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@sevier.io
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Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they. Latest: “Why public power campaigns win" www.isaacsevier.com/notes/public-po…

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isaac @sevier.io · 3h
Just logged in to nelnet to confirm this and yep, I'm still in forbearance until November *2028* thanks to ignoring all those messages
Repayment Planning
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Save Plan Pause Forbearance
Payments will begin in Nov 2028.
Your payment amount will be shown on your statement three weeks before your due date.
Please note, although your next due date currently appears far in the future, it will be moved up when you apply for a new repayment plan (due to the end of the SAVE Plan) and resume repayment.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 3h
Antisemitism was very much a racial system of subordination and its most virulently ideological forms emerged out of that, or alongside it. To ignore this is to not really understand the past 150 years. The Jew is a person who must live in the Pale of Settlement.
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 7h
Today, the billionaire’s mailer against Prop I arrived. This anti-affordable housing piece is wild. They are flailing around with nonsensical arguments to kill a measure that dedicates funds to affordable housing. Vote Yes on I to use an existing tax on billionaires to fund affordable housing.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 14h
KALX, Berkeley's local radio station, is on bluesky! Follow them at @kalxberkeley.bsky.social
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isaac @sevier.io · 13h
My procrastination is political
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James Belcher @jamesbelcher.bsky.social · 14h
I am immensely grateful to Debt Collective. Without them, I would have been duped into changing repayment plans early and unnecessarily. The DOE student debt clusterfuck needs to be solved. Debt Collective is part of the solution.
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 14h
Perfect illustration of how the media's top bias is "the system is basically right." For it to be true, both "sides" have to be similarly legitimate. But the right is so unhinged that this is clearly false, so to maintain this belief you create this equilibrium where the right is the left's fault.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14h
Shocking how predatory financialization is in Brazil - More than 80% of Brazilian families are in debt - Families spend nearly 30% of their income on debt payments - Brazilians lost about $7 bn to licensed betting sites last year, compared w/ $4 bn in 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
nytimes.com
One Issue Hanging Over Brazil’s Presidential Election: Online Gambling and Record-High Debts
Just days before Sunday’s election, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva banned online gambling. But record-high debt is upending millions of lives.
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isaac @sevier.io · 13h
The "outside" events that were basically bar nights organized by organizers were the highlight for me for sure on a social level. The purpose of being there at all though especially for the expense is still a mystery.
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isaac @sevier.io · 13h
This includes people who are curious, who want to be persuaded, or could be persuaded. These days it is very clear that every day i have with freedom of movement is extremely precious and i don't intend to waste it!!!
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isaac @sevier.io · 13h
Instead of spending a majority of time talking to and at people who are opposed to my existence and political commitments i try very hard to focus on discussion with people who at minimum think i'm a human person worth talking to and better yet want the same political project to come to life.
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isaac @sevier.io · 13h
Amy when i went a year or two ago i felt like i was walking through a LinkedIn news feed irl it was horrendous
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17h
Always a tonic to read actual reporting from the "network state" movement rather than historical reproductions of their own rhetoric with the valence flipped. Uliasz is great here 👇 brooklynrail.org/2026/10/fiel...
brooklynrail.org
Society as a Service | The Brooklyn Rail
On July 21, 2026, the American venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan took to X to announce a signed memorandum of understanding between himself and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Soon the city of Astana, ...
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 16h
There are a massive number of elections in the US this November. Use the @boltsmag.org guide for key races, including much more than just the US House & Senate, such as: —Housing referendums in CA, MA, NC —Transport referendums in CA, KS, NC, SC, WA —Climate referendums in CA, CO, FL, MA, MI, TX, VA
boltsmag.org
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17h
it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
This organizer let me know that it used to be known that it took about 5 years in San Francisco for a tenant's rent with rent control to put them at risk of eviction so the landlord could reset the unit's price. Now that timeline is less than 6 months.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
Found out about this tenant union organizing manual for San Franciscans today from an eviction defense attorney at the meeting I went to. This is tailored to the new rights to bargain collectively with our landlords that tenants won in 2022. sfadc.org/organize/
UNION AT HOME ORGANIZING TOOLKIT

The cover is illustrated with tenants holding posters and banners out their windows in multiple languages


