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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In Alligator Alcatraz, detainees were forced into small outdoor cages for hours at a time. In Camp East Montana, detainees report beatings from guards and denial of medical care. In Delaney Hall, detainees report unsafe drinking water and retaliatory abuse for speaking up. Unimaginable cruelty.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s not radical to believe you should be able to afford groceries, see a doctor, breathe clean air, and drink clean water. There’s nothing more American than fighting for a government of, by, and for the people.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/07/2026
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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.altgov.info · 12/07/2026
“The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act and eliminates a key protection for imperiled wildlife against logging, oil drilling and other activities.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife
The Trump administration has finalized a rule that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act.
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Turn Down For Hwæt @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.
So listen, I’m not sure how to broach this subject. There’s a lot of half-naked men in Jackass, and a lot of anal play and nipple torture and testicle touching. Is it possible that Jackass is at least a smidge gay?

Knoxville: I’m offended you just said a smidge!

It’s more than a smidge?

Knoxville: We’re over here sitting on rainbows and you say a smidge.

You’re a gay pride parade waiting to happen?

Knoxville: We’re a gay pride parade that’s happening! And in 3-D!

It’s not just homoerotic tension?

Knoxville: No, man, it’s all about release with us.

Steve-O: We always thought it was funny to force a heterosexual MTV generation to deal with all of our thongs and homoerotic humor. In many ways, all our gay humor has been a humanitarian attack against homophobia. We’ve been trying to rid the world of homophobia for years, and I think gay people really dig it too.

This was way too easy. I had all of these questions designed to lure you into admitting your subconscious desire to fuck each other. But apparently you’re not suppressing anything.

Knoxville: Suppressing?! Wait till I tell the guys you said suppressing! We’re not suppressing anything! We’re over here sitting on dicks!
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
in the year i was born one-third of the country did not think my parents should have married
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/06/2026
“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.” www.404media.co/wikipedia-co...
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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’
“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Trust me, you absolutely want to see what comes after the head bobbing!!! #birds 🌿
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 02/06/2026
PCOS was renamed to PMOS in May 2026 following a global, 14-year effort. Experts hope the more scientifically accurate name will speed diagnosis and treatment for a “poorly understood” condition.
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What is Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome? The Health Condition PCOS Has a New Name
Polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS, was renamed in May 2026 following a global, 14-year effort. Experts hope the more scientifically accurate name will speed diagnosis and treatment for a ‘poorly un...
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
105 yrs ago tonight and tomorrow, an organized and resentful White mob raged through the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma—known as “Black Wall Street” for its wealth—burning and looting 35 city blocks, massacring up to 300 African-Americans, and leaving 10,000 homeless.
The front page of the Wednesday evening June 1, 1921, edition of the Muskogee (Oklahoma) Times-Democrat newspaper.

Main banner headline:

"TULSA COUNTY UNDER MARTIAL LAW
9 Whites Dead; 65 Negroes Killed"

Sub-headlines:

"Negro Section Still Burning; Firemen Quit"

"Former Local Youth Killed During Riots"

"Local Guards Mobilized; Are Held Ready to Entrain for Duty at Tulsa"

