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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 13h
The very fact that millionaire's tax repeal is on the ballot and that the polls are close is a refutation of the anti-tax fear-mongering that it will eventually apply to all Washingtonians. Any attempt to lower the threshold would inevitably come before voters and be rejected.
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WA ‘millionaires tax’ debate pits budget needs against fears of taxes for all
Debaters took on the new tax on high earners. An initiative to repeal the tax will be on next month's ballot.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/10/2026
Attacking Iran was never about stopping them from getting a nuclear weapon and always about distracting everyone from talking about how many children the president raped in the Epstein Files.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This was a choice. Remember this.
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine @mspmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Stolen Neighbors Quilt, made of 12,500 fabric squares and unveiled at the State Capitol’s rotunda, represents the lives of the estimated 11,000 people deported in Minnesota between the beginning of President Trump’s second term and the end of Operation Metro Surge.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New research indicates Walmart is working to compile massive amounts of data on individual shoppers and potentially charge them different prices, despite the company’s denial. This shady tactic is called surveillance pricing, and Walmart isn’t the only corporation planning to use it. Watch.
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 08/10/2026
A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep.
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The secret to a good night’s rest? Let sleeping dogs lie ... next to you
You’re more likely to disrupt your dog’s sleep than they are yours, new study suggests.
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🌞Werewolves Ranchero🌞 @pseudonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember this the next time you want to choose the side of the employer over the employee. FTA: "the highest paid union worker in the engine room, the Staff Chief Engineer, makes $81.42/hr. Back of the napkin math shows a Chief would have to work almost 70hr/wk, or 30hr of OT to make that $350K."
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Project 2025 called for weakening protections for America’s public lands, wildlife and sacred sites. Now wild horses are being sold for as little as $25, National monuments cut by 90%, and endangered-species protections have been weakened. The agenda is being carried out on the ground.
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No Accident: Project 2025 Comes for Public Lands
Project 2025’s vision for public lands is becoming policy. Wild horses are being sold into a slaughter pipeline, national monuments have been drastically reduced, endangered species protections weaken...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Nana Boricua 🇵🇷 💙🌴🌊 @nana-mary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Again, “We want to know what Jack Smith was talking about”… #Pinks #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue youtu.be/2cfsrpl7-mw?...
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Trump In PANIC has Lawyer File Papers to Try to STOP Mar-a-Lago Report Appeal Until After Midterms!
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#ResistanceRoots Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura was born on this day in 1925 in Gallup, N.M. He is known for being the only soldier whose Medal of Honor was classified Top Secret while he was held as a POW. His story is one of patriotism, bravery, loyalty and humble service against incredible odds. /1
Hiroshi Miyamura was a Staff Sergeant. This photo was taken after Miyamura’s repatriation during Operation Big Switch in August 1953. After spending 28 months as a prisoner of war, he crossed the Demilitarized Zone into the U.N. command center at Panmunjom’s Freedom Village for medical processing, debriefings and transition out of the theater as a newly released POW. Miyamura’s Medal of Honor citation does not adequately express his dedication and self-sacrifice. His acts of courage were focused entirely on protecting his men. During his 28 months as a POW, he grieved over those he believed were lost and felt guilt for failing to protect them. After receiving the Medal of Honor, he viewed himself as its custodian, stating that he wore it not for himself, but on behalf of all the men who never made it home. When he died in November 2022, he was buried with full military honors next to his beloved wife, Terry, leaving behind a legacy of humility and quiet citizenship.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share widely! We all need to know our rights! #momsky#sheshed
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups - this is a blatant attack on civil society using the word and work of known election deniers. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🧊🛩️ SEATTLE: A young woman, shackled at the ankles, waist & wrists, boards a charter jet (GlobalX N278GX) at Boeing Field on Tuesday afternoon, bound for another ICE prison in Arizona 👀
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ABC lawyer says Trump administration threats are working, and that editorial decisions “are being affected right now” in coverage of the midterm elections “that the American public has a right to hear about.” Kudos for transparency, but fuck you for obeying in advance. deadline.com/2026/10/abc-...
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ABC To Judge In FCC Lawsuit: Trump's Regulatory Threats Chill Speech
At a hearing for ABC's First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC, the network's attorney said "we are watching everything we do" in spat with agency.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
The ATF’s new proposed rule would allow gun dealers to conduct many firearms sales entirely remotely. Eligible buyers could verify their identities online and have a gun shipped directly to their home—no in-person interaction required.
