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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Largely spurious and uniformly racist claims of fraud in childcare centers have led immediately to a bipartisan push to rewrite policy toward the aim of pushing women out of the workforce.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The description of the pre-car-propaganda hatred of car crashes and the idea of children “having a right to the street” is so blackpilling in how thoroughly gone it is. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Creation of America's Car Culture

Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 11/11/2025 · 30m

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GU Politics @gupolitics.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at GU Politics: "the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it." #bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/11/2025

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

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Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE

Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon

The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

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Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/11/2025

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2025

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2025

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

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joe @jjoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just going to keep posting this for the non-believers

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And again, one of the ways you can tell that homebuilding is bad for REITs is that REITs explicitly say this to their shareholders.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It's also just illiterate when it comes to the issues at hand. A central part of the YIMBY argument is that building more homes undermines the power of incumbent landlords and REITs.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

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DTM @thedtm.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

“I’m a pretty experienced biker,” Denton-Spalding says. “Even for me, some of these streets in Charlottesville feel extremely dangerous.” I actually can’t think of any streets in Cville safe for biking. c-ville.com/car-light-fa...

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'Car-light' families in C’ville are trading car trips for e-bike rides - C-VILLE Weekly

A single car no longer sufficed. Kevin Driscoll, his wife, and their young daughter needed another way to get around. But instead of a second car, they chose a different set of wheels. “I debated a lo...

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I really appreciate how Dr. Glaucomflecken has become all of medicine and public health's emotional support ophthalmologist. I sat through 16 hours of ACIP meetings last week. If I do not laugh, I will cry.

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The ACIP Panel

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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amb @amb.fyi · 27/09/2025

Godspeed, Portland bsky.app/profile/tayl...

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amb @amb.fyi · 27/09/2025

Sure wish we lived in a timeline where a US Senator didn’t have to warn his constituents about the pending arrival of federal agents

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

PLEASE STAY SAFE PORTLAND

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2025

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I'm creating an OpenHouseNY shortlist for out-of-town guests, and I think it's 🤗 — and, I'll admit, touching — that you can see where the Dept of Transport makes its signs, or visit the Dept of Sanitation's waste transfer station + compost facility, or watch new garbage trucks demo big-bin pickup...

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DOT Sign Shop: Maspeth Central - Open House New York

Visitors will see how New York City’s street signs are made, from start to finish. Every sign in NYC is made here, at the Maspeth Sign Shop.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

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The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think

Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Yes, I too read this as a teenager, and it pretty much changed the way I saw the history of this nation. Absolutely essential to understanding the United States of America.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

p.p.s. It is important to connect Hegseth et al's effort to rewrite history to erase the genocide of Native Americans to the Trump Administration's recent attack on the Smithsonian, including the National Museum of the American Indian nativenewsonline.net/currents/nat...

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National Museum of the American Indian Among Smithsonian Museums Under Trump-Era Review

The National Museum of the American Indian—with locations in New York City and Washington, D.C.—is one of eight Smithsonian Institution museums currently undergoing a “comprehensive internal review” t...

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Relatedly, I am covering BOP for @propublica.org so if you are impacted by this, or have tips... please reach out.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thanks to @tilleckert.com @propublica.org for sticking with Ms. Moreta-Galarza today until she was discharged.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

For those of you not familiar, Alaa was an Egyptian political prisoner for much of his adult life. He was deprived of time with his son, his siblings, and his mom who went on hunger strike and nearly died trying to free him just in the last month. He was just released via a presidential pardon.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.

cover of "Cyberselfish" by Paulina Borsook.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

10/ Instead of centering men who missed the boat (and still don't seem to get it), let's lift up the work of Paulina Borsook, who saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago. Someone should do a profile of her very interesting life. And hey, let's drop some cash into her GoFundme!

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter

Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

6/ Borsook described “paranoid” anti-government rantings and a tech libertarian culture in which the “gestalt is of testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands.” And soon, these guys would morph into multi-billionaires...

From Cyberselfish: Although many impor-
tant potential and actual violations of constitutionality and What's
Right are bruited about on alt.cypherpunks with sense and smarts,
the tone is mostly a mixture of the paranoid rantings, reminiscent
of what showed up occasionally in '60s underground newspapers,
plus something new, more desperate and more scary. The gestalt is
of testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and
too much time on their hands.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

5/ Borsook warned that “cypherpunk” paranoia about government intrusion was leading them to create “a society where there is ever more surveillance and computer-retrievable information about people's private lives.” Sound familiar?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If you want to get vaccinated this season, you can in Oregon. West Coast Governors are making sure of it. www.wweek.com/news/health/...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

By the way, what’s happening with abortion rights in Missouri—where voters certified a pro-choice constitutional amendment that Republicans have effectively nullified—is a disgusting insult to democracy.

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