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Grace Monk

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sir do you deny that you witnessed Trae Young's 10-assist, 8-turnover performance? is it your testimony that you have never witnessed Clint Capela going 1-for-4 from the foul line? might i remind you that you are UNDER OATH
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19h
Why is it so funny to me that they added that big picture of the Atlanta Hawks arena
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Lupe" shares, "Today's my first day harvesting grapes at night. I had to buy my own gloves, scissors, and flashlight because the foreman told me the crew was full, but he'd make an exception if I bought my own tools. What I earned today will go towards these costs." #WeFeedYou
Worker harvesting wine grapes at night
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18h
CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farm workers making far less. With a union contract they can stand up to the bosses. Make your donation today. act.seiu.org/a/tools?ms=b... #WeFeedYou
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A UFW union contract can stop farm workers being ripped off by growers
CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farmworkers making far less. With a union contract they can stand u...
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you're watching a martial arts movie and this dude shows up, you are about to be treated some of the sickest shit you've ever seen:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 20h
Question: do you know who your representatives are in the North Carolina state legislature? Most people - almost 80%, in fact - don't. That's why we created a source where anyone can find basic information about how our state legislature works. carolinaforward.org/legislature
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
I wrote a script that does this (pick from X options, make sure I have Y balance so I’m eating fish at the approved level etc, generate grocery list I can paste into my shopping list app) and (a) it took little time and no AI and (b) I’m not making someone else’s recipes.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I really am God's stupidest child.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had forgotten how much contempt I have, and have had for *years*, for the University of Southern California.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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The Friendship Factory @friendshipfactory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
make like a telescope pointed at God and watch this space 👁️ — T
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Elyon113 @elyon113.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
YOU KNOW WHAT'S SAD? I SEE AN AMERICAN FLAG ON SOMEONE'S HOUSE OR VEHICLE NOW AND IMMEDIATELY ASSUME THE WORST.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dear Jeremiah Smith, you are amazing and I love you. Signed, a grateful fan
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My love language? English. I am a dumb American. I am not proud of this, I just don't have fluency in anything else. *loud whispering* Yeah, touch works too. Just tap me on the shoulder if you need my attention. *Angry whisper* I can point at things for service! I love that work sround
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THEY PUT THE DOLLY BUTTERFLY ON SMOKEY FOR GAMEDAY IM CRY
Smokey XII with a Dolly butterfly bandana
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trying to be my own best friend so I made some rice pudding for tomorrow's breakfast.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My eternal question: Why are men?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
NEW: We published our investigation, in partnership with @pablo.show, about Tim Tebow’s involvement with Life Surge, a Christian financial seminar company. Now, one day after our investigation was published, the legendary quarterback announced that he’s “pausing” his work with Life Surge.
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Tim Tebow “pausing” Christian seminar promotion after our investigation
“I think the allegations are extremely serious."
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No Purpose Flour @hodgepodge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pablo racking up W’s at an unprecedented pace.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026
Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thread.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It might be time to watch Terminator 2 again. I gotta lot of rage.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Laughing at the Falcons is mean, right?
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026
a friend’s dad was taken by ICE and they’re looking to raise money for legal representation. share and donate if you’re able to www.gofundme.com/f/our-dad-wa...
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Donate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria Rudenko
Our dad has called the United States home since 1996. He came here 30 years ago and has s… Victoria Rudenko needs your support for Our Dad was taken by ICE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️JUST NOW: MASS UN WALKOUT ON NETANYAHU
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
and speaking of ✨Woke BS✨, this is the last week to buy PTKU merch and have 100% of the proceeds donated to Alianza Translatinx: fullcast-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/...
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Christina Stephens (🐯🏈💜💛) @christinastephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THIS. There’s a long tradition of this and also, Taylor herself has done it. You are also not under any obligation to participate in the consumption of this woman’s music.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Es el Mes de la Herencia Hispana. Celebramos las contribuciones que los latinos han hecho al tejido de los Estados Unidos. Los campesinos que nos alimentan merecen ser reconocidos y protegidos.
Un gráfico colorido con el texto “Celebra el Mes de la Herencia Hispana”, donde se ve a un trabajador agrícola arrodillado en primer plano, de color rojo, un campo detrás con dos trabajadores y el logotipo del águila negra de la UFW.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's #HispanicHeritageMonth. We celebrate the contributions Latinos have made to the fabric of the U.S. The farm workers who feed us deserve to be recognized and protected.
A colorful graphic reading “Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month,” with the farm worker on his knees in the foreground in a red color a field behind him with two workers in it and the ufw Black eagle logo
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And this is perfect.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Worth watching for her advice to Lane Kiffin.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every person running on the Dem side can say: 1. The GOP controls all branches of government. 2. Are you happy with how things are going? 3. Vote blue. 4. What do you have to lose? [use Trump's own words against him]. The end. lol.
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Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am in such a bad head space. I wish anyone knew how hard I'm fighting it.
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Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is white supremacy‘s ethos in a nutshell
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don't know who made this. But we love you for making it ❤️
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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monstrous_gloss @monstrousgloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think about this scene from Andor a LOT and repeat this phrase to myself often: "Power doesn't panic."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
finally somewhere to put the Clemson-South Carolina game this year
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My therapist: so how are you doing? Me: I'm really struggling with putting it into words. Can I just show you? T: Of course Me: *holds up phone* T: Why didn't he just take a knee?! Why did he do that?! Me: YOU TELL ME! WHAT FRAMEWORK IS GONNA EXPLAIN THIS?!
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