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Molly Kleinman

@mollyak.bsky.social
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Managing director of the Institute for Energy Solutions and the Great Lakes Energy Accelerator at Michigan (GLEAM) @ UMich. Still also posting about tech policy, abolition, bicycles, libraries, & cats.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026
a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis www.404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I recently asked my kids what kinds of things they want me took cook for dinner, when I have the time and energy to cook. Kid 1: No more chicken! I don’t like it anymore. It’s gross. I can’t even look at it. I hate it. Chicken is the worst. Kid 2: I like all the things you make with chicken.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ultimately defending trans children should be a no brainer, for Dems.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just realized I haven’t seen a single ad for the Michigan governor’s race for or against either candidate. It’s all senate all the time. I’m not 100% sure I even know who the Republican candidate is? I must. I literally just looked up my ballot today, but I scrolled straight to the local props.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Iced coffee is the new vocal fry.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My kid was practicing Twinkle Twinkle variations and I learned that there’s now one called “Wish I Had a Million Takis.” It’s now stuck in my head to the tune of the BNL song. 🎵 If I had a million Takis (if I had a million Takis)… I’d be sick🎵
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 21/09/2026
Now you can easily contact all of #A2Council about road safety through this form. It only takes a minute. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell City Council: Safety Can't Wait
Fill out this form and go to the next page to send an email to all City Council members. Show up at the Council meeting Tuesday for a rally and public comments. Share this message with friends! 🚸 S...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fears of small AI drones autonomously killing civilians are a great example of this distortion. People are using small drones to kill civilians. Right now! I'm not saying no one should ever think about the possibility—I've written about it—but way more should focus on what's already happening.
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More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 16/09/2026
Only a couple days until we convert a parking space on S. State at Liberty into a space for people, not cars! We'll have comfy furniture, activities, and friendly faces. Urbanism Club and Wolverines on Wheels will also have parklets. Come through! Then, find us at Green Fair on Main St. downtown!
Friday, Sept 18. 
Parking Day. State & Liberty St. 2-6pm. 
Green Fair. Main St & Washington. 5-8pm.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anti-safety advocates tried to stop the city from putting in this sidewalk on a route to 3 schools. They fought it at every step, driving in from across town to pack public meetings and the neighborhood walk-through. It’s exhausting having to battle for every foot of sidewalk. But we won! #a2council
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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 10/09/2026
Everyone claiming this is an "accessibility feature" for Deaf people, I urge you to familiarize yourself with the term "disability dongle." blog.castac.org/2022/04/disa...
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Disability Dongle | Platypus
Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design pr...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The five genders.
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Shannon Hautamaki @smhred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Returning to Ann Arbor from summering in France to speak out against the sale of a surface parking lot because it will become “luxury housing,” what a hero. #a2council
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Marie's Sassy Eye Roll (The Aristocats)
ALT: Marie's Sassy Eye Roll (The Aristocats)
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.
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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
I live and work in a state where Jim Crow laws mean that public employees (like UNC system faculty) have no collective bargaining rights. The UN has declared that ban a violation of public employees’ human rights. My workplace is closed today for Labor Day but that feels kind of performative.
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Collective Bargaining - UE Local 150
Collective bargaining is the basic process of negotiation between workers who have organized a union and their employer on issues such as wages, work rules and policies, child care, staffing ratios, health and safety on the job, benefits, insurance premiums, work schedules, vacation, etc.
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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
are you in the greater detroit area? ann arbor, ypsi, and beyond? please take a class at book arts detroit www.bookartsdetroit.org
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Center for the Book Arts Detroit
BAD aims to foster community in the book arts and the mediums that make up the discipline.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I will die on this hill - having a friendly archnemesis makes life so entertaining, if you don't have one yet get one.
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Mark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A brief history of Ann Arbor roads have too much traffic 🧵 #a2council
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My kingdom for a smoke detector that only alerts you about low batteries during daylight hours.
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anyway, someone talks shit about our mayor who was 9? Someone lauds goddamn Giuliani? Someone tells someone who was there the thing that happened couldn’t have happened? Someone tells you “homeland” isn’t a Nazi word? You give them a fuck you from NYC and you will be blessed by the pizza rat
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
“In 15 years of studying policies undertaken in the name of safety, I’ve seen a clear pattern: Powers touted as required temporarily in a crisis become normalized. Meanwhile, the promised safety is never quantified or proven.”
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Flock sells fear. Government buys power. Citizens lose | Column
A Tampa Bay economist explores the tension between safety and freedom.
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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#A2Council I've been seeing many hyperbolic posts and messages about the proposed Broadway Bridge/Division Bikeway changes with calls to contact Council, so I did. You can too. (The proposed changes are good) sstrudeau.com/posts/broadw...
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Letter: Broadway Bridge Reconfiguration Support
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
✨Some personal news✨ Today I started a new role as managing director of the U-M Institute for Energy Solutions (IES) & the Great Lakes Energy Accelerator at Michigan (GLEAM). I’m grateful & excited to be moving into work on renewable energy; the week I accepted this job the AQI in Ann Arbor hit 500.
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Ann Arbor District Library @aadl.org · 27/08/2026
AADL will celebrate the amazing life of Dolly Parton with Dolly Day on 9/25 at the Downtown Library. More details as we get closer to the date!
A black and white portrait of Dolly Parton, smiling brightly. Below, black text reads "Dolly Day" with a pink butterfly above the words. It also notes the event is on Friday, 9/25 at 5:30 PM at the Downtown Library.
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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 27/08/2026
I hope you'll join us on, yes, 9-25 for Dolly Day to celebrate the life of this icon and legendary supporter of books and reading! Details to come.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Rank and file Republicans are turning against LGBT acceptance and GOP politicians are leaning into bigotry in both rhetoric and policy. But it is you, the progressive queer or ally, who needs to open your mind and consider other people's feelings. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...
Most of the recent changes in LGBTQ+ attitudes have occurred among Republicans. For example, in 2021 and 2022, 55% of Republicans said they favored legal same-sex marriage, but today, the figure is 37%. Among independents, support has dropped six points, to 67%, while Democrats’ views are the same as in 2022 (87% in favor).
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
A child’s drawing of a building. The front center corner is a stack of apartments, to the left is a Nunchuk Store, and farther down the street, an Evil Store. To the right of the apartments is a Throwing Stars and Knives store. Scattered about the drawing are ninja stick figures. Nothing is to scale.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
Ironclad surveillance dictum: any failure of surveillance tech will be used as a rationale for more surveillance tech, and any success of surveillance tech will also be used as a rationale for more surveillance tech.
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Exclusive: The Founders of Flock Say Their Surveillance Tech Would’ve Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case
In their first joint interview at the company’s sleek but rather deserted HQ in Atlanta, Flock cofounders Garrett Langley and Paige Todd deflect all the criticism and lament that they haven’t megaphon...
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you have teenagers: they aren't reading enough; keep them away from LLMs if you care about their cognitive functions & their mental health; betting apps should fucking terrify you and kids are using them. Talk to your kids/check their phones.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 05/08/2026
">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
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Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
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Aidan Sova @aidansova.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My first visit to Ann Arbor was as a boy. Raised by a single mother in poverty, I found even making the trip from the south side of Jackson to be a struggle. But arriving here, I was struck by the beauty, community, and simple fact that other kids were thriving in ways I was not. 🧵 #A2Council
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damnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#a2Council endorsements: There is still time to vote. If you want a more sustainable and more affordable Ann Arbor, vote for Taylor. www.damnarbor.com/2026/08/elec...
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Election Endorsement: Reelect Mayor Taylor for a Progressive Future
The short endorsement In recent months, rents in Ann Arbor have declined faster than the national average. Via: Realpage . Housing and affor...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026
The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026
just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Finally did what I always mean to do every time @mostlybree.kitrocha.com has a sale: Stocked up on cute fidgets for birthday presents! No more running out during the party to pick up random crap. Now my kids’ friends will receive only the highest quality 3d printed rainbow cupcake clickies.
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I keep saying that data centers are Democrats’ issue to lose, especially here in Michigan where the tax incentives passed last year sent us from almost none to dozens in the pipeline almost overnight.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Haley Stevens is going to be Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate. Don't say you weren't warned.
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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Fascism is on the rise in the US. Here’s why you should be concerned.” <substack link>
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
uh oh I’m emotional about the 72nd St. Q train mosaics again
tile mosaic of two men wearing tradesmen-esque clothes and carrying what look like tool or gym bags. they are holding handsclose up of the clasped handstile mosaic of an older man wearing a yalmulke in a sweater vest carrying a globe and a briefcaseclose up of the globe
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More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 22/07/2026
More Neighbors A2 president @gmatthews.bsky.social spoke to @cbsdetroit.bsky.social about why this project benefits everyone in #AnnArbor. Our city should welcome people of all incomes. Projects like this mark important progress in making our vision a reality. #A2Council youtu.be/hWXFEvTtoWY?...
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Tax breaks approved for Ann Arbor affordable housing development
YouTube video by CBS Detroit
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/07/2026
eliminating public transportation systems forced most American families to buy a second car. that was a government decision made for you before you were born.
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