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Chemicaltao

@chemicaltao.bsky.social
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B Grade Iconoclast, Retrotechnologist, Civil Rights Attorney

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1/ The news cycle is consumed by the outrage of the hour. Meanwhile, election rules, voter files, polling locations, election staffing, and information systems can change quietly, long before most voters notice. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
1/ Real Albertans online are outnumbered twelve to one by a fake army, and the think tanks cheering that fake noise on have been taking Koch and ExxonMobil money for over a decade. This secession push runs on two engines, and neither one is the people. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1/ Here’s my opinion about Mr. Binion. 👇 Reason magazine reporter (Binion) dunked on data center critics using one feel good town story. He never mentioned Reason Foundation sits inside the same free market donor network pushing data centers nationwide 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
1/ USA Today Co owns 200+ local newspapers, the biggest chain in America. They just partnered with Palantir, the surveillance giant, to track how you read the news and squeeze more money out of your habits. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/07/2026
We must normalize being extremely rude to people with surveillance cameras on their faces. It is the moral duty of every citizen to make them feel extremely unwelcome everywhere they go.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/07/2026
If you are quote-posting a story you don’t like from an outlet that constantly provokes you…you are executing their marketing strategy.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Ultimately, the upshot of this is that the U.S. Postal Service is going to refuse to deliver certain ballots to be counted.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
2/ EFF's review of Flock laid out the receipts. Protest tracking, ICE access, millions of searches with thin oversight. This is not misuse. It is the system as built to surveill. It was never about immigrants. The target has always been dissent. About watching us. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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EFF's Investigations Expose Flock Safety's Surveillance Abuses: 2025 in Review
Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking investigations into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, revealing a system designed to enable mass surveillance and susceptible ...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
8/ Your move. Find out if your town runs Flock or any plate reader system. Ask for the contract and the data policy. Bring both to a public meeting. Eighty-plus communities have already shown the path. This is what winnable looks like, and we have not even hit the ceiling.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026
JD Vance wants to be seen as a devout Catholic and an enemy of the Epstein Class. But he formed his faith in the flock of Epstein crony Peter Thiel, not on the rock of St. Peter. Here's the truth Vance is desperate to erase. www.thenerdreich.com/communion-ho...
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Communion: How JD Vance Became an Epstein Class Errand Boy
The vice president serves two men with deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
8/ Connect the dots. Share this thread. The mom losing coverage, the dad rationing insulin, the disabled person losing their in home support services, they are not collateral damage. They are the point. Gutting their safety net is what pays for the windfall on the other end. Keep talking about it.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Dems are in a perfect position to say that Trump can either have FISA 702 or he can have Pulte at DNI. DNI writes certifications that authorize the program, and he has proven to be a liar and a rabid partisan. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump appoints ally and FHFA chief Pulte as acting US intelligence director
Bill Pulte is a Trump political loyalist without national ‌security experience.
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shanley @shanley.com · 01/06/2026
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The Real Reason Peter Thiel is in Argentina — Shanley
Much hysterical nonsense has been written about Peter Thiel "fleeing" to Argentina to "escape" "nuclear Armageddon" "rogue AI" the "anti-christ," "the failing Trump administration", the "billionaire w...
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 01/06/2026
california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...
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Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED
State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Consumer protection is an unexploited attack on AI slop
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The Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Support our libraries!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/05/2026
“Big Tech is essentially its own religion with its own theology and rites, not to mention its own power and influence. Pope Leo’s encyclical will be automatically viewed as false doctrine.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/t...
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As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
7/ Banning one tool does not kill the system. It reroutes it. The real target is the capability underneath: track anyone, anywhere, anytime, merge everything into one file. Once that is treated as normal, it becomes permanent. Fight the whole system, not just the camera.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.
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shanley @shanley.com · 11/05/2026
Venture capital -- the engine of tech fascism -- is swelling up with money, many huge rounds announced so far this year. Andreessen Horowitz raised $15 billion in January. In January 2022, a16z had $28.2 billion in assets under management. It now has $90 billion.
Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion, doubling down on AI and defense startups
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Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Cacogenic Roundup is being sprayed across national forests to clear land for logging. It doesn't just "thin brush", it kills nearly all plant life, doing irreversible damage to some of the most important ecosystems on Earth. This is a crime against all life Earth. Literally a crime against humanity.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/04/2026
Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan are funding an app to attack journalists. Getting smeared by "Objection AI" will become a badge of honor for reporters. I'm glad to see them deepening their relationship just in time for my book, which exposes that very subject. "The Nerd Reich" drops 8/18/26.
