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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 09/11/2024

Good summary except for the missing paragraph on how the Republicans, Manchin and Sinema killed the BBBA, spurred on by a chorus of pundits and think tanks who insisted that it would worsen inflation.

BBB was supposed to make ARP's provisions permanent
The main purpose of the Biden-Harris administration's Build Back Better (BBB) plan was to make the American Rescue Plan's (ARP) temporary welfare superstructure permanent.
National economic recovery wasn't enough; the administration publicly insisted that economic recovery happen on a human level, too. Here's the White House in April 2021, introducing the American Families Plan (which later became the bulk of the House-passed BBB bill): "It is not enough to restore where we were prior to the pandemic. We need to build a stronger economy that does not leave anyone behind - we need to build back better."
But in March 2022, the Biden-Harris administration decided that it would "help"" people deal with inflation by reducing the deficit, not by enacting social programs.
Cruelly, the White House started using the nation's strong economic recovery as an excuse to not make the American Rescue Plan's provisions permanent, the

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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 09/11/2024

If you're the party of protecting the marginalized people will rightly lose trust in you if you decline to do that

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

New from me: A very hearty "shut up and sit down" to anyone who thinks that the right move for Democrats — morally or politically — is to abandon defending of trans rights in the face of Republican attacks

msnbc.com

Opinion | Democrats would get nothing for throwing trans Americans under the bus

In the hunt for a scapegoat, some are arguing that there's been too much focus from Democrats on transgender rights. There's no evidence backing that up.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I hope you all will repost

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/11/2024

Hey everyone: for the next few years, I’m gonna need you to not say the obvious (“Trump won’t allow it”) when I say “we should try to do something.” We should try to do something.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/11/2024

I would quibble that people hated *what they were told* about it, which is a distinction that matters.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Like the reason we all love Star Trek and Terry Pratchet and all these pop culture things is because most of them are various shades of “caring about people is better than being an ironic asshole all the time” and somewhere inside of most people we recognize that as how we go forward

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🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo @garb0.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Manually reposting @imad3.bsky.social's post for increased visibility: " bsky.app/profile/emad... This is my new account Please dear I don't want to do following anymore so there is no excuse for blusky Please follow and share so others can see and do so Thanks alot" @emad2025.bsky.social ❤️🍉🕊️

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Trump energized non-voters and first time voters who were sympathetic to his side rather than doing outreach to Democrats and promising to put them in his cabinet. Surely there are no lessons the Democrats can take from this.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I can’t deal with this shit much more so I’ll try to send one post on this: shut the fuck up about repositioning yourself to being meaner to trans kids and people, that is not why Republicans won a presidential popular vote this year. If your position is “well, it was a factor,” ok even if it Were…

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

One more thing. Even if this was the massive sweep to the far right it appears to be (and I will concede that if and when I see enough evidence to satisfy me) you still don't make it make it easy for fascists. Throw up bureaucratic blocks and delays if nothing else. They hurt and kill people

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Maha @mahaabed.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I hope that whoever receives this post and is able to help me does not hesitate. I do not know where I will go and I do not have the money for a tent to live in.💔💔🥹🥹

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Maha @mahaabed.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

It is not available now, we are witnessing a famine now🥹

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Maha @mahaabed.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Hii my heroes, I’m Maha from gaza this link is the last hope after everything destroyed around us , you can help us by Reposting Or donating if you can We appreciate all your helping so much and that’s in our hearts forever ♥️ gofund.me/3752ea11

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Donate to Saving lives from the front lines-help palestinian, organized by Maha Abed omar

I am Maha from Gaza, I have two boys and a girl, my life was beautif… Maha Abed omar needs your support for Saving lives from the front lines-help palestinian

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Socratic Nerd @socraticnerd.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

A block list for you. Hit subscribe & click red button. You're welcome bsky.app/profile/did:...

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🌙NoxuArts - Commission status: OPEN! @notyournyx.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Things are about to get worse in Palestine and now it's not the time to pretend it's not happening. If you see Palestinians on here seeking mutual aid, please don't block them, don't report them. Their need to escape is a life and death situation. Read their stories. Share their GFMs.

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★ PEST !! ★ IT/VEY 🍉 @kokom0.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

please share & donate ‼️‼️‼️

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Please repost my friends 🫶

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Hello jamal from gaza This link is for my brothers’ studies, for a new home abroad, for evacuating , and for completely rebuilding our feelings after losing everything Little support make a big difference gofund.me/a625d5ba

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Donate to Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone in Gaza, organized by Robyn Parsons

Hi, my name is Robyn, I am a British citizen living in the UK. I am fundr… Robyn Parsons needs your support for Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone in Gaza

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Here is gaza

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 02/11/2024

eman's account was suspended again. please stop reporting the accounts of palestinian people asking for our help. if you think it's a scam, then just mute and move along. stop silencing the vulnerable.

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Why is there a content warning on this??

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Another person in Gaza who must navigate these arbitrary bans (c'mon Bluesky!) while struggling to survive famine and devastation. Please help if you can.

