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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

Last year, Andrew Cuomo brought in nearly $5 million for "consulting."

We don't know who paid him.

Or who he now owes.

Cuomo Earned Almost $5 Million From Consulting in 2024, Returns Show

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6d

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

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MikeyKnew @mikeyknew.bsky.social · 5d

More than anything, in this era of increasing alienation from each other as we're syphoned into our smartphones and virtual "communities" in service to tech advertising profits, we need spaces where humans interact with each other, in close quarters, on accident. That's socioeconomic growth

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

www.forbes.com

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6d

Beyond profitability, Tesla has another looming headache in the courts as it faces potentially expensive lawsuits from angry customers in the US, China, and Australia.

Tesla profits fall 37% in Q3 despite healthy sales

A loss of regulatory credits and increased expenses didn’t help.

arstechnica.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6d

10th boat blown up in the Caribbean.

6 people dead this time.

Not a single arrest made.

Not an ounce recovered.

Not a shred of evidence provided.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 9d

Statement on LAPD targeting our reporter @shoton35mm.bsky.social 🧵

Video by @filmthepolicela.bsky.social

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9d

Rick Scott was CEO of a company forced to settle what the DOJ called “the largest healthcare fraud case in history.”
Is that the expertise that’s driving your “plan.”
www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...

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MikeyKnew @mikeyknew.bsky.social · 8d

Came to say this same thing. I welcome their shift to respect for sue process!

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 9d

Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona’s 7th District on September 23rd, yet Speaker Johnson STILL refuses to swear her in.

He’s using the government shutdown to prevent a Member of Congress from doing her job and to stop the Epstein files from being released.

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 11d

NGL, this story of a rival school helping protect the first amendment rights of their fellow students has brought tears to my eyes.

Today's turnout of Americans has renewed my hope that we'll be able to take our republic back from the fascists.

Sara Whitmer eee X
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier
this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student
paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print
this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime
and Us further slide into Fscist control, and they
couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming,
when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The
Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of
tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school,
they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then
drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of
the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for
Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will
be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever
truly get it together. | hope everyone has a fun, safe
day if they're going out today, and | hope we can think
about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to
really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted
expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 15d

The Seattle Social Housing Developer is hiring for two positions. Please share with your networks.

www.socialhousingseattle.org/careers

Careers | SSH-Site2025

www.socialhousingseattle.org

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 15d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 21d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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MikeyKnew @mikeyknew.bsky.social · 21d

Savage

Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 21d

👍 Blue Jays

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22d

Community notes strike again.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23d

So far, the only thing of note in this pathetic Pam Bondi judiciary hearing is that she has absolutely no fear of ever being held accountable for lying under oath to the Senate and the American people, or doing whatever is necessary to protect Trump and his rich pedophile friends.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 23d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 26d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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