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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

“Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your health care plan?

@SpeakerJohnson: *attacks the ACA and says Republicans are the party of wanting to fix health care🤔 even though they have no plan, sabotaged the ACA, just cut $1 trillion from health care*

#MedicareForAll

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Patricia Kreger @patriciakreger.bsky.social · 15h

ICYM THIS 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

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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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 19h

Every thing is about money with him. Anyone who can enrich his pocket will always be favored. This shit is getting old

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 1d

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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 20h

This will piss off Mike Johnson.
Repost it! Copy and post elsewhere!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 1d

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 1d

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 19h

He’s not only dumb but he’s apparently blind.

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 19h

Journalists who stop him should have a video of whatever happened, so he can’t say I never heard about that or saw that. Beat him at his game.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 20h

We didn’t have a clear majority. I believe Dems had 1 senate majority. They kept trying to get stuff done but they wouldn’t break the filibuster to do it

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 20h

Not sure if this was signed into law

Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 20h

This what the House passed while he was in office

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 21h

That’s just one example of them sabotaging stuff

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 21h

Senators Sinema and Manchin both supported the goals of the Freedom to Vote Act but were famously the only two Dem to oppose a change to the Senate's filibuster rules that would have allowed the law to pass with a simple majority vote. The bill don’t pass because of that.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Just G @just-1-g.bsky.social · 21h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Ivanka Trump is in Israel for reasons that make no sense whatsoever

The First Daughter has been doing a victory lap for something she had nothing to do with, but perhaps the unapologetic nepotism is the point, writes Holly Baxter

www.independent.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 23h

For the last 7 months, I’ve partnered with @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org to launch Vital Lessons, a series of free national town halls on key topics in public health.

Last week, we found out this series was awarded the Gold Medal by the Academy of Interactive and Digital Media.

Real impact!!

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Melias819 @melias819.bsky.social · 21h

Fuck

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Majority of CDC staff fired after Trump admin's 'chaos' have returned to work: report

www.rawstory.com

Majority of CDC staff fired after Trump admin's 'chaos' have returned to work: report

twp.ai

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