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richardkimo.bsky.social @richardkimo.bsky.social · 11h

Can we just scream about it being cuts to corporate welfare so that they turn it back on? That all the companies not paying people a living wage might be forced to shell out backs so their employees don’t starve?

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11h

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

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Maggie Rowe @rowemag.bsky.social · 1d

“Unlike Wikipedia, social media platforms have no purpose beyond selling eyeballs to advertisers, so there was nothing steering the development of norms toward civility & constructive conversation.”—Jimmy Wales addresses how factual neutrality means people can make up their own minds:

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk branding it ‘Wokipedia’ and AI looming large, can it survive?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 2d

"The economic disaster that is Brexit"

(A lot worse than I had thought)

Will Hutton in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

The economic disaster that is Brexit

The chancellor admitted last week that Brexit has hit productivity and the economy much harder than previously thought, a fact that the budget - courtesy of the OBR - would recognise.

In a little-reported speech last week, Bank of England monetary policy committee member Swati Dhingra gave a hint at official thinking, citing recent independent research suggesting that Brexit had lowered Britain's output by between 6% and 8% and investment by between 12% and 18%, compared with what it would have been had the UK remained in the EU. Worse, these losses are permanent. The devastating numbers, much worse than the OBR's earlier official estimates, are the single most important cause of weakened productivity. They also mean that the exchequer has lost not £40bn but up to £80bn of tax revenue every year. Outside wartime, no leading country has ever committed so much economic self-harm.

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

Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Johnson has dissolved Congress. Why?

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abbzug.bsky.social @abbzug.bsky.social · 3d

Longtime HCR readers will know that “What are we doing here, folks?” is basically her screaming profanities at the current situation. It’s dire.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

October 25, 2025

Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Maggie Rowe @rowemag.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately he is abusing his power in a way our country has never seen before, and is very busy burning the voting bridges behind him to try to stop future democratically elected office-holders from reaching the positions of power they are supposed to have to restrain his overreach.

Maggie Rowe @rowemag.bsky.social · 3d

Heather Cox Richardson: November 2025 elections are what we need to focus on right now, and outcomes for issues like preserving mail-in ballots and appointing state supreme court members will depend heavily on voter turnout. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
#elections2025
youtube.com/shorts/PoUVk...

What Can We Do to Stop Him?

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

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Juke Slytalker @blackskyeddie.blacksky.app · 3d

I think one of the most important jobs that the next wave of media under a different political party does is call out the complicity from colleagues during this moment.

Rolling Stone needs to call out the NYT explicitly, you, Andrew, et al need to call out Jake Tapper explicitly, etc.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

Too Good To Go (app) works with over 175,000 businesses for surplus food management. People can find restaurant food at half price or less and restaurants can reduce food waste. Win win! #foodassistance #reducewaste #giveback

MissD @missdiane.bsky.social · 4d

Too Good to Go partners with restaurants and delis and other places, including Whole Foods. At the end of the afternoon or evening, you can go on the app pay a cheap flat rate and you get a bag of whatever is left of the day.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4d

Every day, it seems like we tick a little bit closer to midnight.

Would be great if the GOP Congress would quit sleepwalking through this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Threatening to arrest governors for seditious conspiracy. Getting dark fast.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

This is amazing!!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4d

“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”

“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”

~Center for Budget and Policy

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 4d

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 6d

The Civil Servants Coalition, which authored the letter asking Congress to support a shutdown if the legislation to end it did not include reigning in the illegal actions of the administration, has put together this Google doc of resources. Please share it widely so Feds can hold the line longer!!✊✊

Shutdown Assistance

docs.google.com

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 5d

🧵 Paul Klee (1879-1940) was a Swiss-German painter & is one of my favourite expressionist artists. Here are the Golden Fish (1925), Landscape with Yellow Birds (1923) & Castles & Sun (1928) [1]

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Maggie Rowe @rowemag.bsky.social · 5d

The destruction of our White House, and all the other lawless acts of the day:
hcrichardson.bsky.social
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-22...

October 22, 2025

“It’s not his house.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 6d

The big tech founder who has a 256-foot $75 million superyacht to "shadow" his 417-foot $500 million superyacht, because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad, is very worried about his newspaper's financials

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 6d

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Pain at The Post

As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure a...

www.status.news

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