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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites.

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

As Trump’s popularity drops and backlash mounts, he will turn even more authoritarian. The techniques he’s tested on immigrants will be turned on American citizens.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Centrists have caused a profound shift among the base of the Dem party through their cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. In January Gallup found a plurality of Dems wanted the party to be more moderate, a new poll finds that the majority now want the party to be more progressive.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Trump doesn’t give a shit about coal miners. His admin is destroying mine safety and ending black lung protections so that more young miners can slowly suffocate from this horrible disease. youtu.be/7XHir3o1SLY

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Trump BETRAYS Coal Miners w/ Chainsaw to Black Lung Health

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The Supreme Court has effectively sentenced more innocent people to be disappeared into Bukele's torture dungeon. Disgraceful capitulation to fascism.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It’s hard for me to hold in my head the breadth of the destruction, chaos and outright evil from this administration. Trump is fully backing a genocide and threatening with arrest or deportation those who oppose it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This person sicced a fascist government on a student protester and is now trying to nuance troll his way out of culpability.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Don’t worry everyone! The famously selfless rich and powerful are just looking out for your best interest. Sure they’re crashing the econ, raising prices, gutting Medicaid, funding crypto scams and letting white collar criminals endlessly rob you but trust them, it is all for your own good!

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The ideological glue that holds Trump 2.0 together is literally just outright theft. Whether it’s taking Ukraine’s minerals, Elon stealing multi billion $ contracts or Trump forcing taxpayers to backstop crypto billionaires bags.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I think Elon's threats of funding primary challenges against any non-compliant GOP has may have fully ended the era of Tea Party/Freedom Caucus rebellion. Massie the last man standing on being an actually ideologically committed deficit hawk. Everyone else will just do as they're told by Trump/Musk.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

When they say “free market” they mean monopolies, union busting, govt handouts for giant corporations and the ability for oligarchs to rob ordinary people with impunity.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

GOP comes together to pass a monstrous budget that will pave the way for tax cuts for the rich at the expense of Medicaid and SNAP. Congrats guys. Way to stick it to the working class and serve your billionaire masters.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Can’t say I’m surprised. Joy, Alex and Ayman (and @mehdirhasan before) were all critical of Israel and now they’ve all been canceled. No dissent from the pro-genocide consensus will be tolerated.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

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nichrome77.bsky.social @nichrome77.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Doctor and medical scientist here. My quality project at the VA, planned for a year, was a virtual telemedicine clinic for *all* vets, but because it included services for specific minorities, it was killed by this regime after they took power. This is literally happening.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Elon just fired workers at the board investigating Tesla for safety issues. Robber baron running the country as his own personal plaything.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Washington Generals ass political party

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Of course they are. They’re cowards. Plus, they watched conspiracy pilled psychos storm their workplace calling for death to the VP and then the dear leader made a big show of pardoning them. The possibility of violence has already been demonstrated for anyone who might step out of line.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Declaring that there are only 2 sexes ignores that nature is full of variations that don't fit neatly in either box. It is the literal opposite of "biological truth."

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

SpaceX engineers brought into the very agency that has been investigating SpaceX. wrd.cm/415YyRd

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Blanket firing of all probationary employees regardless of skill, combined w the deferred resignation program is the opposite of "merit." The deferred resignation program is most likely to attract the highest value employees who have lucrative private sector offers and will be hardest to replace.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Elon actually made the best case I heard for Kamala which is that if she won he’d be thrown in prison.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Every one of these spineless Dem lEAdeRs complaining about “the groups” has got to be primaried and destroyed. They are more angry at the voters calling their offices than the robber baron stealing our country. Outrageous.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Jeffries and other dems are finally getting angry and fighting back…against grassroots democrats who are flooding their office w calls to stand up to Trump/Elon’s coup. outrageous www.axios.com/2025/02/12/d...

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

All these MAGA pretending to care about corruption and don't have shit to say about Trump making foreign bribery legal and exempting his cabinet from anti-corruption rules.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A judge has ruled that the Trump Admin is ALREADY defying court orders. Next phase of the crisis has arrived.

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egorkotkin.substack.com @egorkotkin.substack.com · 10/02/2025

More Americans are learning a language on Duolingo than in the U.S. public school system.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The head of Coinbase is very happy the CFPB is getting nuked. I’m sure he’s only looking out for you and the best interest of your (soon to be his) money. It’s ok, if he robs you, you can complain to…ah, I’m sure it’ll be fine

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

No one should be surprised. Vance has previously announced that he believes the courts should be ignored when inconvenient and stripping power from the courts is also part of Yarvin's butterfly revolution playbook. They're going for the full tech authoritarian takeover.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Mystery Trump shit coin whale appears to have had inside knowledge. They bought in hours before it was announced, then cashed out more than $100 million in profit helping to tank the price of the coin.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Richest man on Earth is working to legalize elite crimes while stealing your social security.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I like how the guys who are telling us to stop being snowflakes over a guy who was backing eugenics and “Indian hate” as recently as 2 months ago are the same ppl who had a multi day meltdown including deportation calls over a Bishop encouraging them to treat immigrants and trans ppl with humanity.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Wow. I read this article when it was first published but that’s quite an update. “Late Friday, after this article appeared, Booz Allen said it had ‘removed’ a subcontractor who wrote the warning and would seek to retract or amend it.”

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Robber baron cheering that he and his buddies can scam more people. Sick shit.

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"A disruption in federal funding has imperiled the work of community groups that run rape crisis centers and programs aimed at preventing sexual violence." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Rape crisis centers see funding delays amid Trump administration spending upheaval

Groups addressing sexual violence report not getting expected payments from grants that they depend on to keep running.

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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Here's what's happened, if you're just tuning in: 1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments 2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal 3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team 4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Of course they're gonna bring the eugenicist back. Was shocked he was fired in the first place.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

UPDATE: The Vice President wants the racist DOGE staffer reinstated 👇🏽 One of his comments was “normalize Indian hate” (Vance’s wife is Indian-American) www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-s...

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Nobody told Kanye 50% of twitter are nazis now watching him tweet is like a standard Tuesday.

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