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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 29m

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 14h

This morning, Congress had the opportunity to ask Attorney General Pam Bondi anything and didn't ask a single question about NSPM-7 👍

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 9h

They just had a story about this on ESPN.

Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 11h

have you heard the bad news that the national democratic party is controlled opposition who has willingly helped the nazis seize power?

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 9h

I used to work for Greenpeace in the early 90’s in Chicago.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 9h

Yup.
It’s that easy not to be a shitty person.
Just don’t use AI.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21h

1950’s style clip art of a woman winking. Written beneath: Only dickheads and fascists use A.I.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22h

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21h

Yup.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

We had enclaves of hippy artists and experimental types. America was pretty cool in the 70’s.

Poverty was all time low, the press made Nixon resign, lots of good music, film, art. Not perfect but 1000% better than now.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

2040 is only 15 years away.

And it’s not worth paying the denialists any mind. They’re only around 15% of the population and most online are bots.

Climate needs to be addressed through risk and stakes.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

If only it were just them.
Ha.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

Growing up in the 70’s my Aunt worked for PBS in Boston when it was the sh*t, my public school in Worcester had amazing arts programs
& rents were so low you could explore/grow without having to work 60 hrs a week.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost disorienting to see something this nakedly wonderful put in place by a non Scandinavian Western government in 2025.

Way to go Ireland.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

After a decade of minimizing and ignoring the science on global warming it would be a BIG shock for most for sure.

But after 3-5 months of freaking out we could finally get to work.
And maybe save 100’s of millions of lives.

But no way msm starts covering what’s happening. Zero chance.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

Completely agree.
What’s the fall back plan?
Ghost?
And what else?

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

On rare occasion there’s an accurate headline about rapid climate warming
and it’s always jarring as hell
and a reminder how much we’re being lied to on a daily basis.

Headline reading “Atlantic current at risk of collapse - plunging U.K. into never ending winter”

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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The Terminally Well @theterminallywell.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg speaking after release from Israeli prison

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

I 100% support this initiative.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

I just read that the NYTimes and WaPo have yet to do a SINGLE STORY on NSPM-7.

A lot like the Dems these outlets aren’t even pretending anymore.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "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.”

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Jerry Long @longjerry.bsky.social · 2d

THE UNSHAMEABLE MIND OF EZRA KLEIN
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THE UNSHAMEABLE MIND OF EZRA KLEIN

In American media and politics, the tree of conventional wisdom has a deep and endlessly intrusive root system which binds any possibility of constructive change into harmless bipartisan jargon.

open.substack.com

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