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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14h

This is an astoundingly unethical practice. I encourage folks to read this incredible thread.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That so-called mainstream outlets see the bigoted ghouls at The Manhattan Institute as worthy of interviews and profiles (rather than derision, scorn, and exile) is evidence of their debasement and an indictment of the mainstream.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15h

This is good

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As fascist politics intensify in the United States and globally, sociology faces renewed questions about how to theorize the fraught relationship between racism, capitalism, empire, and democracy. In this article, we argue that the Black Radical Tradition (BRT) offers sociology a powerful analytic for understanding fascism not as a historical aberration but as a recurring political expression of racial capitalism. Drawing primarily on a close reading of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, we examine the epistemological, political, and world-making dimensions of the BRT and trace how Black radical thinkers theorized fascism within the longer history of racial capitalism. We then consider what deeper engagement the BRT might offer the sociology of race and ethnicity, particularly through transnational and historical relational analyses, as well as expanded attention to consciousness, culture, and collective liberation in moments of societal crisis.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 14h

This is not ancient history, it is the hellscape that many on the political right want to return. Many of those young people, now gray-haired, have vivid memories of those hellish days. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Oct. 3, 1963 | Florida Court Convicts Students After Peaceful Protest of Segregated Theater

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026

Millions of voices are impossible to ignore. As we begin our second year without federal funding, our reporting remains loud and clear because people continue to step up to power this free press. Public media is an ongoing commitment that we will live out together. Donate today: n.pr/3VxNBIZ

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 01/10/2026

On this day in 1939, a Sampson County, North Carolina, sheriff arrested two Black people for helping a 21-year-old Black man named Andrew Troublefield avoid being lynched by a white mob of 500 people.

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Oct. 1, 1939 | Two Black People Arrested for Helping Black Man Avoid Lynch Mob

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is what the trump administration is doing to those who oppose ICE agents, they are the 21st-century version of slave catchers.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Speaking as a retired atheist Master Sergeant, Hegseth can take that religious bullshit and shove it where the sun don’t shine… 🖕

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Samuel Alito has recused himself from a Supreme Court climate case, after ethics watchdogs uncovered his fossil fuel stockholdings. Instead of relying on the justices to occasionally do the right thing, we need Congress to enact real SCOTUS reform.

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How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich

Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What an absolutely barbaric country.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 30/09/2026

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

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Nurse helped injured Mexican escape ICE custody at hospital: Feds

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in other words, a hero

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026

Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and attacked the A.I. start-up Hugging Face, two employees raised an alarm with top executives that its newest A.I. models were not being appropriately monitored during testing. They were ignored. nyti.ms/4hPBVtT

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5B a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5B they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions. Kudos to these Autozone workers.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

There’s no scientific basis to many of the public health concerns some critics have with solar development, an expert told ProPublica. “People try to come up with a rationale to justify their dislike of things they dislike for other reasons.” (Published April)

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Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash

Across the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Personally, I’ve been callino it “de-trumpification” after the post WW2 “denazification.” We need to clean house.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This passage from Black Power by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) & Charles V. Hamilton is one that I always find striking. Divestment is more than a financial tool. It is also abt what we expect from systems.

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Black and colored peoples are saying in a clear voice that they intend to determine for themselves the kinds of political, social and economic systems they will live under.
Of necessity, this means that the existing systems of the dominant, oppressive group—the entire spectrum of values, beliefs, traditions and institutions—will have to be challenged and changed. It is not to be expected that this fundamental scrutiny will be led by those who benefit or even have expectations of benefit from the status quo.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rich would prefer you to believe that the "free market" is subject to the immutable law of supply and demand. But for years, the wealthy and powerful have manipulated the market for their own gain. There is nothing “free” about it. Watch.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026

NEW: The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could be swept away.

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Two Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm’s Way

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?

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