David
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David
@lookinguptx.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Just a progressive dude in Texas Looking Up at the big Blue Skies here when the politics here feel bleak here on ground level. I'm hoping @bsky.app continues to be a public forum free of the toxicity and manipulation of the other platforms. Let's keep the conversations constructive and kind.
The Working Class Has Shifted Left on ‘Virtually Everything’ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | The Working Class Has Shifted Left on ‘Virtually Everything’
Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, explains why working-class voters feel a “representation gap” from the Democratic Party despite shifting left on most issues over t...
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Working Class Has Shifted Left on ‘Virtually Everything’ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Justice Sotomayor, dissenting: "It [the majority] hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes .... The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave."
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Justice Sotomayor, dissenting: "It [the majority] hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes .... The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave."
Must read:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...
Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Must read:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...
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We’ve got a plan to slow down, stop, and ultimately defeat Trump’s authoritarian takeover by training one million Americans in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. You’re invited to join us — and lead.
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
July 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We’ve got a plan to slow down, stop, and ultimately defeat Trump’s authoritarian takeover by training one million Americans in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. You’re invited to join us — and lead.
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The Sunday Spotlight: Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
Peeling Back The Onion
Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.
www.status.news
July 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The Sunday Spotlight: Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
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Get on the damn phones NOW!
July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Get on the damn phones NOW!
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This is an amazing and important graphic and close monitoring of the damage being done to #pressfreedoms and to independent media.
Analysis and deeper dive here at @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump...
Thanks to the brilliant @bechamilton.bsky.social
Analysis and deeper dive here at @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump...
Thanks to the brilliant @bechamilton.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is an amazing and important graphic and close monitoring of the damage being done to #pressfreedoms and to independent media.
Analysis and deeper dive here at @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump...
Thanks to the brilliant @bechamilton.bsky.social
Analysis and deeper dive here at @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump...
Thanks to the brilliant @bechamilton.bsky.social
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Over 10 million Americans would lose their healthcare under Trump’s Tax Scam — and that doesn’t include the millions more who would lose their coverage because of GOP cuts to the Affordable Care Act.
Call your GOP senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
Call your GOP senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
June 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Over 10 million Americans would lose their healthcare under Trump’s Tax Scam — and that doesn’t include the millions more who would lose their coverage because of GOP cuts to the Affordable Care Act.
Call your GOP senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
Call your GOP senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
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Join us. Fight back by telling 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 story. Because your story is America’s story.
It’s time to remind Donald Trump that America is still the Home of the Brave.
June 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join us. Fight back by telling 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 story. Because your story is America’s story.
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
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Social media displaces TV as the top way Americans get news. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...
For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source
Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.
www.niemanlab.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Social media displaces TV as the top way Americans get news. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...
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More than five million Americans in over 2,100 towns and cities joined us today to say we don't do kings in this country. Thank you for making it clear that we won't be ruled by fear.
June 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
More than five million Americans in over 2,100 towns and cities joined us today to say we don't do kings in this country. Thank you for making it clear that we won't be ruled by fear.
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You’ve made No Kings Day so massive that even TMZ is talking about it.
Tomorrow is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history. We will see you in the streets: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings
Tomorrow is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history. We will see you in the streets: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings
June 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
You’ve made No Kings Day so massive that even TMZ is talking about it.
Tomorrow is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history. We will see you in the streets: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings
Tomorrow is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history. We will see you in the streets: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings
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I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
June 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
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Schiff: "One thing that got lost in the horrendous treatment of Alex Padilla today was what Kristi Noem said at that press conference in saying it was necessary to have these troops there to 'liberate the city from the socialists' ... the fact they would use the military that was is unconscionable."
June 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Schiff: "One thing that got lost in the horrendous treatment of Alex Padilla today was what Kristi Noem said at that press conference in saying it was necessary to have these troops there to 'liberate the city from the socialists' ... the fact they would use the military that was is unconscionable."
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"We don't need to be in Normandy to defend our democracy in 2025. We need to be in these halls, in the courts, and in communities across the country." - @skyeperryman.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"We don't need to be in Normandy to defend our democracy in 2025. We need to be in these halls, in the courts, and in communities across the country." - @skyeperryman.bsky.social
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NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
June 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
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Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere
June 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere
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"The normalization of routine and open-ended deployment of the military at home requires that the public become accustomed to this departure from historic practice."
Today Trump went further down the path of nomralizing the politicization of the military.
Awful.
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...
Today Trump went further down the path of nomralizing the politicization of the military.
Awful.
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...
It’s Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black
We’re not alarmed enough by what Trump’s doing in Los Angeles.
www.thebulwark.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"The normalization of routine and open-ended deployment of the military at home requires that the public become accustomed to this departure from historic practice."
Today Trump went further down the path of nomralizing the politicization of the military.
Awful.
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...
Today Trump went further down the path of nomralizing the politicization of the military.
Awful.
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...
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All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids, protests throughout the city. Latest w/ @karenmg.bsky.social @tarantulaarms.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids
What's actually happening during the ICE sweeps and protests across Los Angeles.
www.latimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids, protests throughout the city. Latest w/ @karenmg.bsky.social @tarantulaarms.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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Trump corruption Mad Libs on the front of today’s @nytopinion.nytimes.com.
June 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Trump corruption Mad Libs on the front of today’s @nytopinion.nytimes.com.
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"If you have the courage to speak, we are saved. If you fall silent, the country is doomed."
Scott Pelley had some strong words to share on tonight's CNN special after the telecast of "Good Night, and Good Luck." I wrote up the highlights here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/m...
Scott Pelley had some strong words to share on tonight's CNN special after the telecast of "Good Night, and Good Luck." I wrote up the highlights here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/m...
‘If you fall silent, the country is doomed’: CBS News’ Scott Pelley stresses courage as network faces pressure campaign | CNN Business
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today, and it must be resisted no matter what, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.
www.cnn.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"If you have the courage to speak, we are saved. If you fall silent, the country is doomed."
Scott Pelley had some strong words to share on tonight's CNN special after the telecast of "Good Night, and Good Luck." I wrote up the highlights here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/m...
Scott Pelley had some strong words to share on tonight's CNN special after the telecast of "Good Night, and Good Luck." I wrote up the highlights here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/m...
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The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.
A new satellite TV channel allows Alexei Navalny's videos to reach Russian audiences
The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.
n.pr
June 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.
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Final tally of mentions on Maria Bartiromo's show today
Medicaid: 0
Biden: 34
Medicaid: 0
Biden: 34
We're 50 minutes into today's edition of Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures, and the word "Medicaid" has not been mentioned once. But Biden? He's been mentioned 25 times.
June 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Final tally of mentions on Maria Bartiromo's show today
Medicaid: 0
Biden: 34
Medicaid: 0
Biden: 34