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berkeleybusmama.bsky.social @berkeleybusmama.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A jury heard opening statements Tuesday by state attorneys general and Meta in a seismic federal trial over whether the tech giant deceived the public about addictive features of its social media platforms and their risks to teen mental health. www.courthousenews.com/hook-harvest...
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'Hook, harvest, hide': States slam Meta's secret strategy on first day of jury trial
Four states questioned Meta’s motives during opening statements on the first day of a trial over teen social media harms.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” ~Clarence Darrow. Image: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, Clarence Darrow, standing and leaning with his right hand resting on a book. He wears a suit and white shirt with no tie.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Republicans just approved a budget blueprint that does far more than fund the war with Iran. Buried inside the $95 billion package is $10 billion to implement new nationwide voting restrictions demanded by Trump.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In these annoying, chaotic, and fraught times, this hit hard.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Pronatalist politics do not extend to everyone. That's how eugenics (positive AND negative) works.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...
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Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas
“It started off not particularly accurate and got less accurate over time,” one Starbucks employee told Fortune.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An illustration of why surveillance & early detection matters in outbreak containment “The reality today is that nobody knows the true scale and severity of this outbreak. New suspected cases are being reported daily, yet 100s of samples remain untested" healthpolicy-watch.news/congo-ebola-...
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Congo Ebola Outbreak Now Third-Largest On Record As Suspected Cases Pass 1,000 - Health Policy Watch
A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Exactly this. Deterrence now through vows of aggressive oversight. (In his pre-Senate life, Ossoff worked on producing anti-corruption documentaries abroad.)
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OhMyFavorite @ohmyfavorite.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Oh! So they’re just gonna Henrietta Lacks AGAIN🤷🏽‍♀️😡 White people STILL cannablizing Black bodies😡 for their benefit 😡
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Two Black families whose children died after they were used as test subjects in a vaccine trial without their parents’ consent have sued the federal government. Sample tissues from the boys’ autopsies were stolen to develop the RSV vaccine that is now used around the world.
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Suit Says Black Infants Were Subjected to Experimental Vaccine Without Consent
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Dawn Whiteside Rubin @dd-rubin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It's currently produced by a deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
173. This distorted view of the human person is reflected today in various forms of servitude directly linked to the digital economy. Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people. A significant part of the digital economy’s functioning relies on the silent work of millions of people engaged in essential yet largely unseen activities, such as data labeling, model training and content moderation, often involving disturbing material. In many cases, these workers are young people, predominantly women, working under demanding conditions for minimal wages. Added to this invisible labor is the even harsher work of extracting the resources required for the production of the devices and microprocessors on which AI depends. In some regions of the world, children and adolescents work in dangerous conditions, crushing the materials from which rare earth elements are extracted. The bodies of these people are scarred, injured and worn down so that computational flow may continue uninterruptedly. Furthermore, criminal networks use online platforms, messaging systems, anonymous payment methods and profiling techniques in order to recruit, control and transport victims of trafficking — very often minors — reducing men and women to “data” to be tracked and “packages” to be moved around within the same digital circuits that support much of the global economy. This reality deeply challenges the moral conscience of our time. It is not enough to invoke efficiency, nor to celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity.178. Even today, colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates only bodies, but appropriates data, transforming personal lives into exploitable information. Entire regions, especially those marked by structural fragility and limited geopolitical relevance, are currently subjected to a new mindset of extraction: that of health data, epidemiological profiles, genetic maps and demographic information. These have become the new “rare earths” of power: vital data which, once aggregated and analyzed, can be used to train predictive models, guide investment strategies, anticipate crises and, above all, determine who and what is deemed to matter. Those who control the health data of entire peoples — often collected under the pretext of aid, research or innovation — possess a structural leverage over the future, for they can shape needs and markets. They can also decide, before others, to whom medicines, investments and protections will be allocated. Here lies one of the most urgent moral challenges of our time: to ensure that shared knowledge becomes a true common good rather than an instrument of dominance. This requires restoring to individuals not only the data that describes them, but also the ability to decide how it is used, by whom and for whose benefit. Otherwise, the digital age will not be post-colonial, but colonial in another form.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The allies at Normandy died to save democracy. We can show our appreciation by protecting ours. #MemorialDay2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Pope Leo has released his first encyclical, on AI.
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Pope Leo: Disarm AI to prevent it from dominating humanity — The Times and The Sunday Times
The Pope has said that artificial intelligence must be “disarmed” to prevent it from accelerating wars, slashing jobs and dominating humanity. In the first major document of his papacy, released on Mo...
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 24/05/2026
I’m not saying that these guys don’t hang out at various clubs and retreats and do little bits of collusion and back scratching they absolutely do but you also have to remember that extreme wealth has limited their strategic acumen. this much money is like getting kicked in the head by a horse
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 24/05/2026
my favorite case on this point: yes, Zuckerberg did trip over a curb and land in a radicalization engine then he spent $80b to create a 3D shopping mall no one wanted. no amount of money or connections could conjure the social change he wanted don’t award these guys more power than they have
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Kirsten Gillibrand @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
They lie. They cheat. They profit. I'm fighting to ban members of Congress AND the president from trading stocks, because no one should be profiting off the backs of the people they were elected to serve.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What criminality yet to be known is Blanche’s document trying to immunize? “The United States RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES” Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization, “and is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims” by the IRS.
