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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YES to all of this excellent piece. My line on this when asked is "I don't think disabled people will ever benefit from something that harms society as a whole".

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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

More people are becoming wise to the amount of access washing* going on. *the term coined by stacey milbern

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 11/09/2026

The state has mailed letters to thousands of Medicaid enrollees who are low-income or have a disability. They could lose coverage as soon as Oct. 1 due to legislation that President Trump signed into law last year.

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Illinois alerts more than 700,000 people they will or could lose public health insurance

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Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I get uncomfortable when orgs and businesses want to commission "zines" because usually what they are asking for is not a zine but a pamphlet/booklet that they don't want to pay professional rates for. It devalues publishing professionals and diminishes the meaning of zines.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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Children's Defense Fund @cdf1973.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pierre should be here. He should be starting college. Playing soccer. Studying neuroscience. Building the future he came to this country to pursue. Youth should not have to carry fear, stigma, & isolation alone. They deserve communities and systems that protect their safety, futures, & dignity.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It also opens the door to actual traffickers or possessors of CSAM to claim everything is AI generated when they actually had a child in their basement they exploited for a year. It encourages killing child victims, so recognition to a real child can’t be matched in court.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I refuse to believe that a lot of people don’t understand that AI images/videos are generated off of existing real content. This means that this ‘American right’ allows anyone to type in a prompt of child abuse, wait for a computer to mash 100s of real victims together, and spit out a new image.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking

A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent.
The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal.
Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.

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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

David Crowley can be a good candidate & governor but requires the kind of unity & fearlessness from the WI (& national) Dems that...hasn't exactly been precedent as of late. But it's absolutely vital that Hong supporters both push him/his campaign and show up for it. We can't afford a Tiffany win.

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you are not in Madison and would like to donate I will post a thread of things to support, first and foremost this GoFundMe for Corey Ruiz’s family. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...

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Donate to Justice for Corey: Telling His Story, organized by Antonio Lopez

Our beloved Corey was murdered in the street by a Madison Police Department officer… Antonio Lopez needs your support for Justice for Corey: Telling His Story

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/07/2026

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

40% of disabled cancer patients die during the wait period to enroll in medicare — and the rate is rising

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today @thesicktimes.org: Writer Flynn Lovelace shares his experience as a teacher with Long COVID, seeing signs of the disease among his students. "Since 2020, disease has held a constant, detrimental grip on classrooms across K–12 (and higher) education," he writes.

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The (sick) kids aren’t alright: Observations from a teacher with Long COVID - The Sick Times

We must help students by addressing Long COVID and advocating for clean air in schools.

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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

On Monday (7/20), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services quietly rescinded guidance titled "Compliance with Residents' Rights Requirement Related to Nursing Home Residents' Right to Vote." Extremely concerned about this. www.cms.gov/files/docume...

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AHMAD_JOHAR🕊𓂆🇵🇸 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Like every family around the world, we simply dream of living in peace. We love life, we have dreams, and we’re doing everything we can to build a safe, normal future for our little family. I truly believe that one day, we’ll live that life. ❤️❤️‍🩹

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Our Baby Deserves Safety: Help Ahmad& Samar to Start Again

Hi, I'm helping my dear friends Ahmad and Samar who are seeking your support to build a secure and stable future for themselves and their growing family. Please read their story and consider supportin...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 17/07/2026

Finding statistics on literally anything in the era of AI slop is so difficult and frustrating; access to accurate, fact-checked, clearly-sourced, and cited information is paywalled behind $$$.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 14/07/2026

I just dont understand why people hate data centers, aside from the fact that they drive up energy prices, pollute your neighborhoods, ruin clean water and oh yeah Will steal your fucking house via eminent domain www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...

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Georgia family says they're forced to sell home to help power AI data centers: "It's theft"

Georgia Power says building a new transmission line will require acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🕯️Join us in a vigil org by @caarprnow.bsky.social to honor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo & Joan Sebastian Guerrero, MURDERED BY ICE. 💔 And never forget Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, murdered by ICE in Franklin Park! ✊🏼✊🏾 Gather Wed July 15th, 8 pm by Nuestras Historias mural in Little Village, 26th & Pulaski

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Get some stickers! Keep our Long COVID storytelling going! It’s a win-win!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026

ICE and/or police murdered someone this morning in Biddeford, Maine. From the statements I’ve seen from local activists, I *think* the victim was a young Black man. You may already know Black immigrants are the largest non-white immigrant demo in Maine. A protest is already under way.

