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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 1h

Christopher Columbus was the ultimate white guy: • the self-confidence to do something he wasn't as good at as he should have been; • the fundraising chops to get a rich person to fund his half-baked idea.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11h

"The widespread effects of DOGE’s efforts—the cures that won’t be found; the vaccines that won’t be made; the food meant to save lives, left instead to rot..." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

theatlantic.com

‘Elon Is a Nuke’

A new documentary makes the case that Elon Musk is a human of mass destruction.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h

The MAGA influencer crew just tried to pull a massive smear campaign on Texas senate candidate James Talarico claiming they had a recording of a hospital employee at the Ohio based Lindner Center for Hope where they claimed he was hospitalized for mental health issues. It fell apart immediately.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, & the only way forward is to bring back shame & make this level of bad faith unacceptable in American politics.

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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 9h

Just found out it's National Coming Out Day. Amazing how that wasn't a press release from the White House. Happy National Coming Out Day to my brave brothers and sisters. And to those who will eventually come out. You have a safe place in my corner of the world.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18h

EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......

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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 13h

“If they don’t attack us—kill our children, we won’t attack their diesel.” - Volodymr Zelenskyy The leader of a democratic nation shouldn’t have to beg America to not fund the war killing its children. The time is long past to choose good over evil. We should be ashamed of our leaders.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 10h

“The pressure to exclude non-citizens from apportionment is a partisan move that is decades in the making, rooted deeply in a xenophobic and isolationist history,” says an expert on the census in a new Q&A.

boltsmag.org

Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts

In our new Q&A, an expert explains how census data shapes politics, and how Trump is trying to skew the count.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.

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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 12h

I really wish more people realize the conservative crackdown taking place at public universities affects way, way more people than the overstated and overdramatized issues at the Ivies.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 13h

A reminder to folks that studying racial disparities is important to learn because, despite the denial that these people have about demographic change, it is *already* here. One in four Gen Z is Latino, and Gen Alpha is majority minority.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12h

Held during Jackson’s birthday weekend, organizers said the programming reflected the values Jackson championed throughout his life and his deep ties to Omega Psi Phi, the fraternity he joined in 1960 and served in district and international leadership roles.

chicago.suntimes.com

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Rainbow PUSH celebrate Rev. Jesse Jackson’s birthday with youth conference

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

If you're a reporter asking a candidate to denounce a foreign terrorist group simply because he shares the same religion, you are a gutter bigot of the worst fucking kind. Do they ask Mike Rogers to denounce Christian terrorists like Tim McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph and Robert Lewis Dear? No? Huh

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids.

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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 13h

Another flash flood in Nepal. And Danielle Smith crows about building more pipelines.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 15h

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
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Virginia Data Center Ran
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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17h

Bernie Speaks Truth To Trump And AI Billionaires......

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14h

It's good that the pressure was applied and the order issued, but the fact that these fuckers tried to deploy the Guard to voting sites At All is a direct escalation and attempt to test what level of authoritarian fuckery they can get away with. Very glad DC held firm and said "No."

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 19h

reminder that the MINIMUM WAGE was originally intended to be enough for any single worker to support a family

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h

Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.

observer.co.uk

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The FDA is proposing to expand a loophole allowing some of the world’s most toxic chemicals such as hormone disruptors linked to brain damage and reproductive harm in children to be added directly to food without a safety review. MAHA IS RFK JR'S TOXIC LIE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed

Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nail. Head. HIT.

Social media post:
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A 70% increase in families using food pantries is a bigger indicator of the economy than the stock market

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Political scientists have found that nonviolent rebellion is the most reliable path from dictatorship to democracy. Decades of research point to four steps that successful rebellions follow."

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you use AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you program AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you distribute AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you fund AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you legalize AI, you are responsible for what it does.

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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

📌 ”Does Trump have the legal authority to buy previously sanctioned Russian oil? Does Russia even possess the diesel to sell? But one thing at least remains as clear as ever: With Trump, all roads lead to Putin.” 👈 ☠️ ☢️ #OrangePlague archive.li/2026.10.10-1... By @davidfrum.bsky.social

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

I realize that asking people to remember 2019 is impossible, since it was a million years ago, but you may recall Donald Trump's first impeachment, which happened because he withheld $400 million in aid to Ukraine because he asked Zelenskyy to investigate Biden (among other things).

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

When Donald Trump says that the war to Ukraine wouldn't have happened if he had been president, he is not only lying, he is in fact obfuscating his specific role in what happened.

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Debbie Seltzer @dlseltzer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Agreed. The section of Oak Park down by the conservatory (south of the freeway)alternates smallish single-family homes on small lots, duplexes, townhomes, and 16 to 24-unit apartment buildings. It makes a lovely and flexible neighborhood with options for almost anyone.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Saying the quiet part aloud. Very loudly

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

canvassing today and it’s taking forever to get through lists bc everyone just wants to rant about how angry they are at Congress

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump choosing Russia diesel fuel over Ukrainian freedom. US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing. www.ft.com/content/7fd4...

ft.com

US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing

Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow

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Debbie Seltzer @dlseltzer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is he imagining turning Forest Park into Oak Park north and immediately south of the L--with more single family homes? Even there, many homes have been converted to 2-3 flats and that number is increasing steadily.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/10/2026

One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.

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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026

Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So drag queens, books with gay penguins, and trans athletes will traumatize kids but a public execution won’t?!

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