Reposted by cactusflowerJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7hThe discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer. 221005281
Reposted by cactusflowerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10hChrista Pike "had passed on her final meal. And it turns out she actually asked for the $20 that's allotted for that meal to be used to buy pizza for people living on the streets in downtown Nashville, which some of the advocates in town later did."thehandbasket.coWhat it's like to witness a botched executionQ+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections. 633061
Reposted by cactusflowerJane Reads-Truth @janereadstruth.bsky.social · 11hLol, we're about to televise an execution while whinging that code that illegally hacks businesses to collect and sell our information shouldn't be turned off. Pretty soon, A fucking I will have more rights than women in America. 229850
Reposted by cactusflowerMike Masnick @masnick.com · 11hOver a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not. 55986171
Reposted by cactusflowerEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10hSome ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85 1651251398
Reposted by cactusflowerMartha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 03/10/2026MANY more dreams about AI this week, than about climate ( @climatedreaming.bsky.social ) It show me how receptive we are to media and PR redefining our sense of threat. 143
cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Attention @repjohnnyo.bsky.social @citizensimpeachment.com #ImpeachConvictRemove 001
cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thank the heavens for @jamellebouie.net on @majorityreport.bsky.social talking about impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com #ImpeachConvictRemove www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Uy...youtube.comCASUAL FRIDAY w/ Jamelle Bouie | MR LiveYouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder 010
Reposted by cactusflowerCitizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 29/09/2026Dear Congressman @rokhanna.bsky.social, Your words on Meet The Press sounded really good. When can we expect you to invoke Rule IX an start forcing votes on impeachment? 14517
Reposted by cactusflowerGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things 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 297113164106
Reposted by cactusflowerMaya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“They are looking for our thoughts... They want to see who I’m messaging. They want to see what WhatsApp groups I am part of.” -Jalal Shehadeh on searches of pro-Palestine folks' phones at the border truthout.org/articles/bor...truthout.orgBorder Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support PalestineMiami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad. 04033
Reposted by cactusflowerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...thebulletin.orgHow the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big businessThere is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom. 311433
cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What are you talking about!? This is nonsense. The legacy you are leaving, to be clear, is pretending not to hold the power you and only 434 others do to #ImpeachConvictRemove for unconstitutional crimes and violations! There is a Watergate every day! @citizensimpeachment.com 000
Reposted by cactusflowerGinnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Covid isn't over! 073
Reposted by cactusflowerJacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know. 5380107
Reposted by cactusflowerCitizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 30/09/2026The only reason to investigate is to find evidence of wrongdoing. but there are hundreds of smoking guns lying all around for everyone to see. Cancel your stupid investigations. We demand action. Now. Stop the crime spree by impeaching and removing the criminals from power. #NoMoreExcuses 12415
Reposted by cactusflowermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Guys don't worry Trump throwing my ballot in the trash and disenfranchising me is just a strict new rule 537069
Reposted by cactusflowerI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026What Black people think does not matter to them, how Black people have used the term and how we understand it does not matter to them. They don’t have any use for the opinions of Black people because they don’t think Black people’s thoughts hold any value. 331880458
Reposted by cactusflowerSnow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026After Minneapolis when Trump got rid of Bovino and replace him with Homan, ICE has shifted tactics to be less visible and disruptive in major population centers and instead has been quietly ramping up their kidnappings all across the country, including in red states that weren't previously targeted. 11416
Reposted by cactusflowerPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026all those "why I left academia" genre installments are hitting extra special after the past week 27521
Reposted by cactusflowerCitizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 16/08/2026If you're constantly making excuses for ignoring the Constitution and refusing to impeach the fascist, you are enabling the dictator to consolidate power. Don't do that. Be on the side of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. 14418
Reposted by cactusflowerNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world. 7043292446
Reposted by cactusflowerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Extremely my jam: 217130
Reposted by cactusflowerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues. 192431456
Reposted by cactusflowerCitizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 16/08/2026Hakeem Jeffries has been completely unwilling to do his constitutional duty. He has betrayed his oath. He should resign and go away. 1244
Reposted by cactusflowerMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Honestly, being an opinion columnist is pretty much “witchcraft” (as the term is being pejoratively misused here) WITHOUT data. 2369
Reposted by cactusflowerQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Immediately after Jan 6, Trump’s approval ratings tanked to the lowest point of his first term (to roughly where they are right now, in fact). It was only as time went on, and elite institutions signaled that maybe it hadn’t been such a big deal, that people stopped caring as immediately 241586270
Reposted by cactusflowerOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Moon and Venus. 118741
Reposted by cactusflowerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...dannykatch.substack.comWe used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy 28459451011
Reposted by cactusflowerJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24/07/2026It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.ballsandstrikes.substack.comI Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump JudgesFour months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost. 10556421340
Reposted by cactusflowerNPR @npr.org · 15/08/2026The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.n.prArmed troops have patrolled D.C. for 1 year now. It's challenging democratic normsThe deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029. 63406174
Reposted by cactusflowerNYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026NYT editors put Harvard "Claudine Gay" story in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" put on page 15 and chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 "Affirmative action" but just for Chris Rufo 134870
Reposted by cactusflowerNew Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is not at all surprising because NYT has been a conservative outlet dedicated to hounding trans people, spreading anti-Muslim hate, and otherwise whitewashing fascist agenda. 11428
Reposted by cactusflowerAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident? 864565833
Reposted by cactusflowerPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026feels inevitable under current conditions that there are careers and entire publications on the "just asking questions but it sure seems like there are TOO MANY trans people/woke academics/etc" beat but you gotta be a real sick fuck to embrace that as your one trick while constantly disowning it 110114
Reposted by cactusflowerAftermath @aftermath.site · 12/08/2026Everyone in American Psycho talks like they have AI psychosis aftermath.site/american-psych... 435749
Reposted by cactusflowerGreater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 14/08/2026Amidst union negotiations in Hampden, MOMs has banned its workers from wearing respiratory safety masks unless they get a doctor's note. Masking makes EVERYONE safer and should not be impeded. Email the owner and demand he respect workers' safety rights and public health! tinyurl.com/supportmomsw... 411662
Reposted by cactusflowerErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Idk lol "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. I knew what I was doing was illegal. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour." is pretty fuckin legendarynbcnews.comLuigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEOMangione was charged with two federal stalking counts and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 1754841556
Reposted by cactusflowerAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/08/2026learn this One Weird Trick to protect yourself from covid AND flu AND wildfire smoke!!! it's masking. wear a mask. i use @flomask.bsky.social 1259
Reposted by cactusflowerRoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac... 7562612703
Reposted by cactusflowerMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 13/08/2026At @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, @jillmapes.bsky.social has a fine piece. I'd argue that writer-owned outlets like Hearing Things, @theflytrapmedia.com, and @flaminghydra.com are slowly building the right answer, guess what we don't have to go fast or 'scale' www.hearingthings.co/the-latest-e...hearingthings.coThe Latest Elegy for Music Journalism and Middle-Class MusicianhoodSometimes professional failure isn’t your fault. 0144
Reposted by cactusflowerJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Really good piece from @mmfa.bsky.social looking at how much time Fox News has spent trying to stir up racist and anti-trans narratives about the WNBA this summer. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...mediamatters.orgFox News has spent over 13 1/2 hours waging a WNBA culture war this summerFox News has filled its summer programming with extensive coverage of the WNBA, airing at least 206 segments on the league and its players largely aimed at stoking culture war tensions related to race... 15407153