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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'" taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
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Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes
“Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 01/11/2025
“The key is to ensure that [public goods] are at such a level of excellence that all will choose to use them, not just those who cannot afford [what] is provided by the private sector” - Zohran Mamdani 18:40 youtu.be/vbq7DFB8jWE?...
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Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump | The New Yorker Interview
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A lawless regime
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 27/05/2025
Memes are Poetry
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Justice Allison Riggs sworn in following a six month election battle against her GOP opponent
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 11/05/2025
“When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break.” kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
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The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 02/05/2025
Policy : Politicians :: Engineering : Sales
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Patriots
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 23/04/2025
I’m running a fireside chat with Andrew Yang tonight! Great opportunity to learn about what we’re doing at @fwdvirginia.bsky.social vafwd.click/VAFWDxAndrew...
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Fireside Chat with Andrew Yang
Special Fireside Chat with Andrew Yang, Co-Founder of the Forward Party. It will be moderated by our Vice Chairwoman for Communications, best-selling author, and journalist, Sophia A. Nelson.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/04/2025
An important message.
Sign reading "so tired of living in an Onion article"
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 13/04/2025
“Alive to our era of genuine existential danger – from climate breakdown to nuclear war to sky-rocketing inequality and unregulated AI – but financially and ideologically committed to deepening those threats, contemporary far-right movements lack any credible vision for a hopeful future.”
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Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
• In the short-run, tariffs pinch bottom income households 2.5x more rel. to income than at the top. • Families at the bottom lose $1,900. In the middle, $3,400. At the top, $9,300. • Consumers face +58% higher apparel prices in the short-run, +26% in long-run. 6/7
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Crimes in broad daylight. Trump and his friends are getting rich off this chaos. Market manipulation doesn’t even begin to describe this.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In fact, the 2020 election was not "rigged and stolen," as Trump's own attorney general and other advisers told him at the time. But Trump is now indicating that to say that may be illegal and cause for a Justice Department investigation.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 08/04/2025
Do we find a solutions in a constitution / Has the reason we designed it gone away? / Do we find repentance to suspend our sentence / Because the seasons and the times don't want to wait - Liberty, Complacency, Dependency by Threshold youtu.be/F-537WyCDSU?...
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Liberty Complacency Dependency
YouTube video by Threshold - Topic
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 05/04/2025
I don’t agree with @sanders.senate.gov on everything, but this video is pretty on point. You don’t have to love Bernie to fight for democracy. You don’t even have to vote D. You can join us at @fwdparty.bsky.social, in a values-based coalition fighting for democracy. youtu.be/70nHmlapu7w?...
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Where Do We Go From Here?
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 05/04/2025
“‘We just had to wait for the AI technology boom to be here now to let us compete with all that cheap labor all around the world,’Lutnick said” AI is not a good substitute for cheap labor. Robots can’t fold laundry. If AI does magically replace cheap labor, how will low skill people buy food?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I am enjoying seeing all these #handsoff protests springing up around the country in towns both big and small. It's a hopeful thing to witness in such dark, scary times. And I love these DC protest signs.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 05/04/2025
Markets are a powerful tool that we can’t afford to ignore. For example, food banks use a market to share donations: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Abstract of https://conference.nber.org/confer/2015/MDf15/Prendergast.pdf

Food banks throughout the U.S. provide nutrition to the needy. Yet the
food that is distributed through food banks often originates with donors - large
manufacturers or distributors - far from those needy clients. How that food is
distributed to food banks across the country is the subject of this essay. An
informal description is given of an innovation introduced in 2005 by Feeding
America (at the time the organization was called America’s Second Harvest)
that would better allow food bank preferences to be reflected in their allo-
cations. Specifically, Feeding America transitioned from the centralized allo-
cation process, where they would make decisions based on their perception of
food bank need, to one where local affiliates would bid for food items. To do so,
Feeding America constructed a specialized constructed currency called “shares”
that are used to bid on loads of donated food. The process by which this change
came about, its necessary idiosyncrasies, and its outcomes are described.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 04/04/2025
This morning there are inverted #POTUS flags hanging from highway overpasses across northern #Virginia. For months there have been 🇺🇦 flying in some of these locations. They were torn down a few weeks ago. There are many more inverted POTUS flags.
