Reposted by Steve HaneyAmendment @amendment.app · 18/07/2026🧵 Pennsylvania wants every job listing to tell you what your health insurance will actually cost—before you apply. Not just the salary. The premiums, the deductibles, and exactly how much comes out of your paycheck. 12510
Reposted by Steve HaneyElf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026We have no idea just how far behind the United States will be in 2028. We'll have nothing: no national science infrastructure, no agricultural progress, no medical progress. The oligarch class has decided to hollow America out in a hedge fund takeover. We are being robbed of our future.theverge.comBYD to install thousands of 5-minute EV chargers across EuropeIt wants to build 3,000 chargers across the continent by 2027. 30960052111
Reposted by Steve HaneyGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 19/05/2026The Right needs new talking points and a check on their California Derangement Syndrome. California is the top-performing economy in the US. We dominate in EVERY category — from manufacturing to venture capital, engineering, and research. We are writing the rules of the future. 438101572230
Reposted by Steve HaneyDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 01/05/2026On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP. 24178462183
Reposted by Steve Haneyjane @lazylazyjane.myatproto.social · 02/05/2026a lot of people crack wise about bluesky but what if i told you it facilitated the purchase of the onion by an internet guy who then went on to dismantle one of the biggest misinformation engines of the 21st century 455503538
Reposted by Steve HaneyDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot. 504101952512
Reposted by Steve HaneyTea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026What kind of fool launches an all-out assault against alternative energy, then starts a war that shuts off 20% of the world's oil? 1801315364
Reposted by Steve HaneySpectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 08/04/2026In today's headlines: East Village institution Veselka is bringing back its 24/7 service starting April 17. 1532059
Reposted by Steve HaneyGod @thegodshow.com · 08/04/2026You could have had free healthcare this entire time. The money was always there. Israelis have free healthcare and you don’t. 853032872
Reposted by Steve HaneyKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people 343250779
Reposted by Steve HaneyJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life. 462497580
Reposted by Steve HaneyCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I will never use AI to write anything. Even if it weren't ethically dubious, using AI to write is like having a robot do the reps during weight lifting. Your writing skills will deteriorate. Your voice will atrophy. I genuinely don't understand why any writer would do it. Makes no sense. 482073271
Reposted by Steve HaneyCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%) 561997773
Reposted by Steve HaneyJoe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026THREAD: My article in @lemonde.fr today is behind a pay wall. But I would like to share a few of the key points. I've been lecturing & writing on pieces of this for a few months. This is my most complete exposition, but I hope to turn it into a longer piece soon. 1/ www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...lemonde.fr'Today, 96% of the world's nuclear weapons are held by states with authoritarian leaders'OP-ED. By allowing the New START treaty to expire, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin deliver the final blow to global regulation of the ultimate weapon. International security expert Joseph Cirincione w... 613476
Reposted by Steve HaneyCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026"I love the poorly educated," Trump declared in 2016. A decade later, MAGA has manifested that love into policy. They're purging scientists from govt; defunding R&D; and blocking the best & brightest from around the world from studying, teaching, working, or founding businesses in the United States.thebulwark.comTrump Is Making America StupiderHow MAGA is purging scientists and other skilled workers from both the private and public sectors. 13430157
Reposted by Steve HaneyUSA TODAY @usatoday.com · 19/01/2026President Donald Trump has not recognized Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2026 through official statements, proclamation or activity.bit.lyDonald Trump doesn't acknowledge Martin Luther King, Jr. DayPresident Donald Trump has not recognized Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2026 through official statements, proclamation or activity. 4818490
Reposted by Steve HaneySan Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 10/01/2026Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent. 📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle 171736517
Reposted by Steve HaneyMark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success. 9187812341
Reposted by Steve HaneyRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness. 9728321030
Reposted by Steve HaneyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about. 368124544727
Reposted by Steve HaneySantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11/11/2025Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father. If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience. 1323648562
Reposted by Steve HaneyPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026. If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it. So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.” Because that IS what they are going to say. 45088922920
Reposted by Steve HaneyNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/09/2025it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER." 9195333669
Reposted by Steve HaneyJennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 31/08/2025The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch. 256241345
Reposted by Steve HaneyGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/08/2025According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here. 24987932855
Reposted by Steve HaneyAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/08/2025We think of the White House as a big mansion, but the point is it's not a palace. It's a house. It's modest, one of the smallest residences for a head of state. The east and west wings are deliberately minimal and unobtrusive. It's not Versailles or Buckingham. It symbolizes civic republicanism. 833190569
Reposted by Steve HaneyAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Sure, a lot of rural hospitals and nursing homes will close, but think of all the new concentration camps we're going to open! 28816205
Reposted by Steve HaneyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies. 19054292154
Reposted by Steve HaneyMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Pope Francis knew the enemies within: “In every religion there is always a fundamentalist group that does not want to go ahead and lives on bitter memories, on the struggles of the past, looking for more war and also sowing fear." www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...vaticannews.vaPope inflight presser: 'He who builds walls will end up imprisoned by them' - Vatican NewsAnswering questions put to him by reporters on the papal flight back from Morocco, Pope Francis touched on various topics including dialogue with ... 12867081725
Steve Haney @stevehaney.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Nailed it. This is exactly what’s happening to the United States of America. 000
Reposted by Steve HaneyRetired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books. 26780291465
