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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

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Kelly Kortum @kellykortum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

On AI

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

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Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol

YouTube video by David Steinglass

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/10/2025

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/09/2025

BREAKING: Republicans just voted against a bill to fund government AND save your health care. Help make sure Americans know Republicans are SO determined to let premiums DOUBLE that they would rather SHUTDOWN the government than work to avert this crisis.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"What radicalized you?" Nothing. I refuse to bow to the framing that my beliefs are "radical." Kids should be fed not bombed or shot Schools should be safe places. Reading is an unalloyed good. The world is amazing and should be cherished. Science and medicine is star stuff understanding itself.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

They are rounding up the students. Anyone acting like this isn’t a 4 alarm fire is deluded.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I always think of Hannah Arendt, and her astute observation that violence from above is a sign of failing hegemony and of a very weak power base. That doesn't make their violence any less scary, but it means that it simultaneously signals that a better world is more within reach than we may think

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/03/2025

we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Critical messaging for Dems if they're being forced into a shutdown. Undo the cuts to Social Security, VA health care, cancer care research. Put the DOGE boys into a boxes w chaperones if the Republican want help. NEED TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR about what's at stake immediately in peoples lives.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

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Julia Lamberth. @julialamberth.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

All this destruction of futures, trauma for individuals & just hideous behaviour towards fellow human beings - so that some billionaires can make even more money by not paying tax. It’s all so wrong

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 05/03/2025

seeing how poorly mainstream/neolib Dems are responding to this moment is like being tied to the trolley while an out of control train is coming and watching people who could pull levers to stop it instead choose to hold up little signs saying "please stop"

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Weird, shitty, disorganized response. How are they still this bad at this? It's been four months since Election Day.

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Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Watching Joffrey and Reek trying to bully Jon Snow was quite a thing.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/02/2025

It bears repeating.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

But this is about purging ALL of academia, government, the corporate world, and yes, the military of Black influence first and foremost.. but also women, LGBTQ, and the disabled. It's about destroying these pipelines, salting the earth, then paving over the wreckage.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
• Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
• Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
• Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
• Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
• Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
• Average Federal Salary: $106,000
• Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
• A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
• Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
• Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
• Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is profound science literacy from the bench.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We as a country will save nothing. Federal employee salaries make up just 4% of the budget—roughly $271 billion. So even if every federal worker were fired, that’s the maximum you’d save. Meanwhile, the U.S. House GOP has released a budget that raises the debt limit by $4 trillion.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

For sale, arc of universe, never bent

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 29/01/2025

Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/01/2025

"Folks, we have to get a handle on the genders. There’s a lot of trans-ing going on, in multiple directions. They’re trans-ing all over the place. California’s on fire. Eggs are too goddamned expensive, and dogs and cats are making out in the streets."

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Executive Order: We Must Stop Everyone from Transitioning, So the President Knows Who to Grope

“An executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that coul...

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you say we abandon red states, you kill a lot of dear friends of mine so fuck right off with that. We don't leave gerrymandered, vulnerable, decent people behind because of a zip code, you sanctimonious dicks.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

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