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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 18h

Not the main point, I realize, but this is a WILDLY disingenuous description of the Free Staters.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

this is an outstanding thread.

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 6d

This is so good and clarifying
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 10/02/2025 · 25m

podcasts.apple.com

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 6d

“His lack of compass in the moment means that he is being played by a system that benefits from his confusion and his willingness to spread that confusion as if it were political analysis.”

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 6d

““I believe he's in the throes of a real struggle over how to proceed, but as of right now, he is only serving the political movement and business interests that benefit from a morally compromised, morally compromising political left”

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 6d

This is so good and clarifying
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 10/02/2025 · 25m

podcasts.apple.com

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 7d

Preregistering:
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 6d

What's going on in this very last line in the VA?

30% increase to "Electronic Health Record Modernization"?

Anyone have insight?

dense chart showing personnel cuts to various agencies

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 6d

"The merging of state power and economic power around one man who accepts that power as his due would not be possible without the algorithmic grift that has so all-consumingly captured our attention." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 8d

“AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer.”

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 8d

“These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire.”

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 8d

“AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts. . . “

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 8d

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 9d

"SNAP Changes Will Upend State Budgets" www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-...

interactive state-by-state map of SNAP cut effects

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 9d

Ezra Klein is the perfect embodiment of the white moderate MLK warned us about

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 13d

“designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Klein and others are helping to turn it up.”

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 13d

"Campaigns that should be building movements are instead building donor databases. Political energy that could mobilize communities gets redirected into optimizing email subject lines and testing which desperate plea extracts the most dollars from exhausted supporters."
substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Fundraising-Industrial Complex Is Eating American Politics

New data reveals campaigns burn about a third of donations raised just asking for more donations

substack.com

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 13d

Reupping our nine-month deep dive into why the sickest and neediest in the subways keep falling thru the city’s expansive social safety net.

Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 15d

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net amounts to a badly frayed patchwork of systems that still cannot reliably get New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis from subway platforms to hospital beds, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

'Treated and Streeted': How The City's Safety Net Fails Homeless People in the Subway - Streetsblog New York City

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 14d

A new paper led by Harvard Health Policy PhD student Ye Shen finds that, in the current policy environment, more than six in ten kids will have been enrolled in Medicaid for some period of time by their 18th birthday; the program is absolutley critical for children.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18d

As the Trump administration is expected to add a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, here's what we know about H1-B visas
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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What we know about the U.S. H-1B visa program

Nearly 400,000 H-1B applications were approved in fiscal year 2024, most of which were applications to renew employment.

www.pewresearch.org

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19d

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

Map Regional Public Health Coalitions
Northeast Public Health Collaborative states shaded in blue
West Coast Health Alliance states shaded in yellow
Updated September 18, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 19d

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 20d

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · Apr 25

In 2016, democratic erosion scholar Jeff Colgan created a useful 10 point list of signs of emerging authoritarianism. Here is his original list with a little bit of added explanation:

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 21d

For your Constitution Day reading: www.commondreams.org/opinion/fail...

The Right Is Risen: It's Time to Admit the US Constitution Has Failed | Common Dreams

An 18th century white slaver’s rulebook has, unsurprisingly, failed to serve the interests of a modern, multi-racial democracy. We can do better.

www.commondreams.org

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 23d

My article, "Social Work under Rising Authoritarian in the United States" is now published in the European Journal of Social Work. Despite the title, I think it can speak to all kinds of folks struggling to figure out how to think about this moment and what to do. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YGQTN...

Social work under rising authoritarianism in the United States

This article unfolds in four sections. It begins in Section I with an effort to place the reëlection of Donald Trump in a broader electoral, historical, and political context. Section II offers an ...

www.tandfonline.com

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