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Critical Raccoon

@ereallin.bsky.social

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Grew up in Chicago, lived in Madison, now in Toronto. Recovering news junkie.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

John Roberts and the SCOTUS Republicans have allowed Trump to proceed with his egregious mail-in voting restrictions. 21 years ago, I warned at Roberts' confirmation hearing he would be a dangerously right-wing Chief Justice. I have sadly been proven right, over and over.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...

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AI is making everything worse

The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Conservatives on X are now claiming that The Odyssey, which had the most profitable live-action opening of the year so far with $264 million, is a box office flop. Just as I suspected, they are incapable of admitting they were wrong. This is the election denialism of pop culture.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Ignorance is power. www.science.org/content/arti...

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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 23/01/2026

A reminder that not all labor unions are good. The building trades would sign up to build the Death Star if it promised to shit a few jobs their way.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Joe Biden should pardon and release from prison the 3,000 people behind bars for ridiculous federal marijuana offenses.

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