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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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📞Reminder: Please call today!
Senator Chris Van Hollen: 202-224-4654
Senator Angela Alsobrooks: 202-224-4524
Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth: 202-225-4016
Tell them: Vote NO for increased funding for ICE or Border Patrol. They are tearing apart our communities! 🍃
Senator Chris Van Hollen: 202-224-4654
Senator Angela Alsobrooks: 202-224-4524
Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth: 202-225-4016
Tell them: Vote NO for increased funding for ICE or Border Patrol. They are tearing apart our communities! 🍃
TODAY: We’re teaming up with @aclu.org, @moveon.org, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, and more friends for a call-in day to drive as many calls to Congress as possible.
Join us to demand our elected officials use the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill to get ICE Out For Good.
Join us to demand our elected officials use the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill to get ICE Out For Good.
The regime shot Renee Nicole Good and then labeled her a domestic terrorist.
But they didn’t do it because they’re strong — they did it because they’re weak and scared.
Congress must answer the people’s call to get ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... #ICEOutForGood
But they didn’t do it because they’re strong — they did it because they’re weak and scared.
Congress must answer the people’s call to get ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... #ICEOutForGood
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 PM
📞Reminder: Please call today!
Senator Chris Van Hollen: 202-224-4654
Senator Angela Alsobrooks: 202-224-4524
Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth: 202-225-4016
Tell them: Vote NO for increased funding for ICE or Border Patrol. They are tearing apart our communities! 🍃
Senator Chris Van Hollen: 202-224-4654
Senator Angela Alsobrooks: 202-224-4524
Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth: 202-225-4016
Tell them: Vote NO for increased funding for ICE or Border Patrol. They are tearing apart our communities! 🍃
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Trying to corner the market for oil production in 2025 is like trying to corner the market for VHS cassette manufacturing in 2002
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Trying to corner the market for oil production in 2025 is like trying to corner the market for VHS cassette manufacturing in 2002
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Looks like it’s time to listen to this episode of Maintenance Phase again! @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump revives the Presidential Fitness Test, a rite of passage for schoolchildren for decades
President Donald Trump has reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children. This test, a staple in schools since 1966, was phased out during the Obama administration.
apnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Looks like it’s time to listen to this episode of Maintenance Phase again! @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Climate mitigation and adaptation measures are not costs. They are investments.
The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.
Invest now to reduce costs in future.
The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.
Invest now to reduce costs in future.
June 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Climate mitigation and adaptation measures are not costs. They are investments.
The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.
Invest now to reduce costs in future.
The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.
Invest now to reduce costs in future.
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David Hogg is cooking lately
June 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
David Hogg is cooking lately
This race does have national implications, so as a non-New Yorker, please vote for the future, for a different path forward instead of the same old failed policies. And please #dontrankcuomo
Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people.
I believe people will win.
I believe people will win.
June 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This race does have national implications, so as a non-New Yorker, please vote for the future, for a different path forward instead of the same old failed policies. And please #dontrankcuomo
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An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.
BREAKING: U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities
U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities
Trump's direct intervention marks a historic escalation in the Middle East.
www.axios.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.
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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
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The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
June 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
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Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)
June 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)
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Authoritarians want you to feel isolated and alone, to feel like their vision of the world is the only one.
That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!
That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!
June 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Authoritarians want you to feel isolated and alone, to feel like their vision of the world is the only one.
That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!
That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!
June 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
