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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 7h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6h
I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!
Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and 
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of 
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to 
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response 
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, 
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome. 
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those 
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern 
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the 
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed 
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to 
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the 
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6h
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
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lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 7h
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 19h
remarkable thing to admit
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
want to hear more about doordash's assault on home rule? or on its attempts to derail mamdani? join us tonight. freedcproject.org/event-list/s...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s sad. I also nearly stopped my neighbor’s house from burning down, when I got ticked off at the arsonist. But I didn’t, instead I gave him matches and lighter fluid. But I was kinda peeve for a bit, there! This makes me look good.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"
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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy shite - a professor at Harvard who advocated for the survivors was denied tenure. She was later terminated. The same day the termination notice arrived, she received the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If only anyone could have predicted that the candidate accused of sexual assault would be *checks notes* accused of sexual assault www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/d...
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Mayor Lurie pulls endorsement from Manny Yekutiel in wake of new sexual assault allegations
Lurie had just thrown his weight behind Yekutiel three weeks ago, and he said in a Thursday statement that he thought Yekutiel was “the best candidate to represent District 8” at the time.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This ad for Karen Bass by the Los Angeles Police Protective League is flatly despicable, and it should be condemned by all regardless of one's preferred candidate for mayor. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Nithya Raman Won’t Keep Our Kids Safe
YouTube video by Los Angeles Police Protective League
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the rampant misandry is because of the continual rape
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We’ve built a bridge!
Asshole is as asshole does
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This characterization by WaPo is both wrong and normalizing: “Trump’s immigration policies have veered between escalating arrests and backing away from the political fallout.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202… 1/2
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Trump acknowledges bind he faces on immigration policies
The president spoke at a Hispanic Heritage Month event as Latino voters abandon him.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In Park Slope Food Coop news, a bit more than 1% of the members left after it adopted the BDS resolution and because there's a 3,000 person wait list to join there was no effect on the finances
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The office that you sit in is obviously off campus and that’s for a reason,” she said. “Our main obligation is accountability. Whether that looks like something that many people do not want to hear, or something that many people do want to hear, it’s our obligation to report on it.”
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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💀 Beignet Blanc 💀 @puckingladylike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI guys hate having to see another living person, let alone walk into a record store and spend some time browsing and enjoying themselves.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gebbia is in the news again, but strangely no reporters mention this. Seems worth mentioning! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...
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Trump's Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society
Joe Gebbia, the founder of Airbnb, blames immigrants for rising housing costs
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are ways to both engage with the challenges facing readers and reading today while also rejecting this kind of triumphal doomerism; the booksellers I spoke with for this piece are exemplars of that. Maybe you'd like to read this today instead?
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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you're wondering why schools like Cornell sweep this shit under the rug it's because they are afraid of opening up the rape and sexual assault can of worms at a place where the faculty itself is often packed with pedos and perverts
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing about this book is that I wrote it from a deeply personal place-- it takes place where I went to hs, the main girl looks suspiciously like me-- about the rape culture I experienced at the age that was unacceptable. And all I've ever wanted for this book was its cultural irrelevance.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NBC News did a story on baseball's desire for a salary cap. Sorry this is behind a paywall. I am quoted in here, though, noting that payroll doesn't really explain wins in baseball. It really never has. A salary cap is just a way to limit player pay. www.nbcnews.com/sports/baseb...
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MLB wants a salary cap for competitive balance. Does the playoff field already have it?
Major League Baseball believes a salary cap is essential for the sport’s future. But a few small-market teams have already crashed the 2026 postseason.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The appeals court has sided with New Kings Democrats in Brooklyn Democratic party struggle, ordering the Aug. 25 rule changes voted on by prior district leaders, calling them "null and void."
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i took the most deadly boring weekly three-hour seminar on transcendentalism with this guy, and yes, he brought a frisbee to toss around outside during the break
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
Okay, just so we have a record: The Facebook Fake-Out, a record of Meta's tactic of transgressing, getting caught, waiting for things to blow over, and then breaking the rules again. I documented the pattern so we have a link to share for the next time they do it. www.anildash.com/2026/09/29/f...
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The Facebook Fake-out - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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