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 20/05/2026
Trump sued the IRS. His DOJ settled it. Buried in the deal: the IRS can never audit Trump, his kids, or the Trump Org again. A pending audit could’ve cost him $100M+. He paid $750 in taxes in 2016. $750 in 2017. $0 in 2020. You likely paid more than the president. This is corruption as governance.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 17/05/2026
Once again: with any luck, the FBI might never recover from Kash Patel.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
kash patel increasingly feels like a tracy jordan-esque character
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/05/2026
Hi reporters, Looking for someone at CDC with KNOWLEDGE OF THE MATTER⁉️ Contact the national public health coalition here: www.nationalphc.org/media-inquiries NPHC @firedbutfighting.bsky.social is a group of fired CDC employees in contact with current CDC staff and CDC alumni
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Media Inquiries | Reach Out Today — The National Public Health Coalition
Contact the National Public Health Coalition for media inquiries. Submit your questions or requests through our contact form for professional assistance.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
The radio host said Hakeem Jeffries should "get [his] cotton-picking hands off of Virginia" And this Republican congressmember, Jen Kiggans, enthusiastically replied "That’s right. Ditto, yes, yes to that” Retire bitch
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berkeleybusmama.bsky.social @berkeleybusmama.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
<sighs in UseNet, various local BBS, Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, Tribe, Blogger, Twitter…>
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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elinissley.bsky.social @elinissley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Thus far, it is estimated that this illegal war will cost working households 5-8 thousand dollars by years end. And real info says the 25B tag thus far is likely a fifth of actual loss as Drunk Pete isn’t telling us a bunch of bases were hammered.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/05/2026
Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 02/05/2026
hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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berkeleybusmama.bsky.social @berkeleybusmama.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I…would like to know more.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
He murdered Renee Nicole Good. Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”. He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state. No punishment. No accountability. No justice.
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ICE Agent Who Shot Dead Unarmed Mom Quietly Reassigned as FBI Probe Stalls
DHS officials tell PunchUp the FBI needs to “s--t or get off the pot.”
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Washington Times, what the hell are you blabbering about? “Where are the ‘No Kings’ protestors now” my ass - I literally sent your team two separate emails pitching the May Day Strong “Workers Over Billionaires” action this Friday. Prove them wrong by going to a May Day demonstration near you!
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Where are the ‘No Kings’ protesters now?
Today, with an actual monarch being welcomed to the White House by the president whom the “No Kings” protesters spent March 28 denouncing as a tyrant, the streets are quiet.
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 27/04/2026
This @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social piece is 💯 “Those in power may pretend not to know where the present political trajectories are taking us, but they seem to sense that they’ll have to hide.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
On some level, they know. How else can we interpret U.S. corporate and political elites’ chatter about “colonizing Mars” except as an admission that the present course of politics doomed the planet? But the raft of insight is thin indeed, and the seas of delusion stormy. Rather than bringing their considerable economic control and political influence to bear on addressing the ecological collapse of the planet, scores of the hyperrich are instead adding another layer of delusion: the apocalypse bunker. Meanwhile, the President immediately pivoted from the third public attempt on his life to shilling for his “Militarily Secure Top Secret Ballroom,” which, as he assured the press, would have bulletproof glass and a drone-proof structure. Those in power may pretend not to know where the present political trajectories are taking us, but they seem to sense that they’ll have to hide. In short, we are ruled by a class of people who seem either to believe or presume that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction are things that will only ever happen to poorer and browner people. There’s essentially no other way to explain why the Trump administration is so eagerly destroying so much that does, in fact, protect wealthier and whiter Americans.

Of course, the presumption is simply not true—and we are clearly in an era where this needs to be said outright—that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction can be contained to only affect poorer and browner people. Neither wealth nor social privilege can fully eliminate the risk of infectious disease, reverse the direction of a hurricane approaching landfall, or hold back the waters from entering the floodplain, whatever relative advantage it may confer in getting the nice spots of the rubble, or the finest bunker to live out one’s days in hiding. Of course, debunking the delusion won’t solve our political problems: we should not expect enough of these people to ever appreciate reality—at least, not via mere fact-checking. But we can…
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Assuming the multiple assassination attempts against Trump are real, America has never experienced this level of incompetence in the Secret Service until Republicans fired people via anti-DEI policies. Maybe the diversity, equality, and inclusion kept Presidents safer?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I’m listening to seasoned reporters talk about how frightened they were during the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night and imagining how much worse it is for America’s children. If there’s ever been a time to pass sensible gun control laws, it’s now.
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berkeleybusmama.bsky.social @berkeleybusmama.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
oof, my decision not to watch it is extra validated now. Maybe someone who loves and understands the books will eventually try again at the screen. But maybe it’s okay for them to stay books and not be messed with.
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Opinionated Terran @opinionated-terran.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Unspeakably evil Only reason I am an American is because my Zeide did translation work for the US Army, in the immediate aftermath of WW2, which he spent in various concentration camps Turning our backs on the brave Afghans who helped us is morally vacant, and a stain on our national character
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Which I wrote up here. emptywheel.net/2026/04/20/t...
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The Person Playacting as President May Be Getting Addicted to Snuff Films - emptywheel
Everyone, from Trump himself to his aides to access journalists to experts, are packaging up Trump's moods as rational actions of a President. That makes his increasing fondness for spectacular videos...
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