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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/10/2026

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP

The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What a hedline: @apnews.com apnews.com/article/midt...

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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Menin asks the AI execs to "raise your hand if your company has insurance for catastrophic risks." No one does. "Okay, I'm going to take that as a no... So then the public, I assume, will be asked to absorb the costs." Each of the execs then scramble to clarify that they actually don't know.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bovino left and many people stopped giving a shit.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Corporate profits now represent 14.9% of GDP, the highest share on record going back to 1947 Citadel Rubner

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In retrospect, we’ll see the key trend of the era was an elite revolt by the very rich, politicians and media employees against the idea there should be *any limits at all* on their behaviour, up to and including strangers publicly criticising them. All presented as The Wisdom Of The Average Punter.

one of those things I feel a little ashamed about for taking so long to clock is that rich people are surrounded by yesmen and consequently delude themselves into thinking their predictable bigotries reflect some suppressed yearning of the Common
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It truly is wild that everyone in the Epstein files has gone unpunished but political commentators on both sides of the Atlantic will write endless articles criticising the public for not having faith in the system.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/08/2026

I don't want things to get back to normal. Normal is what got us here. Going back to normal is just setting the stage for another repeat, because we already "went back to normal" and the fuckers took advantage. I want things to change, and I want this to never happen again.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The justification for voting for Sensible Moderates was always that they could actually win and then do good things with power, and they would act as a bulwark against the far right. All of that is gone now, deliberately destroyed *by the Sensible Moderates themselves*. None of it remains.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Look at the state of it. This stuff didn’t happen organically, because it’s the natural order. It was actively imposed upon the public by people whose names you’ve heard, by fraud.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When it comes to signing open letters about academic freedom, “We have to take a principled stand!” doesn’t work if there have been loads of other much more obvious and serious instances of violations of academic freedom to which you said absolutely nothing.

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

a perfect summation of the tech broligarchy

“These people long for immortality but can't wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee," she says.

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Kevin Stevens @neohibolites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Always a good reason for Stephen Jay Gould’s quote: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss

@jaynitx
Jeff Bezos on why he wants a trillion
humans in the solar svstem
"I would love to see a trillion humans living
in the solar system. If we had a trillion
humans, we would have at any given time
a 1,000 Mozarts and a 1,000 Einsteins'
@propandco
Just pay your taxes bra

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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/08/2026

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

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RF1958 🇦🇺 🦘 @rf1958.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There is no radicl left in the USA. What they call "radical left" would be considered centre left in any other country in the world.

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Hobbes @flawedfacade.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026

the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Their plan is to say as little as possible and win by default, which in their mind is the safest path that doesn't alienate anyone. This misses the opportunity to galvanize the public around important issues, and then they throw up their hands about how the voters are ignorant and apathetic

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

bostonreview.net

Truth Without Reconciliation

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

That Democrats see mass-murdering fascists dismantling the country as nothing more than "colleagues they dislike" is why we've been in a non-stop plummet. Incredible this is still debatable, by people who ostensibly oppose fascism, ten years into this?!?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026

Everything is like this now One of the battles of our generation will be to destroy all efforts to dismiss truth as a central ingredient for how we process the world I remember when JD Vance said he doesn’t regret lying about Haitians because ‘it started a conversation’ It’s why I hate GenAI too.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Let’s fucking gooooooooo

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Liberals often think of Trump as the figure who destroyed US democracy, but he is much better understood as the figure who exploited and took the reins of a country where democracy was already functionally dead

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 14/06/2026

other sick types, or later represented in the Ethel M. Dells and Hemingways of literature). Fascism in its ideology is nothing but the continuation of fin-de-siècle decadence into its necessary outcome in blood-lust and barbarism. All this is only the death-rattle of the dying bourgeois civilisation.
Against all this pessimism, decline, decay and filth, tragic destinies, self-heroisings, idolisation of death, returns to the primitive, mysticism, spiritualism and corruption, the revolutionary proletarian movement of Communism, of Marxism, the
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heir of the future, proclaims its unshakable certainty and confidence in life, in science, in the power of science, in the possibility of happiness, proclaims its unconquerable optimism for the whole future of humanity, and in this sign, armed with the weapons of scientific understanding, of dialectical materialism, of Marxism, will conquer and sweep from the earth the dregs of disease and decay which find their expression in Fascism.

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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

AI is a renormalization scheme that coarse-grains the world in a particular way. It’s being deployed to help concentrate power in the hands of a few. Great piece by @himself.bsky.social and @cshalizi.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

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AI as Social Technology

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davi @porraonofre.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I feel like now is a good time to share this again

A black and white pic of Iranian-French graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi holding a cigarette in her hands. Beside her pic is a text of her words:

"The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same..."

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William @whirringsoftly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Media needs to stop referring to AI slop as "hallucinations". It's not "hallucinating" it's a machine that doesn't work. If you start up your car and it explodes, that's a problem, not a hallucination. It's a machine that doesn't work.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Morning Bluesky.

Graffiti reads: IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL WANT TO BE ANONYMOUS FOR FIFTEEN OUTES

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

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