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taz.de
Die Mieten steigen immer weiter, viele Neupreismieten sind illegal. Vermieter, die sich nicht ans Gesetz halten, dürfen nicht ungestraft davon kommen.
Wirkungslosigkeit der Mietpreisbremse: Warum gibt es keine Strafen für raffgierige Vermieter?
Die Mieten steigen immer weiter, viele Neupreismieten sind illegal. Vermieter, die sich nicht ans Gesetz halten, dürfen nicht ungestraft davon kommen.
taz.de
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Don't give another dollar to Democrats until @schumer.senate.gov resigns as Minority Leader
maddenifico.bsky.social Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:

Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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neillyleftistcook.bsky.social
At a certain level of British society there is only one crime it's possible to commit: Failure to Sufficiently Launder and Glorify the Ruling Class
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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skipintroyt.bsky.social
remember when there was a national conversation around target's vaguely queer-positive merchandise? like whole new york times exposés on it?

well walmart is currently selling this:
www.walmart.com/ip/Unisex-Pa...
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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drgonzo123.bsky.social
Dems.
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them.

Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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stepback.nebula.tv
BREAKING: 8 Democrats have promised to give the Republicans the sudetenland with a promise to vote on the rest of Czechoslovakia in 40 days.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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tagesschau.bsky.social
"Der Kanzler muss mit dem Zickzack-Kurs aufhören"#COP25#Klimaschutz
"Der Kanzler muss mit dem Zickzack-Kurs aufhören"
Deutschland hält sich zurück, eine Vorreiterrolle beim Klimaschutz zu übernehmen.
www.tagesschau.de
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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kiswanson.medsky.social
Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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susiedent.com
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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realgdt.bsky.social
FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!
malgor666.bsky.social Malak Gorcrow @malgor666.bsky.social · 3d
Where do I even begin? Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social has created an absolute masterpiece. I only wish I’d had the chance to experience it on the big screen. The story of Frankenstein has been told countless times, but never like this.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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scifiart.bsky.social
Art by Larry Elmore. Shadowrun RPG (1989), Gateways Magazine 13 DnD (1989), Dark Conspiracy RPG (1991), The Tank Lords by David Drake (1997)
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The goddamn nerve of Jeff Bezos' newspaper to talk shit about raising the minimum wage at a moment when workers at Jeff Bezos' online superstore -- who are paid so little half of them in one study were on SNAP benefits -- are going hungry.

The fucking arrogance.
stephenwest.bsky.social Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · Jun 26
Wow, sounds like Jeff Bezos is mad

(from A Washington Post editorial entitled "Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party")
Now, a man who believes that capitalism is “theft” is in line to lead the country’s biggest city and the world’s financial capital. His signature ideas are “city-owned grocery stores,” no bus fares, freezing rent on 1 million regulated apartments and increasing the minimum wage to $30. No doubt these might strike some voters as tempting ideas. But, as with so many proposals from America’s far left, the trade-offs would hurt the people they are supposed to help. A massive minimum wage would depress low-skilled employment. His rent freeze would reduce the housing supply and decrease its quality. Cutting bus fares would leave a
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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schooley.bsky.social
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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cmmayo.bsky.social
It's got flying cars, neon urban decay, Android Sean Young, and it's got that thing that people do where they like fold paper but they're Asian so it actually looks like something at the end.
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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taz.de
In Nordhausen sollen junge Bür­ger­geld­emp­fän­ge­r:in­nen nun für 1,20 Euro die Stunde schuften. So sieht’s aus, wenn AfD-Populismus umgesetzt wird. 👉 taz.de/Drecksarbeit...
Landrat Matthias Jendricke im Landratsamt in Nordhausen. Text: In Nordhausen sollen junge Bürgergeldempfänger:innen für 1,20 Euro die Stunde schuften. Matthias Jendricke (SPD), Landrat des Kreises Nordhausen, setzt damit willfährig den Populismus der AfD um, die eine Einführung von verpflichtender Bürgerarbeit fordert Nur Text: „Wer für einen Hungerlohn dazu verdonnert wird, Sand von einem Haufen auf den anderen zu schaufeln, lernt weder Alltagsstrukturierung noch Verantwortung.“ taz-Autor Uli Hannemann
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Democrats aren’t just winning at the statewide level. We’re evicting MAGA at the local level, too.
A tweet from Taniel (@Taniel) says: “BIG result: Bucks County, PA, was ground zero for the conservative takeover of school boards & anti-LGBTQ policies in 2021, with Central Bucks and Pennridge districts. Dems flipped both boards back in 2023. Tonight, Dems have ousted all Republicans from both school boards.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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ringofbees.bsky.social
Happy #godzilla day!
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
I drove through Bucks County last week and saw a couple of these signs.

Bucks went just barely for Trump in 2024, it's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack. But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏
"Sheriff Fred Loves ICE" from https://losersandsuckers.vote/
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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campact.de
Der Innenminister darf diesen klaren Bürgerwillen nicht länger ignorieren. Der von ihm geplante bundesweite Einsatz von Palantir muss verhindert werden.

👉 Bist du auch gegen die Überwachungspläne? Unterzeichne jetzt unseren Appell!
campact.org/DIgvJ
Nein zum Palantir-Deal – jetzt Appell unterzeichnen
Die Polizei könnte die US-Überwachungssoftware Palantir bekommen. Stopp den Deal mit dem Trump-Vertrauten Peter Thiel.
campact.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
So-called "Centrism" does not work.
everywhere the centrist argument the left has to abandon its principles to fight fascism leaving the only choice between corporate bureaucrats and nazis has had the effect of empowering nazis. thats a failed formula every time.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social
The big money opposition to Mamdani will now shift to influencing the city council, unions, etc. in order to oppose the things he wants to do for the people.

The fight isn't over yet.
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM