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Rajan Narang

@rdnarang.bsky.social
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Working for a just democracy. We’re mobilized, and now it's time for us to organize. Personal account: sometimes silly, sometimes serious

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h
bad argument. the core of it is "well foreigners gave up because of tax flight" and the US is better positioned than any nation ever to prevent that from happening www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...
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Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth
Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 8h
literally the only irreparable harm here is to the people who are fucking getting sent to countries they have no connection to
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h
these look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 9h
In the Wisconsin State Senate, there are two districts that Trump won by >15% in 2024 where there is an independent — but no Democrat — running against a Republican for an open seat. This will be an interesting test in SD1 and SD9.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 10h
"All of us would like to be good to others, and most of us would be relatively good in a good world. What is difficult is to be good in an evil world, where the egoism of others and the egoism built into the institutions of society attack us and threaten to annihilate us." Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 1973
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14h
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 11h
Gas Prices: 🚗Regular: Today: $4.46 Month Ago: $4.08 Year Ago: $3.13 🚚Diesel: Today: $6.44 Month Ago: $5.60 Year Ago: $3.68
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 18h
Tracey lives his life as someone determined to do the most evil things possible at every opportunity. Grotesque.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 22h
tfw you think you’re an end and you find out you’re a means
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21h
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Provide free drop-in day care as well so stay at home parents can easily go to a doctor or dentist appointment. Problem solved.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is a wild oppo research pull!
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The imminent landlord bailout, a settlement of litigation over the COVID-era eviction moratorium, is dominated by affiliates of Starwood Capital, a private equity firm that itself received direct and indirect federal assistance during COVID. Zachary Groz reports. prospect.org/2026/09/25/p...
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Private Equity Landlords Double-Dipping in Imminent Bailout - The American Prospect
Companies like Starwood Capital Group, which benefited greatly from financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, want a federal bailout on top of that.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Crediting this court for checking the president’s excesses is like hailing the guard who caught the thief after leaving the store unlocked. The difference is that the guard made a mistake. The court... is playing a deliberate game of chicken with American democracy." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You don't often see staff taking on their bosses like this! www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
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Planned Parenthood staffers are rebelling against the group’s billionaire tax stance
Dozens of workers across the state say they oppose the organization’s position on the measure, and one staffer is starring in a new pro-Prop 40 ad.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Collins is nuts, yet he still can't hold on to the decisive Peanut Commission Chair endorsement. Curious 🙃 www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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Georgia Peanut Commission chair is latest Republican to back Jon Ossoff
Donald Chase has voted for Republicans for nearly his entire adult life. He joins other Republican officials, including the mayors of Tifton and Valdosta, in backing Ossoff.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think there are a lot of people out there who didn't agree with the language and/or conclusions of Woke 1 -- but who absolutely will grasp the increasingly obvious conclusion of "after they're done with you, they're coming for me." Our task is to forge a new solidarity from that foundation.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This kind of anti-corruption energy from @angieforfl.bsky.social is exactly what we need to see from every Democratic candidate for the next 35 days (and beyond!) It's time to take out the trash.
@AngieNixon

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
17 states looked at quadrant 4 and said: i'll take that one. by 26-27, half of US K12 schoolkids will be eligible in a universal voucher state
NY times cost/effectiveness plot of ed reforms
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
watching GOP electeds who have never run a competitive general campaign in their life run in a real race is like watching a bunch of flightless birds loosed in NYC
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: a (slightly less)* sweetheart deal for child predators who donate to his campaign
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 28/09/2026
It's remarkable, as @gregsargent.bsky.social points out, that the very same areas that prompted grandiose talk of a Trump-driven realignment immediately following 2024 now represent turf where Trump's brand is at its weakest—and has put seats in play for Democrats. newrepublic.com/article/2158...
Trump carried North Carolina’s 11th by nearly 10 points, and he carried Texas’s 15th by nearly 18 points. The North Carolina district is in the western part of the state, deep in Appalachian Trump country. The Texas district is in one of the border areas that Trump dominated, prompting talk of a major realignment among Latino voters.

He’s now deeply underwater in places just like these. Indeed, in a statement, the Democratic-aligned House Majority PAC says its polling is showing Trump’s approval sinking “especially in districts Trump won by over 10 percent.” But you don’t have to take Democrats’ word for it: Note that Trump’s own Super PAC and its affiliates are sinking money into shoring up both the North Carolina and Texas districts.

For these to be serious toss-ups suggests extraordinary deterioration in Trump’s standing among many different demographics, from noncollege and rural whites to the Hispanic voters that defected to Trump in 2024. And there’s other evidence that Trump’s collapse is a big factor in these districts, too.

The Cook Political Report, for instance, also shifted Florida’s 27th district from Likely Republican to Lean Republican—hard for Democrats to win, but not impossible.  Recall that the GOP congresswoman who represents it, Maria Elvira Salazar, just ran a direct-to-camera ad denouncing Trump for his “betrayal” of Latinos who supported him. This wouldn’t be happening unless he’s cratering in this district as well—after Trump carried it by nearly 15 points. It’s now at least within reach for Democrats on a very, very good election night.
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The resistance:
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some politicians like Paxton are so bought-and-paid-for by special interests that they cheerfully take the wrong side of 25/75 issues
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/09/2026
For those keeping track: next Congress likely will have three Democratic pastors: * Warnock * Emanuel Cleaver (long-time incumbent) * Haynes (first-time congressman) Four other pastors/seminarians are in close races: * James Talarico * Sarah Trone Garriott * Lindsay James * Adam Hamilton
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can the arts business model survive AI? Perhaps the best guide is to look at how the arts survived past tech revolutions Take music—internet piracy and then streaming killed the lucrative CD market, but musicians mostly saved their jobs by focusing much more on live concerts
a graph showing music as a % of consumer spending, with album sales rising through the 90s before crashing in the 2000s and being replaced with concert revenue
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Across North America and Europe, the same anti-immigrant xenophobia that’s overtaken Britain is similarly making all the rest of us poorer
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Third Way/Searchlight folks who are still scared to say Abolish ICE are shellshocked from the last war rather than attuned to this moment (and voluminous polling backs that up, by the way)
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rep. Hong understands the moment we’re in as a country and has been a team player for every moment of this tough general election www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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Hong tells supporters to vote for Democrats; 'Do not write me in'
While Francesca Hong acknowledged that losing Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor was "incredibly painful," she told supporters it's vital to "vote for Democrats down and up the ballot" this fall.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026
i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just crossed my mind that Brian Kemp must be feeling very validated about his decision not to run against Ossoff
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thank you, Duolingo, very helpful! clarity achieved
Duolingo tip: "say cocinamos as cocinamos or cocinamos for clarity"
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If the wave’s high enough, Dems could control a majority of state legislative seats around the country for the first time since 2009
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These vulnerable Republicans voted to give $250 billion to ICE & DHS. Trump and MIller told them exactly what they'd do with that money. They own all of it: ICE operations are making it hard for vulnerable Republicans fighting for their political survival www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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ICE operations are making it hard for vulnerable Republicans fighting for their political survival
Immigration enforcement in Kansas, Texas, Florida and beyond is forcing battleground Republicans to answer for the fallout.
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If only this man had the power to do something about it, eh?
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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The power of funding fundamental discovery in driving unexpected benefits for humankind are unmatched. We should be funding more basic research not less
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