Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/202622 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could. 9430101309
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialEmily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you 7142331024
petersondouglas.bsky.social @petersondouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well. I gotta tell you as someone who has spent my entire adult life working for the US Department of Veterans Affairs: all of you fatty, tr*nny, beardo, weirdo, wimp and radical Veterans out there deserve to be taken care of. 010
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I took graduate-level seminars as a senior and made it through law school and I did the reading. But, brother, 30 years later and I'd simply walk into the sea if I had to work half this hard again. Everyone's trying to break higher education, but it's everything to an advanced society. Go students. 628224
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Haiku for the tech press. 116020
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6584021011827
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY 258144086832
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 21/09/2026 13549621607
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026MLK said in TWO PLACES that the ultimate logic of racism and segregation was the genocide of the segregated. I feel like folks intentionally forgot this extremely basic fact for the sake of political expediency. 71854531
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRobin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you are American and can watch this and vote Republican at the mid-terms, you have no heart. www.ms.now/the-assignme...ms.now‘Traumatic is an UNDERSTATEMENT’: Transgender Cmdr. on 17-year Navy career cut short by Trump banCommander Austin Converse was placed on administrative leave with no notice, after 17 years of decorated service. She believes it's because she’s transgender. Antonia Hylton talks with her as the admi... 0285
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Voting isn't marriage. It's public transport. You're not waiting for "the one". You're getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one that's going closest to where you want to be." #Vote for the Non-Felon #Voting #USPoli 31216406
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much. 7684771566
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026People who remain silent during atrocities are NOT neutral. They are complicit. Have a day 391803349
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 381217642547
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialIma Cygnenoir @ima-cygnenoir52.bsky.social · 09/09/2026remember the *GOP* death panels accusations? Well here they are 39109245121
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026the astroturf is astroturfing www.contrariannews.org/p/i-typed-bl...contrariannews.orgI Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes. 06614
petersondouglas.bsky.social @petersondouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Hey it’s what I’m doing in Quincy with a lot less money! 010
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.theprogressplaybook.comCopenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for CitiesClose to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day. 16802294
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialBishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV. 226116393034
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.social4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy. 25587971772
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.social[No//Thrones] @krakoan-lorax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Diarrhea in the lettuce, glass in the popsicles, E. Coli in the berries, screw worms in the beef, salmonella in the chicken & eggs, listeria in everything else. Man I love deregulation. Libertarianism is such a great philosophy. 32865401921
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialJ.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 20/08/2026Yes, I oppose using any public dollars to subsidize pro sports venues. That's not me being obstinate, it's evidence-based intellectual consistency. 0255
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism 2858265316037
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialProtect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 13/08/2026@ruthgreenwood.bsky.social is 1 of 500+ scholars urging Congress to adopt proportional representation. After a career fighting gerrymandering, her conclusion is clear: it’s time for systemic change. We’re proud to back her & fellow scholars in their push for change. Her latest for @bostonglobe.comprotdem.orgGerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules. - The Boston GlobeThe Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation. 210134
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is stationed in the Middle East, are so poor that sailors have tried to jump overboard. Trump also gutted the VA, firing thousands of workers who are veterans themselves. Remember this when Trump and Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism. 521286444
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare. 33688943129
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialHenry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026new from me: a story about VACANCY CHAINS, the idea that underlies the argument that more housing is good even if you can't afford it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comHigh-End Construction Really Does Help EveryoneA new rung at the top of the housing ladder permits people lower down to climb up. 1026073
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/07/2026An under-remarked point — not here on the intelligentsia's finest website, but elsewhere in the discourse — is that in the scenario where Dems get to clean up after (*gestures around*), they're going to have no money. 1523895
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialEmily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work* 31059301
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialMithos @mithos343.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Wait hang on this is something I'm really imagining Me, to Kant: Okay, so then they introduced Fairy types in Gen VI. Now, this meant a lot had to be redone, since none of it had been updated since Steel and Dark, 0142
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialCongresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Donald Trump is making it easier for scammers, human traffickers, and drug cartels to launder money and hide their finances. This opens the floodgates for criminal finances. 510054
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The combined MMR vaccine, developed by Dr. Maurice Hilleman in 1971, “is more convenient for patients, and this convenience actually saves lives. Fewer injections translate as fewer missed doses, and therefore more protection in a shorter time. The MMR vaccine has saved millions of lives worldwide.”si.eduMeasles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccines | Smithsonian Institution 1958372
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"What’s happening in Boston is basically the same as what’s happening in other cities—an unrepresentative political process and a hesitation by political leaders to boldly face tradeoffs and defend their choices." This is a really fantastic read about the politics that prevent safer infrastructure.hks.harvard.eduTraffic-related deaths are a problem in American cities—but politicians are slow to embrace fixesThe recent death of a Boston bike-safety advocate has heightened attention to an issue that many U.S. cities continue to face. Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Justin de Benedictis-Kessner explai... 215844
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialStephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠 2442811582
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialJ.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 07/08/2026Cowards win, 4-1. Hope you enjoy your time in the owner's box. There's no reasonable policy case for doing this. None. It's why no one has made one. Just vibes. 1368
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialJoey Ferris @ferriswheelpro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Let PlayStation have a Wii U generation" goes so hard. 19994982292
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone. 23895472536
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026you know, at least U.S. business journalism spent a lot of time making it very clear this IPO was a fraudulent lie only made possible because the country is too corrupt to have functional regulatorsbloomberg.comWall Street Races to Sell SpaceX-Linked Products as Stock SinksWall Street is racing to roll out complex investment products tied to SpaceX shares that aim to shield buyers from future losses amid a sharp selloff following its market debut. 531583491
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 28/07/2026“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente. Image: MLB via Getty Images. 10155611166
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialJ.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 27/07/2026I wrote up a primer on the economic impact of stadiums, targeted to policymakers and journalists. Feel free to pass along. jcbradbury.com/stadium-econ...jcbradbury.comDo Sports Stadiums Help Local Economies?What economic research shows about stadiums, jobs, tax revenue, development, public subsidies, and common economic impact claims. 03420
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations. 40201804901
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Under Trump: -Household electricity costs are up 18% -Ground beef prices are up 22% -Gas prices are up 40% -ACA out-of-pocket premiums are up 58% -Inflation is at a three-year high Tired of "winning" yet? 10030261107
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get nearly enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air & cooling the city. 4619166
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Two, very obvious, things which really struck me in Copenhagen. 1. Bikes racked up everywhere. But almost no bike locks. 2. No gates on public transport. You buy a ticket and present it if asked. Didn’t see any ticket inspectors. High trust societies are good. 161755214
petersondouglas.bsky.social @petersondouglas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Corporations aren’t people. They’re run by people… and those people might be bad. But we know corporations aren’t people. 010
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialJeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 19/07/2026One consistent theme in the US is that police don’t know the laws which they are tasked to enforce (or don’t care, and I’m not sure which is worse). For example yesterday a Pierce County Sheriff yelling at me over his PA in downtown Orting for … riding a bike, using the road. 914817
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 17/07/2026One of the reasons I wanted to move back up to the PNW is bc of how brown & smoke-ridden LA was getting each year. Then it came for the PNW, too. Growing up in Seattle, we only had a handful of 80+ days in the summer, and NEVER smoke weather. Now heatwaves and air quality alerts are a June-Oct norm. 1813972872
Reposted by @petersondouglas.bsky.socialMorgan @larubia22.bsky.social · 16/07/202628 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration. 462158285971