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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

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saintpaulicewatch.bsky.social @saintpaulicewatch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great thread here, and I'll add to it that my experience suggests this literacy crisis extends to non-textual media as well.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In January, Ramirez introduced a standalone bill to abolish ICE and redirect its funding to safety-net programs that can help people navigate the spiraling affordability crisis. truthout.org/articles/the...

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The Movement to Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum

As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I should add that in addition to being much funnier than anticipated--Musk is going to be intensely humiliated by this movie, it's going to attack the deepest wounds he tries so hard to conceal--it is also bone-chilling. I think he gutted USAID with DOGE to kill masses of people in the third world.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This entire situation is beyond disgusting, but thank the Goddess for the stellar fucking work of student journalists. Truly. CW: rape, sexual assault www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At least the lawyers are no longer acting like the "Constitutional crisis" isn't already here...

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...

Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Once again, public libraries as infrastructure. We need to find them at a MINIMUM of 0.5% of the city expense budget.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Centrists (and not just centrists) are mostly splitting and projecting their own bigotries onto the electorate. This is obvious and true regardless of the extent to which the electorate actually shares those bigotries.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If your business model relies on paying sub-living wages, providing zero benefits, and expecting workers to shut up and get in line, then you don't run a business. You run a legalized labor camp and we’re tired of pretending it’s not.

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"We need to get rid of this talk that we're somehow this exceptional nation chosen by God,” @esglaude.bsky.social told @brookegladstone.bsky.social. “We need to grow up. We can't grow up if you don't admit who and what you are.”

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Danielle Welch for Congress (NY-03) @votewelch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Thank you all. For everything. Please don't let anyone say that the results of the NY-03 primary prove that a progressive candidate can't win. I started absurdly late. No ads. No mailers. I spent the last 4 months afraid that I might get <100 votes. More than 5,200 people—20%—voted for change.

I apologize for the delay in getting out this statement. Like nearly every other weekday of this campaign, I had to work today.

Congratulations to Rep. Suozzi. I wish you luck in November.

Now that that’s out of the way, let me start by saying thank you. I am so grateful to every person who showed up to support my campaign. Like many people who come from modest backgrounds and go on to do things the world says they can’t, I often struggle with imposter syndrome. Every single one of the thousands of votes I received means more than I can say. Thank you for putting your trust in me.

I hope that the people who dared to believe in a better future feel energized by this result rather than defeated. This was not an electoral win, but it was a win. Let me explain.

These results are not proof that Suozzi’s constituents broadly support his votes, or that a candidate promising change cannot win in this district. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Challenging an incumbent is always an uphill battle, even when they are deeply unpopular.

A candidate with no name recognition and a modest budget, who built an entire campaign from scratch in only four months’ worth of nights and weekends, managed to earn 20% of the vote against an incumbent. That’s amazing.

There will be some who try to say otherwise. Some will point to these numbers—without any of the extremely important context of this race—and claim this proves that the centrists are right, that a candidate offering change has no chance in Long Island.

Ignore them and keep building.

This is not a huge loss. It’s an incredible beginning.

I want you to know that I did absolutely everything I could with the time and resources I had. I have worked harder over these last few months than at any other point in my life, which is saying a lot. It was not enough this time, but the reality is that few people win the first time they run for office against an incumbent (even in much better circumstances).

I am grateful for the relationships I have built along the way, as well as the help and encouragement I have received.

I still believe that better things are possible.

While this campaign ended yesterday, the work did not. Elections can be a powerful tool for change, but they are far from the only one. I am not going anywhere.

I did not run for Congress for myself. I ran for the people in NY-03. I ran because I care deeply about my community, and Rep. Suozzi was not doing enough to support his constituents. Many of us are struggling to make ends meet, our rights are under attack, and Rep. Suozzi continues to sit on the fence. There was a time that was simply disappointing behavior. In 2026, it is dangerous.

All of those things are still true. So I will keep showing up for my neighbors. I will keep standing with vulnerable and marginalized communities. I will keep fighting for the world we deserve. I hope that you will, too.

I will also keep paying attention to Rep. Suozzi’s voting record.

I hope this election has reminded him that he represents people who want him to be fighting back against fascists, not collaborating with them. I hope he will finally meet this moment.

