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To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 11h

(This is not at all to minimize past and present injustice and suffering but) we are likely at or near a relative high point in terms of general social commitment to moral and political equality and the (sadly, slow) drift of history is toward the eventual achievement of even greater high points.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

"Health is a social problem, not a technical one. Our problems will be resolved socially and politically, or not at all."

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 12h

Its really astounding to me how an institute ostensibly committed to critical thinking can so easily fall for right wing propaganda - and how quickly they can take action when its the right wing asking them to do so vs when we ask them to uphold their own rules, policies and commitments

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 14h

there's a new USA Nails record coming soon, good news for noise rock heads usanails.bandcamp.com/album/routin...

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Routine Flesh, by USA Nails

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 17h

There were about 16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany last summer, about double the mortality during the first Covid wave in early 2020. Extreme heat needs to be treated as an ongoing public health emergency.

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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News

As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is fucked up and I don't believe any politician who claims to oppose this unless they call for prosecution of the people doing this, and I think pseudo-opposition to this is part of the problem.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

can writing survive the New York Times

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

another stupid day where I didn't win the lottery. if I wasn't equipped by nature with such an admirably high degree of wit, grace, and humility this would really get me down

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'I know a guy, I'm gonna get him to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge real cheap, trust me'

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In our latest, we speak with Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time reinforcing dominant ideas about disposability www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

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On “Gerontocracy,” Part 2: Age and Capitalist Disposability w/ Nate Holdren (09/28/26) | The Death Panel

Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time r

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cornell expelled students who were protesting genocide in Gaza, but made five of seven guys who gang raped a drugged girl for seven hours write essays. That tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the morals of that institution.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think this is correct and one thing interesting about it is the number of people who 'live in a bubble' is probly at a historical high, maybe the majority now, so that 'bubble' is now the norm which means the moral charge to 'you live in a bubble' is outmoded yet it still retains that charge.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm currently very excited about this eden-aurelius.bandcamp.com/album/entre-...

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Entre Nous, by Eden Aurelius

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think this probly can't be overstated and is also genuinely really hard for the rest of us to wrap our heads around.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

back on this. real good imho. mad and sad. davehause.bandcamp.com/album/paddy

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Paddy, by Dave Hause

5 track album

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 22/09/2026

Gov Reynolds signature higher ed initiative collapsing in the twilight of her term due to power struggles and ego driven kremlinology is as predictable as it is delicious.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People need to stop using "New Left" in this insanely ahistorical way. Norm Podhoretz never came even remotely close to being a "new left Jewish intellectual". Irving Kristol stopped being a leftist in like... the late 1940s. He stopped being a liberal, in part, because of the rise of the New Left!

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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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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In January 2022, COVID killed roughly 6 kids per day and these guys yawned. They are not going to care about 8 measles deaths.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No shade to OP but there's plenty of ground for faculty to stand on by going 'yet another case in point that university management don't represent the best interests of university employees and students.' (and if I was betting man I'd put money on provosts that don't use AI being the minority rn.)

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been working and reworking a piece on a seventeenth-century "perpetual motion" scheme, the upshot of which was shifting colonial production from animal to enslaved labour, thereby reducing the amount of land needed to feed animals one of several formally similar cases

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote a review of Lorenzo Feltrin's very good book. I'd appreciate if you'd read the review and I hope it makes you want to read the book. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/17/a...

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A Review of "Workers and the World" - Prometheus Magazine

Nate Holdren reviews Lorenzo Feltrin's "Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within", praising it for countering climate despair.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the fact that some people sometimes say 'Bluesky is toxically anti-AI' means the rest of us are not being toxically anti-AI enough, imco (not currently wearing my AI IS FOR LOSERS shirt but I am in spirit)

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Lindsay Dusard @lindsaydusard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

three called 911 for help.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026

Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/09/2026

students said “Maybe our university should not profit from this” and then donors, faculty, and staff called them terrorists and organized to deport them

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you don't think humanistic learning has value in its own right, no amount of instrumentalization is going to save it that epochal decline coincided with the hegemony of the "employable skills" pitch, including earnings data and all the trimmings, ought to have taught us that

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

good thread about legacy admissions in elite higher ed, and "shame tolerance is built into the business model" is illuminating about h.ed generally (false counterpoint: h.ed management caving to Trump admin - false because Trump pressure upped shame tolerance around stuff they already wanted to do)

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The AI revolution has the potential to accelerate the existing chaos & dysfunction in the world’s information ecosystem, supercharging mis- & disinformation campaigns & undermining fact-based public discussions required to address urgent major threats like nuclear war, pandemics, & climate change."

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Most of the point of this shit is to render monstrous choices more easily and less accountably available to institutional authorities so we should expect this kind of thing, and if left to their own devices the people developing and pushing it will never ever course correct.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/09/2026

The real reason this exists. Mr. Nobody As A Service for when you do war crimes

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Nosotros o el caos @nosotrosoelcaos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cambiemos! - Sarah Andersen

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to Kathryn Benjamin Golden! THIS INSURGENT GROUND: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp is out in the world! This is a tremendously well-written and insightful history of Black women’s fugitive world making.

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WBEZ @wbez.org · 17/09/2026

Five of Illinois' public universities have spent nearly half a million dollars on AI-powered surveillance services from Flock, records show.

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5 public universities in Illinois use controversial Flock cameras to surveil campus, records show

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hamge @clirkus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

even the scalpers are losing money it's all just so *chef's kiss*

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