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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

The Golden Age of Corruption.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 1h

No billionaire POTUS!
These two rich white men are speaking up about Trump, but their policies prior to this have been all in support of the investor class. They gutted environmental protections claiming that was necessary for developers to build affordable housing & companies to create jobs.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

what can you do as an individual? amplify, amplify. share that link shitting on the gop. repost that tiktok video promoting progressive ideology. poast, and keep poasting.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 20h

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 5h

They are protected from any legal consequences of their decisions. They can, and have, run companies into the ground for their own benefit. I’ve watched CEO’s drain the cash and then acquire companies just to destroy them after taking their cash. See newspapers.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Justice JACKSON standing up for voting rights. 🔥

Louisiana: Plaintiffs said 'we want another majority-black district.'

Jackson: No. They said 'we aren't receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being diluted.'

Louisiana: Same thing.

Jackson: No, it’s not.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: No Kings is this Saturday, and here are my tips for how to mitigate anxiety in large crowds. Feel free to share! youtu.be/nxpkVk9TGgQ?...

NO KINGS! Tips for Protesting with PTS and Anxiety

YouTube video by MSW Media

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

Interested in the services @archive.org provides to the library community? Join us Thursday to hear from Internet Archive staff about our library services & projects.

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Library Leaders Forum 2025: VIRTUAL

Join us for an update on the Internet Archive's library services.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

“Kids”

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 15h

In California, a drought geography that catches fire every year, politicians & developers/investors have eliminated regulations & community input to building projects so developers no longer have to get permission to build 8 stories in residential areas.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 15h

See also this excellent piece by @graceblakeley.substack.com:

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15h

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 15h

This is happening in the US, too. Upzoning pretends we can build our way out of an affordability crisis created by wealth disparity. Those who benefit from doing away with environmental protection & community input own politicians who say they’re helping workers.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 15h

This is happening in the US, too. Upzoning pretends we can build our way out of an affordability crisis created by wealth disparity. Those who benefit from doing away with environmental protection & community input own politicians who say they’re helping workers.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 3d

4th generation San Franciscan here. I hope we - the city & the country - are not over. But the past isn't predictive; history isn't a model. We now have the largest wealth disparity in world history. This modern feudalism has twisted history into PR for the wealthy.
missionlocal.org/2024/02/expl...

BigMoneySF: Explore the major players paying out to remake San Francisco

Explore the key players in SF's big money ecosystem — their connections, shared donors, past victories, and emerging spheres of influence.

missionlocal.org

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 3d

historian of Latin America here, reminder that Columbus's extreme cruelty to indigenous peoples was known to his contemporaries and got him in trouble *then*

yes this man was so racist that he got chastised for it in *1500*

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate @punchbowlnews.bsky.social noting something that's objectively true and necessary context, but routinely elided over:

The House GOP is not away because of the shutdown, but to avoid taking a vote on releasing info about a notorious pedophile because that info implicates Trump.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3d

👀 “The Ghost House”: Eye opening report from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social this am on how Mike Johnson has turned the House into a joke under Republican rule. He has turned House Republican leaders into Trump White House’s poodles (if you catch my drift) covering up for #EpsteinFiles.

$“The Ghost House. Speaker Mike Johnson and top House GOP leaders have kept members home since Sept. 19. While the complaints are growing louder inside House GOP ranks over the issue, Johnson insists Republicans have done their job and there’s no reason for them to be here. House GOP lawmakers passed a “clean” CR that would keep federal agencies open until Nov. 21. Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked that measure, which led to this shutdown. Democrats are demanding a vote on their own proposal to permanently extend expiring Obamacare premium credits, a rollback in massive Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the end of unilateral spending rescissions. Yet the House’s absence makes it easier for the shutdown to continue. Part of what ends shutdowns is anxiety building among the rank-and-file. Members are home, so there’s limited pressure on House GOP leaders to do anything. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and dozens of Democrats have been in D.C. throughout the shutdown. More importantly, Johnson has emerged as the “face” of the shutdown for House Republicans. He’s doing daily press conferences and more media interviews, putting himself in the center of the fracas. A C-SPAN caller begging Johnson to bring the House back last week went viral. So did Johnson’s hallway confrontation with Arizona Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly over Johnson’s refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, a move that has infuriated Democrats.”$

OBBB and done. The reality is that since the OBBB passed on July 3, the House has been checked out. A virtual non-entity for more than three months. And this is the off-year, when Congress is supposed to be busy.
Since July 3, the House has only been in session for 20 days (out of more than 100 calendar days.) Even accounting for the normal August break — which began early because of the Epstein mess – the House has been AWOL.
There have been just over 90 floor votes during this period. A lot of these were amendment votes or votes on non-controversial suspension bills. Several were partisan FY2026 spending bills that have no chance of passage. All in all, very little of substance has been taken up. But as Johnson will remind you, the House did pass a CR.
The only period comparable to this in recent decades was in 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi used proxy voting to buttress the Democratic leadership’s power. Republicans yelled loudly about that at the time, even filing an unsuccessful lawsuit to stop it. But a similar thing is happening in reverse now.
If you see it, don’t say it. House Republicans have done virtually no oversight on the Trump administration, rolling over on a number of issues that their predecessors would have screamed loudly about. It’s true that House Democrats did little or nothing to rein in President Joe Biden when they controlled the House. But Trump has gone far beyond Biden in using executive authority. “Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’” the Wall Street Journal reported.
For an institution that has complained for years about the need to claw back power from the executive branch, it’s a sad state of affairs. And it shows no sign of ending soon.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Somebody tell Trump there's an Argentinian banker in one of these houses.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 3d

This is how wealth creates a false discourse about everything from economics to safety. By creating networks of disinformation, the rich have enough power to shape public discourse & opinion to appear as if they are doing good instead of eating everything.

missionlocal.org/2024/02/expl...

BigMoneySF: Explore the major players paying out to remake San Francisco

Explore the key players in SF's big money ecosystem — their connections, shared donors, past victories, and emerging spheres of influence.

missionlocal.org

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 3d

Rich tech guys formed PACs with names like GrowSF, Neighbors, Together SF, & Blueprint (insert your city name here). They claim to have a research staff and a host of "solutions" but are really just a rich guy & his minions deciding on how to make SF all about them.
missionlocal.org/2024/02/expl...

BigMoneySF: Explore the major players paying out to remake San Francisco

Explore the key players in SF's big money ecosystem — their connections, shared donors, past victories, and emerging spheres of influence.

missionlocal.org

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 3d

As with Reagan and the Berlin wall these guys had nothing to do with the event, their teams knew when to have them show up and make a show of themselves.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 3d

“Even in Afghanistan, we had very clear rules of engagement. The conduct of these agents was such that if it occurred in Afghanistan, they would be removed from the front line. They would be court-martialed.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

www.theguardian.com