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ninaturner.bsky.social
This is a time for people to come together and push for things we agree on:

- Release the Epstein list.

- Ban congressional stock trading.

- Get corporate and dark money out of politics.
September 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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ianboudreau.com
*ezra klein guy voice* The problem with the left is that they've lost the willingness to speak reasonably with their opponents, such as this guy I interviewed recently who easily conned me into supporting eugenics
September 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals
August 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social
#StressBreak

Lotus flowers are blooming again in Kashmir’s historically largest lake, having been freed from the grasp of underwater silt that strangled them for 3 decades.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lotus-flower...
Joy and Relief as Lotus Flowers Bloom Again in Kashmiri Lake After Three Decades
"Lotus stem connects our food to the land … now that it’s back, we’re preparing dishes the way our grandmothers did: slow, simple,
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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gaslitnation.bsky.social
Turns out, taxing the ultra-rich doesn’t chase them away—shocking! It actually boosts their wealth, while making the economy fairer for everyone else. Listen: https://loom.ly/cVTHmhU

#oligarchy #dictatorship #dictatortrump

July 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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warren.senate.gov
Trump tried to fire this FTC Commissioner.

What does she want to do?

Make it easier for you to cancel your subscription.
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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atrupar.com
WARREN: What has changed in the last six months that has caused the Fed to forecast substantial higher inflation, somewhat higher unemployment, and lower economic growth than you did in December?

POWELL: Some of it is people working in the possible effects in the short term of tariffs
June 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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americanmegalo.bsky.social
With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:

TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!
A hatchling condor on a white towel. it has downy feathers and it's head skin is kinda wrinkly
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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vatniksoup.bsky.social
How Russia’s Fake Spirituality Became a Key Weapon in the Kremlin’s Disinformation Toolbox

By @mortenhammeken.bsky.social and Yours Truly:

bylinetimes.com/2025/05/28/r...
How Russia's Fake Spirituality Became a Key Weapon in the Kremlin’s Disinformation Toolbox
Under Putin, Christianity has been turned into a political tool to spread false narratives about the war in Ukraine
bylinetimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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laurenthomanwrites.com
I enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale, mostly, but the persistent wyt feminist individualist perspective graaaaated on me.

History exists. It would’ve been great if the show ever acknowledged that.

Anyway I wrote about it for @thewrap.com www.thewrap.com/the-handmaid...
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Ends With a Hollow Victory. Can the Spinoff Do Better? | Commentary
With “The Testaments” in the works, it was never an option for the Elisabeth Moss-led "The Handmaid's Tale" to end with the fall of Gilead
www.thewrap.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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thegatesofmel.blacksky.app
“Bluesky’s problem is that it bullies centrists off of here.” - A white white guy learning that his is not the most important voice in the room.
May 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
katemyerscotton.bsky.social
Noting the date was April 28, 2025 when we crossed the rubicon.
jysexton.bsky.social Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Apr 29
Authoritarianism functions in predictable cycles and Trump is currently laying the groundwork for using state violence to meet organized resistance.

So much depends on what we do now and how we meet this moment.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/an-escalat...
An Escalation of Oppression: Trump, the Military, and Suppression of Dissent
The executive order mobilizing law enforcement and the military is a major, major crossroads
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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mwkraus.bsky.social
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
April 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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saracuster.insidehighered.com
We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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marcydonelson.bsky.social
I implore folks to make time for this hour-long interview, it touches on many crucial points re: what is actually happening right now, why, what's important. I have it cued to when it gets going. A Live Conversation With Sarah Kendzior by Jared Sexton: open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...
A Live Conversation With Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior and I discuss her new book The Last American Road Trip, the state of America, and what we must fight for.
open.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words

"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
April 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
This.
daviddarmofal.bsky.social David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · Apr 3
Everyone needs to call up their Republican members of Congress today & ask them why they’re raising taxes on their own constituents. Make them own this because they do.
April 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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daviddarmofal.bsky.social
Everyone needs to call up their Republican members of Congress today & ask them why they’re raising taxes on their own constituents. Make them own this because they do.
April 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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gregpalast.bsky.social
Trump just issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator”—that is Elon Musk—access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of purging millions of Americans from voter rolls. www.gregpalast.com/trump-musk-o...
Trump-Musk Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary executive order that would give, “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of pu...
www.gregpalast.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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thotstream.bsky.social
a little considered feature of the neoliberal project:

we have been socialized since birth to consider Planned And Mediated Political And Economic Systems equivalent to Naturally Occurring Processes and Legal Constraints equivalent To Moral Imperatives

