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Politicians choosing to disinvest in Nice Ride, Hourcar, and Evie makes living in Minneapolis and St. Paul more unaffordable. Minneapolis police and fire exceeded their overtime budget by $31.1 million in 2025 and are on track to exceed by $24.7 million in 2026. Nice Ride was sold for parts.

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Spoooooky Pants 🧛‍♂️ @farnaby.xyz · 1h

I will never stop beating the drum of "a budget is a moral document" This is a pathetically small amount of money in the grand scheme of things for government spending but shows you what the government values.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/10/2026

Differences in housing policy post-Surge couldn't be more stark. Both councils passed a temporary 60-day notice requirement for nonpayment evictions. Minneapolis: the mayor vetoed and council centrists refused to override. On pace for record evictions. St. Paul passed it veto-proof. Down 15% YOY

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nothing feels like enough in the face of such overwhelming horrors, but if you want to materially support Palestinians in Gaza, I highly recommend The Sameer Project, which is doing incredible, life-saving mutual aid work on the ground: thesameerproject.org

thesameerproject.org

The Sameer Project – Palestinian-led mutual aid group working towards liberation

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Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New story day. Near future even-more-dystopia in which trans people are legally permitted to exist as long as they immediately do this one action that a lot of us already do. FEDERAL FACILITY FOR TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS, ALLSTON MASSACHUSETTS www.menace-mag.com/federal-faci...

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Federal Facility for Transgender Individuals, Allston, Massachusetts — M E N A C E

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. More recently, two more studies showed updated COVID booster vaccines continue to provide meaningful protection against major adverse outcomes, cardiovascular complications, hospitalization, AND all-cause death. • www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/upd...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026

The kicker is *chef's kiss*

“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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sinus boy @limedeficit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

stealing my fucking look. this is just how i have to dress in the winter bc i can’t thermoregulate for shit

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad

Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.

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cohiker.bsky.social @cohiker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines"

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Jules @julesdrawz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Raging bolt⚡️

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just resigned from my job at this factory. We never told this machine to make chocolates faster than we could wrap them. This should terrify you.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea

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sinus boy @limedeficit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

without downloading new pics, describe your gender

cartoon of a kids ballet class with three little girls in leotards and tights. and a small alligator wearing the same, sitting next to the girls and looking perturbed

screenshot of a youtube comment that says “Eating a whole rotisserie chicken with your bare hands is the single most appropriate way to honor the rotisserie chicken”

Someone standing in a store aisle with their hands on their hips looking up at the camera. The text says “to do list: burst someone’s bubble, stir the pot, toot my own horn, add my 2 cents, skate on thin ice, add fuel to the fire”

a line drawing of someone sitting cutely looking at the viewer with big eyes. they are wearing a photoshopped jester hat and collar

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 19/09/2026

Poncho Munch sounds like cunnilingus with a dental dam. H/T @scissors.myatproto.social she made me do this

An election endorsement announcement from police chief poncho Munch supporting deano bonano for city council. These are their given or preferred names. They are two white guys in Louisiana.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's not at all hard to argue that humanity is worse off with the balance of modest extra knowledge minus deluge of extra misinformation genAI is producing. One just has to not be motivated to argue the contrary. Oh, hullo Economist Group partnership with Google AI...

economistgroup.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026

I created a live anti trans ad tracker that tracks all anti trans ad spending on meta and Google. It runs and updates nightly. You can see ad campaigns in real time. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com

adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com

2026 anti-trans ad tracker

Anti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

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Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about
There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates.
Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true!
If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.)
Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

sometimes I get bored and cancel myself on Threads by saying whatever the fuck

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

oh...this is bad

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sinus boy @limedeficit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

y’know i clicked on the image of the fits with low expectations but. i honestly didn’t expect the degree to which it would just be the “you know i had to do it to em” guy

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

Google basically say: it's all worth it. But is it? Google now has to burn 1.5x as much energy to make the same $1m in revenue. Compared to 2021, are you getting 2x the value out of Google's services, to justify 2x the climate disasters they'll cause? Is this a good trade-off, to you?

Google now has to burn 1.5x as much
energy to make the same amount of
revenue

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@alliektniller
of the loudest applauses in the entire Google keynote:
ishtha put on the new Gentle Monster + Gemini glasses, tapped the
"de to summon Gemini, and ALL in one prompt said "take a photo and
a cartoon blimp in the sky that says Google IO 2026" and within
onds, the preview of the edited photo from nano banana appeared
her watch.
want to spend less time on screens.
really is coming everywhere. And so much is driven by voice Al as the
nteraction mode.
oogle@

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Umbra 🇺🇦 @umbragarbar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Feathered bug Sulphur-crested Scolipede [ #art #pokémon ]

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

read in between the lines and you see how white people believe they get to define reality. facts be damned.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/08/2026

you're already telling it to not make anything up, why not go the extra mile and ask it not to use any electricity or water

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:

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Baxter Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall for Two Lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection Due to Potential Presence of Particulate Matter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti...

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mae @hellagur.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

because i know people don't click articles, the packages look like this

Lundberg Family Farms White Rice Jasmine

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What a great illustration of the scam of technosolutionism! 👏 @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨 BREAKING: COVID IS SURGING ACROSS THE U.S. 🇺🇸 Cases are rising or likely rising in 47 states with no state currently estimated to be seeing a decline. Schools are already canceling classes as infections spread.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The artist has inscribed Alex Pretti and Renee Good's last words in Morse code in their speech bubbles in this gorgeous and moving piece. I've been looking at it over and over since the photo debuts yesterday (day 1 of the fair).

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026

It isn’t a coincidence that many rich countries are accelerating policies to reduce immigration at the same time we are witnessing more natural disasters supercharged by climate change.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026

Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage

XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.

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Micah @deadserious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me recap: the MPD is 30 million over budget, helped Lang plan his riot, set up barricades for him, let him drive multiple vehicles into a crowded area, one of the cop had their foot run over, and now we can’t press charges because the cops are in on it in the first place.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Mechanical Turk may be shutting down, but AI will always depend on data workers whose knowledge trains and tunes models. AI runs on extracted cultural skills and knowledge, and culture is always changing. Less the end of an era, but the end of an early prototype.

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