A blue flag featuring the seal of the president of the United States hangs upside down from a bridge spanning a highway in northern Virginia
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Forward Party @fwdparty.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
No matter who you are (Rep. Luna 👀), we applaud bipartisan efforts that reduce party control of the legislation process. Seek compromise. Not control. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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After 9 Republicans rebel, House Speaker Johnson fails to stop proxy voting effort led by new moms in Congress
Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado want to force a vote on their proposal for proxy voting, which a majority of House colleagues support.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 28/03/2025
Pretty cool to see Hampton Roads deploying a high tech #recycling center to reduce pressure on their municipal landfill www.whro.org/environment/...
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Hampton Roads waste authority finalizing deal that could eventually phase out curbside recycling bins
The Southeastern Public Service Authority spent the past year looking for a new way to handle the region's trash as space at the Regional Landfill runs out.
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Forward Party @fwdparty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Forward Party charts new political course in Virginia, eyes expansion" 🦾 Don't miss it: www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
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Forward Party charts new political course in Virginia, eyes expansion
The party held a virtual meeting with a special guest, former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Kerry Healey.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 26/03/2025
Very disappointed to see Governor Youngkin veto SB1009, which would have made minor improvements to the administration of Ranked Choice Voting in Virginia. @upvoteva.bsky.social has a solid non-partisan write up on it upvoteva.org/blog/upvote-... #RCV #ElectionReform
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UpVote Virginia statement on Governor Youngkin’s Veto of SB1009 — UpVote Virginia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2025 Contact: Liz White Hello@UpVoteVA.org   RICHMOND, VA – Today, UpVote Virginia released the following statement from Executive Director Liz W...
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 24/03/2025
After Trump II, America must walk a new path: 🗳️ upgraded #democracy 🗳️ ⬇️ 🤝 problem-solving politics 🤝 ⬇️ 🏛️ renewed institutions 🏛️ ⬇️ 🚀 Effective solutions 🚀 @fwdparty.bsky.social is fighting for this NOW. Join us! home.forwardparty.com/join?recruit...
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Join the Movement
Join the movement to become part of the biggest political transformation this century. Together we can move this country Forward.
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional
notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity
groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not
continue to work here.
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Forward Party @fwdparty.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It’s time for our second round of listening and learning on the issues critical to you. Last week was healthcare. Next up: the climate and environment. How do you feel things are going? What would you do the same? Differently? Tell us here: home.forwardparty.com/2025_environ...
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Environmental Policy Feedback
Not Left. Not Right. Forward.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 20/03/2025
“We are witnessing the methodical implementation of a long-planned strategy to transform American democracy into corporate autocracy” www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
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'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force
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Forward Party @fwdparty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Don't forget to join FWD-VA tomorrow for their March statewide meeting, which will include a special guest: Forward Party Executive Chair and former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Kerry Healey!
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We have overcome near-death experiences before. We shall overcome this one too. Not by denying we are in a constitutional crisis. We are. But we can and will prevail if we face the truth unflinchingly and never abandon the long twilight struggle against evil. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
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Yes, we still have a constitutional democracy
March 18, 2025
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The government funding bill was the 2nd Trump signed into law. Not the second that day, the 2nd bill Congress has sent to the president all year.
Only two bills have passed this year; the Laken Riley Act and the government funding bill.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 14/03/2025
If you’re done with #Democrats because they’re not offering a proper alternative to #MAGA, come over to @fwdparty.bsky.social We need volunteers, donations and candidates to break out of the two-party system that’s failing our country. Join us: home.forwardparty.com/learnmore?re...
