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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

SPOTTED: Wanted posters of Elon Musk outside Angelika Theater as Musk documentary opens in New York 👀 📍Soho, New York

BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 12h

This clip is the perfect summary of Ossoff. Genuinely great attacks on GOP that we almost never see, but it all comes after a quick “Georgia has voter ID, and that’s good." No it's not! It's literally the thing he's correctly attacking Collins for wanting more of.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12h

Rule # 1 of winning debates (and elections) is force your opponent to fight on your turf, don't ever wander onto theirs. Pedophile protector party has zero space to talk about people's lives & choices - attack your opponent not the people your opponent shames, blames and reviles.

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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 12h

I spent a lot of time working on this one. Seeing rising antisemitism is putting a pit in my stomach, but I've grown exhausted by the fact that we aren't talking about its true source: the far right.

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 12h

Really good look at several subjects that there not a lot of really good looks at. The organized left is uniformly opposed to antisemitism and the right's attempts to get us arguing about it on their terms are a huge distraction from how they are the ones using it to fuel fascism and genocide.

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

hell yeah. just be warned the second and third sections are extremely weird

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it nails some stuff that is so specific it seems kind of impossible to have written that long ago lol

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe (1972) is somehow the definitive AI slop story

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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Billionaires are spending record money in the midterms to stop anti-billionaire candidates like @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and @angieforfl.bsky.social from winning. But people power beat oligarchy in the primaries, and can do it again in November. Here's Carla Marie on how:

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Don't Mock Fake Celebrity AI Children. They Are A Natural Response To The Parent Cutting Off Epidemic." Read more in The Atlantic

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the ratio of ny times articles on this vs claudine gay's thesis or some professional racist's speech getting protested at a college will be 1:10000

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles: hammerandhope.org

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Hammer & Hope

A magazine of Black politics and culture

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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The final rubicon was crossed when the Obama administration decided to let the Bush administration get away with it all (along with the fraudsters who caused the 2008 financial crash), and bring the country into the Modern Age of Elite Impunity." 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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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW: Climate policies must deliver for working people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. Today, we're releasing Immediate Relief, a set of policy proposals to cut costs, protect rights and survival, and expand leisure and access: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/immediate-re...

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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here in Birmingham, our electricity bills are 41% higher than Huntsville's because we have an awful investor-owned utility (that has the state government in their pocket) and Huntsville has public power www.al.com/news/birming...

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Comeback Town: Birmingham residential electric bills are 41% higher than Huntsville’s

Birmingham cannot change its electric utility overnight. But Alabama can change the way that utility is regulated.

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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The latest AI plan to destroy your future is Anthropic's IPO, which will force pensions, 401ks, and retirement funds to buy its wildly unprofitable stock. We joined Stop Funding Billionaires in NYC last night to tell City Hall: don't let AI billionaires write their own rules. Stop the IPO now!

Night photo of New York City City Hall, across the street is a large projection on a wall that says "ANTHROPIC IS STEALING YOUR RETIREMENT"

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

feels like this is all part of some kind of "lean manufacturing consent" system, why bother with all that PR stuff when you can just cite the kalshi odds based on your own rigged "synthetic ai polls" (that you're also doing insider trading on)?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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DREAM for NYC @dreamfornyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Rent Freeze Day to all 2.4 million New Yorkers in rent stabilized apartments ❤️

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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Peter Thiel says that if you’re evil, it means you’re “getting something done.” He must be talking about himself, because here's what he's getting done:

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AOC should run for President and convert this into the Office of Butlerian Jihad

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perfect illustration of how the media's top bias is "the system is basically right." For it to be true, both "sides" have to be similarly legitimate. But the right is so unhinged that this is clearly false, so to maintain this belief you create this equilibrium where the right is the left's fault.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MAGA's plummeting approval is creating historic opening, and we CANNOT let go to waste like in 2008. I wrote about what it all means (with great graph from a @bryanbennett.bsky.social post) www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...

Graph: Trust in Federal Government Never Recovered After 2008 and Continued Deteriorating Further. A line showing approval falls below 20% after 2008 and never recovers.

This wasted opportunity is such a historical failure because is hard to imagine a better opening for serious transformational change than post-2008. ….until now that is. Today’s AI bubble is easily comparable to the subprime mortgage bubble of the past. As Cory Doctorow puts it, 35% of the S&P is made up of the “Magnificent Seven” AI companies, six of them lose money on AI, and the seventh, Nvidia, mainly sells hardware to the other six. This is not a recipe for economic stability, and we should certainly be ready for the possibility of a collapse that could echo 2008.

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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 29/09/2026

AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. 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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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We cannot go along with any plan that further cements the elite power to avoid accountability for their actions, and must actively fight to take the power they have accrued away from them to prevent it from snowballing even further." 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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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 30/09/2026

"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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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."

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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

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 Arson

6 foot tall wanted poster for Elon Musk, for AI Arson

6 foot tall wanted poster for Larry Ellison, for AI Arson

Man 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 SOLIDARITY

closeup 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

Opening your utility bill shouldn’t raise your blood pressure. But every month, ConEd and National Grid give New Yorkers a nasty surprise. 🤬🧾 Join us for the first Utility Ripoff Hearing on October 6th to learn how they’re scamming us and how we can take our power back. ⚡️

PUBLIC POWER NY COALITION Presents
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BIT.LY/UTILITY RIPOFFHEARING

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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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