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A new Trump administration rule could transform gun sales. The president’s son has a stake in a company poised to profit.
It’s one of a slew of changes to federal gun policy pursued under Trump this year. And according to a veteran gun violence prevention attorney, “probably the most dangerous action taken by the US gove...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump suggested tonight that Iran could "take out" American cities: "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take— let it, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeff Kasper of the Alaska Public Employees Association gets to the heart of this: If Alaska can’t recruit and retain payroll workers, it needs to address the pay, benefits and working conditions driving people away, not outsource their jobs. alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/05/a...
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After years of problems, Alaska plans to outsource payroll for 14,000 public employees | Alaska Beacon
Bids from interested companies were due Thursday; a contract could come as soon as next month, documents indicate.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants [via @grist.org]
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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants
It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
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Clark Kent @lokodolo.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Artist Jerell Gantt www.etsy.com/listing/4584...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 02/10/2026
Trump & Republicans inherited an improving economy and drove it straight into a ditch. September: 29,000 jobs instead of the expected 90,000. Another 60,000 jobs vanished in revisions. Wages rose 0.1%; the worst in 5 years. They broke it. Make them own every ugly number at the ballot box.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 01/10/2026
The West Coast oil pipeline has been designated a project of national interest, side-stepping environmental safeguards that have been in place for decades and charting a course that could irrevocably alter the Salish Sea. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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Carney Fast Tracks Oil Pipeline, Promises Environmental Protection | The Tyee
Announcing funding to prepare BC for oil spills is ‘a warning sign all on its own,’ UBCIC rep says.
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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 01/10/2026
In Jordyn's own words 💙
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 01/10/2026
Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
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rbfest.bsky.social @rbfest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow. His brain is scrambled and his perception of reality is completely skewed.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This scheme is a poison pill for the 90% of American children who attend public schools. Instead of strengthening public ed, Trump is diverting $500 billion in taxpayer cash into private hands, with everyone else left fighting for scraps in a real-life Hunger Games. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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‘Poison Pill’: AFT’s Weingarten Slams Trump Voucher Scam
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Trump administration released new regulations for its unpopular national private school voucher scheme:
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Ride of the Valkyries @rideofvalkyries.com · 30/09/2026
Next week, the NWSL takes a break for the FIFA international window. At least five Seattle Reign players will join their senior or youth national teams for matches. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/09/five...
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Five Seattle Reign players called up for international duty
Claudia Dickey will again represent the USWNT for two matches against Spain
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You’re going to get those $5,000 checks from Trump as soon as Eric Schmitt finds proof that Jack Smith was at the Atlanta Hawks game.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 29/09/2026
The squad really spoke Jess Fishlock's new goals record into existence 🙂‍↕️🔮 Testing their Jess knowledge ahead of Friday's Queen's Match! 👑 ➡️ rgnfc.com/4yjm7p1
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1/ Flu season is starting, which also means flu myths are back. Since I recently found myself having one of these conversations with someone in line at the grocery store, I thought it would be good to share. So, here are four of the most common flu vaccine myths you may hear this season...
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rbfest.bsky.social @rbfest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OMG Schmitt is an idiot.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 29/09/2026
“If she wants to continue being the Starbucks mascot in the Volunteer State, she’s gonna have to volunteer showing her seajunk to someone who can confirm if and where she has a mochacloaca.”
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Stop Insider Trading Act doesn’t stop members from: ⚪️ Owning stock or making decisions impacting their stock values ⚪️ Profiting off stock ⚪️ Profiting from owning or trading other assets
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans in Congress went home early to avoid releasing the Epstein files (again), and we are left with higher bills to pay... Remember: They work FOR US.
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The Iran war will have a chilling effect on your wallet this winter
Sky-high airfare, rising gas prices and soaring home heating costs are all squeezing consumers heading into the holiday season.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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sgrasdahl.bsky.social @sgrasdahl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Washington!! 💙💙💙💙💙
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
They’re also working with the Trump administration to remove AI regulation and obtain military contracts.
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Rest assured: AI companies say they're investigating tens of thousands of rogue bot incidents
They're also working with the Trump administration to remove AI regulation and obtain military contracts.
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Susie Rantz @susierantz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On October 2, Seattle Reign is recognizing the irreplaceable Jess Fishlock, who is retiring at the end of the season. Fans can get a ticket package that includes this pretty sweet Fishlock bobblehead. www.gofevo.com/event/fishlo...
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