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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How long until Andreessen Horowitz announce they've hired the Cornell 7?!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump is sitting at a -28 approval in 50+1 and -21% in RCP Split it down the middle, say he's at -25% For context, his approvals at this point in 2018 was -11%

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not just this bill--Newsom's entire administration has included vetoing dozens if not hundreds of good bills that would make people safer, increase their rights at work, etc. Anyone who cares about policy wants this person nowhere near the White House

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't get me wrong, Uruguay certainly has its share of challenges. But the fact that they chose the most politically and economically stable country in the Western Hemisphere underscores the degree to which their proposed alternative to the state actually depends on a strong and functioning state.

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Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay

After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.

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

🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨

American Research Group's poll of 1,100 adults shows Trump at 29% approval, and one away from the cool sex number in disapproval.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 17, 2011. A group of activists started protesting in Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Soon gaining the nation’s attention and spawning similar groups across the country, Occupy Wall Street was the first grassroots protest against inequality in the New Gilded Age!

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Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Interested in housing and mass movements? Mañana, Grad Center, 12 noon.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of James Telerico or Ken Paxton will be the next senator from Texas. If you're telling people not to support Telerico, you're saying you want Paxton to win. That's it. You cannot select a different, third bespoke person to be senator like buying a tailored suit.

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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/09/2026

Votesafe dot org is an Elon Musk–run data vacuum, and under no circumstances should you click on it.

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Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Organizers must talk to supporters one-on-one and gather a core group, then send them out to talk with even more people, to persuade them to take action, to vote or rally or sign a petition or volunteer themselves... And they have to keep doing it, day in, day out."

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Democrats @democrats.org · 03/09/2026

BREAKING: New York City just saw its safest summer in recorded history under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Since Mayor Mamdani took office: —Major crime is down 6% —Murders are down 24% —Auto theft is down 13% Democratic mayors are keeping our communities safe.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"But in Springfield, the heightened level of fear is so widespread, & the state-imposed terror vs a vulnerable minority so constant, that it is impossible to see this as anything but [Trump's] proof of concept for the president’s militarized vision of what America should be" - @swin24.bsky.social

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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’

The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.

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Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Now if only she could get booted from the board of my employer

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One thing I wanted to say at the time but couldn’t find the strength: regular people have no idea how academics publish books. We rarely have editorial or fact-checking support or services. Academic stars — overwhelming white men — get those resources but we almost never do.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 28/08/2026

jews aren't responsible for others holding antisemitic beliefs nor acting upon them but the american jewish establishment reorienting itself around vilifying leftists for opposing israeli atrocities while giving nazis a free pass certainly is not helping slow the spread of antisemitism on the left

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Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I cannot believe this seriously unserious person is ostensibly in charge of one of the largest local county party orgs in the country. It's so embarrassing!

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Eli Kahn 🏳️‍🌈 @elikahn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

UNSHAKENED???

screenshot from the video from the original post. Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, wearing a mustard-tan pantsuit, is standing on the steps of a classical-style building with columns. The closed caption reads “Unshaken”, which is what she’s saying, but at the center of the screen is the giant word “Unshakened”

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026

AIPAC "seems to be cashing out the taboo-against-antisemitism account, as it were – cynically calculating that if it behaves like an antisemitic conspiracy theory, then people will hesitate to point that out; or if someone does, they can be smeared as a Jew-hater."

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In Michigan, AIPAC Is Playing With Fire

As an ostensible defender of Jewish rights, it is unwise to behave like the stuff of antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Report from Brooklyn Democratic Party exec committee meeting is that Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's anti-democratic power grab has passed by 21-19 vote (1 abstention, 1 no-show) *All 8 District Leaders who lost in June voted yes*

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

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Miguel A. Martínez @miguel-martinez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Back to school with this news: the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology that was published two years ago is now Open Access!! Authors and colleagues, please spread the word: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/08/2026

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ellis Rosen.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I shrugged at Jeffries meeting Kushner, for basically the same reason Iran talks to him: meeting adversaries is normal. But the choice to make it secret, followed by surprise that Kushner leaked it, is another sign Dem leaders think they're in normal politics with good faith opponents, not a crisis.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And then establishment dems and pundits have the NERVE to act confused as to why democratic socialist candidates are doing so well in primaries and elections lately.

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Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Activist non-scholars"!? Trying looking in a mirror, buddy

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

what are you talking about

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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For weeks, we’ve wondered what absolutely insane scheme Brooklyn Dems Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and former leader Frank Seddio would cook up to try to hold on to power this September. Now we know, & it’s a doozy:

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Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn Almost Lost Control of the Brooklyn Dems. So She's Changing the Rules

The scandal-ridden Brooklyn Democratic Party is trying to make June's regime-changing elections meaningless.

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