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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FFS, all of this is so on brand for these morally bankrupt morons. What the fuck did you expect?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the Republican Party. Corrupt as hell, constantly starting wars, blowing up the deficit, giving tax cuts for billionaires, bailing out corporations, cutting health care, making everything more expensive, while serving up culture war drivel to distract you from all that.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well the criminal regime is trying it's hardest to change that job description.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/09/2026
NEWS: Trump's war in Iran has cost taxpayers almost $40 BILLION and drove nearly HALF of inflation. It's a conservative estimate, excluding damage to U.S. bases, destroyed munition supplies, and higher costs like gas and groceries—per the Congressional Budget Office.
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pink jimi photon @pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And yes, there is actually a federal law saying Presidential $1 coins cannot feature a living current or former president.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When your goal is to harass and hurt women already going through a difficult time, you don’t get to lie about your motives, get pious, and play the victim. Go away, you deceitful, pompous busybodies.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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Dashingclaire @dashingclaire.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The magical #book trolley #Baltimore 📚💙 ✏️🖤
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Rand Paul and The Rs on Homeland Sec committee, which just voted on straight party lines to refer Fauci for contempt, are an absolute kangaroo court. The Hollywood 10 were convicted of contempt during McCarthy days; and this will go down in history as a similar moment of opprobrium and insanity.
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eco48.bsky.social @eco48.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The GOP members of congress are lying fascists. Vote out the rot Vote out every republican
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Susan Collins is the Queen of the Meaningless Vote.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This this part
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
When the deeply disliked obnoxious kid tries to pretend he's with the cool, fun kids and gets completely ignored while they have a great time without him.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He is not exaggerating. He is LYING.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump’s evidence to prove that someone sabotaged the Reflecting Pool is in the same file as the evidence that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This illustrates how dumb POTUS is. A $14M mistake that will require even MORE of our tax payer $ to rectify.
I clean actual swimming pools for a living. This will not work. The reflection pool used to act much like a natural body of water with natural filtration. It would (leak) drain through the granite and new water was added. Now it's been
"sealed" with polyurethane and will no longer drain itself and the standing water will grow even MORE algae. With circulation and filtration added, it will no longer be a reflecting pool. Only still water perfectly reflects. It's ruined.
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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Routine reminder that the most devastating cuts to social services in 2025's "Big Beautiful Bill" are timed to happen in 2027—safely past the midterms. SO many reasons to vote every Trump-enabling Republican out of office THIS year. Pick one, and make a plan to take others to the polls with you.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/06/2026
Paint peels from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations following a directive from U.S. President Donald Trump to paint it blue ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2026. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sen. Wyden: As of now, every American is subject to audit except for Trump and his family.
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S Fry @queenflake.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Anyone remember “Invasion of the Body Snatchers?”
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/06/2026
New Gallup poll finds support for same-sex marriage and relationships in the US has stopped rising after two decades
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New US poll shows downtick in support for same-sex marriage and trans people
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.
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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This series of short stories from @hcrichardson.bsky.social and her team is wonderful! The first batch is already on her YouTube channel and posted here. Thank you, Heather, I can’t wait for the next ones 🙏🏻🥰 youtube.com/playlist?lis... PS Give Bluesky newbie @250to250.bsky.social a follow too!
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From the time of our country’s founding 250 years ago, the story of America has been one of the constant efforts of Americans—from all races, ethnicities, ge...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
omg this is insane
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ari Melber on MS NOW is referring to Trump's theft of your tax money to reward his fellow insurrectionists as his THUG FUND. That's good framing. Trump is stealing your money to create a thug fund. #ThugFund
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S Fry @queenflake.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hey Sam, good to see you here!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Every GOP member of Congress should be asked by the press whether they agree Trump can use $1.7b that we, the taxpayers, paid so gov’t could work for us, as reward money to his supporters.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...
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U.S. creates $1.7B 'lawfare' fund in exchange for Trump dropping $10B IRS suit
Trump sued the IRS in late January over the leak of his tax information by an IRS employee Charles
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’m struck by how often Trump referred to Xi as his “friend” and a “great leader.” Xi Jinping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, is a dictator. He also offered no such reciprocal praise for Trump. That asymmetry makes Trump appear in a visibly weaker position.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 02/05/2026
This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The most amazing video ever taken on an iPhone.
Screenshot of a tweet by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) describing filming an "Earthset" from space, comparing it to watching a sunset at the beach from "the most foreign seat in the cosmos." He notes he captured a cell phone video while fellow astronaut Christina Koch (@Astro_Christina) used a Nikon with a 400mm lens for professional shots, with Vic Glover (@AstroVicGlover) and Jeremy Hansen (@Astro_Jeremy) watching from window 3. Continuation of Reid Wiseman's tweet, describing how he used an iPhone with 8x zoom to capture Earth rising over the Moon's surface through the docking hatch window, noting the view is uncropped and uncut and comparable to what the human eye would see. The image shows Earth as a small bright crescent peeking over the dark, cratered lunar surface against the blackness of space.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
None of this is normal.
Screenshot of a Substack note by account 'JoJoFromJerz' that says: 'In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.'
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Historian and journalist here: PRO TIP: Media coverage does trend negative when you’re obviously losing a war that you started for no reason.
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Shelley Davis @shelleymdavis63.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
That's for sure. He is definitely not American citizens first.
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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Imagine devoting your life's work to perfecting the seatbelt and then the first time there's a serious accident every occupant of the car goes flying right through the windshield. This post is about the founding fathers.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
In a very real way, the President of the United States should be held to the highest standard of conduct in the whole country. Somehow, he’s held to a lower (nonexistent) standard of conduct than literally everyone else. It’s unfathomable.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
He really said it. He really said we can't do these things for our people because we have expensive wars to fight.
Screenshot of a tweet by Home of the Brave contrasting Trump’s past statement about protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid with a more recent comment suggesting cuts. The image shows a side-by-side comparison of Trump speaking, labeled “March 2025” and “Today.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
14th Amendment (1868): “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Seems pretty clear to me.
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