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Help Rawan from North Gaza 🇵🇸 @rawangaza.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Tonight's words from Rawan. This is what goes through her mind every second of every day, yet she still has to think of ways to get people's attention. Let's make her hard life a little easier, shall we? Please share and donate if you can 🙏 gofund.me/0e15bc15 #Gaza #MutualAid #NotSpam #Palestine

I'm sitting on the sixth floor in the open air to write that tweet. I'm uploading my study videos for my university and I'm living in a day of unparalleled terror. I couldn't control my fear and collapse. I don't have the soul to study or publish. I just want rest and peace😭❤️‍🩹
I swear that fear possesses my body because I am a human being of blood & flesh. We are human beings. I hear the pulse of my sister, the child next to me, accelerating. What is her fault for living? This is her fault for crying and sleeping hungry and afraid. Where is humanity😭

I hear the Apache helicopters approaching us and the sounds of bullets
The sounds of F-16 fire belts, the sounds of tank chains, the snipers approaching
Phosphorus bombs, what's next? How much more do we have to endure😭
Stop this genocide. We don't want anything from anyone. I swear. We don't want our simple life. Just stop it😭
I will keep crying until the end of my life
I cry for the dearest souls I lost. I cry for my health that is gone from me at the age of 21. I cry because I am forced to take the medicine that I hate to survive. I cry because I lost everything. Everything. Everything😭

My psychological state is collapsing, my health is getting worse day by day, the pain is increasing the fatigue and it is killing me. I cannot post anything anymore. This is not my life. Why am I here? How did I get into all this pain?😭
I feel like death is chasing me fast, getting closer and closer every second
Damn this silent world that failed us
I haven't been able to sleep for more than a year, and even painkillers didn't help. what can i do? What is the end of my life?😓

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Salwa was a business student in her third year at the University in Gaza before the school was destroyed. As you can see she is also a talented artist. Now Salwa's art shows us how their lives have been diminished, how harm creeps even into acts of survival. Please help if you can.

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Salwa's family needs all the help you can offer. They deserve to have full lives, not lives reduced to mere subsistence by fear and famine. Please share and help if you can.

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Salwa's family needs all the help you can offer. They deserve to have full lives, not lives reduced to mere subsistence by fear and famine. Please share and help if you can.

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Billy Joel should be forced to keep adding verses to that start the fire song recapping current events every week until he just expires like that nun katy perry killed

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Something tells me the Millstone Report with Paul Harrell is overselling itself a smidge

Post claiming (in all caps)
MILLSTONE REPORT IS HIGH QUALITY CONTENT ALWAYS. MILLSTONE REPORT IS AN EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT SHOW. MILLSTONE REPORT IS JOURNALISM GREATNESS.
Then there's a pic of a really self-serious looking bearded dude next to an electoral map and a big banner that reads TRUMP LEADS IN SWING STATES

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I am in awe of Palestinians' caapcity to turn even the most unbearable horrors into poetry.

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meave (frown) @meave.nyc · 02/11/2024

it's clearly discrimination, and i'd love to know why @mohammedahmed.bsky.social is being singled out. thanks to everyone who has become mohamed's friend and supporter; without you, he wouldn't be able to spend saturday scouring the markets for winter jeans for abdullah. #GazaGFM gofund.me/9344a758

abdullah, a small boy wearing a blue and black t-shirt and olive sweatpants, casually leans against the side of the tin-and-wood outbuilding his father and uncle constructed for them to live. he has brown skin and short dark brown hair, big brown eyes, and is barefoot, smiling at the camera, holding something I can't identify. near him is a pair of adult's sandals, and in the background you can see a couple of water jugs and fabric handing on lines.

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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

It is WILD to me that Jacob Frey would rather break laws, imperil children, and turn the city into a fortress of rubble, jersey barriers, razor wire, and tall fences than house people.

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Spoopy Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 01/11/2024

Obviously this is anti-homeless but it *has* to be an ADA violation too and it's fucking unsafe for everyone

Fencing blocking the space under a bridge, including the sidewalk

Under the bridge, a person walking on the road because the sidewalk is blocked off

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Dominique Marks @dominiqmarks.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Fedaa's account has also recently been arbitrarily pulled from Bluesky. She is a pediatrician still struggling to help others in Gaza. Please (re)follow her, share and donate to help her family survive.🙏🍉

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Help Rawan from North Gaza 🇵🇸 @rawangaza.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

URGENT‼️ Donations have completely stopped. What can I tell Rawan when she tells me she wants to give up? She still can't afford winter clothes. She still has rent to pay. Please help her, share widely and donate even just $5 🙏 gofund.me/0e15bc15 #Gaza #NotSpam #MutualAid #Palestine #GFM

Screenshot from the campaign showing that the last donation was two days ago.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 01/11/2024

I spent over a year on this project about what police actually do in schools by collecting dispatch calls to school addresses across California. It did not get the attention I was hoping for.

edsource.org

Calling the cops: Policing in California schools

An EdSource investigation of school policing reveals the vast presence of police in California.

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🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo @garb0.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Please listen to Gazans. There is no malice here. I do not understand why Bluesky asked this man for his government-issued ID -- props to Bluesky for recognizing PA documents, I suppose -- and I do not understand why his accounts keep being closed. He just wants to stay in touch with his friends.

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