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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Washington Update at Educause was surreal. Concise, informative, relevant … and yet surreal. #EDU26

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Be careful what you ask for

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Steve Roth @steveroth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rich people just sit on their wealth like Smaug the Dragon, don't turn it over in spend which causes production which creates more wealth... Updating this year-old post with recent Velocity of Wealth numbers. Using somewhat different measures but the story’s the same. Graph/data link in reply. ⬇️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone sponsored beautiful memorials for Eliana, George, and the three other men killed in the dual accidents last week. My family and I stopped by with flowers to pay our respects.

Portraits of Edy Gutiérrez Mejia, Eliana Moreno, and George Marciniw, wreathed in white roses, hang on a fence near where news reporter Eliana and pilot George’s helicopter went down. Bouquets and candles cover the sidewalk below.

Portraits of Daniel Castillo and Gage Weida, wreathed in white roses and decorated with tokens and notes, hang from the stoplight pole on the corner of the intersection where a car struck a bus. Bouquets and candles cover the sidewalk below.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 20/09/2026

Don't forget the $166,000,000,000 in tariffs that Americans paid that are going back to corporations. That's a wealth transfer the size of annual GDP of Slovakia, straight out of the pockets of working people. www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

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Who gets tariff refunds? What to know about CAPE tariff refund portal

Who gets tariff refunds? Here's what to know about Trump's dividend stimulus check 2026, how to claim in tariff refund portal and who is eligible.

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DisheveldYoshi @disheveledyoshi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you are surprised Americans are more racists than socialist, I really think you need to radically re-examine your view of America

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I block people for me, not for them. Not just here. Blocking removes any temptation to engage in the short term, and makes my social media experience more pleasant in the long term.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So, my husband’s child’s mother is abusive, to all of us, but you can’t leave a co-parenting relationship. So. “Was [event/statement] Trump or your ex?” is a regular sort of game at our house.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know that lots of places have news helicopters. But the way Los Angeles functions, our helicopter news teams are part of our daily lives. My heart is with these journalists and pilots and their families tonight.

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Pretti Good Ferrerman @ferrerman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Republicans really put the cult in culture.

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Senator L Louise Lucas @momalou.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years later, we remember. May the memory of September 11th continue to call us toward service, compassion, and unity. #NeverForget

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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Benjamin Slyngstad @slyngstad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He’s telling you exactly what he thinks of their sacrifice.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Donald Trump called the deaths of these 18 Americans in his stupid, pointless war with Iran "small potatoes." Say that to their families, you evil slob.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/09/2026

The United States practices "one man, one vote", but some votes are worth more than others. That is fundamentally a rigged playing field that needs to be rectified in Reconstruction 3.0. No more special treatment for rural white MAGA people who depend on urban liberal handouts

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026

the good thing about Bluesky and authoritarian-era insomnia is you learn a lot about the UK

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For all the people commenting about ballot drop boxes and hand delivery — we have to receive our ballots first. This prevents us from ever getting our ballots. Can’t return what we don’t have.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 31/08/2026

Nothing captures modern inequality quite like billionaires needing private backyard helipads to avoid navigating the same traffic as the people financing their eggs in four easy installments.

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Miami’s Wealthy Are Beating the Traffic With Helipads and Private Docks

Rooftop helipads and deepwater docks have become prized amenities in the Florida city, which ranks as one of America’s most traffic-congested cities.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Like, I get the point that underlies his blather, and I’m all in to do something about it — but they’re not. Let’s make sure that: Working people have livable wages, stable hours, time off, and can afford to live near their jobs. People who can’t work still have housing, quality food, etc. 1/x

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

No New Data Centers It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I wish as many people as possible knew their country’s sign language — that we all learn both the predominant spoken/written language /and/ the signed language as the default.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just watched Councilmember Raman’s impromptu press conference on KTLA and I do not like their framing. As someone without political connections, I do not want to live in a city where we get things done if you can call someone who can call the mayor. I want city services to just work, for everyone.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Texas, the state that wants its abortion laws to be honored across the other 49 states, that Texas now does not honor an extradition request?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

Our whole digital world has been wrapped in chains by rent-extracting monopolists who gloried in their power to use hook IP to deprive you of the right to use your property in ways you see fit, writing private laws that made it a crime to displease them. 87/

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What was that about raking our forests? Just California bailing out the feds, again.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 19/08/2026

Good morning to this beautiful #longchart showing DoD funding versus a bunch of other agencies. We're investigating the Pentagon's $1 trillion "black box" budget: www.propublica.org/article/mili...

A screenshot of the top of an article, showing a headline of "The $1 Trillion Black Box," framed by a downward-facing bar chart showing the DoD appropriations against agencies like the EPA. The bar goes to $1 trillion, with an extension to 1.4 trillion showing a proposed increase next year.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/08/2026

"Tesla, in a sense, has proven itself not just stronger than the union, and not just stronger than the Swedish labor movement, but stronger than the nation of Sweden itself." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/corporate-...

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Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity

A failed Tesla strike in Sweden is a flashing warning light.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In #LosAngeles we get together to dance to our neighbors’ music: reggaeton, cumbia, afrobeats, Bollywood, and more. #DanceDTLA

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/08/2026

The older I get, the more clear it is that all our safety and well-being is intertwined. The same forces pushing racism are targeting trans people and immiserating the disabled and extracting everything they can from all of us. We gotta stand up for everyone because everyone is all of us.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Okay but also 787,214 primary votes total statewide? Los Angeles alone had 673,713 votes just for one (leading) candidate (with 38% turnout). We have GOT to fix this system so votes in California count as much as votes in less populated states. results.lavote.gov#year=2026&el...

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Election Results

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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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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Two Star Trek officers (Dr. Paul Stamets and Dr. Hugh Culber) embrace in Dr. Stamets’ spore drive laboratory.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We’re not talking enough about how the people writing MAGA policies view human beings as a commodity. Immigrants are a commodity for private prison owners. People with disabilities are a commodity for care facility owners. As Dr. H. Cox Richardson says, “follow the money.”

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Any which way they can stop our votes (and Trump *hates* California).

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have an 18yo who only learned about diseases like Ebola in the last few years. At the time I was able to reassure her that the U.S. government had agencies, staff, procedures, resources, both to assist the affected countries and to protect us here. What do I tell her now?

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The authorities in Wales have been taking steps to preserve the nation's remaining peat bogs - a vital carbon store. But now, climate change, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is turning the land itself into fuel.

A photo of heather-covered moorland stretching into the distance.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you’re near (or can get to) Los Angeles, don’t miss Brent Charles as Coriolanus. Free in Griffith Park through July 26. #IndieShakes #ShakespeareSetFree

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Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AGAIN until this sinks in

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The man on the left welcomed the Getty photographer who took this shot on July 4. He provided “some comfort to me in a way that I know there’s somebody else there, but most importantly, someone who’s documenting it. It gave me a sense of protection.” My CJR piece here www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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