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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h

You're gonna need a bigger chart

Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 19h

Worth a listen! Especially as we push ourselves to work a bit harder through the midterms. This is the motivation you need! Their explanation of our moment will help you tap into the joy of collective action to fight for our beautiful, imperiled planet and fellow human and non-human neighbors. ❤️

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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear

Podcast Episode · The Audio Long Read · October 2 · 35m

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30/09/2026

On October 17, we’re taking to the streets again to stop the fascists’ election sabotage. Find (or organize) your No Kings event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026

Stopping the fascists from sabotaging the midterms is what the next No Kings is all about. On October 17, we need millions of people in the streets putting the regime on notice that We The People won’t accept any of Trump’s bullshit: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
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Indivisible DuPage @indivisibledupage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If we elect enough Senators, we can impeach this guy.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026

Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.

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Indivisible Westside LA ❌👑 @indivisiblewestsidela.com · 30/09/2026

The high fuel prices plus extreme weather we’re seeing now show us why we need a managed transition off of fossil fuels: govt support for a whole new energy system! Instead, the GOP gives us high prices, war, & climate lies. Climate change is here & is an existential threat. #VoteEarly #NoKings

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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 28/09/2026

I mean, the science of it is worth getting into. These bans have no scientific backing. Research has mostly failed to show that trans athletes have any real aggregate advantages after a couple years on HRT. If there *were* a large number of trans athletes it wouldn't make the bans correct, either.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026

Join the No Kings coalition for a nationwide election protection training to level up your election defense skills. We will focus on the role of sustained mobilization and rapid response work in our movement.

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No Kings: Vote Early: Election Protection 201 · No Kings

Join the No Kings coalition for this training to prepare for engaging in sustained mobilization and results protection work depending on opposition response to election results. *A core principle beh...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Additionally, be aware of responsibility washing. See e.g. 📝 Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Cover image of Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For my London-based or adjacent followers, I'm speaking at an event marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street next Tuesday evening. I'll be reflecting on the history of antisemitism and state racism among other things. Tickets are free!

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The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now | Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Alba" is a WA State farm worker. "I'm placing ties around the apple tree limbs so they don't get too heavy and break. I worry about my safety since the ladders can get heavy. I have to be careful how I place it to avoid accidents. I earn minimum wage for this work." #WeFeedYou

A farm worker placing ties around the apple tree limbs so they don't get too heavy and break.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

We should invest those hundreds of billions into public transport and active mobility and build tiny data centres if most of the people really want to play with chatbots and make generic slop for the internet

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. “The choices that Trump regime has made since 1/2025 have increased the number of people who die in the field and in custody,” immigration atty and investigative journalist. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge

These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This looks like an interesting initiative between @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @jofvictculture.bsky.social If you are an ECR looking for some mentorship to help navigate the publishing world, this could be the scheme for you. jvc.oup.com/2026/09/28/j...

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JVC–BAVS Early Career Mentorship Scheme – Journal of Victorian Culture Online

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Universities are, in a lot of ways, vaccines. They innoculate for societal disease. And they are victims of the same conservative gamesmanship: Attack attack attack, then ride in and pretend you are going to restore the very trust that you destroyed.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Authoritarian, conservative, and reactionary networks have been among the principal drivers of the surge in distrust, conspiracism, and anti-scientific sentiment." Yes: contemporary polarization is driven by a deliberate campaign to destroy trust in core institutions & epistemic standards.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

To summarize: there's nothing wrong with fighting when you're fighting fascist fuckers.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Big Tech wants us talking about about whether AI will usher in "superintelligent" heaven or killer-robot hell so we won't talk about the harms their technologies are already unleashing. @arimelber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaja88xxirY

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AI psyop? Author calls BS on 'end times' warnings

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists are always much more willing to hold violent students accountable that university administrators. And their call out of the “educational interventions” used by schools to left rapists off the hook is a must-read.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026

“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)

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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct

ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Data Center Don: Trump’s AI Debacle is a Big Opportunity AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs. New from me in @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com’s FrameLab There needs to be one party that puts people over data. And it better be Democrats.

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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

genuinely I think we would be in a better place, morally, as a society if all of these fraudsters were in jail and people saw that there were consequences for behaving in such a flagrantly antisocial manner rather than endlessly lucrative rewards

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel

Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I somehow missed this when it came out. It stands up incredibly—and so much about the current Heritage Foundation SCOTUS & privatization regime makes sense. Defund the govt, create or take advantage of crisis, privatize. AI + war + climate change will be a bonanza. #hoopladigital

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

International BestsellerWinner of the Warwick Prize for Writing 18th in The Guardian's top 100 Greatest Books since 2000"Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell.”...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/09/2026

Unseen for 13 years, the rare Ghana cuckooshrike has re-emerged in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park. Enabled by local collaboration and the Search for Lost Birds project, the discovery underscores the need to safeguard West Africa's remaining intact forest sanctuaries. John Cannon reports.

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‘Lost’ bird reappears in West Africa’s forests after more than a decade

When Paulo Ditzel first laid eyes on the bird, he knew he’d seen something special: a vibrant orange body with yellow and black wings and tail feathers, topped by a dark head set off by…

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's the point--and, frankly, I think the more most students are exposed to what is truly unique about the academy, the more they love it. A university is one of the only places where people can play with ideas without needing to expect any sort of commercializability.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the other, more substantive, hand: if what these folks mean by contrasting the academy with "the real world" is that the academy has a different ethos than, say, many for-profit employment settings, then ... YES!

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember when they said (lied) that USAID was corrupt? $400 million was handed out to 30 countries, with no real oversight and with workarounds to bypass human rights safeguards typically given to U.S. foreign assistance payments. Immigration is just a giant trough of corruption right now.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just lectured about the WPA this morning and it is absolutely a model we need to bring back, for this purpose and others too.

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