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professajay.bsky.social
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Uses the word "proudly" in the first sentence. Says it is the "first arrest of many to come" in the second sentence.

If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Mar 10
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply. Thank you!
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
This is a very good and useful news story. It reports on DOGE’s understanding that people hate them and what they’re planning to fix it.

It notes, in detail, that what they say they are doing (streamline/improving gov’t tech) was already being done by 18F, a gov agency they blithely destroyed.
March 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Resistance HQ Bulletin 4, 11/14/24. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it got worse. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Resistance HQ Bulletin 4, 11/14/24
… Trump nominated environmental lawyer turned kooky medical conspiracy theorist RFK Jr as his HHS Secretary. HHS is a sprawling federal agency that probably impacts the daily lives of more Americans t...
open.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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meidastouch.com
This will be an evergreen post fyi
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Nov 13
We regret to inform you it’s going to get a whole lot worse
November 15, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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fpwellman.bsky.social
“… and this will cause widespread food shortages (think coffee, cacao beans, many fruits and veggies, especially off-season and tropical). The Trump transition team member said: “maybe Americans shouldn’t eat those foods.”
November 14, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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fpwellman.bsky.social
From a friend: “Someone I know had a meeting with a Trump agriculture transition team member. This person said surely you’re not going to impose tariffs on food imports. He responded why wouldn’t we? And my person said: because about 30% of the food Americans regularly consume cannot be grown here…”
November 14, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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meidastouch.com
We regret to inform you it’s going to get a whole lot worse
November 13, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
My name is Aaron Parnas. I’m 25 years old, and I am a proud Gen Z Democratic activist.

We suffered a tough loss last week, but now’s the time to band together, build community here, and fight back.

Repost this, give me a follow, and let’s build community here. I’ll follow back!
November 14, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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ruwaromman.bsky.social
Hey @aaron.bsky.team, I’m a Palestinian elected official and have been working to get my colleagues over here. Really like this place but structural discrimination against Palestinians is a deal breaker. Please fix this👇
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Nov 12
So I hate to tag the mods- but I sent this email about the mass deletion of Palestinian accounts over a week ago to @support.bsky.team and I haven’t heard anything back (apologies if I somehow missed an email). I’d like to ensure it will be seen by the proper people.
MS Molly Shah To: support@bsky.app › 04.11.24 Gazan Accounts I am writing about the spam label/ suspension problem that many Gazan accounts are having on Bluesky. I try to message most of the new accounts from Gaza to try to help them avoid being labeled but it would really help to have some more specific guidelines, because many people I believe are following the guidelines l've been suggesting and still having problems. I understand that you probably cannot tell me specifics but even general information would help me help these accounts act in accordance with Bluesky's rules, which I'm assuming is the goal of both of us. It also may be helpful to publicly post some of this information (preferably in a few languages including Arabic). Specifically I would really like to know: - Information on follower count leading to a spam label (is there a hard number they should avoid- is it overall/ by day?) Also are there any plans to just limit the amount of follows an account can do if a large following amount is something that is triggering a rules violation? -Information on how complaints come in regarding messages and replies and how they are generally assessed (once again I know that you can't give me specifics but it would really help to let them know what is going to happen if someone makes a complaint). Also in the case of replies- is it taken more seriously if the complaint is made by the person who got the notification or can anyone complain about a reply (even if it wasn't made to them) and it will be treated similarly? -Information about how an account is assessed for spam if there isn't a complaint about a specific message or reply (for example if the account is reported as spam-what general things do you look for). Would just posting their own GoFundMe link on their page lead to a spam label or suspension if someone reported them? Do you take into account that sometimes Palestinians are targeted for reports because of their race? -Information regarding the appeals process-many times no one hears anything back after submitting an appeal (and sometimes they don't receive any information on what triggered the ban to begin with). Also in which cases would an account be asked to provide ID documents to stay in good standing? I know that moderation is not an easy job but I think that most of these specific accounts would be willing to follow the Bluesky rules if they knew what they were. I really enjoy Bluesky as a community and I know that making it a welcoming place is a goal we probably both share. Thank you in advance for any information you can give me. -Molly Shah (@mommunism.bsky.app)
November 14, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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jenlhook.bsky.social
I made a Starter Pack!

But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary

Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT

@wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/63Jq944

#Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky
November 15, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Can Bluesky be a special different world where RFK Jr simply does not exist?
November 15, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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shampoochan13.bsky.social
Block lists Thread,
October 19, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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killgoldfish.bsky.social
this is the only "the democrats should ______" that i'll tentatively endorse. yes, a "democratic" party should do democracy.

HOWEVER,

www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The US Is a Civic Desert. To Survive, the Democratic Party Needs to Transform Itself.
The party should jettison its consultant class and move toward a local-membership model that would help to rejuvenate civic life across the country.
www.thenation.com
November 11, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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dralistruthers.bsky.social
Okay, I've made one! It's a small #StarterPack at the moment, but please do share to see if we can build a bigger #ChildrensRights community on here.

If people would like to be added, please comment below & I'll be happy to keep growing it 👍

go.bsky.app/8tTSVLA
November 9, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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garethknapman.bsky.social
I have started building a stater pack for history of colonialism and imperialism

go.bsky.app/TDMSz4Y
November 9, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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jamellebouie.net
put this kid on cnn
November 10, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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cenx.bsky.social
Update: I lied. All roads lead back to Stardew Valley.
November 9, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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sunflowergpsy.bsky.social
November 10, 2024 at 5:55 AM
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aurorablogspot.bsky.social
This comparison between Hitler and Trump shows how much they have in common.

From this you can only conclude one thing: a vote for Trump is a vote for someone who wants to run the US like a fascist!

#HarrisWalz
#HarrisWalz2024
November 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
A first reaction to the news of #Trump #poetry #poems #comrade #election #lgbtq #blacklivesmatter #everydaysexism #refugees
November 6, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
It seems we are already losing sight of the fact that a handful of billionaires effectively turned our information ecosystem into a Superfund site, no one knows how to clean up the mess, and simply telling the truth and hoping people find it is woefully insufficient
November 7, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
There are just two people online who I hope never set their sights on me: Isaac Chotiner and the menswear guy
Derek Guy: imagine graduating from Harvard, producing a show at MSNBC, advising the Senate Budget Committee, and writing a book about US economic policy, only to be out-influenced by a guy who spent 15 years arguing about pants on an obscure menswear forum Matt Stoller: While it's easy to rail against unnamed elites, there's a broad cultural problem among Dems in general. One beloved Dem Twitter account is that of a snob who mocks wardrobes for not being authentically aristocratic.
November 7, 2024 at 5:02 AM