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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026

This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter). And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

OMFG, this quote. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026

ah the Peace President

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 23/05/2026

ST:TOS title screen -- "The Gooner's Checkmate"

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/02/2026

The price of cattle has increased, but only marginally, while prices at the grocery store have soared. McDonald’s and other food industry players accuse the big beef packers of collusion and price-gouging, while the packers deny these allegations. Co-published with @thefern.org:

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‘Big Four’ meatpackers under fire as beef prices soar

McDonald’s and other food industry players accuse the big beef packers of collusion and price-gouging. The packers deny these allegations

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

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House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin

New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This! 🔥

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

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Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized

A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026

Trump: "All the way back it dated to the Monroe Doctrines. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal. But we've superseded it by a lot. By a real lot. They now call it the Donroe Document. I don't know. It's Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

When the fact checkers get scammed by bad faith, this is what happens.

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Spooky Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“Murders spiked during the first Trump presidency, then started dropping dramatically during Biden’s presidency” is one of those straightforwardly true observations that illustrates how our perception of large scale social trends is so strongly mediated by narrative rather than fact.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025

"It isn’t just that Trump has ramped up his own personal self-dealing (though he has). Just as important, his administration is enacting a sweeping set of policy changes that will make it more likely that Americans will themselves be the victims of all kinds of scams." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

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A golden age for scammers

The conman in chief remakes the government in his own image.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

When the Onion makes more sense. The headline by the way would be more appropriate in Latin were it rendered: "tu stultus assinus es" theonion.com/letter-to-co...

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Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 01/07/2025

Here’s a graph about Medicaid that everyone needs to see: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

just because i'm a little unkempt and haven't showered doesn't mean i can't give you some quick commentary on the court's ruling against nationwide injunctions youtu.be/Vx7HDBlaFYA

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The Supreme Court v. Nationwide Injunctions

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/06/2025

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/05/2025

From failing to publicize a major outbreak to scaling back safety alert specialists and rules, the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory and cost-cutting push risks unraveling a critical system that helps ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply, according to experts.

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E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface

Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/05/2025

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 28/04/2025

🚨 REMINDER: The big yellow slice & the red slice sticking out are the ~45 MILLION Americans who Republicans have decided to throw to the wolves: ~24M on #ACA exchange plans facing DRASTIC premium hikes ~21M on #Medicaid expansion facing coverage loss acasignups.net/25/04/27/rep...

Healthcare coverage of entire U.S. population

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it." And then... I lost it.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Trump just signed an executive order on drug prices, handing a win to Big Pharma. He's directing Congress to delay Medicare drug price negotiation for pill-based drugs by four years. Pharma lobbied for the change after Medicare was allowed to negotiate drug prices under Biden.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Never thought I'd live to hear Bernie say the words "I'm here to introduce Clairo" in his distinctive Noo Yawk accent. www.tiktok.com/@latimes/vid...

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Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella efore introducing Clairo. #bernie #clairo

TikTok video by The Los Angeles Times

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

She's so gonna freakout when she learns about CatsupGPT.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A WSJ study has determined that the US Government under Donald Trump has spent $154 billion more than the US Government spent in the same period under Biden. A considerable part of this relates to Trump, including the $3.3 mm he spends from the Treasury for each of his weekend golf vacations in FL.

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See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings

The Musk team’s estimated $150 billion in savings barely makes a dent in $6.8 trillion of expenditures largely on autopilot, a WSJ analysis finds.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 11/04/2025

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

weird, what could explain this

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19/12/2024

Rough morning as the visibility was so bad I couldn't see a duck 20 feet away, but luckily it cleared up and VICTORIOUS TERN LETS FUCKING GO stick around till the end for the body-shake-fish-eat 🪶

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Another casualty: complete elimination of team that produces the poverty guidelines, which determine how we count the number of people in poverty, and eligibility for benefits . But hey, if you never define who’s poor, then poor people no longer exist bsky.app/profile/cram...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/04/2025

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

pls share/RT Liberalism’s Reality Problem www.oliverexplains.com/p/liberalism...

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Liberalism’s Reality Problem

Live Long And Prosper, If You Like

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/04/2025

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/04/2025

For those that have been following me for sometime you know I've spent YEARS watching a local great blue heron hunt gophers and fail. Tonight, during mating season, two where hunting together. And they fucking got one. Until a red tailed hawk came and snapped it for themselves! 😦🪶

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 02/04/2025

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

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OldSchool @blueskyoldschool.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Car Wash (1976) Rose Royce

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is brilliant and on point. This is exactly it - the Democrats who will internalize these points and lead accordingly will emerge as the real leaders for the time we live in www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

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“The rough roadmap for how to proceed goes like this:

Demonstrate popular power in the provinces through large-scale rallies.
Use these events to organize the resistance into a mass movement that can be called into action.
Direct the mass movement into targeted political strikes: Getting blowout wins in special elections; boycotts of Tesla; etc.
Politicize everything: Attack the authoritarians for every bad thing that happens, anywhere in the world. Flood the zone.
Elevate the corruption/graft in a way that pits the billionaire insiders against the “forgotten man.”
When the moment is right, bring this movement to the Capital for a show of strength.
Use this demonstration as a slingshot to take back legislative power in the 2026 elections.
More importantly, use it to send a message to the institutional actors that people will have their back if they show courage.”

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“Find a leader. Bring people together in person, far away from the capital’s control. Build momentum. Organize your supporters. Harness the power of their mass. Build toward an explicit show of strength. Take back control of Congress.

And then, if we’re lucky, we can start thinking about an endgame.

In the meantime, fight the authoritarians on everything. If the stock market drops, scream about it. Because it’s their fault. When a kid dies of measles—their fault. Attack them every day, on whatever the latest thing is. Turn “flood the zone” against them by not needing to cling to any one outrage for weeks. Embrace the idea of snapping up new outrages every day.

Get hot about them. Be passionate about them. And for the love of all that’s holy, talk like a normal human being, not a canned politician going through the motions.

Let’s get to work.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025

the strongest case for socializing the ownership of capital is that the current owners of capital are idiots

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2025

this is great and gets to what might be the defining attribute of this administration which is that trump himself is barely aware of what is happening

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government? That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.

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Alex @a1extimmons.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is what conservatives (most of which are Christians) support & push. They own this.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

To give a sense of how much money this is: according to CBO in 2023, non-defense discretionary spending was $917B. So the cost of running the entire federal govt, aside from SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid & defense was $917B. And in six weeks DOGE lit $500B on fire.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/03/2025

oh i think this is exactly right. people care about your views but they ALSO care about whether you seem real and authentic

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

So let’s be very clear about this - DOGE isn’t saving America money. It is now among the costliest domestic programs in our history; and certainly the most significant wealth destroying.

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