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Luke Kaven

@lukekaven.bsky.social
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Researcher/educator. Former: PLATO Project, CUNY faculty, CABM; Cornell Realism, biological philosophy as an aid to scientific discovery. Dewey on education.

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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
His intention was (1) to extract de-facto tax money, (2) at a rate far exceeding any tax rate, (3) without any obligation to spend it in accordance with the laws governing tax revenue, and (4) in such a way that he'd never have to use the word tax. The entire plan was a con-job.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New school year off to a stumble w/ three major higher ed AI fallacies: 1. “We must embrace it because it’s here to stay.” So are radioactive waste & heroin. 2. “MY students would never cheat.” A statement about the speaker’s ego, not their students. 3. “I can always tell.” Sure thing, Sherlock.
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is "eliminative eugenics" in that it (1) imposes brutal challenges, while simultaneously (2) removing all mitigations. It applies negative selection pressure towards both women and PoC.
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They plan to take support from the working poor, and give it to wealthier white Christians to perpetuate the white race. This is eliminative eugenics via "Reverse Robin Hood" economic attrition. And it's part of Project 2025. A few points to be made below. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The current NIH Director’s animus against NIAID to sign away much needed research funds so we can continue bombing another country is… a staggering betrayal of Congressional intentions and authority. Not surprising but still staggering.
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You will notice that $2.7B was refunded to Walmart when the tariffs charged to Walmart customers were judged to be illegal. We, the people who PAID those tariffs, will never see a penny of that money returned to us.
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He does understand one thing: tariffs are a tax burden carrying NO legal requirement to spend the revenues as required with taxes. The de-facto "tax" flows up, not down. I'd wager that some of that money benefits him and his family within that scheme. This is why he says he "loves" tariffs.
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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 02/09/2026
SOCAN, the Canadian performance rights organization, is suing Suno. Good. ASCAP and BMI should do the same. www.socan.com/socan-ai/ai-...
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Innovation Must Respect Human Creativity — SOCAN
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Mapquest didn't cave. Google broke like a brittle basket of bad-faith apps.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Heads up. Milei introduced his Thiel-aligned “Super RIGI bill” in an op-ed, “opening with “praise for the Dutch East India Company.” As noted by others, the Dutch East India Company was granted a “commercial monopoly, its own army, currency & legal system, & the power to declare war.” 7/31/26 … 1/
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Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism
share.googleMilei introduced the Super RIGI project in an op-ed for The Financial Times, opening with praise for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), a corporation that fused corporate and governmental power. It was granted a commercial monopoly, its own army, currency and legal system, and the power to declare war. It built its wealth on colonial exploitation and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people. In this sense, the Super RIGI is the legal framework for a foreign-flagged VOC to operate on Argentine soil.
Milei celebrates the VOC as the birthplace of limited liability, "the invention that allowed capitalism to develop its full potential", a supposed gift from the West to the world, upon which Western superiority rests.
Shortly before Thiel's arrival, Argentina's Ministry of Human Capital announced on social media the creation of a social information integration platform called the "Social Digital Twin" (Gemelo Digital Social), de-
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
And "DoorDash Grandma"? Is this supposed to be DoorDash corporate pride? It reads as peak structural failure instead. What's next, a 10yo mill worker missing a leg wearing a "Proud Monsanto Girl" t-shirt, available at the company store?
Image depicts barefoot child laborers in textile mill, with stern boss standing over them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/04/2026
The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril.
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Legacy media is not up to this moment. Six years ago I started Democracy Docket with its readers not private investors in mind. Now it has more than 400,000 free subscribers and 60,000 paying members. But to protect democracy, it needs to grow and scale. Sign-up now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The overarching program is *eliminative eugenics*. Widespread belief in this idea among the wealthy class is THE singular unifying force behind ALL policy decisions advanced by GBD Inc, and MAHA. 2/
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Marjorie Taylor Greene said Trump told her it was her own fault if someone murdered her son because he declared her a traitor. (4:24)
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MARJORIE LEAKS THIS ON TRUMP!
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/
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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@walkerbragman.bsky.social Cited one of your articles in my latest profile of everyone's favorite economist www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-em...
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PROFILE: Emily Oster, Brown University Economist
From COVID-19 Cheerleader to MAHA Cheerleader
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/01/2026
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...
"Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center. The footage, which ProPublica has reviewed, backed the family’s account of the chase."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/12/2025
By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks. He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
