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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3h

I wrote about the Supreme Court's nonstop lawless cruelty ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

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In places like Thursday’s speech and Friday’s dissent, Jackson has continuously sought to call attention to the deeply perverse ways that the Court is exercising its equity jurisdiction on the shadow docket. Under the Court’s precedents, emergency applicants are supposed to show that they’re “likely to succeed on the merits” of their appeal from a lower court’s ruling, that they will be “irreparably injured” without immediate relief, and that the balance of the equities tilts in their favor; in other words, fairness is both the explicit purpose and the explicit standard. But the Republican justices have repeatedly abandoned those standards in service of their own purposes. And when the people empowered to wield equitable jurisdiction are actively hostile to the concept of equity, they produce injustice instead.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 2h

This is probably a long shot, but do any of my bluesky connections have a favorite super soft 100% cotton t-shirt blank brand/style? I want to make a custom shirt as a gift, but the intended recipient is sensitive to skin ickies.

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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

American shoppers are being surveilled like never before, our @lindsayowens.bsky.social warns in her new interview with @theguardian.com. That makes dodging high prices harder than ever before. It's not your fault, and we have a solution: a Shoppers' Bill of Rights.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate talking about AI every day but I recognize the active danger it represents to nature and the human inspiration that has made my life worthwhile. I cannot overlook the end goal the obscenely wealthy have always had for this tech: to squeeze the rest of us even further out of a modest living.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Part of the testimonial injustice in the situation is believing that the harm to accused men is worse than the rape and worse than the harm caused to advocates and survivors everywhere when men are let off easy

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For people just joining us, here's what's happening. AI types sold a bunch of B2B snake oil to C suites who forced it on employees. The promises they made haven't come true and now they're pivoting to a protection racket trying to scare those same idiots who believed the first set of lies

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All this tech, attention, & resources devoted to the dumbest, most toxic, least productive human endeavors.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...

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Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ProPublica is really doing it all. Give them some money of you don’t already.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

it literally is this atavistic desire for a world that is worse for everyone, even ourselves, "but at least we're In Control™️"

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Make all of this shit a crime punishable by imprisonment, not civil penalties.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/09/2026

The story of the bosses' revolt comes down to their experience, in 2020, of helplessly watching the labor-income line go up — and resolving, right then and there, to make sure that never happened again.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was a very nice day to have the windows open for awhile, until the guy two doors down decided it was nice weather to mow, edge, & leaf blow his lawn, while loudly listening to the most bafflingly tuneless Latin music on a tinny radio.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fuck man. If your third party gets rewarded for denying claims, that right there should be illegal. And we watched similar bullshit in Georgia with DeLoitte raking in millions to promote & do analytics on the "Pathways" work requirement program & they made more $ than was spent on healthcare.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

One of the cops, an 18-year veteran, ran Flock searches on women he met out in public, then showed up whereever they were to try to do meet-cutes: their gym, a Walmart, a Smoothie King. Said to one woman that "he spilt yogurt on his pants and told her, 'You know what that looks like.'"

As Schultz was leaving, he asked another female employee what her and M.W.’s names were.
M.W. said that after Schultz left, she began receiving text messages from a phone number she
did not recognize. Schultz thanked her for letting him sit in the parking lot. M.W. said he texted
a few more times after that. She did not respond.
After a few months Schultz started going to her gym in Indianapolis, but she did not immediately
recognize him. She said when she was at a school function with her daughter in Greenwood and
Schultz stopped her and re-introduced himself.
She told him it was creepy how he got her number and she said he tried to avoid that
conversation. He said that he had to find her number because he spilt yogurt on his pants and told
her “You know what that looks like”. She said Schultz made her uncomfortable with his actions
and some of the comments that he made.

The next time she was at the gym he came up to her and engaged in conversation. M.W. said
Schultz seemed to be at the gym at same time that she is there. Based on membership scans at the
gym, M.W. and Schultz arrived at the gym within one hour of the other on June 12, 2026; June
15, 2026; June 23, 2026; June 26, 2026; July 9, 2026; July 15, 2026; July 21, 2026; July 25,
2026; and August 1, 2026.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The dumbest, most evil MFs spend their every waking moment to come up with ideas like this. “What if we just make jurisdiction for a habeas petition impossible by never keeping detainees in one place?”

