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Lucas O’Connor

@loc.bsky.social
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Unionist. Avid Indoorsman. Terror since the public school era. San Diego. ED of Progressive Labor Alliance. It is our duty to win.

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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Among the reasons that it's worth it to pursue impeachment over and over is that the overwhelming majority of even very engaged voters don't and can't keep track of them all, and a handful of tracker accounts on social media is not actually a sufficient stand in for the Congressional Record.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The silver lining of this horseshit is that it's kicked me in the ass to accelerate my transition away from google products
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Would even venture to say that this is the funhouse mirror version of what passes for a Sister Souljah moment with this deranged regime. To them, it will of course be proof that ICE isn't political.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One of my core mental healthcare activities is texting absolutely all my anger at the spam texts fake-signed by James Carville
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
They want the power to do anything and the responsibility to do nothing, and there's no limit to how many people they're willing to kill in pursuit of the fantasy
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is correct and I will keep saying over and over: This is what the caucus wants. A fundraiser not a fighter. Because the majority of the caucus wants their jobs more than a fight.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AOC won her primary at 28 and was famously protected from attacks by the same rw goons given her age
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Old enough to remember when the big primary night lesson was that insurgent progressives absolutely must spend a bunch on tv
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Including, somehow, the generation that lived and drove it in the 90s.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's amazing how much of SD's budget deficit disappears without the tens of millions paying off lawsuits over police behavior. Yet the 'tighten your belts and live within your means' crowd never seems to talk about that part.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This era of all the evil billionaires diving deeper into sports teams has such perfect 'Walter White buying A1A Car Wash' energy.
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Liverpool owners sell stake to Jeff Bezos-backed consortium
Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) have confirmed the sale of a minority stake in the club to a consortium that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Even if they have the political sense to find their way out of a wet paper bag, they could even consider just doing it because those are human beings on the Lincoln that they're responsible for.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It’s a great book; I’ve read it twice and that may not be enough
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
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Mamdani’s Taking On Amazon. His Opponent? Chuck Schumer’s Daughter. - The American Prospect
Legislation before the New York City Council would end Amazon’s subcontracting of delivery drivers. Jessica Schumer is the lead lobbyist against it.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Not the immediate point, but if you imagine for a second that President Gavin Newsom would take these away from them, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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Military Times @militarytimes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I don't understand why people like this read books at all when they could just skim the wikipedia article. They don't want to read or think, they just want to have a general notion of the book spoonfed to them.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 09/08/2026
ICE said this spring that it had apprehended more than 16,000 people in San Diego County since President Trump’s second inauguration. Community volunteers have been stepping up patrols in the region to track ICE activity.
boltsmag.org
Amid ICE Violence, San Diego’s Volunteer Patrols Remain Undeterred - Bolts
Community members continue watching immigrant neighborhoods, as disputes between the sheriff and local officials have fueled uncertainty about the region
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I suppose when the NYT created the position of "canon editor" to "lead a new department tasked with developing 'canon and signature lists,'" it was really only headed one direction www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...
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Gilbert Cruz Departs ‘NYTBR’ for New ‘NYT’ Role
Cruz, who has led the New York Times Book Review since 2022, has been named “canon editor” and tasked with leading a new team “to develop canon and signature lists.” Tina Jordan will serve as interim ...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
the lesson of tonight is that everyone needs to lock the fuck in for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thinking among other things tonight about Missouri and Kansas smacking the crap out of right wing nonsense at a time when Gavin Newsom and his acolytes are doing everything in their power to not only defeat a *one-time* billionaire tax but also block any new taxes forever.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sigh
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Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate (Gift Article)
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Medical science. Can and should be pushing on *access* but I would literally be long dead with the cancer treatments available 40 years ago.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I've seen coverage in the past of her pursuing these things framed as proof that she's unserious but it's always seemed like exactly what to do particularly *because* every other elected and babbling head thinks it's beneath them.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yes
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Jane Kim 金貞妍 @thisisjanekim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's an honor to receive the the sole endorsement of @californialabor.bsky.social, representing 2.3 million California workers organized across more than 1,300 unions. With labor in our corner, we will fight and we will win for working people.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Human safari"
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
youtu.be/bNeTJZZBw2Y?...
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Brian Poindexter for U.S. Congress in Ohio's 7th District | Launch Video
YouTube video by Brian Poindexter for Congress
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Dem and Ironworker running in this seat, Brian Poindexter, is great. poindexterforcongress.com
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Brian Poindexter for Congress | Ready to Work for Working Families
Union ironworker Brian Poindexter is running for Congress to stand up for working families and deliver real representation—not empty promises.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It can't be overstated, the impact on all these lefty wins of Mamdani being successful at governing. So many people have been given the proof and permission that voting for what you actually want is not a protest vote or irrational or unserious, but actually a viable approach to voting and governing
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
On August 11, Minnesotans have the opportunity to say no to the status quo in Washington that’s working for billionaires and corporations. www.startribune.com/us-senate-ra...
Peggy Flanagan: This moment calls for challenging the Washington status quo
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes. There's a group of registered Democrats who rose to prominence around 'it's the economy stupid' and now reject anyone trying to fix the economy. This group wants a broken economy as an issue to run on, and by extention only want to/know how to be out of power.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And you just know the least embarrassed person is the one who actually did it
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Chronological? No... Not alphabetical... Nope... What? Autobiographical.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
After 9/11, the U.S. didn't reach 600 casualties in Afghanistan until mid-2005, nearly four years into the war
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Exactly what I would expect from her, sadly
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Just another shill for Big Rake
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Hey, look. Peralta's ERA went down today, so what are we even worried about?
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The bulk of the Dem establishment wants to represent a base that doesn't exist, then they wonder why they keep losing.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Imagine a world where the party apparatus didn't keep making itself toxic throughout the primaries and, having not aggressively alienated such a huge swath of its own base, was thus in a position to come in strong for the general.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bonus that he only bought the team so he can build a giant casino complex on the land around the stadium, but he's failing so hard he's now undermining his own crappy ulterior motives.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The absolute perfect Mets story: Hedge fund billionaire owner plows mountains of cash into super-advanced AI to make mangement decisions for the team, resulting in one of the biggest faceplants in the history of team sports. So bad that MLB had to completely ban it.
espn.com
MLB restricts using dugout iPads for AI-assisted in-game strategy
Major League Baseball is restricting iPad usage in dugouts to prevent the tablets from running artificial intelligence to help make decisions.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Democrats need to do this because it's what's happening. Trump officials are not only behaving outside the law, they're behaving as if they'll never be subject to the law. Dems must introduce friction to slow them down: Start announcing that blanket pardons for uncharged crimes will not be honored.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is the only way in which cashless businesses have some merit
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
(And yes, 2a is the same as raise the minimum wage and index to cost of living; plus leaving CBA negotiations to fight more over revenue sharing, which it should be And should also eliminate the draft entirely, it's an insane system to have for a workplace. But obviously nobody's letting that go.)
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
4- Star players actually have to balance personal gain vs winning, and can do so without undermining player solidarity. 5- Could even streamline a bunch of the carveouts and exceptions along the way since the de facto hard cap is what we're doing now regardless
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
2a- Eliminate the max, double the minimum and set as percentage of cap. If a team wants 11 minimum players and one superstar taking up the rest of their cap, they're gonna lose but ok 3- Nobody 'forced' into a max, league finds the level for players over time, the non-stars don't bear the brunt
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Not about Kawhi, but this convo confirmed several things to me: 1- All player salaries should be covered as (and likely pegged to) a percentage of the cap rather than dollars 2- Max contracts no longer serve the interests of owners, players, or fans
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