Megan Baxter
@megkbax.bsky.social
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Reposted by Megan Baxter
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
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Once again UBI works
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Once again UBI works
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ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
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Ni minns väl hur Moderaterna beskrev Aktivklubb i somras?
Statsminister Kristersson: ”dåligt sällskap”
Tolgfors: "fokuserar på träning"
Svenonius: ”ifrågasatt grupp”
Fjellner: ”fel sällskap”
Bali: ”roliga memes”
Statsminister Kristersson: ”dåligt sällskap”
Tolgfors: "fokuserar på träning"
Svenonius: ”ifrågasatt grupp”
Fjellner: ”fel sällskap”
Bali: ”roliga memes”
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ni minns väl hur Moderaterna beskrev Aktivklubb i somras?
Statsminister Kristersson: ”dåligt sällskap”
Tolgfors: "fokuserar på träning"
Svenonius: ”ifrågasatt grupp”
Fjellner: ”fel sällskap”
Bali: ”roliga memes”
Statsminister Kristersson: ”dåligt sällskap”
Tolgfors: "fokuserar på träning"
Svenonius: ”ifrågasatt grupp”
Fjellner: ”fel sällskap”
Bali: ”roliga memes”
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Så hamnade Kallis på omslaget till ett av världens mest klassiska rollspel www.sydsvenskan.se/dygnet-runt/...
Så hamnade Kallis på omslaget till ett av världens mest klassiska rollspel
Vad har Bamse och tysk metal med detta att göra?
www.sydsvenskan.se
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Så hamnade Kallis på omslaget till ett av världens mest klassiska rollspel www.sydsvenskan.se/dygnet-runt/...
- Ulrika Westerlund (MP): ”Hon utnyttjar populistisk transfobi”
www.qx.se/samhalle/sve...
www.qx.se/samhalle/sve...
Ebba Busch vill ”backa könstillhörighetsbandet”
Ebba Busch kopplade könstillhörighetslagen till ”könslöshet” – möts av jubel på KD:s riksting. Ulrika Westerlund (MP): ”Hon utnyttjar populistisk transfobi”
www.qx.se
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
- Ulrika Westerlund (MP): ”Hon utnyttjar populistisk transfobi”
www.qx.se/samhalle/sve...
www.qx.se/samhalle/sve...
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Charlotte NC: citizens are saying no to the deployment of ICE in their cities.
#ResistFascim
#ProudBlue
#ResistFascim
#ProudBlue
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Charlotte NC: citizens are saying no to the deployment of ICE in their cities.
#ResistFascim
#ProudBlue
#ResistFascim
#ProudBlue
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Trump launches a military occupation of Charlotte, NC, to punish the city for having a Democratic governor and Democratic mayor. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Charlotte latest Democratic-run city targeted by Trump’s anti-immigration offensive
Agents were spotted making arrests across the city as the Homeland Security announced the action
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump launches a military occupation of Charlotte, NC, to punish the city for having a Democratic governor and Democratic mayor. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Fuck SD www.qx.se/samhalle/sve...
SD vill avskaffa hetsskyddet för homo-, bi- och transpersoner
Inför Sverigedemokraternas landsdagar nästa vecka läggs flera motioner som kräver att lagen om hets mot folkgrupp ska avskaffas helt. Partiledningen avslår men vill kraftigt begränsa den eller ta bort...
www.qx.se
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Fuck SD www.qx.se/samhalle/sve...
”In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.”
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
”In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.”
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
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Yesterday, @thenation.com ran my unprecedented investigation revealing a major U.S. landlord's links to West Bank settlements and the IDF.
To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
www.thenation.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Yesterday, @thenation.com ran my unprecedented investigation revealing a major U.S. landlord's links to West Bank settlements and the IDF.
To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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"Silence, for me, is now intolerable."
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Silence, for me, is now intolerable."
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections
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Hoppet vann. Trump förlorade. Massiv folklig resning mot den auktoritära högerpopulismen och rasismen i USA på alla nivåer. Sänder tydliga signaler även till oss i Europa. Nu har tidvattnet äntligen vänt
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Hoppet vann. Trump förlorade. Massiv folklig resning mot den auktoritära högerpopulismen och rasismen i USA på alla nivåer. Sänder tydliga signaler även till oss i Europa. Nu har tidvattnet äntligen vänt
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
What a delight to wake up to a Mamdani victory! Congratulations, New York!
www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
Election day live updates: Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral race
Democrats have also won governor races in Virginia and New Jersey as Californians voted to redraw election maps.
www.bbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
What a delight to wake up to a Mamdani victory! Congratulations, New York!
www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
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Why you should vote in municipal elections?
In 2019, 88 #ncpol elections were decided by 5 or fewer votes--67 in 2021 and 57 in 2023!
(1/3)
In 2019, 88 #ncpol elections were decided by 5 or fewer votes--67 in 2021 and 57 in 2023!
(1/3)
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Why you should vote in municipal elections?
In 2019, 88 #ncpol elections were decided by 5 or fewer votes--67 in 2021 and 57 in 2023!
(1/3)
In 2019, 88 #ncpol elections were decided by 5 or fewer votes--67 in 2021 and 57 in 2023!
(1/3)
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Taxing commercial flight to reflect its true environmental costs presents genuine policy & economic tradeoffs, but taxing private air travel does not, and the latter should be taxed at ludicrously punitive rates to address the deficit created by the former.
Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
www.newscientist.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Taxing commercial flight to reflect its true environmental costs presents genuine policy & economic tradeoffs, but taxing private air travel does not, and the latter should be taxed at ludicrously punitive rates to address the deficit created by the former.
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Skriver om att Moderaterna har bestämt sig för att göra journalister till motståndare.
www.dn.se/ledare/amand...
www.dn.se/ledare/amand...
Amanda Sokolnicki: Moderaterna har bestämt sig för att göra journalister till motståndare
”Hotar du mig?” undrar statsministerns medarbetare. Moderaternas uppgörelse med Aftonbladet den här veckan är illavarslande.
www.dn.se
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Skriver om att Moderaterna har bestämt sig för att göra journalister till motståndare.
www.dn.se/ledare/amand...
www.dn.se/ledare/amand...
Y’all can fuck right off!
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Y’all can fuck right off!
– Jag är stolt över att vara svensk medborgare – men just nu känns det jobbigt att vara i Sverige. Jag älskar Sverige, men vet inte om Sverige älskar mig.
www.dn.se/sverige/moha...
www.dn.se/sverige/moha...
Mohammad sparkades medvetslös: ”Svenska politiker har stärkt nazisterna”
Nu åtalas fyra män ur nazistiska Aktivklubb Sverige. Mohammad sparkades medvetslös. Han anklagar politiker för att ständigt skylla problem på invandrare.
www.dn.se
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
– Jag är stolt över att vara svensk medborgare – men just nu känns det jobbigt att vara i Sverige. Jag älskar Sverige, men vet inte om Sverige älskar mig.
www.dn.se/sverige/moha...
www.dn.se/sverige/moha...