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socialist comms person | @dreamfornyc.bsky.social, @publicpowerny.bsky.social, @sarahana.bsky.social '22 | co-founder of @greenpill.bsky.social | @groundworkdsa.com

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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 2h
"From...Epstein to Elon, it’s all the manifestation of the informal legal and political principle enshrined by the Bush era and made permanent by the Obama administration: the bigger the crime you commit, the less you can be held liable for it." www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...
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If We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right Now
Hasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 4h
seems like one big use case for AI is a deadly twist on the classic "we want do mass layoffs so we are bringing a consultant who will recommend we do mass layoffs, which we can blame the consultant for instead of ourselves"
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 21h
And we already learned this in 2008! www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...
So even if we take the potential AI safety crises the AI billionaires are drawing our attention to in total good faith, it still draws attention away from the actual crises they are already causing, through actions that also make them billions and billions of dollars. As Lina Kahn points out, there are already many laws against what the AI industry both is doing and is warning of doing, and there is no reason that them being “AI” related means they should no longer apply. After all, if someone builds a bomb in their garage and it explodes and kills people, they’d be held liable. Why isn’t Sam Altman? It’s not just because branding them as “AI” seems to make people think no human involved has any control, it’s also because they’re rich and elite enough to have joined the class of people in the US that never face consequences for anything.

From this to Epstein to Elon, it’s all the manifestation of the informal legal and political principle enshrined by the Bush era and made permanent by the Obama administration: the bigger the crime you commit, the less you can be held liable for it.

Once you start seeing this, you start seeing it everywhere, and it becomes clearer every day that we cannot defeat today’s fascism without overturning it. If instead of holding AI oligarchs (and Trump, and everyone else) accountable for the damage they’ve actually done, we put them in charge of a system designed mainly to address the hypothetical future issues they come up with, there is no way that system will ever protect us from their machinations, let alone punish them for those they’ve already carried out. If they think their product is so dangerous, they must a) stop making it and b) be held liable for its damages the way a normal person would be.
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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Palantir Chairman Peter Thiel has come out as pro-evil.
DOCS: Evil Quotes

"If you're evil, you're at least competent. If you're evil, you're not bad. ...maybe you're actually kind of good."

Peter Thiel
Net worth: $32B
Chairman: Palantir
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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I always love editing @blimpjuice.bsky.social, equal parts insightful and hilariouis. He was supposed to write a totally different essay, but instead came out with this banger. It's the start of a roadmap to getting us out of this stupid fucking situation we're all in.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
First as farce, then as farce
But for all the talk of unprecedentedness around the current AI doom panic, much of the way it’s unfolding is precedented as hell. It’s the same logic of the threat of Weapons Of Mass Destruction in the leadup to the Iraq War:

Very powerful people have saturated the media with a PR campaign designed to warn us of a threat that could kill us all. Virtually all discussion of this threat is led by the same people demanding control of the response to it. Many of them also have long and publicly documented histories of calling for the policies they are now calling for since long before this threat was “imminent.” The likelihood of this threat happening is unclear, with some totally certain, and others saying the likelihood is 10%. The evidence, which is largely marshalled by these same sources, is convoluted and hard to understand, but rather than defuse the panic, that lack of understanding of specifics and probability is treated as even more of a reason to act urgently and at a massive scale.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of good arguments here. An actual good strategy has to reckon with the fact that every major mobilization of the last decade, i.e. issues which activated and politicized ordinary, non-activist people, were about so-called "cultural issues" (Gaza, George Floyd, BLM, No Kings, Women's March).
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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This great @perrybaconjr.bsky.social piece also gets at a within our industry. Outlets act as if eliminating human rights protections or stripping Black people of political representation are "culture" issues, which are treated as less important than "kitchen table" newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Tim @timzhu.io · 28/09/2026
hmm. i think perhaps Bernie should not be talking to this guy
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Noelle Allen @noelleallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These are amazing.
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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UPDATE: All these Oligarchs are now Wanted for crimes against humanity as well.
6 foot tall wanted poster for Mark Zuckerberg, for AI Arson6 foot tall wanted poster for Elon Musk, for AI Arson6 foot tall wanted poster for Larry Ellison, for AI ArsonMan taking a picutre of a wall of 6 foot tall WANTED posters, for Jamie Dimon, Alex Karp, Tim Dunn, Peter Thiel, Paul Singer, Marc Andreessen, and Sam Altman
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
alright I think we can call it
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘Wanted’ flyer-style wheatpastes now up in midtown Manhattan via the ‘Department of Class Solidarity’. The signage highlights that Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the U.S.-funded genocide of Palestinians. Comes ahead of Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
A photo of a string of poster-sized wheatpastes on a wall. Posters feature and portrait and side view photos of Netanyahu, similar to a mugshot, in black and white. Red text all caps says “WANTED” and proceeds as follows in white text on black background:

