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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people
The Garfield, "You are not immune to propaganda" meme but instead it says car brain
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
thewesternedge.media
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/04/2026
It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money
futurism.com
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?
commondreams.org
Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams
An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/03/2026
"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle." I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
mprnews.org
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I wrote a quick piece about what it would really mean to abolish ICE
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There Must Be Retribution
Abolishing ICE isn't enough. So what is?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/01/2026
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Minnesota is the best of us.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/01/2026
we are still years out from the Democratic primary, and I think it is genuinely deranged that there’s people out there who believe there’s no other choice and thus we must rally around the flag of, all people, Gavin Fucking Newsom to save the republic
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2026
my teacher friend asked, if people have more to give, to help meet the goal on this rent relief fund they have set up for families unable to live home due to their status. if we did $2k in 20 minutes we can do $24k by the end of the day, right? please amplify!
givebutter.com
Rent Relief for South Minneapolis Families Impacted by Federal Immigration Operations
¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I've been planning to write for a long time about how ICE and their allies sure are a bunch of whiny bitches, for all they talk about how tough they are. I'm sad that this is the occasion. But by god, these "tough" guys are pathetic cowards. www.salon.com/2026/01/09/i...
salon.com
ICE is not the victim
MAGA lies can’t hide the real damage done to people like Renee Nicole Good
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/12/2025
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
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I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist - gregpak.net
I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative “A.i.” in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a f...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/11/2025
People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
In the Times today there’s an op-ed saying that childless women may have legitimate “private” reasons for declining to give birth. But one reason I have is not private but explicitly political: I want my life to serve as a rebuke to the notion that childbearing is women’s highest or truest calling.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 22/10/2025
COYOTE put together some tips and resources that will always be free to access www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-can-...
coyotemedia.org
What We Can Do About ICE
ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)
bloomberg.com
‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.
A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman on Saturday morning in Brighton Park marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month, the @chicago.suntimes.com reports
chicago.suntimes.com
Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities in Brighton Park
Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2025
Please read and share and consider becoming a paid subscriber. I depend on the generosity of my readers to continue to do this work as my opportunities within mainstream media get smaller and smaller. <3 burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...
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What Would Trans Compromise Even Look Like? (The Right Won't Accept It)
Conservatives and complicit centrists have obliterated every trans compromise position, so I don't know what we're supposed to do now. How would you react if I said that puberty blockers were once th...
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.
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pretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11/09/2025
(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/08/2025
Abolish ICE. Abolish "A.i." No arms for genocide. Protect trans kids. Shut down the concentration camps. Abolish tariffs. Fire RFK, Jr. Boycott Avelo & Tesla. Delete Twitter. No crypto. Care over punishment. Vote Mamdani. Primary every do-nothing D. Protect vaccines and SSRIs. No fascism. #NoKings
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
With generative AI models now capable of producing fluid, context-rich dialogue, Mattel’s new vision is a toy that grows with the child, holds personalized conversations, and recalls past interactions to adjust its responses. It may learn a child’s favorite story or phrase, sing their favorite song, or have full conversations about almost anything. Mattel has promised that these interactions will be “secure” and “age appropriate,” but not much is known beyond that.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy. I’m not doing it.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025
And if targeting trans people and the unhoused is somehow a "purity test" for you, then what the fuck are you actually fighting for and against? I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/08/2025
I'm going to be honing the set of muscles that allows me to gleefully imagine throwing Gavin Newsom in front of this administration like a grenade, but also being very very clear that I do not like grenades or want grenades to run for president. Not everyone on this battlefield gets to be a hero.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/08/2025
Reports indicate plans to occupy other US cities. We need Congress to act now if we are going to stop US troops from being spread throughout the country. act.sojo.net/page/86796/a...
act.sojo.net
End the occupation in the District of Columbia!
We demand Congress act to preserve democracy! Tell Congress to end the occupation of the District of Columbia! We need Congress to act now! End the occupation in the District of Columbia!
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants. Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
heatmap.news
Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands
The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
That they overturned Roe and immediately the media started a nationwide moral panic over “male loneliness” has got to be one of the least subtle moments in the long history of antifeminist backlash.
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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Tell the State Department to free Chris Smalls and other US citizens on board the Handala which was on a mission of mercy to Gaza. X: @StateDept and @SecRubio FB: @U.S. Department of State Instagram: @statedept @secrubio
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/07/2025
I don’t want to ask CoPilot, I am making a Word document. I don’t want to search with Meta AI, I want to search Instagram. Leave me alone
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amandasplain.bsky.social @amandasplain.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Facebook is censoring this article.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/06/2025
"I received your missive of Thursday last with the greatest of gratitude, as my brave compatriots and I have now waited five hours for the orders to approach a moderately busy intersection in the shopping district of a mid-sized American city."
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A Letter to Home from a Weary ICE Agent
Dearest Beloved, I received your missive of Thursday last with the greatest of gratitude, as I and my brave compatriots have five hours now awaited...
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 06/06/2025
There's nothing to do but make jokes. What else is there to say, other than: To EVERYONE in charge, EVERYONE in a position of power, EVERYONE with money, EVERYONE with influence: you are failing us, completely. We are terrorized, we are stressed, we are homeless, we are dying. You are failing us.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/05/2025
Free expression is a hallmark of the First Amendment. All our rights are in jeopardy when trans peoples’ freedom to exist is undermined.
Pink and purple graphic with white text that reads, "Trans liberation is tied to all of our freedoms" with a white ACLU logo.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
action.transequality.org/a/stopmedica...
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URGENT: Tell Congress to Defend Trans Health Care NOW
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amandasplain.bsky.social @amandasplain.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Comment on COVID-19 vaccine booster.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Flexible/remote work is good, actually! When executives can’t make it work for their company, that’s a problem of leadership. Return to office mandates are about real estate costs and shitty bosses covering their asses - no matter what excuse they give. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
farmingdale-observer.com
Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
That’s my thing. All I have heard about my entire life is men’s many problems. Whomst among us has ever had the freedom to ignore men’s problems?!! All nonsense. Men need socialism and a nap.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/04/2025
every person online who thinks the tariffs are a good idea are people who are trying to figure out how to take their first step as a huamn being
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