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Gabrielle Orum Hernández @ghernandez16.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I picked up @saranahmed.bsky.social 's Complaint! last week before this Cornell shit hit my feed, and MAN is it unbelievably frustrating to hear this kind of take as if this "serious movement" hasn't been ongoing and systematically undermined for decades and decades.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18/08/2026

I feel like the key takeaway here is worth highlighting: Inadvertently or otherwise, AI is already at least *trying* to write literal federal laws. Laws that, if passed, humans would be required to adhere to. Like, right now. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

politico.com

AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws

The Office of Legislative Counsel is facing a barrage of new AI-generated bills, many of which are riddled with errors.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There’s been a bipartisan commitment to the idea of immigrant labor without immigrant people or immigrant rights, which in its way is as corrosive to meaningful democracy as ethnonationalism imo

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Gabrielle Orum Hernández @ghernandez16.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just a heads up that this is what we're dealing with - planter class "political leaders" and corporate execs making massive deals over the heads of communities they've been starving for resources for decades, and then framing its pittances as public services. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

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How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The greed never stops. Intentionally stagnating and bottoming out wages so employees have to go on benefits, then filing for tax refunds because you refuse to pay those employees is sickening #labor www.commondreams.org/news/walmart...

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'Starvation Wages' at Giant US Corporations Force Workers to Seek Taxpayer-Funded Aid | Common Dreams

US Sen. Bernie Sanders exposes the shocking truth: Amazon and Walmart employees rely on federal aid due to poverty wages, while CEOs rake in billions. Should taxpayers subsidize corporate greed? Join ...

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Ted Fickes @tedfickes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The fact that public surveillance can be turned off for the rich seems a demonstration that they're quite aware of their false narrative. "privacy is a luxury for the elite few, and the rest of us are subjected to pervasive surveillance everywhere we go" www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

wired.com

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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Cryptillian @cryptillian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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Gabrielle Orum Hernández @ghernandez16.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I have been a lifelong lover of pop culture, but please, please do not make me learn what Jimothy is. I do not want to know. Maybe it’s something wonderful, but I am at my breaking point. I retire. I would like to settle into “teacher who doesn’t know any young people things” life now.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Lots said already about the problems with this presentation, but please remember that when we're looking at terrorist attacks and plots by the white power movement, they go down when the attackers find sympathy, or jobs, in the halls of power.

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Hanna Raskin @hannaraskin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fund the journalism you want to see in this world! If you don't have money to give, please consider circulating these appeals so they reach somebody who does. Word-of-mouth does wonders for independent news orgs.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

ante up working journos

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Psst those intellectual diversity centers are just one more rightwing grift TIL Rufo’s speaking fee is $50k

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/07/2026

“You won’t earn as much going to college because it’s expensive” is literally the right wing assault on higher education, a data-free lie going back back at least to Bush’s disastrous 2005 bankruptcy reform that created a gigantic moral hazard pushing tuition rates into the stratosphere.

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

NEW: Last year, DOGE brought in a UChicago student to create an AI tool to work on HUD policy. But when @democracyforward.org filed a FOIA request for details about what exactly was going on, many of the documents were withheld, some citing a non-existent AI privilege. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

wired.com

DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is a good moment to remind everyone just how abusive even police admit they are. It’s an open secret. Even the FBI found that 40% of responding cops reported that they committed physical abuse against their spouse in the last 6 months. That’s 10 times more than the general population.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Cathy Rutherford tells a journalist that the late Margaret Thatcher did “not a bit of good” and says “ i'd put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she never comes back”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Maybe the other thing that some people will get through their THICK SKULLS is that most people who live & work in the US are WORKING CLASS. Teachers are WORKING CLASS. NURSES are WORKING CLASS. Social workers are WORKING CLASS. SO ARE STARBUCKS BARISTAS (who some seem to despise)....

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Gabrielle Orum Hernández @ghernandez16.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A powerful reminder that being told that queer love is completely wrong as a child can predispose you to the idea that love can, and maybe should, absolutely destroy you.

