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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide

Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...

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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Ree @hillz8.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He puts other politicians to shame!

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Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH is very pleased to announce issue 9.1 (2026), our largest yet, with six peer-reviewed video articles and two curated video essays. jer.openlibhums.org

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Journal of Embodied Research

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/08/2026

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

How many anti-Jason Arday pieces if the fucking Atlantic going to publish. IT IS NOT 2022 ANYMORE ANTI WOKE IS BORING THERE’S ACTUAL GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP PETE HEGSETH IS RESEGREGATING THE MILITARY SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE SUCCEEDING FUCK YOU

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/08/2026

Dear cis people, Please, for the love of G-d, stop using the terms "biological male" and "biological female." They're scientifically meaningless. Sex is a bimodal cluster categorization. The brain is biological, no? There is no one factor that's universally determinative of sex and gender.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's extremely revealing that one of Harper's main takeaways from the tenure track as a Black professor was to become singularly suspicious of his Black colleagues' qualifications (and his own) rather than, say, at all interested in the existence of racism and white/male mediocrity within academia.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Anyway, I’ve been asking two questions in most rooms of late. How do we make them poor? How do we publicly litigate the data politics behind it all?

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

New life philosophy unlocked.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

And yes I am absolutely saying no government should kidnap, traffic and cage any children, including their own children, ever, for any reason, even if a cop or judge says that the thing they did like running away from abusive adults is a crime And yet Here almost every country on earth is

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LillyDoryClaire @lillydoryclaire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Today’s Thought….

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/06/2026

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

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Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The cost of using the internet as model training data should be providing indefinite UBI for everyone on the planet.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

To pretend that rapacious technocratic enclosure is somehow a more future-oriented national project than properly funding education, environment, and health is the culmination of a grotesque diminution of what we can collectively imagine and build.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

The Artemis II flyby was not just a super cool jaunt around the moon! It was a test flight that’s part of a larger, extremely nationalist, plan to militarize and colonize the moon for AMERICAN interests It is NOT “For All Mankind“ And everyone who makes fun of someone who asks the question:

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Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

excited for the FULL-ON RACE COMMUNISM

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A corporate data center is not equivalent to a library. Technically, there's nothing stopping data centers from acting as digital libraries, but in actual practice data centers have become associated with the destruction of human knowledge for profit. In other words- the data center is the bonfire.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/02/2026

This story is not surprising to a lot of us but also hugely important, especially for 🔭 because this is who the space sciences are being handed to 🧪 "Musk’s posts repeatedly echoed prominent white supremacist narratives and ideologies"

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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The most important technological revolution of our lifetime has nothing to do with AI: Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.

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tommy in boots @tommyinboots.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

this is not the problem, this has never been the problem, this could never be the problem, and all this does is target regular fat people -- who don't eat in this fashion any more than anyone else does, but are assumed to.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/01/2026

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 17/01/2026

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Democrats should run on the fact that their opposition is literally killing Americans and destroying the country. It’s not hyperbole. That’s the message they should be blasting out to media every day. They are killing Americans and destroying the country. They hate our freedom. They hate democracy

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Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

To me, there is no more important political issue than the radical reform or abolition of prisons. I don’t understand why this isn’t constant news, constant focus, forever, until it is done.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

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Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is one of the greatest books of all time. Changed my life as a teenager. I rarely see it mentioned. Would be very wary of a tv version.

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Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This was so obvious during Brexit

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/11/2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas and the history of Palestinian resistance, points to three factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed to continue. The gaslighting by governments and major media creates a “dual reality” that denies what people can see for themselves. And at its core, he says, the genocide exposes the colonial foundations of Western power. Baconi stresses that the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine.

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@PalFest

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