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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 9h

Why is our economy so fragile? Greed is the simple answer.

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Why China Can Collapse the U.S. With One Decree

China holds a virtual monopoly over a product needed to produce the only thing holding up our economy right now. And it’s preparing to use that leverage.

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 11h

Terrorism was once considered a bad thing. I doubt there are any actual conservatives left in this administration.

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 13h

In 2020 conservatives were outraged by this picture of an armed cop deporting a child who came to the US illegally.

Today, conservatives would cheer it. What happened? I have a theory . . .

www.thebulwark.com/p/elian-gonz...

Elián González, Trump, and What Happened to “True Conservatism”

Toward a quantum theory of politics.

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 11h

“It’s never too late for a wake-up call, but the country is in a terribly vulnerable position where China can snap its fingers and snuff out the only thing propping up our economy.”

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Why China Can Collapse the U.S. With One Decree

China holds a virtual monopoly over a product needed to produce the only thing holding up our economy right now. And it’s preparing to use that leverage.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 18h

Please show up on October 18.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 18h

Human life—just the cost of doing business.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 18h

This is how the Trump regime treats humans they dislike (the “enemy”). Who’s next?

Fight this terrorism while you still can.

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LetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025)

Another story out of Chicago. Shared by not_kristin_wiig on IG. ICE agents plowed into another vehicle, then got out of their car with weapons drawn and dragged the victim out of her vehicle, hand...

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 6d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 11d

"What defines a society is how much people love other people’s children.” —Anand Giridharadas

Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 11d

"The idea that displeasing the president could land you in prison is antithetical to democratic government.”
-Brennan Center for Justice

How can anyone with more than half a brain not see this? There’s more willful blindness than decency in too many high places.

Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 12d

Amazon Prime?

“One reason corporate crime persists is that executives so rarely face consequences.”

Amazon Settles Prime Case with FTC - Here’s What it Means

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 13d

Why this is not a normal government shutdown
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Why this is not a normal government shutdown

Friends,

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 14d

Great piece!

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14d

"You are—at most—going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 14d

Hold the line, and remember . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM39...

Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome (BBC Television Theatre, London - June 5, 1965)

YouTube video by John1948SevenB

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 16d

This is all I can do today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...

Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)

YouTube video by Coldplay

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 18d

SHUT THIS DOWN! DO YOUR JOB, LEGISLATORS!

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It's Time to Freeze ICE

Democrats should use the potential for a government shutdown as leverage to halt Trump's inhumane migrant crackdown

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 18d

We stopped Congress from selling off our public lands, but who will stop Trump? Spread the word: 88 million acres of public land are at risk.

Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 19d

No moral obligation to fund the destruction of democracy
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We Have No Moral Obligation To Pay The Bills For Democracy's Destruction - Sen. Chris Murphy

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 19d

How do we resist this?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19d

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court.

The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on.

The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS - Bolts

Hawaii justices ruled that their state constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaiians—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 19d

I think he wants an actual war. Let’s not give him one of those.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19d

It’s wild to me that the Pentagon is just… fine with reporting that most of our senior military are going to be in the same location.

Personal security nightmare.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d

Jeff Bezos was worth $194 billion at the end of 2024.

He’s currently worth $231.5 billion as of today.

It would take him just 17 days to see his net worth increase by $2.5 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/world/amazon-pay-25-billion-settle-prime-deception-allegations-2025-09-25/

www.reuters.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19d

This has nothing to do with the law - it is revenge. We know that is because Trump’s own appointed US Attorney just resigned because he refused to make a mockery of justice. So they brought in Trump’s hack personal attorney to do it. This is about abuse of power by Trump & Bondi.

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