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@pedro-roquete1.bsky.social
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motherjones.com
Trump's speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.
Trump's mental health plan: Defund, incarcerate, disappear
His speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.
www.motherjones.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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brasil.gov.br
📦👀 Nem todo mundo precisa da mesma caixa pra enxergar o jogo.
Com a isenção do Imposto de Renda, vem a justiça:
👉 Quem ganha menos, contribui com menos (ou fica isento);
👉 Quem ganha mais, contribui mais, sem pesar pra eles.

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September 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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newyorker.com
With “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee turns Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 drama into what is one of his most personal films, both emotionally and intellectually, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social ‬ writes.
“Highest 2 Lowest” Marks a Conservative Pivot for Spike Lee
Denzel Washington stars as a music executive who takes police matters into his own hands, in this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping classic.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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newyorker.com
Richard Brody reflects on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw away their collections just yet.
What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch
Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.
www.newyorker.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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newyorker.com
Our film critic Richard Brody selects the best performances of the 21st century, from Lindsay Lohan to Mahershala Ali.
The Best Movie Performances of the Century So Far
The best film performances of recent decades reflect radical changes in the art of filmmaking, and in the idea of performance itself.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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climate.skyfleet.blue
Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals #Climate
Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals
The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern" of violence against Indigenous people who oppose corporate human rights abuses.
grist.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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christhecatmom.bsky.social
Canada has a much better healthcare system that serves the people & doesn’t bankrupt them.
June 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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grrrl.bsky.social
I keep coming back to @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social’s argument that this is all “end times fascism,” a different kind of dysfunction — and worse.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
May 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.
June 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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mothpockets.bsky.social
Agreed. Also:
May 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?

139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.

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Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
May 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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petermanseau.bsky.social
Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.
May 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump (Gift Article)
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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piie.com
Learn more:
Policy shocks and rising uncertainty are weakening the global outlook
The global economy remains on track to grow this year, but the outlook has deteriorated significantly in recent months. Major policy shifts in the United States—particularly the introduction of new ta...
www.piie.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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climate.skyfleet.blue
A surprising number of Americans want climate action. But why aren’t there more? #Climate
A surprising number of Americans want climate action. But why aren’t there more?
Support for climate action is growing in the US, but partisan divides and fossil fuel interests hold sway
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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democracynow.org
"America, América": Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis
“America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis
We spend the hour with acclaimed historian Greg Grandin discussing his new book, America, América: A New History of the New World, which spans five centuries of North and South American history since...
www.democracynow.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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katelynburns.com
For my Patreon blog this week, I wrote about how American men are being manipulated by insecure, hypocritical Trumposphere conservatives into ignoring their own material well-being. www.patreon.com/posts/trumpe...
The Trumped Up Masculinity Panic | Katelyn Burns
Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon
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April 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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npr.org
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
Pope Francis, who reached out to the margins of society, has died at 88
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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naomifowler.bsky.social
Well worth reading from @brankomilan.bsky.social
The capture of economies by shareholder capitalism in the last 40+ years is so accepted it's invisible. I'm involved atm in making a film on the finance curse looking at how speculative markets wield so much power while undermining real value &values
The stock market fetish
The most recent turmoil in the stock market caused by Donald Trump’s ill-considered policy to impose tariffs on the entire world, has brought up one legitimate question: what is the correct attitude t...
branko2f7.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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abraji.bsky.social
📢 ESTÁ ACABANDO O PRAZO!

Você só tem até terça (22) para se inscrever no curso online e gratuito “COP30 em pauta”!

👋 Post com #textoalternativo

#Abraji #COP30 #Jornalismo #MeioAmbiente #Belém
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April 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘If Reeves had deliberately devised a policy to do the maximum possible damage to growth, she couldn’t have done better.’

John Lanchester on the UK’s problem with growth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · Short Cuts: Labour’s Straitjacket
The Tories, in office, prepared a trap for Labour. It had a large sign on it saying ‘It’s a Trap’ and then next to...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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nber.org
Studying the forces driving polarization and higher wage inequality since 1980, from Andrés Erosa, Luisa Fuster, Gueorgui Kambourov, and Richard Rogerson https://www.nber.org/papers/w33687
April 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Nailed it with this one.
A post from Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma ) on X reads: "the left photo has a convicted criminal; the right one does not." Below, a quote from The White House (@WhiteHouse ), posted 17 hours ago, says: "We are not the same." The post includes two images: the left shows Donald Trump in a suit with a red tie, sitting at a desk with U.S. and presidential flags in the background, being handed an item by a woman in black; the right shows two men, one in a plaid shirt and white cap, sitting at an outdoor restaurant table with water glasses and a coffee cup, engaged in conversation.
April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Shut down the youth clubs.
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."
April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM