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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking

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Gemma @gemmasupernova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Annual social media hiatus. See all 3.5 people who are reading this in October!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 25/08/2026

if there’s a point to fame it’s to do what dolly parton did in the world

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/08/2026

Gary, Indiana is without power for the 11th straight day after storms. This is climate injustice.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Much of what we call “convenience” is just the elimination of contact. Why ask when you can Google, why go somewhere to meet people when you can swipe, why call when you can click? The friction we’re engineering out of life is also where an enormous amount of life happens. What are we without it?

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Gemma @gemmasupernova.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We interrupt my regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this essential content.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Woke went too far is a way of dems blaming the left for Trump 2 by obscuring how we got Trump 1 and what happened to resist and defeat him. This is pure anti-Black anti-movement anti-historical revisionist bullshit designed to sheepdog you into the new progressive wing of Dem politics and treating

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Trump's Treasury permanently ended beneficial ownership reporting for U.S. companies, eliminating records investigators use to trace hidden money and organized crime networks, including Epstein-style trafficking networks and Russian money laundering.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

💥 DHS IS BULLDOZING THE MOUTH OF SANTA ELENA CANYON. They waived every single environmental law, now they’re butchering the most iconic part of Texas’ crown jewel national park. All happening the day after a massive protest. Indefensible attack on Texas natural heritage. Footage by Natalie Newman

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it.

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Gemma @gemmasupernova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

An accurate description from @lollardfish.bsky.social , also the range of POVs of current university administrators

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's disappointing that college presidents helped the Trump admin create a list of reforms that includes cracking down on protests and hiring faculty members based on conservative ideology. Any institution agreeing to these terms is admitting that they don't actually care about free speech or merit.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...

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El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

it's greatly underestimated, IMO, how the ferocious RW response to school closures and its sanewashing by legacy media led to those closures being seen as the primary failure of the pandemic response. The result has been a highly successful assault on public schools and public health.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have been shook by how little traction the Memphis Guard shooting got here in particular. Seems tailor-made for this platform to rage about, but I barely saw anything. And it got coverage! But “US Military shoots US Citizen dead on US soil” seems like it ought to dominate the news cycle.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

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Little Gitmos everywhere

The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

These are concentration camps.

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Gemma @gemmasupernova.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Clear and essential 🧵 re 🏳️‍⚧️life in this historical moment

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A least one ICE detention facility in Arizona is “closed for measles”. It is not clear how many people are infected or have been exposed, and it seems that there may be outbreaks in two facilities.

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Several people quarantined for measles exposure at Arizona ICE center

Several people were quarantined for possible exposure to the contagious measles virus at an ICE detention center in Eloy, Rep. Greg Stanton said.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

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Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

what if they fought back against republicans instead

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The people inside the Adelanto concentration camp are asking for help.

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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The surveillance state is becoming unavoidable and is, by nature, extremely dangerous. We need to push back in every way possible.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People

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