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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21/08/2026

“Any politician who is not speaking about the role of Silicon Valley fascism in the destruction of our democracy is not someone who can be trusted.” Read “Silicon Valley’s Most Dangerous Innovation,” my interview with @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/silicon-vall...

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Silicon Valley’s Most Dangerous Innovation

Author Gil Durán says the rise of ‘tech fascism’ is putting our democracy in peril – and asks us to imagine a world without billionaires.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Meanwhile I had beaten into me at @merrillcollege.bsky.social that I couldn’t accept anything over $25. Even a source buying me a cup of tea has made me uneasy ever since. WTF, man.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Thanks, @cnpa.bsky.social, for awarding me first place in the California Journalism Awards’ In-Depth Reporting category! I was already really proud of the series, and now I’m over the top. 🤩

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hi, @simonwillison.net I live in Sonoma County and am looking to calculate and display neighborhood-level historical outage data from PG&E. It’s for a local public safety initiative. I’ve found your work on GitHub and have questions. Can I connect with you somehow to chat?

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Life’s candy and the sun’s a ball of butter.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Appalling move by Fortune. Absolutely horrendous.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25/03/2026

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar. Tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

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Protect FOIA

Defending press freedom for the next generation

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A Post he doesn’t own can stick it to him. The one he does, can’t.

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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"U.S. servicemembers entering Iran." Unless they have tourist visas and sunblock in their suitcases, there's a special term for "servicemembers" "entering" a foreign country. It's called INVADING.

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Will continue to ask this question: where are the Editorial Boards calling for impeachment?

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

SUPPORT MARISA!! She’s *always* breaking the news. Her work is exemplary. Seriously. PAY HER TO KEEP GOING. @thehandbasket.co.web.brid.gy!!

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

Status Scoop | ProPublica's Walkout Warning: The possibility of ProPublica staffers walking off the job just got far more serious. Unionized staffers at the nonprofit newsroom voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, Natalie Korach has learned. The ProPublica Guild represents about 150 journalists, videographers, and other newsroom employees. A major sticking point in the negotiations with management has centered on the use of artificial intelligence in reporting, with the union demanding protections from having jobs replaced by the rapidly advancing technology. “We are ready to walk off the job to show management that their refusal to agree to basic protections will not be tolerated and that we will not accept anything less than a fair contract,” said Agnel Philip, unit chair of ProPublica Guild.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Mary Walsh, a name almost no one outside journalism knows, is one of the most significant and righteous truthfighters out there! Her departure is a five alarm fire.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It brings me an incredible sense of peace to imagine the fear and feeling of walls closing in for men who abused women and girls with elite impunity

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book. In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience. I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Really impressed with the Olympics commercials for AI that keep showing me all the amazing things it can do, like tell me that Olympic athletes train for their events for a long time and other amazing secrets that can only be found by paying big money and draining a lake.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Absolutely. And I’d really like to hear Gannon, Lipinski and Weir shout her out.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I really wonder if there is a level of overt racism from the Trump Administration, whether rhetorical or as explicit basis for policy, that would get traditional media outlets like @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com and @cnn.com to say he’s being racist.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Do journalism, not stenography: ☑️Do not take DHS at it's word. The agency lies about everything. ☑️Do not minimize the massive force still in place IF a draw down occurs. Alt headline: "2300 federal agents to remain in besieged Minneapolis after unverified claims that 700 will be reassigned."

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DHS to Withdraw 700 Federal Agents From Minneapolis, Homan Says
1 hour ago
By Myles Miller
WPDE
Homan orders immediate drawdown of 700 officers from Minnesota
3 hours ago
By Alexx Altman-devilbiss
Politico
Trump administration will pull 700 immigration officers from Minneapolis
2 hours ago
By Eric Bazail

Alt headline:

"2300 federal agents to remain in besieged Minneapolis after unverified claims that 700 will be reassigned."
Trump administration pulling 700 immigration agents from Minnesota

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

MacKenzie Scott could do the funniest thing right now….

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

“Democracy Dies is Darkness.” And Bezos turned off the lights.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I second. It’s not like any valuable reporting comes out of these things anyway. It’s all just antagonism and lies. (Should have happened after they revoked the AP’s credential.)

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

100%. And when Trump blows off the second ask, a third reporter should pick it up. Don’t relent. These reporters have failed the public. (I’m still of the mindset that the whole corps should have walked out after he pulled the AP’s credential. Access Journalism for the loss.)

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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 30/01/2026

@rcfp.org's statement on the arrest of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who were charged with violating federal law while covering a protest inside a Minnesota church. 🔗 Read more: www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-a...

RCFP's Gabe Rottman: “It’s obviously concerning any time journalists are arrested in connection with their reporting. To our knowledge, it’s unprecedented for the Justice Department to deploy the federal laws it has previously cited in this case against journalistic activity. Historically, the limited number of cases that have been brought against a journalist documenting a protest on private property have been handled as trespass cases at the state level. Those charges are almost always dropped, or if the cases go to trial, the journalists typically prevail.”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

it turns out it's hard to write when you're in a state of emotional paralysis

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Twisted how they push corn tortillas while demonizing the Latino population. 🙄

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It’s giving “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.”

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Family friends were taking their tree down when they found A SNAKE wrapped around a branch. It’d been hanging out there for a MONTH!! After getting her outside they named her Sally. We all obviously still talk about her today. Gotta inspect the tree CLOSELY before she comes inside.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

And what Trump said to Kennedy.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

100% his old NY brain confused Magnificent Mile for Long Island’s Miracle Mile, a luxury shopping district since the ‘50s. 🙄 (Its location, Manhasset: Inspiration for East Egg, used for scenes in Wolf of Wall Street, Boiler Room, and in Miracle on 34th St., Mr. Gailey wants to buy a house there.)

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Sad for the Jays and really sad for the woman knitting the totally rad Jays sweater. What a bummer.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Has any British prince or princess ever lost that particular title? Not talking about HRH etc., but specifically prince/ss. Help your curious and common American cousins, @lucyworsley.bsky.social!

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Because threatening a reporter to get them off your case definitely always absolutely works and never results in further scrutiny. Genius move, dude.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

As a native Long Islander I’m 💀. “…DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.” “(In DeBlasio's view, "low class Italians use a little d.") Perfect. No notes.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Tech nightmare. Working on an investigative series last night, computer crashed and then this happened, after first showing a file folder with a question mark. WHAT. THE. HELL.

MacBook with black screen and grey prohibited symbol in the center. Computer crashed and will not reboot.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If he never knows anything about anything, then why does the press keep showing up? Let him experience a room as empty as his responses, and the reporters can go do something useful with their time.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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L.A.Spates @laspates.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“Copyright growing pains”? As in, ripping off creators?

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