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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12d

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 16d

DC SAYS #NOKINGS, #FREEDC

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18d

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18d

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Bridget Hunnicutt @bridgethunnicutt.bsky.social · 18d

This is an evergreen headline.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 11

"That’s why it’s so hard to sell the lie that Trump doesn’t collude with Putin: He just goes out and does it again." www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-trum...

Putin and Trump, Still Colluding

Every time the president’s apologists swear he’s not conniving with the Russian dictator, he does it again.

www.thebulwark.com

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Bridget Hunnicutt @bridgethunnicutt.bsky.social · 18d

Arc de Trump?

While countless DC residents who’ve dedicated their lives to public service go without pay and watch their institutions be dismantled from the top…

Trump is focused on his monument, his ballroom — and how to help Putin.

#freedc

www.bbc.com/news/article...

What we know about White House plans for an 'Arc de Trump'

The Paris-inspired proposed monument in Washington DC is meant to commemorate the US 250th anniversary.

www.bbc.com

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Bridget Hunnicutt @bridgethunnicutt.bsky.social · 18d

Reminder…

Some of the Epstein money transfers disclosed involved accounts at two Russian banks. A few transactions red-flagged were for as much as $100 million.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

In Epstein Case, Follow the Money, Democratic Senator Says

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20d

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Oct 1

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · Sep 29

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · Sep 27

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics.

They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · Sep 27

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics.

They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Sep 28

The war in Europe (outside of Ukraine) may be virtual, subtle, hybrid warfare designed to use oligarchs, covert influence techniques and economic leverage to swing elections in Putin’s favour. But he’s losing on that front as he has on the battlefields of Ukraine

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · Sep 26

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 23

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Bridget Hunnicutt @bridgethunnicutt.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · Sep 18

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · Sep 18

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

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Bridget Hunnicutt @bridgethunnicutt.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Sep 15

Just to confirm my suspicions that people’s perception of the national position (via social/media) is very different from their local perceptions, these graphs from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social via @samfr.bsky.social’s sane and vital Substack, illustrate the difference

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 14

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents.

It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually.

This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 15

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 12

“We got him!”

Really? That’s the line?

His father turned him in.

You received him.

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Bridget Hunnicutt @bridgethunnicutt.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Once elite capture is accomplished, country capture is soon to follow.”
-Marie Yovanvitch (former US ambassador to Ukraine)

Americans are losing a game they don’t even know is being played.

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Bridget Hunnicutt @bridgethunnicutt.bsky.social · Sep 11

It wasn’t long ago that MAGA influencers were caught on the Kremlin payroll. They were paid specifically to spread Russian propaganda and disinformation to turn American citizens against Ukraine and the free world.

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