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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It also puts dollars back into the economy. People who don't use food stamps but work at places that take them could see their hours cut.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is one of the most important posts of the day.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I really cannot express enough how dangerous it is to be around pregnant people when you are sick. Maybe nothing goes wrong but maybe months later there is something wrong and it is unclear whether the illness you spread to them is to blame. You might not even remember, but they will.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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Boris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It's the guns. Let's have fewer guns. Let's not have as powerful guns. Let's stop pretending like this is just a normal fact of life. I don't want to teach my kids about what to do to try to survive situations like this, as though it wouldn't most likely be down to luck.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Existing is not a crime. Surviving is not a crime. Being unhoused is a failure of our society, it is not a personal failing and not a crime.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The Israeli army just murdered Anas Al-Sharif a Palestinian journalist who covered Israel’s war crimes in hopes of one day ending the killings. His last post was from about a half hour ago reporting on the intensified bombings in Gaza City.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you think prohibiting people on SNAP from purchasing “junk food” is good, you’re clearly more interested in punishing poor & disabled people than you are in healthy living. The rich can eat as much junk as they want, but the poor must cook for themselves or go hungry?
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
He lied to people and committed a lot of crimes and stole from the American people.
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The collective scream of every sex educator of the last 30 years who worked their asses off for pennies, just to make accurate helpful sex information available to everyone online and off, and then people are like “what do you expect, there’s no progressive sex advice for men”
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
My newborn needs surgery next week, if you would like to help: gofund.me/f5fb0142
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Donate to Baby R's surgery, recovery, and therapy at 4 weeks old, organized by Daniel McMeans
R is only three weeks old and will soon be in surgery. … Daniel McMeans needs your support for Baby R's surgery, recovery, and therapy at 4 weeks old
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 29/07/2025
There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/07/2025
You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/07/2025
Seems like maybe we should have a universal basic income with a child component instead of this.
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NJ Birding @billpaquin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Just looked at my Osprey pics from a trip to Maine during 4th and low and behold we have a nestling... #birds #birding #njbirding
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"the public will remember who stood with big bird and who strangled him" goddamn
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
There's no way this is just about "finances," given that they had plenty of finances to bribe Trump. A shame. Colbert is so funny and kind and generous, especially to writers.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/07/2025
Yeah
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
When your goal is to enforce in groups and out groups, tv programs teaching acceptance and equality are absolutely hostile propaganda
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Laura Kowalski Linden @samoart.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Annie Dillard wrote, "I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees." She sure can write a fucking sentence. AD knows where to put the commas. Could've put one after earth, but what a mistake that would've been. Could've used a word inferior to intricate. Instead, perfect sentence.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I think the way this administration has filled positions with people who are deeply unqualified to do the work they've been assigned should make us all take a good look at how companies fill their top positions.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.  But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I hope their ridiculous little signed hats they traded for the lives of the American people are going to be worthless shameful family trash by the time the next generation gets them. Nothing like having the signature that stole food from kids and healthcare from millions on a ball cap as a thank you
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The GOP's greatest superpower is the sheer cartoon evil of their policies. "They are taking healthcare from the poor so they can give tax breaks to millionaires" makes you sound like a hysterical SJW but it is straightforwardly what they are doing.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I don't know if I have any bird people who follow me but a very small mourning dove fell from their nest. It's very small, has some fluff but definite bald spots. We don't have a tall enough ladder to reach it back to the nest. We moved it from the pavement of our driveway.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
For Christmas, Murkowski meticulously wraps up broken toys and hands them out "enjoy this problem I got you!" If you invite Murkowski camping, she shows up, starts a small fire, fans it while you're sleeping and goes home. Murkowski has a little sign on her desk that reads THE BUCK STARTS HERE
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I will never understand why a job can discriminate against a disabled person if the disability makes it impossible for them to complete essential functions of their job but Christians can refuse to do essential parts of their job and keep their jobs.
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Stephne Tate @quailtea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New tie dyed shirts just in time for Anthrocon!!
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Lindsay Goldwert @lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now
This bill is a real piece of shit it and it would be excellent if that’s all anyone talked about for the next few days. Super interested in your think piece about the NYC mayor’s race but let’s get to that after we try to stop the biggest wealth transfer in American history.”

— Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), on X, about the GOP megabill.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 27/06/2025
The assassination of a sitting congressperson and her husband should be headline news every day for the rest of this presidency. Every single fucking day.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I will never understand the push for people to work harder or get a different job rather than for companies to pay better. If you, or others, use a service or product and want it to be available the people providing the service or product should get a living wage.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
People existing doesn't violate your religion. Your kids do not benefit from the confines of your limited worldview.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer. We must stop this devastating bill.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'm in the final weeks of my third (and final) pregnancy. I would cry with joy if I got a baby basket. Looking for baby items is so stressful and knowing you have some of the basic essentials would take some of the load off. It was also be a hand in one of the loneliest times.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A thing I can’t stop thinking about is how our elected officials are so fucking old the “young people” they’re all mad at are basically everyone under 50.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Bluesky you deserve some fireflies in a cornfield. Not pictured-the young hawk chased away by robins, the enormous kale after the rain, the smell of the tomato plant leaves.
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poetheghost.bsky.social @poetheghost.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The millennials are tired
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/06/2025
PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.
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