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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.

Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.

Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 20h

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 14h

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military & Corporate Data

Using $800 equipment, UCSD researchers found a stunning variety of data—eg T-Mobile calls & texts & US military comms—sent unencrypted.
flip.it/NeG--G so the USG, Putin, Zuck & Thiel & banks etc have all the data…

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

flip.it

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Peace 🕊️ ☮️ 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @peace82.bsky.social · 21h

Amen!

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 23h

She was elected 3 weeks ago but still hasn’t been sworn in! But @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social Grijalva joins me today to get her take. Plus @eliselabott.bsky.social on the news from the Middle East. See you soon at 4p ET / 1p PT live on Substack and later on YouTube.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo says Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty...or agrees with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the US,
is not really pro-life."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

www.npr.org

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Angie🦋🚫👑📎 @aes14.bsky.social · 14h

A very creative and sobering way to bring attention to the school shooting epidemic in the US. Zoom in to see the names of the schools. #Quiltsky #ItsTheGunsStupid #QuiltArt

Gary Williamson @docs41.bsky.social · 17h

A powerful statement about school shootings in the quilt “Ripple Effect” by Hollis Chatelain. She has sewn the names of many of the 493 schools who have experienced incidents between 1998 and March 2023 on the top. Judged Show, Alternative Techniques category, First Place.

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Robbin @robbin.bsky.social · 14h

Concepts of a plan in other words we don’t know what the hell we’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 22h

🤬🤬 A hospital is on fire in Kharkiv after being hit by a KAB.

Preliminary reports indicate casualties.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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Greenstone @berncomar.bsky.social · 14h

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Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.social · 14h

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Spicy4Democracy @spicy4democracy.bsky.social · Nov 12

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck this shitface. Caucasians are a rather late arrival to these shores, and they have not been a very beneficial immigrant so far.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"Those who study the law and are experts on the balance of power warn that unless Congress reasserts its authority soon, we may end up unable to repair the guardrails that have held our government together for centuries." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

www.thebulwark.com

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Knights of Ni @dinozo69.bsky.social · 22h

I knew it!

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15h

The Bulwark is doing a much better job at being what the Free Press thinks it is

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 15h

It’s been 36 hours and I still can’t stop laughing about how Trump knows he’s going to Hell 😂

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 15h

I spent my afternoon making & passing out Yes on 50 flyers in front of Walmart & other stores in English & Spanish, and you can do it, too.

If you wanna save democracy, you'd better put your all into it!
I know that's high pressure, but this is high stakes!

The Spanish flyer is in the next post.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

The NFL needs more flags. Feel like the game is most enjoyable when there’s a flag on every single play, as opposed to every other play.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15h

The story is thinly sourced, fearmongering, tabloid drek. It elevates the voices of a handful of cops who happen to share The Free Press’s editorial line: hostility toward Mamdani. It’s highly unlikely that CBS would have published this before Weiss took the reins.

newrepublic.com/post/201721/...

Would CBS News Have Run This Story a Week Ago?

Bari Weiss’s fingerprints can already be seen.

newrepublic.com

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 15h

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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