LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 16/10/2025Stay safe out there, friends! It’s almost #NoKings day! 🥂 131
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/20257/ During a decade in which the USA's favorite “tech critics” were busy shining the shoes of people like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, Borsook saw very clearly where things were headed. Because these things were obvious by the late 90s, at least to journalists like Borsook. 21640190
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Over the weekend, we wrote about how dozens of judges have found ICE's new detention policy — seeking to lock up millions of people facing deportation without a chance for bond — is illegal. Last night, four more judges added to the growing list: www.politico.com/news/2025/09... 472518954
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025this archetype remains undefeated 1435391076
LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 24/09/2025Because he believes tech will save humanity and it therefore Jesus. 🤭 100
LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 24/09/2025Oh I rubbed salt, pepper, and smoked paprika over the ribs the day before. The sauce was just commercial stuff this time. Bullseye Guinness. 010
LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 24/09/2025I love to see people rediscovering in person relationships. 010
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 22/09/2025We are in an all-hands-on-deck moment for women across the world. I spoke to the @nytimes.com about the strong forces trying to turn the clocks back and how we can all fight for women's rights and futures. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...nytimes.comHillary Clinton Sees a Dangerous Moment for Women’s Rights, and Democracy 37199583038
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025“Tell me why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat [filled with migrants]?” - Stephen Miller’s alleged question to an Admiral during Trump Term 1 18301134
LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 22/09/2025Last night was the last bbq of the season! Time to put the charcoal away for the winter. 140
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 21/09/2025Based on these studies, comparisons, and citizen input, a clear vision emerged to transform Midosuji from a car-first thoroughfare to a people-first destination. By the time the Expo began in April, the city's showcase streetscape had become not only beautiful, but functional and safe for all users. 2294
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 21/09/2025This is who the Canadian Broadcasting Company is memorializing. We are already in fascism in Canada 🇨🇦: 5136
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶onion person @junlper.beer · 19/09/2025i've subscribed to: rolling stone WIRED 404 media defector the handbasket chicago journalism i subscribed to: unraveled block club it's time to support media directly so they don't fall into the hands of fascists, the replies to this post have additional great news media i recommend supporting 852507487
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Must read article on "First they came for the" German pastor Martin Niemöller He voted for the nazis, woke up protested & was jailed by Gestapo for 8 years until #Antifa freed Germany in 1945 in 1946 he did a lecture tour in Germany "I did not speak out." encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...encyclopedia.ushmm.orgMartin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..." | Holocaust EncyclopediaLearn about the origins and legacy of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous postwar words, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…” 011
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/09/2025A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination. 292975773
LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 19/09/2025The FCC should stop coddling a dictator, you mean. 021
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Canada's parliament started the week giving a standing O for free speech and the memory of Charlie Kirk. They ended it by joining Orban's Hungary and Trump's America in targeting @kneecapceol.bsky.social an Irish hip hop group for challenging the genocide. Not our finest hour. 42481146
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment. 863397988845
LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 18/09/2025The “comedians” who refuse to punch up at the powerful are not funny, they’re just bullies. 010
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 18/09/2025We should also support the magazine, The Nation. It is One of America’s oldest and most important magazines from a liberal / prospective. It is highly likely to be targeted by the Trump Regime. @thenation.com subscriptions.thenation.com/TNA/?f=Site0...subscriptions.thenation.com The Nation 284
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 18/09/2025I don’t get it. Does he have something on everyone? Are some people just existing in a bubble? Is it that some folk are just stupid? All of the above? (It’s all of the above, isn’t it?) 5645060
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This was extortion. FCC Chair Carr threatened broadcast licenses for things regime disapproved. Nextstar, the largest US owner of broadcast stations, notified ABC it wouldn't broadcast Kimmel to protect itself. ABC suspended Kimmel to protect the time slot revenue stream. It's worse than it appears 323266
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This is all he said. 704103882
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned. 413148820
LiftingUp 🍁🫶 @learningtosee.substack.com · 18/09/2025Hey #bookSky #WritingSky #CreativitySky 🙏 I started a substack for creative writing. Would love it if you could share with whoever you think might be interested! It will be a fun weekly newsletter with writing prompts to get the creativity flowing! open.substack.com/pub/learning...open.substack.comYou and I, We Are Artists.Learning to See - Welcome! 130
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Robert Redford has died. He was 89 years old. RIP. Just a few years ago, he had this to say: 10739801214
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Did you know that a man from Winnipeg not only co-founded IMAX, but he inspired George Lucas to create The Force in Star Wars? Or that he had two Oscar nominations? Roman Kroitor did it all. And this is his story. 🧵 1/10 19019
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025AI is a lack of consent machine and after an assassination where it’s been exposed how much people do not know what teenagers are experiencing , and how closed loop affirmation leads to terrible things They move to build a chat for teens Yeah this is a lack of consent business 05522
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 16/09/2025BREAKING: Finding that the evidence presented to the grand jury was insufficient to support a charge of terrorism, Manhattan Judge Gregory Carro has dismissed two terrorism-related murder charges against Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 1024764
