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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 31/03/2026

Boy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.

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Should Rich New Yorkers Get Free Stuff, Too? Mamdani Says Yes.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

When you create a society that rewards antisocial behavior, punishes compassion and penalizes need & vulnerability, you get a society of assholes held together by the thinnest thread of self-interest. That might work well enough when things are going well, but when shit hits the fan, it detonates.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 19/02/2026

Following MLS is harder than it should be, so I made an automated daily newsletter that rounds up high-quality coverage from around the league. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow but you can sign up in advance here: tally.so/r/eq6DQx

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

the thing is, the way it looks right now democrats are going to do really well even by default. dont have to go on record promising anything, dont need to be bold, dont need to put themselves out there and theyll probably get control thats just not good enough

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

the distance between regular people and politicians/political media is nearing crisis levels. at some point there’s gonna be violent revolt and the responsibility will lay with the people who’ve choked off all avenues for non-violent change far more than the people engaged in violence themselves

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

the people who loudly proclaim your kids shouldnt go to college all went to yale and duke. the people who are working tirelessly to ensure your children work in factories send their own kids to stanford and give them control of their own investment banks in their 20s

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Crime is happening somewhere! I scrolled by a carjacking snuff film that looked eerily like Russian dashcam footage but was labeled as "Deep Baltimore." But where I am? Lol no. No crime happening here. Anyway we must stop the crime that is constantly, vaguely happening in any and all elsewheres.

83% of people say violent crime is a big problem in the country today.

67% of people say crime is not a problem in their neighborhood.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

all i know is how i feel and what people tell me about how they feel. and what i feel is a deep well of rage at everyone on the right who have authored so much misery and pain. i want a political party that reflects that rage and will do something about it. i want justice. i want retribution.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/04/2025

REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I can't really do anything about it and I don't actually disagree with the response on the merits but I feel like it can't be good for me to be walking around all the time feeling the way I do about ICE hogs or RFK Jr.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com and get your real-estate-and-investment-entity-masquerading-as-educational-institution-further-isolating-itself-from-the-city-it-claims-to-serve news *two full months* before NYTimes readers hear about it! hellgatenyc.com/columbia-cam...

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

remember Medicare for All? Wish that was still a thing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

everyone who shit their pants about the thought of trump standing trial or serving time, take note: THIS is what actual failing states look like. functional states punish crimes and coups, even when they’re done by elites. it’s sclerotic, broken states that allow them to return to power, unpunished

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It is illegal for landlords to do this. And it's evil. And it shows why housing should not be a for-profit industry.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/12/2024

my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Congresswoman Kay Granger, reportedly in assisted living, transferred the deed to her home in July for $10, according to property records I obtained. July is when she cast her last recorded vote. But it gets weirder:

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Missing Congresswoman Transferred Home Deed in July

Rep. Kay Granger, reportedly in assisted living, transferred home deed for $10

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It's almost like most americans really despise for profit healthcare and that a presidential candidate who made single payer one of his core policies and really hammered the message home could win in a landslide if his campaign wasn't throttled by his own party on purpose

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Seeing some people say that NYPD cops must have been affected by UnitedHealth being terrible, and while that might be true I think it’s far more relevant that police forces have become first and foremost interested in extracting as much money from cities as possible and uninterested in much else.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It might seem like a cop-out to blame capitalism for so many things, but once you look for it, you see how it subverts every sphere of human life. Advance far enough in any field and you’ll become aware of open secrets that things are being done poorly or even dangerously because of profit motive.

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