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Robert

@scaletail.bsky.social
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Tech worker. Seattleite. Dog owner. Recovering historian.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 9h
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 10h
The largest GOP donor is interfering in Ukraine to benefit Vladimir Putin and Russia's brutal war. Maybe Republican candidates should be asked if they support that?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Whatever one thinks about this place, all of the larger ones, controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, are nothing but giant propaganda/misinformation/porn/surveillance machines owned by oligarchs actively collaborating with fascists.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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kathynavackas.bsky.social @kathynavackas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If we ever need to understand why we have to get money out of politics, this is why. No one person should be able to put this kind of $ into any candidate. #TaxTheRich
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You can be pro-Trump or pro-America, but not both.
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How is it that a sitting president wages a pointless war against a country, invites said country to bomb US cities, and still remains a sitting president?
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For those not following, there’s a city in Russia occupied Ukraine near the frontline cut off from everywhere by mines and torn up roads, the people who haven’t been able to evacuate have only food they can grow themselves or have been rationing for a year, and Russia does not care.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A real "speak of the devil and he shall appear" kind of energy here.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you are not wrong, but, as a man, the bar is pathetically low.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump’s FCC pushes Talarico Kimmel interview to YouTube, trampling the First Amendment. Sound familiar? It happened with Talarico and Colbert last February, which resulted in $2.5M in donations and millions of views. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/a...
nytimes.com
Jimmy Kimmel to Interview James Talarico ‘Under Unusual Circumstances’
A conversation with the Democratic Senate hopeful from Texas will move off air because of what the late night host called F.C.C. “threats” against his show and network.
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Gonna just skip the first half of Seahawks games this year, thankyouverymuch
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kupp good
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026
A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Old: ‘Law enforcement operation’ as a euphemism for illegal war New: ‘Overseas Operations’ as a euphemism for illegal war
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.
nytimes.com
U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
What Black people think does not matter to them, how Black people have used the term and how we understand it does not matter to them. They don’t have any use for the opinions of Black people because they don’t think Black people’s thoughts hold any value.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On this, the 63rd Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, I urge you to think about the least quoted passages of “I Have a Dream,” the speech MLK delivered that day. Note the refrain: “we cannot be satisfied,” “we are not satisfied,” 1/ www.npr.org/2010/01/18/1...
npr.org
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety
Americans across the U.S. are celebrating King's legacy this weekend. One way to reflect on his life and message is by revisiting his celebrated 1963 speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After they are done with the Haitians the chains are for us
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This was always going to be the next step. There are no trans players in the WNBA so instead they're going after cis women who are insufficiently feminine for them.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cruelty for cruelty's sake, evil for evil's sake, in our name. Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East
Joshua Aviles says he is on a nine-month Middle East deployment and learned his father has been arrested while he was waiting for green card approval
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Interestingly consistent that about 5% of voters who would vote Democratic refuse to vote for a woman. This country absolutely must reckon with misogyny if we are to progress.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/08/2026
we were promised flying cars, and we got pervert glasses and generative CSAM
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
its pretty telling how much silicon valley tech "innovation" is specifically products useful to shithead teen boys to harrass girls with
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'Crime is down, which is why I've secured more funding, even though the state cut spending elsewhere due to a budget deficit, to hire more police.'
Meme picture of a dark-skinned man looking confused with question marks near his head.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I couldn’t make this up if I tried.🤬 “An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody.“
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Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 12/08/2026
Mayor Wilson just won an end to rental junk fees, after fighting for free school lunches in Seattle, reforms that advance her housing agenda, a bold transit plan, and took bold action to align the PD with Seattle’s expectations, needs, and values. All while being a world class World Cup host.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Murderer.
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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 05/08/2026
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
bloomberg.com
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW: Young people are on the ballot this election, but can we please get young people to the ballot BOX? So far, King County voters 65+ account for 4 times as many ballots as people under 35. You have until 8pm Tuesday to close that gap!
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King County Boomers Have Turned In FOUR TIMES As Many Ballots As Voters Under 35 This Election
The 2026 election could be another “change” election with younger challengers aiming to unseat longtime incumbents in several State legislative races around Seattle. But these young, scrappy candidate...
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Robert @scaletail.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If everybody could just stop starting wildfires, that would be great.
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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It’s a whole ass tragedy that our paper of record actually hates Seattle and regular Seattlites so bad that they try to sabotage the objectively best mayor we’ve had since I’ve lived in city boundaries
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Just want to check I didn't miss anything. Dow Constantine still hasn't held a press conference about the downtown portion of the system being shut down for 14 hours right?
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
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Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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