Reposted by Darren LundMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 7h"When bystanders called 911 seeking emergency medical attention for the locked down protester, the callers were informed that emergency medical services would not be responding to the scene." 38664
Reposted by Darren LundFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry. 21507108
Reposted by Darren LundCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571802058
Reposted by Darren Lundthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026😍😍😍 438480
Reposted by Darren LundJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA 918152
Reposted by Darren LundMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do... 361306517
Reposted by Darren LundAmelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans” 5159161626
Reposted by Darren Lundmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026just a reminder that all the "free speech!" centrists in 2024 were huge fucking liars and love cancelling people for controversial opinions more than anyone else 101224220
Reposted by Darren LundGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom. 2546802222
Reposted by Darren LundJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H... 411228486
Reposted by Darren LundCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco... 384129915474
Reposted by Darren LundHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious. 733539735
Reposted by Darren LundThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i... 7507339
Reposted by Darren LundRevan @revan.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026My real question is about what happens to the billionaire after the bombs drop and the money isn’t worth anything and you have a private security company’s captain realize he’s the one with the guns 3735939
Reposted by Darren LundGoldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/08/2026How accurate is vote-by-mail? Whatcom County, WA just conducted a hand recount of 50,451 ballots in a race separated by just 4 votes: "In the end, it was a 100% match. Every vote came out the same, every time. There were no allegations of lost or fraudulent votes, or missed votes in the machines."seattletimes.com‘Zero doubt’: The story of WA’s 100% accurate mail-in electionPresident Donald Trump and the Republicans keep maligning mail-in voting, saying it's slipshod and corrupt. But one such local election just got a perfect score, Danny Westneat writes. 424192
Reposted by Darren LundNPR @npr.org · 17/08/2026The Seattle band's latest album is a cheeky critique of late-stage capitalism. n.pr/4xLXocun.prTelehealth takes aim at big tech on 'Green World Image'The Seattle band's latest album is a cheeky critique of late-stage capitalism. 1737
Reposted by Darren LundMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵 9430051437
Reposted by Darren LundQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We’re hitting all the highlights. 27510
Reposted by Darren LundJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The biggest US transit story of this year has been the massive growth of Seattle Link Light Rail ridership in the wake of the 1 & 2 lines connecting The Link moved a record 5.4M passengers last month, up 57% from last year, and it's now America's biggest light rail network! 315433
Reposted by Darren LundRogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Nolan’s film is not a misbegotten attempt to modernize a classic—it is a deft and purposeful reflection of America in this moment, seen through the glass of mythological metaphor." Jeff Yang writes about THE ODYSSEY and the “people from the sea.”rogerebert.comThe People from the Sea: How "The Odyssey" is About AmericaA reading of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster as a commentary on the current state of America. 715944
Reposted by Darren LundGroundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Author @doctorow.pluralistic.net on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social breaks down how surveillance pricing and algorithmic wage discrimination are affecting working families right now. Some companies are running experiments to see what the highest price or the lowest wage you'll accept. Watch now 👇 13815
Darren Lund @darrenlund.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Maybe the only time in the Odyssey that Nolan lingers on a shot longer than the bare minimum is RP doing an incredible villain face 020
Darren Lund @darrenlund.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Rodri making one last crucial defensive intervention, what a legend 040
Reposted by Darren LundJonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026This is Lamine Yamal the 19 year old star of the Spanish National team & FC Barcelona. He did this in May at the parade when Barca won the league. In case you’re not sure whom to root for tomorrow. ⚽️ 41361288
Reposted by Darren LundOssoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 16/07/2026Sen. Ossoff: Tonight, Donald Trump, the world's most famous sore loser, will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election. 832628695
Reposted by Darren LundGoldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense. 311121324561
Reposted by Darren LundNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP. 393248623
Reposted by Darren LundBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026For a minute there, it looked like Big Tech was on the ropes. Over the past decade, countries all over the world have gotten antitrust fever, from South Korea to Singapore, Europe to Australia, and even China: pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/m... 1/ 410740
Reposted by Darren LundGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots. 24122423715
Reposted by Darren LundThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.” 12293455210771
Reposted by Darren LundMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever 461821419
Reposted by Darren LundOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Some Dems who lose primaries are gonna be mostly fine Dems with decent voting records. Too bad. The party, and most importantly the country, are in crisis. Things must change. 3870783
Reposted by Darren LundKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws." 211672532
Reposted by Darren Lund◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up 11044711280
Reposted by Darren LundMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026If you’re an establishment Democrat who is concerned about Democratic socialists taking over your party, you should support proportional representation. The current two party system forces us into the same party—let’s make a new party system and let the voters decide. 837056
Reposted by Darren LundDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...defector.comPromises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | DefectorIf everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ... 1614636837
Reposted by Darren LundDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Trump admitting we started a war for nothing. 37711225
Reposted by Darren Lundmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Staying on Twitter is not bad because it enriches Musk (he loses money on the site) or because it tacitly endorses his ownership (who cares) but because IT IS A BRAINWASHING MACHINE. You are not immune. More importantly your presence there encourages others to stay there due to network effects. 211417315
Reposted by Darren LundSenate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 08/06/2026BREAKING: A 43-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking the 19th death in immigration detention this year and at a pace on track to exceed last year’s deaths in detention. 18535052070
Darren Lund @darrenlund.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Face look like it was drawn from memory is such a good diss and also… weirdly accurate 020
Reposted by Darren LundBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026theonion.comTrump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By WomanWASHINGTON—Declaring the money long overdue compensation for some of the nation’s most persecuted individuals, President Donald Trump announced an $88 billion fund Tuesday specifically appropriated to... 1224075605
Reposted by Darren LundMaggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE 176113843794
Reposted by Darren Lundtalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026AP photog: Broken knee from NJSP rush Reuters photog: Sliced open fingers from ICE baton EPA photog: Deliberately maced in ear (wearing a respirator) Countless indies: Maced, shoved, shot at Visual journalist: Still held in jail +14 hours after being detained 61044428