The cover of a book called “The Grief Keeper”

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

UPDATE: CNBC responds, says it only includes the disclosure of their financial relationship with Kalshi when it is "directly relevant to the story" These are examples of stories where CNBC determined it wasn't "relevant" to disclose that the company invests in Kalshi and gets paid for new customers

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The NARA San Francisco office is *the* place to study histories of US immigration and western histories of all sorts. Its staff are extraordinarily valuable for researchers, historians, and citizens who visit daily to learn more about these topics. This is terrible. www.kqed.org/news/1208890...

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Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried | KQED

The Bay Area collection includes original records from landmark birthright citizenship case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and inmate records from Alcatraz. Federal officials didn’t provide details ab...

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/07/2026

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

insidehighered.com

U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments

The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The DAR is more progressive on Trans people than the supposed front runner for the 2028 Democratic Party nominee and Governor of California.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I started to line up all of my best arguments for why the panopticon is bad, actually, but then I remembered that none of these guys are arguing in good faith. These are the people who profit off of the panopticon and they have no intention to engage in "radical transparency" themselves.

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Defector @defector.com · 27/06/2026

Don't let bored football fans tell the story of Caitlin Clark's season: defector.com/dont-let-bor...

One annoying thing about the WNBA season is that it coincides with precisely the time of year when college football and NFL commentators have their most free time. If Fever games constitute your only exposure to the WNBA, I can see why it might feel like the player who has the ball in her hand more often than anyone else in those games is subject to outsized defensive attention. If slow-motion Twitter clips of Clark being fouled constitute your only exposure to the WNBA, I can really see why it might seem like this stuff happens too often.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Trump's favorite part of his daily intelligence briefing are videos of fishermen in the Caribbean being murdered by US soldiers, which attendees call "Hegseth snuff films," The FT reports. bsky.app/profile/donm...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 25/06/2026

Or as @naomiaklein.bsky.social put it:

"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
- Sam Altman

"You ingested the entire
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
- Naomi Klein

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I want to propose a toast to Sergey Brin, who's unintentionally making the case for a billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Shanette Williams, whose daughter Amber Thurman died after being denied abortion care, speaks out against GA abortion ban We have to come together and fight this. We have to look people in the face, in the eye, and tell them that this is wrong. We demand a change.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/06/2026

Two powerful earthquakes, magnitude 7.1 and 7.5, struck west of the Venezuela capital Caracas, causing widespread devastation. Interim President Delcy Rodriguez declared a state of emergency. Experts warn the death toll could be in the thousands.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/06/2026

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

A screenshot of the finance committees agenda

AGENDA OF MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026
11:00 A.M.
CITY HALL - SECOND FLOOR - COUNCIL CHAMBER

SUBJECT MATTER HEARING
1. An ordinance authorizing the approval of the ownership transfer pursuant to the Chicago Metered Parking System Concession Agreement (O2026-0025407)
NO VOTES WILL BE TAKEN

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

ICE/Geo drove into a demonstrator today.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026

“Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip some public buses with facial recognition cameras capable of detecting whether a passenger appears on a list of banned riders or missing persons.”

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A city's push for facial recognition on public buses ignites debate over security and privacy

Kansas City, Missouri, plans to boost security by installing facial recognition cameras on buses. However, the rollout has been delayed due to technical and financial issues.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

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Gabrielle Orum Hernández @ghernandez16.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

ok TRULY wild. I have some jumbled thoughts about this that I'm gonna tack on here like a true child of Tumblr, so sorry about that, but:

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/06/2026

This thread is wild

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Gabrielle Orum Hernández @ghernandez16.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

😒 man you blew $200M you could’ve just paid us, and now you’re like “I dunno, i feel like I just want to focus on my life rn, but I’ll still be a ~fighter~ 4 uuu”

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Truthout @truthout.org · 09/06/2026

When the city announced it would open its first-ever direct-care clinic for trans people, it seemed like Mamdani was finally delivering on his campaign promises for trans youth. It isn’t. The clinic will deny care to anyone under 19 — adopting the exact age cutoff from Trump’s anti-trans EOs.

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Mamdani’s City-Run Clinic Will Deny Gender-Affirming Care to Patients Under 19

A planned New York City clinic for trans patients adopts an age limit used in Trump’s anti-trans executive orders.

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