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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Alert: Everyone Should Count. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/aler...
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Alert: Everyone Should Count
We need your help to tell the United States Census Bureau: Don’t make damaging changes to the 2030 Census! The United States Census Bureau is currently taking public comments on proposed rules that w...
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
On the one hand you have to admire the audacity to proudly proclaim that "Arkansas is Number One" on your campaign website. On the other hand it begs the question "Just how stupid does Sarah Sanders think Arkansans are?" www.starvoters.com/sanders
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Senate Republican leader Bart Hester's fingerprints are all over unconscionable decision to yank job offer from U. of Arkansas' new law school dean -- and he's actually proud of his role in making U of A look ridiculous & opening it up to a costly lawsuit. #arpx arkansasadvocate.com/2026/01/15/u...
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I've spent the last several days writing thousands of impassioned words about awful people. Is this what it feels like to be @edzitron.com? 🤣
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Disaffiliating Arkansas’ public TV network from PBS is an ideological move arkansasadvocate.com/2026/01/07/d...
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Disaffiliating Arkansas’ public TV network from PBS is an ideological move | Arkansas Advocate
COMMENTARY: Arkansas' decision to disaffiliate from PBS is an ideological one that will hurt viewers.
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
My latest @arkansasadvocate.com column: Driven by their FOMO, Gov. Sanders & Arkansas legislators have lavished new incentives on Big Tech to build data centers - leaving pesky questions unanswered about wisdom of this path. #Arkansas #arpx #arleg #arnews
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Fear of Missing Out on data center boom leads Arkansas officials to ignore hard questions | Arkansas Advocate
Amid splashy announcements of projects, sort-of projects and maybe someday projects, and the handing out of tax breaks like a freewheeling Santa on Christmas Eve, some pesky questions are being…
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
BEARING WITNESS: A small group of demonstrators is standing vigil every weekday afternoon outside ICE office in Little Rock as immigrants are herded onto unmarked buses and driven away. @milostrain.bsky.social reports for @arktimes.bsky.social
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Little Rock ICE office becomes focus of protests against detentions, deportations of immigrants - Arkansas Times
“Everything changed the day that ICE took my dad,” said Evelin Dominguez, 11, speaking into a megaphone pointed at the ICE office across the street.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/11/2025
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/11/2025
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A lot of people haven't seen the news & videos of ICE's racial profiling and Gestapo tactics because the media they consume isn't covering it. So I made a website to collect posts from various social media sites in one place. Please share widely: youarebeinglied2.com
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You Are Being Lied 2
the federal govt is ruining America. for all of us.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction. The enablers have to feel it. weaintbuyingit.com
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We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 13/11/2025
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/11/2025
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Let me guess: They then asked him if they were related
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/11/2025
This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care. If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...
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Is Your Health Care Premium Going Up? Share Your Story | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is just fantastic read from @notus.com. Democracy is indeed a letter to the editor www.notus.org/perspectives...
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The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/10/2025
this is evil
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What a lying piece of shit the vice president of the United States is. Wow.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/10/2025
Black Homeowners Receive Higher Appraisal After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
15 No Kings protests across Arkansas on Saturday. Here's a list: #NoKings buff.ly/JWsEtle
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
15 No Kings protests set for Saturday across Arkansas. Here's the list: #NoKings
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
CONWAY, on Marc Benioff: “.. It saddens me immensely to say that with your recent comments, and failure to understand their impact, I now barely recognize the person I have so long admired.” @politico.com $CRM www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The nice people at the University of Arkansas asked me to give a talk on "Demystifying Generative AI: How it Works" and I think it was pretty good! If you're interested in learning "how the magic trick works" check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2t5...
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Demystifying Generative AI: How it Works
YouTube video by Ask Steve
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Remember when you tried to tell us “the younger generations don’t think that way.” And “the young people will save us.” There are a lot of great, humane, decent, bright young people out there. But there are also a lot of these young people. And they’re not going anywhere.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14/10/2025
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
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Sophia Freuden @sophiafreuden.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My latest research on LLM grooming, co-authored with @ninajankowicz.com and @garymarcus.bsky.social, found that OpenAI's so-called "reasoning" o3 model cited Pravda network content 26.8% of the time in response to specific prompts. This research got cited today in a column by the Financial Times:
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
wrote a quick one about the tech companies settling lawsuits with Trump. Yes, it’s cowardice. But it’s also an excuse to behave the way they’ve always wanted to (irresponsibly, with no regard for the consequences of their actions). Which, actually makes them a perfect part of the MAGA coalition
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YouTube Bends the Knee
Welcome to the era of Big-Tech capitulation.