How long before interactions devolve from "Billy graduated from sixth grade today!" into "you bitch, you never stood up for me when dad abused me...I'm blocking you from interacting with my kids so you can never poison them."
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Judge April Perry's written opinion in Trump v. Illinois, granting a TRO to Illinois over the deployment of the National Guard, supplies an important legal framework for challenging the use of The National Guard in domestic "law enforcement" operations: cst.brightspotcdn.com/6d/6a/8d3a44...
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
RFKjr's program is *eliminative eugenics*. It's not that he "wants to be right." He might be ignorant about everything but the one thing he intends to do: let disease burn through the population, and whoever survives is considered "fit" to carry on the species. 1/
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We must learn the game they’re playing when they say ‘waste, fraud, and abuse.’ It’s just Trump saying he’s going to dismantle an agency so he can take it private, profit off of it, and create an inefficient bureaucracy. Rinse and repeat.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/07/2025
1. CBS sells itself to Trump's billionaire allies for $8 billion. 2. Trump manages to exort CBS for $16 million just for fun, leveraging some fake investigations at the FCC. 3. CBS fuses with Bari Weiss' bullshit machine to create another massive new right wing propaganda outlet. Easy peasy.
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Skydance reportedly in talks to buy Bari Weiss’ The Free Press — is CBS News role in her future?
Sources speculate that Weiss could play a major role in reshaping CBS News, which has been plagued by criticism of a left-wing bias.
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/06/2025
“It was as visceral and overwhelming and biologically real” as falling in love with a person. @sam-apple.bsky.social found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launch was a pathetic flop. Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launched yesterday to much acclaim from the Tesla Cult. Since nobody who was at the event has properly summarized the first day, we thought we would do it. Below are our findings. 🧵
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Trump pardoned the violent J6 insurrectionist freaks and they walk among us, thirsting for revenge. One of them, Zach Alam, did a home invasion the other day.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 17/04/2025
Today in weird statistical coincidences
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 26/03/2025
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” I declare to my group chat as I disclose operational details of an in progress airstrike to a group chat on unsecured devices that includes a journalist. Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Streisand this book!
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This organization is doing important work, and well worth following. Listen to their interview on WNYC "On Point." www.wnyc.org/story/what-h...
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What happened when AI went after welfare fraud | On Point | WNYC
Artificial Intelligence algorithms are being used to decide who gets welfare benefits, and how much. Some experts say it’s leading to “devastating” cuts in benefits for those most in ...
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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/03/2025
Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” may be nothing but a blatant insider trading scam to make his billionaire crypto czar richer — funded by taxpayer money.
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Trump’s New Crypto Reserve Is Open Corruption
Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” is about to make one of the worst people richer.
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Is RFKjr a pharma pharma pharma pharma pharma chameleon?
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Republicans don’t give a shit about deficits. It’s a cudgel they use when Democrats are in power. That’s it. Period. These “principles,” including small government, liberty, social conservatism, they’re all cudgels. The quicker people understand that the better.
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DJ @darnich.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
At CPAC tonight rhe hiding ended youtu.be/bBOJAAujwb8?...
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Steve Bannon Nazi Salute @ CPAC - 2/20/25
YouTube video by Kenneth Brown
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/02/2025
"AP sets the standard for political reporting. Support independent, fact-based journalism." "Paid for by Super Saving Online" "Social Secuuriritty Administration"
AP web page.

AI slop ad with picture of the "Social Secuuririrty Administration"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/02/2025
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 17/02/2025
The United States is under attack. Is there a single Republican Senator patriotic enough to stand up to this madness?
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DOGE-affiliated employee expected to seek access to IRS system with sensitive taxpayer information
The Integrated Data Retrieval System allows IRS employees to access taxpayer information.
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
He's not necessarily referring to himself here. "Stand back and stand by"
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
On left: Acting Deputy A.G. Emil Bove memo orders firing FBI officials because they worked on Jan 6th cases On right: As SDNY co-chief, Bove "gave strong, direct encouragement to the line prosecutors to aggressively pursue the investigation, legal process, support FBI," former colleague tells NPR
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Luke Kaven @lukekaven.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Eugenicide, technofascist style: The anti-vaccine movement, the elimination of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, the sterilization of "feral populations," the withdrawing and withholding of medicines, including ... 1/
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Aaaand this is why we’ve been telling Democratic leaders to not rely on on the midterms as their only plan
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
OK, so I’m not crazy. Trump could be threatening to default on T-Bill debt based on bogus claims that it’s fraudulent.
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