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Corey Atad

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the biggest takeaway? Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is the most important, influential cultural product of the century (so far)

November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM

charlotte

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hi, sorry i am never here but all of you should follow my boss on this app!

Michael Moore @mmflint.bsky.social · 24d

“Will we remain in the shadows, or will we together step into the light?” - a must-watch video from NYC’s next Mayor, Zohran Kwame Mamdani www.michaelmoore.com/p/will-we-re...

“Will We Remain In The Shadows, Or Will We Together Step Into The Light?”

A Must-Watch Video of New York City’s Next Mayor, Zohran Mamdani. The people of New York City are on the verge of doing something historic.

www.michaelmoore.com

October 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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half-aspirational

@ohtazer.goblinmo.de

every leftist candidate that we get in office needs a vociferous movement TO THEIR LEFT that continues pushing and pushing, even when it's "our guy". the stronger the leftist vision the more they'll be able to fight for. we need to blast the overton window open wide enough for them to step through.

Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · Sep 17

Searchlight Institute here punching left, when the only reason Congress/FDR were able to pass social security is because the further left Townsend Plan and Share the Wealth programs were so popular. If they hadn't existed, neither would social security.

For example, the groups currently charged with generating new ideas would have rejected Social Security due to their overriding commitment to left-wing orthodoxy. Focusing on the elderly was itself a compromise, with the left demanding universal payments to all Americans in the form of the Townsend plan or Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth campaign—programs that could not have passed, even with Democrats enjoying enormous margins in both chambers of Congress. The policy design of Social Security would have been derided by today’s progressive think tanks because the benefits are financed by a highly regressive funding mechanism in the payroll tax. Yet FDR’s decision to focus on the elderly made the plan politically feasible, and his insistence on the payroll tax made it durable. Nearly 100 years later, Social Security remains highly effective and profoundly popular.

September 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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half-aspirational

@ohtazer.goblinmo.de

everybody needs a bad bitch in their ear reminding them that it makes sense their personal development is being stunted by critical sleep issues and migraines

August 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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Kelsey Atherton

@atherton.bsky.social

Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...