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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 3h
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 08/10/2026
Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says
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Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says
Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026
more business owners need to be like this
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I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule
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The Roadless Rule
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A(n ostensibly) feminist rabbinic colleague got in my DMs the other day to scream at me about how drawing attention to these— well, there’s no banality to this evil— Was “playing into the hands of the Right” Like, when is the right time to name a genocide, then? Only after? Only then? Like?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
bring back ass whoopings
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
And when (not if) these pervert glasses get hooked up to facial recognition, they will become high-volume doxing factories that will reward the attention-hungry with viral fame.
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‘stina is a spooky spectral one 👻🧛🧟‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦇🎃🧟 @stinapag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is really lovely. And infuriating.
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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Obviously I’m entirely made of Housing but a real good zoning reform we could make is re-legalizing corner stores on residential streets. Banned by the same 1957 code that banned ADUs, so maybe that’s next
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Clark Kent @lokodolo.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Artist Jerell Gantt www.etsy.com/listing/4584...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is 40 Seconds, dedicated to those we have lost, and those we need to work harder to support, and keep safe. 💙 youtube.com/shorts/fCffh...
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40 Seconds, dedicated to those we lost, and those we need to work harder to support and keep safe. 💙
YouTube video by Miss PunnyPennie
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Glendy and Nixon's children are now orphans," the archbishop said... "The family was a beloved member of our community; their children received their first sacraments in our parishes..." "This is not a gray area... What is happening is gravely immoral." www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis Archdiocese wants end to 'mass deportation,' says immigrant treatment 'sinful'
Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski called for a path to legal status for those without documentation.
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rclement.bsky.social @rclement.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do not go to the administration…
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SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026
Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/
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If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly premium…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 18/09/2026
NEW: Seattle is about to ban supermarkets from using your data to set individualized prices and coupons to curb price gouging and discrimination. The big grocer lobby is pissed, and is spamming Seattleites with scary text messages. Read in @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...
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Seattle Is Poised to Ban Supermarket Algorithmic Price Discrimination - The Stranger
This coming Tuesday, in an effort to crack down on price gouging and discrimination, the Seattle City Council will vote on a bill prohibiting large grocery store companies from using customer personal...
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also, I saw a clip yesterday of him saying something to the effect of "I'm keeping it running, so I should get to put my name on it" Right, right, that's why it's the Kennedy-and-Nixon-Ford-Carter-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Biden Center
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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pay attention to the wording- “aid in the region”, not Palestinian people. You’re not going to charity-wash your way out of this, you twats.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think this might be one of the best videos I’ve put out all year. I think it’s probably one of the most important videos I’ve put out all year. Please take a sec and share it with your friends, family. This isn’t just for parents bc the reason they’re doing this is not what you think.
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They're putting Flock cameras at PLAYGROUNDS. Now we know why.
YouTube video by Parkrose Resistance
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all agree that we have to slow down - and now - something serious clearly happened with a frontier AI model. Journalists should be digging in to this. We aren’t getting the whole story here.
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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BeautifulPlumage @beautifulplumage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey PNW friends, the Renton library is hosting @nnedi.bsky.social on Sept 29th! kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...
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Author Voices: Nnedi Okorafor — King County Library System
Join us for an early evening conversation with professor and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor. Professor Okorafor will share the weaving of Africanfuturism in her storytelling and world building, a...
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11/09/2026
If you’re ever wondering why your tiny rural police force has a DHS supplied APC, fucktons of riot gear, tear gas, automatic weapons and sniper rifles, well, today’s why.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyway, white liberals and leftists don't always know best. Sometimes it pays to actually listen to Black folks, POC and folks from marginalized communities. Sorry if that sounds too 2020 woke to y'all.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm lucky enough to have a story in All Hallows Eve. I had a great time researching it and think it's one of my best short pieces. Thanks, Ellen, for inviting me to be a part of the book.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
trump and congressional republicans take food stamps away from 4000 kids in west virginia: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/4000...
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4,000 fewer West Virginia children have SNAP since One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed
About 4,000 fewer West Virginia children have federal food assistance benefits as of May, a year after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last summer, according to data from th...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
republicans take food stamps away from 82,000 Indiana residents www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thou...
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Thousands of Hoosiers removed from food assistance
Eighty-two thousand fewer Hoosiers are receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect last October.The l...
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wish there was a way I could never hear anything about this. It turns my stomach, it’s animal cruelty, it’s immoral, its unethical, it’s hateful, and who gives a fuck who is stronger?!?
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A reminder as people hit the road for Labor Day weekend.
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
do you know how long, and how much work it took to bring back wolves
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Americans are resisting - engaging in protest and civil disobedience in a daily basis - the cruel, brutal, illegal, inhumane actions of our gov't. Please amplify their good works, the regime doesn't want you to hear how many decent ordinary Americans refuse to comply.
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A slight majority of Border Patrol agents are Latino so it was also a very deliberate choice to make the character here white.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m starting KILL CITY BLUES—a five week online horror and dark fantasy writing class later this month. Each week you’ll get lesson notes and short writing assignments, plus Zoom chats. KCB is open to everyone. For details: killcityblues@proton.me Include KILL CITY in the subject line
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“wE CarE abOUt tHe tRooPS” shut up no you fucking don’t, they’re just cannon fodder for your bloodlust
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Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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OPB @opb.org · 01/09/2026
Oregon election officials want voters to choose the drop box over the mailbox this Election Day. And as a fight over the postal service’s role in the November election plays out in federal court, they’re asking state lawmakers for emergency funding for extra ballot boxes.
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Amid postal service uncertainty, Oregon election officials turn to ballot drop boxes
Secretary of State Tobias Read is asking for more money to help ensure voters can skip mailing their ballot this year.
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