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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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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.
Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
someone's going to argue that frats provide a sense of brotherhood, but its genuinely just that I Think You Should Leave skit about the guy who has to pay to be part of a friend group that bullies him So that, but with an added layer of physical and sexual assault.
still of the I Think You Should Leave sketch about a man named Stuart who has to pay to be a part of a friend group that bullies him where Tim Robinsons character asks another off-screen character "How would you like 200 friends"
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JC (baseball season type) @conductress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey, cis men, please read this short thread. Even y'all who are getting it, I'm not sure you get this part. The things we give up because it's safer. We shouldn't have to.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can we call it apartheid now
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
AI has not made us better, more productive, more successful or grown the economy outside of GPU sales and data center construction. It has also made the price of every single device of every kind more expensive, depressed the housing market, and increased literally everybody’s cost of debt.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026
guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
in 3,000+ years of jewish history there is nothing is more shameful than these demons sitting in the highest seats of power bragging about the mass-murder they've done in our names
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it also looks like he stole his mustache off the guy behind him
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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
america is a great country to live if you love being scared and angry all the time. its kind of like always Halloween Horror Nights
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Iran War has now cost the average U.S. household around $1,760, according to an analysis from Moody’s.
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
for real tho, this is how you do it - 100% maximum respect
quote from Macklemore in a Variety article - "The victims are the Palestinian people.
The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence.
More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that."
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/09/2026
i love polls that are like "BREAKING: 64% of country now aware of most painfully obvious liar and crook in national history"
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There are still good people
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is why this whole concert tour drama is really important. It's put a massive spotlight on the suppression tactics that have been going on for a while at this point and showing the flowchart they all abide by. Being moderate gets you nazi fans! Weird!! How interesting! What does that say
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
theonion.com
Americans Fondly Recall 9/11 As Last Time Nation Could Unite In Bloodlust
WASHINGTON—As they reminisced 20 years later about a devastating and historic national tragedy, Americans reportedly took note Saturday of how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were the last time the cou...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Where anyone who was thought to be remotely Muslim was branded as a terrorist and store owners would be murdered if they didn't put up enough American flags
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
9/11 as a Zillenial is weird because i watched something horrible happen on live television as a kid & then most of the adults around me turned into rabid blood thirsty bigoted monsters. so yeah, i mock the event they held up as a sacred casus belli as they went to work setting children on fire.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
First Paris, then London. Who’s next?
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
we can do this for our war criminals too
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 27/08/2026
the Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney's Office is functionally non-functional and that's a pretty big deal, imho. People can shitpost about the most recent Trump "truth" or whatever but it's critical to understand the reality of democratic collapse. There aren't enough alarm bells to ring.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think it's helpful to recognize that criminalization has always been expansive, and the current iteration of ICE reflects an expansive (racialized, classed, and xenophobic) definition of "criminal" that dovetails with the stated desire (of some) to eliminate birthright (jus soli) citizenship
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
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ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
look young men I know you are not on this website but in case someone for whatever it's worth: dating people who you like, respect, treat accordingly, and who do the same for you is a major life hack and everything in your life will improve as soon as you value this above other things
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026
let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today, we have nearly completely forgotten about the economic justice demands of the civil rights movement, including that the actual name for that famous 1963 rally was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that had demands for massive increases in the minimum wage and the UAW paid for.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Isidro" sent this photo of strawberries he picked in Watsonville, CA. "I am proud of the work I do to put this fruit on the tables across America. Every strawberry I pick demonstrates my hard work and dedication." #WeFeedYou
A farm worker hand holding freshly harvested strawberries in front of a field
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/08/2026
i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth
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Spooky Catsculptor @catsculptor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
if centrists were capable of comprehending the world in any way then they wouldn't be centrists
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
imagine having this be a conversation people put into a movie about you, specifically, and you somehow doubling down instead of reflecting on your life choices
You're gonna go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd.
And I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that that won't be true.
It'll be because you're an asshole.
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Only Solidarity Will Save Us. @mequashie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The Shock Gloves have already caused a fatality in a Kentucky prison where it was found they were used for far longer than “acceptable practice”. The victim was shocked repeatedly and two of the shocks lasted “45 and 99 seconds apiece”. These gloves will kill in the hands of ICE"
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“I was extremely scared that ICE would take another person in front of me, but also for myself & how I was jeopardizing my job & safety," Laurie said. "But I would 100% do it again, without a moment of hesitation."
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"We need to double the number of teams ensuring safe and dignified burials, triple the treatment capacity, improve contact tracing and deploy more experienced managers," said Fletcher. "Crucially, we must meet the immense needs for water, hygiene, health care… The world needs to wake up, & show up”
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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo killing one person every 30 minutes, UN says
The United Nations says the epidemic is spreading at its fastest pace on record and threatens to become the deadliest outbreak in the disease's history.
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Aranock @aranock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Its actually extremely easy to say no to doing things that support trans genocide.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/08/2026
I'm increasingly under the impression that many of our most prominent establishment reporters simply aren't all that fucking bright
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thurs, 8:30am in Downtown LA at First St US Courthouse: Join UFW President Teresa Romero and other plaintiffs as we rally & show support before a court hearing. The hearing is on our Vásquez Perdomo v. Mullin case challenging DHS’s practice of making unlawful warrantless arrests.
Event graphic for Vasquez Perdomo v. Mullin: rally opposing ICE raids 

Thursday, August 13
Rally & Press Conference
8:30 am – 9:45 am PDT

First Street U.S. Courthouse
350 W 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a victim blamimg lie people tell themselves to excuse the murderous rage that drivers direct toward cyclists for merely existing
Nobody cares about the typical cyclist. It's the asshole cyclists that are hated. They break every law in the book. In Georgia, cyclists have to ride single file, on the right shoulder or bike lane. Some like to ride 4 abreast, at 5 mph, in a 50mph zone at 5pm. You get run over here doing that shit.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
“When I say woke 1 was crazy I mean all the bad things and none of the good things and you should know that inherently” is a tough needle to thread when we’re seeing cities across the country being occupied by the military and wanton bombings in the Caribbean in the name of the War on Drugs.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A ton of effort is going to go into pretending taxing rich people doesn’t work just like a lot of work went into immediately ignoring and getting rid of that expanded child tax credit once it was revealed it worked way better than expected
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation allowing rideshare drivers to bargain collectively. Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft will be charged 4-cents-per-ride to cover the implementation of the union. The law impacts more than 100,000 rideshare drivers across the state.
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Rideshare unionization, drug-pricing oversight, plastic pellet and light pollution bills become law
The governor has signed more than 350 bills that passed in the spring session.
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