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Mike Palmedo

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This guy is rich because his grandfather was a "Gilded Age industrialist", he was the #2 GOP donor last cycle, and he is focused on restricting voting rights. A walking, talking advertisement for a big inheritance tax. Tax the rich! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans
Timothy Mellon, one of the party’s biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican senators because he is unhappy about the failure to pass a key Trump priority.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
GOP in 2024: "We will lower the cost of living" GOP in 2026: "Suck it up, TV-haver"
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Abolish ICE
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Super interesting thread here!
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Opposite, but with a twist. I did PhD as a part time student and full time university employee. I really liked the whole grad school experience so it worked for me, but it took a looooong time to finish.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Let's assume for the sake of argument that political elites cannot affect public opinion, only pander to it. Even then, you must anticipate trends in public opinion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to anticipate that an internal masked authoritarian police force will soon become unpopular.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is the best reflection post on Linsey Graham so far. And I don't think anyone's going to beat it.
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 10/07/2026
“The news cycle has moved on. We have not.” In their own words, how people in Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are still showing up for their neighbors in the fight against ICE.
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Helpers On the Ground
In their own words, how people in Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are still showing up for their neighbors in the fight against ICE.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Wow, this picture.... Fuck these guys
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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South Centre @southcentre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New study confirms that compulsory licenses have contributed to improved availability of HIV drugs through commercial channels, with meaningful effects on prices. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....
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The Effects of Compulsory Licensing: A Case Study of HIV Drugs
Compulsory licensing is a legal mechanism that allows governments the use of patented medicines without the owner's consent, subject to conditions and compensation, to meet public-health needs. Despi...
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
On one hand, of course people find us unreliable now, duh. But still, this is a hell of a graphic.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When you give a donor with a firm named GREENWATER a contract to make your pool blue
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Life imitates art
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happy May the Fourth, everyone
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Adams Morgan PorchFest was a blast this weekend!
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"The fact is, Republicans do not hate rigged maps. They just hate it when they have to take their own medicine. Don't start none, won't be none. If they finally decide they don't like it, they can take it up for a national ban." - Isle of Wight Dems bluevirginia.us/2026/04/vide...
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"The fact is, Republicans do not hate rigged maps. They just hate it when they have to take their own medicine. Don't start none, won't be none. If they finally decide they don't like it, they can take it up for a national ban." - Isle of Wight Dems

With maps of TX, OH, FL, NC and SC showing Republican  extreme gerrymanders
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Air conditioner's broken and four yellow jackets have appeared in the living room in the last three days. HVAC people are taking their time. Wife & kid are trapping, feeding, and naming the bees.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Pretty sure that when I turned 18 the govt mailed me a letter telling me to register. If Uncle Sam can already reach you, why keep registration as a thing anyway?
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"a range of gestures" ♥️♥️♥️
News update saying the president's motorcade passed tourists who offered "a range of gestures"
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Why snort coke off a toilet seat if there is any other surface available?
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
How is this real?
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 06/02/2026
maybe my favorite all time correlation
a chart showing a search trend spike every year for "roman numerals" around the super bowl
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi  atomwaffen group
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Staying on the sidelines? Tim Cook gifts Trump a custom Apple plaque with 24-karat gold base share.google/eolzfxeYmWFf...
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Tim Cook appeals to Trump’s love of gold with a 24-karat base for Apple plaque
President Trump hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House as they announced new US investments. Cook also gifted Trump a plaque with gold base.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/01/2026
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
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ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
WTF @washingtonpost.com ?
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.
ICE pepper sprayed 1 year old gil
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The EU Parliament's JURI Committee just released "The Economics of Copyright and AI", written by @cpeukert.bsky.social It recommends a statutory licensing scheme for compensation of creators whose works are used in AI training. #copyright #ai #econsky www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...
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The economics of copyright and AI - Empirical evidence and optimal policy | Think Tank | European Parliament
The economics of copyright and AI - Empirical evidence and optimal policy
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
TAX THE RICH It’s not just Trump. Billionaires dominate politics more than ever. - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Bar chart showing dramatic increase in campaign spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans since the year 2000
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Duolingo during the shutdown
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Three mass shootings in one day
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
??? www.theverge.com/news/780757/...
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Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2025
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Hey @washingtonpost.com‬ , seems like local protest in response to the ICE/CBP/FBI etc. activity in the city is a legit story. Why isn't this anywhere on your landing page?
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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
““The DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,””
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
Juli was able to make a phone call late Friday and told her family that:


    She is in a warehouse, but she does not know the location


    She believes that the people who picked her up are bounty hunters


    There are many others being held where she is being held.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This looks interesting and useful for studies of creative markets.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
-93% Wow.
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Enrique Saenz @enriquesaenz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Science, you big ole nerd, stop messing with my squatchin' arstechnica.com/science/2024...
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Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: “If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear.”…
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Well duh. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is fantastic
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Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
RIP American innovation www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | RIP American innovation
Why destroy the funding that made the United States a leader in technology and invention?
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
And there’s a term for “unidentified, masked law enforcement”: secret police. The US right now has a secret police arbitrarily arresting people, including opposition politicians and students.
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