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isaac @sevier.io · 18h
Found out about this tenant union organizing manual for San Franciscans today from an eviction defense attorney at the meeting I went to. This is tailored to the new rights to bargain collectively with our landlords that tenants won in 2022. sfadc.org/organize/
UNION AT HOME ORGANIZING TOOLKIT

The cover is illustrated with tenants holding posters and banners out their windows in multiple languages


cradt: Fernando Marti
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Alongside our reporting partners, WIRED analyzed thousands of Telegram messages, manually verified 800+ movement obstacles, polled hundreds of Palestinians, and mapped 2.6 billion GPS pings from drivers navigating the West Bank.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026
A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 30/09/2026
A WIN! We’ve just learned that Colorado Parks and Wildlife is suspending the practice of killing wolves for conflict with wildlife. This provides some much-needed safety for Colorado’s small and recovering wolf population.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hmm, I wonder if there is any controversy around using AI-controlled autonomous fighter jets to kill people? no, it's just a happy story about business and jobs? in that case cool cool cool www.geekwire.com/2026/shield-...
geekwire.com
Shield AI selects Seattle area to build X-BAT autonomous fighter jet, plans to add 4,000 jobs by early 2030s
Defense tech upstart Shield AI has selected the Puget Sound region as the manufacturing hub for X-BAT, bringing AI-piloted fighter production to the region and promising 4,000 jobs by the early 2030s.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
A recent disclosure of Amazon’s internal “employee relations” documents reveals just how extreme Amazon’s methods of warehouse surveillance and control have become.
truthout.org
Amazon Is Deploying AI to Spy on Its Workers and Bust Unions Before They Form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
wired.com
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A big failure. The argument about streaming the traffic cameras into the real-time crime center was that all the feeds were publicly available anyway, a fact that we now know to be untrue. That this happened at all erodes public trust in city government, and in surveillance cameras specifically.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this investigation on long COVID inside of prisons is out today at the Sick Times! I worked on this piece for months and am so grateful to the folks who shared their experiences with me. I'll write up a real thread a little later, but you can read it now: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Axios @axios.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack
axios.com
OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack
"OpenAI is responsible for the conduct of its agents," the advocacy group suing argued.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Since 2022, Israel has done all of these in the WB •Killed over 1,300 Palestinians. •Killed 9 American citizens. • Detained over 30,000 Palestinians in military prisons • Displaced over 45,000 Palestinians • Established over 260 illegal settlements and settler outposts on stolen Palestinian land.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More talk needed about AI's crowding out of sectors we need for a sustainable economy. In addition to gobbling up energy and electronics supply chains (w big inflationary impacts), Big Tech is frenetically issuing bonds to finance its data centers, driving up interest rates for everyone else.
ft.com
AI hyperscalers are transforming debt
The sector’s huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Documenting the attacks on climate researchers as litigation against fossil fuel companies gets underway: This “wave of requests constitutes a larger and more targeted campaign against researchers whose work could be used by lawyers to advance climate lawsuits.” www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
The ICJ decisively rebuked the Israeli argument that occupation of Gaza ended in 05 by establishing that the control test does not limit itself to the physical presence of troops on every street corner
news.un.org
Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’: UN world court
The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday declared that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory “is unlawful”, and that “all States are under an obligation not to...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐
wapo.st
Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.
At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
seattletimes.com
Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem
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ve, the ghost of information past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026
It’s almost as if the safety of systems is a function of how we organize social relationships around and through those systems, as opposed to a bunch of predictions run through linear algebra and bayesian statistics
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026
"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."
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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join us for a free two-part training on people’s assemblies and their revolutionary potential to build grassroots power. Registration: celdf.org/2026/09/2-pa...
celdf.org
2-PART TRAINING: People’s Assemblies and The Revolutionary Potential of Grassroots Power - CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Join us for a free two-part training on September 30th and October 6th to learn from two experts on people's assemblies: Dr. Camila Vergara, an academic and organizer who was deeply involved in numero...
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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 29/09/2026
The Urbanist and Ryan Packer in particular did an amazing job raising awareness of this issue early and often! Without that journalism and efforts from transit advocates, things would likely have turned out differently. Thank you, and this again highlights why local media matters.