"Governor to Take Charge of Riot City"A panoramic black-and-white photograph of the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, showing multiple square blocks where nearly everything as far as the eye can see has been burned to the ground. Smoke from smoldering ruins makes the air hazy in places. Only a handful of people are visible, walking in a group. One car and two horse-drawn vehicles can be seen on a street in the foreground.A black-and-white photograph showing a street in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa where every home and/or business has been destroyed. Piles of bricks are visible next to multiple structures. At least three destroyed cars are also on the street. Small groups of African-American men are visible walking past the ruins, perhaps surveying the damage.A black-and-white historical photograph of a horribly charred, unrecognizable body laying on its back on the ground with forearms raised and hands tightly clenched near some other burned objects, with the handwritten caption, "Charred Negro, Killed in Tulsa Riot, 6-1-1921."
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 20/05/2026
Geothermal is broadly popular, but still tricky to finance and develop. @zeitlin.bsky.social has the story on a brand new coalition led in part by the governors of Colorado and Utah aiming to bridge some of those barriers in the Mountain West: heatmap.news/energy/mount...
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Exclusive: Western States Form New Bipartisan Geothermal Consortium
The effort brings together leaders of four Western states with nonprofit policy expertise to help speed financing and permitting for development.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can't accurately assess what's going on because they can't bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/05/2026
"Where the classical liberal argues that accumulations of wealth have no bearing on democratic proceduralism, the socialist argues that this wealth is itself a question for democracy." www.liberalcurrents.com/socialism-an...
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Socialism and Liberalism: A Path Towards Estrangement’s End
Thinkers in both “camps” have not only challenged the underlying idea of the split but created theory that unified both liberal and socialist principles.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
this is very clearly and directly genocidal: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is explicitly listed as a genocidal act in the 1948 convention, and Russia's intent to destroy Ukrainians as a people has been made clear over and over again
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 10/05/2026
The political media loves a new narrative, but the youth swing for Trump was always overblown. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
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The Youth Swing for Trump Was Always Overblown
Young Voters Never Liked Trump All That Much As the dust settled...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
oh that is very very gross
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/05/2026
Good Morning! Even the bison aren’t safe from Trump. He plans to remove them from federal lands in Montana. Bison are America’s national mammal, sacred to many Indigenous communities, and one of the greatest conservation success stories in US history. They, like us, will endure.
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Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana
The American Prairie Foundation has had its license to graze conservation herds of bison on federal pastures revoked by the Department of the Interior
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A May Day protester is asked why they are out protesting today in NYC: "People are suffering. People are dying. The rich get richer off the backs of poor and working class people." Nailed it!
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 27/04/2026
Can bamboo replace coca? In Peru's VRAEM, 1,300 hectares are being reforested to create self-sustaining microclimates. Scientists note its biodiversity benefits depend on connecting these plantations to larger forest corridors. @anastasia-austin.bsky.social and @douwedenheld.bsky.social report.
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Peru bets on bamboo to restore nature in its main coca-growing region
PICHARI, Peru — It’s nearly 5 p.m., and the bamboo grove is filled with children. In silence, they’re looking up in awe. The monkeys have arrived. They jump from stalk to bamboo stalk and skitter…
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thus, today's election is not really the end of an authoritarian regime. Rather, it is the first step in a much longer unwinding process. It is massive and absolutely necessary first step — one that anyone who believes in democracy should celebrate. But it's more a beginning than an end.
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Kimm Rogers @kimmrogers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What a decent President says.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
DHS deported a US citizen to Mexico. Brian Morales is 25 years old who was born in Denver. Pulled over in Texas with his construction crew. Didn’t have his ID on him and told officers he could get his birth certificate, Social Security card, and medical records from home.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Inflation jumped 0.9% in March, largely due to oil price spikes tied to Trump's war on Iran. This was the highest one-month gain since June 2022. Even more alarming, wage growth is slowing and we're witnessing declining economic growth across the board. Tired of "winning" yet?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social : “Your frustration is real… People in these rural counties have to know we’re fighting for you and your children too. Many in this legislature have sold you out. It’s time for a reckoning in Tennessee.” #ProgressiveCaucus
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
We need your help please. Please share. Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing over a thousand years of Indigenous history ancient ruins, sacred sites, and cultural landmarks built by the ancestors of today’s Pueblo peoples.
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Sort of Damocles @sortofdamocles.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).
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potes normalgirl @stealingpotatoes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
my cat's always suuuper chill about going to the vets #caturday #cats #cat #comic
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South Carolina Blue @wtkrad.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It's the economy stupid. Y'all woke yet?
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Watch as two bumblebees throw a pollen party on a magnolia petal, showcasing their vital role in pollination and plant reproduction. It's nature's celebration!
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
That’s an excellent question.
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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Alison the Resister @alisonwhite3.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
And of course, the Senate confirmed him.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Children at an Edinburgh hospital painted pebbles for the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo and will be able to watch them choose and present them to their mates via livestream. #SundayMorning
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What happened to "America First"?
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
No more excuses for funding social programs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Washington just passed a “millionaire tax,” after Massachusetts passed its own in 2022. New Mexico enacted universal childcare last year. And organizers in Montana and California are advancing a ballot measure that would get corporate money out of politics. We still have power to fix the system.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/03/2026
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news*
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