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Tom Seiple

@tomlovesdata.bsky.social
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Someone once accused me of being too damn curious, and I took it as a compliment. Data and design nerd, history and economics obsessed, eternally curious as to how the world works. Find me on Medium: medium.com/@seiple.tom *Views are my own*

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2026
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
1. I would vote for anyone who could win a Democratic primary in 2028 2. I will vote for the most credible left candidate in the primary 3. The two-party system is bad and we should replace it with proportional representation 4. The presidency is bad and we should replace it with a Prime Minister
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/02/2026
Here's how the Olympics are used by local governments to expand policing and militarization long after the closing ceremony.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...
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Trump suggests federal control of elections in ‘some areas’
In a lengthy interview with NBC, the president said he will accept the results of the midterm elections if they are “honest.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 26/01/2026
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026
Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026
"Many struggle w/ the pretext that ICE/CBP are in Mpls to enforce immigration law. Bondi’s letter makes vividly clear the real purpose is to compel opposition states — Free States if you will — through violence, to surrender sovereignty to brutal outside rule which treats them as a conquered people"
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Remembering the Boston Massacre as Minneapolis Writhes Under Occupation
Opposition to garrisoning soldiers in civilian towns was a cornerstone of the...
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In the first half of the 20th century, tens of thousands of people (mostly children) suffered paralysis from polio. The first vaccine was introduced in the USA in 1955. Notice the trend afterwards. (by @ourworldindata)
Line chart titled "Reported polio cases in the United States". The y-axis represents the number of reported cases, ranging from 0 to 60,000. The x-axis represents the years, from 1910 to 2022. The chart shows a significant spike in polio cases in the late 1940s and early 1950s, peaking around 1952 with nearly 60,000 reported cases. After the introduction of the first polio vaccine in 1955, the number of cases declined sharply. By 1961, with over 85% of children under ten vaccinated, the cases were significantly reduced. The chart indicates that by 1980, wild polio had been eliminated from the US, with reported cases remaining near zero from that point onwards. The data includes both wild- and vaccine-derived poliovirus infections.
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This.
DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.
"It is the heart of US policy, ladies and gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism."
- Michael Parenti
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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I love how this graphic is totally unhelpful for determining whether you're going to get 30 inches of snow or half an inch of ice.
screenshot of visualization from a weather site of projected snow and ice quantities. The ranges around 30 inches of snow and 0.5 inches of ice cover the same colors.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Felon47 made more money last year, (2025), than he's made his entire miserable life... Tell me again how he's not taking a paycheck... He's robbing Americans.
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 20/01/2026
I think--a lot--about that one time when Lindsey Graham was correct.
Screenshot of tweet by Lindsey Graham on May 3, 2016: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DTjf3V-...

We aren't back in 1930s-40 Germany This is American Jim
Crow South
TikTc
@ kikiraer
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SqueakyWheel1 🇨🇦🇺🇦📎🇲🇽🇫🇷🇺🇸 @squeakywheel1.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I found this very interesting perspective thread on FB.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
. They’re looking into her background to try to find a way to retroactively justify the guy shooting her in the face through her car in a lynching
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 11/01/2026
Someone set fire to the only synagogue in Mississippi’s capital. No coverage yet in our nations leading publications, outside an AP story in WaPo.
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 11/01/2026
BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...
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J-L Cauvin @jlcauvin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We are experiencing the worst people our country has ever produced.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/01/2026
The murderer's name is Jonathan Ross. It's not "doxxing" to name him. We don't have "secret" law enforcement in the United States. Katie Phang sounds off in a must-watch new report:
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Trump PANICS After MN ICE Agent IDENTITY Is REVEALED
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/01/2026
The jobs report is in. What a disaster.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/01/2026
🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We live in a fascist police state. Only way out is through radical change. Whether you believe “normal” is dead or never existed in the first place; either way, we can only look forward and propose an alternative future.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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The January 6th Insurrection Didn't Fail, it Just Took Five Years
Boy, do I feel like an idiot.
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
At this point, I am begging other countries to sanction us. This country needs to experience deep economic strain for many of his voters to finally realize he is only making their lives more miserable.
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Timothy Snyder is one of the most important voices to listen to right now.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"America is an oil company with an army." —George Carlin
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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Democratic leadership badly fumbling the response so far. Shocking right? They’re denouncing Trump but it’s usually around the sixth paragraph. Enough throat clearing. The president is out of control and the opposition party needs to act like it.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
There is a great deal of work that is not bullshit and that very much helps people. Even if not highly paid (and not appreciated), such work is essential for society.
"As striking tube workers recently had to explain 
to indignant commuters, 'ticket takers' don’t in fact 
spend most of their time taking tickets: they spend 
most of their time explaining things, fixing things, 
finding lost children, and taking care of the old, 
sick and confused. If you think about it, is this not 
what life is basically about? Human beings are 
projects of mutual creation and most of the work 
we do is caring for each other. The working classes 
are the caring classes, and always have been."

  - David Graeber
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
If you read only one thing today, make it this. Sarah perfectly captures the political climate of 2025 here. Sadly, I don’t expect that 2026 will be any better.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
NEW: Four key lessons that we can and must take out of 2025. It was a long and difficult year as President Donald Trump and his administration sought to push America into authoritarianism. But, they are losing — and we can get through this. Closing out the year at Law Dork:
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The four key lessons that we can and must take out of 2025
It was a long and difficult year as President Donald Trump and his administration sought to push America into authoritarianism. But, they are losing — and we can get through this.
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
A brilliant design that saves me so many trips to the wrong side of my car!
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The other day, I received a Target gift card. I went to use it but encountered an issue, the bar code wouldn’t scan correctly for the cashier. Turns out, the “bar code” was to be scratched off to reveal another barcode and access code below. This is horribly designed, a thread 🧵 to follow:
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
My wife and I combined our artistic/engineering talents to make some art for our nursery after attending a printing class at @aadl.org
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NPR @npr.org · 26/12/2025
For 50+ years, the NPR Network has offered America trusted information, free of charge. As public media faces a future without federal funding, we're relying on you to sustain this work in 2026 and beyond. Donate now to power Tiny Desk concerts, local reporting and more: n.pr/4pCcFIx
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 19/12/2025
"The slowdown in employment is going to increase pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. But there’s a problem with this approach: we’re in the middle of a bubble, which is increasingly being driven by debt." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What I read this week
Unemployment, housing, and the usual warnings about bubbles...
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Tom Seiple @tomlovesdata.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I’ve been listening to a lot of @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social lately. In my sleep deprived, new-parent state, my dreams have become more like hallucinations, and last night I could have sworn he called me to find out what day and time my birthday party was this year.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Oh my god.
Me quote tweeting Pete Hegseth posting a copy of my video, which he has captioned “Fully authorized uniform modification!
Merry Christmas to our warriors — America'a best.”

@noturtlesoup17
Pete Hegseth stole my fucking video???
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/12/2025
Read this:
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
And there it is...
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