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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What's up NYC renters???? About half of you have a 0% increase for the next two years on your next lease renewal. Woot!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/09/2026
Shhhh Sneak preview of @beckbook.com's exegesis on Philip K. Dick Don't tell my editor 🤫 beckbook.com
THE LAST TEMPTATION oF BECK

Dick and Hubbard--two more different science fictior writers Can
scarcely be imagined. And yet, both claimed to have received visions, to
have been granted prophecy.

What do you do if God speaks to you? What do you do once you've
glimpsed the ultimate Truth?

Dick died in 1982, never having come to a conclusion about what had
happened to him. He left a record of what hed experienced, but left it to
his readers to form their own opinions. His work remains in print: no
church has declared it to be scripture.

That said: Dick did, in fact, invent a religion. It's in his novel Do An-
droids Dream of Electric Sheep? (later the loose inspiration for the film
Blade Runner). In the world of the novel, a new faith emerges after a
nuclear apocalypse. Its adherents call it Mercerism

Mercerism's practices revolve around a machine-the "empathy box"--
that one has to interface with by holding two handles. It bears an uncanny
resemblance to an E-meter. But this fictional device doesn't measure your
emotions: it stokes them

When you grasp the handles of the empathy box, you suddenly feel as
though you are a man named Wilbur Mercer, who is climbing up a
treacherous hill, only to be pelted with rocks by mysterious and evil fig
ures in your periphery. People use the machine to experience Mercer's
physical and emotional pain-as well as the emotions of all the other
worshippers using an empathy box at that moment.

In real life, this is what art does. It's what art is for. Art, at its best.
makes other people real to you. It gives you a glimpse into something
outside yourself, but just as real as you are, It's proof that we're not sur-
rounded by automatons
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@josie.zone now you’re in Apple News Top stories! While trending stories has some algorithmic link to what I read these are selected by Apple News editors (and a lot eventually make it to the Apple News+ narrated podcast)
Apple News top stories including Josie’s excerpt from her Beck book
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Idc what my district wants - did someone tell you we live in a representational democracy and we’re supposed to represent our constituents? lol nah
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This fucking state of emergency has ruined business at my brother’s restaurant this weekend. It did like 20% of its normal Saturday business
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@josie.zone I hope you’re still awake because look at #5 in my Apple News Trending stories
Trending stories on Apple News home page, most importantly #5  my friend @josie.zone excerpt from her upcoming book on Beck
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
guess god frowns upon genocide apologists
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just read Rules for Aging and Larceny by Julia London and strongly recommend! It legit had me giggling so much that someone on a plane asked me what I was reading. It's a story about a bunch of old women who were part of a gang decades ago. They fell out and are now reuniting for one last heist
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is incredibly weird that this man thinks he controls naming rights to literally everything in the world
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/09/2026
FOLKS SOMETHING HUGE IS COMING I HAVE PRODUCED A "SOUNDTRACK" ALBUM FOR @beckbook.com, OF NEW MUSIC BY AMAZING ARTISTS I GAVE THEM ADVANCE COPIES OF THE BOOK; THEY GAVE ME BANGER TRACKS "𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒" DROPS OCT. 6, BUT YOU CAN PREORDER NOW — AND STREAM @lustytirefire.bsky.social's "ℙ𝔸ℝ𝔸𝕄𝕆𝕌ℝ"!!!
afewgoodrecords.bandcamp.com
Loser Babies: Music Inspired by Josephine Riesman's "The Last Temptation of Beck", by A Few Good Records
11 track album
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes.
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also investigating how they faked the Apollo moon landing
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.”
Ms. Rachel Instagram:

