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cactusflower

@presentprocess.bsky.social
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editorial and clinical and political. I'm mad! I wrote this most recently: mentalhellth.xyz/p/its-time-to-debu…

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 9h
The 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.
"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family. 

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator 

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of: 

➡️ defunding the police 
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets 
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors 
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections 

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h
Christa 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."
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What it's like to witness a botched execution
Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.
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Jane Reads-Truth @janereadstruth.bsky.social · 12h
Lol, 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.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12h
Over 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.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12h
Some ~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
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cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 16h
Take notes @repjohnnyo.bsky.social
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 03/10/2026
MANY 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.
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cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Attention @repjohnnyo.bsky.social @citizensimpeachment.com #ImpeachConvictRemove
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cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank the heavens for @jamellebouie.net on @majorityreport.bsky.social talking about impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com #ImpeachConvictRemove www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Uy...
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CASUAL FRIDAY w/ Jamelle Bouie | MR Live
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 29/09/2026
Dear 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?
Rep. Ro Khanna: “Impeachment says that you can’t get into an illegal war in Iran without constitutional approval. Impeachment says that you can’t just fire federal employees in defiance of what Congress says. Impeachment says you can’t do deals with foreign governments to enrich your own family"
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Maya 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...
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What 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
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Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Covid isn't over!
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again: 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.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 30/09/2026
The 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
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cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am also desperate for this and I may need to do it myself!!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Guys don't worry Trump throwing my ballot in the trash and disenfranchising me is just a strict new rule
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
What 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.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
looting
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
After 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.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
all those "why I left academia" genre installments are hitting extra special after the past week
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 16/08/2026
If 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.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody 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.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Extremely my jam:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I 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.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 16/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries has been completely unwilling to do his constitutional duty. He has betrayed his oath. He should resign and go away.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Honestly, being an opinion columnist is pretty much “witchcraft” (as the term is being pejoratively misused here) WITHOUT data.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Immediately 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
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Moon and Venus.
Crescent Moon and Venus in the darkening sky.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026
not 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...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24/07/2026
It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.
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I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges
Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/08/2026
The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.
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Armed troops have patrolled D.C. for 1 year now. It's challenging democratic norms
The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NYT 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
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This 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.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026
Absolutely 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?
“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
feels 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
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/08/2026
Everyone in American Psycho talks like they have AI psychosis aftermath.site/american-psych...
American Psycho
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Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 14/08/2026
Amidst 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...
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MOM ORGANIC MARKET
Mom's Organic Market has banned employees from wearing masks at ALL locations.
If an employee wants to wear a mask at work, they have to submit a doctor's note for company approval.
If an employee isn't masking for themself, but for someone in their household, they are still banned from masking.
Tell CEO Scott Nash:
CUSTOMERS SAY NO MASK BANS AT MOM'S.
tinyurl.com/supportmomsworkers

[image includes a surgical mask in a crossed-out (🚫) symbol]
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Idk 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 legendary
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Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
Mangione 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.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/08/2026
this is the crux of it
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/08/2026
learn 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
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cactusflower @presentprocess.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two 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...
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 13/08/2026
At @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...
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The Latest Elegy for Music Journalism and Middle-Class Musicianhood
Sometimes professional failure isn’t your fault.
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