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How and Why is Microsoft's #Bing search engine still not on par with Google search?

November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM

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@bookersquared.bsky.social is warning us not to fall for the Republican lies concerning #foodstamps (aka #SNAP) and #healthcare.
#ACA #Obamacare @usdagov.bsky.social #USDA

October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM

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The plot thickens as we all thought #Oklahoma State Superintendent, Ryan Walters, resigned because of caught w/inappropriate material playing on his tv at work, but that's NOT the real story. Listen 👂 below 👇

Video by #erics4all on insta

Article link: bit.ly/3JodSUv via @kosuradio.bsky.social

October 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM

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"I don't have a problem with private schools. What I have a problem with is no public oversight of public money." ~ Rob Sandia (@robsandia.bsky.social)
#IOWA #RobSandia

October 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine

October 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM

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Bobby Pulido for Texas campaign launch video.

September 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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This is your Saturday morning moment of Zen. 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

Trump's CDC has new standards for what a healthy person looks like via @thedailyshow.com
#politicalsatire #satire #humor

September 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM

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Actor Jeff Daniels sits down with Nicolle Wallace for a brand new episode of her podcast "The Best People." They discuss politics and the transformation of the #RepublicanParty under #Trump.
#TheBestPeople #NicolleWallace #JeffDaniels #politics #Republicans

August 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Make sure to check out @marcmaron.bsky.social on his new special 'Panicked' on #HBOMax.

If you have #AppleTV, watch Maron on "Stick." It's an incredibly good show starring Maron, Owen Wilson, Peter Danger, Lilli Kay, and Mariana Treviño. #Panicked

August 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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A remarkable moment between Donald tRump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

This CLEARLY shows the INCOMPETENCE of this White House.
#JeromePowell #FED #FederalReserve #tRump

July 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM

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2/2 Highlights from @kedseconomist.com article: "The Budget Bill Is Creating a Republican Existential Crisis"

"If tax cuts don’t spur economic growth and a growing deficit requires new revenue, what is the purpose of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”?"
#BigBeautifulBill #Trump #economics #econsky

And for all the belief in the economic value of tax cuts, the evidence is just not there. The weak GDP boost that the CBO predicts will come the One Big Beautiful Bill (0.5%) is in line with the weak GDP boost created by the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (0.3%), according to the Congressional Research Service. A more comprehensive CRS assessment of the law's economic effects found they were insignificant.

Tax cuts - as a rule and if the tax system is progressive - favor households with more income. At the same time, the amount of money saved by any one household, even with a $3.7 trillion tax cut, is small, because it is distributed to nearly all 150 million US households. The tax cut in the current bill would give an annual bonus of a couple thousand dollars to households that are not in active economic distress. They can spend it, save it, invest it - but the amount is so small and the channels so diffuse that there is little tangible impact.

The silver lining here, which will certainly be a bitter pill for Republicans, is that what is true of tax cuts is also true of tax increases: They have minimal economic consequences. The bonus is that tax increases are a way to address the debt.

June 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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Great piece by @kedseconomist.com. I've highlighted some of the best parts below. 1/2
#BigBeautifulBill #Trump #economics #econsky

The Republican Budget Bill Wouldn't Be Beautiful for Everyone

If the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" passes, the lowest 30% of households would be worse off

At this point, it might be useful to review some history. In the halcyon days of the 2000 presidential campaign, the question was what America should do with its budget surplus. The CBO had projected that, given the paths of spending and revenue at the time, the entire US debt would be paid off within a decade. Obviously that didn't happen. Debt relative to GDP has ballooned from 55% then to 120% now.

So what did happen? Well, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget decomposed the increase in debt over that time period, and apportioned it out: Some 28% of the increase is due to legislation and programs enacted in response to recessions. Some 33% can be attributed to increases in spending. And the largest share - 37% - is due to tax cuts.

In other words, tax cuts are the single largest contributor to the increase in debt of the last quarter century. This accomplishment is all the more remarkable considering that those years include two multitrillion-dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unfunded expansion of Medicare, and the two worst economic downturns since the Great Depression.

June 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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#Space is amazing!

Accidental find in planetarium show could shift scientists’ understanding of our solar system
#OortCloud #HaydenPlanetarium
bit.ly/3HE6CCE

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned an accidental discovery about the cloud's shape. AMNH

June 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM

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President Bill Clinton's words recently at a naturalization ceremony. This is what it's all about. via @hillaryclinton.bsky.social's Facebook post.

You can change the future one person at a time simply by being who you are-proud of where you came from and still proud to be an American. ~ Bill Clinton

June 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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US-China talks end with plan for #Trump and #Xi to approve by @peterhoskinsnews.bsky.social
#TradeWar #trade #RareEarths

Article link: bbc.in/4jPOovw

Tit-for-tat tariffs between US and China from February 2025 thru May 14, 2025
China initially held off retaliatory tariffs until escalation in April
Source: BBC research

June 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM

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#Trump ’s tax cuts are reckless when the federal deficit is so high. America does have more fiscal leeway than other countries but the Republican Party is testing its limits. @economist.com economics editor, @curr.bsky.social, explains why
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Article: bit.ly/44WL8dT

May 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM

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Haleakalā National Park

Haleakalā is the volcano that formed most of #Maui, the second-largest of the #HawaiianIslands. The volcano hasn't erupted for about 500 years.

This image, near the tallest part of #Haleakalā, allows people to see into the depression that stretches on for 7 miles.

Haleakalā National Park on the island of Maui, Hawaii

May 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM

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@katiecouric.bsky.social sat down with @pbs.org CEO and President Paula Kerger to discuss the attacks on her station by the #Trump Administration, who are attempting to cut their funding. 1/2

May 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM

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Listen to @congressmanboyle.bsky.social discussing #Trump and his cronies in the house attempting to push through a very unpopular bill that guts #Medicaid and cuts $500B out of #Medicare on @lastword.msnbc.com with @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com.
#LastWord #BigBeautifulBill

May 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM

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The world is a playground. Just not a very fun one.

By cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards for Trouw.

May 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill spoke w/@andersoncooper360.bsky.social about the significance of Trump’s firing of the Librarian of Congress, #CarlaHayden, the purging of books and materials about race, racism, and gay/trans issues from libraries at military academies. 1/2
Article: bit.ly/43aCjKW