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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

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The War Against Accumulated Capital

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Tom Durack @tomdurack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For anyone with the PBS app, two new episodes of one of my favorite documentary series' of all time dropped last week and are streaming now: www.pbs.org/show/new-yor...

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New York: A Documentary Film

Discover the story of New York through decades of challenge, growth and change.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just checked my voter registration. I encourage all of you to do the same. Try your state's official site. AVOID VoteSafe.Org. It's an Elon Musk scam to harvest data.

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Tom Durack @tomdurack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We will be lucky to survive this.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't know who made this. But we love you for making it ❤️

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Tom Durack @tomdurack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Heather Cox Richardson is a national treasure.

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Tom Durack @tomdurack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy Birthday to the late great Richard Farnsworth. (1920-2000)

Poster for the 1982 film The Grey Fox, starring Richard Farnsworth.

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Tom Durack @tomdurack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Amidst so much else, this right here.👇

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

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Tom Durack @tomdurack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My favorite of SRV’s recorded renditions of this song, and one of my favorite guitar performances ever. Holy shit that vibrato. And that tone. youtu.be/rb53-sDII0o?...

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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Voodoo Chile (Live From Austin, TX)

YouTube video by stevierayvaughnVEVO

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

Dave Eggers, on NPR's Wildcard with Rachel Martin: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...

"This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say like you are one of one unprecedented in the history of human evolution. There's only one of you. …There's never been you in Ever, and there never will be another one of you. So to give your voice to a machine, to say 'speak for me, I'm going to be silent and I'm going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative,' is such a crime against yourself.

"It's so dystopian, beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel— and I did a lot; I never saw this coming— would be an entire generation tempted and too many of them acquiescing to the the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland unthinking machine to voice their souls.

"But if you can tell them, 'even your roughest drafts, even your most disjointed seeming thoughts are going to be valid; and your voice is essential; the human chorus is incomplete without your voice; and I'm going to listen to whatever you say, even the rough drafts, whatever; I want those; I want to see it all," then we can make sure that that they're heard and that they feel like there are humans out there that want to hear that voice and not the machine processed voice.

"…Good lord, we're at a really scary time, you know, but every adult has to be that person. Every teacher, every parent has to be the one saying, 'Do not do this.' Your voice is the only thing that you have naturally. It's the one thing that nobody can replace. So let's hear your truth. Even if it's raw, even if it's unpolished, even if it doesn't come in the five paragraph essay or whatever. Like, let's let's have it straight from you."

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tom Gray is amazing at this sort of thing. An impassioned speech to the Ivors Academy. Inspiring stuff.

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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Interesting concept. While still in the research, optimization and scaling stage, it could eventually eliminate the need for much of the solar apparatus that converts solar to usable energy. "The chemistry absorbs the sunlight and the chemistry is the storage." 🌎🧪

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Melia's Mouth @meliasmouth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This man 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/11/2025

A new history of rock makes the case for the long-overlooked drummer—and the great mystery of the instrument, James Parker writes.

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Respect the Drummer

A new history of rock, told through its overlooked heroes

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/11/2025

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A New York mayor who governs in practical terms as a socialist, guided by a consistent and genuine promise to always consider and address the basic needs and hopes of everyday New Yorkers? Crazy, surreal shit. But Fiorello LaGuardia is smiling somewhere tonight.

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Still slaps, though I’m utterly heartbroken by its prescience.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Uncanny. I will never for a moment wonder again how it could have happened. I see exactly how it happened. You just need one malignant narcissist and then a whole lot of ordinary, stupid people to give themselves over to either raw hate or determined indifference. It rides again.

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A timely reminder: I WANT YOU TO STOP BEING AFRAID: of other Americans of other religions of other classes of other nations of speaking out. You’re Americans. Act like it! If you don’t get it, ask an American who does.

A black and white photo of a young black man, standing near the US Capitol on a clear day with a large sign that reads:
I want you to stop being afraid:
of other Americans
of other religions
of other classes
of other nations
of speaking out.
You’re Americans.
Act like it!
If you don’t get it, ask an American who does.

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Hairball 😡🙄😡🙄🌊✊ @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I hate anti-intellectualism. Not only does it make us look like a hopelessly stupid country, it's going to kill us all.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Poetry by Boots, Louisville

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