WANTED for GENOCIDE
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
NET WORTH: $13.9 MILLION
NATION: OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Conducting genocide in Gaza that has killed over 70,000 people, including over 20,000 children, funded by $217 billion in US military aid.
DOCS: DEPARTMENT OF CLASS SOLIDARITYcloseup of one wheatpaste as described in previous alt text
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Billionaires: We are the smartest people ever Also billionaires: I don't know my address
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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're worried about AI's threat to human civilization, this is where you should be looking.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's a mix: some ventriloquized their own support of right wing backlash, some were so unable to comprehend Trump's win that they radically changed their view of the US to retcon it into an inevitability, and dominance of X and op ed pages by those groups made a feedback loop that convinced the rest
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Update: this is even worse than you thought! powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
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Why Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?
We can do better than this.
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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“This broken system is a choice. We can choose differently.” Public renewables are the best way to tackle the climate crisis AND high utility bills at the same time — and as @illapa.nyc writes, New Yorkers need them now more than ever. www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Use public power to curb climate change
New Yorkers needed only to look outside this summer to know that the climate crisis is upon us. In just one month we were hit with heat wave after heat wave, saw our air choked with wildfire smoke, an...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I look forward to AOC eviscerating this smug piece of shit on the debate stage.
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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I really enjoyed editing @neoromantic.bsky.social's essay on AI. I think she does a fantastic job bridging the gap between the two factions on AI Doom and offers a sobering analysis of how AI could fuck things up for us, even if it doesn't kill us all.
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DSA Resident Demonologist @neoromantic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Read my latest in Power Map where I argue we need to cut through the noise of the AI Doomsday debate and build the largest coalition we can if we want to have any hope of regulating AI
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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 21/09/2026
As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...
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Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.
Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The very thesis of the report, that there are 'dials' a candidate can turn to win an election, is fundamentally flawed." powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
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Why Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?
We can do better than this.
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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The same AI oligarchs talking big about government regulation are pouring even more money into SuperPACs than AIPAC. If they were serious about government AI safety policy, they'd wouldn't be trying to buy government.
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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 18/09/2026
“the authors acknowledge the role of storytelling in politics, but in developing the report, they have already chosen a narrative—America is broken because of cosmopolitan and educated elites. They are telling a story about the educated versus the uneducated. The polling helps refine it.” 🎯
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 17/09/2026
If a single one of these people, especially McGurk, Blinken, Sullivan, Finer and Kirby ever have a job in a future Democratic presidency then that's how you can tell nothing will change on Palestine policy tbh
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/powe... friend of mine wrote about this
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"...chose to define the working class as low and middle income voters without a college degree." I'm a college professor with a PhD. I'm working class. As are nurses, teachers, social workers... We have long passed the era of "physical, no skill, low income jobs" defining what is working class.
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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"What might best show the limits of this report is the fact that the authors group the climate crisis with cultural issues. The climate crisis has the potential to wipe out much of the material basis for human civilization; that it has been treated as a cultural issue is a grotesque failure..."
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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I took a look at Jacobin's new report, which went viral on here for its strange definitions of working class, excluding anyone who went to college. In general, I think these kinds of polling-based reports miss the mark and obscure more than they enlighten. Read more below!
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah this is just ridiculous from anyone let alone something nominally "left"
The report has a list of preferred policies that they say poll the highest, that one could say are popular.

[a chart of the kind of centrist policies the left roasts them for]


Imagine a campaign where these policies were its centerpieces? This wouldn’t be a socialist campaign. Hell, it wouldn’t even be a progressive campaign. With the exception of guaranteeing the right to organize, moderate Democrats are already running on platforms that look exactly like this! This is the exact same approach that led to Starmerism.
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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 17/09/2026
Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
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Why Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?
We can do better than this.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
one problem with all the "strategy" debates around this stuff is it's mostly driven by the huge contingent of political operatives who believes repudiating the left is always good in itself, regardless of any actual evidence. it's at least as delusional as anything they accuse the left of!
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am very tired of giant reports and proclamations about "the working class" that actually are about "voters without four year degrees." those are important too, but it means something fairly different and hiding this fact just further mystifies reality
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i think it should be more commented on that jacobin put out a 57 page report that basically says candidates need to moderate on social issues, in particular trans rights
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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here is some risk acceleration www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations
Data centers in the United States will consume more natural gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Crypto, Gambling, and AI industries are all AIPAC-scale influences on politics that basically didn't even exist just a few years ago. It is really crucial to nip whatever is next in the bud.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
3 really basic things to start on AI no matter what part you're worried about: -datacenter moratorium -end all government subsidies/tax breaks at every level of the AI industry -hold company owners personally liable for damages caused by their products (including mass IP theft)
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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