But if Rep. Suozzi continues to betray his constituents, House terms are short, and the next election is always right around the corner.

Thank you for being on this journey with me.

Let’s keep going.

-Danielle Welch

A photo of Danielle in a blue suit with her tawny chinook dog, Cassie, is in the bottom right.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Here’s why you shouldn’t clap when the Supreme Court refuses to let Trump rewrite the Constitution and end birthright citizenship. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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This Disappointing Term of Court

When the Supreme Court issues its decision in the birthright citizenship case, likely this week, the odds are that it will be a loss for the Trump administration.

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Compost the Rich @mooninaut.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

@janiehaddad.bsky.social I agree that Daylight Saving Time is extremely stupid and doesn't "save" anything. I favor abolishing it.

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Compost the Rich @mooninaut.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It seems insane to me that you can't easily delete a payment card from Substack support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...

Screenshot of Substack info page:

Things to note:

At this time, there is no option to delete a payment method on Substack without replacing it with a new payment method, but you can reach out to the publication owner to have them delete your payment method from their Stripe account.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/05/2026

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Why does the right have so much power? An example illustrating a trend. We launched @accountabilityji.bsky.social to expose attacks on public health and democracy. We cover far-right groups like the Manhattan Institute. Well, MI is hiring an “investigative reporter.” The pay > our entire budget.

Investigative Reporter - City Journal (NYC)
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Ø • 3.7 *
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四 $100,000-$200,000 aycar
Paid parental leave, Parental leave, Health insurance, 401(k) matching, Dental insurance, Flexible spending account, Life insurance
• Hybrid work in New York, NY 10017

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

i know there are all sorts of useful implementations of the technology these chatbot companies make. but nothing i have seen has convinced me the mass availability of subsidized chatbots themselves isn't a fucking calamity of the highest order.

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Compost the Rich @mooninaut.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

young people don't know that ice cream use to come in boxes not like a box of ice cream bars a box 100% full of ice cream and you'd peel it open and cut off slices and it was messy and dumb and I'm glad they stopped

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Basically this. We can’t turn into MAGA and just assume everything is rigged, staged, stolen, etc. Let the investigation play out.

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Compost the Rich @mooninaut.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

How do they reconcile "political violence is never the answer" with the fact that he assassinated one head of state and kidnapped another

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

As a DC reporter, I don't endorse mindless war, militarized cities, illegal abductions, defunded medical research, government insider trading, and mass pardons of violent criminals. But in the name of our norms, tonight I will break bread and share laughs with the president who did all of this.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026

And do you think you're supposed to care about Palestine because it's poor them, pity on those people so far away & so unlike you? No. You're supposed to recognize your humanity in them & act to honor their humanity. That's solidarity. Which y'all don't have trying to get rich, at all.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

They think you're stupid.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A huge problem in Bed-Stuy, where I live, is deed theft. A very organized and courageous group is bringing attention to this, but the battle is hard. Last week, they arrested a victim of this, district leader candidate Carmella Charrington. This morning, they arrested our CITY COUNCIL MEMBER.

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Compost the Rich @mooninaut.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The exact moment every company is so addicted to AI that they can't reasonably stop using it, the price of AI subscriptions is going to quadruple. All of the "cost savings" will evaporate, and the same amount of work will be done at greater cost with worse quality. Don't use AI.

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Straight Edge of Hormuz @banjeaux.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols." [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/04/2026

The ultra rich, massive corporations, and billionaires control our politics because John Roberts freed them to pour unlimited money into campaigns via Citizens United. Take all their money away and you take away their power.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/04/2026

I am not interested in prison. Throwing a few creeps in prison until the next fascist pardons them does nothing to destroy their power. I want the financial and political power of these individuals and corporations to be utterly destroyed. Take literally all of their money.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/04/2026

They worship Mammon. They love money above all else. Money is power to them. Money means immunity. Take it all away. Literally all of it. That's the greatest consequence we can visit upon them.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/04/2026

Every billionaire who's conspired to violate the law and the Constitution with this regime -- their businesses get nationalized, their assets seized. They lose everything. Literally the rings off their fingers and the watches off their wrists get taken away.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/04/2026

This is my policy towards literally every cabinet member, every ICE agent, and every war criminal serving under Trump.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/04/2026

All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

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