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Christy Wagner @com1ty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THE MARKET MYTH by Swedish financier and social entrepreneur Tomas Björkman, published in 2016, argues that the free market is a human social invention rather than a natural law. The free market can be reshaped to reward the common good rather than greed. Good book! www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...
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The Market Myth
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/08/2026
The Trump regime forced Haitian Americans into undocumented status, and is now using that undocumented status as an excuse to force them to wear ankle monitors. It was never about following the law, but about banning Black and brown immigrants while advancing fascism & Christian nationalism.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/06/2026
Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Voters don’t want Diet Hate People who like the bigotry want a fellow traveler who’ll go further with policy and add more venous rhetoric. Trying to appease them does not work. Meanwhile, people who dislike the bigotry get turned off, seeing their supposed party prioritize chasing after bigots.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
HPV
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Happy memorial weekend. Servicemembers should know your "leaders" don't care about you. All they care about is your ability to kill, maim others. They don't have enough money to train medical people. They spent it all on extrajudicial murders, illegal wars, immigration, etc. #V4V #usDemocracy #dv1
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Every step taken by the federal government to promote and advance scientific research in the US, which has been the mainstay of US economic growth and strength since roughly 1870, is now being reversed in order to retard or suppress scientific research. This is a conscious policy.
washingtonpost.com
MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus
Federal funding cuts have curtailed research at elite universities such as MIT, dulling America’s competitive edge globally.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a historic settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital (“Texas Children’s”) that compels the creation of the country’s first-ever Detransition Clinic; requires the hospital to pay $10 million for billing Texas Medicaid for unallowable and illegal ‘gender-transition’ interventions, including by using false diagnosis codes; and compels the termination and revocation of privileges of multiple physicians. 

After a years-long investigation by the Healthcare Program Enforcement Division, Attorney General Paxton has negotiated a historic settlement that will help protect Texans. Under the terms of this landmark agreement, Texas Children’s will establish the first-ever multidisciplinary clinic designed to provide medical care to patients who were subjected to “gender-transition” procedures. This Detransition Clinic will help patients reverse the damage caused by ideologically-motivated physicians who harmed patients by performing dangerous medical interventions for the purpose of “transitioning” them. For the first five years, all services provided through the Detransition Clinic will be funded by Texas Children’s and be free of charge to patients.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
TODAY — and every day until we have justice for all: We fight for equal rights and we join together to support each other in this battle. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/
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All Roads Lead to the South — National Day of Action for Voting Rights
The voting rights they marched for are being stripped away right now. We're going back. Are you coming?
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 16/05/2026
Today’s the day: We’re proud to be supporting the National Day of Action for Voting Rights. Generations have fought for the right to vote because they know our democracy depends on it. Learn more: blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction
National Day of Action for Voting Rights poster with the text "All Roads Lead to The South." Includes a web address, allroadsleadtothesouth.com, and states the event is in Montgomery, Alabama on May 16 at 1 PM. The background features a map pattern.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/05/2026
First, Trump’s district is repped by a Democrat, and now JK Rowling is repped by a trans person? Fabulous!! 💙💕🎊🏳️‍⚧️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
So yesterday, the president's allies unveiled a 22-foot-tall golden statue of him that they prayed around, and then the president confused Iran and Iraq, seemed clueless about his FDA commissioner getting fired, and called a reporter a bitch? Cool. Cool cool cool.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This amazing people.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/05/2026
"November is coming up, and so you do have a voting opportunity to win this. The response from Democrats should be to make people as angry as possible...and to say the only way we fix this is with overwhelming voting force." Sarah Longwell on how Dems can win a rigged map fight.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/05/2026
"Seven years ago, in April 2019, an entertainer who’d never held elective office, Volodymyr Zelensky, was elected president of Ukraine." *One* entertainer who'd never held office cares about the free world. Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social:
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The Free World Is Leaving Trump Behind
We dropped the torch. They picked it up.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
What will these evil little devils do next?
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Justice Department to allow firing squads for executions in move to ramp up capital punishment
The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Evil
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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Oh this is terrible.
apnews.com
Flu vaccine no longer mandated for US troops, Hegseth says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military will no longer mandate the flu vaccine for American troops. He cited “medical autonomy” and religious freedom.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/04/2026
Men. We need to talk. This video is not for women. It’s for men. 62 million hits to “r*pe academy” is sadly part of a horrific pattern of abuse from men. This cannot go on. Make abusive men face accountability. Enough. youtube.com/shorts/CcItm...
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“R*pe Academy” is part of a horrific pattern from men
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
All the while, Rome is burning.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2026
Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Can't make this shit up
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oh ho ho
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Opiniongirl @opiniongirl.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I couldn’t wait to tune in to NBC nightly news, as I have every day since I was a teenager, to see their in-depth coverage of Orban’s defeat in Hungary. They did not even get to this story until about 10 or 15 minutes into the show and they gave it 30 seconds. I am so done w mainstream media. FAIL!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I find this truly alarming.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.
Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Watch one thing this week: Ships through Hormuz --Not statements --Not markets If flows don’t recover, the system tightens further -- necessarily" I hate to bring X here, but it's silly to discuss any of this disaster without this context that I'm not seeing this clear anywhere else
Within 10 days, parts of the global economy will start running short of critical goods
After 30 years studying economic sanctions and blockades, I don’t say this lightly:
--Not just higher prices
--Shortages.
