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Rachel Glickhouse @rachelg.bsky.social · 12h

Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...

Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice

Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said this b4, but here’s a little inside baseball from a former Republican: Back in my GOP days, we Republicans would privately laugh at how Democrats would never go to the mat to win. We always knew Democrats wouldn’t fight to the death politically.

Last night proved Republicans right again.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.

www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

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Rod Green @thetheredundant.bsky.social · 5d

The Clinton/Obama/Biden/Pelosi era of Democratic politics has reached it's end. We need to move on. Someone tell Chuck Schumer.

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 6d

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too.

This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 6d

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6d

Barack Obama congratulated Democrats generally. Bill and Hillary Clinton congratulated Zohran Mamdani specifically.

The last posts on the X accounts of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are ones expressing grief about the death of Dick Cheney.

In case anyone was wondering.

Barack Obama @BarackObama
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It's a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We've still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
8:46 PM • 11/4/25 • 29M Views

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Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani on your election as the next Mayor of New York City. I'm wishing you success as you work to transform the passion of your campaign into building a better, fairer, more affordable New York.
9:02 PM • 11/4/25 • 630K Views

Hillary Clinton
@Hillary Clinton
More people voted in New York City's election this year than they have in 50 years.
That's a win for democracy, and a testament to @ZohranKMamdani's inspiring campaign.
Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world.
9:13 PM • 11/4/25 • 826K Views

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 6d

From time to time, news organization leaders should look around and ask: Do our stories reflect the current state of political discourse? Do our segments represent the voices of all voters?

Big media takeaways from Mamdani’s victory and the Democratic sweep | CNN Business

From time to time, news outlet leaders should look around and ask: Do our stories reflect the current state of political discourse? Do our segments represent the voices of all voters?

www.cnn.com

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 6d

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 6d

Zohran Mamdani won young men 18-29 by 40 points.

40!

And he did so by standing FOR economic justice, FOR Trans rights, FOR immigrant rights, FOR labor rights, FOR Palestinian rights, & FOR diversity—& still unapologetically dunking on Trump.

He is anti-MAGA w/o throwing people under the bus.

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 6d

The United States today.
🌊 🇺🇸 🌪️ ✨🦅💙

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 6d

Ought we all magnify humanity rather than inhumanity, which seems to be the right-wing approach to... everything... now? Seeing people for their aspirations rather than deficits is a winning strategy. @onbeing.bsky.social (Feb. 2022) interview w/ Trabian Shorters onbeing.org/programs/tra...

Trabian Shorters – A Cognitive Skill to Magnify Humanity

The social visionary using the new science of mind, a coder’s craft, and age-old wisdom to remake the narrative landscape of our time.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 6d

Behind the rhetoric about ‘lazy freeloaders’ lies a stunning truth: America’s largest corporations depend on food stamps to prop up their low-wage empires...

hartmannreport.com/p/the-snap-s...

The SNAP Scam: How Billionaires and Politicians Built a Welfare System for the Rich

Behind the rhetoric about ‘lazy freeloaders’ lies a stunning truth: America’s largest corporations depend on food stamps to prop up their low-wage empires...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6d

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6d

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

Trump declares that Republicans have lost the shutdown. Absolutely zero reason for Dems to cave at this point

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to the people of MAINE
QUESTION ONE WAS DEFEATED
VOTED NO !!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

So much big news in local elections.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.

DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.

His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County

Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 7d

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 7d

Zohran Mamdani, the next mayor of New York City, has a vision that can renew a Democratic Party that’s been fecklessly resistant to change and to the big ideas that will inspire voters, write Katrina vanden Heuvel and @nicholsuprising.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

www.thenation.com

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 7d

As has been the case for the last several years, about a quarter of Americans don’t see themselves represented well by either party.

More on how well Americans feel their interests are represented ⬇️ www.pewresearch.org/...

Chart shows A quarter of Americans say neither party represents their interests well

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 7d

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

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Abby Maxman @abbymaxman.bsky.social · 8d

The new American oligarchy is here.

The wealthiest 1% gained 987× more wealth per household than the poorest 20%.

Proud of my Oxfam colleagues for exposing this inequality emergency, and calling for an economy that works for the many, not the wealthy few.
#TheFutureIsEqual

Oxfam America @oxfamamerica.bsky.social · 8d

"The data confirms what people across our nation already know instinctively: the new American oligarchy is here." -
@abbymaxman.bsky.social speaks about our newest report on the drastic growth of inequality in the U.S: www.forbes.com/sites/josiec...

Income Inequality Is Surging In The U.S., New Oxfam Report Shows

The richest 1% of households have accumulated almost 1,000 times more wealth than the poorest 20% over the last three and a half decades.

www.forbes.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7d

IT’S ELECTION DAY, AMERICA!

Remember to get out and VOTE!!!

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 7d

Portland, Maine: Nations Apart went on sale today and it and its cousins are all newly signed at Sherman’s on Exchange. Perfect gift for the doomed!

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