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Erica Posey

@eeposey.bsky.social
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Dog, law, and regular ol' nerd, usually yelling at the government about something or other. Married to the best guy on earth. Strong opinions all my own and RT =/= endorsements.

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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doomsday may be slower and more boring that the AI companies want you to believe, but accelerating already existing crises may well spell our doom. Take all of these scenarios together and you have a world that is profoundly dystopian, not a far cry from some sci-fi dystopias, not Skynet, but Shitty Skynet. Yes, the human race still exists, but do we want to live in this world?
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New frontrunner for highest expense to triviality ratio mistake I've ever made: scratching a Porsche pulling out of a parking space. If I could tell the world just one thing it would be: don't scratch a Porsche.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This was a pretty good show that let Cage be Cage, got a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 11 (mostly technical) emmy nominations. Go figure.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wales has stopped ALL gender affirming surgeries! Schools have just declared an end to social transition and inclusion for trans kids. I do not think enough people are paying attention to how utterly and quickly trans rights have been stripped away in the uk!
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
yea, being a dick
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Zohran Mamdani is backing a bill to hold Amazon accountable for exploiting delivery drivers. Now Amazon is launching a $5M lobbying blitz — led by Chuck Schumer's daughter — to crush it. Instead of spending millions on lobbying, Amazon should pay and treat its drivers fairly.
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A prayer for grace from my future self in case i come down with the pooping disease in the next week: pregnancy is hard, willpower is finite, and it turns out the straw that broke the camel's back was a bag salad. You can take away my cheap sushi but the bag salad was apparently a step too far.
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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
If you have 10 minutes and have never seen this before, do yourself a favor, you'll thank me later.
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Hedgehog in the Fog | Ёжик в тумане (English Subs)
YouTube video by RadicaLore
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 07/08/2026
It’s all just so soulless all the way down. How long has this dumb discourse been going on, endless headlines and handwringing over the idea that a trans woman might maybe eventually some day play in the league. Maybe.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026
Part of the objective, I think, of constructing AI “agency” as a responsibility-laundry for human decision-making is to create a permission structure for other people, organizations and individuals, to participate in assembling that political project while not feeling personally responsible for it.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026
They are trying to use AI as an ‘agency tumbler’, like a cryptocurrency tumbler which is a mechanism that attempts to obscure the originator of crypto transactions by using a disguising function (typically transaction pooling) for purposes of money laundering. This is responsibility laundering.
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I'm a really big fan of Allen's proposals here but I understand the frustration of not focusing on tangible benefits while people are suffering. Allen's suggestions would help eliminate barriers to democracy that have stagnated good policy for ~25 years: corporate influence & hyper partisanship.
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Valk @einherjarvalk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I really need people to understand regulations are written in blood. Combat aviation is a dangerous profession on good days.
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
All the salad apocalypse chatter reminds us that the normal work of government to maintain the commons—good roads, regulations, food inspections, public health etc—is what allows economies to prosper and businesses to plan and compete and make money
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
That's not how this works!
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 07/07/2026
Periods of positive change can follow times of scandal and abuse. We can make the most of this moment with meaningful reforms of Congress and the Supreme Court.
brennancenter.org
A Time for Ideas
Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidency all need to reform.
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
At some point back in like 2018 I read an article describing distinguishing features between false allegations of sexual assault and true allegations, and I found it really illuminating. Not sure if this was the original article, but it covers the same ground: qz.com/980766/the-t...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My contribution to the Reconstruction Papers is a call from an expansive, civilian national service initiative, one that would dwarf the current AmeriCorps programs in size and scope I want to enlist not only labor and service, but the arts, pouring people and money into communities across the U.S.
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
If you have not slept with a beloved pet pressing their entire weight against you and snoring directly in your ear, I'm sorry to say, you have never truly rested or lived. The fact that my back hurts and I'm tired 100% of my waking hours is irrelevant, I stand by my previous statement.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
some nominal fees are one thing. But even the current fees aren’t nominal. The people should have free and easy access to the edicts of the judges who increasingly run their lives. This is bs.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The officer who shot this infant was responding to a call that someone had shoplifted of a box of diapers from the Walmart. Shoplifting. Diapers. from Walmart.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Anger over the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley is mounting in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi. Hundreds took to the streets in protest and police tear-gassed a crowd outside the Walmart where an officer shot the infant. Officials are not releasing bodycam or security footage.
mississippifreepress.org
Anger Mounts in Senatobia Over Police Killing of 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley
Protests broke out in Senatobia, Mississippi, amid mounting anger over the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The only thing this new provision accomplishes is to convert the current flat prohibition into a court order requirement—one that is easily met, given that a FISA Court order based on a mere showing of relevance (not probable cause) is sufficient under the bill. 12/18
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/06/2026
Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is why I have the unpopular opinion of HATING those cheeky "Make America Woke Again" or whatever, slogans. It feels subversive but it's actually amplifying and recalling the original message. Hell, tongue-in-cheek red hats of any kind are a no go at this point for the same reason.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026
misogyny, racism, & fascist ideologies ai systems encode and exacerbate that we've been telling you about for yrs never went away. it's just that governments & those in position of power said "we don't care about that. just adopt ai at whatever cost"
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
time.com
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No it the fuck was not.
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Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021   "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full...
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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
gcaptain.com
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.
wired.com
A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs—effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection.
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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
this is just one more blatant example, and i’m glad some people are calling it out.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
By the mid-1970s, we had accomplished many of the aims of the civil rights movement and we had enshrined abortion rights into law. Today, almost all of that has either been wiped away or is currently being rolled back as we speak. This is a radical moment in American history, and we must meet it.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026
I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/05/2026
"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Single women are buying more houses. The men they are dating are not responding well
Female home owners report feeling stuck between men’s contradictory expectations – they are told to be independent, but not assume the breadwinner role
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Marginal tax rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."
washingtonpost.com
How minimum wage hikes and food stamps fit in to suicide prevention
Studies show income, debt and access to basic needs shape mental health outcomes, but U.S. strategies have largely focused on clinical care.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Never thought I’d be living in a world so shitty that I’d find myself saying WHO CARES ABOUT UFO PICS RIGHT NOW
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.
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Erica Posey @eeposey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We is phenomenal and in my experience American readers are bored by it because they are trained in school on the literature inspired by it; & feel loke it's derivative (even though it was the progenitor!) but Zamyatin kicks ass and everyone should read it.
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