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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Shopping isn't politics, and while voting *is* Politics (Big P), it's *also* not politics (small p). A boycott, on the other hand, *is* politics.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The most important way to fight data centers is to take everyone you meet protesting one and organize with them to scare the shit out of "your" politicians so they don't *dare* compromise on *anything*.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Oligarchs have it easy. Where we have to convince people to fight, they can pay or threaten them to bring them into line. But oligarch power is wearing thin. The data-center uprising shows how much fury there is out there, looking for a productive outlet: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-b...

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With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.

The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

But changing the system requires systemic work. Hell is other people because other people are *great* but it's *so hard* to get them to do things your way. That takes time and understanding and togetherness and arguing and forgiving.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

I understand why shopping and voting are more attractive than boycotts and politics. Meetings suck. Hell is other people: locusmag.com/feature/comm...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

What's more, "shopping" has the same relationship to "boycotts" that "voting" has to "politics." It's a *step* you take, *after* you've laid a lot of groundwork with other people, as part of a mass movement.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

And yes, as part of a boycott, you make some consumption choices. You buy X instead of Y. But "shopping" by itself isn't a boycott. You can't "vote with your wallet" (especially not when billionaires get to vote against you with *their* wallets): pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/c...

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Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

It's also the same move that transformed "boycotts" into "shopping." Boycotts are a collective enterprise. Before a boycott takes place, small-p political groups hold meetings, organize alternatives and communicate their demands.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

It's the same move that convinced workers that the answer to bad working conditions is looking your boss in the eye and threatening to change jobs (not forming a union and striking).

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Turning "politics" into "voting" is absolutely in line with Margaret Thatcher's dictum that "there is no such thing as society."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The right's leadership understands this very well, which is why they've spent years attacking unions, community organizers like Acorn, and activist institutions like Planned Parenthood.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Voting for Mamdani was important. It got him elected. But staying organized - in unions, neighborhood clubs, affinity groups, DSA chapters and mutual aid groups - is what's letting him get stuff done, and stopping him from bailing on his promises as politically infeasible.

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Mikey Hates It 𓅃 @mikeyalexander.bsky.social · 7h

Related: you cannot vote your way out of fascism.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Liberals are often contemptuous of grassroots movements (cf "basket of deplorables," "Green Lantern" scolding), but the right is *terrified* of them.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

I think that Trump's presidency has shown us how much power the president really has even when the legislature won't play ball.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

And his promise to hold the phone companies to account for their complicity in the NSA's mass domestic surveillance: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... He stepped up secret drone warfare: www.cfr.org/articles/oba... And unconstitutional domestic surveillance: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

He let the bank executives who created the Great Financial Crisis off the hook and encouraged them to foreclose on the homes of millions of Americans, the very same public that had bailed them out: theweek.com/articles/624...

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This is Obama's biggest failure

He could have used law enforcement to protect homeowners from bank fraud. He didn't.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d...

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 7h

And this is why you tear down the cameras

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whenever I read about men using AI to draft love notes for their wives, I feel a seething fury. That is something you could easily have done yourself, and it would have been a million times more meaningful. Technology is training us to be dependent and soulless.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3:
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Local HERO in Kansas gets arrested for slashing ICE agent's tires. In an effort to deescalate the surrounding crowd, the cop arresting him yelled that the Kansas man is being arrested for slashing tires. The crowd cheered in response to that and basically gave the man a standing ovation.

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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why most women of social media choose the bear

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cops are not there to help you when you’ve been viciously violated: exhibit 1,000,000,000

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest: I wrote about internal ICE reviews---now deleted from ICE's website---revealing new details medical neglect in detention centers. The reports contradict DHS' public statements both generally and specifically about in-custody deaths reason.com/2026/10/01/i...

According to the internal report on Blaise's death, "A mortality review committee (MRC) determined BTC did not provide Ms. BLAISE medical care within the safe limits of practice."

The MRC found that, after Blaise collapsed, "1) BTC health staff deviated from basic life support (BLS) protocols; 2) Health staff failed to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), despite Ms. BLAISE's pulselessness; and 3) Health staff did not include Ms. BLAISE's vital signs with their documentation of the emergency response."

The mortality report contradicts the public report ICE published on Blaise's death, which claimed that staff called for emergency medical services (EMS) and "immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation" and "continued providing CPR until EMS personnel arrived."

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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?

Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances"

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that’s the weird little guys promise 🫡

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callook67 @callook67.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Listen to this if you wanna get angrier than you've ever been

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.

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Digital Relic 🌀 @damop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crimes against humanity.

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Mikey Hates It 𓅃 @mikeyalexander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Slashing tires is the polite compromise. #ACAB

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AIPAC decided they were going to set a record on the amount of money they spent against me in the primary election. $70 million. Do you know what we could do with $70 million?

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 01/10/2026

we don't owe platforms to rapists, especially not on the left. that's not punitive justice, it's protecting survivors, both from being in communities with powerful abusers and from being constantly retraumatized by having the same shitty discourse about the same shitty men every six months

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Since the trailer for Depp’s new shit movie dropped, let’s remember he texted Paul Bettany and said he wanted to rape Amber Heard and then set her corpse on fire.

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