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@nancyfriel.bsky.social
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Retired public service therapist. Like to keep informed and participate in the public square. Concerns: fascism, racism, climate change, the police state, civil/human rights. No DMs thank you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h
Time for this classic again.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social · 17h
2/ Meta found guilty of lying about Cambridge Analytica & hate speech, violence + misinformation policies. Now they face up to $219 billion in penalties. It took years (and a lot of begging to be believed, while leaning on those who came before me for strength), but the public has finally spoken.
techpolicy.press
Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 17h
I spoke to @psfrench.bsky.social for this great piece, flagging the tension inherent in the City Attorney’s charge to defend the City when it harms people while also seeking justice for residents. At the end of the day, you have to pick a side: LA deserves someone who will stand with its people.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22h
I obtained a recording of Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lecture. He was asked to respond to something I wrote in @newrepublic.com epublic (below). He evaded the question, but responded: "I don't think I'm the Antichrist, [maybe I'm] lacking in self-awareness...You shouldn't trust me."
quote from Gil Duran story on Thiel and the Antichrist: Thiel co-founded Palantir, a software company literally named after an all-seeing orb controlled by an evil wizard in The Lord of the Rings. Palantir is partnering with the Trump administration to supercharge government surveillance at a moment when the president openly embraces authoritarianism. The irony is so striking it almost seems like a confession.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17h
Education Secretary Linda McMahon promoted the use of AI in schools, citing a controversial online charter school that has been criticized for utilizing inaccurate and confusing AI-generated lessons. “I have visited the Alpha School, where they use AI for the first two hours every single morning.”
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AI School Praised by Education Secretary McMahon Reportedly Does “More Harm Than Good” for Students
“Accuracy of the content provided by the [AI] is a concern,” read an internal assessment of Alpha School’s lessons.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 19h
Jesus Christ dude
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h
Jack Smith explains that the phone records for some members of Congress "corroborated evidence that we had that the president, President Donald Trump and his co-conspirators were seeking to exploit the violence on January 6th in furtherance of their criminal scheme." www.youtube.com/live/zNc5VMP...
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LIVE: Jack Smith appears before Senate Judiciary Committee
YouTube video by Associated Press
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RespectWomen25 @respectwomen25.bsky.social · 18h
See photo in article: "And in case there was any confusion about what this is really all about, the Air Force’s press release included a helpful image of a uniform with a Christian cross on it."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:
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Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally, an article about Pax Silica: “Tech Bros and the Trump Administration Are Building an AI Empire—In the Philippines *** Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.” By @kierabutler.bsky.social 9/25/26 … 1/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/09/2026
To understand what foreign operations against U.S. elections may look like in 2026, we reviewed public threat analysis reports from technology and nongovernmental organizations. bit.ly/4AzddFy
brennancenter.org
AI Is Changing Foreign Election Influence
Threat reports from tech firms and independent monitors offer a glimpse of how foreign adversaries are changing tactics.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
guys cutting edge zuck AI is just humans doing tasks for you in call centers
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026
Politico’s owner gave Peter Thiel an award today. Hardly surprising, since Peter Thiel gave the guy’s son $50 million. Have you heard of “The German JD Vance”? www.thenerdreich.com/politico-pet...
thenerdreich.com
Politico's $50M Peter Thiel Problem
Is Axel Springer CEO's son the 'German JD Vance'?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Two months after the CEO of defense contractor Navatek used a shell company to send $150,000 to the Susan Collins super PAC, the senator committed to getting Navatek $32 million in naval contracts, according to company emails.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/09/2026
Respiratory virus season has entered the chat 🦠 😷 Don’t let it ruin your plans! Get your flu and COVID vaccines (& RSV if you’re eligible) Vaccines help to prevent infection and significantly reduce the risk of severe illness & hospitalization, plus help protect those who can’t be vaccinated. 💉💪💚
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Microsoft has laid off over 5,000 workers since July. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
newrepublic.com
Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 23/09/2026
Funny how this came out immediately *after* California caved on the merger
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Abolish ICE
electrek.co
Volkswagen's new EVs are so popular that the company is now cutting ICE shifts
Volkswagen’s new family of entry-level electric cars is proving to be more popular than its internal combustion engine vehicles. Volkswagen’s...
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Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm still utterly baffled by people who claim that "Christian nationalism" is too offensive or too harsh of a phrase to describe how far-right American Christians & churches behave. This is Exhibit 1,393,284 of what "Christian nationalism" looks like. 1/ www.instagram.com/reels/DdjU3t...
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For Liberty And Justice on Instagram: "God planted Mercy Culture in Tarrant County for a reason. Out of every city in America. Out of every county in this nation. He put us right here, in the largest...
426 likes, 86 comments - forlibertyandjustice on September 21, 2026: "God planted Mercy Culture in Tarrant County for a reason. Out of every city in America. Out of every county in this nation. He pu...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/
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Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Met with 36 journalists in NYC this week to talk about climate change and economic trends and as depressing as that reality is, what takes the cake was learning that McClatchy, right after recent mass layoffs at the Miami Herald, posted positions for influencers at pay exceeding most reporters.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The legal system that the Trump administration has been weaponizing against immigrants and the left is not something of its own creation. They inherited this legal machinery from the war on terror, and until we dismantle it, all of us are at risk. Please, please read this.
