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@cluftnyc.bsky.social
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/09/2026
We Must Create the Shit Machine. “I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT.” [mcsweeneys.net]
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We Must Create the Shit Machine
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could ALSO SHIT?
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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/09/2026
Long, but please read when you can: the closing statement of Tony Greenstein at the end of his trial in August on trumped-up 'terrorism' charges. I hope every textbook on political science that emerges from our dark times will include this speech. greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenst...
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Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life
Below is the text of the closing speech Tony Greenstein prepared for the end of his trial at Kingston Crown Court.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/08/2026
Hey, I made a video for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Please, @mayor.nyc.gov, don't let the billionaires get their hands on our kids! Give us a full 2 year "A.i." moratorium for the schools - for students and teachers, 2K-12! (PLEASE share - and tell the mayor what YOU think at HeyMamdani.fyi !)
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Stop by tomorrow to celebrate public libraries with us: app.smore.com/n/1mxna
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People's Library & Art Celebration
People's Library & Art Celebration
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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
TOMORROW, 6/13, 3pm! NYC-area friends and followers: Please come to a reading of selections from Diane Di Prima’s “Revolutionary Letters”—kicksss revolutionary beat poetry, read by some of today’s most excellent working poets. Part of the People’s Library Art & Propaganda Fair, 11am-5pm
Reading of Revolutionary Letters 3pm
15 Rutherford Place, NYC
People’s Public Library Art & Propaganda Fair 
(Image of young Diane Di Prima, white woman with dark hair, looking down as if writing)
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Cis allies especially, I encourage you to actually read my latest, this Humanifesto on trans rights … Share it with the people you’re in networks and community with who maybe need to wake up still … whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/transgende...
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Transgender for Everybody
A Humanifesto
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Nick Breeze @nickbreeze.genn.cc · 04/06/2026
Wondering why Thiel is heading to Argentina? Milei: "First, a commitment to keep AI unregulated so that it is free to be developed without the deadly hand of premature and poorly understood regulation." The race to oblivion just found a new gear. www.ft.com/content/f930...
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Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself
As we enter a new era of technology, AI must be permitted to develop without premature regulation
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If I have to repost this piece a dozen times to get people to subscribe to Scratch, I will. We are an entirely reader-supported, worker-owned co-op that is aggressively anti-AI, not on Substack, and whose focus is publishing/media. We’re betting everything on our ethics & our work. talkscratch.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
If a member of your family were accused of lying, hustling and robbing people in your community, would you: A. Acknowledge that your loved one has a problem, or B. Defend your family member and pretend everyone else is lying
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The First Crackhead President
American media is not equipped to cover a lying, thieving commander-in-chief.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Arundhati Roy empties the clip!
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'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War
Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 07/03/2026
Hey! The stupidest, most malevolent people ever to be in charge of the U.S. are creating geopolitical havoc right now and killing people all over the place Stop pretending that this is anything else, or that there is an equivalent "other side," there is not, this is a world-historical calamity
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I hope he’s winging his way to join Shelly Duvall (and, of course, Ruth Gordon) in the great hereafter.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/01/2026
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.
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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Today’s “MLK to Renee” rally/march across the Brooklyn Bridge was spirited and mighty in spite of frigid temps. Great speakers included Kirstin John Foy, Jumaane Williams, leaders of the nurses’ union, Carlene Pinto, and more. From MN to NYC, ICE out now! m.youtube.com/shorts/xEKbF...
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Peaceful MLK Day demonstration on Brooklyn Bridge includes outcry over ICE
YouTube video by CBS New York
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 10/01/2026
This pal of Bari Weiss posted made-up ChatGPT baloney and attributed it to Francis Bacon, under his own byline!!! A wildly irresponsible person www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie
Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.
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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Rally tomorrow 9am in Foley Square, with march to WTC, where Noem is holding a press conference.
Poster/call for action Thurs. Jan. 8 at 9am at Foley Square, NYC. Text reads, “Tell Kristi Noem she’s not welcome here,” with knockout white visuals of Noem raising her hand (ostensibly in an oath) on a red background.
Rally will then march to WTC.
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
NO WAR ON VENEZUELA!!!
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
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Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Hey, speaking as a parent who also teaches art in my kid’s school: 1) I don’t want genAI involved in my child’s learning bc the AI short-circuits the effort & repetition needed to help him cement skills. 2) GenAI art teaches my tiny artists no skills & reinforces what they perceive as inadequacy>
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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Read Carlos Valladares’s review of A. S. Hamrah’s “Algorithm of the Night” and “Last Week in End Times Cinema” here, in the Brooklyn Rail — excellent insight, and congratulations again to Mr. Hamrah on his NBCC nomination! brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film...
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A.S. Hamrah’s Algorithm of the Night and Last Week in End Times Cinema | The Brooklyn Rail
Hamrah releases two books in one month: for n+1, Algorithm of the Night, a collection sequel spanning the chaotic years from 2019 to 2025; and for Semiotext(e), Last Week in End Times Cinema, a tragic...
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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hooray for A.S. Hamrah, nominated for the Nat‘l Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism! Get his latest, “Algorithm of the Night“ and “Last Week in End Times Cinema“ [n+1, Semiotext(e)]. His work is brilliant, often hilarious, and always rooted in the sociopolitical moment. bsky.app/profile/hamr...
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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Very nice review by @pkeough1.bsky.social in The Arts Fuse of my book, Algorithm of the Night. artsfuse.org/321302/book-...
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Book Review: The "Night" Movies of Film Critic A.S. Hamrah - The Arts Fuse
Once again, critic A.S. Hamrah sheds perceptive light on our cinematic malaise.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
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The List Keepers
The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.
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Ren "Stop Israel’s Murder of Palestinians” Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Since our fucking government isn’t observing World AIDS Day, I will. In 1990, I started taking care of people in the last stages of AIDS in their homes. I did this for nearly two years. The home care company I worked for had meetings for those of us who solely (or nearly solely) took care of PWAs.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Celebrating Ann Reinking on her birthday with this astonishing Jack Mitchell photo. Annie was elegant, intelligent, hilarious, bawdy, ferocious, silly, empathetic, and deep as the ocean. 💔💜
A very beautiful white woman with impossibly long legs, kicking one of them high above her head. It’s not an athletic feat; it’s a gesture of elegance and joy.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
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