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Robert X Bastidas

@robertxbastidas.bsky.social
3.6K followers 2.4K following 1.1K posts

38 years old, bisexual he/him , aspiring political figure and politican. Proud member of the DSA as a social democrat on the conservative/moderate end of the party. Coalition builder and pragmatist. Has background in intelligence and criminal justice.

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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Irresponsible spending in the defense department has been unsustainable for a long time now. There needs to be accountability and budget restructuring to bring defense spending under control and still deliver new capabilities and to mass produce tried and tested capabilities for our defense.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are also alternative chains of command set up... Lets put it that way.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gas prices and energy prices in general will have an impact on the midterms for sure.
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Upstart Crow @unwashedrepublic3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Vote or lose #California Vote.org
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Could be sabotage by partisans or foreign adversaries trying to keep its supply from being exported to the U.S or Europe.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 06/10/2026
"Americans are done with a healthcare system that puts profits before people," said @repilhan.bsky.social.
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'People Are Sick of a Broken Healthcare System': Poll Shows New High of 66% Support Medicare for All
"Americans are done with a healthcare system that puts profits before people," said Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The age of leftist vs right wing governance is practically dead; what we have left is democracy vs kleptocracy; the common good vs greed and violence. We all need to adapt and redraw the lines and define (or redefine) who we all are as nations, as allies, and as a people.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We could convert luxury or corporate buildings in to affordable or mix used housing by offering the land and property owners a tax rebate for the yearly difference of income that they loose from offering rentals at a lower price along with a direct affordable housing subsidy.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Addendum * they need not be directly genetically engineered as bacterium especially gram negetive bacterium can communicate via horizontal gene transfer in the same substrate.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not if its enhanced with AMR genes, and genes for vaccine evasion, genes to make it more virulent, genes to adhere it to surfaces, to resist UV radiation and genes to resist chemical cleaners. You know the soviet bio weapons program turned in to the Russian #biodefense program.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Democrats @democrats.org · 14/09/2026
HUGE: Governor Kathy Hochul announced over $1 billion in energy rebate checks will hit more than 8 million New Yorkers’ mailboxes starting next week. As Americans struggle in Trump’s economy, Democrats are putting money back in working families’ pockets.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 27/09/2026
37 days until Georgia sends Jon Ossoff back to the U.S. Senate 💙
An image of Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff standing on a porch with his hands together at his core.
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Just Jill 💖 @justjill.sheshed.rocks · 28/09/2026
North Carolina NC-11, Jamie Ager is looking for you to show up and vote him in Congress! Issues: -Deliver Helene recovery funding -Make quality healthcare affordable -Lower costs and raise wages -Stop politicians insider trading #VoteJamieAger4Congress #SheShed agerforcongress.com
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Jamie Ager for US Congress
Fourth-generation farmer and proud son of Western NC Jamie Ager is running for Congress to stand up for what's right and fight for our people.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The anti-deficiency act www.congress.gov/crs_external...
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why. are. we. not. Electrifying our logistics and civilian infrastructure /vehicles to prevent this exact scenario from endangering national security?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Run, don't walk, to vote.nyc/page/register-vote. Register to vote by October 24 so that you can vote on faster, more efficient government.
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Register to Vote | NYC Board of Elections
You can register to vote online, in-person, or by mail.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah but there are export controls on certian types of technologies, especially sensitive dual use and military technology.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/09/2026
The Trump administration’s proposed change for the census conflicts with the plain language of the Constitution, applicable federal law, and centuries practice. And it would inflict immeasurable harm on the American public. bit.ly/4y6x1yl
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Excluding Immigrants from the Census Would Hurt the Country and Break the Law
The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wait, why not? Provide public funding for all candidates equally but cap or outlaw excessive private donations or funds to that effect.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm merely comming up with thought experiments on how to bypass congress if possible when it comes to funding things.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 27/09/2026
Confined neurodivergent youth of color experience a distressing 120% higher odds of reporting being assaulted by staff than their white, neurotypical peers. This is not a system made to keep anyone–let alone vulnerable children–safe.
Graph showing percentage of neurodivergent vs. neurotypical youth reporting staff physical assault by race: White - 12% vs 8%, Black - 18% vs 11%, Hispanic - 13% vs 5%
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are certian, agencies that can take on liabilities ad-infinatetuim, technically these agencies can subsidize our exports through negetive interest rate loans provided via the import export bank of the United States.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Negetive tarrifs would be paid by companies to the specific SOE or agency operating in another country and it would technically make funds that would normally have to be appropriated through congress avaliable for the executive branches uses as "operational funds reappropriation"
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So imagine the CIA or other government agency or US SOE setting up a company in another country and receiving negetive tarrifs on imported goods to the US , those negetive tarrifs would then be appropriated by the executive branch and used as needed.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Technically manufactured commodities can be used to back a crypto or standard currency much like a resource backed currency.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
With the republicans we've settled for an economy that at best, grows at 2 or so percent every year outside of recession. We have settled for record wealth inequality and stagnant wages, inflation and astronomically expensive housing, and Healthcare. It's time us democrats take back congress.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The federal government should establish a consortium of companies to mobilize private efforts and network private efforts to conduct research. For national securities sake and the sake of the American people. Partially government funded and Partially privately funded.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Medicare must become it's own HMO, with the ability to handle corporate and private investments and issue bonds. Corporations investing in to this company would get significant tax incentives to do so, and discounted Healthcare for employees. I can go on a length about how to fix health care...
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Stories Framing the Globe @sfg.media · 27/09/2026
Russia has restored infrastructure linked to its “Perimeter” nuclear retaliation system, known in the West as “Dead Hand,” The Sunday Times reports after an investigation with Danwatch and Dossier Center. sfg.media/en/a/russia-...
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Russia Has Restored the Perimeter Retaliatory Nuclear Strike System, The Sunday Times Says
The Underground Complex in the Urals Has Been Expanded and Is Operational
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We need policies that push for and encourage/incentiveize electrification of our logistics infrastructure otherwise we'll have the sowrd of deamoclies that are global oil shocks hanging over national security.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Likley sourced through the black market, or laundered through various legal means and trade partners. Freind of a freind of a freind.. eventually that chain ends up in finding a freind of your enemy and themselves.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Form a subcontractors union and take them to the cleaners.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm discouraged becuse it's always that, me being alone at these places, due to various circumstances in my life including many and vast injustices I've been denied the right to a personal cadre of freinds. I am seemingly that repugnant to people. @socialists.nyc
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sure, I get emails for all these events, but. When I go. I go alone, I go without a freind or group.. And I'm simply an observer of history rather than a participant. I know what I'm doing but that does not bode well for myself confidence. I'm infinitely more qualified for an office than some.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I know one way of the administration being able to afford that 5k refund or pay out. Negetive rate tarrifs or subventions targeting a US owned enterprise exporting goods from foreign countries , then accepting that payout in a form of remittance then that.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: 2026 Mexican Day Parade Contingent. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/2026-...
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2026 Mexican Day Parade Contingent
Join the LatSoc contingent for the 2026 Mexican Independence Day Parade in NYC! Details will be sent to those who RSVP.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Child: That’s the mayor? Mamdani: That’s the mayor.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
(1/2) As it turns out, asking wealthy New Yorkers to pitch in a little more helped keep the city that never sleeps running smoothly.
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Dittmer for Congress @dittmerforcongress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is such a hard day for our nation. My prayers are with those grieving their loved ones lost that day and in the years since. Please thank a first responder today. And, Never Forget. 🇺🇸
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A Rudy Giuliani aide (lifelong Republican) dispels the clip of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social at a 9/11 ceremony currently blowing up in right wing fever swamps online👇🏽
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS 🦋 Approximately 6,000 undocumented immigrants were taken to ground zero to clean up the rubble. Many are suffering from cancer/other health issues because of the work they did & are now being targeted by #ICE.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning AND reduced the risk of metastasis.
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Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
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Robert X Bastidas @robertxbastidas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We all must act with integrity and honor even in the face of adversity we cannot compromise our fundamental democratic principles that have been enshrined as sacrosanct in our constitution. The only way this republic survives is with an educated electorate and candidates who they can trust.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🔥 SUNNY: “If you can’t win, you try to cheat. That’s what they’re doing — They’ve redrawn maps. They’re gerrymandering. They’re attacking mail-in ballots… Trump is the 1st president to try to overturn an election. Federal law prohibits vote-buying.”
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