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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

The media has barely covered this. Imagine if it was a conservative judge who had ruled in favor of Trump. We'd never hear the end of it.

Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2d

Why haven't we heard more about
South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's house being set on fire, after ruling against Trump.
Arson is suspected. Her husband and family is hospitalized.
MEDIA: Do your f**king job.
@BraddrofliT

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2d

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 2d

yeah okay

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AFGE Local 476 @afge476.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s what we at Local 476 have to say about the White House memo:

👉🏾 Go f* yourself.

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
guarantees back pay — period.

No memo, no spin, no “reinterpretation” from OMB can override federal law.

#AFGE476 #UnionStrong #FederalEmployees

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever I see something talking about "The West," I mentally substitute "The White Nations" or "Christendom".

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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 21d

Great new piece by my @metropolitiques.bsky.social colleague @docdantzler.bsky.social Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction (...) - Metropolitics url:https://metropolitics.org/Visible-Minorities-Visible-Risk-Toronto-s-Unequal-Eviction-Burden.html

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25d

Brian Kilmeade deserves praise for his apology.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."

Here's the clip of his apology 👇

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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 27d

publicpowerny.org/take-action/...

Take Action — Public Power NY

Events More coming soon

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27d

Boston's fed grant to improve safety at key intersections has been cancelled by USDOT because, according to the agency: "DOT's priorities presently include... preserving or increasing roadway capacity for motor vehicles... [the] project includes several elements that impede vehicle capacity & speed"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27d

Well if they would like to denounce political violence....

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · Sep 3

Reading this, one has to wonder if the Trib editorial board wasn't a bit excited to see the holiday weekend's bloodshed. God forbid they try to lift the city up.

And the call for measured cooperation with the Trump White House is, to put it nicely, completely detached from reality.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · Sep 2

From the Editorial Board:

We’ve said from the start that the nothing-to-see-here, murder-rate-is-down, crime-is-under-control, we-know-best argument from local politicians was a loser.

Editorial: Chicago’s gunmen did not get Pritzker and Johnson’s memo

A violent Labor Day weekend brings a dose of lived reality.

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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · Aug 22

US has become more & more unequal, with wealth continuing to concentrate at the very top. The bottom 50% of households has only 2.5% of nation’s wealth.

Black ppl hold less of the nation’s wealth than they did 30 years ago, despite having a growing pop share.

www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

In the US in spring 2025, the bottom 50% have just 2.5% of the nation’s wealth. The top 1% has more than 30% of the wealth. In 1992, the bottom 50% had 3.8% of the nation’s wealth and the top 1% had 23%.

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Nero Wolfe @nero-wolfe.bsky.social · Aug 23

Stranding millions worth of assets under construction is definitely good for the American investment climate.

Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · Aug 23

The Trump administration on Friday ordered Denmark's Orsted to stop construction on an offshore wind project near Rhode Island that is 80% complete, according to a letter posted on the website of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

US tells Orsted to halt work on offshore wind project off Rhode Island

The Trump administration on Friday ordered Denmark's Orsted to stop construction on an offshore wind project near Rhode Island that is 80% complete, according to a letter posted on the website of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

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Nero Wolfe @nero-wolfe.bsky.social · Aug 22

Reminder: The actual language of the “golden share” deal with US Steel seems only to apply to Trump, which is not how it was reported by the financial press.

The financial press to needs to scrutinize the actual language of this Intel deal rather than repeating the Trump’s characterization of it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

Trump on Intel boss: "He walked in wanting to keep his job and he ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States. We do a lot of deals like that. I'll do more of them."

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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · Aug 22

Senate democrats - you don’t have much longer to grow a spine and stand up www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

FBI raids home of John Bolton, Trump’s ex-national security adviser

Bolton’s home allegedly part of investigation into classified documents as FBI director warns ‘no one is above law’

www.theguardian.com

Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · Aug 21

Just wild www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

www.thecity.nyc

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 21

A key point we try to get at here: Media is covering Trump's militarization of cities AS IF IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT CRIME.

But it isn't. It's about the CONSOLIDATION OF AUTHORITARIAN POWER. Yet many headlines and analyses are all about whether it's true that crime is as bad as Trump says it is.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 21

Toxic feedback loop has kicked in: Trump's propagandists tell credulous reporters that occupying cities is good politics for him. Media echoes this as self-evidently true. That reinforces Dem instincts not to engage.

My exchange w/ @monicapotts.bsky.social on this:

newrepublic.com/article/1993...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 21

New euphemism for "corrupt authoritarian abuses of power" just dropped

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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · Aug 19

So, so good open.substack.com/pub/susankan...

Extraction Doctrine

When my daughters were younger, they resembled electric cars that needed consistent recharging, usually by plugging into me — sitting on my lap, hanging on my arm, working to get all of my attention f...

open.substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 19

look what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives

www.nytimes.com

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · Aug 17

That’s over 1/4 of the population.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 17

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Aug 16

Yes. Please!

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · Aug 16

A gross receipts tax, structured to be progressive, is not only more equitable but polls better: It's likelier to pass than a sales tax. The legislature should allow the flexibility to pursue a GRT for transit.

A sales tax hike isn’t the way to save Bay Area’s public transportation. Here’s what should be done

OPINION: “There’s a better solution for funding transit that actually works for working people, not one that adds to their daily burden.”

www.sfchronicle.com

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · Aug 16

American gestapo.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · Aug 17

reform for NYC’s deeply irrational property tax system is definitely overdue. And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social appears to be on it!