Markets are not ready for this
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Everyone is still talking about oil prices
That’s already outdated
--This is no longer a price shock
--It is the early stage of a system-wide supply shock
Robert A. Pape
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Here’s the mechanism:
price spike → physical shortage → economic contraction
We are now crossing into step 2
That’s when things break.
Robert A. Pape
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~20% of global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
That flow is now constrained -- by Iran AND US
And it’s not just oil—it’s the base layer of modern production:
fuel, fertilizer, plastics, much moreOnce inventories run down, this stops being about expensive inputs
It becomes about missing inputs
Factories don’t slow because costs rise
They stop because materials don’t arrive
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We’ve seen the smaller version of this.
1973: ~7% supply disruption → shortages, rationing, industrial decline in under 90 days.
Today’s shock is larger.
The system is tighter -- We are at Day 45
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The sequence from here is predictable:
Asia first → Europe next → global compression
Not collapse
Contraction
Robert A. Pape
@ProfessorPape
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The U.S. won’t be spared
Energy independence doesn’t protect a globally integrated economy
When supply chains seize, the shock transmits via trade reductions
Robert A. Pape
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This is the real shift:
Prices no longer determine outcomes
Access does
And once that flips, governments start choosing winners and losers
Robert A. Pape
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Watch one thing this week:
Ships through Hormuz
--Not statements
--Not markets
If flows don’t recover, the system tightens further -- necessarily
Robert A. Pape
@ProfessorPape
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By the time shortages show up in headlines, it’s already too late
That’s how these shocks work
Full breakdown—mechanism, timeline, what happens next:  new analysis:  Escalation Trap substack
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Old puke
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
European candidates need to stop monopolizing the time of JD Vance. Democrats need him at home campaigning for Republicans.
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András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
First Canada Then Australia Then South Korea Now Hungary Next — America Fascism is failing - democracy is winning
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Magyar's no mercy approach needs to be used in the US Trump will pardon everyone for everything he can-including himself But pardons don't cover state crimes. And despite the SCOTUS immunity decision, there are still ways to prosecute him We cannot repeat the failures of the Biden administration
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This is what Times Square will look like when Congress or a cheeseburger finally does its job
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Putin is having quite a run.... - Loses Syria - Cuba, Venezuela may be slipping from his grasp - Iran and its regional proxies have taken a pounding - Orban falls, bigly - Ukraine grows more powerful, Zelenskky more respected - Trump like Orban is being repudiated at home Will take the wins...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Be the tsunami. We can do it. We just watched it happen. And Orban conceded!
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Crushed
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Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán ejected after 16 years, in European electoral earthquake
Hungarian voters have ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-Eur...
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
What a freaking idiot
youtube.com
'It doesn't matter' if U.S. reaches deal with Iran, Trump says as negotiation talks ongoing
YouTube video by LiveNOW from FOX
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/04/2026
Staff at Microsoft Corp. have told some developers of carbon removal credits that the company is pausing what is currently the world’s biggest program for financing the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere.
bloom.bg
Microsoft Staff Tell Developers It’s Pausing CO2 Removals Deals
Staff at Microsoft Corp. have told some developers of carbon removal credits that the company is pausing what is currently the world’s biggest program for financing the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I've believed this for years
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Terrifying
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/04/2026
Weather trades are gaining traction, drawing in casual participants, experts and tech firms testing their wares.
bloom.bg
Prediction Markets for Weather and Climate Are Heating Up
Weather trades are gaining traction, drawing in casual participants, experts and tech firms testing their wares.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/04/2026
Trump's attempt to wash America' hands of the Strait "is not strategic sophistication, and not even transactional cleverness; a more astute businessman would better protect the national brand." ICYMI @giselledonnelly.bsky.social on what Trump is giving up:
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Donald Trump’s Unfreedom of the Seas
The president is giving up on centuries of wealth and power.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/04/2026
This is former Utah judge Kevin Christensen, charged with 8 counts of child sexual abuse. He's pled to 3 counts, and faces up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Not an immigrant. Not a drag queen. Not undocumented. He is, however, an elected Republican official.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
apnews.com
Too young for the MMR shot, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks
Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in measles outbreaks like the one in South Carolina, which is the largest the U.S. has seen in decades.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal
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OMG: Astronauts REFUSE to talk to Trump in AWKWARD call from space
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
huffpost.com
MTG Says Trump Needs To Drop To His Knees And ‘Beg Forgiveness From God’ For ‘Evil’ Easter Post
Trump’s once biggest cheerleader blasted him over his “evil” expletive-laced Easter Day post against Iran.
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rubyredco.bsky.social @rubyredco.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
apnews.com
Judge halts Trump effort requiring colleges to show they aren’t considering race in admissions
A federal judge has halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren’t considering race in admissions.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/04/2026
Tim Miller: "If you'd asked me in 2020, who is the most likely country to be the next country to use a nuke...I would've said North Korea...maybe Pakistan... If you asked me right now...I would say probably Donald Trump is most likely to use a nuke."
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