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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Brilliant and powerful column by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Extreme weather and extreme politics go hand in hand – Trump and Musk are pushing both
Rabble-rousing of far-right demagogues is a reminder that the battle for a fair and habitable planet cannot be fought alone
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2025
BREAKING: Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won the special election in AZ-7 to fill her late father's US House seat. The discharge petition to release the Epstein files needs one more signature, and she's expected to sign it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
nbcnews.com
Arizona Special Election 2025 Live Results
View results from the 2025 Arizona House Special Election. Follow live outcomes as votes are added up on Election Day.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
On the blatant double standards the media - BBC included - deploys while showcasing Nigel Farage. He is constantly given a free pass not granted to other politicians. bylines.scot/news/the-far...
bylines.scot
The Farage ‘mirage’: how the media is warping our politics
It is time that the media fulfils its role to critically examine politician’s statements and call them out when they stray from the truth
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Trump is pissed. So much so that he basically admitted that he’s going after ABC for uncancelling Jimmy Kimmel.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Cool cool. So perhaps you'd like to stand in front of a moving vehicle. Or is that kind of science magically settled somehow?
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 21/09/2025
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts just lit up Farm Aid with their new protest anthem “Big Crime.”🔥 🎶“There’s big crime in DC at the White House…Got to get the fascists out…”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Sir Ed Davey has branded Elon Musk a criminal and called for him to be prosecuted for "allowing online harm to children" on his social media platform X news.sky.com/story/sir-ed...
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Sir Ed Davey brands Elon Musk a criminal and calls for his arrest for 'allowing online harm to children'
The world's richest man was accused of inciting violence by several politicians after telling a rally last week, "violence is coming to you".
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
LibDem Lisa Smart, "We're calling on the Labour government to declare the asylum backlog a national emergency" "And set up Nightingale processing centres, just like the Nightingale hospitals during the pandemic" "We need Labour to clear the asylum backlog within six months"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
'Now is the time to stand up for two-state solution,' Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy says ahead of UK recognising Palestinian state www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
bbc.co.uk
'Now is the time to stand up for two-state solution,' Lammy says ahead of UK recognising Palestinian state - watch live
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to announce the UK's recognition of a Palestinian state in a statement later.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
He barely won the popular vote, and he would lose if he ran today. The counties he won are much smaller in average population, so this stat is meaningless. And he gets terrible press because he’s a terrible leader.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Trump said to Zelensky, Give me your electrical supply and nuclear power plants, and I will protect them, (basically)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Sanders: I’m going to be going with my good friend Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, as everybody knows, has been an inspiration to young people all over this country. She’s a real fighter, she’s doing a great job in the House, and it’s an honor to be hitting the road with her.
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Millionaires are officially done paying into Social Security for the rest of 2025 as of today.  If we want to ensure Social Security’s long term future, we must scrap the cap and make the wealthy pay their fair share.
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How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it. A CEO earning $20M/yr pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income. Meanwhile, a normal worker pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income. How does that make any sense?
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
HOLY CRAP, NAW!!! Over the backboard while falling out of bounds
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What’s the over/under on the number of spelling and grammar errors in Trump’s executive order tomorrow abolishing the Dept of Education?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Social Security numbers and other private information of more than 200 former congressional staffers and others were made public Tuesday in unredacted files related to the assassination of JFK. Many of these people are still alive and therefore now vulnerable to privacy theft and doxing
washingtonpost.com
Social Security numbers and other private information unmasked in JFK files
The data belongs to more than 200 former congressional staffers and others with connections to decades-old investigations.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
maga
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 20/03/2025
I think you are seeing cracks in the Senate for Schumer. Slotkin saying Democrats need to have a strategy. Klobuchar gathering 28 signatures from Democrats to oppose Trump‘s firing Democratic FTC commissioners, while Schumer’s out appearing on the View on MSNBC. Read the tea leaves!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/03/2025
Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
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Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Remember when the Washington Post refused to endorse Kamala Harris
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/03/2025
Trump is shattering ketchup bottles and binge drinking Diet Coke rn
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I can’t breathe
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Mr. Beast is only 26. I'm going to walk into the ocean. Also thanks for giving away 25 fire hazards and a paperweight.
To celebrate my 26th birthday I'm giving away 26 Teslas
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/03/2025
KKKaroline at the next press conference.
Photo of Karoline Leavitt
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/03/2025
House and Senate republicans are actually calling out the Trump administration for their plans to withdraw from NATO's Supreme Allied Command Europe - the primary command that oversees support for Ukraine, and the first step in abandoning NATO allies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Scientist loses their grant funding because they briefly mentioned the word "hesitancy" in their grant.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm not endorsing criminal damage, but I wonder if those who damage Teslas are rationalising that since Musk has contempt for the law, in principle he should not be protected by it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2025
New in PN: Playing a bad hand badly "Democrats left themselves with no good options, then justified their surrender on the ground that there were no good options."
publicnotice.co
Playing a bad hand badly
Schumer's submission was months in the making.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Schumer needs to quit. He’s useless. Completely clueless.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They did. Because they thought they could control him, like the hands of the King. They presumed the true power was theirs. Well surprise surprise, lady and gentlemen... the monster eats judges, too.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have agreed to show “united leadership in support of Ukraine” when they separately meet Donald Trump this week www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer and Macron agree to show ‘united leadership in support of Ukraine’
UK prime minister and French president will separately meet Donald Trump this week
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous ACTUAL dictator called Vladimir Putin" youtu.be/HpmDquOkSCY?...
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FACTS & TRUTH MATTER
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co. 
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)
1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without  permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. 
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). 
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 
2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. 
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. 
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 
3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. 
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations 
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. 
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. 
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. 
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is how our government has been corrupted:  1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.  2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.  3) Donors make a huge profit.  4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
TAX THE CHURCHES TAX THE RICH REMOVE THE CAP FROM SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS HANDS OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SNAP AGREE? ✋
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Trump’s second-term honeymoon is ending fast. His approval is plummeting, his policies are unpopular, and even some Republicans are pushing back. The cracks are showing, and there’s no hiding it. Catch up on the latest with The Big Picture's 'Week In Wins.'
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
Our Wins Of The Week
Now that we’re more than a month into this deranged lunatic’s second term, the cracks are starting to show.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The Marshall Plan, in reverse.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
As the dust gradually settles let’s remember 80% of Germans today rejected AfD/fascism and told Elon Musk to do one. Thank you Germany
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#Emails2DOGE "What did you get done this week?" • abortion • sex reassignment • masturbated • donated to democrats • apologized to Canada
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 23/02/2025
My aunt, who was pulled from a cattle car by none other than Josef Mengele, spoke at Harvard at the beginning of the month about her experience during the Show and its sad relevance today. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu
‘Sorry to see that 80 years later, this is still an important subject’ — Harvard Gazette
Magda Bader was just 14 when the Nazis sent her to Auschwitz. But memory remains clear of losing parents, a sister and her baby, starvation, fear.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Pesky damn lawyers, it's always "no, that's illegal" this and "we could all go to prison" that.
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Aimee Giese @greeblehaus.com · 23/02/2025
I will never forgive the people who bought into the "government should be run like a business" bullshit.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
EU to Hold Special Summit on March 6 to Discuss Ukraine, Defense www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
EU to Hold Special Summit on March 6 to Discuss Ukraine, Defense
The European Union will hold an emergency summit to discuss accelerating military aid for Ukraine and strengthening the bloc’s defense.
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