Reposted by TGL 07A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685432214
Reposted by TGL 07Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/04/2026"I think we should invest in our own people," says the toady from the administration that has slashed billions of dollars in federal funding for colleges and universities. 421968408
TGL 07 @cmrlk7.bsky.social · 05/04/2026www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...sfchronicle.comThis S.F. neighborhood has rediscovered the magic formula of 19th century ParisOPINION: Paris, though about the same size as San Francisco, manages to house more than double the number of residents. It does so with one building type — six stories, no notes. 010
Reposted by TGL 07Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails. 543513725
Reposted by TGL 07✨🥀Persephone🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by 7381082247
Reposted by TGL 07ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2025ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33 10630131459
Reposted by TGL 07Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric 303138082762
Reposted by TGL 07Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment. 12534756915083
Reposted by TGL 07The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis. 4873732270
Reposted by TGL 07KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 31/08/2025This is what failed Republican policies look like. #VoteThemOut 6402165
Reposted by TGL 07Jody Calemine @guerino.bsky.social · 08/08/2025One thing everyone can do right now is call your member of Congress or visit them and demand they sign discharge petition #6 to force HR 2550 to a vote. That bill reverses this and is cosponsored by an outright House majority (222 cosponsors). And the petition has 209 signatures. We need 9 more. 133
Reposted by TGL 07Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 01/08/2025That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler. 482305708
TGL 07 @cmrlk7.bsky.social · 31/07/2025I just finished -and recommend - Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.It's a millennial version of George Perec's "Things, A Story of the Sixties" and captures the feeling of living a life mediated by social media and how the search for authentic experiences has led to the homogenization of everything. 000
Reposted by TGL 07Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls 748221217
Reposted by TGL 07Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/06/2025We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps 10751732301
Reposted by TGL 07Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18/06/2025The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort. 170119174067
Reposted by TGL 07United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge? 11342441508
Reposted by TGL 07Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11/06/2025Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit 287246876785
Reposted by TGL 07Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program! 326230694145
Reposted by TGL 07Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions" 344269742
Reposted by TGL 07velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Just remember: your kid's IEP is cancelled next year because the funds were redirected to GI Joe Gestapo's terror costume. 0192
Reposted by TGL 07Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods… I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage. 651201504676
Reposted by TGL 07Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers” 384223364858
Reposted by TGL 07Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure? You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation. You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better. 238129233090
Reposted by TGL 07Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...npr.orgA whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataA whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official. 356111785391
Reposted by TGL 07Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you 1440211300
Reposted by TGL 07Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 13053272081
Reposted by TGL 07Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 07/04/2025As you look at the stock market crashing further this morning, remember that this president plans to balance destroying your retirement account with removing the safety net so his handlers can pay less in taxes. Happy Monday. 7330123
TGL 07 @cmrlk7.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Very important thread for attorneys who are members of the DC Bar. 010
Reposted by TGL 07Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 03/04/2025"Manufacturing jobs" is shorthand for "work 40 hours/week for 30 years; then retire w/ health benefits and a pension. Send your kids to college. Have a camper by the lake where you go on weekends in the summer." 91371143
Reposted by TGL 07WIRED @wired.com · 11/03/2025EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.wired.comElon Musk Has Wanted the Government ShutdownSources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers. 1272272990
Reposted by TGL 07Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Watching my 401K drop like a stone, as I’m sure many are, now is a perfect example why Social Security must be protected, and not privatized. It is also a great rebuttal against those who say people should just save on their own and invest in the market. How’d that work out in 1929? 571870558
Reposted by TGL 07The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason 3950051690
Reposted by TGL 07dorian @doriantaylor.com · 06/03/2025it's also funny to me that "PhD" has become code for "really smart person", rather than what it is, which is "person who has advanced their field through original research", which is something AI can't do 1223
TGL 07 @cmrlk7.bsky.social · 04/03/2025In case you are wondering what Project 2025 says about workers' rights, check this out. It's worse than you can imagine: betterinaunion.org/project-2025 000
Reposted by TGL 07Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Raise your ✋ and repost this if you're participating. 4660402258145
Reposted by TGL 07Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive. 280284006526
Reposted by TGL 07George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The BBC is quite correct. 483158322959
Reposted by TGL 07Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025How many child cancer researchers did they fire to pay for this? 17491205
TGL 07 @cmrlk7.bsky.social · 20/02/2025inthesetimes.com/article/labo...inthesetimes.comIt’s Time for a United Front to Take on Billionaire RuleThe super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead. 040
Reposted by TGL 07Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · 19/02/2025"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices 231687488
Reposted by TGL 07Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 19/02/2025It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes! 1604473855
