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We rely on the courts to set the bare minimum of our rights solely bc state legislatures and city councils refuse to protect us more.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 12h

abusers pick their targets by noticing who is the least protected.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Will any reporter ask the President of the United States to name the five specific states where he alleges that public school teachers are deciding -- all on their own initiative, over the objections of the parents -- to force their children into gender-affirming surgeries? Seems like a big story?

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Mike Sacks @mikebsacks.bsky.social · 11h

What kind of country allows for this?

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 11h

Amazon started as a retailer and then became a logistics company. They ceased to be a logistics company and became an Internet backbone, so this pivot away from their logistics to surveillance makes perfect sense in light of their focus on their Internet business.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11h

but we in this country love breaking people and then acting like they didn't earn the basic necessities of life and are therefore a bad person so we shouldn't be shocked when they do bad things.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11h

I mean, if we had universal health care, universal representation, universal housing, universal education, and universal basic income, we probably wouldn't need to have gun control at all,

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

If there was an analogy, imagine a major EU official coming to the US and meeting with a hypothetical state Governor who was in the process of trying to secede from the Union, and talking about how great the visit was woooo! Honestly it might even be worse than that?

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

I don't think most Americans are even capable of understanding how stupid and tone deaf this is from Schiff.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Stuff like this is why the Canadian political establishment is (correctly, IMO) assuming that Democrats can NOT be trusted to return the bilateral relationship to the status quo ante going forward.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22h

People need to understand that the only reason Trump backed down on SpaceX and Starshield so quickly is that he got push back right away, politically and from Ukraine. He is a bully and a coward. Stop criticising Zelensky for standing up to him.

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 21h

A Democrat visiting Canada and making his first appointment with Danielle Smith is a really odd choice, which reveals either a startling naivety about Canadian politics or motives for the trip that are not first and foremost about understanding the Canadian perspective.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 20h

Filing this under "Liberal Americans do not understand that the world will not simply forget what happened under Trump"

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16/10/2026

A boss battle shaping up for Dems against Musk and a phalanx of billionaires, to be more precise.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16/10/2026

Early signs point to the next election becoming a competitive-authoritarian boss battle against Elon Musk. If Dems win, they should show Musk the exact level of forbearance that victory in a boss battle implies: none.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 16/10/2026

trans rights arent even fundamentally special in this regard, they just make for a great canary in the coal mine for feckless opportunists because its specifically a civil rights movement that fascists have turned unsavoury and inconvenient. no one with principles or a spine would bend on it

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 16/10/2026

its really funny how willingness to throw trans people under the bus is a 100% accuracy indicator for exactly the kind of guy a politician is and yet every single time we have to go through the "noooo hes not a spineless opportunist who'll say whatever is convenient its different this time" cycle

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The whole Arday scandal and the reaction to it makes perfect sense when you assume that, for those responsible, the death of a young black person of some modest prominence and influence was a good outcome, they're glad it happened, and would like to do it again.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

bsky.app/profile/royt... Somehow this makes no fucking sense and is clearly a stupid idea if *you* do this. But when 7 billionaires do it, it becomes the basis for almost half the US stock market and the only thing keeping the economy from keeling over

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

The irony is that my Black as hell father, who has worked in IT longer than most tech bros have been alive, says that the reason white people want AI is because it allows them to have slaves.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1. if something recognizable as the modern Republican Party can win elections, we're fucked anyway 2. it's worse for the public to trust a bad court 3. I think you can pretty easily sell court expansion as "these people are overworked" 4. I think the burden here is to identify a viable alternative

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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trans people said things like this would start happening. Amazingly, the people who can predict most closely what it like living under fascism are those fascism targets.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

have yet to understand why every major democracy has the national populist virus (including Japan)

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

nobody listens when i bring up how easy it is to fail up when the goal is destruction

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As much as one would like to imagine supporters of the AfD as passive victims longing for an alternative to neoliberalism, a left-wing alternative was available and was actively rejected. A near majority of voters chose a far-right party that plans to dismantle the welfare state, but also promises a national revival through mass deportations of the supposedly parasitic foreign masses that have been holding back the German people. The AfD made no secret of its aims and means, and for many this was the appeal. As historian Peter Fritzsche once wrote, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations.”

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I remember reading something about how some game developers were afraid or put off union organising over concerns that gamers wouldn't support them, and it clicked for me that corporate interests in the games would greatly enjoy having a bunch of unpaid pinkertons at hand

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 12/10/2026

"Hurting Zelensky's relationship with Trump": what relationship? The one of Trump taking every opportunity to s–– on Zelenskyy for seven years and counting? Ukraine's supposed to see a chance of improvement in _that_ relationship?

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'I would like you to do us a favor': The 30 minute phone call that changed Trump's presidency

There were dozens of ears listening to President Donald Trump's 30-minute phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry, and as many eyes...

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The fucking kitchen sink here: in addition to the usual stuff about high prices - which is a real and necessary point of attack - bludgeon 'em with non-stop charges of child rape, defense of child rape, massive corruption / theft from taxpayers, subversion of the U.S. Constitution. DON'T BE SUBTLE.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 13/10/2026

“Republican Lie About Cause for Talarico’s Absence From the Campaign Trail” — not that hard, is it?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).

The revealing moments in the civil service were lonelier. They occurred inside people’s hearts and minds, and seldom leaked to the press. After his arrival at the IRS, one of Gavin Kliger’s first acts had been to demand that the agency fire its 6,700 probationary workers, who had yet to be granted civil service protection. By law they could be fired only for poor performance. Gavin had asked Traci DiMartini, in her capacity as head of human resources, to agree to put her name on an email to the mostly young employees telling them that they had failed at their jobs. The Doge people played this trick often. They’d use or try to use civil servants as a kind of ventriloquist dummy so that they, the Doge workers, could keep their names off official documents. But Traci took one look at the email, saw it was plainly a lie, and refused to have anything to do with it. The price of that single act of resistance was her job. Gavin didn’t have the authority to fire Traci, but his new acting commissioner did. “He asked Melanie to fire Traci, and Melanie did it,” said Kathleen.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

These are threats . And I am so very conflicted concerning but mostly mind numbingly enraged at being asked to think of anybody who participates in this industry willingly as unaware . This is not how you build or work if you are COMPETENT let alone decent

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026

NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org

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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

AI is a lack of consent machine , whose wide acceptance is forced based in the American imperialist project Where the desire to quantify and inhibit the movement of Indigenous and Enalaved/ formerly enslaved trumps the autonomy of all .

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

These are the types of catastrophic scenarios I keep warning about. They stop well short of human “extinction” but would easily cause regional or global instability and suffering, perhaps even mass death. But what is the concern among the AI companies themselves? Regulation.

Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.
Between the lines: The planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios. It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.
Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

⚠️ “AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event. These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.”

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Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt

Inside the AI industry's worst-case-scenario prep.

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Denying Catholic priests the ability to administer sacraments to Catholic prisoners is objectively insanely offensive to Catholicism in a way that almost nothing else could be

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

*sigh* Chris is inly telling half the story. Those white terrorists? They had the support of the local and federal government as well as the tacit support of the president. It took a deployment of the union army, which the president fought, to restore some semblance of order.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

any system that can kick a trans woman into the concentration camp CAN be used and WILL be used ON YOU, and, lets be honest, already fucking has considering how many cis women have been accosted in bathrooms for being clocky

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's being pushed by billionaire pedophiles because they're fascist monsters who hate your freedoms and have decided to use transphobia as a wedge issue and the only way to stop them is to stand in solidarity with trans people, because they WILL come for everyone else next

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