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Learn More
Learn what makes the Forward Party unique. We're a new political party, here to represent every-day Americans, not the political elites of the two-party system.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 08/03/2025
My 7 year old saw me running updates on the command line, wanted to know more. So we installed cowsay and played around a bit. 10 min: he broke cowsay with unicode inputs. 20 min: my laptop has a "sussay" command that runs cowsay with an AmongUs. #hacking #parenting
invoking sussay "Pretty Sue" produces an ASCII Art AmongUs saying "Pretty Sys"
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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“Guess what, I don’t have to be part of the crazy-making anymore.” Instead, he said he’ll be joining the Utah Forward Party — a centrist party that has the slogan “Not left. Not right. Forward.” www.yahoo.com/news/utah-se...
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Utah senator announces he’s leaving the Republican party, joining Utah Forward Party
This story story has been updated. A Republican Utah senator says he’s had enough of a party that he believes is becoming disconnected from Utahns and straying from true conservative and freedom-focus...
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Forward Party @fwdparty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
BIG NEWS: Until today, Sen. Dan Thatcher was a member of the Republican Party. No longer. Just a short while ago, he became a member of the Forward Party! Congratulations to him, to FWD-UT, and to democracy reformers everywhere! More: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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Sen. Dan Thatcher is leaving Utah’s Republican Party to ‘break the deadlock’ in politics
Longtime Sen. Dan Thatcher is leaving the Utah GOP and is joining a third party to "break the deadlock" in politics.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/03/2025
Democracy is burning, and we need sites like Bluesky more than ever. And Senator Durbin wants to repeal 230, which would massively stifle the ability of sites like Bluesky to exist, while massively empowering X and Meta. Why? It seems that someone in his office doesn't understand 230.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 04/03/2025
#TIL #SQLite was initially developed for by General Dynamics for use in guided missiles hackernoon.com/the-story-of...
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The Story of Dwayne Richard Hipp and the Development of SQLite in 1999 | HackerNoon
The story of SQLite and it's inventor D. Richard Hipp. A proof of how open source software movement is destined to change the world in a positive direction.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 02/03/2025
#VA General Assembly failed to meaningfully expand Ranked Choice Voting this session, but you can help push #democracy forward by volunteering to speak at a town hall event this spring! Sally Hudson can point you in the right direction: www.rankedchoiceva.org/volunteer #RCV
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Volunteer | Ranked Choice Virginia
Help bring ranked choice voting to a ballot box near you! Sign up here to pitch in with voter education and rally support for RCV in Virginia.
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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The country has been through a lot since January 20th. And it appears that we are in for rougher waters. One thing we can do as citizens is demand change and work for reforms. Join us 3-1-25 with our partner @OperationVAV for a screening of #MajorityRules home.forwardparty.com/20250301_maj...
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 17/02/2025
I brought Molotov Cocktails to a tank fight. Do not recommend. #wargaming #ChainOfCommand
Photograph of a tabletop wargame set in World War II. An enemy tank appears around a tree up the road while friendly infantry huddles behind wooden fences
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The Virginia Forward Party @fwdvirginia.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We are so excited about our new film #MajorityRulesFilm and our exclusive showing in the DMV area on March 1, 2025, in Shirlington, VA, at 10 a.m. EDT at Shirlington Public Library. Click here for more info: home.forwardparty.com/20250301_maj... #NotLeftNotRightForward
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 15/02/2025
I really hope that #Severence doesn’t pull a #lost
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 10/02/2025
Man #Stellantis trying real hard to buy their way back into relevance with #SuperBowl ads. Cheaper than quality control I guess.
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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 25/01/2025
Viewing party for #24HoursOfEno was a big success! Ran it as an open house brunch, had a dozen people come through over the morning. I’ve now seen #Eno three times; can confirm it actually changes. I’m still interested to see it again lol www.hustwit.com/eno
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Eno — Gary Hustwit
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