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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 13h

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. Let's talk about the Elaine Massacre!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22h

Time for this classic again.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 21h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you have to understand that all ICE does is lie literally 100% of the time

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fuck all the way off, Senate. I have an idea though. If you really want to stage sweeping bipartisan interference in colleges/universities, how about doing something about the persistent toxic reality that rapists get penalized with an essay or not at all while rape survivors lives are ruined?

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

De-skilling professions that support human wellbeing.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026

I wish there was a more serious movement within the academy to reform our institutions to create mechanisms of actual accountability so students, faculty, and staff can rid ourselves of leadership that regularly fails everyone but their donors.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026

And a quick reminder that there is an entire industry running cover for it, as well.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/09/2026

Our nonpartisan statistical agencies are not just pillars of our public service, but of democracy itself, because the facts they produce are necessary for citizens to hold their government accountable. This atrocity at our Census Bureau must be understood as a trial balloon.

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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really, really hate this timeline... Also, why the hell was this NOT reported on when it happened (Mar 2026)???

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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Jon Scherdin @jonscherdin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The studpity and the cruelty of these people knows no bounds

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think we all expected this and it's yet another reason tribunals and special investigatory bodies will be required to get justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and ever other person murdered by Trump's brownshirts.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't know about you guys, but I am shocked that Trump's response to this situation he created is to fumble around and fuck up and see everything solely through spoiled brat emotions and cynical personal advantage. That's just totally unlike him.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about ICE is that eventually it WILL be abolished. I don't know if it will be in 5 years or 50 years but it will happen. With certainty. And when it does, it will be remembered along the securitate, Stasi, etc, and so will the people who served there.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need folks who are always posting, "Why does Texas vote the way it does???" to pay attention to stuff like this.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.

We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000

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Cliff W. Gilmore @cliffwgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is easy. If the response is, “How often would this be needed?”, the answer is, “For a blind person, every time.” We can do this if we choose to be an inclusive society rather than a bunch of selfish @$$holes.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 24/09/2026

In Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, the footer of GOP candidate Charlie Hatcher’s website less than a month ago proclaimed that he was “pro-Trump.” Now, he’s just Charlie Hatcher.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 20/09/2026

Trans rights are women's rights. Trans rights are men's rights. Trans rights are civil rights. Trans rights are human rights.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean this sincerely: If you are using a thingy to set your fantasy lineup for you, *what is the point* of fantasy sports? Especially if everybody in your league starts doing it? You are telling all your computers to play with each other! I do not understand what about this appeals to anyone.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excellent post on the vile Russell Vought. "Russell Vought is the kind of man who would deprive every child in America of a drug that saved his own daughter’s life because it advances his own."

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Gentlemen, our 29% approval rating is too high. Let's start take away people's health care."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026

Just ban these evil companies already.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Aside from the naked imperialism here, and cash grab, he admits it’s a war. A war without UN or congressional approval. A war which Rubio denied was a war and claimed was a law enforcement action. Trump as ever undermines his own people’s claims. It was a war. An illegal imperial one.

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David Miller @biotechmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's more than speed. This points out a very large flaw in Constitutional Separation of Powers: The Executive is responsible for enforcing laws and court decisions. The Constitution never contemplated this level of graft and treason combined with a Congress complicit in the crimes.

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