Reposted by ZanneWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250 517278286366
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Reposted by ZanneDon Isaacs @donisaacs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I understand Freedom of Speech. But any federal official, especially the president, who claims without proof that elections, the bedrock of democracy, are rigged should be impeached. 1833314689
Reposted by ZanneGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/06/2026"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."theguardian.comThe era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel ZucmanThere is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power 56996713931
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Reposted by ZanneJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting. 63148734746
Reposted by Zannedr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 11/06/2026the US president, with the explicit support of the US legislature and the US supreme court, is stealing billions of dollars in thousands of ways. meanwhile the NYT is on the case of whether, when mamdani paid a thousand dollars for a knicks ticket out of his own pocket, he got a ticket for VIPs 242619488
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Reposted by ZanneDigital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 07/06/202610/ This is not local news. It is a data collection arm of one political party, bankrolled by dark money, pointed at any private citizen who dares to speak up. Learn these names. Metric Media. Uihlein. DonorsTrust. Judicial Watch. Share this. Eyes open. 57337
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Reposted by ZanneStephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 04/06/2026🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's the short version. 1/9 1/10doi.orgThe architecture of the internet creates risks for democracyWill democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led. 611254
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Zanne @kennazus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Wapo steers its legendary investigative rigor into the beating heart of the zeitgeist. 020
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Reposted by ZanneAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/03/2026Six months before this war, Donald Trump fired the experts who modeled Hormuz shutdowns, managed energy diplomacy, and coordinated with global oil markets. Now we’re in a crisis we once had the capacity to manage, and no one’s left to manage it. We weren’t blindsided. We were unprepared on purpose.andrewweinstein.substack.comThe Myth of America FirstHow Donald Trump’s Retreat from Expertise Made the Iran Conflict Far More Dangerous 18319127
Reposted by Zannedell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me. 509143763274
Reposted by ZanneIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally? 481144623519
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Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
DOGE has a very obvious feedback mechanism for its cuts.
If DOGE makes a big, broad cut against a million programs, people get upset about a few specific, very good ones like PEPFAR, and then that program comes back because DOGE's members are, thus, informed it was good.
Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
I can only hope people realizing this won't damage the mechanism, because it's still useful to have professionals getting mad about some very good thing getting cut before it's brought back online as a result.
In a word, DOGE is responsive, which is unusual for the government!
Stuart Buck
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Feb 15, 2025
I agree, but it would be more efficient to spend one hour ahead of time talking to experts or just reading up on the history of a program for [disease, student testing, nuclear safety, etc.]
Plus, some programs don't have famous proponents with time to dig into the weeds.
Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
I'm highly sympathetic, but there really are thousands and thousands of programs and grants to cut, so I'm not sure the small team doing the cuts has the ability to go through them all one-by-one on their short timeline.
Maybe a system can be developed to assist with feedback.
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Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://theatlantic.com/science/archiv
e/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
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Stuart Buck
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Feb 15, 2025
I can see the DOGE tweet: "We canceled a contract for Panamanian screwworms, saving $165 million dollars!!!" [https://aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-an
nouncements/usda-approves-emergency-funding-protect-us…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/bafkreih3ferjvpo53fmioc3sf2qadxltbmisl74luq2ydhxvpxbh3qf3ei)