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Make America uninsured again.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wish I thought Susan Collins is finished. But, if Maine reelects this sad, corrupt old prune, I'm going to judge them pretty harshly.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Same as it ever was. A smarter country would stop falling for the same trick over and over again.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'd like to think there is a way to parent in this modern age that is somewhere closer to halfway between, "My kid spends every waking hour glued to a tablet" & "my 5 year old was out in the driveway opening & then slamming the car door for 20 minutes straight, & I had no idea what that noise was."

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AR Moxon, on this guy, John Gannon, whose fiancé got taken by ICE... How do we reframe the conversation to take this entitled white guy out of the "victim" seat and perhaps get them to understand the system they identified with, consumes all. There is no exceptionalism that protects you.

An improved John Gannon would have to be somebody who sees this story as something that has been done to other people, not to himself. Does he extend the sympathy he shows himself to his fiancée? He might. It’s not clear in the story that he does, but that might just be the story’s framing. Does he extend it to others? That seems less likely still.

This would be a good place to begin. We might do well to ask, as the news media did, “how did you feel?” but we’d do far better if we progressed to “how do you suppose Yasmin felt?” and best of all if we progressed to “how do you suppose the tens of thousands of other families this has happened to feel?”

We might do well to ask, as the news media has, if he regrets what he has done. But we’d do better to ask “what do you now intend to do?” We might do well to ask if his support for the authoritarian has changed. But we’d do far better to ask “How has this changed you?”

These are questions that do not seem to have occurred to our news media. They may well not have occurred to John Gannon, or the legion of Gannons out there.

Many of them will never ask that question of themselves, and will resist any suggestion they ought to. But some—some—might, especially if they are asked.

Asking might plant a seed in their mind.

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Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To be fair, hallucinating wrong financial advice 57% of the time still puts us dangerously close to the historical baseline of Wall Street analysts.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you're not starting from the position that civil rights are inviolable, as a baseline, In what way are you avoiding fascism? If *anyone* can be un-personed, everyone can. That's it. That's the ballgame.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Never forget that Republicans took food out of poor kid’s mouths to pay for this wasteful, stupid nonsense.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

America’s trend toward higher profits, higher share prices, and mounting executive pay but near stagnant wages is unsustainable — economically and politically. It's time to bring back profit sharing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Share the Profits! Why US business must return to rewarding workers properly | Robert Reich

The economy is booming and corporate profits are huge, but American wages still stagnate. History provides the answer

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Once exceptionally rare, illegal deportations — in defiance of court orders or due to ICE screw-ups — are now a routine part of President Trump's mass deportation push. It happened 3 times this past week and more at least 30 times in recent months. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yep. If El-Sayed frames his appeal this way, it's harder for JD Vance to pretend to be outraged about it.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"It's hard to square the idea of an 'energy emergency' with the Trump administration's actions against renewable energy: By mid-August, the administration had committed about $4 billion in payouts to companies to stop offshore wind projects that could have ... powered more than 15 million homes."

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The term that's needed to capture the point behind this satire is *proportionality.* If we analyze the pathologies of the present political agenda through the lens of political judgment, the problem is a systematic failure of opinion-makers to respond proportionally to the issues of the day.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s kind of crazy how no one ever wants to ask the front line staff, the people actually doing the work, what would enable them to do their jobs better and more effectively. Nah, let’s just get yet another tool so someone can watch charts as they squeeze the life out of people, until they quit.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s often hard to believe these companies are even capable of producing any good in the world, when you read their human employees closed an account, instead of reporting someone to police when they were clearly obsessed with becoming a mass shooter. Beyond negligence. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The real mind virus was Elon all the time

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Maybe I’m just too fucking jaded, but I already fully expected every AI company would be looking for power users & spying on/stealing their conversations. Just ask yourself “what would an evil asshole do here?” And you’ll never be shocked by these companies.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/09/2026

it’s okay though. the top tenth wealthiest people only own about 90 percent of the stock market

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's Labor Day in the US, folks, and while the details of the fight for labor have changed, the urgency and nature of the fight has not. Share a favorite labor quote to celebrate! "Power concedes nothing without a demand, It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On this Labor Day, let’s acknowledge that worker power is the thing that must stand in opposition to the capital class’ drive to consume all.

The story of America is that increasingly powerful corporations are organizing all aspects of our world in order to maximize corporate power. Other things that happen are a result of, or a side effect of, or an obstacle to that.

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