressure. Keep applying economic pressure.
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Emperor Dan @emperor-dan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The last time Orange Hitler was in office, 60,000 Texas oil and gas workers lost their jobs. They voted for him again after Biden rehired them. 🤷‍♂️
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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:
“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” said former BEAD director Evan Feinman
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !
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