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Christine Drazan voted against protecting health care for a million Oregonians, how can she ever be trusted to fight for the people who need it most?
Christine Drazan against a gradient amber-to-black background. Overlaid text reads: 'A bill that would raise billions in federal dollars for Oregon's Medicaid program and allocate a substantial portion back to hospitals...passed 40-15, with six Republicans voting to approve the bill along with the Democratic majority. Fifteen Republicans, including Minority Leader Christine Drazan, voted against it.' Source attribution at bottom reads 'Oregon Public Broadcasting, 02/28/2025.'
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At the time—before a video could be streamed—I got the transcript for this and published it.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The NYT “reported last month that Palantir is in discussions with numerous government agencies for use of its technology that analyzes data, including the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).” 6/17/25 … 1/ thehill.com/policy/techn...
thehill.com
Democrats demand details from Palantir on federal contracts after Social Security, IRS report
A coalition of Democratic lawmakers are asking tech giant Palantir to turn over details of their contracts with the Trump administration amid reports the data company has been given lucra…
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 21/09/2026
ICE Denounced for Enacting 'Official Government Policy of Disappearing People'
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ICE Denounced for Enacting 'Official Government Policy of Disappearing People'
Critics slam ICE for ending detainee location disclosures, causing chaos for lawyers and families. Unprecedented move sparks concerns over due process.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/2009202...
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Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet - Inside Climate News
The nation’s electric utilities release vast quantities of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Recycling efforts could slash emissions at little cost, an Inside Climate News analysis reveals.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I want white folks to understand is when you let your friends, business partners, elected officials, consultants talk about us this way, we don’t trust you either. So ask Walmart & Hewlett Packard about the ppl they pay as lobbyists.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21/09/2026
In case you missed this, the new US Energy Data Dashboard is a powerful and free tool made in partnership with the Our World in Data folks: usenergydata.org
usenergydata.org
Understanding America's energy system
Track and understand the numbers behind US energy — year by year, and state by state.
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Alternative View, Pacific Northwest @alt-pnw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From @wweek.com Half of Oregon is crawling with data centers. Naturally, it’s the side of the state already dealing with excess heat and water shortages. As covered in stories years ago elsewhere, property tax breaks helped bring Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon. www.wweek.com/news/2026/09...
wweek.com
One Half of Oregon Is Crawling With Data Centers
East of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon has a mature data center market dominated by massive hyperscale facilities.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Watching a cartel form right out in the open is really something.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 19/09/2026
Standard tests like the Turing test don't measure AI intelligence. They measure how well AI convinces you it's intelligent.
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The Danger Isn’t That AI Is Too Smart — It’s That It’s Stupid
Recent reports of AI systems “breaking loose” don’t suggest superintelligence. They demonstrate that AI is not intelligent enough to follow basic instructions.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am very tired of people saying “inevitable” about problems that are entirely avoidable. drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab...
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The Unbearable Bleakness of "Inevitability"
My entire adult life people who are supposedly sensible have been telling me some catastrophe or another is “inevitable.” Nuclear war, climate change, and now the AI takeover. Apparently the “end of r...
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/09/2026
Bless these folks!
thegodshow.com
Bless The Americans Who Formed A Human Chain Around The Kennedy Center
Dear Humans,
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
As Trump tries to ban CNN from the White House, it would be a massive mistake to cave on the Paramount merger. The last thing we need is another Trump-controlled media conglomerate abusing its power to stomp out competition. This is a dangerous merger. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
variety.com
Paramount and California AG Bonta Reportedly in ‘Advanced Talks’ to Settle Antitrust Suit
Paramount Skydance is in "advanced talks" with California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle the 12-state antitrust suit that's holding up its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the WSJ reported.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.
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Welshworrier @dickshiner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026
this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud
Hill was willing to speak bluntly and on the record. But not every scientist I contacted felt able to do that. I called one Florida scientist who studies sea level rise to fact-check some of the agents' comments, but before we got very far, they asked not to be named. They explained that their current research depends on cooperation from county and municipal governments, which means they have to "tread very carefully" when speaking about real estate development in the
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That made sense to Hill. "If we get in the way of developers, their attorneys can go after us through our universities," she said. "It's not uncommonẠỊi
For the most part, she said, silence about climate risk in housing is incentivized. Because if climate risk tanks a property's value, she said,
"everyone's going to be pressuring everyone else not to talk about it."
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Maxine Bernstein @maxbernstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Testimony revealed ICE agents randomly ran license plates of cars in Walmart & McDonald's lots in Medford this summer, looking to detain people. Judge says he’s ‘deeply concerned’ about inaccuracies in ICE reports & post-arrest justifications for stops. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
oregonlive.com
ICE ‘dragnet’ violates court order against warrantless arrests, immigration lawyers say
Federal judge cites "deep concerns" about inaccuracies in ICE documents, and post-arrest justifications for stops.
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