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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 25/04/2025

I have a bipartisan bill that would make these protections ironclad. It passed the House unanimously (twice) and it was never taken up in the Senate. Now Trump is laying the groundwork to lock up reporters who don't rat out their sources who expose crimes by his administration.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/02/2025

MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

Jeff Stein &
@JStein WaPo
A federal worker sent me audio of a call that HR did today with staff about "deferred resignation" agreements offered by DOGE ... I think this is pretty well understood by now but helps confirm what many suspect
The audio goes:
Employee: Lets say I accept the agreement tomorrow - you were to rescind the agreement and they were to stop paying me on Friday ... we would have no recourse available?
HR official: Yes... as the agreement is outlined that is absolutely correct
11:40 AM • 2/5/25 • 168K Views

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That guy from that thing @vocable.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Knocked out by the new Heather Maloney album. She’s always great but Exploding Star is really something special. Sad but not despairing. Kind of perfect for me in this moment.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Feel like a talented headline writer could do something with this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

New, from me: Looking closer at the effort to induce mass civil servant resignations. *The offers are not real buyouts *Feds should read the fine print *If mass resignations occur, it is really bad for the rest of us donmoynihan.substack.com/p/compelling...

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Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos

Twitter is not a model for government reform

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/11/2024

"Here the numbers as they actually exist in the real world: Transgender: 1 percent Muslim: 1 percent Jewish: 2 percent Black: 12 percent Live in New York City: 2 percent Gay or lesbian: 3 percent" If they're this divorced from reality I guarantee these folks cannot conceive magnitude of $1bn

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Imagine Van Gogh, a man who history shows slowly self-destructing from his own inner battles and the doubts and insecurities his family and community projected on him. Imagine a young Van Gogh applying for an art grant. How would he be weighed? Would we ever have seen his world? Is it replaceable?

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

A really powerful and useful lesson from art history: Most famous artists were deeply flawed people. Why does this matter? Because so many folks defend meritocracies by the assumption that optimal people produce optimal work but much of our best art came from people who weren't the "best" choice.

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