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Mostly reshares of solid political takes. Balancing keeping informed and staying sane in the chaos at the moment. Happy to be here with you🦋.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 4h
Pro Tip: Daily Trump rallies are a cover for him stealing midterms and claiming the polls missed the ‘grassroots’ momentum. He is clearly projecting that strategy with his ‘fake news’ attacks. Don’t feed the beast by sharing his insanity, VOTE Blue.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Wolfers: Imagine we had a female president who was so idiosyncratic and so moody and whose policy decisions were up and down like crazy... Could you just imagine the coverage? It’s utterly bizarre what we allow to happen.
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PNW ☀️ @pacificnwsunshine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hate this timeline.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A quick vocab lesson for the president: if you buy something from me, then we have a "trade deficit". It doesn't mean you got ripped off. It doesn't mean it's unfair. All it means is you ended up with more stuff and I ended up with more cash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJqtzkwYQE
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hawks vs. Hawkeyes “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” Mark Twain
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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PNW ☀️ @pacificnwsunshine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finished this last night. Excellent book @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's how Trump's proposed diesel export ban could backfire.⁣ ⁣ The ban forces international diesel demand to 0, and refiners run less crude. That crude is also used to make gasoline.⁣ ⁣ Even Energy Secretary Chris Wright admitted this could push gas prices up. youtu.be/UwsPWUbGUVs
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media as he seeks to destroy the US itself." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some issues never change. You just write about 'em once, and the charlatans raise 'em again every time they think there's a public waiting to be fooled.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Phillips Curve has been revoked, by order of the President.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
DR. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “When you have a public consensus vs. a politicians consensus — the difference is usually somebody’s money.” 🎯 #MedicareForAllNOW #Aipac
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 25/08/2026
Just imagine all the marketing emails that will continue to be sent after the last human dies
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Florida is about to run a real-time experiment by kicking out immigrant workers. Spoiler: everyone loses. ⁣ ⁣ Kick them out and you don't just lose labor, you lose the people buying stuff that keeps other people employed.⁣ ⁣
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The appointment of Todd Blanche, as AG, is the latest sign that America is experiencing a form of personalist rule. This is a form of autocracy which organizes around the self-preservation of a leader whose private interests prevail over national ones in shaping domestic & foreign policy.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is the biggest story of the day. Trump and MAGA are literally TELLING YOU HOW THEY WILL STEAL THE ELECTION! But, no, let's focus on...Hasan Piker and DSA.
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PNW ☀️ @pacificnwsunshine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
😡😡😡
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m trying to reconcile Trump still owning Operation Warp Speed as a victory (which it was) with GOP claiming the vaccine killed millions of people. Isn’t the person to blame, then, Trump, not Fauci??
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Happy-go-Loki. @twainspatriot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pups are the canary in the coal mine for financial stress and suffering of their hominid companions…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/07/2026
Looks like the memo went out
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
Just really feeling appreciative today that Donald John Trump rushed the Covid vaccine through and took it himself and told everyone to. Good job Trump MAKING THE COVID VACCINE
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As someone who has studied strongmen throughout history, I can’t stress enough that we should not see authoritarians as infallible.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The mistake is thinking these tariffs mainly hurt Canada. They don't. Much of the cost ends up here at home, in the prices American households and businesses pay.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hi America
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Of course he did.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Don't let anyone tell us we can't have nice things - like good roads, schools, and health care - as if the world's richest nation couldn't possibly afford it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/06/2026
“Vote blue no matter who” goes both ways, friends. Progs call out centrists for saying it. Now centrists are calling progs out for saying it. Stop letting billionaires divide us.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Does he understand that passports are given to Americans who go to other countries, not to people visiting the US?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michelle Obama: "Barack and I have always said this Center is grounded in our stories, but it has never been about us. It's never been for us." "A lasting legacy isn't an award or a name on a building or the number of zeroes in a bank account, but the difference we make in one another's lives."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michelle Obama: "That's where the truth of this country lies. Not in grabbing as much as we can get for ourselves. Or knocking folks down to prop ourselves up. But in the overwhelming goodness, the relentless striving, the quiet dignity, that is inside all of us."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Being an American isn't about your ancestry or ethnicity. It's about fidelity to the meaning of this country - its revolutionary, threefold promise of political equality, economic opportunity, and personal liberty.
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson's advice to his daughter.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A gas tax holiday talks about 18.4¢ while ignoring the $1.50 problem. That's politics, not policy. And half of it likely goes straight to oil company profits. Congress knows this. Some just hope you don't.
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PNW ☀️ @pacificnwsunshine.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
He’s such a breath of fresh air.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Spare a thought for the people with grass allergies who live in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. www.oregonallergyassociates.com/pollen-counts/
Last Counted: May 28, 2026
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Observing our rapid decline into kleptocracy is not the way to honor people who served in the military. But for those of us who didn’t choose this president, refusing to stick our heads in the sand & ignore what’s happening is the most important observance. joycevance.substack.com/p/from-pardo...
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From Pardons to Payoffs
Trump and his faux-patriots
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Think of an oil shock like a stone tossed in a pond. First splash: gasoline. Then the ripples: airfares, delivery costs, packaging, groceries, construction materials.⁣ ⁣ The ripples are real. Just give them a moment to spread.
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PNW ☀️ @pacificnwsunshine.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sad but true.
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PNW ☀️ @pacificnwsunshine.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I wish more people thought like this. Especially the true cost of not offering healthcare.
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PNW ☀️ @pacificnwsunshine.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They should call this The Real Grift.
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