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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 18h
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14h
📩 Read in our latest newsletter: - Paramount’s "independent" editorial board - Outrageous FOIA fee bullying in Oregon - DOJ ignores journalist shield law, again - New bill targets government surveillance of its critics - Plus, what we're reading...
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Paramount’s sham editorial ‘independence’ board
Plus: How to keep reporting devices safe during the midterms, and a new bill would crack down on the DOJ’s creative targeting of the press
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 4h
Saved from the heatwave. Check your voter registration. Volunteer to work the polls.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 6h
"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility."🔥
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16h
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h
Fair Q
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 9h
The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h
At 34 years old, Elizabeth Siders, the mother of all 16 children, was pregnant every 15 months. She was 15 years old when she was married in West Virginia, (before 2023, a child of any age in the state could legally be married with permission of a judge. WTF? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘A persistent crisis’: the 16 children removed from an Ohio family are part of a statewide issue
The case of the Siders family illustrates major shortcomings among Ohio’s political and administrative authorities
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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 11h
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Mandelman pushes Castro historic district YIMBYs deride as ‘a theme park’
Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is moving forward with designating the heart of the city’s LGBTQ Castro neighborhood as a historic district.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 12h
Did the president really just publish the words “drunken orgy sex” on his social media account
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 13h
Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

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David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.

Assets:

• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network

Film Rights:

• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h
Senate Republicans have voted 14 times to continue Trump's war with Iran. They could lower your prices by ending his war—but they won't.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14h
Unearthed audio: Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins says he wants to kick people off Social Security and force them to go "back into the workforce"
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 19h
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 16h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.
Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So many. So many . And of different ages and generations . we need to make it fiscally responsible, morally sustainable and psychologically durable enough for ethical ambiverts to be in media and government again
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The billionaires get most of the media attention. But the Left can’t neglect analysis of the much more numerous and less extravagantly rich American capitalists who built their wealth through owning dental practices, lumberyards, and auto dealerships.
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American Capitalism Isn’t Just Billionaires
Middling capitalists such as auto dealers, beer distributors, and niche manufacturers control a substantial amount of American wealth, which they often use to advance right-wing political priorities. Their size and power shouldn’t be neglected.
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Dave (DABS) @plutobro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
November Midterms 💙
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s the Billionaires versus the rest of us. Photo from @thetnholler.bsky.social
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A truck driver working 40 hours a week making $50,000 pays $3,800 in federal income tax. An investor making $50,000 in capital gains pays $0. That is the rigged tax code in plain English.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Corporate profits now represent 14.9% of GDP, the highest share on record going back to 1947 Citadel Rubner
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s not the division that’s tearing America apart It’s the lies
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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scott Weiner, running to replace Pelosi, claims he’s written laws to control AI. That’s a lie. 6 AI billionaires’ super PACs own him. Nothing he’s done addresses core issues of AI: destruction of privacy & constant plagiarism. He’s gutted environmental protections & backed building data centers.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just state barbarism. Nothing less.
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@jessethorn.bsky.social Was hoping to join the MaximumFun meetup this weekend, but all but two entrances/exits to the Bay Bridge will be closed, so traffic will be a mess!
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What measles did to one family
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 1988, California banned public financing of elections — one of the best methods to counter the power of Big Money. Voters can restore it this November by voting YES on Prop 4. Watch.
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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Men are a universal problem. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups
Iranian court upholds sentence against 29-year-old star Parastoo Ahmadi and other musicians in crackdown on women flouting hijab law
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If we passed a similar law, how many in Washington would be out of a job? ================
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s me talking about my heart attack www.nine.com.au/lifestyle/he...
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‘I would’ve died’: A Google search told Fiona she wasn’t having a heart attack - adding one word changed everything
Fiona Katauskas’ heart attack was nothing like the dramatic heart-clutching moments you see in the movies, so when she felt breathless, dizzy and sweaty while exercising at home on a Sunday morning la...
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 29/09/2026
Not all heroes wear capes. Some of us carry tote bags full of books from our independent bookstore or public library. The weight threatens to crush us, but we persevere.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A mural in Seattle. #AbolishICE
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every bit of this 👇
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Eriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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