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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since Kansas and John Brown are in the discourse, I would encourage folks to read WEB Du Bois’ biography of Brown. It’s a heater.
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aleshapotter.bsky.social @aleshapotter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Spelled bhykke wrong? What's the spelling?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Pretty amazing that Eurovision decided it was worth sacrificing Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain just to have Israel on
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A judge has allowed the DOGE deposition videos back online. After originally ruling plaintiffs had to "claw back" the videos and them being removed from YouTube, the judge has now said the videos fall "squarely within that core public interest." Now back on YouTube www.404media.co/judge-allows...
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Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online
“We are pleased to see today's ruling in defense of the First Amendment rights of all Americans,” one of the plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit said. The videos previously went viral when a DOGE m...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras. So he covered them with plastic bags. Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.
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This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts
Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read ...
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
From the article: 
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A 50-year-old woman “had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges” based solely on AI facial recognition.
A Tennessee grandmother says she is trying to rebuild her life after an incident of mistaken identity by an artificial intelligence
(AI) facial recognition system tied her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation.
Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit the crimes.
Lipps, a mother of three and grandmother of five, said she has lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee. She had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/03/2026
I ask you to take 3 minutes out of your day to read this, as a reminder of what true evil looks like. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows
Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Mentally competent patients typically have the right to choose their medical care — or refuse it. But there is one notable exception: pregnant patients. That inconsistency is particularly striking in Florida. Read this story by @amyyurkanin.bsky.social 👇
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12/03/2026
The freedom to rape Palestinians is so important to far too many Israelis that there were countless parliamentary protests to the prosecution and a violent storming of the facility where the rapists were held awaiting their eventual release without punishment. www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...
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Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops' detention
Far-right Israelis try to storm military base and lawmaker defends rape of Hamas suspects as 9 IDF reservists face questioning over alleged prisoner abuse.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12/03/2026
This is Israel, the Western bastion of rewarding soldiers for anally raping a handcuffed hostage with a knife because the victim can't testify due to having been thrown into the Gaza extermination camp and probably having been massacred. apnews.com/article/isra...
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Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee
The Israeli military said it is dropping charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My gosh. The Israeli Defense Minister also openly says here that the role of the Israeli military's legal system is "to protect and safeguard" soldiers — not to hold them accountable, for instance, when they rape someone on camera:
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The *apists were caught on camera and defended their actions. The Israeli public filled the streets to defend their right to *ape. This is Israel. This is Zionism. And it is irredeemable.
AP: BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
And read what Israel’s defense minister says the purpose of the legal system is. (Hint: not to prosecute crimes).
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Justice has been done.
I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them.
This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled.
The role of the ID's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas.
I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/03/2026
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
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Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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404 Media @404media.co · 12/03/2026
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...
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Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
i hated the shit out of this adaptation defector.com/emerald-fenn...
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Emerald Fennell Now Going Moor-To-Moor Trying To Shock People | Defector
“My sister Emily loved the moors,” wrote Charlotte Brontë, in the introduction to a selection of Emily’s poems published in 1850. Emily had died in 1848, and had not lived to see the publication of th...
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I can’t talk during moments like this because I get super Irish about it and immediately want raw vengeance. that and I am reminded that the reason we are here is America has a stupid two party system and the side apparently representing equity and sanity are a pack of useless careerist cunts
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
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Metal Gear Solid Image Bot @randommetalgear.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
A screenshot from Metal Gear Solid1
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/12/2025
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 04/08/2025
I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/12/2025
NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 14/12/2025
Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics. The Colorado DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement.
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Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery 
Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.
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Nathan Rabin @nathanrabin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I spent 3 years researching The Fractured Mirror, a 548-page encyclopedia of movies about filmmaking, with a foreword by Joe Dante and illustrations by Felipe Sobreiro, to make it available for Christmas. So, of course, I got into a car accident and am bedridden! Help! www.nathanrabin.com/shop
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Indika (PS5) is $22.98 on Amazon buff.ly/XogVyxq $12.49 US PS+ buff.ly/WnVcUoT (Steam) 2 game bundle for $14.99 buff.ly/qPlqitk #ad also on PS+ Extra
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10/12/2025
Since Trump is making the border evaluate 5 years of social media history for "anti-Americanness" for anyone trying to enter the US: I am anti US wars, US genocide, US torturing, US human rights abuses, US abuse of the dollar, US interventions, US oligarchy, US media hegemony, basically most of it.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
NEW: Buried in the new defense bill is a policy to fill weapon “gaps” Israel gets as other nations embargo it. As in: citing "wartime" needs, the US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by restricting weapons to Israel. Now, citing those very restrictions, the US may send Israel *even more.*
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US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes
The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 08/12/2025
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/11/2025
"send back the things we gave to the genociders to commit war crimes against you so we can safeguard ourselves" is so peak USA-Israel that no satire would be able to get away with it
An article in the Jerusalem Post describing the situations in the post
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/11/2025
The looting of aid in Gaza by "humanitarian rights organisations-backed Hamas" was -of course- actually by Israel, because Israel lies, Western media just prints it, and now a year later the rectification is published after the Palestinians are dead already. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
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SPFE28 @spfelocal28.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 25/11/2025
Electric bills are up 11% this year, and shutoffs are spiking across the country. At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW
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More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up
Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes [Box Set] hardcover is $86.15 on Amazon after listed coupon (1440 pages) buff.ly/Xoe2gqq #ad
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