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Husband, dad, V Vet. All in all been pretty lucky. Profoundly dismayed by US's rapid decline.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16h
EASILY the most gob smacking thing — and fail — I’ve witnessed in more than two decades of covering Congressional hearings youtu.be/akMKzlfoEac?...
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GOP Hearing with Jack Smith Goes OFF THE RAILS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel optimistic about the midterm elections, just over five weeks away. But my stomach aches when I think of what’s at stake. Call me nauseously optimistic. How do you feel? robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Markets are the great aggregator of preferences, but they don't tell us whether that aggregate is fair or whether society should accept that outcome. We need democracy for that. youtu.be/OAGV50CDgno
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense
Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI is a colonialist project, which is why many of its leaders are literally trying to colonize Earth & outer space. Hallmarks of colonialism: * getting rich via expropriation (theft as below) * exploitation (cf: participation in AI bros' simulated-rape galas as a condition of career advancement)
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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop saying “the planet is dying.” It’s not. It’s being deliberately destroyed by corporations and executives who choose short-term profit over life. This isn’t a natural crisis. It’s a greed crisis with names and addresses. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My personal view is that it’s even worse than that. This whole approach to AI is inherently flawed. There isn’t a responsible way to do it with this model. It’s inherently privacy-invasive, inherently irresponsible.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
How will you know that you are living through a Solar revolution? There will be signs… "Solar panels have become so cheap that they are being used to build garden fences in the Netherlands" I talked geo-economics of Solar Hockey Stick of Hope will post slides in this thread bsky.app/profile/madi...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gas is $4 a gallon and Tommy Tuberville wants to talk about furries flying airplanes. ✈️ 🦊
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Empire Suicide chapter 12
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And in Nevada, of the total of 185 supposedly noncitizen voters the DHS identified, the Republican state government just reported that every single one of them, 100%, were in fact U.S. citizens.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DHS got every one of their original assertions wrong!
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heads of state, governors, mayors visit Trump, he drags them to his golf club, makes them eat steak with ketchup. They visit Mamdani, he gives them a bus tour and they go meet some adorable second graders.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No, you cannot make this up.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's people terminate healthcare for people while claiming sound business practice. They lie
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On Sunday, ICE had forced him to leave the hospital even though he still had a bullet lodged in his back/doctors arguing it was "reckless."
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
W. An attrocious president and now, an attrocious ex-president. A trump enabler.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Most of the guys taking away trans rights are trying to take away women's rights and voting rights and workers' rights and even free speech. We shouldn't debate rights in America. And I trust schools, parents, and doctors to do what makes sense based on science, not punching down at the vulnerable.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
High wind. It blows for us
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
GLP-Mussolini He's even adopted Il Duce's signature gesture.
Stephen Miller pointing his right index finger upward at a press conference.Mussolini doing his signature gesture, with right index finger pointing upward.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What we could be doing. All it takes is leadership.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
oh...this is bad
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WHAT IS A WOMAN? Here's an answer for Democrats who should know better and keep taking the fuckin bait re: trans women in sports: espiers.medium.com/the-correct-...
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The Correct Answer to “What Is A Woman?”
There’s a real answer, but it’s not a good faith question.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin. (1/2)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Julia Ioffe: Who is Umar Kremlev, who paid for part of Donald Trump Jr's wedding? Turns out, he's the business front of Vladimir Putin's chief body guard, one of the most powerful men in Russia. That's about as close as it gets.
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Don Jr.’s “Dear Friend” in Moscow
Kremlev bankrolled Trump’s Bahamas wedding afterparty. He’s also a former Kremlin biker gang member and reputed proxy for Putin’s bodyguard.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“To sum up: the wedding had such a small invite list that many close friends of the couple didn’t make the cut, but a bunch of people who barely speak English and travel the world with Putin did make the cut.” alexzfinley.substack.com/p/i-need-bet...
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I Need Better Friends
My friends gave me a toaster as a wedding gift. Trump family friends treat them to multi-day destination weddings, no strings attached (wink wink)
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump inner circle banking on pardons.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insane! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Excellent thread from UK criticizing BBC. This inability of vast swaths of the media to present known facts as such when presented with mass fantasy (often with political origins) has corrupted our public sphere with blindness and delusion. It is both a cause and an effect of our present condition
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars. And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump accused of ‘corruption, plain and simple’ after UAE invested in family firm
White House says president is not involved in running his businesses. Ethics experts remain concerned
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
SCOTUS Corruption #corruption #grosscorruption
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TrumpII -- more stock trades than ALL of CONGRESS! #corruption, #grosscorruptuon
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Let's see if US media holds onto this story of betrayal. Betrayal of our soldiers! During a war!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026
There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products): pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Tenniel's 'Red Queen's Race' engraving from Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass.' It has been altered so that the Red Queen and Alice now have the heads of 1940s pulp robots. The image has been hand-tinted.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One thing that Trump and Pete Hegseth will never tell you about the war - the truth. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Garcia on Trump’s $5000 dividend claim: Look, Donald Trump is a known liar. The dividend is not happening. He promised a dividend on the tariffs. That didn't happen. He promised a dividend on Doge. That didn't happen. He promised some strange new dividend from Air Force One. That never happened.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Talarico spitting 🔥
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Indian American Professor here this bigot thinks that people of Indian descent shouldn’t be Americans or attend college!
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Like how Mark Zuckerberg did such a great job protecting our kids on Facebook and Instagram? Please.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Your car is collecting a staggering amount of data about you and selling them. Your bike won’t do that to you.
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Your car is selling your data
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.
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