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Rob MacDonald

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Editor of Sixth Finch / poet / educator / consultant at Trey Education (he/him) sixthfinch.com treyeducation.com

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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The summer issue is now live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @anandalima.bsky.social @jordanstempleman.bsky.social @kyanderson.bsky.social @mbrrray.bsky.social @marina-kappos.bsky.social @osagewriter.bsky.social @blindfish1.bsky.social and more
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We're now accepting submissions for this year's chapbook contest. Hope you'll consider sending us your manuscript. More details at sixthfinch.com/submit Big thanks in advance to all of you who use this opportunity to support some worthy nonprofit organizations!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed. Get big money out of politics. Strengthen unions and boost wages. Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more... This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for. It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The spring issue is live: sixthfinch.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it could collect roughly $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it could collect $26. Wondering why the Trump regime has cut 25,000 IRS employees in the last year? It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
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After shedding 25,000 employees, IRS chief says his agency now has perfect staffing level
The tax agency’s CEO criticized his predecessors for staffing up without justification, though he noted he has not condu
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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you'd like to have me read you a poem from my new book CLOUDWATCHER, in front of a portrait of my dog in full dress regalia, and an utterly inappropriate whisky decanter hidden among the children's books, click away... ("The Revisionist," originally published in Strange Horizons)
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Michael Bazzett Reads From Cloudwatcher
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/03/2026
Today is Trans Day of Visibility.
Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York.
Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue.
We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
STOP. LISTEN. Seriously. Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. Maybe this has to be dismantled from the bottom up. This rank corruption. There needs to be a serious IMPEACH NOEM demand. These hearings have made any other choice complicity.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The media should cover this as murder because it is.
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Excited to announce that pre-orders are now open for our two newest chapbooks, "line weights" by Shou Jie Eng and "Hinge" by @jgallaher.bsky.social. More details at sixthfinch.com/store
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“Our existing economic system, capitalism, is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2026
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 02/02/2026
The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power, driving & informing our policymaking. But for too long, big money has polluted our politics. Proud to receive an A+ on Stop Big Money’s Anti-Corruption scorecard because I haven’t lost the plot—& the plot is the people.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Defying CDC, Pediatricians Recommend All Kids Get Vaccinations Against 18 Diseases
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations for hepatitis B, influenza and other shots buck changes made by the Trump administration.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/01/2026
“ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids
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“ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved the bitter cold in Minneapolis on Friday to demand ”ICE out.” The march was organized by faith and labor leaders and was accompanied by calls for an economic bl...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator. The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him. It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Raskin: "I think the people have Minnesota have shown us with their mass demonstration and general strike the direction that we may need to go in nationally in order to send the message that American society does not accept this authoritarian derailment of the US Constitution."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's time for a truly massive general strike. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Today, Minnesota is shutting down in solidarity. It could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship. robertreich.substack.com/p/minnesot…
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Excellent model. Take note, all! We should roll these around the country. Or roll by trade.
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Minnesota Labor Leaders Talk Organizing Lessons as Strike Movement Goes National
“Flexibility is important. I also think having initiative and decentralizing the campaign, letting different people put their own sort of stamp on it, is just a normal way movements exist,” says Knuts...
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Today, working class people across the Minneapolis area are participating in a general strike in response to ICE terrorizing their communities. This is a monumental moment in our history, it’s the first step to change.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026
This new whistleblower report is on par with the Zelensky call - not just because it’s violative of law - but because they also tried to keep people from seeing it. I’ve been doing this for a long time and this is absolutely explosive news. Impeachable and criminal. Swift accountability must follow.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/01/2026
This is a moderate position and every single democrat including and especially @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov should be shouting it from the rooftops.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/01/2026
This lead would be bigger if leadership would announce they're not funding ICE later this month and support impeachment of Kristi Noem. These aren't radical positions.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
That feeling of watching the state of the world and thinking “we still have to go to work and act like everything is normal?” Hold that feeling, it’s step one of the general strike.
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Very excited to share the results of our chapbook contest. Please join us in congratulating this year's winners and finalists. Huge thanks to everyone who submitted and supported the important work of some great nonprofit organizations. Stay tuned for updates about pre-orders and release dates.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Two weeks left. Big thanks to everyone who's submitted so far! sixthfinch.com/submit
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/12/2025
JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 31/10/2025
Kristi Noem has claimed that "no American citizens have been arrested or detained" by immigration agents, despite copious evidence to the contrary. Immigration policy expert @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social says the Homeland Security chief "is either ignorant of the facts or not telling the truth."
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our fall issue is now live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @elliekblack.bsky.social @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social @dlassell.bsky.social @jeffreymorganpoet.bsky.social @ship-on-the-line.bsky.social @hanawiderman.bsky.social @scottferry.bsky.social @leewelch.bsky.social and more
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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Super excited to have one of my new airplane poems up in the latest issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social!
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.
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