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sometimes it feels like reinventing wheels rearranging deck chairs urban cyclist poetry, photography, politics & philosophy cooking & gardening Cultural Anthropologist power is always productive. who is it benefiting? how? i don’t do snark tags

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 3h
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1h
Right-wing online influencers: We can't prove Talarico *didn't* go to a rehab in Ohio NYT: We can, we saw video proof WSJ: Speaking of, we saw video of Paxton partying at the Burj Khalifa with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment for fraud, one of whom donated to Paxton's campaign
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 3h
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge issued a temporary order Sunday blocking the Trump admin from airing those propaganda ads. But the administration blew past that deadline and ran two of the ads into the early hours of Monday, advertising data shows.
washingtonpost.com
Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads
A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h
I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
Part of the work of this moment is to insist on and expect compliance — and ensure that any noncompliance or efforts to lie to or otherwise mislead courts remain unacceptable and to be investigated thoroughly whenever they happen. They must remain seen — and responded to — as an aberration.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9h
Folding firms--including Kamala Harris's husband's firm!--rolled over and committed >$100M each toward Trump administration goals. Really historic cowardice.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 11h
Trump brought more destruction to DC this weekend, ordering the cutting of 400 mature trees before courts could stop it. Same tactic as when he knocked down the East Wing. Riverbend Landscapes & Tree Service of VA did the cutting. They knew it was wrong. And you can let them know how you feel. 1/
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h
It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h
Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h
To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yandex is Russia's leading IT giant;its cloud infrastructure supports not only the civilian sector but also business systems&government agencies,meaning the consequences of the attacks on it are systemic: Damage to data centers caused disruptions to over 80 of the company's services (including
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia has no chance of advancing any further on the ground in Ukraine. That is why it has focused on destabilizing Ukraine and Europe from within and intensified its terror from the air. Russia has also poured enormous amounts of money into information warfare: fakes, bots, and fabricated news.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: A judge has ordered an immediate halt to the taxpayer-funded pro-Trump ads, including any slated to run tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Every time a ruling happens, when your response is "they won't comply," you're just helping them. Stop it. The end.
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Ralph Martin @ralphmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“They are denialists. Their vision is that the forest must be removed for economic activities,” she adds. They will again encourage illegal mining, the invasion of Indigenous lands, and violence against Indigenous and Quilombola communities” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Marina Silva on Flávio Bolsonaro: He will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the Amazon
Exclusive: Former Brazilian environment minister warns of destruction as far-right scion favourite to become president
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"[S]tates and localities can close this [federal criminalization] loophole by not just banning collaboration with ICE, but with other federal law enforcement agencies that have been deputized into the mass deportation agenda ... This should be an urgent priority for state and local governments[.]"
prisonpolicy.org
Cooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategies
The Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ...
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grollen @gnot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
really wish that the bsky app made it easier to copy/paste alt-text really helps with sharability
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grollen @gnot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
are they going to rename the team ‘the grifters’?
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"If India is buying a fleet of fighter planes from, say, France, it knows that lynching & a little mass murder will, at most, get a delicate finger-wag. A big market is excellent insurance against moral censure." -Arundhati Roy www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/o...
cnn.com
Arundhati Roy: ‘The damage to Indian democracy is not reversible’ | CNN
When officials from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist BJP made derogatory comments about the Prophet Mohammed, it prompted an international firestorm. Here, bestselling Indian author Arundhati Roy says...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Thousands are protesting across India against changes to voter rolls that have stripped millions of their right to vote. Police have detained scores of protesters, and authorities have cut off mobile internet services near protest sites." - Human Rights Watch www.democracynow.org/2026/10/7/he...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died By Ama Sarpomaa At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mary Tsingou Menzel’s computer programming helped set the stage for chaos theory and other fields.
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Mathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died (Gift Article)
At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mary Tsingou Menzel’s computer programming helped set the stage for chaos theory and other fields.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Massive show of support for Lula NOW in São Paulo as Bolsonaro appointed Supreme Court judge imposes military regime style censorship on Lula supporters." - Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazilian filmmaker
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Personalescrito (@Persona@todon.nl)
Attached: 1 video "Massive show of support for Lula NOW in São Paulo as Bolsonaro appointed Supreme Court judge imposes military regime style censorship on Lula supporters." - Kleber Mendonça Filho,...
