Reposted by Michael SappirCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 7847071402
Reposted by Michael SappirTremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 4hThis is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline. 7772246
Reposted by Michael Sappir#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 7hThe new West Bank policy if the “centrist” Gadi Eisenkot beats Netanyahu next month in the Israeli elections: ❌ Palestinian state ❌ Binational state ❌ Remove settlers / settlements ✅ Expand illegal settlements ✅ Legalize illegal settler outposts ✅ Demolish more Palestinian homes 326882
Reposted by Michael SappirRobert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 13hFor a deeper understanding of what’s going on in post-Berlin local elections discourse around the Left, recommend Eva von Redecker’s piece in the Guardian which doubles as a potted version of her fascism analysis & counter-strategy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von RedeckerDie Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far right, says writer and philosopher Eva von Rede... 193
Reposted by Michael SappirWaldpol @waldpol.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026Warum rückt die sogenannte "Mitte" nach rechts? Ein Grund dafür ist nach Eva von Redecker, dass rechte Parteien als Verteidigerinnen eines "Phantombesitzes" auftreten, auf den die "Mitte" einen natürlichen Anspruch zu haben glaubt. Umgekehrt erklärt dies auch die Panik vor der Linken.theguardian.comA leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von RedeckerDie Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far right, says writer and philosopher Eva von Rede... 093
Reposted by Michael SappirMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 9hThis reminds me of the folks who said that VR was getting so good that people wouldn’t want to have sex with other people 3608
Reposted by Michael Sappirthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16hIsrael's horrific, in your face conduct, combined with the suppression of antizionist criticism by pro-Israel political and social elites, has created a kind of cognitive permission structure to deny that Jews face any oppression whatsoever. 317023
Reposted by Michael SappirGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203187565311
Reposted by Michael SappirSilvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 9hHere is an excellent example of framing issues using the appropriate and socially relevant terms, directly addressing the power dynamics embedded in institutions. I wish people would do that more often, especially in the MSM and academia itself. 06323
Reposted by Michael SappirJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 21hthey DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1453491416
Reposted by Michael SappirWarren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 23hOkay, seriously, what the fuck is this? 2864780
Reposted by Michael SappirHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the publicnytimes.comOpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. ModelsEmployees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen. 6454107
Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 29/09/2026Deeply bizarre how many people not just tolerate, but demand, that politicians respond to antisemitism by talking obsessively about Israel, when that obviously *encourages* antisemitism. 091
Reposted by Michael SappirSimusz @simusz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026PdL Berlin, Hefte raus, das ist Prüfungsrelevant 071
Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 29/09/2026“Mamdani Announces Plan to Fight Antisemitism, Without Discussing Israel” It can be done! We have the technology! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comMamdani Announces Plan to Fight Antisemitism, Without Discussing IsraelA report issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani describes ways that New York City is funding hate crime prevention and celebrating the contributions of Jewish New Yorkers. 070
Reposted by Michael SappirBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/20261/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵 27255
Reposted by Michael SappirTom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Social life requires social labor!!!! Social Media is social consumption!!!! Those are different things!!!! 2417
Reposted by Michael SappirNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man. 111281186
Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 29/09/2026If you use this new tech you’re gonna get left behind, folks 040
Reposted by Michael SappirNash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word. 434557899
Reposted by Michael SappirBen Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason." 11859361278
Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 28/09/2026Der „jüdische Staat“ unterbricht die Einbürgerung zwei junger jüdischen Personen, weil sie Palästinenser*innen vor Gewalt geschützt haben. Wie war das nochmal mit dem „sicheren Hafen“ für Jüd*innen? www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comIsrael freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting PalestiniansIn both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap... 0419
Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 28/09/2026So much for pretending to be a safe haven for Jews everywhere, I guess. “Israel has revoked the aliyah approval issued by the Jewish Agency of two Jewish activists in their 20s – one a British citizen and the other an American” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comIsrael freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting PalestiniansIn both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap... 062
Reposted by Michael SappirErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This whole entire thread, and… People often conceive of their lives — or rather, often *live* their lives without that reflective remove — as a set of relationships in ways that are imperceptible to the creators of dehumanizing systems. What you get when you actually care and listen to people. 17913
Reposted by Michael SappirUnderstanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Episode 4 A! The Fetish Character of the Commodity: Social relations between people? Quantitative relations between things? What's going on with society in capitalism?!understandingcapital.github.ioEpisode 4 A - Chapter 1.4: The Fetish Character of the Commodity [p. 47-59]Player 075
Reposted by Michael SappirRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming 17683228
Reposted by Michael SappirAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form 392135617
Reposted by Michael SappirRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6574016011782
Reposted by Michael SappirBen Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026An opinion column in BILD, Germany’s most-circulated newspaper, written as a series of tendentious questions aimed at newly elected Linke MdA Martha Kleedorfer, theorizes that young women are pro-Palestine because they yearn for macho Arab men and Palestine allows them to express it in a PC way. 1714028
Reposted by Michael SappirMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The mayoral discourse in Berlin continues to be *utterly* unhinged. If the AfD had topped the polls the narrative would be “finally the people have been heard!” but since the Left won, it’s all “Queer Islamofascists and Woke are trying to conquer us with, er, affordable rents!” 191013207
Reposted by Michael Sappir🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121635151
Reposted by Michael SappirRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141871734
Reposted by Michael SappirHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm so glad we live in a world in which a handful of rich people get to gamble with the future like this. Capitalism truly is the best mechanism for allocation decision power. 1135
Reposted by Michael SappirDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460481064
Reposted by Michael Sappirsmokey eunuch™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is what being an anti-trans democrat who goes out in public and says shit like "theres male, female, and a tiny percentage of intersex people, and then heheh yeah theres some OTHER PEOPLE" buys you 545366
Reposted by Michael SappirMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat. 6385132
Reposted by Michael Sappirweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106562519
Reposted by Michael SappirShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters 1030686
Reposted by Michael SappirHanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dieser „Diskurs“, der sich grad über den Wählerwillen von fast 50 Prozent der jungen Berliner:innen ausschüttet, wird übrigens maßgeblich von ex-antideutschen, verkoksten alternden Männern in einem zunehmend bedeutungsloseren Medienbetrieb angeheizt. Hier gut zusammengefasst: taz.de/Wahlsieg-in-...taz.deWahlsieg in Berlin: Willkommen in der islamo-sozialistischen HöllendiktaturDer Wahlsieg der Linken löst in bürgerlichen und rechten Kreisen eine Kernschmelze aus. Doch hinter der Schmierkampagne steht ein gefährliches Kalkül. 311815
Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 24/09/2026„Hamas versuchte immer wieder, Zugeständnisse zur Verbesserung der Lebenssituation im belagerten Gazastreifen zu erreichen – die Verhandlungen wurden von Netanjahu hinausgezögert. Die Entscheidung, letztlich militärisch gegen Israel vorzugehen, fiel erst, nachdem alle Versuche gescheitert waren.“ 092
Reposted by Michael Sappirceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat 9678431311
Reposted by Michael SappirLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970102257
Reposted by Michael SappirYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament. 22978326
Reposted by Michael Sappirrobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...tribunemag.co.ukWarning from Germany: It’s Socialism or BarbarismFascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope. 14583233
Reposted by Michael SappirJacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Der Vorwurf des Antisemitismus dient dazu, SPD und Grüne von einer Zusammenarbeit mit der Linken in Berlin abzuhalten – und damit die Vergesellschaftung von Wohnraum zu verhindern. 25716