Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.social DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 8hThis is clearly not acceptable 58771152414
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialRobert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Just this past week pedestrians have been killed or severely injured by hit-run drivers around the East Bay in Castro Valley, Oakland, Union City, and now Berkeley. 45817
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialless 🌞 @bauldlad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026if i send this to you i just missed my uber and will not be attending the function #survivor51 112722
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A powerful statistic from @walkmass.bsky.social. When we talk about building safe streets for everyone, that must include older adults, who often have mobility challenges and difficulty navigating huge intersections or walking in areas with poor sidewalks. Data is here: walkmass.org/crash-reports/ 313935
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. (Published May)propublica.orgKids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.” 601359795
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT told the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter about the shotgun. “Close quarters is its playground.” From our new investigation:motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 413562
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026She’s an Emmy winner!!! 496326777
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialalexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026i am saying with 100 percent sincerity that this needs to be in a museum 911932
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 04/08/2026thrilled as i am to see the 9/11 high school gymnastic routine do the rounds again, it doesn’t hold a candle to the 9/11 middle school interpretive dance set to the music of lmfao 2640699
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026Over and over, 3M scientist Kris Hansen found PFOS, a chemical her company made, in people’s blood. Her bosses doubted her work: How could it be everywhere? Finally, she found one batch of blood samples without PFOS — but with it came a devastating revelation. Full episode: propub.li/4gVmPRQ 241686664
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There is no other pet that you would just throw out your door and say “see you later maybe” and the idea that cats somehow should live like that is bonkers. 532832
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 27/08/2026The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.404media.coFlorida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi SaluteThe deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse. 861489557
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 19/08/2026NEW: Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set of a TV show. "I mean, I saw a shiny thing," he said in the footage. Watch and read more here:404media.co'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk WomanBody camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'" 22398185
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 10/08/2026After a weeks-long battle with a mysterious illness, Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle Jackie has died. Read more: www.latimes.com/environment/story/2… 3224779
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialAndrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 10/08/2026*Record-breaking*: July 2026 displaced the Dust Bowl-era July of 1936 as well as July of 2012 to take the title of the US' hottest month on record since NOAA's record-keeping began in 1895. www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...cnn.comJuly was the hottest month in the US since records began in 1895 | CNNJuly was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 38859
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/08/2026Driving a car is incredibly dangerous, it should be one of the most regulated experiences on earth, and it is very upsetting to watch people who correctly don’t trust the cops turn against automated enforcement because the alternative is relying on a cop’s judgement to enforce the laws. 221482185
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...cbs12.comAbandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new craterA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater. 2782799770
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home. 10230641113
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialJacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Absolutely no one who makes this point ever does it because they actually care about people in Sudan and Myanmar to the degree their political opponents care about people in Gaza. They're just using other people's misery as a gotcha in their deranged partisan warfare, it's disgusting. 23411
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 25/07/2026What if someone told you there's MORE than one horse? Have you ever considered that? 913131663
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialThe Smart-Casual Gamer @smartcasualgaming.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Please please pease consider backing this little guy if you've got the money available! It's such an adorable little thing and they deserve all the adventures we can give them! 0247
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...stlpr.orgOverland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media. 33720436
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity. 943670747
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 08/07/2026i do not know why it is so impossible for some people to get through their heads that representative government is not a normal job with a corporate ladder to climb and job protections and formalized uniform hr policy but it's embedded in a lot of the weirdest takes about electoral politics 3479274
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialErik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 07/07/2026No matter what someone thinks of Platner (lol), it is extremely worrisome to see so many media folks get so animated in broadcasting that they don’t care about handling SA as a topic with the care it deserves, that in fact they seem to revel in NOT doing so 6896111
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Whatever Platner did or didn’t do, pay attention to how quickly conversations about sexual and physical violence against women turn into “aw shucks” meditations on second chances in a way almost no other harms do. What you frame as deserving of grace tells me who you believe should absorb the cost. 372523526
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/07/2026legitimately funny dispatch lol 323345
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialJoan Meiners, PhD @joanmeiners.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I spent all week covering the #PocketFire as it grew 20k acres, toward Flagstaff. Then the Mayor of nearby Williams told me: “(Flagstaff) likes to think they should be able to tell everybody to do the same thing they do. And I've let them know that's not the case." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...azcentral.comWilliams to light July Fourth fireworks as wildfires burn nearbyThe town has a history of igniting spot fires with its "famous" show. Neither neighborly fears nor the ongoing, nearby Pocket Fire have deterred them. 444
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialJared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Catastrophic capitalism www.hcn.org/articles/peo...hcn.orgPeople are betting on wildfires. Should they? - High Country NewsFire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson. 0177
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialAdil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/06/2026“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said. 2751421054
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/06/2026The Prairieland defendants will appeal their convictions, but the entire court system is rotten—especially in Texas. We must completely discredit the tyranny of ICE and Donald Trump, creating a situation in which anyone who succeeds Trump is compelled to pardon those who suffered under Trump. 128297
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialDFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant… 10789622
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...ms.nowTrump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists. 761581840
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialTK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found. 58667211
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 17/06/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/4veRIqA 442320844
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 09/06/2026NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”propublica.orgHe Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 51528181125
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 06/06/2026"No one feels good following cancer treatments like chemotherapy, but recovering in prison is a unique kind of hell"prisonjournalismproject.orgCancer in ConfinementPJP writers on suffering from the leading killers in behind bars — a problem of neglect, delayed care, and poor coordination 03522
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialpoorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 06/06/2026 132187486
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This has been true for my ENTIRE organizing life since I was 15 years old... 19789137
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialSFGATE @sfgate.com · 05/06/2026In the brush beneath a Mission Bay overpass, two coyotes break into song as a Caltrain barrels past. Their duet — equal parts whimper, howl and bark — rises and falls in chorus with the horn of the train. 9850374
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialPrison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Inside a prison in Oregon, nearly half a million honeybees are helping incarcerated residents build new skills. Through a selective beekeeping program, students work as mentors and apprentices to manage hives, harvest honey and earn professional certifications.youtube.comA Tour of the Beehives in an Oregon PrisonYouTube video by Prison Journalism Project 15822
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 15/05/2026I wonder how it feels to go to bed at night thinking about how you recorded a snarky down-the-barrel takedown of a program costing 30x less than your boss’s second wedding that helps little babies. I wonder if you feel a little sad, a little empty. I wonder if you feel anything at all 351319159
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialShannon Guss @shannongaitz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If you don’t feel inspired to put everything you have into voting for Cirie, go see the way some very misguided people talk about her on Facebook. We need to share, we need to consolidate, get everyone on this. Please don’t make me relive BB25 #Survivor #Survivor50 survivor50cbs.votenow.tvsurvivor50cbs.votenow.tvSurvivor Season 50 Fan Favorite VoteYou decide who the Fan Favorite is of Survivor Season 50. Vote now! 13610
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...jilltxt.netGenre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writingA genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text.… 14514186
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The president is Mad that his government isn’t raiding the homes of more reporters rn, is pushing his officials to raid the homes of more reporters for printing things he didn’t like zeteo.com/p/more-paran...zeteo.com‘More Paranoid’ Trump Pushes Officials to Raid Reporters’ HomesDonald Trump’s war on the press and leakers is on track to get much worse – and fast. 30665208
Reposted by @amandampb.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/04/2026OVERNIGHT: Trump Admin files latest court motion in support of White House ballroom It reads like a Trump Truth Social post, with random capitalization, accusations the plaintiffs are "very bad for our country", suffer "Trump Derangement Syndrome", etc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 2332048731