“I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.
Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.
We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”
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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Okay SURVEY TIME!! When you were growing up, and you had a quiz graded, if an answer you gave had a check next to it ✔️ Was it because it was right or wrong? And where were you?
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
going to be annoying and note that apple news bundles a like almost all of the premium magazines and newspapers
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m having my teeth whitened for my nephew’s wedding and I just paid for it and I’m still not 100% sure I believe it will work
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
many states, including California, also have an option to drop your ballot off directly at a elections office dropbox or election center and avoid USPS on the way back all together, which I'd recommend if possible.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 15/09/2026
I’m not interested in men in sports journalism writing or talking about this if they aren’t going to directly address men and misogyny in sports journalism.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
cool how kash patel is Very Concerned about potential fbi recruits having been “forced into” beastiality as the epstein files sit collecting dust
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
if it wasn’t ab him saying free Palestine but other unnamed parts of what he said that was so scary to Pink and Kraft and Ed maybe they should specifically say what he said that was so offensive (nothing at all). He’s not out there glorifying Hamas he called a genocide a genocide oooooh so scary
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When the Democratic presidential primaries start, there will be a lane for this and, if the winner decides to embrace it -- as they absolutely should -- then it will become a real issue. But barring a change in direction from congressional Democrats, not a second before then.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026
Weija Jiang should clearly be grilled at every single moment about her close relationship with notorious racist and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
Weija Jiang leans close to Trump, chatting with him at the White House Correspondents dinner. Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Seriously though are Republicans ever asked about Musk’s support in tandem with quoting his most racist or anti-Semitic tweets?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026
Now is a good time for you to sign the petition demanding that the criminal who conspired to endanger first responders, and supported insurrection and election denial, be prohibited from attending 9/11 observances and disrespecting survivors and the city: c.org/DWLWktyGcj
c.org
Sign the Petition
Ban Rudy Giuliani from 9/11 observances
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m 2 1/2 weeks into a broken foot and no matter what I do I cannot get comfortable for more than a half hour at a time and I hate this so fucking much it makes me want to scream and cry at the same time. Truly envy babies
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[goose meme] who’s surprised WHO’S FUKKIN SURPRISED
Top Stories
NBC NEWS
Sen. John Fetterman makes a surprise cameo praising Republicans at the GOP convention
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
...given who is apparently funding many of these anti-trans campaigns, Dems should TURN EVERY SINGLE TRANS-RELATED QUESTION they receive into a REFERENDUM ON MUSK, his bigotry, & unregulated billionaire contributions to elections. make your GOP opponents defend that! www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
advocate.com
Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026
Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This man was in midtown doing a tv spot on 9/11 bragging that his building was now the biggest in Manhattan so he can go fuck right the fuck off. The goddamn nerve of this motherfucker and his stolen valor
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’ll never take that for granted — and none of us should. This Labor Day, thank you to every worker, organizer, and union member who keeps this country running and keeps the fight moving forward. Solidarity forever. ✊
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If Obi Wan and Bail wanted to hide the twins, why leave Luke with Anakin’s fam on Tatooine & Leia with the leader of the Resistance who was friends w Anakin? And how did it take Vader 20 years to find them in the most obvious “hiding” places ever. Also wtf did Padme see in that whiny bitch
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m about halfway through Season 6 of my DS9 rewatch and already preemptively mad about Dax. The lady just wanted to do fewer episodes and who could blame her? They were doing 26 episodes a season back then who wouldn’t get burned out
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m at a specialist for my broken foot and these girls at reception just do not give a shit that I’m on crutches. The door is on a slight incline from the street and they watch me try to open it and don’t move and then they have me standing at their reception for decades while they check me in
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Had to make it up to the street then cross the street on my crutches and fuck I feel like I’m dying
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m using these crutches and feeling like such a fucking wimp and my arms and whole body hurts but I put them in the car and see this. This girl is 5’6” tall. I knew they were too big but I didn’t realize how big too big jfc
Label on crutches that says “approximate patient height” and the shortest height is 5’10”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face
Screenshotted excerpt from a conversation transcript, reading as follows

Cottle: My guess is that you then completely reject the idea that we wound up with this wretched administration in part because of the backlash to the excesses of woke, especially alienating young men, who were told they were the problem, just generally speaking.

Bouie: [this line is highlighted] I completely reject that for simple reasons of linear time. This administration was elected in 2024. At peak woke, when Nancy Pelosi was wearing kente cloth, Democrats won a trifecta, right? At the--
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Katie @katiek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My dad had two bracelets he wore all the time - one a silver ID bracelet which was a gift fr my mom when they were dating and a gold link bracelet. My nephew is getting married next month and I had them made in to cufflinks for him and his brother and they came out so good I want to cry
A pair of gold and silver cufflinks: Gold link entwined with silver link with gold link cufflinks held on four fingers
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.
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