this is of course Untrue
March 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Here is the full text of Rachel Cohen’s firm-wide email:
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, (i) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here. When I went to law school and to Skadden, I did so in pursuit of agency. I was driven by a desire to be in rooms where decision-makers were, to get to play a role in things that mattered, because things felt so needlessly terrible. It never occurred to me that the people in those rooms might feel that they were powerless. I am forced to hope that our lack of response to the Trump administration's attacks on our peers, both those at other large firms and the many people in this country with far fewer resources, is rooted in feelings of fear and powerlessness, as opposed to tacit agreement or desire to maximize profit. I still hope that is true. But it has not yet been borne out. It feels mortifying to say "I suspect you know who I am," but I suspect you know who I am. Over the last few weeks, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time trying to leverage various relationships and privileges to get our firm and broader industry to admit that we are in the throes of early-stage authoritarianism and that we are uniquely positioned to halt it. There is an open letter (now signed by over 600 other AmLaw 200 associates, many of them at this firm), mainstream media coverage and an oped explaining why I feel this way. To anyone who feels sympathetic to the views I've espoused but wonders why I have taken the path I have: on Thursday, March 6, after the issuance of the Perkins Executive Order, I sent emails to multiple trusted partners in management asking to help with whatever response we coordinated. One of them went unanswered. One of them replied, "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your With gratitude and ur... "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of hope that we would do the right thing if given time and opportunity. The firm has been given time and opportunity to do the right thing. Thus far, we have not. This is a moment that demands urgency. Whether we are failing to meet it because we are unprepared or because we don't wish to is irrelevant to me— and to the world —where the outcome is the same. If we were going to resist, we would have done so already. If we were not going to respond to the EEOC (a refusal that would be fully legal), the firm would have already told us. This is the first firmwide email that has been sent on this topic. What. Are. We. Doing. Colleagues, if you question if it is as bad as you think it is, it is ten times worse. Whether what we measure is the cowardice in face of lost profits, or the proximity to authoritarianism, or the trauma inflicted on our colleagues who are nonwhite, or the disappointment that I feel in this moment, take what you suspect and multiply it by a factor of ten. Act accordingly. I recognize not everyone is positioned as I am, and cannot act the same way. But do not "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of ho… Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't. To the many superiors, support staff and friends that I know I disappoint by making this announcement firmwide instead of talking to you first, I sincerely apologize. There are so many thank yous that I have for so many people at this firm. Please know that if you suspect that you have helped me or taught me or cared for me, that I agree and am eternally grateful. In the coming days, I will make every effort to reach out to you separately, but there is urgency here that makes it impossible to go to each of you first. I will do everything in my power to mitigate difficulties caused by my unexpected departure. Like any self-important adolescent, I spent most of my high school history classes wondering what I would do in the moments before true horror or chaos or where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were. Thank you for the opportunity. My personal email is cc'd. I wish each of you the best, and that you use the privileges you hold to work for the best for others. Rachel Rachel Cohen
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Would really love some of that good old fashioned immediate wide scale structural change for the better where everybody's needs are met and everyone can meaningfully thrive without fear of bigotry or threats to our lives. Sure would hit the fucking spot.
March 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
This is so excellent I will add alt text so all can read it
Screenshot from the New Yorker book review. WHAT MADE THE IRISH FAMINE SO DEADLY. The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs. By Fintan O'Toole. March 10, 2025. …Irish historian Peter Gray, who wrote that there was "not a policy of deliberate genocide" on the part of the British. Instead, Gray argued, the great failure of the British government was ideological-"a dogmatic refusal to recognise that measures intended to 'encourage industry, [and] to do battle with sloth' ... were based on false premises." The British did not cause the potatoes to rot in the ground. They did launch, by the standards of the mid-nineteenth century, very large-scale efforts to keep people alive, importing grain from America, setting up soup kitchens, and establishing programs of public works to employ those who were starving. But they were blinded by prejudice, ignorance, and a fanatical devotion to two orthodoxies that are very much alive in our own time: their belief that poverty arises from the moral failings of the poor and their faith in the so-called free market. The famine was so devastating because, while the mold was rotting the potatoes, mainstream British opinion was infected with a cognitive blight. Above all, "Rot" reminds us that the Great Hunger was a very modern event, and one shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendant. The poor are the authors of their own misery. The warning signs of impending environmental disaster can be ignored. Gross inequalities are natural, and God-given. The market must be obeyed at all costs. There is only one thing about the Irish famine that now seems truly anachronistic—millions of refugees were saved because other countries took them in. That, at least, would not happen now.
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM