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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 04/10/2026
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026
Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.
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Truck American Workforce - Technological Innovations for a Better Life | BYD USA
BYD TRUCKS BYD MOTORS american workforce Over 750 unionized employees work together to build battery electric buses and buses at BYD's 556,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Californ...
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 02/10/2026
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social you suck so fucking much @democrats.org do not fucking run this idiot for president. He will fumble it
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE agents chasing him in a car ran this guy over a week ago, horribly injuring him. Needs some media attention beyond this: www.walb.com/2026/09/23/i...
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ICE releases statement after man run over in Dougherty County operation
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now releasing more information about an incident that happened in Dougherty County on Sept. 17 when a man was run over by an ICE vehicle.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...
welcometohellworld.com
His car is still sitting there
An ICE kidnapping in Austin
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/
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This is Us
Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If these dorks seriously believe there's a significant near-term risk of developing an AI that results in human extinction, the solution is simple and obvious: hang everyone who's trying to build AIs, for crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. The "panic" is bullshit from start to finish.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:
foreignpolicy.com
Civilians Need Better Protections in the Drone Age
Hunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.
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Paul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Confirmed. ground.news/article/stra...
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Iran Sets New Hormuz Demand: Trump and Netanyahu Must Be Removed From Power, Senior Adviser Says
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader says the Strait of Hormuz should remain closed until Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu leave power.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/09/2026
The public deserves to know how AI is driving decisions about seniors’ healthcare. EFF is releasing records obtained through our FOIA lawsuit to gain transparency into an experimental AI program that could jeopardize Medicare beneficiaries' access to care. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization
EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of
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🌑 @fell.energy · 09/09/2026
technology would be so cool if our collective well-being was the point
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data.
The observation that the most alarmist claims about A.I.’s impact seem to come from the individuals most connected to Rationalism should anger us. This exaggerated grimness makes it easy to overlook the more immediate harms created by these technologies, such as their potential use in cybersecurity attacks, excess resource consumption, impact on our cognitive fitness, role in undermining education and amplification of soul-deadening slop.

This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant “stewards” of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.
futurism.com
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.
The sword situation
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement. I called my brother to check if there were any developments with respect to his sword and he said he could sort of make it out way up there if he squinted. I don’t know why everyone’s losing it over these swords he said. Then I called my congresswoman to ask yet again if there were any plans to tackle the sword situation as it were and the girl who answered said it was the official position of the office that the swords do not exist except in some rare foreign cases. I could tell she was reading from a script. Can you let her know that they most certainly do I said and she said that she would pass the message along and hung up. Outside some landscapers were at work trimming the neighbor’s hedges. Each of them with a gleaming blade perched inches from the back of their necks. Why didn’t they just grab it at this stage I thought. Why didn’t they just reach right up and grab it.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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lizard @lizzzard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Joan Sebastian Guerrero is the name of the victim of the fatal ICE shooting this morning in Biddeford, Maine. say it, spread it, make it as known as the other names of lives taken by ICE
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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Folks, we have a RIPCON 3. I believe this is our highest level since doing this
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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Just think when it happens the whole country will look like nyc tonight
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 24/05/2026
Man: people on bluesky don't engage in roiling debates Bluesky: lol u r so fucking dumb Man: *turns off comments*
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
ICE in: Atlanta (ATL) Chicago (ORD) Cleveland (CLE) Houston (HOU) Ft. Myers (RSW) New Orleans (MSY) New York (JFK) New York-LaGuardia (LGA) Newark (EWR) Philadelphia (PHL) Phoenix (PHX) Pittsburgh (PIT) San Juan, PR (SJU) via CNN
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 21/03/2026
And they said print media is dead
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I guess everyone can believe what was always obvious this whole time now. Despite the president any many others lying by suggesting they had bombed themselves. With the kind of missile that we use and that they do not have. For some reason. www.welcometohellworld.com/what-do-thes...
welcometohellworld.com
What do these people want from us?
Says here in the newspaper that the U.S. was in fact responsible for the strike on an elementary school in Minab that killed 175 people. Most of them children. So I guess everyone can believe what was...
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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"While it’s bad enough that we cause so much suffering what’s worse is that then on top of that and also like cops we need to be big fucking pissing babies about it whenever anyone tries to call us out on our bullshit. Barbarians and martyrs at once... Crying and hitting you..."
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 28/02/2026
You probably can’t personally stop the war in Iran today. Is there something you can do for your neighbors hiding from ice? For a trans person in Kansas? Any local aid orgs or rapid response networks? Phone banks? Anyone already doing good shit that just needs a hand?
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 12/02/2026
Fuckin get em. Ive had Crohn's since I was 14, and was on these exact meds. Every insurance company I've ever been on has tried all these dirty tricks, and I'm glad someone caught them.
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 11/02/2026
there is no drawdown, and there is no compromise. ice out everywhere.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
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bluejacksky.bsky.social @bluejacksky.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/01/2026
Want to help support people in Minnesota right now? Check out standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
more student organizations have joined the national shutdown organized by the Somali Student Association and the Black Student Union of U of MN: Stanford Derechos, Stanford Asian American Action Committee, Stanford Tech for Liberation, Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine
ICE OUT!
Justice for Alex Pretti!
Justice for Renee Good!
NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN!
Jan 30, 2026
Noon (12PM) @ White Plaza Stanford
NO WORK.
NO SCHOOL.
NO SHOPPING.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/01/2026
the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 22/01/2026
It's working
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 20/01/2026
Is this anything
Greg Bovino, "commander at large" of the border patrol Picture of colonel lockjaw, the antagonist of the movie one battle after another
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 18/01/2026
Listen: because I am hearing this a lot from folks who are in caregiving roles with disabled, sick, dying folks, elders, or children in their care: You are not unable to do anything or unable to take action. Care work IS justice work
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 18/01/2026
there’s no reforming or redeeming any of them.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/01/2026
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy.
Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie.

I'm still learning how to understand her.

Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo?
Do you need to do a widdle piddle?

Minnie: Arf!

*I just call her "little baby" most of the time.

I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now.
Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy.
Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now.

Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers.

I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless.
The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective.

I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition.
ICE will pick up anybody.

I know that.

So I tucked my passport away.

And I largely avoid leaving my house.I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too.
And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized.
We'll do our best to get through this.

Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE." See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!
themetrodetroitnews.com
Michigan U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar Introduces Bill to Abolish ICE
Detroit area Congressman Shri Thanedar has introduced legislation in Congress that would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The proposal, called the ‘Abolish ICE Act’, would dismantle t...
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Getting a lot of messages. A lot are like "Can I come help?" (appreciated, but unless you know the area very well, probably not THAT useful) or "Can I send money?" (not to me, please). But the best ones are like "I want to build what you guys have back in my home city." YES, DO THAT. DO IT NOW.
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/01/2026
The findings, based on internal ICE material obtained by 404 Media, public records, and testimony from an ICE official, shows what kind of technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 09/01/2026
'Don't fight back that will give Trump an excuse to escalate!' is the most asinine dogshit take on here- the man *instigated an insurrection* because people *voted him out* No level of law abiding pacifism will placate him- he registers it as weakness, and an invitation to multiply his abuses
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jonathan rodney slamdunk @furysama.straylight.engineering · 07/01/2026
when even jacob frey is against ICE you know they fucked up
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