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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 13/06/2026
So basically taxpayers are paying to build these stadiums, but they don’t own the stadium, AND they can’t even afford to purchase tickets to go watch games due to poverty wages. Billionaires are socializing the cost to do business, but then privatizing the profits… ok.
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 10/06/2026
UPDATE + we get to celebrate a win: Yesterday the U.S. House PASSED the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would make it easier for workers to secure a first union contract without unnecessary delay. 🎉
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U.S. House could soon pass legislation making it easier for workers to secure a first union contract
Update: The U.S. House passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act on June 9.  Over the last five years, workers have won unions in several high-profile campaigns, including Amazon workers in Staten Island ...
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trump again WASTED millions of our tax dollars to attend the Knicks game; made tens of 1000s of fans wait hours in security lines, and destroyed watch parties for tens of 1000s more - all to make himself appear “a winner”. Then, the pig slept through most of the game, and never even knew the score.
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Chip Franklin Just Did It To Trump AGAIN
YouTube video by Really American
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khefty.bsky.social @khefty.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
From those radicals at Forbes magazine
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Still not on either the NYT or WaPo homepages: Trump: "I love inflation"
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 11/06/2026
In a matter of days, working people in Oklahoma will head to the ballot box to win a historic minimum wage increase for almost 358,000 Oklahomans! That’s more than 20% of the state's wage-earning workforce. It’s time to make our voices heard on #ElectionDay!
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More than 350,000 Oklahoma workers will get a raise if voters approve a $15 minimum wage this summer
This June, Oklahoma voters will have the opportunity to pass a historic minimum wage ballot initiative that would boost workers’ wages at a time when many are struggling with growing affordability cha...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2026
BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on J6? TRAYNOR: The actions on January 6 were deeply troubling to watch, but I'm not going to characterize it B: You are perpetuating a lie. I don't know how you can continue as a district court judge, let alone serve on court of appeals. Frankly it's shameful.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2026
WHITESIDES: The truth is the cheapest form of energy on a per unit basis is daytime solar. Is that not true? CHRIS WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No it doesn't depend! It's true. You are amazingly misleading the American public. WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No!
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khefty.bsky.social @khefty.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The nerve of some people
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The elite say that we have infinite money for the military but not enough to pay workers' Social Security benefits deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-social...
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The Social Security Shortfall and Trump’s Big Military Budget
The elites tell us their is infinite money for the military, but not enough for Social Security
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khefty.bsky.social @khefty.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is excellent legislation and here’s an explanation why
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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Damn
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trump’s DOJ drastically increased the number of criminal cases to drop, especially the types of crimes Trump has been accused of: Labor violations +129% National security +93% Organized crime +86% White collar crime +59% Corruption +32% Civil rights +17%
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
No one should be forced into crippling debt because they need healthcare. Medicare for All is the fiscally and morally responsible solution to our broken, corporate greed-driven healthcare system. www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic...
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The GoFundMe For James Van Der Beek's Family Is A Depressing Look At US Healthcare
"The costs of James’s medical care and the extended fight against cancer have left the family out of funds."
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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“For the past year, FIFA has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
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A Yearslong Effort to Woo Trump Culminates With the World Cup
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Halie Soifer @haliesoifer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Two-thirds of Americans believe Trump has "gone too far" with ICE. The cruelty & extremism is out of control. Our new ad features Joe Rogan asking "Are we really going to be the Gestapo?...Is that what we've come to?" Check it out & share.
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(Wes)tern democracy👨🏻🗳️🌐 @midwestache.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Well-worth reading the entire thing!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
You can feel the momentum building. More people are getting involved, and we’re not slowing down. Tomorrow, there will be more of us.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Unions are working-class power. Period. That’s why Trump has cut 300,000 federal jobs and stripped collective bargaining from over a million workers. If he can silence the people who keep the country running, he thinks he can silence all of us. Not happening. #UnionsForAll
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Congratulations to the judges of the 8th circuit. ICE got your message loud and clear.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2026
things are bad! (gift link)
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Dear Jonas’ Letter Is No Prize
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Looks like momentum for Friday's general strike against ICE is growing paydayreport.com/minneap/?ref...
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MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 43 Cities Across U.S.
At least 43 cities plan to hold actions in solidarity with the Minneapolis General Strike
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Joe @joealv.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/01/2026
The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”
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MINNEAPOLIS: Border Patrol agents warn two white women in separate SUVs to stop trailing them and not to impede. 'Dont make a bad decision today..."
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
And yet they didn't cave bsky.app/profile/john...
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Tearing families apart doesn’t create jobs. Destroying communities doesn’t lower the price of groceries. Mass deportations only hurt our country AND our economy. #ImmigrantsAreEssential www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump vows to slam America’s doors shut as he heaps scorn on immigrants
National guard shooting prompts extraordinary outburst and targeting of people from startling range of countries
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/08/2025
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
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Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This op-ed summarizes much of this thread www.ms.now/opinion/infl.... 17/
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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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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Trump’s echo chamber: Very little U.S travel No rallies or contact with supporters Right-wing media Dinners with rich donors and billionaires Truth Social Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🧵 Households with at least one disabled person experience food insecurity at 2X the rate of those without. And this is “a very conservative estimate,” says CEPR’s @hcbrown.bsky.social. #SNAP cuts would only compound this issue, leaving millions hungry. 
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SNAP benefits are a ‘lifeline’ — especially for people with disabilities
For those with disabilities who rely on the aid, its uncertainty threatens not just nutrition, but independence.
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khefty.bsky.social @khefty.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Manufactured or not - people bitching about high prices is real. And now biting Trump in the ass
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Tired: Trumponomics Wired: Look-A-Squirrel!-onomics
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 26/11/2025
"At the state level, this is one example of a way we are helping to make progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but with a solution that can help people take control of their energy costs,” mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/22/n...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Has Elon the clown ever said the truth about anything?
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Government-granted patent monopolies make drugs expensive. Trump RX will not change that fact deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-rx-t...
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Trump RX: The Merger of Pharma Corruption and Trump Crazy
Governments make drugs expensive with patents; Trump will not change that
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back. He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Trump's anti-DEI crusade hit healthcare when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, under Dr. Mehmet Oz, removed race questions from its kidney failure patient form. The problem is, those questions weren't about DEI. That data informed actual medical breakthroughs talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
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The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Here is another way of looking at state percent Southern Baptist and death rates, measured here as state total population life expectancy. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
First here is a context to understand what  the  predicted state life expectancy for hypothetical states with 0% and 100%f it in our CIA's ranking of countries in the CIA World Fact Book life expectancy table:			
Predicted life expectancy at zero percent Southern Baptist is 80.3.
Here is the CIA data line :

Rank.     Country.   Life Exp.  Data source.			
55		Chile	80.3	2024 est.

The predicted  life expectancy at 100% percent Southern Baptist is 72.2, halfway between:

Rank.      Country	Life Exp. Data source	
164		Russia	72.3	2024 est.
165		Togo	72.1	        2024 est.
 
If you look at the dot for Mississippi, you will see that it is not all the way to the predicted 100%, it is right at 70% and has a life expectancy of 75.

Anyway the scatter plot gives you a sense of where each state stands. The important thing to see is that the states with small  Southern Baptist populations are generally clustered up at. the high life expectancy end while. the increase. in percent Southern Baptist flows right. along. the line showing a lower and flower life expectancy as percent Southern Baptist increases. 

Here are the regression statistics:
r	-0.89
b 	-0.08
a	80.30

Here is a general description of what I think is the root cause this relationship between percent Southern Baptist and death rates:

Back when Obama Care was passed, it included a provision to allow religious groups to offer their own health care.  I can find no data the level they substitute prayer for health  care.  However,  I live in rural Alabama, see that AL dot on the graph, and I find relying on prayer for health care is not rare around here. That is why I put together the data to produce the. above graph.

The limitation is that this includes no control variables. I don't have room to include a total multivariate analysis but when I started with several variables and whittled the down with multiple regression, percent smoking cigarettes was strongest, this was second and percent uninsured was third.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 09/10/2025
Conservative legit think we have to put boards up to prevent the lawless mobs from ransacking our vegan donut shops, straight razor barbers, and fair trade coffee co-ops.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 05/11/2025
Guy who has $300 million dollars, but will only have $330 million at the end of Mamdani's term (he might have had $340 million if Cuomo was elected): "This is the biggest disaster in history. This is communism. Stalinism even. I have no choice but to become a fascist."
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdanigrad (formerly New York City), will stand as a shining example to the world of what is possible when the workers unite, and crush the bourgeois class with an iron fist (mild increase in minimum wage, free buses, etc).
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 13/11/2025
Sorry, but if the Republican party is going to start on the whole "making fine distinctions between pedofiles and ephebophiles" then they have to ALSO go back to the Gold Standard. No one knows why, but those are the rules.
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khefty.bsky.social @khefty.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@bobkuttner.bsky.social your article today about next steps was useful. If you can make a plug with those planning and coordinating. Scheduling the next one on a weekday and having people take the day off would be a huge test towards people actually striking if/when things keep escalating.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Only a 30-second standing O here.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
In a democracy, this is what the party of the working class would sound like.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Groceries sky-high. Rent out of control. Wages stuck in the mud. Meanwhile billionaires get tax cuts and ICE gets billions in funding. This Labor Day we rise to say: Our families come first.
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