Book Cover image of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii You can buy Angine de Poitrine's entire discography on bandcamp for a minimum of $17.78CAD. Bands can make more money from one album sale, even at the minimum, than they do from getting a *ton* of streams on basically every platform and especially Spotify
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Vol.II, by Angine de Poitrine
6 track album
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Oracle Didn’t Just Cut Jobs
The rebranding already happened.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
YET ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST TRUMP'S MAIL-IN VOTING EXECUTIVE ORDER NAACP files 70-page federal civil suit, which says: "This Order is not the President’s first foray into voter suppression" Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Complaint – #1 in NAACP v. DONALD J. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01151) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against FRANK J. BISIGNANO, TODD BLANCHE, DONALD J. TRUMP, JOSEPH B. EDLOW, EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, HOWARD LUTNICK, MARKWAYNE MULLIN, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, DAVID STEINER...
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
What does MAGA have to say about Kash Patel’s weird fetish 👇
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/03/2026
What is happening here is that venture capitalists are taking control of MYRIAD financial apparatuses that are at the absolute core of how the economy operates. They are engulfing it. And across the board they are seizing critical functions of society like how the housing market is structured.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Instead of paying ICE to harass passengers at airports, we could be using the money to hire more air traffic controllers to keep them safe.
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shanley @shanley.com · 22/03/2026
If you have time this weekend, I did a podcast with It Could Happen Here about venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State. It's on Spotify, Apple, etc. too. Part one, on how venture capital really works: www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Venture Capital: The Monster Fueling Tech Fascism - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>Mia talks with Shanley from the anti-tech fascism resource vcinfodocs about the venture capital firms backing everything from cryptocurrency to drone manufacturers.</p> <p><a href='https://www.vcin...
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 23/03/2026
NEW: DPH director Daniel Tsai told SF General staff that inadequate protocols led to a social worker's killing — first time DPH has taken responsibility for the incident. Tsai also contradicted the sheriff's portrayal of the stabbing. via @miss-elenius.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-p...
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S.F. public health boss: Hospital staff stopped stabbing, not sheriff
Daniel Tsai said in a private meeting that protocol failures led to a social worker's death, and contradicted sheriff's account of the incident.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some connection to trying to get them to quit so it can be privatized
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shanley @shanley.com · 20/03/2026
If you're interested in the work on vcinfodocs MAKE SURE to join this online teach in tomorrow afternoon, one of the other researchers on vcinfodocs will be presenting it!! Hosted by the American Party of Labor. Sign up: calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If you haven't heard this incredible live performance already, it absolutely lives up to the hype. (H/t @ehirsch.bsky.social) youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...
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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Host: Pope Leo is now escalating his condemnation of the war in Iran. He said violence can never lead to the justice, stability and peace that the people are waiting for, and mentioned the attacks that targeted an elementary school.
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Democrats should advocate for tariff refunds on behalf of consumers. Put Republicans on the record.
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 11/02/2026
For those who have mirrored the entire EFTA dataset locally on a Mac, here's a hack: use Claude Code with 'mdfind' to identify relevant documents, and then query and summarize that dataset. Insanely helpful.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Cisneros isn’t alone in his Palantir investments: Several Democratic lawmakers have disclosed buying a hundreds of thousands of dollars in Palantir stock combined as the company profits from Trump’s anti-immigration agenda. www.notus.org/congress/pal...
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These Democrats Decry Trump’s Immigration Actions. They Also Invested in ICE Contractor Palantir.
“I wish I could get my money back,” one liberal lawmaker said.
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
And now this👇 NYC’s comptroller seems to be asking pretty close to the exact question you raised above - i.e. what’s the legal risk for pension funds that invest in firms committing human rights abuses + other crimes?
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation.com
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Democrats Need to Get Serious About Stopping Trump From Rigging the Midterms
Here’s one idea for a coordinated response to Trump’s coordinated attacks.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
So this guy gets it. Your elected Dems don't. You centrist incrementalists don't. You do not know what horrors are happening right now in your name with your tax money in these camps. You do not know what horrors are happening to innocent people kidnapped and shipped abroad with your tax money.
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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you acknowledge that RW & corporate/classist (“mainstream) media plays a HUGE role in misinforming and distracting voters, you tacitly acknowledge that a public “4th estate” policy is as important as court-packing and proportional representation. It needs to join the lexicon of progressivism.
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is the beginning not the end of how surveillance will change America. We could stop it. We should. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters
Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.
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