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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11h
Yesterday, Border Patrol evicted the tree occupation blocking the border wall construction at Lochiel, Arizona. Today, despite arrests and further repression, people occupied a tree on the south side of the easement, once again halting construction. crimethinc.com/meltice#ariz...
A platform in a tree at Lochiel, Arizona.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12h
This is nuts. @murray.senate.gov: “Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government — yet here we are."
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Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding
The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.
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B in the land of rain and coffee @bethstac.bsky.social · 11h
They could be coming to the US, sharing their insights with us and helping our research institutions grow. In the span of about a year (on the back of decades of prep work) Trump has destroyed the best scientific research system in the world, and handed leadership to China.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11h
They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 11h
Activists have launched a 'defendants union', likely the 1st project of its kind in the modern history of US political protest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @dnbrgr.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social @sdonziger.bsky.social
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Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
In no reasonable world is this necessary and yet here we are. Even if you're not currently pregnant or planning to be, please share this widely among your people. You never know how far something like this might be shared. And it will probably save a life.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Had enough of ICE brutality? Here’s your chance to do something about the times we live in where human rights and the constitution don’t matter to Trump’s agents. Sign our pledge to vote and do all you can to fight back this critical midterm election. 1/
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Yellowhammer Fund @yellowfund.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New data shows ectopic pregnancy deaths are rising, with higher rates in states with strict abortion bans. Here in Alabama, ectopic pregnancy care is legally allowed but what does reproductive healthcare look like when getting care in time can be the difference between life and death?
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)
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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools
According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Rare Southern African succulent listed as critically endangered amid mining threat
The brown clockfig, an extremely rare succulent growing in the hot, arid border region of Namibia and South Africa, was recently assessed as critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife cons...
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In our next federal bureaucracy, we should train up civil servants who are really good at just communicating about our government, the way our foreign service does We can have them interview bureaucrats who might not have public facing roles but who make our world functional and safe and better
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 04/10/2026
Why do lawmakers just stand around in befuddlement every time the president illegally rescinds congressionally-appropriated funds or illegally spends those funds on other programs without legislation?
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is how genocides begin. You dehumanize and attack the most vulnerable first.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
pour one out for the drivers delayed 5 minutes while i spend my weekend prepping for a meeting with a state dot assistant region administrator for transportation operations to identify the regulatory and administrative dynamics that prioritize vehicular throughput over environmental goals
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If trans women aren't women why do our enemies call us whores when they kill us
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NEW SCRIPT UP PATREON: Liberals Don’t Want Trans Women to Win; a look at why liberal arguments for trans inclusion in sports fail to address the premises the right makes about trans athletes, and sports have become the most successful anti-trans issue in America. www.patreon.com/jessiegender...
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Liberals Don’t Want Trans Women to Win SCRIPT | Jessie Gender
Early in my relationship with my future wife, we passed through Phoenix on the way home from a Christmas road trip. I learned, somewhat to m
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Almost or maybe exactly zero Dem ads (except ours) say Trump corruption or MAGA corruption or Republican corruption. They are all running against “DC corruption”and saying they’ll stand up to both parties. Absolutely idiotic strategy.
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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
we really should talk about this strategy more, because it does cause real harm and generates real blowback and is not very effective but it does fulfill a gop need for two minutes of hate before an election and a way to arouse evangelicals without having to shout abortion.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
cw rape I think rapists should at a minimum be made to live the life of the average survivor and if you want that to be less shit then fucking make the lives of survivors better Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re raising money to help volunteers across the country document ICE flights. This helps with accountability, advancing policy, and demostrates to detainees, and their loved ones, that they’re worthy of being counted, and are cared for by their community. Please help: ottergoose.net/ice
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👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nuremberg 2.0 is a moral and legal necessity. None of the monsters capable of this shit deserve to exist freely in a civil society.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 03/10/2026
In addition to a data center moratorium there needs to be a token tax on compute.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 03/10/2026
The speed with which the US government is being put under the control of AI systems is amazing. Right now the human leadership of the military is being replaced by AI. The Lee-Capito bill would put new energy infrastructure decisions under AI control. It's every agency.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/10/2026
The far-right ideologues and grifters running U.S. foreign policy are the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America but the world, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports.
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Donald Trump’s Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 03/10/2026
Cooking the planet for compute
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They do do online orders, but they have a recent video explaining how tariffs have absolutely hosed them and that third space is now threatened. So if you can, PLEASE head to the shop in person and give them your support. Bonus: they made a video denouncing JKR! (They have nerdy blends)
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Neil Degrassi Highson @funkpower.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one would have a problem with AI if it was actually being used for what it's good for: very niche scientific applications that 99% of humanity will never hear about. Instead we're being bombarded with useless AI garbage 24/7.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 03/10/2026
Literally the worst person on the planet will never stop.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I cannot overemphasize that this is a fight we can win, but we need as many voices as possible here. The kids of Philly cannot afford to lose our flagship biodiversity museum. The Philly school district closed 17 schools this year. We need to turn this around for our kids and the culture of Philly.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The plaintiffs are suing to restore visitation rights and ask a court to force the county to disgorge the hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits it has made from video calls." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Families of Inmates Fight Against Jails That Profit From Visits
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Spudley Boo-Right 👻 @spudleydo-right.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Former Israeli occupation defense minister Yoav Gallant on October 7, 2023: “We will change the reality on the ground in Gaza for the next 50 years. What was before will be no more. We will operate at full force.” Gaza in 2022/Gaza in 2026 This was never just about eradicating HAMAS.
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Your periodic reminder that the decision to pursue a professional ballet career happens at similar or earlier age to most youth gender affirming care and has significantly more lifetime impact on peer socialization, how the body looks and overall health than social transition and puberty blockers.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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💙⚡❤️ The Haunted Typewriter 💀 @hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Musk is a psychopath.
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Scott Alspach @salspach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@sound-transit.bsky.social, could someone explain why you put a big photo of District 5 City Council Candidate Julie Kang at the newly opened Pinehurst Station? This is an outrageous use of public resources. This photo needs to be taken down, or at least covered up, until after the election.
A picture of District 5 City Council candidates standing in front of a picture of large picture of herself at Pinehurst StationPicture showing the large picture of Julie Kang that is prominently displayed at Pinehurst station. In the picture Julie is smiling and celebrating with two other people.Close up of the picture of Julie Kang at Pinehurst Station that labels the people "Tom, Katherine & Julie | Haller Lake Community Club"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Soraya: "Experts and administrators are publicly agonizing over men’s flight from higher education but seem willing to tolerate communities, behaviors, and campus environments where persistent sexual violence is essentially a tool that is informally filtering and expelling women students."
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