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Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GOOD NEWS: LA Metro just approved the purchase of 220 non-polluting electric buses. This is the second largest electric transit bus purchase in the nation. earthjustice.org/press/2026/l...
earthjustice.org
LA Metro Approves Purchase of 220 Non-Polluting Electric Buses
Landmark investment is second largest electric transit bus purchase in the nation
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Epstein had a gig teaching at a private school. No degree or teaching credential.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mexican Volkswagen workers could soon be on strike if their salary demands are not met. The 6,500 workers build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Puebla plant, the largest Volkswagen facility outside of Germany 🔗⤵️
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Want to make it v clear that I was one of many, and credit @bparsia.bsky.social for pushing for this in his union capacity
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
Weirdly fascinating survey - most Github users **oppose** data centre constructions where they live, but would happily support wind and solar construction climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
Survey results showing GitHub users’ local building support: 85% back solar farms (61% strongly), 78% back wind farms (53% strongly), 66% back nuclear power plants (39% strongly), while 58% oppose local data centers (32% strongly).
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OPB @opb.org · 28/09/2026
Powered by Nike and tech giants like Intel, Washington County has long played a big role in Oregon's economy. It's also had Republicans or business-friendly Democrats shaping much of its policy. But with tensions rising over some hot-button issues, the political landscape may be shifting.
opb.org
Data centers, ICE and the DSA: Election tensions rise in Washington County
Local races in Portland’s suburbs are animated by some of the key political issues sweeping the nation.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Given tech’s growing role as a political force shaping the conditions of democracy itself, it is no longer enough to organize solely within a traditional union framework that can only win shop-level demands.
dissentmagazine.org
Rebooting the Tech Worker Movement - Dissent Magazine
Workplace organizing in the tech sector has undergone a steep decline. What went wrong?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
A Crusoe (fossil fuel company powering data centres) claimed no protesters at NY climate wk live near a data centre - but as @mollytaft.com points out, why is that relevant when climate impacts *everyone* *everywhere*? We *all* live near data centres, in that regard www.wired.com/story/data-c...
A day before the panel, at a different briefing, I watched BloombergNEF analysts talk about the group’s projections of a massive new influx of demand for fossil fuel power over the coming years, driven primarily by data centers. Data centers, according to BNEF’s analysis, will likely comprise more than 5 percent of global electricity demand by 2035, tripling their needs now. The majority of that demand will be met by new and existing natural gas plants, and could raise the power sector’s emissions by 6 percent in less than 10 years.
That doesn’t even account for gas power plants being built off the grid to service data centers. A separate BNEF analysis of 99 proposed on-site gas power plants found that they could increase US power sector emissions by 20 to 33 percent if they’re all built, posing a major climate threat. Declines in emissions from coal plant retirements will be more than offset by new gas emissions, and more coal plants are staying online thanks to the new demand.
Even if data centers pull off the PR turnaround of the century and ease concerns about water use and energy bills, the fossil fuel buildout still looms as one of the biggest consequences of their buildout. Extinction Rebellion may, at the end of the day, be right: all those added emissions mean that even those of us who aren’t living near data centers will end up feeling their impacts.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The data center opposition is made up of a diverse complex of interests: homeowners, tenants, environmentalists, consumer watchdogs, AI haters, conservatives, socialists, and even multinational industrial companies.
dissentmagazine.org
After the Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Almost every home in England will need air conditioning in the next few decades – especially people living in flats and mid-terrace homes in English cities, Govt. report says. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s another way climate change will kill us: the expansion of mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry. In Paris, the invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), an aggressive, day-biting nuisance, is now everywhere. So excited to get Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in Paris.
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Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitoes as warming climate expands threat
It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/09/2026
The research implies that a local newspaper creates $114 per resident per year ($84 in 2018$) in local government efficiency. A case for subsidies for local news, perhaps in the form of consumer free-subscription vouchers like @deanbaker13.bsky.social advocates
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/09/2026
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. Heres what we now know: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...
404media.co
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026
It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread dangerous diseases. to.pbs.org/4ihm3ks
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Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitoes as warming climate expands threat
It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
theguardian.com
New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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