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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Comparing this to the state of affairs in the US, you see that both parties have such a Reaganite aversion to government agencies and programs, they would fight any scheme that wouldn't generate private profit at least at some step. See Medicare for All.

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Social Democrats and progressives like it for freeing women from some of the burden of patriarchy. But the underlying consensus is that government can and should do things that achieve social policy goals that the market can never deliver.

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The explicit reasoning behind this is to ensure that women who quit their job or reduce hours to take care of a relative at home won't end up impoverished in old age because of it. This arrangement appears to enjoy broad political support. Conservatives like it for family values.

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Lars Maischak @larsmaischak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Germany, if you spend ten+ hours per week caring for a person who requires such care for reasons of age, illness, or disability, the Pflegeversicherung (Care Insurance Agency) will pay Social Security contributions on your behalf. This will give you higher retirement benefits.

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most of our problems here in 🇺🇸 are systemic— something the plutocrats who control ALL 🇺🇸 mainstream media (*including* NPR and PBS - not just corporate media) AND the only 2 political parties that mainstream media treats as legitimate don't want the people living here to understand. #Plutocracy

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

my problem is shaming welfare recipients period. go get your welfare young yt man it's fine

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is up there with the Washington post “let’s just humor him, what’s the worst that could happen” quote from November 2020 for “most revealing anonymous quotes of the Trump era”

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FT quote: "I feel liberated,' said a top banker. 'We can say retard and pussy without the fear of getting canceled ... its a new dawn.'"

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Which is why this quote, reported shortly after Trump's victory, remains one of the purest expressions of the ethos of his support: bsky.app/profile/qjur...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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peregrine kate (she/her) @peregrinekate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What is ICE/DHS doing to the children?

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Eric @ericgrote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What’s with this guy? Seems like he cares about literally all types of people. I didn’t know politicians could do that

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 29/09/2026

Even after last year's H.R. 1 boosted Pentagon spending to historic levels, Congress is considering spending $73 billion more to underwrite Trump’s war on Iran. On @nationalpriorities.bsky.social, our analysts break down how far that $73 billion could go funding SNAP and Medicaid instead.

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Sunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are inflicting so much unnecessary trauma on children in this world. 😢

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say..."

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The whole commentary on "woke" is segregationist language made palatable by propagandists and adopting it does Rufos work for him.

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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clinton and Obama had a narrow vision of higher ed as a jobs-training / credentialing program. Biden backed the crackdown on student free speech during the 2023-24 academic year that more directly paved the way for the Trump attacks that began in 2025.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The 'economic issues not culture wars' frame adopted by much of the Democratic Party is entirely wrongheaded. It’s an example of intellectual dishonesty, moral cowardice, historical inaccuracy, and flawed electoral politics all wrapped together." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Surely we can come up with a compromise over chattel slavery" is literally the founding idea of U.S. centrism, which has spent the last two and a half centuries repeatedly living up to that legacy.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The fact that the preferred political movement of the free speech set immediately set about establishing “western civics centers” while gutting the rest of the humanities and supports for marginalized students really does tell you what the source of their concerns really were

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cramped political imaginations lead down very regressive paths.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People are actually pressured not to develop political imagination in this country. You are called naive, idealistic, not with it, at best.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"It is perfectly honest to say, 'I chose a private school because I want the best for my kid, but it is also true that private schools are bad for society and do more to reproduce inequality than to remedy it." Great @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...

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Private Schools Are Bad for Society

The starting point for any honest discussion.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"What gets lumped into 'cultural issues' these days includes higher education, immigration, racism, transgender rights, policing, abortion, sexism, religion, voting rights, and numerous other matters. Labeling those issues as 'cultural' or 'social' trivializes them." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

newrepublic.com

Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The idea that you can easily separate 'economic' and 'cultural' issues is nonsense. It’s very expensive for transgender Americans to move to blue states so they can live freely. It’s harder to buy a house in a neighborhood with rising home values if you are Black." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Labeling a whole suite of matters as 'cultural' provides the pretext to ignore or even adopt Republican positions on them. And what’s exactly what Democratic politicians are doing." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/09/2026

Community members have “described their fear, their feeling of isolation, shame, anxiety and uncertainty,” as a result of being forced to wear ankle monitors, Michaelle Louis, a Haitian organizer in Springfield, said. For many, the monitors affect their ability to work, travel, and more.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

newrepublic.com

Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as "culture war" fights, news outlets automatically open themselves up to being attacked for being "woke" or "biased" when the issue becomes so huge they can no longer treat them as such, a la the mass deportations of the last several years. Consistently treating them as serious, substantive

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

but if you're Black, or an immigrant, or trans or whatever, these fights are in many ways even MORE serious than "kitchen table" issues like taxes. People are literally dying as a result of these fights. I can't imagine a scenario in which a news outlet covered the death of a US service member ...

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This great @perrybaconjr.bsky.social piece also gets at a within our industry. Outlets act as if eliminating human rights protections or stripping Black people of political representation are "culture" issues, which are treated as less important than "kitchen table" newrepublic.com/article/2159...

newrepublic.com

Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure

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Ironic Star Wars Moment

Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We like to cordon evil off to make evil the domain of a few demented individuals... who seem quite different from us. But whether it's the transatlantic slave trade or Nazism or genocide... We see again and again that evil... is the product of demented social orders. -John Green

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The way people talk about/treat far-right people/policies AND their targets today, is how they would have treated far-right people/policies —including Slave Codes, Jim Crow, Fascists, Nazis, etc.— AND their targets in the past, had they been there/then. Compliance and compromise are NOT resistance.

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The abdication by US for-profit media to inform society about sociology, philosophy, or human rights; whilst nurturing support for ultranationalism, militarism, worship of wealth and physical strength, and everything as competition cultivated support for fascism. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrana...

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Ultranationalism - Wikipedia

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The current(illegitimate) occupants of the US White House led a violent, attempted self-coup. Afterward, the Supreme Court forced him onto the ballots —in contravention of the US Constitution— and the highest-ranking Dem politicians didn't even protest the ruling. MSM normalized it all and moved on.

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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty clear that the Trump admin is really relying on this new strategy to attack more communities while getting less public backlash than before

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Critical reporting by @theguardian.com: The SS goes stealth. Their quiet crimes are all around us. Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.

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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 22/09/2026

One in six Filipino women surveyed after the Maui wildfires said they felt forced into "survival sex" for food and housing. It's a pattern that repeats, yet Trump's FY2027 budget cuts funding to survivor orgs. A new bipartisan bill aims to add DV resources to FEMA's response. From @19thnews.org.

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Could Disaster Recovery Include Protecting Women From Domestic Abuse and Exploitation?

Proposed legislation would strengthen FEMA’s response to gender-based violence, an issue advocates say is often overlooked after natural disasters.

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