Reposted by Julie DavisRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social 411226495
Reposted by Julie DavisMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 15hLatest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media. 9332631028
Reposted by Julie DavisMichael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 11hUS military spending isn't just DOD. As David Vine writes in @motherjones.com, it is spread across at least 15 other federal agencies, and the total likely exceeds the combined military budgets of every other nation on Earth. These figures are "likely to stun most Americans,” notes one expert.motherjones.comThink Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind.We already spend at least that much on the US military each year, and maybe a lot more. 89344
Reposted by Julie DavisRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In 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. 241258464
Reposted by Julie DavisGavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it's cheesy but I think about the Sun Ra line "there are other worlds they haven't told you about" all the time... one of the best reasons to write is to tell people about the other worlds they don't know about yet 0288
Reposted by Julie DavisChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 519100192194
Reposted by Julie DavisRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1272185736063
Reposted by Julie DavisTaylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 28/09/2026Reiterating, once again, that this built in religious abuse of children is the reason that the US continues to refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Also, @swordsjew.bsky.social wrote an exceptional book on this called Wild Faith> www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...goodreads.comWild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over Amer…An investigation into the rise of the Christian right o… 06219
Reposted by Julie DavisAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7935621359
Reposted by Julie DavisEric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8youtu.beMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetMusk 17876521
Reposted by Julie DavisDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195122198
Reposted by Julie DavisMara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here’s the trailer for the Musk movie they don’t want you to seem.youtube.comMusk - Official Trailer (2026) - Elon Musk, Justine Musk, Ashley St. ClairYouTube video by Regal 39352
Reposted by Julie DavisNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026🧵 ICE spokesperson messaged me in July about its new facility for kids in Alexandria, Louisiana. ICE is sanitizing, calling it a 'staging facility.' Kids prison camp is inside an airport to speed deportations. Intention is to deport kids as quickly as possible, putting them at risk of trafficking. 14230156
Julie Davis @miraphoto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A world made possible by the senate dems of 2002 including Chuck Schumer and Hilary Clinton , pres. George W Bush, and justices Roberts, Scalia et al. I’ve never fucking forgotten even though apparently everyone else has. 041
Julie Davis @miraphoto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Many of our popular ideas about places like the Mojave — such as the idea that they’re lonesome, empty wastelands, devoid of life — sustain the myth that desert solar farms have fewer drawbacks and are essential in the fight against climate change. Not many assumptions could be more untrue.” 🎯 0106
Julie Davis @miraphoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’ve been saying for so long we need more Hooverville style messaging that actually sticks. The man loves having his name on shit let’s officially put his name on…shit 001
Reposted by Julie DavisBisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026If you can't block the world's most obvious monopoly merger, you can't "save us from fascism," sorry. 1103
Reposted by Julie DavisGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life. 7651801034
Reposted by Julie DavisLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A hidden cost of inflation is all the stuff that gets enshittified to keep the price constant. If you love cheap eats, you're feeling this. I went an hour out of my way to visit by favorite Nepalese restaurant the other day and I was so disappointed. 78217
Reposted by Julie Davisjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter. 39867241671
Reposted by Julie DavisMallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is nuts AND...290 people attended in-person (with another 230 online). Pathetic showing from a small & unpopular but very loud group that has hijacked American public health to our deep detriment. 8389114
Reposted by Julie DavisThe Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Every year we make the case for keeping leaves, branches, & plant stems in your yard. Bugs need them for shelter! That’s not to say you can’t tidy up: rake leaves into garden beds, around trees, or just in a pile out of the way. All we ask is that you #LeaveTheLeaves! 🍂🐝 xerces.org/blog/leave-t...xerces.orgLeave the Leaves!One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work. 2243149
Reposted by Julie DavisMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/09/202680% of AI news at this point consists of a company announcing “we wrote a computer virus” then there’s something about the apocalypse or regulation, then the next news story is like “we wrote another computer virus.” 161194241
Reposted by Julie DavisSam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don’t think people appreciate just how horrific the initial bus crash was too a drunk driver was speeding and plowed straight into a bus, killing two people. it’s almost a parody of how unsafe transportation is in LA, particularly in the valley where almost every street is just a mini highway 1246358
Reposted by Julie DavisMother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026The Macklemore-Ed Sheeran dispute is a corporate threat to free speech.motherjones.comThe Macklemore-Ed Sheeran Dispute is a corporate threat to free speechBillionaire Robert Kraft allegedly pressured Ed Sheeran to remove Macklemore—and all the other opening acts who dropped out in solidarity—from the tour. 1017138
Reposted by Julie DavisMichael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors 584664921
Reposted by Julie Daviselder millennial GNK dad @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is why people being centrist-brained about hyperscaler data centers and calling it “glonzo” are just totally unserious. This industry is not just slowing but *reversing* decarbonization. Any opposition to it is good. 23813
Reposted by Julie Daviswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Mended Stockings, San Francisco, 1934 by US social documentary photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt 101120186
Reposted by Julie DavisCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious. 42309595
Reposted by Julie DavisMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive 42115859
Reposted by Julie DavisBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026The hacking tools the chatbot companies are developing stand to carry on this very stupid tradition. It *is* scary, but not because the chatbots are waking up. It's scary because the world's IT systems are indifferently created and poorly maintained and riddled with vulnerabilities: xkcd.com/2347/xkcd.comDependency 124749
Reposted by Julie DavisBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...peoples-things.ghost.io 4331114
Reposted by Julie DavisThe Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you are a fisherman in the Caribbean and are even suspected of having drugs on the boat, the Trump regime claims it has the “right” to automatically kill you. However, if you run one of the biggest drug rings in the US, you get a Trump pardon and then a speech at the GOP convention. 4260139
Reposted by Julie Davisjj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026art is human heart and brain connecting with human heart and brain. no matter how good at computing a machine is it simply cannot do that 1417
Reposted by Julie DavisIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Months after citing the phrase "Become Ungovernable" as evidence of a vast conspiracy by 15 anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis, the GOP hosted the Trump pardoned head of Silk Road, a darknet marketplace famous for drug trafficking + murder for hire plots, who spoke in front of the same slogan. 311243
Reposted by Julie DavisHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos. 271648401
Reposted by Julie DavisAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026Trump lunges toward and growls at a reporter (a woman) who asked him about why he's offering money to voters if his economic policies are working (Andrew Harnik/Getty) 48256981981
Reposted by Julie Davisjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap 9778993172
Reposted by Julie DavisMother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026The Wonderful Company is the top sprayer of the herbicide glyphosate in California, according to records analyzed by Mother Jones as part of its searchable database of Top 100 users in the state.motherjones.comWe've identified California's top 100 Roundup users. Some may surprise you.Search our new database to see which ones are spraying glyphosate near you. 1315364
Reposted by Julie DavisGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895493550
Julie Davis @miraphoto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I would like for all current and soon to be members of Congress to observe what happened in the NBA today and ponder how they might learn from this. 000
Reposted by Julie DavisBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending. 190115312180
Reposted by Julie DavisW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused. 4049192535
Reposted by Julie DavisKendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people 59220337582
Reposted by Julie DavisMichael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Initial analyses of satellite images and seismic data by @watershedlab.bsky.social & @kristencook.bsky.social suggest that the collapse of a high glacier caused the flash flood disaster in Nepal www.newscientist.com/article/2586...newscientist.comA glacier collapse is most likely cause of the Nepal disaster | New ScientistMelting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below 16642304
Reposted by Julie DavisAlexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Where’s the emergency midnight double feature of steel magnolias and rocky horror picture show SOMEONE TELL ME STAT 311523
