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Design — San Francisco Born to tinker forced to work I want you to have free healthcare
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In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake
President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV
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Incredible reporting on a deeply depressing story of corruption in Congress Anticorruption politics is what brings down authoritarians around the world, but it's hard to do that when you're corrupt too (even if less corrupt) www.propublica.org/article/nava...
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What does a 900% match mean? Where does the matching money come from? @housemajoritypac.bsky.social @democrats.org
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New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
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I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
Breaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.
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A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social
Save for when your boomer parents say they like Newsom in 2028
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
The deluge of Flock stories are of course horrifying, but they're so widespread and so varied that it just makes you wonder what other bat shit crazy public private partnershit is going on all across the country that no one knows about
New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there. No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
It's clear at this point the government hack is to just make everything a branch of the military. Health Force (Doctors), Work Force (Jobs), Construction Force (Infrastructure), Energy Force (Solar, Wind)
Trump proposed an AI Force modeled off the Space Force and I'm amazed how little coverage it's gotten. Meanwhile, industry is racing to influence its creation: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-anno...
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While the nation turns against Flock and mass surveillance, SF’s Democratic Central Committee—a body with two Flock employees on it—just voted to double down on Flock and mass surveillance. SF Democratic Party leadership is a disgrace right now. Completely captured by conservative tech oligarchs.
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Killing the OTA can only be understood as part of the broad, long-running conservative effort to make everyone—including and especially elected officials—dumber and more reliant on the private sector.
Once upon a time, Congress had its own in-house think tank that would research and suggest remedies for technical problems politicians might not have a handle on. Might be a good resource now, ay? Here's @maxmoranhi.bsky.social on the long-lost Office of Technology Assessment:
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I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
The idea that anyone’s instagram or TikTok feeds could be described as a place to chat with your friends is so laughable. She’s talking about social networks, which don’t exist anymore, social media is where you get sold supplements
Can social media be addictive? @taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no. “You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
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So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
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I feel like we are just getting to the tip of the iceberg on the astroturf campaign around “Abundance”. I snapped this photo at my local SF library earlier this year. Six copies, no other book came close. Now that’s what I call abundance!
In my last job (Washington Post Opinion section), I was asked repeatedly to write about the book "Abundance." I kept making excuses. Finally, I just bluntly stated that there are many, many books published about politics and it was strange that the entire political media was obsessed with this one.
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“Mamdani is the political personification of this. He’s the smiling face fighting back. He’s the resistance of a city that has long been captured by capital on the verge of reform. Lurie is also a smiling face, but he’s the reverse. He’s fighting on behalf of power in a place on the verge of capture
Here in San Francisco the sneaky way we’re getting our Flock cameras is that Mayor Lurie lets his billionaire friends buy them as a “gift” to the city. Don’t need to argue over budgets when oligarchs get to pick their pet projects
$1 fee on auto insurance. A settlement with Big Pharma intended to help opioid victims. This money has been spent by state and local governments... to purchase Flock cameras. One reason people don't trust these things is that they've been installed in such sneaky ways. prospect.org/2026/09/01/h...
It's not that universal healthcare = no fascism. People in France are being squeezed the same as people in the US. Yes, they are starting from a better place having universal healthcare, but decline is decline and feels bad even with healthcare. People are going to look for someone to blame.
It's true, the claim more left-wing economic policy will weaken far-right popularity has been proven wrong. But the claim that adopting some of the far-right's social policy will weaken far-right popularity has also been proven wrong. Other people being wrong doesn't automatically make you right.
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I... was not ready for that paragraph
Fultz denied was using Flock to stalk his ex. He claimed to investigators that he may have been showing her how it works, and denied spying on her. The report also states that he said “he had her location on Snapchat, so it wouldn’t have benefitted him to track her on Flock.” But that's not all.
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The next dem president should fill this entire wing with federal agents dedicated to white collar crime, give a press conference that they want them in the building because it’s their top priority. Just an entire ballroom filled with investigators on laptops 🧑💻 👩💻 👨💻
Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).
I’m sure these numbers will be used to bash AOC, but this far out I actually think this is great
Emerson shows hypothetical matchups: Buttigieg 49% vs. Vance 44% Buttigieg 49% vs. Rubio 44% Ossoff 49% Vance 44% Ossoff 47% Rubio 44% Newsom 49% Vance 44% Newsom 48 Rubio 46% Harris 49% Vance 45% Harris 43% Rubio 48% AOC 44% Vance 46% AOC 43% Rubio 48% emersoncollegepolling.com/august-2026-...
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The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
I’m sure they focus tested this and I’m sure the ad is captivating, but personally my eyes glaze over when I read the words “$1,000 pen” 🤷🏼♂️
Ken Paxton stole someone’s $1,000 pen. He’ll steal your tax dollars. He’ll steal your healthcare. He’ll even steal your pen. I'll be a Senator who puts money in your pocket — and I’ll never put your pen in mine.
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Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
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@gabrielzucman.bsky.social just now: California billionaires now hold more wealth than total gross income in the state of California. Thus, a 5% wealth tax on billionaires--billionaires only--increases tax revenue by the same amount as increasing income taxes by 5% on all Californians
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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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