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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Like being visited from the ghost of tummy trubs past.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Holy sh*t, THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The classism & obscene hypocrisy is truly mind boggling

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My favorite part is when Brooke Rollins says, "Don't be rude" as she's trying to defend cutting food benefits for children. Truly MAGA in a nutshell: They get to be horrible people and then act offended when someone criticizes them.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 04/06/2026

"One big reason that consumer spending hasn’t tanked is that the richest, we’re-doing-just-fine 10% of Americans account for nearly half of all consumer spending," writes @greenhousenyt.bsky.social.

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Trump has made our K-shaped economy even worse | Steven Greenhouse

While wealthy Americans hail a booming stock market, the rest of us worry about rising inflation and people struggling to make ends meet

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I never get over being disgusted by their insane greed. These companies are literally *choosing* to pay the people that make the company a success as little as possible so they can shift the $$ that should’ve gone to wages over to corp profits & exec pay. It’s sickening & something’s gotta change.

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Median pay for CEOs rose nearly 6% in 2025, but some compensation packages were eye-popping

The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for bigger profits and higher stock prices, and gave them incentives to st...

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“It validates to me how absolutely unqualified & inept these people in C-suite positions are that they need a machine/robot to validate their opinions bc they have no real POV and strategy themselves." www.milkkarten.net/p/boss-obses... @milkkarten.bsky.social

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A federal appeals court just blocked abortion pill access via mail & telehealth—nationwide. Not just in ban states. Everywhere.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

DC, Maryland, Virginia

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The Middle Out Center @middleoutcenter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A new report from @ips-dc.org looks at the 20 largest low-wage employers in the U.S. Together, they employ ~6.7 million workers. 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 of them are paying less in real terms than they did five years ago.

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America’s 20 Largest Low-Wage Employers and the Affordability Crisis

Low wages are a key driver of the affordability crisis. These 20 firms pay poverty wages while enriching CEOs.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Hung Cao—who compared abortion to the Holocaust on the campaign trail and claimed combat injuries with no documentation—just became Acting Secretary of the Navy. This is what the collapse of institutional standards looks like in real time.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Anyone else freaked out about Virginia… ughhhhh I knew it was probably going to be a nail biter but still #VoteYesVirginia

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Whewww this article on ADHD, hormones and women being diagnosed later in life hits home. “I feel like my whole life could have been different" www.thecut.com/article/surg...

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They Thought It Was Burnout or Aging. It Was ADHD.

A wave of midlife diagnoses in women is revealing the disorder’s hormonal link.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“When insurance, gas, repairs & maintenance are included, the total cost of owning a vehicle has risen more than 40% since January 2020." Cool cool cool so now we can’t afford houses OR cars www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/b...

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‘It’s Just Crazy’: High Car Payments Make Ownership Feel Impossible

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

“Research shows that banks led by women were less likely to fail during the financial crisis, and companies with more women directors experience less financial distress.” Didn’t really need a study to know this would be true but I’ll take it! theconversation.com/are-women-bo...

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Are women board members risk averse or agents of innovation? It’s complicated, new research shows

The effect of women board members on patent activity hinges on whether the company is meeting performance targets.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Ok this is HORRIFYING & also utterly & totally preventable.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Voters wrongly blame our gov. for inflation but largely take personal responsibility for their wages...when it should really be the opposite. If typical workers' pay had kept pace with productivity over the last 45 yrs, our paychecks would be ~40% larger today.

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Opinion | Everyone is talking about affordability – and making the same mistake

"As lawmakers grapple with the cost of living, they need to remind Americans – again and again – that pay is a policy choice," Heidi Shierholz writes.

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/10/2025

If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com · 10/10/2025

Pretty sure we’re living one

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Are you f*cking KIDDING ME. How are we back here again?!! jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

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Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion

Abortion *is* a big tent issue

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 16/09/2025

Tech giants have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer in the name of “progress”- but this new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social reveals just how much the opposite of that is happening in Southern communities: mediajustice.org/resource/the...

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The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South - MediaJustice

Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer, and data centers are expected to pass total US consumer spending as...

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This is so fucking frustrating. In aftermath of an act that was sooo preventable, so horrible & so unnecessary, THIS is where rightwingers are landing?! How can my brain even register surprise over sh*t like this. You’d think I’d be numb to it now but I just…am not.

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In today’s Senate Commerce Hearing the White House endorsed support for federal preemption of state AI laws. The fight against preemption did not disappear with the moratorium—in fact, Sen. Cruz introduced a bill today putting us directly on the path to preemption. A thread on its risks below: 🧵

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This is really valuable advice on how to feel—and what do —about the the giant shifts in organic traffic many of us who work in digital have been noticing: www.orbitmedia.com/blog/zero-cl...

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Zero Click Marketing? The Truth About Search Traffic in 9 Charts | Orbit Media Studios

Zero-click searches are from zero-intent searchers. They just want a quick answer. Here's the truth about search traffic in nine charts...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2025

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

For when Trump tries to claim that hardly anyone turned out to #FreeDC today

Thousands stream down the streets of DC on 9/6/25 to protest Trump’s military occupation of our city

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Of the 4 most numerous jobs that AI is set to replace – marketing analysts, customer service reps, sales reps & biz analysts – none of them are unionized. That's not a coincidence. And it highlights a critical vulnerability in how workers are positioned to respond to AI-driven job displacement.

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Women make amazing leaders. Happy to see forward momentum with upcoming gubernatorial races (well, the Dem-leaning ones, anyway!) thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Super super smart (per usual) by @espiers.bsky.social, per usual on the problem with Democratic media efforts. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...

So what are the solutions? Well, reverse engineer everything above. Find people who know how to build organic audiences--lots of people, not just one or two. Fund them, and fund them well. Don't make them jump through 50 hoops over the course of 12 months to get a $50,000 check. That is useless, it wastes their time, and they can't do anything useful with it.

Drive the car like you stole it. Be aggressive, fast, generous and ratchet up your fault tolerance. Understand that in order to be effective you are going to have to build a media ecosystem that holds contradictions and is representative of the Democratic populace, not some imaginary median voter who everyone assumes is a platonic centrist (despite evidence to the contrary, which is another post.) There are lots of different kinds of Democrats. There should not be a monolithic template for talking to them and if Dems try to force all of these efforts into one, they will end up talking to no one.

Learn the difference between bad and good content, and not by message testing or doing paid spend it but by putting it in front of audiences and seeing what works organically. (People also use really shitty metrics to decide whether something is having political impact, but that's a whole other post too. I could write a treatise on why ad performance on meta as a metric is stupid but this is already running long.)

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

“Your hairdresser has to deal with more regulation than your AI company does." We're letting maybe 10 people shape humanity's future with zero public input. No oversight or accountability. Just billionaires in boardrooms deciding our technological destiny. If that doesn't scare you, it should.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2025

"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time

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Kate Thomas @katethomas.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Emory is my alma mater and I couldn't agree more -- IT IS INDEED THE FUCKING GUNS.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Me three months ago:

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