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Parents of high school seniors! (And if you're more on top of things than me, juniors!) I made an AI Agent to 1-click capture colleges from Niche.com into a Google Sheet, so that you and your kid can easily compare, filter, sort, share, and add your own notes to their prospective colleges.
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Great Wired article by Steven Levy, longtime chronicler of Silicon Valley and author of of Hackers, In the Plex, and many more: www.wired.com/story/silico...
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2025
A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
LGBTQ Arkansans are coping with mental health challenges as community is increasingly targeted by national & state Republican politicians. Therapists report increased caseloads, with some patients making plans to leave. @debrahale.bsky.social reports in @arktimes.bsky.social
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Anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric take heavy toll on Arkansans' mental health - Arkansas Times
Little Rock therapists Kirsten Sowell and Josh Strickland speak about how anti-LBGTQ policies and rhetoric are affecting their clients.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This is amazing.
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings march in Little Rock steps off at 10 a.m. Sat. on LR side of the Broadway Bridge. #Arkansas #arpx arkansasadvocate.com/2025/06/13/1...
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15 'No Kings' protests set to happen in Arkansas Saturday | Arkansas Advocate
Several Arkansas cities are slated to be the scene of organized “No Kings” demonstrations Saturday, as part of a national protest against President Donald Trump’s policies and actions during his…
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thanks @arktimes.bsky.social for picking up my column! #Arkansas #arpx #arleg #arnews arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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‘Pernicious and unnecessary’ laws make life harder for ordinary Arkansans - Arkansas Times
“Some people ask us what we do to relax and refresh at the end of the session, and I say, ‘File lawsuits,’” jokes Holly Dickson, the ACLU’s executive director, who likens dealing with legislators on c...
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The most stunning number in this poll: How can 45% of American adults who have lived through the last 100 days actually still say they approve of this dumpster fire? This makes me want to decamp for a tiny island in the South Pacific ...
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Arkansas Republicans who find direct democracy dangerous, distasteful and inconvenient are trying to hollow out the ballot initiative process with new layers of obstruction. My latest column in @arkansasadvocate.com. #arpx #arleg #Arkansas arkansasadvocate.com/2025/02/18/i...
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Initiative bills 'a power grab' to deprive Arkansas citizens of their right to direct democracy • Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas legislators are considering changes to the ballot initiative process that are reactive and politically motivated.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
KNOW YOUR
RIGHTS
IN CASE OF ICE:
CONOCE TUS DERECHOS
EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR.
ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge.
Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door.
NO ABRAS TU PUERTA.
ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.ASK THEM
TO LEAVE.
If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission.
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PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN.
Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.REMAIN SILENT.
You have the right to remain silent.
If the agents ask you questions, tell them,
"I wish to remain silent."
PERMANECE EN SILENCIO.
Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio.
Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles:
"Deseo permanecer en silencio".
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:
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What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan
Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Musk is a uniquely incompetent person, elected by nobody, who has been allowed by Trump to take over the US, and who truly believes that he has a boundless, unrivaled intellect that allows him to go through a 6.7 trillion dollar budget in weeks, and overrule Congress and voters on what parts belong
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Rep. Mary Bentley's ridiculous bill to require public (but not private) school students to sit through anti-abortion propaganda video is scheduled to come up in Senate committee Monday morning. Passing along info for anyone who wants to show up and speak. #Arkansas #arpx
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I wrote an article for the Entrepreneurship issue of the NW Arkansas Business Journal on "How to become a learning machine": talkbusiness.net/2025/01/how-...
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How to become a learning machine - Talk Business & Politics
So you have an idea. A genius idea. A wonderful, brilliant, genius idea. You’re going to build a product or service that’s going to change the world. You toil for...
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rajatrocks @rajatrocks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...
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