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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In more news of enshittification (tm @doctorow.pluralistic.net), Cambridge University has passed an emergency stop to use of TurnItIn similarity-checking software, as the new terms require that you Turn It In to their AI training.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

@kenmartin.bsky.social Ken, your interview on Pod Save America was, in a word, disgusting. Ken, it seems like you're dripping with contempt for the voters and donors. Do you understand Ken? That was insufferable to watch Ken.

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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.

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Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)

The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 25/02/2026

Two recent articles describe the current state of play in the NC-04 Dem primary between incumbent Rep. Valerie Foushee and challenger Commissioner @nidaallam.bsky.social. The first from @indyweek.bsky.social focuses on Wake County voters who are new to the district: indyweek.com/news/politic...

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The Road to Victory in NC-04 Runs Through Western Wake County

Rep. Valerie Foushee and challenger Nida Allam are working to win over 170,000 Wake voters added to the district since their 2022 matchup.

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Maybe we'll get a Washington Blog Blog?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/s... I am, once again, disappointed in @foushee.house.gov I cannot fathom how she justifies this. Being disappointed with the congresswoman has just been par for the course since her reelection in 24.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/01/2026

The fact that they are weird losers that nobody likes doesn't mean they weren't high school bullies. The people who got bullied in high school were RARELY weird losers that nobody liked. They were super-cool people who either weren't afraid to be different or weren't able to hide their differences.

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Michael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Something Awful had bans figured out over twenty years ago. Ban for everything, charge 10 bucks to reinstate your account. Handles content moderation, bans are funny, and it generates revenue. Let me pay 10 bucks to change someone's profile picture and then we're really talking.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"That’s something Democrats have been slow to entertain: Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides themselves." YES

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This was, more or less, my argument in grad school. I was told it was unrealistic and encouraged to study entrepreneurs Validation tastes bitter

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Apropos of nothing, I'm thinking about how laughably impossible it was to get funding to do anything at UNC. The phrase, "the cobbler's children have no shoes," was practically our motto.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Apropos of nothing, I would like to point out that large companies whose business model is "serve words to the public" will typically pay between US $.10 and $3.00 per word. So when you give words to a company for free, you are in fact paying them a LOT of money.

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 23/09/2025

Wanna feel poor? Here's what the biweekly payments sent to a coach on a $10 million buyout really look like.

Payout showing $122,115 every two weeks, given to fired coach

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cpgrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

Threads post:

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In an alternate timeline, Vice President Walz is reminding us to change our furnace filters

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Grad school friends should take note and then not agree to that ToS.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

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Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

My hot take: we as a society don’t challenge people enough on facts and it’s metastasized. Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!” Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2025

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

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Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

@foushee.house.gov this energy is appropriate given the circumstances and if you don’t think it is, please let someone else have your seat.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Fiction. Art. More fiction. A dash of poetry.

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/05/2025

So all the 14s & 88s everywhere are just mysteries and coincidences but 86 is numerical warfare do I have that right

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I am begging Meta to hire a sociologist — there are lots available these days

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Meanwhile, in Canada…

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 26/04/2025

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I’m pretty disappointed in how many things are closed here at the Grand Canyon. Fuck Elon

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

to start: funded research opps *for* people working at community colleges, publishing, public regionals, independent scholars, high teaching load institutions, etc. Allocate resources differently instead of tacitly still believing it’s magic that R1 & wealthy SLAC faculty just produce better work.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Today, churches across America are filled with men and women who cried "Give us Barabbas!" when offered the choice.

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

When this is all behind us, we’ll need to rebuild. Billionaires broke it, they should pay to fix it. Wealth caps, asset seizure for the enablers like Bezos, Musk, Zuck, and seizure of illegal assets gained during this period. The American people should not solely suffer the burden of reconstruction

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A very important, elemental concept that I wish more people writing about policy understood is this: ***one person’s cost is another person’s income**** It’s the source of a whole lot of confusion and also an inherent source of conflict between different interests.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The most brutal assassination in Assassin's Creed history

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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You're about to hear a LOT abt the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. You'll hear it was the basis for the WWII internment of Japanese Americans. Correct, but misleading. The legal authority for the roundup & imprisonment of 120K people of Japanese ancestry was an executive order, not the 1798 law.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

When politicians do good things, we should tell them that we appreciate it. I'm proud of Congresswoman Foushee @foushee.house.gov for being up front here and showing courage.

A cavalcade of congressional critters courageously convening to condemn the censure of Al Green

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/03/2025

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Prediction: before this administration is over, titles of nobility will be introduced in these United States.

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