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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’m not sure if I’m the first to coin this term, but I want to make sure that when someone is peddling the future as already written, they’re called out as peddling a belief system, not facts. open.substack.com/pub/emilykbe...

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The Inevitablists

The name for people sharing the future as settled fact.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The terrifying thing is that in my peer group - people in their late 30s and 40’s, whether they have kids or not- are being crushed by healthcare costs. Sure feels like we’re on the precipice of economic collapse. Wheeeee.

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ethicalsource.bsky.social @ethicalsource.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We're thrilled to announce Contributor Covenant 3.0, a major revision to the most widely adopted code of conduct for open source and other online communities! www.contributor-covenant.org

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Contributor Covenant | A Code of Conduct for Digital Communities

The most widely adopted code of conduct in open source.

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Film Festival Alliance @ffalliance.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

NEA Grantees with Terminated Grants or Withdrawn Funding: You have 7 calendar days to appeal, so for those receiving their letters late yesterday (May 2), you have until Friday, May 9 to appeal. We have put together a how-to guide drawing from available resources including @jasonrhody.bsky.social

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

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Sander @sanderregter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day. These are already death camps. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n... english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I feel like now is a good time to remind everyone that the Confederacy lasted just about four years. Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that have lasted longer:

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

“I stand here in SPITE of him.” What a perfect moment.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

THIS IS WHY YOU YELL AT THEM NOT BECAUSE IT’S FUN BECAUSE IT MATTERS

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If you are not watching @booker.senate.gov right now, drop everything and turn him on. History in the making.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I’m only just realizing how toxic the movie Ladybugs really was.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I’d like to see these corporate “leaders” refuse the 15% tax break in favor of funding education. I’d like to see some actual leadership.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Congratulations, @coralineada.bsky.social!!!! Pub day is so exciting and you have offered the world a handbook for building the pro social future we could all hope for (and work toward)

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A lot of people are going to die from this

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Coraline Ada Ehmke @coralineada.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Reminder that being kind is punk.

Photograph of a medium-sized spiral-bound notebook with a large round pink sticker that reads “being kind is punk” in all caps. In the background, there’s a small doll of Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas and some rack-mounted music gear with blue and green displays.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It would be a shame if you had to report book banning, abstinence education, forcing 10 commandments, anti trans sports policies to this website (which doesn’t verify emails lol)

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 27/02/2025

"Alternative news sources like social media and podcasts were much more prevalent among “swing voters” (52 percent) and new Trump voters (59 percent) compared to the overall electorate (43 percent)." www.chip50.org/reports/2024... navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-el...

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2024 US Elections: Sources of News and Information | The COVID States Project

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed

A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Rest in Power Roberta Flack

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If ever there were an argument why artists are so incredibly important right now, and why they are such a profound threat to AI as a cultural shift, it’s this: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

These stories make it honestly hard to continue. Where is the men’s outrage? Why do I only ever see women sharing these stories?

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 18/02/2025

we all sift the news through our own lens. my PR/org comm/systems design lens tells me we will need a 3 pronged strategy to rebuild the narrative of the US. 1. national - to address a future story 2. regional - to atone for past transgressions 3. online - to demo the praxis of healthy communities

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

While everyone is focused on what DOGE is doing, Elon Musk is quietly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an April Wisconsin Supreme Court race. This race could have electoral consequences in future elections, like 2028 in a crucial swing state. Pay attention.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Ministry for Propaganda is here. They’re making equity illegal in education, teaching about equality or systemic racism. Read it. The www.ed.gov/media/docume...

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It’s almost like…vaccines help reduce illness…

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Emily Best @ebestinthewest.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

ITS ALMOST HERE! You can pre-order a copy of the incredible @coralineada.bsky.social’s book We Just Build Hammers. Perfect for anyone wondering if we could still use tech for good (and how not to be complicit in building for harm) bookshop.org/p/books/we-j...

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We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech

Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 12/02/2025

@eli.bsky.social: “I think we need to think beyond the commercial platforms and start thinking about, how do we build community in other ways online and in ways that foreground civic virtue rather than just commerce?”

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In a fractured world technology must serve the common good

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"the company’s elevated stock price becomes increasingly dependent on the belief that Musk the magician can deliver wildly creative new products. That image is fading." @davidzipper.bsky.social why boycotting Telsa could make Elon hurt

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Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.

Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

every inch of progress in the US is like this. BLM, defund the police, trans rights, etc — all marginal, sometimes nonexistent gains followed by massive rightward pendulum swings born of the (false) assertion that by gently prodding an issue, we’ve gone “too far”

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is an absolutely astonishing report. DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root. This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.

Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

From 2021-2023 when Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and White House, so-called “moderates” said Democrats shouldn’t abolish the filibuster to pass legislation because the GOP would use the 50 vote threshold to roll it all back. They should’ve abolished the filibuster.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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The ABA supports the rule of law

It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students.

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

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