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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 13/08/2026

America is RESPECTED again, perhaps like never before

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 9h

One of the most dialectically astute aspects of the narrative shows how new print technologies improve mass literacy & simultaneously make limited proficiencies more visible. As more people enter public discourse, it seems as though literacy is eroding, but the opposite is in fact the case.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10h

[Sigh] Guess I'll let my family know

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14h

The Civility Files from the @uncivilcollective.bsky.social are a great place to start understanding the cringey & deeply unpopular Civics Centers & Programs that have draw attention in Iowa, Ohio, & West Virginia, but which are sprouting up all over. www.uncivilcollective.org

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Gayle Turner @gmturnerphd.bsky.social · 14h

JD Vance lying about Talarico, 6 year olds, and hormones. C-span needs a chyron fact checker on screen these days.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 14h

Medicare for All is a far better brand for Democrats than building on the Affordable Care Act. There is an important ideological subtext: Public is not only more socially just than private, it’s also more efficient. buff.ly/rfMA6zY

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The Road to Universal Medicare - The American Prospect

The apparent split between advocates of Medicare for All and a more incremental approach is misleading and easily remedied.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 14h

Now that is a quote.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve interviewed a lot of victims of digital harassment. I’ve experienced it firsthand too. One of the hardest parts is that the normal people stay silent. The harassers are gleeful in the violation of your boundaries and no one else is saying anything. It makes it feel like everyone hates you.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 29/09/2026

Josh Wabaunsee, a Prairie Band Potawatomi member and Haven Watch volunteer, shares a heartbreaking reality facing immigrants: "Those people are now making decisions that wherever they came from is better than here, is safer than here. I’m so ashamed of that."

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/09/2026

The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

really worth watching the whole thing play out...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/09/2026

100% should follow him around for the rest of what’s left of his political career. His 2028 VP hopes were dashed in two minutes and I love that for him.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026

Perhaps Senator Eric Schmitt was a little too hawkish during his questioning of Jack Smith today. After accusing the former special counsel of perjury over whether he’d been at a Hawks basketball game, Schmitt was hit with an awkward moment of live fact-checking.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Algorithmic wages & prices are symptoms of a political economy built on the continuous conversion of movement, delay, fatigue, debt, location, browsing, hunger, punctuality, & desperation into commercial leverage." @veenadubal.bsky.social @katiejwells.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...

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Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Trump is spending $1.8 billion on his own vanity projects. What would that money get you? Let’s do the math.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026

“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.

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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves

A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/09/2026

Moving public $ from medical to AI research reveals #priorities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts

Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years
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Thu 17 Sep 2026 07.00 EDT

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was not just the Office of Technology Assessment: it was a whole structure that supported Congressional decision-making and Gingrich torched it (primarily because facts and expertise are apparently Democratic). It is time to double Congress’s budget and bulk up it staffing again.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does anyone remember TPUSA's Professor Watchlist?

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

More specifically, Iran uses *crypto* to fund terrorism around the world. But it’s issued by a company that the Commerce Secretary is invested in so they’re probably not going to do anything about it. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

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Exclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian Regime

Wallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alpha School's "software is just techwashing for [Christopher Rufo and his coalition's] dream of teacherlessness and totalitarian surveillance of students and schools. That’s what they really want to hyperscale," writes @mattseybold.bsky.social.

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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The cameras, made by Alabama-based City Detect, use artificial intelligence to analyze images captured by sanitation trucks and generate 'blight scores' for homes and buildings." www.expressnews.com/news/article...

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AI-powered garbage trucks have flagged 20,000 homes in one Texas city.

AI-powered garbage truck cameras have flagged about 20,000 Dallas homes for potential code violations.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/09/2026

Talking about my struggles with being overweight still makes me uncomfortable, since weight can carry moral judgment in ways that other health challenges don't. But that fear stops too many struggling from getting treatment that could extend their lives.

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Gov. JB Pritzker Reveals He’s Lost 80 Lbs. with GLP-1 After Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis (Exclusive)

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tells PEOPLE that a GLP-1 has contributed to his 80-Lb. weight loss, but that he initially started taking it after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I hate that MTG is one of the best people to point out the lies that we’ve all had to listen to forever, but she can still take a seat after being at the top of the list of people who brought us to where we are.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026

Donald Trump’s extravagant spending could threaten the global economy and destroy trust in the dollar—and Republicans are enabling this, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.

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Blame Trump for Rising Borrowing Costs

Lenders don’t trust the United States anymore.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely extraordinary strategic and military concessions offered by Trump to Xi. Trump offered to sell weapons to China. That was revealed in an interview by David Perdue, the US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14bn arms package to Taiwan already approved by Congress. All of this

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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the first piece from a newly formed think tank from the looks of it, @civildefenseinst.bsky.social. If this is their first piece out of the gate, I'll be eager to see what else they write in the future.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Agreeing to do universal health care via incrementalism instead of shooting for giant legislation that will never pass is the greatest advance the American left could have hoped for

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump routinely says idiotic things like this that you wouldn’t know about if it weren’t for @atrupar.com. Why is that? Allow me to explain: presswatchers.org/2026/09/donald-tr…

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026

"Fox News and its kin throughout Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire have come close to this vision. But News Corp, as its staid name implies, never quite escaped the smartly-suited establishment taint. You needed social media to really refine the commodification of authenticity to a fine point."

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“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell

Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've had fire insurance on my house for decades and never had a fire. Obviously a fraudster.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 30 years ive never filed a renters or homeowners claim.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crazy that Big media reporters and pundits aren't doing their homework before churning out these Rahm features. They should be talking to people like Heather Cherone, a respected Chicago reporter who knows a thing or two about Rahm's terms as Mayor.

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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes again, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social way ahead of everyone else. Today the DG, Matt Brittin, announced he would be happy for the BBC to make programmes and have them presented entirely by AI "within guardrails". See link below bsky.app/profile/caro...

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Congresswoman Madeleine Dean @repdean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The survivors of Jeffrey Epstein deserve justice. While in Dallas, I viewed an exhibit of more than 300 million pages of the Epstein Files. It is a brave project that aims to uncover the cruel crimes of Epstein and his associates, and to give voice to the women and girls who suffered their abuse.

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Destroying the legalization of free and easy online gambling is intimately tied into the first plank of the winning platform, anti-corruption. These platforms exist solely to extract, steal, and immiserate. They should not exist and their influence on politics and life in general is wholly toxic.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

SCOOP: FBI removes two veteran counterterrorism leaders over frustrations from Stephen & Katie Miller that they hadn't made progress in probing allegedly threatening phone calls Katie received news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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FBI Ousts Officials Probing Threats to Stephen Miller’s Family

FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller’s wife, said thr...

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