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LindaG23

@lindag23.bsky.social
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I am one of those people that know a little bit about a lot of things, but not a lot on any of them. I am just curious and like to know stuff.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h
Trump wants to make sure it’s as easy as possible for his friend Putin to bomb apartment buildings and kill children. He’s not just the worst president in history, he’s the most evil person to ever serve at the highest level of government. Vote out his weak Republican enablers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h
1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 21h
Joking while admitting to crimes against humanity is certainly the sign of a great president
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Republicans' anti-democracy project has a fast track (Trump) and a slow track (Roberts Court). They sometimes disagree on specifics, but both tracks backslide the US, and do more in concert than they could on their own. If you excuse the slow track because it's not the fast track, you're a sucker.
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
what a load of horse dookie
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If you're defending Katie Zacharia for calling herself a lawyer despite never having the passed the bar, there's actually a simple way to resolve this. Let's say you got in pretty deep shit legally speaking. You need a lawyer to represent you. Could Katie Zacharia represent you? No? Not a lawyer.
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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If Reagan Republican former Speaker of the House Dade Phelan thinks there is a chance for a state-wide Democratic victory then maybe. Phelan says he will "skip" Paxton on the ticket. I've said before that the 2017 ban on straight ticket voting could come back to bite Republicans this year. Gifted:
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Dade Phelan Says Republicans Are "Freaking Out"
The former Texas House speaker on why he’s buying a blue wave.
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It will always amuse that a covert kidnapping of a head of state with no governmental regime change is an "historic one day war".
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m not kidding when I say that a Ms. Rachel-hosted episode of SNL would shatter ratings. puck.news/druski-to-ho...
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SNL Is Getting Its First Digital Creator Host
SNL has looked to YouTube for cast talent for decades, but its decision to cast a pure-play digital creator as host this season is a big milestone. Expect more to follow.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I have so many thoughts and most of them start with duh, omg, and lol. Wish I could read the whole article.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026
This is kind of wonderful, Alison Brown wrangled a handful of pretty decent old bluegrass guys to play “Old Town Road”. Nas X’s impact… immeasurable youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds
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Alison Brown & Steve Martin - Old Town Road (feat. Del McCoury & Dan Tyminski)
YouTube video by Alison Brown
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harry Reid on Susan Collins: "Always there when you don't need her."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 11/10/2026
Re-upping this piece on the Episcopal Church of the USA and the Trump-Vance administration. If you want to get serious---actually serious---about Christianity in American political history, this is the story. tompepinsky.com/2025/01/22/w...
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We Kneel to No Pope, and We Kneel to No King
Yesterday, during a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde delivered a solemn message to President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. As she conclu…
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This helps explain the rapid expansion of solar in deep red Texas despite plentiful access to natural gas. Practicality.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This thread is so good!
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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This should be common sense *even if* AI were sentient. Like the example of the tiger in the article, if you trained your tigers to unlock their cages, I don't see how you'd avoid liability if they unlocked their cages and mauled people. And there's no evidence that any AI actually is sentient.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Clearly, the people of Texas need to reward Ken Paxton by freeing him up to do what he loves: travel the world and buy homes. Voting James Talarico into the United States senate will give this public servant the future he deserves! www.texastribune.org/2026/10/09/k...
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Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips with state-funded security - The Texas Tribune
The Texas attorney general’s use of a taxpayer-funded travel security detail stands out when compared with his predecessor and other state officials, our analysis found.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Having untaxed billionaires is a policy choice.
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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A Korean king ordered a bunch of linguists to come up with a written language to increase literacy due to the difficulty of chinese and they came up with one of the easiest to read languages in existence.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know, I did not have ICE vs Transubstantiation on my list, but I will take it.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu’s military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career! www.timesofisrael.com/pms-ex-milit...
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PM’s ex-military secretary: Netanyahu prioritized political survival when he could have saved hostages’ lives
In bombshell interview, Avi Gil, who was in post on Oct. 7, alleges PM's chief of staff falsified his phone records from that day; PM issues denial; opposition leaders call for criminal probe
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh snap!
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/10/2026
Lying to incite hatred and potentially violence against an ethnic group is neither Conservative nor Liberal. But it is filthy, reckless, illegal, and an anti-American perversion of our White House.
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The terrible crime of responding to a legal subpoena, facing questions under oath, and answering truthfully about a violent attack on the United States.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MAGA is a grotesque twisting of reality. Just devoid of any shred of humanity.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So, I guess that whole meritocracy thing isn't working out quite the way they thought it would. Turns out mediocre white men didn't suddenly get the cushy jobs they thought they deserved and had been denied.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio in Greece: “the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart... so we tore down our monuments…” Nazi, Soviet, and Confederate are the monuments the West tore down. Contra Rubio, defeating them is the achievement.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023
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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Say what you will, you can't deny that Trump grasps the essentials of John Roberts' jurisprudence - so far as committing wrongful harms against Democrats goes.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is devastating and also a remarkable instance of public leadership from a candidate. There is some indication here the assault was politically motivated, which is even more disturbing.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Has AI generated a boom in entrepreneurship? It would make sense that it would - AI makes it easier to go out on your own and creates demand for new business services. But Nathan Goldschlag at EIG finds no strong evidence that AI is boosting new business formation yet. eig.org/ai-and-entre...
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AI and Entrepreneurship: What is Really Happening?
A new EIG report triangulates across different types of data to get a sense of what has been happening to entrepreneurship over the past few years — and the extent to which AI is driving the trends.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Instead of religious freedom, where believers can practice their religion as they see fit without interference from the state, it’s a demand for religious dominance, where the state forces everyone to live in accordance with one religion’s dictates. If I can’t control them then I’m being oppressed.
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It has come to my attention that The Hobbit has been translated into Latin. This qualifies as A Good Thing, and I’m pretty sure Tolkien would approve. Now all we need is the Old English and Old Norse versions
Copy of book Hobbitus Ille. Translated by Mark Walker
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