Nicky Spiva
@nickyspiva.bsky.social
Ultimate frisbee, education, public interest advocacy/policy, dad, games, books, code
Writers I like: LeGuin, Butler, Novik, Marlon James, Karen Russell, Arkady Martine, Maile Meloy, Katherine Addison, Maggie Nelson, Rothfuss, Lydia Davis, N.K.
Writers I like: LeGuin, Butler, Novik, Marlon James, Karen Russell, Arkady Martine, Maile Meloy, Katherine Addison, Maggie Nelson, Rothfuss, Lydia Davis, N.K.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Been getting a ton of spam calls lately. Having some form of pre-screening might be a nice feature for any incoming calls from non-contacts. Maybe it’s already a feature? Not sure.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Been getting a ton of spam calls lately. Having some form of pre-screening might be a nice feature for any incoming calls from non-contacts. Maybe it’s already a feature? Not sure.
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The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Derik Queen showing flashes of greatness and impressive intuition for a rookie!!! Also Jose showing such heart and fight! Great to get the first win. #pelicans
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Derik Queen showing flashes of greatness and impressive intuition for a rookie!!! Also Jose showing such heart and fight! Great to get the first win. #pelicans
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Incredible that @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social already called it. Do y’all believe us now that Georgia is in play next year but only if we organize for it?
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Incredible that @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social already called it. Do y’all believe us now that Georgia is in play next year but only if we organize for it?
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Direct File is survived by its code, lovingly preserved on GitHub for potential revival whenever the leaders of the executive branch are no longer bent on looting the country.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Direct File is survived by its code, lovingly preserved on GitHub for potential revival whenever the leaders of the executive branch are no longer bent on looting the country.
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...
Solid explainer on why the Public Service Commission elections in Georgia this fall matter!
Solid explainer on why the Public Service Commission elections in Georgia this fall matter!
1% of Georgia Needs to Watch This Video
YouTube video by Hank Green
youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...
Solid explainer on why the Public Service Commission elections in Georgia this fall matter!
Solid explainer on why the Public Service Commission elections in Georgia this fall matter!
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The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
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wrote this line yesterday:
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
October 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
wrote this line yesterday:
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
Random business idea: re-poppable ball for dogs that love popping kids’ basketballs/footballs/etc.
October 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Random business idea: re-poppable ball for dogs that love popping kids’ basketballs/footballs/etc.
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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
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What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
![Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.
Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.
“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreib66z6racbfo5llgukbvmldxq44zaa7nqetkcs5cwxfez6xcec5oy@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
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Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
October 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
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Did you cancel your Disney+ subscription because you’re sick of the Regime violating the 1st Amendment?
Then sign this petition to free Mario Guevara, an Atlanta journalist who is about to be illegally deported because his reporting on immigration and law enforcement is "dangerous." 👇
Then sign this petition to free Mario Guevara, an Atlanta journalist who is about to be illegally deported because his reporting on immigration and law enforcement is "dangerous." 👇
Speakers during a press conference this week included ACLU GA Senior Staff Attorney Andres Lopez-Delgado, and Guevara's son, who shared how he is faring with health challenges without his dad to support him and the family.
Sign the petition to free Mario: action.aclu.org/send-message...
Sign the petition to free Mario: action.aclu.org/send-message...
Free Mario Guevara
ICE detained journalist Mario Guevara for over 100 days for his reporting, despite orders that he be released on bond. Now, an immigration board has issued a final removal order - and he could be depo...
action.aclu.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Did you cancel your Disney+ subscription because you’re sick of the Regime violating the 1st Amendment?
Then sign this petition to free Mario Guevara, an Atlanta journalist who is about to be illegally deported because his reporting on immigration and law enforcement is "dangerous." 👇
Then sign this petition to free Mario Guevara, an Atlanta journalist who is about to be illegally deported because his reporting on immigration and law enforcement is "dangerous." 👇
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September 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Random business idea: vending machines / kiosks at EV charging stations. Carpooled in a friend’s EV en route to a frisbee tournament over the weekend and we stopped to charge several times but, without a gas station, I wasn’t picking up my typical road trip delights - Gatorade, gum, etc.
September 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Random business idea: vending machines / kiosks at EV charging stations. Carpooled in a friend’s EV en route to a frisbee tournament over the weekend and we stopped to charge several times but, without a gas station, I wasn’t picking up my typical road trip delights - Gatorade, gum, etc.
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
September 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
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It's not even worth mentioning that these Korean workers are here legally, ICE is just torturing any non-white person they can get their hands on
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's not even worth mentioning that these Korean workers are here legally, ICE is just torturing any non-white person they can get their hands on
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
As someone who enjoys puzzles, I’ve recently discovered and become obsessed with these things called cryptics!
Minute Cryptic - 11 September, 2025
"Blank white squares in a box? The first of tricky problems" (7)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
I scored: 3 under par
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Minute Cryptic - 11 September, 2025
"Blank white squares in a box? The first of tricky problems" (7)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
I scored: 3 under par
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
www.minutecryptic.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
As someone who enjoys puzzles, I’ve recently discovered and become obsessed with these things called cryptics!
Minute Cryptic - 11 September, 2025
"Blank white squares in a box? The first of tricky problems" (7)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
I scored: 3 under par
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
Minute Cryptic - 11 September, 2025
"Blank white squares in a box? The first of tricky problems" (7)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
I scored: 3 under par
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...