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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 11h

Love that NYT decided to lead the daily newsletter with postseason baseball. "Also, 'No Kings' protests." Top-shelf gaslighting.

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 1d

Oh totally and did you read it? It could not have been more grudging. It was the dictionary definition of grudging. "Thousands" turned out. GFY NYT.

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 1d

Hey, you know what's awesome? CNN is actually covering the crap out of this today. #NoKings

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 5d

Fuck ALL of them who tried to pretend they cared about free speech when all they ever wanted was hate speech without consequences. They were full of shit then and they always will be. And yes, I know they will find a way to defend this because they have no center and they have no bottom.

A screenshot from a Wall Street Journal article. The headline says the US has revoked the visas of 6 people over their comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12d

Repugnant.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 12d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18d

The Trump administration plans to allow permits for oil drilling and other work on “priority conventional energy projects” to continue during the government shutdown, while work on some renewable energy projects will halt

Trump to Keep Oil Permits Moving in Shutdown, Freezes Renewables

The Trump administration plans to continue issuing permits for oil drilling and do other work on “priority conventional energy projects” during the government shutdown but will freeze activities on some renewable energy projects.

bloom.bg

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21d

just read the quote and where he situates himself vis à vis “citizens”

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22d

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action

The Trump administration considers even race-blind admissions policies illegal if they’re intended to achieve diversity.

www.theatlantic.com

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 24d

What's so funny is that climate tech is right here with a TAM of a whole-ass planet. But tell me more about all that Saudi investment, Silicon Valley.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 25d

Read that again. Trump-appointed Kennedy Center head Ric Grenell specifically set aside a block of 50 seats at the Kennedy Center so a group of Trumpers could heckle a Black woman performer.
www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian

Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

www.washingtonian.com

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 26d

Honestly, I'm pretty stoked that Nexstar and Sinclair are stepping out from behind the Disney shield. Everybody ignored it when religious fanatics started buying local news stations and forcing anchors to read political propaganda on-air. But these are the names.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26d

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · Sep 18

I want everyone to take a step back for a second, remember why she was fired from New York and juxtapose this w/ all the high profile media folks that have recently lost *their* jobs. *Some* people are allowed to fail upwards. It's mesmerizing.

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · 27d

These people really will look anywhere but plastics, won't they.

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · Sep 20

Media conglomeration
Sinclair *specifically*
Digital surveillance
Disinformation
Coordinated bot campaigns of harassment and fake grassroots outrage
El*n being a dick
Anti-vaxxers
Climate change

At this moment I'm just a little fucking irritated about how long we have warned on ALL of this.

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · Sep 19

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Persistently Earnest @spartanoverseas.bsky.social · Sep 19

Man this namo-bubble tech is interesting. There's a lot of depressing news out there. This series from @mollywood.co is refreshing

Everybody in the Pool: E98: Nano-bubbles, aquaculture and spas with Nick Dyner

webpage: www.everybodyinthepool.com

Media file: sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/645...

Everybody In The Pool | A climate podcast with Molly Wood

Everybody in the Pool is a podcast focused on solving the climate crisis.

www.everybodyinthepool.com

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · Sep 19

Thank you!!! (Also, isn't that fascinating?? I loved that episode.)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Sep 18

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · Sep 17

Told you.

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · Sep 15

Tell me you're confident the media will fall in line without telling me you're confident the media will fall in line.

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · Sep 15

And probably also reading my texts. But either way, extrapolate this to Palantir and you realize this is not entirely a thread about owls.

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Molly Wood @mollywood.co · Sep 15

Like I bet my friend has searched for information about Almaty Kazakhstan on sites that use Facebook cookies and of course Facebook knows that we are friends and I like owls so it's like oh hey here's a thing you have in common, isn't that nice? Like a grand surveillance cocktail party.

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