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Tina Law @tinalaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Excited to share my new piece on AI policy in @contexts.org! In my 2024 article with Leslie McCall, we identified two emerging approaches to AI policymaking focused on safety vs. equity. Here, I discuss the rise of a third approach focused on hegemony and its implications. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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404 Media @404media.co · 31/03/2026

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

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How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/09/2025

As a kid, my family used to spend Labor Day weekend camping with a few other families. The moms did basically everything, and the dads' "help" often wasn't. Like when my dad tried to reheat pizza by putting the box over the fire. Or spent a whole day rigging up a mini TV to watch a football game. 1/

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Today is an important day. The day that a modern social safety net began to take shape. The SSA created OASI, the AFDC (ADC at the time), and the earliest form of our UI system. The SSA wasn't perfect. Its programs directly and indirectly excluded African Americans at first...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If Democrats fight to protect our democracy and protect people's health care this fall during the budget negotiations with Republicans, Americans will be on our side. The country doesn't want a dictatorship and they don't want 40% insurance premium increases.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Duty! Toward one's fellows! A Rooseveltian vision the US could stand to reembrace.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 01/08/2025

Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Yesterday the Social Security Administration sent a highly misleading & political press release about the tax bill to my work account, where I'd signed up for SSA updates. Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This should be a career-ending vote. h/t @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

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Drew Halfmann @drewhalfmann.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

@RepDavidValadao (R-CA-Kings, Kern and Tulare counties) voted to cut Medicaid benefits for 67% of the people in his district but now pretends he supports Medicaid www.modbee.com/opinion/arti...

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Congressman David Valadao backs bill cutting Medicaid, risking political fire | Opinion

“Perhaps no state has more to lose than California,” says the California Health Care Foundation.

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