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶John Ackermann @jackermann.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Today is publication day for “The Coutts Diaries” — easily one of my favourite books of the year. Congratulations to editor Ron Graham and Sutherland House for an incredible read. #NewsRadioBookshelf 043
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶digby @digby56.bsky.social · 16/09/2025One threat after another this morning. He's stimulated and excited about the upcoming purification operation and cultural revolution. 67018
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct." 1786360279166
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025This is morally reprehensible. Karen Attiah is one of the most important voices of our generation. It also leaves the Washington Post with NO Black columnists. 12340102
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Universal childcare is on the ballot this November — but you don't need to wait to take action. Sign the @ny4childcare.bsky.social petition below calling for full-day care for NYC two-year-olds. 9973981647
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I want everyone to remember that there is nobody who’s coming to save us. The 25th amendment is not going to save us because we need 2/3 of the cabinet, 2/3 of the House, 2/3 of the Senate. We’re not going to be saved by impeachment either. We need a majority in the house and a 2/3 Senate to convict 1118154
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/09/2025A former Pentagon official says “U.S. forces went out and committed murder" in the drone strike off the coast of Venezuela.interc.ptPentagon Barred Senior House Staffers From Briefing on Venezuela Boat StrikeA former Pentagon official says “U.S. forces went out and committed murder" in the drone strike off the coast of Venezuela. 1012470
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 15/09/2025They’re treating the murder of Charlie Kirk like the 9/11 terror attacks, as an excuse to go to war. But this time they’re going to war against the US. 1792718752
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 15/09/2025White supremacist racist bigot is what he was. 710528
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Posobiec - whose ties to white supremacists are legion - wrote a book last year called “Unhumans” in which he labeled half the country UNHUMAN It is language designed to inspire political violence yet our cable news channels have made him a talking head about political violence 482361745
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I saw this image yesterday & haven't stopped thinking about it. A healthy lung, the lung of a 14-year-old boy with chronic exposure to air pollution, and a smoker's lung. Report comes out tomorrow, bringing together peer-reviewed research on fossil fuels & health us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 518059
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶Molly White @molly.wiki · 15/09/2025this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call! 14889341134
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/09/2025here's Elon Musk's dad going 100% mask-off on the entire white South African racist colonialist package and saying "Elon agrees with me" EXTREME ANTI-BLACK RACISM CONTENT WARNING www.mundoamerica.com/news/2025/09... 641747604
Reposted by LiftingUp 🍁🫶The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2025Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:bit.lyAt Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI CompaniesCreators have unknowingly fueled tools that may eventually make their work obsolete. 34023
![Q. Why?
A. Until 1965, Africa was very civilized because each country was governed by a European country, and there was law and order. Look at Spain's example. Spain's history is the history of world colonization. Where Spain went, it brought order, civilization, cities... We did the same, but 500 years later. When the Europeans left, everything fell apart. Nothing remained. South Africa today is a lawless country, where even the police chief and Interpol director [Jackie Selebi] was sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption. The African National Congress [ANC, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid] has looted the country. We are bankrupt. The US has cut all economic aid because South Africa supports Iran, Hamas, and all those terrorist groups. Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia [which also had its own apartheid], is as if it ceased to exist.
Q. Why did that happen?
A. All European countries have practiced racial discrimination. What happened is that South Africa maintained it when it achieved full independence in 1961. So apartheid is not something South Africa invented but something it continued. For example, the Netherlands did not allow people of color to enter its territory until 1920, despite having colonies in countries with people of color. South Africa maintained apartheid for an obvious reason: as soon as European countries left Africa, everything went to hell, civilization ended.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreieezpkvcwpx7xi7gta4m335mmpmublgsbnutphytt3fx5bfsykbpy)
![Q. How do we know that the Democratic Republic of Congo or Rwanda won't follow in China's footsteps, which 100 years ago was one of the poorest countries in the world, where people were literally dying of hunger and living in perpetual civil war?
A. It's impossible for Congo to ever become like China. China was printing paper money 2,000 years ago. They always achieved extraordinary feats. In April, I went to Stanford University [in California], and many of the students and professors I met there were Chinese. They are the nicest, most decent, civilized, and intelligent people you can imagine. As far as I'm concerned, all the Chinese - and all the Japanese - who want to go to London can go.
Q. Do your children share your views, or are there big arguments at family meals?
A. They share them.
Q. What about Elon?
A. Yes. My views are not based on any crazy ideology but on the experience of having traveled through Africa, where you have to be careful about what you eat and drink because if you make a mistake, you could be dead in two weeks... Think about Spain. It's an exquisitely beautiful country. If you bring people who don't appreciate that beauty, what can you expect other than them destroying it? They won't do it on purpose, but because they don't understand that beauty. I like people to move up in life, so I have a lot of black people working for me in minor roles. They are very useful, helpful, try to do things right, do as they are told, don't argue with you... but I would never live in their communities under their lifestyle.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreig4o2sjtxgga2cpv2kxnoml7mpupkyvqrt3262plzoq5jfves7rum)
![Screenshot of tweet that says:
me: hey does anyone have any readings on medieval north African trade networks
17 follower alcoholic who works at a bakery:
[link to 157 page pdf] yeah I think this is pretty enlightening](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pvxb47ag7gouo3s7psn2rgme/bafkreifyfty7ux37tlkuhes65pp5seueg6wjwfrjcu6gbuhrrlvmetaxnu)
