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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h
journalists denying that they have any power in society and merely reflect society is exactly how they wield power
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 6h
Yes. I keep thinking about the phrase "rights stripping," which Judith Butler used in a talk at the New School in May, to capture a key element of the techno-fascist political project.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There isn't a "debate" over Prop 40. There's an intellectual and moral test you get to decide whether or not to pass. You get to decide whether you want people to die, and whether you want to talk about what is actually happening or just shit billionaire propaganda out of your mouth-hole.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Defunding policing was and is the floor.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Weird the AI didn’t catch that
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Final shot of Sunset Blvd paid for by the U.S. Government.
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For every "She Was a Loyal Member of the Fuck Everyone Party. That is, Until the Party Fucked Her," profile of some remorseful bigot, you should have to publish 3 interviews with people who Knew Those People Sucked the Whole Time.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
The moral panic around estrangement is backlash against the small amount of cultural progress we have made for familial abuse survivors. Against the idea that parents don't get to hurt their kids, against the absolute tyranny of the heteropatriarchal family.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
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Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled'
Mistral AI's co-founder believes the sector's American giants are manipulating the discourse around the technology's risks. He also defended his strategy, as critics are accusing his company of fallin...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More of this Rep. Khanna. Please introduce a bill immediately to SIGNIFICANTLY RAISE the Fed minimum wage on DAY ONE if the Dems win the House and #1a2 is a vote to IMMEDIATELY defund the Iran War.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-plans-...
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ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they have the billions, but we have the dreams. and the dream of housing—safe, dignified, decent, warm/cool, private, quiet housing—for everyone is a powerful dream. we must make it real
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say reut.rs/3TfIfl3
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AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
AI tools are raising health spending for insurers by nearly $1 billion over two years, as providers bill for more severe patient care, according ​to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released Thursday.
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💜briar💜 @nonbriarary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The current administration is doing a lavender purge in federal agencies by quietly dropping trans healthcare coverage, and we've heard NOTHING from a single dem content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Because they have not come for you (yet) does not mean they have failed. Fascism is not an equally distributed political project of harm(s). It is a continuous and discontinuous political project unfolding and situational political violences of all sorts. And what it leaves in place after matters.
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All I can say is that it takes a delusional white man to write in the pages of the NYT that Trump’s project has failed. Failed: as immigrants are disappeared to Gitmo, can’t leave their homes, can’t travel internally, trans people are relentlessly attacked on and on. These people are not serious.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Beavers are on the payroll in Colorado. 10 years ago, Brian Sullivan, head of Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s Wetlands for Wildlife grants program, saw 1 or 2 grant applications for beaver-related projects each year. Now about half the projects he processes involve them buff.ly/H2UtOf0 #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Beavers Are Having a Moment
Long considered a nuisance, these furry construction experts are finally being appreciated for their role in healthy ecosystems.
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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
More seriously, it was inevitable that “sex verification” would become crudely biological. (It has always been, but sports bodies give it the veneer of science and fair play.) Fair play through the absurd critique of ”biological advantage.”
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We need more of this: www.theverge.com/tech/980142/...
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Help build a monument to that ‘sad little bitch’ Elon Musk
Anything is on the cards.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Anyway UT Austin had the largest African and African Diaspora Studies program in the country sure wish there was as much energy for it when it was running as there is now for condemning its closure.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Random note; since my dad passed away last December, I’ve been handling all of my mom’s mail and accounts. It is incredible. How many scams are aimed at the elderly in this country, including my companies that superficially seem legitimate. Every week her mail is full of this crap.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Future historians will pinpoint the 8 years of GWB as the inflection point for an acceleration of US decline. I really believe this and so many people just don't get it.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Beating a dead horse here but metoo is why Silicon Valley/ a handful of vcs and management turned against dems
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
it is unforgivable how Democrats are granting the right's premise about trans kids in sports even as they attempt to navigate a "moderate" position so they don't look so bad (hint: not possible) they have literally regressed! the first bathroom bans did not have this kind of bipartisan support!!!
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cowards can just say: This is a made up controversy and my constituents are asking me about X. Y. Z. which are LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES? Why aren't you asking me about X, Y. and Z?
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The fixation on college majors continues to be one of the great bait and switches of modern education. Core curriculum classes, distributed across the subjects and comprising the bulk of course credits taught in any given year continue to be *most* of college education.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 08/09/2026
TL;DR Sam Altman appears to be trying to take credit that ought to go into a Spanish mathematician's Fields medal citation
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 08/09/2026
this is A. outrageous and despicable behavior by the worst people alive and B. appears to be merely incidental news in a giant breakthrough in mathematics cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us, they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the "closest
humans to the problem". I declined both offers. I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, "Why would you ruin your career?" I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't
have to be nice." Some time later Levent received a text proposing that he and Sebastien speak one on one, saying, "I don't know if Tristan is being fully rational right now." Levent declined and said conversations should be with me. Sebastien sent
a follow-up email that night requesting to speak with me on Monday, September
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In 1905 Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, an expose of Chicago’s meat-packing industry. The book was so horrifying that in 1906 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was created in response. Here are some passages from The Jungle. This was life before the FDA. This is what Musk wants for us.
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Loads and loads of people like fascism, they want fascism. They want fascism practiced on others. They want fascism as the ruling regime of life and living. Fascism is their mode of being.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Housecleaning by Nikki Giovanni
TEXT: Housecleaning
i always liked house cleaning
even as a child
i dug straightening
the cabinets
posting new paper on
the shelves
washing the refrigerator
inside out
and unfortunately this habit
has carried over and i find
i must remove you
from my life
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Adrienne Rich, from "Artificial Intelligence" (1961)
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just purchased FOUR (4) items at the supermarket and it cost me $30. THIRTY DOLLARS and no item was meat. I'm sorry but I have no idea how people with children are managing right now.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trying to imagine the current editors of the SF Chronicle sending a cryptic message via their pages to a houseless police abolitionist.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
James Kilgore calls "electronic monitors" electronic shackles. It's an apt description.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
yes this is a critical feature of fascism. There is a significant minority of people who take PLEASURE in punishment and in making people they don't like suffer.
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