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Travis Hipp

@travishipp.bsky.social
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Vegan farmer, into leftist politics and disc golf. #MMT #UnitarianUniversalism #microgreens #mushrooms #Vegan #DiscGolf

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"Our plan ... replaces the opaque and volatile shadows of private intermediation with a transparent, public-facing mechanism anchored in the enduring fiscal authority of the city government."
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Out of the Shadows: Public Banking for Municipal Finance
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point…
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SnowBallQueen @snowballqueen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It’s nauseating to watch the cruelty. I really don’t understand why anyone would support it.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 10/02/2026
" @drjamesehansen.bsky.social said he'd been told by NOAA colleagues that their conditions are much worse than those in NASA. A NOAA scientist cannot speak with a reporter unless there is a 'listener' on the line with him or her. It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the US." 2006
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RileyTChiweeieT14381 @rileytchiweenie2.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Israel 🇮🇱 is accused of spraying chemicals on farmland inside Syria 🇸🇾 & Lebanon 🇱🇧to destroy crops & plants. Al Jazeera's Ayman Oghanna reports from Quneitra in southern Syria, where farmers say the damage is threatening their livelihoods. #IsraelIsATerroristState www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89xLj4m/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/01/2026
Under DHS’ use-of-force policy, moves that cut off a person's breathing “must not be used as a means to control non-compliant subjects or persons resisting arrest.” But videos we reviewed showed agents using these restraints to do just that.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Let's democratize public universities and give them the power to create money for their communities.
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The Uni Currency Project: Resource Page
Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/01/2026
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A widespread dietary shift from meat to plant-based foods could offset years of harmful CO2 emissions, according to a study from NYU 🌎
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Major shift to plant-based food could offset years of CO2 emissions
A widespread dietary shift from meat to plant-based foods could offset years of harmful CO2 emissions, according to a study from NYU
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/01/2026
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published November)
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is plausible
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Treated like an animal” = our baseline for abuse. That alone should tell us everything about human supremacy.
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The Unspoken Exclusion: Animal Rights & Intersectionality
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“Both of them.”
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Travis Hipp @travishipp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The federal government creates its own dollars. It spends dollars into existence and taxes them out of existence. It literally doesn't need California tax dollars.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Before long the entire city will know what this company does!” said an activist outside of Day & Zimmermann, a “construction, engineering, staffing and ammunition manufacture” company that makes shells and machine gun rounds used by Israel to kill Palestinians. unicornriot.ninja/2025/palesti...
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Palestine Protests Target Philly-Based 'Genocide Profiteer' Day & Zimmermann - UNICORN RIOT
Philadelphia, PA — “Before long the entire city will know what this company does!” These were some of the last words spoken Tuesday morning by a protester with a megaphone and a kaffiyeh scarf after a...
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Travis Hipp @travishipp.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I think it's more of a spectrum than a binary. Voting still matters. Just not as much as it should. And mostly as a defense from things getting even worse.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/05/2025
This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend. Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#GlobalHunger #FoodInsecurity #OncomingGlobalFamine #SOS Vegans often hear the claim that 86% of animal feed is inedible to humans HOWEVER… ‘the research behind this figure shows the #opposite: animal feed competes w food security. Let’s break it down: …’ awellfedworld.org/issues/hunge...
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Feed vs. Food: How Farming Animals Fuels Hunger
Have you ever heard the claim that most animal feed is inedible to humans? The reality is farming animals fuels food scarcity and inequity.
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Crimes against humanity! I am sickened to my core! This must be stopped!
Rep Jerry Nadler says 3 children who are U.S. citizens have been deported and their families have been denied access to attorneys. One of the children has a rare form of cancer and was deported without their medicine or access to their doctor. 
We must end this cruelty.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Ⓥ⚖️ Follow Graham AntiSpeciesism here 🦋: @grahamm.bsky.social
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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A government deficit = A domestic private surplus World reserve currency means our government must print enough dollars to keep both our domestic economy in dollar surplus as well as supply the world with dollars by running trade deficits Everyone uses their dollars to buy a treasury bond
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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"It's the corruption, stupid."
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Travis Hipp @travishipp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I feel more like veganism is a moral baseline more than a high aspiration. It's really not that hard.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg
). The post reads: "Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that."
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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 24/03/2025
The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/03/2025
“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social
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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#ChefBabette ⚖️Ⓥ❤️‍🔥 #SpreadLove #NeverTooLate #InternationalWomensDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjIO...
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TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE AT ANY AGE: The Ripped 73 y/o Vegan Chef on Fitness, Self-Love, & Reinvention
YouTube video by Rich Roll
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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“The slashing of foreign aid deprives the world of American leadership and expertise, but it also locks the US out of global discussions, Dr. Fukuda said: ‘For the life of me, I cannot see the justification or the reason for this very calculated, systematic approach to pull down public health.’”🧪🩺🦠
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How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks (Gift Article)
Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price.
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Travis Hipp @travishipp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Increase social security.
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GOP Blocks Sanders Attempt to Pass $2,400 Increase in Social Security Benefits | Common Dreams
"Instead of cutting Social Security and giving tax breaks to billionaires, Congress must expand Social Security so that every senior in America can retire with the dignity and the respect that he or s...
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/02/2025
"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:
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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/02/2025
AOC says a bill to limit the power of middlemen in the pharmaceutical industry that had almost unanimous support fell apart after Elon Musk tweeted against it. "It killed drug pricing reform that would save people money on their insulin, on their asthma inhalers — everything that they need.”
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AOC: Pharma Reforms Had Almost Unanimous House Support — Until Elon Musk Tweeted
“He sends one tweet, and all of a sudden, everyone backs off,” she said.
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Travis Hipp @travishipp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Good idea
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Michele/Meidas Fan @michelemanziano.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/02/2025
Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Travis Hipp @travishipp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Growing up I saw TV episodes where one character wrote a book or story and based the characters in it on people from their lives. Does anyone else remember shows like that? Feels like it was a common enough writing tool to be a trope with a name but I don't know what the name would be. #writing #TV
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
...they're eating the protections for the people who live there.
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Travis Hipp @travishipp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
DC statehood too
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/02/2025
Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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