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Sue Apfelbaum

@sueapfe.bsky.social
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writing, editing, UXing | pro democracy, anti fascist | ❤️ rescue dogs she/her

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." UN Declaration of Human Rights, which the United States violates.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone is unclear why Trump really backs A.I. 👇🏽
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Sue Apfelbaum @sueapfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
*misspelled loon (also, states have just 2 senators so is “lone” even necessary?)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The most corrupt regime ever. With no close 2nd.
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Steve Witkoff Earned More Than $100 Million From Entity Tied to Trump Crypto
The Trump envoy’s income surged in 2025, lifted by gains from World Liberty Financial.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

the ONION
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/09/2026
or maybe we tax technofascist billionaires out of existence and save our democracy and the planet itself 🤷
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living.
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Sue Apfelbaum @sueapfe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“The gap between what we see and what’s really happening is vast… research suggests that the true number of people experiencing homelessness … is at least 6x as high as official counts. As bad as the reported numbers are, the reality is far worse.“
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The labor movement gave us weekends, 8 hour work days, and ensured that our kids can go to school rather than work. Honored to fight for unions every day. Happy Labor Day to all those who have fought for a fairer economy in the richest country in the world.
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Sue Apfelbaum @sueapfe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Of the many lawsuits challenging the legality or constitutionality of actions by the Trump Administration this year, the case involving the Presidential Records Act […] should loom larger,” writes Marcia Coyle the one loomer I’m paying attention to: constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-const...
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A Constitutional Fight to Preserve History
Of the many lawsuits challenging the legality or constitutionality of actions by the Trump Administration this year, the case involving the Presidential Records Act is likely just a blip on the radar ...
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Sue Apfelbaum @sueapfe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
where have all the fiscal conservatives gone?
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Sue Apfelbaum @sueapfe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“A total cost estimate by the nonpartisan watchdog Project on Government Oversight for the deployment is around $3.4 billion.” an absolute travesty of waste
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
They said straight up they wanted to disenfranchise women and people of color. They said they wanted to dismantle the federal government. And the likes of Thiel funded them for building the plans on how to do it. And _nobody cared_ when this shit was pointed out. People thought you were crazy.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
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Who do you have to kill to become a partner at A16Z?
YouTube video by Anil Dash
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alohamax.bsky.social @alohamax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.britannica.com/biography/Do...
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Doris Miller | Biography, Facts, & Role at Pearl Harbor | Britannica
Doris Miller, U.S. naval serviceman noted for his bravery during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941). He carried wounded crewmen to safety and manned a .50-caliber antiaircraft gun until being ...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
During the AIDS crisis, a lot of men died alone or comforted by non-family because their parents had cut them off. Where the hell are the articles --and the judgments-- about parents who cut their children off or abused them so badly separation was survival?
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
shop name: tall tales book shop (talltalesatlanta.com) cat name: mr. marlowe call to action: barnes and noble just announced they want to open a bookstore *in the same shopping center* 😤 if you live in atlanta, please help keep tall tales open by shopping there! support your local indie bookshops!
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Tall Tales Book Shop
Feeding your book cravings since 1979!
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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As with so much of what he says, this is in no way true.
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RFK Jr. Claims He’s Not Allowed to Vote Because He Has “No Legal Residence”
The court didn’t say he had “no legal residence,” just that he lied about where it was. Falconry records notwithstanding.
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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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kottke.org @kottke.org · 11/08/2026
“Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years… For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10.2 billion years of full health gained.” [thelancet.com]
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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50 years. In the context of strengthening primary health care, our results show that equitable univers
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Marx's demon deliverance ministry appears to have started decades ago when he says prison guards left him alone in a cell with a 15-year-old girl who spoke to him as Satan. When I visited Marx's training center, his team politely offered to perform an exorcism on me. I declined.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Imagine if you mailed the IRS a check to pay your taxes, but they left their mail unopened for years and then arrested you for failure to pay taxes. That’s effectively what ICE is doing to increasing numbers of people now; people out of status only because of GOVERNMENT delay.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/07/2026
Made a new zine for @handsoffnyc.bsky.social with brilliant artist @priyahuq.art! Hands Off Our Vote! Visit www.handsoffnyc.com/our-vote for the big plan!
Hand holding a zine titled "HANDS OFF OUR VOTE!" with the subtitle "LET'S PROTECT THE MIDTERMS!" Art by Priya Huq shows a multiracial group of people of various ages standing lined up in front of a "VOTE HERE / VOTE AQUI" sign, smiling, with fists raised.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/07/2026
I'm seeing really ugly stuff in the replies on how she chose this and I want you to take a beat to understand how the military disproportionately targets certain communities, including and especially in Texas, for recruitment.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy...
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Dan Haar: Fake news? No, fake media may be the real danger at a Connecticut ICE raid
"This is a reality-TV-show president... And it sounds to me like they were making a reality TV show," Amanda Crawford said.
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/07/2026
🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...
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Hachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Also in this piece: A response to JD Vance's recent indictment of creedal nationalism, which got a lot of attention but gets some basic things really wrong: newrepublic.com/article/2121...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The corruption is staggering in scale and scope, it doesn’t stop, and Republicans in Congress refuse to do any oversight because, as Mike Johnson admitted this week, they serve as a protection racket to cover up the crimes of the regime.
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Sue Apfelbaum @sueapfe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“… in each generation, the question renews itself: Who holds power, and who can see it? … The founders’ deepest grievance was not taxation, but the invisible hand”
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
Site's getting hammered because of this but: web.archive.org/web/*/https:... Of course we saved it.
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Wayback Machine
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/07/2026
Sometimes I genuinely wonder what the founding fathers would think of the violent police state we have evolved into, but then I also remember that most of them owned slaves and several settled arguments by pistols duels, so maybe they’d think it’s just sorta fine?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The explosion of MAGA rage at birthright citizenship ruling confirms again that MAGA is really a movement for ethnic cleansing. As we discuss on the pod, it's telling that sealed border and end to TPS/asylum don't sate MAGA. They want dramatic ethnic purges. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2125...
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MAGA Rage Takes Unnerving Turn as Birthright Loss Rattles Trump Badly
As fury mounts at the Supreme Court decision upholding birthright citizenship, an immigration lawyer explains how we’re heading into a long war over the 14th Amendment—and what might come next.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:
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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As a strict originalist, I believe that we must take the American Constitution literally. Unless its literal meaning contradicts the opinion of a Republican president.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/06/2026
The greatest country in the world: one where we all wait with baited breath to hear the results of the seance six wizards in robes selected by two presidents who lost the popular vote had with child rapist slavers to decide whether marginalized people are allowed to exist.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026
This is also how people talked themselves into supporting ending affirmative action, targeting high profile Black administrators at universities, and banning Black theory and scholars from curricula.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I wish I could feel celebratory, but I don’t. To me, the darkness that has befallen our country doesn’t call for celebration or self-congratulation — not this week, nor as long as the darkness prevails. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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SJ Sarah @thedarlingclem.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Submit a Comment Objecting to Vote-by-Mail Takeover | American Postal Workers Union
Tell USPS: Hands Off Our Right to Vote-by-Mail Under pressure from the White House, the Postal Service is trying to rewrite the rules on who gets to Vote-by-Mail, and we urge postal workers to speak u...
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Dreadkiali @dreadkiaili.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Go to the rule page at federalregister.gov and click the green “Submit a Formal Comment” button. You can also go to regulations.gov and search for docket number OMB-2026-0034, then click “Comment.” Direct link here.
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Home - Wednesday, June 24th
Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh 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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