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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

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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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 16h

Telling they chose a ceo

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Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes it’s okay to just let people be wrong on the internet

Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 17h

It’s a good example of how their rhetoric works to equivocate and confuse. There isn’t a resemblance, and her readers like the tea party.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h

Forgive me, it's three members. At one time, the Tea Party caucus had 19 House members and a dozen senators.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23h

The Free Press framing of DSA as a Dem Tea Party is also indicative of their willingness to lie.

DSA has what? One member of Congress now? They don't have anything like Koch money. Also, what conspiracies and violent rhetoric do they spread?

It's not analogous. Bari's narrative here is a lie.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18h

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 19h

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

While Trump blusters about "law & order," his regime has dropped or halted nearly 165 investigations into corporate wrongdoing. And Trump himself has pardoned dozens of his supporters, including Jan 6 rioters and others convicted of crimes like money laundering and bribery.

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Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 21h

Conservative buffoonery means there aren’t enough training slots or full employment slots for researchers. Aligning with theocrats means children are raised to not expect them. Preventing immigrants keeps children in their parents place.

Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 21h

I know literally dozens of guys that would have loved to spend their adulthoods studying these things. They are instead consigned to rented work from capitalist, who intentionally sabotage the investments that represent social mobility to maintain their relative station

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23h

And of course there's also the mass of non-literary material - inscriptions, papyri, etc - which often goes without commentary or analysis because we have so few specialists who work with that material.

Almost certainly many discoveries await there!

A tweet by Georgy Kantor, replying to Theo Nash, "I emphatically don't agree even for the better-studied periods of Graeco-Roman history. There are about 2,000-3,000 each of Greek and Latin inscriptions, hundreds of papyri, plenty of archaeological finds published each year - could be a lot more if more people worked on it."

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22h

The psychology that twists coverage in Trump’s favor is transparent, once you accept that psychology plays a role. They want to be perceived as neutral by their peers, and they know their peers suspect them of anti-Trump bias. So they demonstrate independence by scrutinizing Dems and praising Trump.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 22h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 22h

Law is an ad hoc deductive system riddled with contradictions, which is why the various priests can always change the rules of how to interpret the bones

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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NPR @npr.org · 22h

Among the 2,000 Palestinians freed in the Gaza ceasefire deal were 250 serving life terms for attacks on Israelis dating back decades. n.pr/4n4b3Wv

Palestinians celebrate as prisoners are released by Israel under Gaza ceasefire deal

Among the 2,000 Palestinians freed in the Gaza ceasefire deal were 250 serving life terms for attacks on Israelis dating back decades.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 23h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KJW...

On October 18th, we say #NoKings

YouTube video by Home of the Brave

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Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 23h

I mean he says that like Americans love having government…. These freaks are totally disconnected from not only reality but the thoughts they had last month

Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 23h

Americans decide where our rights are in effect.

Whatever comes next wherever we are in charge we have to diminish and demean authority across the board.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Protests at the Chicago area ICE detention center are now being limited only to Beach Street going forward, according to a new executive order that Mayor Katrina Thompson has signed in consultation with the state and county, she says at a press conference this morning.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Biofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump says the moon is made of cheese. Some experts are skeptical.

Your job is to find the truth, not comment on views