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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

Assuming every poll respondent pictures the same thing when they respond to an ambiguous question is a social science error.

When someone says “too divisive” or “I don’t trust institutions,” that doesn’t tell us who, what, or why.

Not data analysis. The pundit’s fallacy, dressed up with numbers.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive

Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes

Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left

Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

Ezra Klein

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.

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Steve (Works at public land grant university UC Berkeley) Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 2h

THe working definition of arglebargle. Useless.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4h

Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously John,

This kissing up to trump needs to stop

#USDemocracy

Fetterman apologizes for Democrats not getting their 's--- together' and opening government share.google/XFRY106DMtmi...

Fetterman apologizes for Democrats not getting their 's--- together' and opening government

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman criticized his own party's failure to end the monthlong government shutdown threatening food assistance programs.

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RNS @rns.org · 2h

OPINION: As strange as it may sound, survivors offer a gift to the community when they expose abuse and warn us about the predators hiding in our midst.
religionnews.com/2025/10/27/i...

In ACNA’s upside-down world, abuse survivors are considered the problem

(RNS) — The crucial truth to remember is that when someone comes forward and tells the truth about abuse, they are not the one causing harm to the church.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 4h

The more I think about it the less I enjoy living under a federal occupation that is designed to instigate a race war.

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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 4h

Thread. 🧵

No one should use Nazi Germany etc as an analogy, for the ICE kidnappings etc.

When you know your history, you know this is all American.

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 10h

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 During the antebellum period in the United States, free Black people were required to carry official documents known as Certificates of Freedom, or “Freedom papers". (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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Freedom Papers: Evidence of Emancipation - Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

February 5 — June 28, 2024 Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, Texas Weatherby Gallery, Sid Richardson Hall Unit 2

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."

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Peter Benn @thatproviso.bsky.social · 4h

A Higher Duty: The Military's Obligations to the Constitution
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Alexander Vindman: The Military's Obligations to the Constitution

Civic duty over personal loyalty.

www.thenextmove.org

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Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first @joshstein.bsky.social · 5h

As a general rule, if you have a popular policy proposal on an issue that people care about, then you publicize it. "We have a secret health care plan but we don't want people to know about it" is such a stupid lie that even MTG's wing doesn't want to be attached to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans are liars and thieves

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

EQR responded by lowering their bills by 30%, and returned over $25,000 to tenants for what they admit were “higher-than-expected” charges, but still refuses to answer questions or turn over the bills.
shelterforce.org/2025/10/10/l...

LA Tenants’ Strikes Forced a Major Landlord to Refund Opaque Utility Fees. Their Fight Isn’t Over.

A commonly used billing system allows landlords to shift building utility costs onto tenants. Tenants say it’s time to stop the practice.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Equity Residential (EQR) regularly charges tenants $200-$300 using the RUBS method (Ratio Utility Billing System) on top of regular rent, and lies about it to tenants when they are applying.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Since April, the Virgil Square Tenants Association in Koreatown has been demanding that their landlord Equity Residential—one of the largest corporate landlords in the country—explain their varying utilities charges and show the underlying bills.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the first of the month. That means tenants in Los Angeles have officially been on utility strike for 6 months. They are refusing to pay their RUBS (ratio utility billing system) utility bills while they demand transparency for their high monthly bills.

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Michael V. Nixon @mvnixon.bsky.social · 1d

No small feat.

Photo of Lowell George by Dave Nuttycombe, courtesy of the Little Feat website.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

The Dodgers win 6-3.

by John Roberts

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Michael V. Nixon @mvnixon.bsky.social · 1d

‘One Rainy Wish’ (Alternate Version) · The Jimi Hendrix Experience #TGIF

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One Rainy Wish (Alternate Version)

YouTube video by Jimi Hendrix - Topic

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Michael V. Nixon @mvnixon.bsky.social · 2d

‘Love → Building On Fire’ · Talking Heads #TGIF

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Love → Building on Fire (2004 Remaster)

YouTube video by Talking Heads - Topic

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 2d

He can add as many slippery floors and sharp edges as he likes. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title in the top left corner of a White House blueprint with jokes.)
White House Renovations
(A building with a smokestack)
Epstein Files Incinerator
(A Bank)
Personal Treasury (Formerly Known as U.S. Treasury)
(A tacky museum)
Presidential Briberary
(A helicopter landing pad)
Pedo Pad
(A ballroom)
Ballroom For Dancing on the Constitution (and sex crimes)
(A data center)
Data Center for mining crypto and posting cringe A.I. videos
(A rectangular pit.)
Mass Grave for extrajudicial murder victims
(A brown pool)
Strategic Diarrhea Reserve

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: In a second case over the suspension of SNAP benefits, a federal judge in Rhode Island has issued a TRO from the bench against the Trump administration.

There is no written order yet, but here is CNBC's report: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/s...

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ceasing to pay SNAP benefits during the
U.S. government shutdown.
The oral ruling by Judge Jack McConnell came a day before the administration was set to cut off those food stamp benefits from
42 million Americans.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 2d

Hearing is underway before a RI federal judge in the second lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's suspension of SNAP benefits starting in November. We're still waiting for a ruling in the states' case in Boston. You can watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IuX...

25cv569-JJM RI State Council of Churches, et al. v. Rollins

YouTube video by U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island

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Michael V. Nixon @mvnixon.bsky.social · 2d

‘Two Trains’ · Lowell George

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Two Trains

YouTube video by Lowell George - Topic

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The Crunk Cityzen @crunkchocolate.bsky.social · 2d

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 2d

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

CBS News kills its climate unit

David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

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