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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well, they definitely stopped the subsidies to afford health insurance. No lie there.

James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rewatching Twilight after Primetime with the wife repeating, "THIS man is one of the best actors of our generation" to each other. How far Robert Pattinson has come.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I never made it to end game content in vanilla WoW the first time (clocked out at lvl 50 mage) because I kept making alts to see all the race and class choices for levels 1-30 or so. But maybe if I join this time it will be different....

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Only a 7.9% uninsured rate in 2025. Clear enough that the Medicaid unwinding post-COVID wasnt that harmful in aggregate. OBBB and enhanced ACA expiration tbd tho

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reupping this because America's level of medical debt is entirely downstream of our coverage gaps of uninsurance and our crazy high deductibles.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted

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Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism

Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is not an argument against Medicare for All! I am in favor of universal healthcare, and I am also in favor of being honest about the costs and benefits. slopulist "everyone can pay less and get more" nonsense is just that, nonsense.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

every system has trade-offs; our system has traded quick access for a lot of people for making access really difficult for a smaller number of people. there are a lot of people who like that trade-off and don't want to give it up!

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today a preeminent climate scientist said that building a bike lane in Berkeley California is bad because not everyone can bike to get groceries. The US climate movement has a cars blindspot, and it's why we aren't making progress the way other countries are.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

AI has made weird pictures too low barrier to entry. They should have to pose for this with a Comms team nearby

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think if you are a millenial politician that wants to beat an octogenarian, you have to represent your electorate...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/09/2026

Everywhere he went, Ed Markey's biggest applause line was about protecting trans people. The Massholes yearn for trans liberation.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live. Bruce Springsteen The Beastie Boys Foo Fighters Paramore The 1975 Boygenius Tyler the Creator Florence and the Machine Deftones Nine Inch Nails

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Made a guitar at a friend's bachelor party. No idea if it'll play, but hey it's still cool!

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Its been compared to the great migration.

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Over 400,000 transgender people have fled their home states for safer ones since the 2024 election
This marks one of the largest domestic relocations in modern U.S. history.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW from me: The right says migrants are culturally incompatible with democracy. But those who choose to move to free states actually tend to be their biggest admirers I wrote about Justin Gest's new book on rising immigration from illiberal to liberal states www.theargumentmag.com/p/democracie...

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Democracies attract immigrants who like democracy

What did you think "City upon a hill" meant? Vibes, papers, essays? Losers

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Last point: A really important part of cultivating political influence is knowing when and how to eat shit. Lots of people, including me, don't have the temperament for that, which is fine. But if you can't eat a little shit now and then, you're limiting your ability to influence live policymaking.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Anyway, I think there are real social and welfare benefits to federalism. Look at the minimum wage in states vs the federal rate! Or voting rights. But state welfare programs tend to be jenkier than a federal one that may or may not be real.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think it would be crazy to say the inner workings of Medicaid are more well-made than Medicare. Still super odd to me that state-based marketplaces outperform the federal marketplace for the ACA though.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Easy time to be pro-Canada, even if I think Carney is a step down from Trudeau

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yea, the comics and sometimes movies even point out this is his psychosis. He even refers to himself as "The Batman" in the abstract and his broken behavior is what pushes Dick Grayson away. Though he also gives a lot to charity to blunt the critique.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reupping this simply because I like it so much

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think it's all machismo atm, and that was the undercurret of the stated ideology for decades.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Any democracy worth having is always under construction.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 21/08/2026

I'd much rather have M4A because I don't want to have to be tied to my employer for healthcare. That's an increase in wellbeing. That's not money in my pocket. I want better funding for education because I know a well educated society is better overall. That's not money in my pocket.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century

U.S. debt is on track to reach historic levels
Debt held by the public as a percentage of the gross domestic product, 1792-2055
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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

1.67 km of range per second of charging (based on time charging in the video) That’s a bit over a mile per second, or 400 miles of range in 6.4 minutes ! Absolute game changer

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ngl I think the solution to a lot of America's problems is just transfer from the top 20% to the bottom 80%

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So I finally got my wife to watch Full Metal Alchemist and she liked it. What would be a good round 2, maybe Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?

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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A cool thing that happened: one of my dissertation chapters has been published! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... tl;dr? Rebuilding a hospital/part of a hospital makes patients significantly happier! But is their care better? Too soon to tell, but rough signals point to no. Short 🧵

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The Impact of Hospital Infrastructure Investment on Quality of Care - Zachary Levin, 2026

Hospitals spend billions of dollars annually on major construction projects and facility upgrades, but limited research to date has examined whether this expend...

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm just now watching The Haunting of Hill House and I'm fucking pissed it took me 8 years

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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

this has real "final video log on derelict space freighter" vibes

Kamala Harris Zoom call with the words Be "Ruthless"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Emperors used to shit themselves to death, Jack. bsky.app/profile/prch...

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

America seems more against building purely public welfare programs and giving it to low-income people no strings attached than it is against public dollars being spent. See Medicare Advantage, Medicaid Managed Care, and the ACA marketplace. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-hea...

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The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized

And there’s nothing radical about wanting to end insurance company parasitism

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

2. Is a cross-party thing. That's why Miami is as expensive as NYC now. Florida, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho are absorbing a LOT of right-wing transplants. And now all these states have housing crises conditional on income except maybe Texas.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think this thread is basically what I believed when I began covering the consumer system and while a lot of what Nathan is describing is factually correct as to the mechanisms by which the system itself works, I’ve eventually had to admit that a lot of people also do just love cheap bullshit

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

American car companies absolutely refuse to sell what I want: an economy EV or hybrid sedan.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I really like his idea that Medicare for All can come in stages. And his description of Medicare for All has a health card “next to your health insurance card” (something he did in a room with undecideds) calls to a system like France’s. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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The ‘Medicare for All’ Test for Michigan Democrats

Haley Stevens wants to move legislation. Abdul El-Sayed wants to move the debate. But first, one of them has to keep the seat blue.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 01/08/2026

Here's the thing. The people who had these massive plantations were not dumb. Thomas Jefferson was not dumb. They modeled themselves after British gentry, complete with elite education for the sons, down to the Southern genteel accent that is a cousin of the English one.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Voluntary tax advantaged savings accounts can only increase wealth inequality, which is already worse than the Gilded Age. This would at least lessen the blow a little among the ultra-wealthy.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

inshallah is like an entry level "cool white person appropriates your slang" word, if it scares you that's like being scared of a chipotle

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...

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University of Maryland pharmacy instructor detained in Dallas

Federal officials detained an instructor from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy last week.

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