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Barbara G 🧿✨

@prettygoodemachine.bsky.social
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Southwestern Latina surviving the Midwest. Bookworm. Freudenfreude Enthusiast. Radical Feminist.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h
Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”
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Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.
A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Between Natalie Harp and now Zacharia, Trump is surrounding himself with women who believe some very strange things. If a friend told you Democrats are a bunch of “sick pedo cannibals,” you’ve back away slowly and seek professional help for her
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h
The world the tech bros are building. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do. www.gadgetreview.com/virginia-dat...
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 10h
The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash
Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 9h
Zelenskyy: “This week was very difficult for us, not only geopolitically, but also because of massive Russian attacks on our civilian infrastructure. They attacked our energy sector 196 times, our gas and oil 20 times. So far, they've killed 153 civilians.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 8h
“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
One of the most famous trees in the American southwest—where tress are often considered sacred—is maliciously destroyed by Markwayne Mullins' goons. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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They sat atop a ‘grandmother’ tree for months. Border agents knocked it down.
Activists occupied a cottonwood tree in Arizona for more than two months in a standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors.
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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 8h
US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries www.ft.com/content/68fd...
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US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries
Officials lobby European capitals and Kyiv following Trump’s diesel deal with Putin
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 8h
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13h
another day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h
I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13h
This didn't come out of nowhere. It was tested on us and normalized on Twitter and Telegram, and when it wasn't Important Elected People, everyone called it a joke
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13h
I empathize obviously but it's tough not to be a little resentful reading electeds be like "this is unprecedented, my family was swatted" It's horrific, AND A lot of us were raising the alarm about this stuff 8 years ago. Earlier, for women targeted by Gamergate.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
“.. Since the final F-150 Lightning rolled off the assembly line in December, it has become one of the most coveted cars in America ..” @bloomberg.com $F www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11h
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thank goodness someone is paying attention to this…FINALLY
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In 1987 Pat Buchanan astutely remarked that "the greatest vacuum in American politics is to the right of Ronald Reagan." That is where the GOP now is. So let’s see where they’re headed…i.e. towards the abyss to the right of Trump. Take Jesse Kelley’s respect for Trump’s “restraint” as an example.
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He's dead wrong, of course. Communists only understand fear and pain.
But still, I admire it.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hope this diva is having an amazing day....
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thinking about what Arapaho people have to teach us about the landscape of the Plains. jasonherbert.substack.com/p/arapaho-wi...
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Arapaho wisdom
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Data centers vs. everything else. Meanwhile, Connecticut and Massachusetts are stuck with massive housing shortages and some of the highest costs of living in the country.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
Lionel Ritchie releases “Can’t Slow Down” 43 years ago today — with its single “All Night Long”. “.. I noticed that, anytime I would come on vacation, everybody [was doing] some form of calypso or .. reggae. All I had to do was find that beat that everybody dances to when they go on vacation."
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 12h
Before being was sworn into office in 2025, Trump said he could "understand [Putin's] feelings," and made clear he would devote his presidency to delivering Ukraine to his ally in Moscow. That's one promise Trump has made good on.
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Putin needs Trump's help more than ever
And Trump is signaling that he'll deliver.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Zelenskyy: "Freedom, independence, Ukraine -- we can't lose it. And the truth is on our side."
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 10/10/2026
Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is helping Russia who is helping Iran attack and kill Americans. So that means Trump is knowingly taking steps to weaken the US and bolster Russia and its close ally, Iran. Does that make him a traitor? Let's have the debate.... www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Roxanne Darling 🍁 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and released ALL of the Epstein files, I’m betting they’d suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h
Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.
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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 14h
An op-ed by the guy who should be running the DNC, but somehow isn’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...
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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)
The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 12h
If @fetterman.senate.gov doesn’t want to d the work of representing the people of Pennsylvania, then he should resign & give another Pennsylvanian the opportunity to serve. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen... Service is a privilege. @johnfetterman.com is wasting taxpayer dollars by not doing his job.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
“JD Vance works for a man who broke every one of the Ten Commandments and committed every one of the Seven Deadly Sins, so I don’t think he has room to call anyone else ‘un-Christian’”
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h
Feeling exhausted and overwhelmed right now? Take a breath. It means the propaganda machine failed; you see right through the noise. We need your voice, your vote, and your fire now more than ever. Don’t back down. We need you in this fight.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...
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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution
Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The countless people who glossed over disinformation and normalized MAHA in any way should recognize this the result of their actions. We no longer have to wonder how the Tuskegee experiments were allowed to happen. We are seeing it for ourselves.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The powerful forces trying to dominate our country want us to fall into cynicism. That way, they win everything — and they'll be able to take it all without the rest of us putting up a fight. If you are worried about the future, you are not alone. I am too. But please do not fall into cynicism.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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