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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 3h

From Lina M. Khan: “Much of the commentary from the executives suggests they currently operate in a legal vacuum….In fact, their business practices — including how they develop & deploy their technologies — are already subject to longstanding laws.” Use them!! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

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Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong?

Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 19h

“…what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. Cease to be a place where the consequences for sexual-assault victims are often greater than for the perpetrators.”

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Helpful context from the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum www.google.com/earth/outrea...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is insane that Sam Altman talks about AI safety as though it is an option. If his crap causes damage, his shithole company is out of business, and he could well be going to jail. This is not a choice for him to make substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences

People need to face consequences for criminal negligence

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A simple way to improve AI safety is to enforce the law. If Sam Altman knows that he will be treated like a drunk driver after an accident if his AI causes serious damage, he will be much more careful deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...

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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences

People need to face consequences for criminal negligence

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” OMG 😱 We do NOT need more data centres for this garbage. Regulate AI. NOW #bcpoli #CdnPoli @mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social @emilylowan.bsky.social @ubcm.bsky.social

What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 “The climate crisis, caused by pollution from fossil fuels, is already supercharging extreme weather and killing people. The El Niño will ratchet up the impacts even further, and has already begun to affect regions across the planet as weather patterns are altered.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trans people are a slightly LARGER percent of the US population in 2026 than Jewish people were in Germany in 1933. Assholes who say trans folk aren’t worth defending because of population size are telling us exactly who they would have been in Nazi Germany.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW: One in five members of Congress reports investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds. Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry readsludge.com/2026/09/18/h...

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Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry

One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“In Democrats’ case, the corruption of inaction takes a more discreet form that at once appeals to liberals’ fetish for pragmatism..”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are times in all of our lives when our character is tested, often without warning. It's important to have good character so you don't have to struggle over the decision.

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New Jersey Universal Healthcare Coalition @njuhc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The health insurance business model demands premiums, then denies care… What other industry is allowed to take payment and then refuse service?" #MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare @hca-mn.bsky.social

UnitedHealth Group posted $6.2B in profits last quarter while simultaneously denying 32% of all prior authorization claims.
You paid your premium. They denied your claim. They kept your money.

Help us fix health care.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026

political corruption is literally an apocalyptic problem — pass it on

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Like, the biggest issue for fairness in sport is that success is positively correlated with wealth, not because rich people are inherently better but because there are structural barriers to involvement in sports (participating, training, etc) if you are poor.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It's not about fairness or competition or even caring about sports. It's just about hate

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Is it fair that the school on a shoestring budget has to play the one in the affluent suburb that has a budget for brand new equipment and groundskeeping for a shot at state finals? Fuck off lol

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You know who else has an unfair advantage in sport? Naturally talented athletes. And people with high hemoglobin. And rich people with money for sports camps and coaches. Why should they be allowed to compete? “Fairness in sports” my ass. Never since NFTs have I heard such bullshit.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It’s about fairness in women’s sports.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

Me: “Haha cute gif” Friend: “Sorry dude its AI. Look at the this/this/that” Me, My Face Curdled Like Milk: *insert cursewords here*

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s astonishing to see this, even though we saw it coming months ago. White = 10°F + above normal in the El Niño regions. Its immense! In the air, a regional warming of 10° is no big deal. But in the ocean it’s immense! Think about how hard it is/ how long it takes to cool/ heat your pool. 1/

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/09/2026

Right now, a middle-class nurse pays a higher payroll tax rate than a highly-paid CEO. That's wrong. It's time to protect Social Security by scrapping the cap so higher-income earners and wealthy investors pay their fair share—preventing benefits cuts for everyone.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I used to be a Social Security trustee. How can we fix Social Security without cutting benefits or raising the retirement age? Scrap the cap. This is a plan that even some Republicans are starting to get on board with. Let me explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZuB7XSFys

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How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich

Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it.A CEO earning $20M/yr pays So

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Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Haaretz exposé: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received an explicit warning from UAE President bin Zayed days before October 7. He didn't brief Israel's security chiefs. 🔗https://tr.ee/s78NFy

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨 “Ben Chevat, the group’s executive director, said the documents showed that the city knew about the toxic chemicals’ danger, “even as city officials continued messaging to the public that the air was ‘safe and acceptable.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

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After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality

The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In NYC, Mayor Mamdani has launched the Office of Worker Power, designed to connect workers who want to unionize with education and resources. Former US Labor Sec Julie Su is overseeing the effort & the executive director comes from the UAW. "When workers can organize, everything changes," said Su.

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Mamdani Opens Office of Worker Power - The American Prospect

The new city agency intends to connect workers who want to unionize with resources and organizing contacts, and use worker stories of exploitation to inform policy.

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