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Jace

@mithrandirthequeer.bsky.social
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Epic fantasy enthusiast, particularly Tolkien, Star Wars, Agatha. Equity-centered analyst/social scientist by day, amateur mixologist by night. Trans man (he/him).

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Whereas the AI users got answers wrong or gave up entirely when the AI assistance was withdrawn, the group without AI stuck with the task and were more successful at the end."
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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CLJohnson @cjenergy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI agents attacked Wikipedia,made malicious edits of Wikipedia entries, communicated with other AI agents hacking the site, and bombarded Wikipedia with hundreds of thousand requests. Surely AI developers have more responsibility than just saying "shit happens."
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.
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Jace @mithrandirthequeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Im actually really surprised by this. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social whats your analysis?
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Jace @mithrandirthequeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He's garbage and getting worse
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom has blocked Democratic efforts to enshrine one of the most important protections for blue-state abortion providers—a ban on extraditions.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo
A map of North and Central America showing dozens of flights emanating out ICE Air's hub of Alexandria, LA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hostile and violent attitudes toward women are the clearest warning sign of violent extremism, a study has found. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Misogyny identified as biggest red flag for violent extremism
A new study finds that violent attitudes towards women are not just a social issue but a matter of national security.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
By destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction, write @ariberman.bsky.social & @pemalevy.bsky.social.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/09/2026
‼️ Yikes! Cybersecurity researcher: "I found that Flock didn't require their clients to use multi-factor authentication. This led me to find Flock law enforcement accounts for sale by a Russian vendor on a dark web marketplace."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jace @mithrandirthequeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is his name in quotes? Such a fucking idiot
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren: "It's gonna look like whatever Xi Jinping wants it to look like. Donald Trump loves to bully when he's talking to the press. He loves to bully when he's front of a big crowd. But face to face is there any evidence that he has ever been tough with another dictator?"
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/09/2026
Good news: people in Texas are registering to vote. 🗳 🤠 Bad news: the Republicans are not processing them. An "unidentified problem" created a massive backlog in tens of thousands of registrations. In one county, 45,000 registrations have been backlogged. Hopeful. But suspicious. ☹️
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level, a headache that is hitting just as they are preparing for voting to begin in the midterm elections
The problem, which officials in the
Republican-controlled state have not publicly defined. This also could have disenfranchised people who wanted to vote in the state's March primary but whose registration applications were never processed, local election officials said during a news conference Wednesday
'This is really out of left field. Knowing that this one element of (state) applications didn't come through, and we had no insight on it," said Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Election Officials
The size of the backlog statewide hasn't been determined. but the association said it is in the tens of thousands for some of the state's most populous counties. In Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, the election office received about 45,000 backlogged voter registratior applications.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica dropped the first story in a new series on corruption in Congress, and it starts with Sen. Susan Collins. A defense contractor illegally funneled $150,000 to a pro-Collins PAC. The company’s CEO later pleaded guilty to unlawful campaign contributions.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interesting that they don’t apply “we’re not smart enough to regulate this” to, for example, abortion.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.
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CNN @cnn.com · 16/09/2026
Survivors of sexual abuse would be free to speak about their experiences even if they sign a nondisclosure agreement under a new bill put forward by the House Republican leading the Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Congress.
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Victims of sexual abuse with NDAs would be able to speak freely under new bill from GOP committee leader | CNN Politics
Survivors of sexual abuse would be free to speak about their experiences even if they sign a nondisclosure agreement under a new bill put forward by the House Republican leading the Jeffrey Epstein in...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kroger, which wants to buy yet ANOTHER grocery chain: -Ranks among the largest companies with employees dependent on Medicaid & SNAP -Paid its CEO $14M last year, 417x its median worker's pay of just $34,552 -Spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 This is what corporate greed looks like.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Homeland Security waived 28 laws to build through a national park. Turns out you have to waive all of them.
