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Aly_Ayl_ @alyayl.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yes, bullies can indeed crumble in the face of resistance…

Or
- they (HE) litigate(s) you into bankruptcy
- they (HE) set(s) up a helicopter crash
- they (HE) make(s) you disappear
- they (HE) arrange(s) an accident
- they (HE) otherwise remove(s) or negate(s) your voice via il/legal means

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 19h

You can now preview 2026 ACA insurance premiums on healthcare.gov.

A family of four in Maricopa County paid $514 a month for their ACA plan in 2025. Next year, that same plan will cost $2,435. That kind of increase will be devastating for thousands of Arizona families.

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Gipper’s Gravespin @gippersgravespin.bsky.social · 22m

Art of the Schlemiel 🙄

Trump loves to offer up Trump as the solution to problems he created- specifically to play savior

But that doesn’t put you ahead in trade relations, just trying to claw back what you pissed away 🙄

Like a gambler, in a hole chasing it

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Ben Warner @bpw87544.bsky.social · 23m

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week.

George Orwell, 1984

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Aly_Ayl_ @alyayl.bsky.social · 2m

Yep

Context matters

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 30m

China bought 30 million metric tons of soybeans from the US last year. This year under Trump it will be 12 million.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 39m

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China has agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans this year.

Bessent Says China to Buy 12 Million Tons of Soybeans This Year

China has agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans this year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, providing some relief to US farmers who have anxiously awaited the resumption of exports to the Asian nation.

bloom.bg

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Cielo Azul NM @cieloazulnm.bsky.social · 1h

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New Mexico which is one of the poorest states steps up to feed those dependent on SNAP.

www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/10/29/g...

Governor announces $30 million to feed New Mexicans - 460,000 New Mexicans set to lose federal SNAP benefits Nov. 1 - Office of the Governor - Michelle Lujan Grisham

www.governor.state.nm.us

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8m

NEW: A data-sharing agreement that gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy, security or privacy, experts say.
t.co/oGX5GoYYNT

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2h

This passage particularly connected with me (as an environmental sociologist).

Agreeing was clearly the most obvious thing to do. But was it? As an environmental historian, I know that the simultaneous exploitation of labour and nature has underpinned modern economic growth. In fact this story is key to my book. I show that the hardships of peat extraction, often endured by female peat workers, were rendered invisible by large technological systems and by a politics of marginalisation that left workers with little say, while peatlands turned into industrial wastelands. Digital extractivism operates similarly, but it is difficult to detect as our screens, keyboards and web interfaces give us no clues about the social and material contexts of their origin.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14h

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Eric 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @itus.bsky.social · 11h

A 22-year old pitcher who was pitching single-A this summer just owned a $329,000,000 payroll.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12h

🤭

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Adam Jackson @fantasyyeti.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, so sometimes AI can be used for good.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12h

🤭

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

A long-deranged and deeply depraved man with a pronouncedly and acceleratingly deteriorating mind announces that he intends to play with the large arsenal of nuclear weapons he controls.

But it's okay, because he's not seeking a third term.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 16h

Kherson region, along the Dnipro River: "Ukrainian units repelled four enemy assaults in the direction of the Antonivka bridge."

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information as of 22:00 on 29 October 2025 regarding the russian invasion

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17h

DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 17h

Democrats need to keep trying.
AND getting it out to media what they’re doing.
Doesn’t help if media doesn’t tell citizens who is at least doing the minimum to fight for them!

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 18h

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 17h

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:

-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

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LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 1d

Great idea.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 20h

i want someone to ask mike johnson "should we be worried that you are always learning the news at your own press conferences, which is exactly when you are supposed to be answering questions about the news"

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 1d

The most frightening of all 👇

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coolingjets.bsky.social @coolingjets.bsky.social · 1d

This may be funny to most of us, but while ( , ) is sundowning, the real crazies are making tactical and strategic choices that endanger lives of innocent civilians, and endanger the stability of society, miscreants that are unelected or in many cases un-vetted.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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