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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A reminder that Gary, Indiana has been without power for just about 2 weeks now. Gary has 8 destructive data centers that strains their power grid. Over 70% of Gary’s population are Black. Indiana is controlled by fascist republicans. You do the math. Pay attention.

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 22/08/2026

A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asyl…

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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is obviously true, not a conspiracy theory at all.

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Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Don't ever say dinosaurs can't evolve

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11/05/2026

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

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Everlee Has Disappeared

Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/05/2026

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

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Exclusive: Inmates describe being punished for speaking out about Ghislaine Maxwell | CNN

Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow inmates speak to CNN about Maxwell’s special treatment in prison and how they were punished for criticizing Maxwell. MJ Lee reports on OutFront.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 05/05/2026

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model on your device ❌ No consent ❌ No opt-in ❌ No real opt-out for regular users This isn’t a small experiment & it’s on billions of devices. ➡️ Read more: www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Screenshot of a news article, "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane."

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job. One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution. Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

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This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

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How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats

When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.

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Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It's the tortured idiom that kills me here. Usually it's hopes, plans, or ambitions that collide with reality--and get dashed, or reset, or whatever. But a "portrayal" that collides with reality? That's just lying. The NYT can't help but normalize even if it means butchering the English language

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/04/2026

I’m watching the new essential film, Ghosts in the Machine, featuring many esteemed colleagues of mine, and noting how many of the great men scientists making claims about the ability for machines to mimic humanity also denied the humanity of women in myriad ways.

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𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Yikes! “AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found.” #AI

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Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Honestly, fuck off.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2026

at the risk of offending another genteel law professor who insists that all inquiry is valid and in good faith, the effort to read another meaning into the citizenship clause is like trying to read another meaning into the qualifications clause. it's obvious nonsense.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.” F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)

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A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

March 15th is the Ides of March. . . a day in which several Roman Senators executed a ruler who was becoming increasingly monarchial, had established himself as dictator, and had ambitions of world domination. I mention this because. . . .well, it's the Ides of March.

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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 02/03/2026

A New York judge has tossed out Columbia University's unprecedentedly harsh discipline against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall during the 2024 Gaza protests, calling it arbitrary and capricious: hellgatenyc.com/columbia-exp...

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Judge Rules Columbia's Expulsions of Pro-Palestine Protesters Were Illegal

The judge tossed out Columbia’s disciplinary actions against 22 students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024.

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Any Doubts @anydoubts.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"Our most effective weapons against AI, and the right wing that has adopted it, may not be strikes, boycotts or the power of dialectics. They might be replying “cringe,” “this sucks,” and “this looks like shit.”

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

did you know jared kushner said in davos that the plan is to build data centers where palestinians lived

Another slide, titled "New Gaza", showed plans to turn the enclave into a centre of in-dustry, heavy on data centres and other digital infrastructure.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

End the interview. Ask him why he isn’t resigning. Remind him that NATO is a signed ratified treaty & part of US law. Ask him why he’s so unserious & why he’s endangering our closest alliance. Do your damn job, for G-d’s sake. It’s not a false choice to Americans either.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar

The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT

The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/C-D5r9RBkY9/

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

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iRamona @iramona.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Can't wait until Chicago allows the creepy cars that can simultaneously shut down all of the streets

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The AHA saying historians can use AI to generate fake historical images is pretty crazy.

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Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

OK so where are my historians who are quitting the AHA over these hideous AI guidelines

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” 🤡 @rani.bsky.social $TSLA @mims.bsky.social sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

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