Working The Issue

Working The Issue

@claytonabernathy.bsky.social

I am working the issue.

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I'm going to come right out and say it. We should make gig work illegal. If companies want to hire us, they need to hire us. As a country, the United States is failing its citizens. It's failing its workers. Also, we need single-payer healthcare.

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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

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Big Brother is watching, but now we can watch Big Brother right back. I love that MapQuest is flipping the script. Apple Maps, where you at?!

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bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Replying to @billcorbett.bsky.social

This applies to the anti-Islamic signaling too - some overt, some subtler. All bad. Poisonous. Yes, NOT ALL Democrats do this. But too many. It’s a road to failure! And it’s deeply immoral.

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Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

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More after today's cruise missile strikes. The Energia plant in Yelets after today’s cruise missile strike. Extensive damage is visible at the facility. #Russia

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Replying to @meetthepress.com

When the domestic terrorist-supporting Mike Rogers repeats CONVICT Trump's lies about El-Sayed, ask him if he supports the domestic terrorist gangs of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, 3%ers, J6 terrorists, etc...the real threats to America..and when he just bullies to talk over you...turn off his mic

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The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

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Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

Nationalize SpaceX.

Richard Blumenthal@blumenthal.senate.gov

Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

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It’s so brazen. Kushner, Witkoff, Trump & Musk What price for the devastation Ukrainian lives, towns, cities at the receiving end of Russia’s illegal war when these pigs at the trough can profit

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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Undoing the Alaska Purchase to own the libs. Or possibly to own some dachas and overseas LLCs, not entirely clear

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I remember when I voted for Hillary in 2016. I had changed parties and denounced Donald Trump. First time I voted for a Democrat for President and the first all blue ballot I cast. Haven't voted for a single Republican since. And never will again.

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In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

Anyone that tells you that we can't afford single payer healthcare is lying to you.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social

NEW: Another controversy involving taxpayer-funded Trump ads Democratic Natl Committee alerts court that MAGA Inc Super-PAC is paying to air a "no tax on tips" commercial that was produced by White House staff "whose salaries are paid using Congressional appropriations"

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AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

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“Top officials in the State Dept made clear that only candidates who voted for President Donald Trump would be eligible for the mid-to-upper level foreign service roles.” They have effectively blurred the difference between career and appointee roles. Only loyalists rise in a personalist regime.

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social

Not a surprise from this administration, but both unlawful and incredibly destructive of effective governance. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

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Do not wait to vote till November 3rd. Lines will be extremely long. This is the 2nd day of early voting in Texas, and they are lined up already before the polls even open. Get out there and cast your ballot. They wouldn't be trying to stop you if it wasn't so important.

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Think our effort to address the damage done by DOGE Is over? Not at all! We just won summary judgment proving that they abused our data And we are also litigating in fed court on behalf of the countless people they injured at USAID

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This should frighten every person in every country that depends on technology owned by Elon Musk. If he will do it to Ukraine, he will do it to any country that displeases him or gets in the way of his making money.

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Vance: "I think Ukrainians should stop bombing Russian energy... I don't think that Ukraine should be in NATO." NO ONE WAS TOUCHING THEIR PRECIOUS ENERGY UNTIL THEY INVADED US! And maybe, just maybe, Russia should stop murdering Ukrainian civilians on a daily basis, JD?

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1. During the president's first term, it was impossible to get his supporters to accept that the Russians really did help him defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and that the late Robert Mueller's investigation proved it.

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

theguardian.comMichigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-SayedTimmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed