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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 21h

It’s the Billionaires versus the rest of us. Photo from @thetnholler.bsky.social

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dems: It’s always stronger to stand up for your beliefs than to modulate to appease an audience. People like strong in politics. Even if they disagree with you, they’ll respect you more for being forthright. The best approach is to acknowledge areas of disagreement and pivot to areas of overlap.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/09/2026

3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Republicans know they're deeply unpopular and can only win by cheating, so they're trying to keep people from voting. Check your registration regularly! 🗳️✅

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/08/2026

When Trump is finally defeated, remember that the hangers-on and the ghouls surrounding him, the JD Vances of the world, will all claim that they were trying to moderate his evil and they should be thanked. And we need to remember that this is a lie. They were willing to do anything for power.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Ninguém solta a mão de ninguém" (No one lets go of anyone's hand.) -Brazilian rallying cry to defeat Bolsonaro. Authoritarians feed on getting us to blame some "other" when, in fact, they are the ones destroying us all in order to serve their billionaire backers.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don't need you to like me. I need you to like YOU.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Most Democrats today have little conception or memory of how bold the party was before Reagan. I give you the 1972 Democratic Party platform’s full-throated endorsement of federally administered, nationalized healthcare. The party dropped that, pivoting to “universal” coverage—without the teeth.

Establish a system of universal National Health Insurance which covers all Americans with a comprehensive set of benefits including preventive medicine, mental and emotional disorders, and complete protection against catastrophic costs, and in which the rule of free choice for both provider and consumer is protected. The program should be federally-financed and federally-administered.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is an insane bit of dialogue

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Amazing that when mainstream Democrats lose to Republicans - who peddle lies, sow fear & weaponize social media - lesson is Dems must change their policy priorities & messages but when mainstream Dems lose to socialists lesson is waaahhhhh no fair.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The party leadership hates Zohran because he’s Muslim and antizionist, to be sure — but the real reason he’s so dangerous to them is because he reminds voters that elected officials are supposed to make your life better, and half the time it’s not even that hard for them to do it

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/06/2026

Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."

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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Imagine you had so much food in your house that, no matter have hard they tried, your family couldn't possibly eat it. Then, imagine what would happen if you continued to buy and hoard more food, filling cupboard after cupboard. You'd be considered mentally ill Why is this never applied to money?

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Cartoon by Steve Breen

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 31/05/2026

We do not help men when we emotionally stunt them

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited. How wrong I was. Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this. Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up. janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...

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Industry: from hard-to-abate to ready-to-electrify

How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

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Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall

Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We must face the truth of what this regime is doing: holding civilians captive without due process. There has been done across places and centuries and it has a name: concentration camps.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

A picture of a man inside the Capitol rotunda on January 6 2021. He is wearing full camo tactical gear, masked, carrying zip ties and climbing over a bannister in the gallery

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One of the Democrats’ biggest shortcomings is their failure to take victory laps. They move on to the next thing before voters understand how the ACA will help or is helping them, understand how the IRA expands prescription drug affordability. Most voters are low info. We need to connect the dots.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“Nearly half (48.6%) of investigators with equity-related terminations were BIPOC and 60.0% of investigators with gender-related terminations were SGM… 20.5% of investigators with institutional terminations (for purported antisemitism) were Jewish.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Targeted termination of scientific grants and minoritised researcher status in a national survey: a cross sectional analysis

Grant terminations targeting health research for BIPOC and SGM communities have disproportionately targeted the careers of BIPOC, SGM, and female researchers and researchers from disadvantaged backgro...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 04/05/2026

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The stated cost of the Iran war ($25 billion so far) now exceeds the 2024 annual budget for USAID ($22 billion). What better summary of current US foreign policy? Trump and Elon left hundreds of thousands left to die of preventable illnesses, and spent the money on a pointless war of choice.

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What $25 Billion Spent on the War in Iran Really Means (Gift Article)

It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies, and the Pentagon’s yearly budget for munitions.

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