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A Lipan Apache Organizer Stopped Trump’s $1.2 Billion Wall
Plus: a doctor won back the whistleblower law a Trump judge threw out, Missouri’s high court erased Trump’s new congressional map, and a town of 15,000 stopped the first data center on public land
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
Katie Phang: I have to keep my foot on the neck of AG Todd Blanche. I have now filed a reply to the latest stream of excuses from Blanche as to why he is protecting convicted felon Donald Trump and other members of the Epstein elite.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I got their press alert an hour ago and figured, these are good kids. Surely I've got one more story in me tonight.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/09/2026
“There is no plausible legal justification for the strikes. They’re obviously not occurring in the context of an armed conflict, and outside of armed conflict, the term for premeditated killing is murder.” trib.al/TI6mzfG
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This week, a whistleblower raised the alarm that Trump may be trying to rig the midterms with a new USPS ballot screening system that could prevent voters from receiving their ballots. Oversight Dems are demanding Rep. James Comer hold a public hearing with the Postmaster General.
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Something changed in Kyiv this week. For 4.5 years Russia mostly attacked at night. Since Thursday, Aug 27, it’s drones all day. Today is day four of near-constant attacks. The alert goes on, goes off, ten minutes later it’s on again. Explosions several times an hour. 🧵 #UAView
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people are writing letters of of fear and worry to their relatives back in Haiti. They sound like the letters written by Jews in Poland and Germany in the 1930s.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 28/08/2026
“Birds of a Feather De-Flock Together” is a protest art piece that attempts to draw parallels between a canary in a cage and the mass-surveillance apparatus being built up around us. 😶 Placing a bird in front of the camera forces its motion sensor to record hundreds of useless photos & clips. 🐦✊🏼
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🤷Літ🤦 хоче спекти пасочку 👍 @lithra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#UkrainianView I remember how, when Ukrainians started rejecting old russian books in Ukraine - numerous 💅 intellectual people 💅 from EU and the USA massively shouted about Nazis-who-burn-books Now russians actually burn Ukrainian publishing houses. By shelling. Systemically. The reaction is 🦗🦗🦗
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 27/08/2026
I needed that comedic relief. 😎
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/08/2026
“Whatever funds you’re spending on a camera, you’re not spending on getting someone into treatment.” Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton, who died yesterday, at 80, was commonly called the Queen of Country Music. “That is exactly wrong,” Kathryn Schulz writes. “She was democratic to her bones, of the people and by the people and for the people.”www.newyorker.com/culture/post...
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Dolly Parton for the People
She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/08/2026
U.S. troops are reaching their breaking point as they say recent orders challenge their moral beliefs. trib.al/eevxiYB
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Conscientious Objectors Trying to Flee Military Skyrocket Under Trump
U.S. troops are reaching their breaking point as they say recent orders challenge their moral beliefs.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/08/2026
A new report reveals how top intel officers, military leaders, and Cabinet officials tried to warn Trump about the risks of starting a war with Iran. trib.al/Tfasprk
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Trump Ignored Every Warning He Got on Iran War—and There Were a Lot
A new report reveals how top intel officers, military leaders, and Cabinet officials tried to warn Trump about the risks of starting a war with Iran.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/08/2026
Our friends at Reveal investigated the origins of the phrase “40 acres and a mule,” discovering more than 1,200 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land titles by the US government, only to have them taken away. Listen to the full series now on revealnews.org.
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40 Acres and a Lie
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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nobody ever heard about it because it’s not happening. Alternately, if it IS happening, how would an unwanted reversal surgery be different than Nazi experiments in 1942?
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21/08/2026
Hilarious! 🤣😂 Darth Vader addresses San Diego city council and compliments the Empire's Flock system & its ability to track and surveil "rebel scum," children, and his ex-girlfriend. 😈
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/08/2026
Following the disturbing reports of police officers abusing Flock cameras for criminal activities like stalking, the tech company is limiting access to its 120,000 license plate readers. The kicker? These changes are optional and mostly self-enforced, according to critics.
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Flock's answer to its surveillance scandals: trust us
The company is limiting access to its 120,000 license plate readers, but critics say the changes are largely optional and self-enforced.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hell yeah! Gina Hinojosa is out here with the receipts showing Abbott is selling Texans’s future to the highest bidder. Save our planet. Vote blue! #GinaForTexas #NoDataCenters
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 13/08/2026
This is what abusive relationships look like.
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