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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is correct - personal experiences of needing social services makes people, including policymakers, more opposed to imposing administrative burdens (which is how they are breaking SNAP and Medicaid) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
• When a policymaker has personal, firsthand experience navigating a welfare system or public service, their tolerance for administrative burden significantly drops. © Oxford Academic
• Conversely, policymakers without personal experience are much more likely to tolerate or actively support high administrative burdens, often driven by political ideology or a perception that the target population is "undeserving".
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
At a certain point an unwillingness to recognise people operating in bad faith is a form of complicity
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/06/2026
everyone I know who worked in foreign aid had issues with the structure of U.S. foreign aid, but since those people aren’t brain-dead sociopaths, they didn’t think destroying the entire program was the solution either
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Why would your solution not be to download the software at home idiot www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom...
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“As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I'm at Best Buy often," Newsom told reporters during a news conference. "And I'm paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren't near a Best Buy, they're downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
They have made clear that it was never just about illegal immigration: they hate all immigrants.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/02/2026
Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Troublemaker is my middle name.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/01/2026
This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/01/2026
An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. (Published Aug. 2025)
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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
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Carpinche @claiborne.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
don't you see they're killing us as a distraction
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/01/2026
You need to know… they will kill you
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Welcome to our new, golden age of merit
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 23/12/2025
When everything is a matter of national security, nothing is.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 02/01/2026
if it's harder to get out of a car in an emergency than it is under ordinary safe conditions, that's a design failure
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 02/01/2026
The Grok scandal isn’t isolated; it’s part of a pattern. So it’s odd this CNBC piece omits that Musk himself personally reinstated DomLucre, a regular Fox guest and White House attendee, who was banned under Twitter 1.0 for posting CSAM. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m...
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Musk's xAI faces backlash after Grok generates sexualized images of children on X
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Let's require publicly traded companies to post the SAT scores of all officers subject to board retention and approval. And the board for that matter.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/01/2026
Ooh look, we’re seeing the “let’s attempt to deflect blame to the artificial construct that is The Demon Machine instead of the actual, breathing, fallible humans who made the Demon Machine” maneuver play out in real time!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 22/12/2025
"These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless." - Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS 60 Minutes
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
MAHA Wins
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17/11/2025
"There are about a thousand of us." Yes, because the thing about girls is that they don't stay girls for very long. Which makes them disposable. And which means that men like Epstein need a huge supply.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hero worship in science is rotten. There are no giants on whose shoulders we stand. We're all part of a community that spans time and geography. Getting fixated on origin stories is very Marvel. Science doesn't happen in heroland though.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We must change this mindset that the essential and most critical work in a field is always the first one. That distorted view has caused a lot of problems in psychological science already. The first work is just that—the start. Every field should be evaluated based on the complete body of evidence.
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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 28/03/2024
I think some people don't care about what works, they care about being the authority on what works
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I’ve said since LowerEd is that neoliberal credential expansion usually starts by producing a degree to solve a short term employment bottleneck, for example in nursing in 2000s. The degrees get predatory once demand is met The AI labor market doesn’t even have the short term labor market demand!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 17/10/2025
3 years in, we are still discussing and discovering guardrails. It's as if we learned nothing from the rollout of social media. "OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr." #movefastbreakthings techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/o...
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OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. | TechCrunch
OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists' estate.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
look at my opposition party dawg
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If all the left needed was policy that improves people lives, they’d win every time. What keeps them from that isn’t a lack of good ideas or evidence of good outcomes from those ideas. The biggest obstacle is the societal push to ignore what the lack of soft skills in everyday people leads to.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Someone should write an obituary for the Hatch Act.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 01/10/2025
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses. newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I think we underestimate the extent to which the right wing has eroded civil society simply by pulling stunts like this that make any public participation extremely unpleasant.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
79. American citizen.
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schappa.bsky.social @schappa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I felt the same after reading the Abundance chapter that talked about on the NIH research. After reading your thread, I see close similarities in the arguments from the NYT article and that book
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2025
It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-181956…
It Only Tuesday
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/09/2025
Look you can’t tell me this thing is “intelligently designed” — it goes into a five-minute coughing fit if I breathe wrong. Sometimes it accidentally bites itself. It draws blood.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
between this and Not Like Us it’s been a rough couple years
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
empire always comes home and this is what it looks like. The Pentagon is literally calling the "Safe and Beautiful Task Force" a "presence patrol," the same language it used in Iraq and Afghanistan
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/07/2025
Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to rescind the landmark legal opinion that underpins virtually all of its regulations to curb climate change.
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EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act
The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
oh we're in a RECESSION recession
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14/07/2025
My distrust of the Abundance movement’s motives stems in part from watching up close how Abundance Gov. Polis vetoed affordable housing legislation because it offended real estate moguls. For all the movement’s talk about how much it wants affordable housing, this suggests a very different goal.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Never mind that he broke the law by committing fraud. If breaking the law is in the service of Trump’s political agenda, it’s no longer illegal. Republicans cheer as the law is broken and public health is destroyed. The US is completely fucked.
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