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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 10h
Just got this text from the police union, and I have to say: If Karen Bass was going to fix homelessness in L.A. by spending hundreds of millions on Inside Safe, she would've fixed homelessness already. She hasn't, at all. Her attack squad doesn't have a leg to stand on.
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Under L.A. mayor's $300-million homeless program, 40% have returned to the street
Even as Mayor Karen Bass' signature homelessness initiative brings more people indoors, a growing number are winding up back on the street.
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 10h
41 and 42 were engineered to stop 40 from happening. It's just that simple.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h
ICE must be defunded and destroyed in its entirety and every person who enabled and worked for it must be stripped of all honor and government employment forever. Their names should be added to registries and people should be notified if they're moving into their neighborhoods. They're dangerous.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 14h
polling data has shifted and as such the Democrat Trust Me Bro Industrial Complex is spinning back up
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 19h
How the police defund cities: Part infinity
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h
Of course the primary reason why CNN and MS NOW are running the illegal taxpayer-funded Trump campaign ads is because they are afraid of the Trump Admin coming after them if they refuse. The path of least resistance is compliance caused by fear and intimidation.
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please consider sharing this video extra hard because youtube basically just sliced engagement in half because of the random restriction. thank god for waking up at 4am and immediately checking my phone
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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ACTCostumes @actcostumes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
YouTube is slowly just becoming another repository for right wing bullshit and trying to harm creators that have actual points and criticism about our society. It’s similar to Instagram censoring Florence Pugh’s post speaking out about Cornell. It’s just control though any means.
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Lonnie【東京在住】 @lonniecomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so fucking shitty. I wish right-wing xenophobia didn't keep winning and deteriorating the quality of societies.
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ACTCostumes @actcostumes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maybe if it had more times running during the fucking weekend when people have time to go out and explore and stopped having random mechanical issues during those weekends and stopped having random delays maybe ridership would improve. Cuz it works well when more accommodations are met.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:
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Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
Not that Congress cares
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Never been MORE VINDICATED he's literally using AI as Digital Jenny McCarthy to do vaccine denialism HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT I need to play the lottery
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WE LOVE STUDENT JOURNALISTS IN THIS HOUSE
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
cracked it
A Twitter post by sarrah bellus where someone asked “what’s wrong with musks body?” with photos from a recent visits somewhere outside. He’s standing in all black and cowboy boots. His chest is thrust forward and he has an anterior pelvic tilt. Next to him is two photos of a person from the mid 20th century study showing a person with estrogen deficiency - this person is in their underwear, they have knock knees, hunched shoulders, a protruding chest, which is a sign of estrogen deficiency. The thought here is that Elon musk, suspected of taking too much testosterone, has a similar estrogen deficiency. The quoting post by Dave greenridge says as much.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know this sounds alarmist. But people aren't nearly alarmist enough about how our healthcare system will convulse next year. Up to ten million have lost their insurance. And the trillion in cuts haven't even begun. And people are already being institutionalized against their will.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Could be 60. Trump wants "data to rein" because that means the oligarch Nerd Reich side rule. Democrats could get right on this; they know they'll have to, just for the environment, but they're either afraid of the tech fascist donors. Or are deluded enough to think the PayPal Mafia is persuadable.
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Data Centers Isuse Hurts Trump—If Democrats Pounce
AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs.
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fascist gestapo filth who murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston 3 months ago has been identified by the Texas Tribune as Gregory Feathers.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 29/09/2026
The student journalists are showing more courage and leadership than the Administrators.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As the midterms approach, I want to remind folks that pandemics have historically given rise to fascism The fear associated with death and disability on a massive scale makes it easier for authoritarians to seize power Vote accordingly Protect disabled & marginalized people. Get them to the polls
politico.com
Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 29/09/2026
A legal expert says judges often don’t treat direct democracy as a right, and allow plenty of space for legislators to pass reforms restricting it. Declaring popular initiatives a right, “gets rid of that wishy-wash approach,” he says.
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To Protect Direct Democracy, Two States Mull a New Approach: Name It As a Right - Bolts
Ballot measures in Missouri and Montana would strengthen citizen-led initiatives. Democracy advocates in each state are going on the offense after facing years of attack.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recession indicator
A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
Hundreds of protesters are camped outside Madrid’s regional government headquarters demanding new tenant protections.
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Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis
The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal Martín in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain’s rising cost...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New Yorker style comic of two sophisticated people at a cocktail party.
One guys says "mainstream news refusing to tell people the planet is being cooked is serial killer multiplied by molester level evil."
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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ACTCostumes @actcostumes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey can everyone admit we're not a democracy and never were yet? Please? So that we can all have solidarity and do what needs to be done in the face of obvious fascism? Please?
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Simon William Cree @piratesprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I will simply be the millionth person to say that an LLM is made up of a bunch of servers owned by a company. OpenAI is committing crimes in broad daylight, and we're all supposed to collectively act like we don't understand this because computer or whatever.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone was asking me the other day why I am an NPR Hater I have other reasons but I'll add this to the list
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 25/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "go the fuck back to bed"
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
They manufactured a shoplifting crisis which were characterized in hushed tones by inventing shoplifting gangs all over the country the last time the police did a slowdown.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An Appeals Court panel has ruled that federal agents can legally search through travelers' cell phones without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant when they cross an international border. The full story: lataco.com/phone-survei... By Izzy Ramirez
An aerial shot of the U.S.-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana.

Headline reads "The U.S. Government Quietly Just Made It Legal to Go Through Your Phone at the Borde"
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ACTCostumes @actcostumes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Read up and make sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 24/09/2026
Undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $96.7 billion in U.S. taxes in 2022, including $6.4 billion into Medicare. Yet, Ramya Gosike reports, they cannot enroll in Medicare.
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Immigrants Aren't Taking Away Our Healthcare—ICE Is
Millions of U.S. residents—including many immigrant families—are set to lose their healthcare under changes coming due to legislation passed under Republicans and the Trump administration. But ICE is…
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media as he seeks to destroy the US itself." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Author Jacob Silverman discusses how tech elites like Peter Thiel and David Sacks are shaping the Trump administration’s approach to technology.
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“Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies
“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’r...
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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Australia said an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website, per Reuters
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is correct - personal experiences of needing social services makes people, including policymakers, more opposed to imposing administrative burdens (which is how they are breaking SNAP and Medicaid) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
• When a policymaker has personal, firsthand experience navigating a welfare system or public service, their tolerance for administrative burden significantly drops. © Oxford Academic
• Conversely, policymakers without personal experience are much more likely to tolerate or actively support high administrative burdens, often driven by political ideology or a perception that the target population is "undeserving".
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