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Janet Williams

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22h
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Funny. I cannot recall any "diplomat" seeing their net worth rise by roughly 📈 $100 million to $200 million since taking the position. Yet Jared Kushner has. So, spare me any BS about his job description. It has nothing to do with diplomacy.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rather amazing that these Starlink sats just have cabling, zip ties and some hard plastics directly exposed to the Sun's UV light without any protection above the atmosphere. These things must take a beating. Clearly they're not designed to last very long.
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John @freedoomfries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone is lying.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Congressman Bill Foster @repbillfoster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is important work to be done in Washington, but Speaker Johnson sent everyone home until after the election. I've joined my colleagues in calling on Johnson to bring Members of Congress back to Washington so we can get to work on AI.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
High European gas prices push power producers back to coal reut.rs/4h9NXy1
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High European gas prices push power producers back to coal
Soaring gas prices are driving European utilities back to coal, with ​power generation from the most polluting fuel likely to jump by a quarter in the next six months to offset ‌a similar plunge in gas-fired generation, analysts said.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Tracy @wacket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
David Whamond, Toronto Star
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect citizens -- innocents like our family and the others here. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness."
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well that doesn't sound good 😳
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Andrew Yang Alleges Alarming Reason AI CEOs Actually Agreed To Slowdown So Quickly After OpenAI Bots 'Got Loose'
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...
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Trump DOJ ORDERED To HAND Judge UNREDACTED EPSTEIN Files!?!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
While RFK Jr.'s been shouting "Make America Healthy Again" from the rooftops, over 160 foods have been recalled so far this year. There’s nothing healthy about food-borne illness.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m a former in-house lawyer for Harvard. During my recent role as DEI Director at UCLA, I fixated my AuDHD brain on digesting, analyzing and memorizing Project 2025. Since then, unfortunately every one of my political predictions has come to pass. P2025 is 55% complete. The last 1/2 is terrifying.
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Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when DOGE promised to save the country $2T and put up a fake website that repeatedly showed false information, then spent billions of dollars to pay federal workers not to work, right before we set a record for national debt at $40T? I do.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If someone has to tell Mitch McConnell how to vote, is he actually voting? Legitimate question..
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/09/2026
LEAKED PHOTOS Hegseth isn’t coming clean on the extent of the damage to American assets overseas. Now we’re seeing the leaked photos. Hundreds of structures damaged or destroyed. Nearly 60 aircraft damaged or lost. Up to $3.7 BILLION in equipment losses.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The day Walter Payton broke the single-game rushing record, he had the flu and played with a 104-degree fever. Before the game, he was on the floor of the locker room, wrapped up in a blanket...shivering. That's the kind of heart we'd better have in 48 days.
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Intelligencer @intelligencer.com · 16/09/2026
Todd Blanche dismissed the idea of investigating a Putin-linked Russian businessman spending lavishly on the president’s son.
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Surprise: Trump’s AG Won’t Probe Don Jr.’s Oligarch-Funded Wedding Festivities
Todd Blanche dismissed the idea of investigating a Putin-linked Russian businessman spending lavishly on the president’s son.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💚 HCR
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
We've got some DOGE activity over at USWDS (US Web Design System). DOGE had kicked existing staff out and brought in a crony by the name of Sam Corcos to take over the systems. This is actively occurring today. We will get more info to you as we can.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is why using questionable data to investigate voters should concern everyone. Bad data doesn’t just create a bad spreadsheet. It can put an American citizen into a federal law enforcement system.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/09/2026
Because I’m white, it was easy for me to conflate the solidarity we witnessed on the ground among New Yorkers on 9/11 for some kind of colorblind national unity in the months and years that followed. The reality is and was vastly different.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Fisherman’s Mother, 1893, painting by Helen Mabel Trevor, Irish artist (1831-1900).
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The truth finally comes out. The contractor behind the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation says the peeling and blistering of the pool’s new blue liner was caused by mistakes made during the repair itself.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
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Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin Chronicle
Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When they allege that the 2020 election was interfered with, they have no proof. When we allege that the 2024 election was interfered with, THEY are our proof.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it is refreshing to see the latest technology being used to help us through a difficult time, rather than mining our personal data to annoy us, steal our identities, rip us off, and interfere with our elections.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My mother-in-law got up to see the sunrise back East this morning. She shared it with the family and I thought I’d share it with you
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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
hey welcome to America you can get arrested for giving water to people waiting in line to vote but the president is offering you $5k to vote for his party
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
It's a feature, not a bug
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