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Ryan Perry

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Part software engineer, part leader, part dad, part music lover.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20/05/2026
any realistic discussion has to start from the ground truth that america is a *very* low-tax society compared to similar nations we collect about 25% of GDP as tax revenue. germany? 38%. denmark? 45%. we are already a turbo low tax society!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It's good they're quoting scholars here to dismiss the fiction that America was founded as a Christian nation, but you can just read the Constitution yourself. There are only three references to religion in it, all meant to keep it out of government, to avoid conflicts that had rocked Europe.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Drawn by Dr Seuss over 50 years ago.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
When a Democrat is president, the press only cares about the swing voters who oppose him. When a Republican is president, the press only cares about the conservative voters who support him.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2026
TODAY: ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH. Republican lawmakers across the South are carving up maps to dilute Black voting power and protect their own power because fair maps would threaten their grip. They knew the voters didn’t support this, so they went around them. 1/2
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
What actually happened here was that the county's water utility was transitioning to a cloud-based billing system. During the transition, two water hookups at a data center construction site weren't properly registered or linked to a billable account.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/05/2026
A lot has happened, but not much has changed.
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/05/2026
Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/05/2026
Total Jobs Created by Party (1989-2026): Democratic Presidents 50,600,000 Republican Presidents 1,469,000 The biggest scam the GOP has ever pulled off is convincing people that Republicans are good for the economy.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is self-evidently true and virtually nobody of consequence in American politics believes it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🔴PAY ATTENTION: The Governor of Louisiana is declaring an emergency to cancel an ongoing election so that his party can rig the rules moving forward. This is not just about redistricting... www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana governor suspends active election to allow for gerrymander
Early voting was set to begin Saturday in Louisiana’s May 16 primary election, and mail ballots have already been sent out to voters.
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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · 29/04/2026
Happy 23rd anniversary to Apple’s finest iPod.
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damasterchief @damasterchief.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one
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Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist
A judge rejected Trump’s semantic attempt to throw out the case.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Many of the politicians who were in that room running scared tonight have devoted much of their lives to ensuring gun violence and the fear of it is a part of every day life for the rest of us.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”
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Leif Malone @thetroops.fightins.online · 28/08/2025
A mass shooter's ideology is irrelevant. As long as one side wants gun control and the other doesn't, all mass shootings are right-wing.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
ICYMI — @repmcgovern.bsky.social : “Trump is in an imaginary world. He needs an intervention… SNAP provides ~$2 per meal, we’re told more cuts are coming. We have 46 million hungry, they don’t seem to give a shit. We ought to be able to end hunger. They spent $60 billion on the war in Iran.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/04/2026
All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
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Josh Fireland @fireland.com · 14/04/2026
My zesty maritime fantasy noir CHOKEVILLE is now available as an ebook and audiobook. If you’re looking for a wild adventure to take your mind off the stupid real world then look no further, chum. www.fireland.com
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CHOKEVILLE a novel by Josh Fireland
One crooked city. One chaotic week. Two disaster sisters just trying to stay alive until payday.
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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 22/04/2026
ik you didn’t put a direct ask out for a 3rd party solution, but www.weelplanner.app has been useful for me in the past, mostly the “set 5 alerts on this calendar event i mark as important” feature
weelplanner.app
Weel Planner | ADHD Calendar App for iOS
Weel is the ADHD calendar app for iOS that gets how you think. Best tool to address ADHD, time blindness, dyscalculia, alarm numbness, and more. Stay focused and organized, and say goodbye to chaos.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A reminder:
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/04/2026
Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 19/02/2026
we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A digital illustration of a young girl, 10 or 11, with short, dark hair with bangs and wearing an old fashioned dress with long sleeves and a large amulet around her neck. She’s floating in space, arms out and palms up, toes pointed down, and looking upward with a neutral expression.  She is being lit sharply from below with green light and her eyes are glowing. Arrayed around her in space are several writhing, branching tentacles reaching upward. Behind all this is a dark purple fog surrounding a central glow mostly obscured behind the girl’s dress. Below her is a black miasma that the tentacles are emerging from. The blackness also surrounds glowing green writing in an eldritch, chthonic writing which reads (you just have to trust me on this), ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Roughly, left of the dark area is part of the far side of the Moon, not seen from Earth. The big round feature is the Orientale impact basin, the Moons youngest. That area was in darkness for all the Apollo flights so the Integrity crew are the first humans to see it with their own eyes
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/03/2026
It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal
Investors in the social-media platform’s U.S. business agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources said.
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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
the mayor has been focusing entirely on positive comms while quietly gutting programs and proposing ballot measures to consolidate more power. But this story about his security assaulting a guy on the street seems to have broken through
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/03/2026
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
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'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles
A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/03/2026
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We are bombing Iran to drive out their authoritarian government that cruelly suppresses the democratic will of its people. And if they won't surrender, we're going to cancel the midterms. by Donald Trump
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The Daily Edge @thedailyedge.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Stock futures plunge, removing Pam Bondi's last excuse for not releasing the Epstein Files.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
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