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Witness says Biddeford shooting victim told police ‘I tried to stop’

One resident says he heard the shots and saw as agents pulled the man out of the vehicle.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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HoofbeatsEqualZebra @knockknockzebra.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’m so, so glad this is getting attention. Boston University Medical Center had a recruiting drive years ago & the data privacy info was so sketchy I refused. Subsequent research did nothing to allay my concern & I’ve been yapping about it ever since (mostly on my now-nuked X acct).

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Rachel DL @racheldl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was telling people for years this would happen, and people treated me as if I was paranoid lmfao. They were deliberately seeking marginalized people’s genetic data, the very people who are otherwise denied access to actual medical genetic screens. The study was always inherently predatory -

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/07/2026

ICE celebrating “Freedom 250” by taking shackled immigrants from our nation’s capital to concentration camps in the South.

An ADSBx map showing an ICE charter plane landing at Dulles, west of Washington DC

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not gonna lie, the fact that AI data centers are being cooled while Americans die in the street from heat stoke is really pissing me off.

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The whole point is I did not agree to have my work used in a book about the constitution (especially one that's not overtly critical), and I don't appreciate that they just traced my work as well. It's so fucked! I had to find out about it through someone else asking if I drew that. No I didn't.

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I really am not surprised if D&Q would turn the other way wrt stealing other people's works (LRT) since they did it to me for Constitution Illustrated. "Fair use" was their excuse for tracing wholesale.

The interior of Drawn & Quarterly's Constitution Illustrated of the kids of Heart of the City in a wooden wagon.

The kids of Heart of the City in a shopping cart with the Philadelphia skyline behind them.

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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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LiteralGrill @literalgrill.com · 30/06/2026

So when I got my leg amputated, I lived on a second floor building with only staircases. The alternative was being locked in a nursing home against my will. Right before COVID lockdowns began. It's a minor miracle the place I live now is accessible.

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 30/06/2026

"A 2024 study estimated that nearly one-fourth of people with disabilities in the U.S. live in inaccessible buildings with no elevator and at least one flight of stairs, making it much more difficult — if not impossible — to participate in the community." - @racheldl.bsky.social shorturl.at/MMTZC

A white woman with brown hair, a purple sleep mask, an orange shirt, and noise-canceling headphones, lies under the covers of her bed. The lights in the room are dim and a wheelchair is parked by the side of the bed. An open laptop and paperwork lie on top of the covers. On the wall behind the bed is a small bulletin board and string of fairy lights. The text reads, “The Sick Times. I worked in homeless services for years. It didn’t help me find accessible housing when I got Long COVID. By Rachel Litchman.”

People like me with Long COVID and ME deserve more support in finding accessible, affordable housing, and more of us should have the privilege to experience the same relief I felt the day I finally moved into my first apartment with an elevator.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 29/06/2026

"The Board of CPJ will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets." From Mohammed El-Kurd (editor-at-large at Mondoweiss.)

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NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.

The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.

This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.

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NEW: Sources say that CPJ has put together a “special task force” to “reexamine the question of ‘Who is a Journalist?’” (direct language). The main objective of the task force is to explore excluding journalists working for “state-backed propaganda outlets and terror-affiliated organizations” from their database, as well as journalists who exhibit actions and behaviors that the organization finds to be discrediting. Essentially, CPJ is saying you’re not a journalist unless you’re politically aligned with us.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i have been so angry about this all day i couldn’t form the words but under this definition, reporters killed while reporting from NPR, PBS or the BBC (or any outlet while embedded with the US or UK militaries) wouldn’t be counted, but ofc they aren’t being excluded—this is pure zionist racism!

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United For Democracy @weareufd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The far-right majority just cleared the way for Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians who have lived and worked legally in the U.S. for years. Families could be separated. People could be forced back into humanitarian crises. This is mass cruelty.

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Supreme Court allows Trump to end protected status for Haitian and Syrian migrants

The ruling opens the path for the Trump administration to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have been living in the US for years.

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I only say “drop everything and read this one” about once or twice a year, so I hope you’ll take my advice concerning this story It’s one of the most compelling, most keenly observed and most beautifully written accounts of being institutionalized as a teenager that I've ever read.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to March 2026. Between H.R. 1's enactment in July 2025 and March 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4 million.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s far cheaper for people to live at home than in an institution, in case that’s all you care about.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

And now there’s been a 5th death 💔

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Rachel DL @racheldl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Very pleased to share my new essay in the Disability Debrief @desibility.bsky.social about what my experiences in a residential institution taught me about power and resistance & how those lessons have come back to me during rising authoritarianism. www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/inst...

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What being institutionalised taught me about resistance

And why these lessons come back as Trump attacks marginalised communities

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Gutted by this news, and that she was so young--even if I could do the math on her autobiographical story, Persepolis seems like the work of decades' more confidence and insight. And just a beautiful creation. Use your voice while you have a voice to use. RIP.

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