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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I can't speak for other people but I call Elon a Nazi because he walks and talks and acts and even salutes like one. Hope that helps clear it up.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 20/06/2026

The Felon is a real Felon. That means he will do and say anything to stop himself from going to jail. He’d rather die than do that. I’m sorry but that’s the reality we face. He’s a criminal. He’s a sexual predator. Everyone around him is complicit. What is the solution? #AmericanPeopleRule

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 20/06/2026

The President, today, flaunted an explicit violation of the constitution by showing off a jet gifted to him by a foreign country and this is how the paper of record is reporting it buried deep on its home page Legacy media should never claim itself as a protector of democracy

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Grandpa who sideswiped nine cars last night insists he’s fine to drive to church.

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Shout out to the Scots showing the lovely Americans what alcohol, travel insurance, and socialised health care waiting at home can achieve. "Big historical horsecunt was pure beggin' for a conin'", noted one onlooker.

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Save the bees @bcrosbie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A thought on our scholars giving up and being useless compared to AI. Maybe what you were good at was collating thoughts of others and repackaging them slightly with a smattering of your own understanding. Maybe you omitted that last step. If that's the case, you are useless compared to AI.

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Save the bees @bcrosbie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/05/2026

NEW: Two weeks ago, SCOTUS made a statement: the bloodshed of the civil rights movement can be discounted because it belongs to another era. Claims that we no longer need these protections ignore an underlying reality: laws like this are dismantled when they become inconvenient to people in power.

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Destroying the Voting Rights Act wasn't just a legal ruling. It was a moral statement

The Court’s action to dismantle Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act wasn’t in isolation. It is part of a broader recalibration of rights in this country.

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Billionaire Bezos must be afraid. Goes on an anti-AOC tear with two WaPo editorial board rants against the congresswoman in 4 days. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | AOC vs. Airbnb

Her contempt for entrepreneurs extends to those who benefit from their products.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

BYW: I don’t blame anyone who gets snowed by Tucker’s apology tour without the context of how his con works and has worked for over a decade: he’s an amazing talker and one of the finest propagandists alive. But anyone who knows politics knows better.

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Don’t Fall for the Tucker Carlson Apology Tour

The man telling the New York Times he’s sorry he supported Trump is the same man telling his brother last week that white Americans are the real victims.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Anyone who tells you that we should engage to find good faith solidarity with Tucker or MTG is probably just doing politics as pro wrestling, where finding yourself a storyline is your job, or they are, at the very least, indifferent to antisemitism.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If poor people do this because they need water to live, they get fined into even more desperate poverty

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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

if ai ever works as it’s been sold to us, the most easily replaced employee of every company would be ceo and as far as i can tell theres never been a single article written about that

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

50 years ago, the Supreme Court made a consequential ruling on campaign finance reform that doesn't get enough attention today. But it opened the floodgates to big money spending in our elections — and the corporate takeover of American politics. Here's what you should know.

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Why Corporations Have More Rights Than People | Robert Reich

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/05/2026

Look I'm no political strategist but it seems to me that when the President's chief financial advisor is going around gleefully talking about how great it is that everyone's spending more on things and that credit card spending is up, that would be useful for opposition political messaging...

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

we can have a better world we literally just have to TRY #climatechange #solar #rewilding

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows.
Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold.
Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away.
Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other.
One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018.
By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like
remnant prairie.
Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil.
Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold.
This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space.
The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050.
The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground,
which is ecologically dead.
The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain.
It's just a different seed mix.

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Taking swings at GenAI by making a video about how complex and artful the process of conceptualizing and designing characters actually is.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The tone of this article is really weird. The guy bought two guns, a shotgun eight months ago and a pistol two years ago, and they make it sound like an American buying two guns over two years is inherently suspicious or evidence he planned it for a long time. They also call it an “arsenal.”

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Suspect in DC Dinner Attack Spent Several Years Acquiring Guns

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the ...

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

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The shooting happened on the level above the ballroom where the White House Correspondents Association dinner was.
I don't think people hearing about this -- or even those of us in the room -- realized how far from the president, VP and other guests this incident was. It was on another floor, up some stairs and several sets of security away.
Because the Washington Hilton's hotel and other public spaces were open for other functions, the entire building wasn't secured by the Secret Service, just the specific areas where the WHCA dinner was held, law enforcement officials told @CBSNews
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Posivista @posivista.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Start calling it what it is: A #Countermander. Reframe it. Change the image to give it contrast. "It is countering Republican attacks on fair districting"

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto

The problems with our tech philosopher kings

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I think the Palantir attacks on bureaucrats here is ideological - like the similarly despised professors, they are a potential source of criticism. But it is also practical. The administrative class is tasked with imposing accountability, which Palantir - like the Trump administration - dislikes.

Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability. Civil servants are sworn to uphold the constitution, report wrongdoing to officials, follow the rules. They are in most respects more accountable than our politicians to ethical and legal requirements, and more difficult to buy off. This makes government slower and more irritating for sure, and puts those officials at odds with the Musks, Andreessens, and Karps of the world, whose vision and interests benefits from reduced oversight and accountability.

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The Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

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AuntBunny @auntbunny.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

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chloe 🟄°⋆ 🔜 game UX summit @chloehodgson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Just found this sick website - tools.rmv.fyi Lots of completely free tools - no logins, no registration, no data collection, just good ol' indie web! the way things were and can still be!! One of them is a colourblindness sim as shown in the video, why not test out a pic of your game?

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/04/2026

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

And so ends this lesson from the New York Times; Be transparent like Mamdani and the Times will pick over your life with a fine tooth comb. Stonewall like Trump FOR OVER A DECADE and the Times will shrug and "Oh, well! What'cha-gonna-do"

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state. This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 13/04/2026

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...

"keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it’s immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like “yeah so this is going to happen to the internet” and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don’t even get paid for it"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Mr. Smithers’ office tells the New York Times that Smithers advised against Mr. Burns’ Middle East venture, which critics say has hit a snag. But Smithers is hard at work rescuing the situation, and ensures the Times that Mr. Burns has been masterful. The bad parts are all due to… let’s say Lenny.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Let's spin up the broken record. If we're serious about CO₂ removal, we can't rely on one tech company to make it happen. It has to be a governmental effort at all levels.

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Scoop: Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases

The tech giant had been by far the nascent industry’s biggest customer.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/04/2026

Because Anthropic's, Mythos, too, is just more fucking hype

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"Moon joy" is real, but it has an important lesson for us too: Public service and public life is a gift and something to treasure—the uncommon chance to do something for a cause bigger than yourself. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...

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The Pure Joy of Joy

You can't fake the happiness of Artemis II — or Zohran Mamdani

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The party that claims to be bravely defending “Western Civilization” from its supposed imminent destruction by barbarian hordes, has empowered a guy who eats roadkill to shut down research on one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in decades.

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