cradt: Fernando Marti
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
Shoutout @nationalnurses.bsky.social making the link between U.S. empire and the tech industry, genocide and surveillance, and their win TODAY banning California hospitals, insurance companies requiring the replacement of doctors and nurses with AI decision making.
nationalnursesunited.org
Nurses celebrate historic victory as Gov. Newsom signs landmark A.I. protection into law
Union nurses with California Nurses Association celebrated a hard-fought victory today as Governor Gavin Newsom signed a CNA-sponsored bill, AB 1979 authored by Assemblymember Mia Bonta (AD-18), into ...
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
Organize locally and internationally at the same time, and remember that our work here to block data centers requires solidarity and material support or those data centers will wind up in places like Bangladesh and South Africa. We're in a local and global movement with international supply chains.
nbcbayarea.com
San Francisco supervisors propose 45-day moratorium on new data centers
Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are proposing a 45-day pause on new data center approvals.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
The tolerance for dissent, the tolerance for support of other issues like Palestinian genocide, the tolerance for symbolic walkouts has evaporated and many tech workers are on visas, meaning they have little choice besides leaving their incomes and lives if they do want to dissent.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
The layoffs have compounded stress on the remaining tech workers. Their workloads are intensified doing more work after the layoffs; their workloads require using AI; internal AI tools are heavily surveilling their every click and keystroke; and workers who are disabled have been the most impacted.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
Tech workers had begun to organize themselves into unions and collective struggle which threatened the capital class. Shoutout to @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine's new book on @haymarketbooks.org. (A friend of mine was part of the organizing effort that resulted in Kickstarted United!)
haymarketbooks.org
Against Tech Oligarchy
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
Notice that tech worker layoffs have continued to go up (thereby increasing tech corporation margins) at the same time as the hyperscaler buildouts soaking up enormous sums of capital. Enormous money flows into infrastructure for subscription payments (cognitive rent seeking?) and away from workers.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
(Another aside from me, all of these folks have an exceptional skill at explaining their various points of view on a tech that certainly can be tough to parse in highly accessible language and building complexity as they go. Good examples for electricity ppl like me.)
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
@tamigraph.bsky.social shouts out former Microsoft workers who have left and founded a campaign that drives attention and research about how AI application is accelerating climate collapse www.enabledemissions.com
enabledemissions.com
ENABLED EMISSIONS CAMPAIGN | Hold Big Tech Accountable Today
Exploring Big Tech's role in fueling fossil fuel expansion through AI and cloud tech; advocating for transparency, accountability, and real climate solutions.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu
As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move, says author Wendy Liu
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
Paraphrasing @dellsystem.bsky.social that the cost of AI is our cognitive sovereignty, which she defines as central to process of being human, how writing and thinking go together to help us define how we understand the world and ourselves in it.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
Who benefits from trying to scare us into being fearful about the agents and models of AI? - "all press is good press!" and drives hype - all firms want in on that hype - maybe the industry is trying to deflect blame for its harms (recall social media platforms are being sued for their algorithms)
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
@dellsystem.bsky.social tells us people working on AI because they believe in the vision of automation creating utopia are naive about the power of capital and drive of capitalists to continue to accumulate, especially billionaires who are detached from reality because of their class position
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
@tamigraph.bsky.social is here and says we have to understand the infrastructure buildout and how the planning and siting of these data centers is all oriented to "artificial general intelligence" as an _ideology_ something worth achieving no matter the costs, human, environmental, economic, etc.
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
(which also gets us closer to the discussion about workers who are being affected by the automation)
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
@alexhanna.bsky.social tells us to be more precise about what we're talking about when we're talking about AI, because it's a marketing term for a whole lot of different tools and processes. Instead she says let's talk about what is being automated
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
So lucky to be listening to some brilliant women down in the Mission tonight including our socialist city supervisor @jackiefielder.bsky.social
medicinefornightmares.com
Reclaiming our Democracy and Economy from AI moderated by Jackie Fielder — Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery
Join moderator Supervisor Jackie Fielder for an evening exploring how we, as everyday people, can take back our economy and democracy from artificial intelligence. We will explore what we even mean wh...
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
A strange number of roads back to Oklahoma through my niche interests!
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isaac @sevier.io · 01/10/2026
*reading the Averch Johnson paper and thinking about this scene*
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
skill up. know where you will get pills from if they are criminalized. join or build networks now.
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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
reuters.com
Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails
Cuban housewife Yuamilka Hechavarria was asleep last Tuesday when water rushed into the cistern of the crumbling tenement where she lives in old Havana.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Question for any historians (or historian-like people) on here: Any recommended articles about the 19th century US Populists' thinking on money and banking? I've read Lawrence Goodwyn and Michael Kazin. But there must be lots of more recent stuff. Thanks!
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
Thanks for this reminder. Just gave during my short break between other things!
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
Lunchtime over, gotta lock in and edit a paper I've been working on. Somehow past me thought I could write something good this year and build up a new organization at the same time and the bill is due.
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
Fortress America
ASCE Infrastructure report card categories and scores 


BRIDGES C 
BROADBAND C+
DAMS D+
DRINKING WATER C-
ENERGY D+
HAZARDOUS WASTE C
INLAND WATERWAYS C-
LEVEES D+
PORTS B
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
No fats femmes or Asians from a guy sleeping on a used up filthy mattress on the bare floor energy bsffr
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
The idea of Fortress America next to reality about this country beamed out to the world from such television documentaries like Queer Eye is just so ridiculous.
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
Got u
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 30/09/2026
stella is the sweetest angel on this entire website and you should help her right now. yes right now. drop everything. run to your computer. turn it on. okay now open the internet. you're doing great. keep it up. alright what was i saying? oh yeah, stella. we love her. help her out.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 30/09/2026
EPA union AFGE Council 238 is suing EPA & Zeldin for unlawfully terminating the 2024 collective bargaining agreement cc @peer.org
wgbh.org
Union sues EPA and its administrator over termination of contract
The EPA announced last August that it would terminate its agreement with unions representing the agency's workers. Those unions are now suing the agency, and its administrator, Lee Zeldin.
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
That's not hyperbole. environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/urban...
Enabling conditions
Political support: Strong backing from the elected official of water management, as well as from the president of the metropole, facilitated the adoption and the implementation of the strategy.
Citizen participation: Civil society representatives were appointed to the Board of Directors of the public water utility (Régie), including user representatives. This helped ensure that user preferences were taken into account in decision-making.
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
They don't know what they're talking about obviously
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
In Lyon, France, activists for public ownership of the water system won their decades long struggle, along with enormously reduced water rates, better pay, and stronger unions. When the right took over, public ownership had such broad support from the community & workers that it has stayed public.
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isaac @sevier.io · 30/09/2026
i'm hearing that copies of @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's book that i sent to comrades precisely for this season is now circulating in national electoral networks 💕 it's a good reminder for me to revisit it too.
pilsencommunitybooks.com
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
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