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 06/10/2026
🚨NEW: The Trump admin has demanded local & state collusion on immigration enforcement, promising to pull back on community arrests in return. But new data reveal that it never delivered on that promise, and ICE's assault on communities only worsened 🧵
prisonpolicy.org
Cooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategies
The Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ...
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"All of these people were granted legal protection in the U.S. for fleeing persecution for their LGBTQ status in their countries of origin ... [M]ore than half of them were ineligible for asylum because of a restrictive Biden-era transit ban on asylum seekers."
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Restoring oyster reefs could deliver $12 trillion in ecosystem benefits—cleaning water, capturing carbon and protecting coastlines across 295,000 sq km of suitable habitat.
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The world's oyster reefs could deliver an estimated $12 trillion in ecosystem benefits if restored and protected, scientists say. Researchers identified 295,000 square kilometres of suitable habitat across 10 countries, where reefs can clean water,…
The world's oyster reefs could deliver an estimated $12 trillion in ecosystem benefits if restored and protected, scientists say. Researchers identified 295,000 square kilometres of suitable habitat across 10 countries, where reefs can clean water, capture carbon and protect coastlines.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
BREAKING: DOJ does not defend legality of DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads in court. Instead, administration lawyers stated that the ads are ending Sunday and argued that, as such, there will be no irreparable harm if the plaintiffs don’t get an order blocking the ads. Overnight, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
Breaking: DOJ does not defend legality of DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads in court
Instead, administration lawyers stated that the ads are ending Sunday and argued that, as such, there will be no irreparable harm if the plaintiffs don’t get an order blocking the ads.
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Kim Sherrell @web.kim · 11/10/2026
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Third Yandex data center in Russia shut down following reported drone attack
On Oct. 10, Yandex updated its user agreement to include drone and missile attacks among circumstances of force majeure that could exempt the company from contractual obligations.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Duff Man says a lot of things. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Trump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’
Ukrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructure
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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grollen @gnot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
are AI significant others not dissimilar from having a relationship with a digital slave
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Martin Reich @martinreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Hundreds of Thousands of Prominent Trump Allies Reported Missing After Ukrainian Strike on Russian Data Center
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"According to analysis by the non-profit Protect Our Care, 52 maternity wards have closed since the HR1 bill was announced in July 2025, with a further eight having announced their upcoming closure." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US maternity wards face wave of closures as Medicaid cuts kick in
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ spending cuts will be fully felt next year, but hospitals are already feeling the squeeze
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”
levernews.com
Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.
A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
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KKK attempts ‘Knights Party’ rebrand while maintaining white nationalist beliefs
Ku Klux Klan rebrand, putting family and faith at the center of the group’s message as it claims growing support before the midterms.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The brutality is the point. The torture is the point. The murder, not only state-sanctioned but state-celebrated, is the very point. But it's not just Trump, and it's not just Republicans. ... [M]any Democrats persist in their absolute fealty to the punishment system."
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grollen @gnot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
so energetic. so exciting. have you seen the plans for the ballroom? 🤮
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
At the end of the day it feels like words like consciousness and intelligence (and many other terms used like reasoning, training, problem solving, art, creativity, the list goes on) are really being used to emotionally convey that they think LLMs are cool and do neat stuff.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
BREAKING: In responding to one of two lawsuits challenging the legality of the Trump-praising DHS propaganda ads, DOJ tonight does not defend the ads on the merits — instead arguing that the ads are set to end on Sunday, so there will be no irreparable harm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Plaintiffs' motion should be denied because the alleged improper final agency action of which they are complaining "run[ning] partisan political ads, funded by U.S. taxpayers," Plaintiffs' Brief in Support of Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Section 705 Stay (Pls. Br.") (ECF No. 26) at 1-will not continue past tomorrow, the date on which briefing on their motion for a TRO will close. As such, Plaintiffs cannot demonstrate that a TRO is necessary to prevent imminent irreparable harm to them from Defendants' future conduct.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh hurry, please. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also...
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 11/10/2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX has fallen months behind on a roughly $70,000 restaurant tab, leaving the owner struggling to pay staff and bills, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasts off without paying $70k restaurant tab: report
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has fallen months behind on a roughly $70,000 restaurant tab, leaving the owner struggling to pay staff and bills, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.“We’re the blue-collar guys cooking this food, hustling to make this work for these young kids making like six figures, and this ...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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