SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 6hI give these students so much credit. They are the reason everyone is now talking about the Cornell 7. 011
Reposted by SFMuseHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10129773586
Reposted by SFMuseCasey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle. 92003702
Reposted by SFMuseRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20hTime for this classic again. 131140094737
Reposted by SFMusemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026like I hope it's obvious by now that all the "MeToo went too far!" bleating is because it got rapists in trouble and they don't think rapists should get in trouble. 653095
Reposted by SFMuseThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#MedicareForAllNOW 15137451694
Reposted by SFMuseAnnie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026An important thing we’ve been practicing for YEARS already with our 3 year old twin boys. “Can I give you a kiss?” And if they say “no” we don’t give them a damn kiss. They now ask us, too, and we practice that it’s okay to be disappointed and also FINE if we ever say no. This is about Cornell. 661882
Reposted by SFMuseJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY. 3407120
Reposted by SFMuseLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities. 6538108
Reposted by SFMuseJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Meanwhile, the exact same oligarchs who are controlling MAGA are controlling the whole post-MAGA Tucker thing. Anyone being duped by this is at least unwittingly wanting to be duped by it. It's utterly transparent and anyone who has even glanced at fascist political cycles knows what this is. 121843
Reposted by SFMuseAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026Our offense was sharing the 1998 “Mediaopoly” Smigel short. Would anyone else like a steaming pile of irony today? 752252605
Reposted by SFMuseMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Once again, they don’t follow laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or court orders, & we need to stop kidding ourselves about that, especially if we’re United States Senators. bsky.app/profile/mcop... 1430994
Reposted by SFMuseAndrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 24/09/2026This is a thread of paraphrased excerpts from the @gaslitnationpod.com episode "How Russia Won in the US and the Decade of Denial That Let Putin In" with David Corn, author of How Russia Won. Listen to the full episode here or wherever you find podcasts: www.patreon.com/gaslit/posts...patreon.comDavid Corn on How Russia Won in the US and the Decade of Denial That Let Putin In | Gaslit NationCongratulations Russiagate skeptics! The US is now on its way to becoming a Russian-style oligarchy, with the help of traitors and useful id 183
Reposted by SFMuserahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info! 18459207
Reposted by SFMuseYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the cult of the superior machines is inherently a patriarchal cult (like nearly all cults in recorded history) its theology classifies “AI” systems as either wives (systems that exist to serve and empower Great Men) or Gods (theoretical future systems, male-coded, that become the Great Men) 339886
Reposted by SFMuseCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls” 431651428
Reposted by SFMuseLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970102257
Reposted by SFMuseCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 27/08/2026One of the worst things going on mostly under the radar now: billionaire techbros are setting up a surveillance state in the US more intrusive and omnipotent than even Orwell could have envisioned. 1319348
Reposted by SFMuseAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns. 412509826
Reposted by SFMusealec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good. 8940321
Reposted by SFMuseKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026I wrote about feckless Democrats and the Paramount merger over at the newsletter:karlbode.comFeckless Dems Fold, Back Off Effort To Kill Paramount MergerEvery single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes. 17220
Reposted by SFMuseNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24741311665
Reposted by SFMuseKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not. 7752681560
Reposted by SFMuseWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Here you go! The Ellison Billionaire Empire. 55284157
Reposted by SFMuseDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision. 5837641018
Reposted by SFMusedan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world. 111203382
Reposted by SFMuseMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comUnsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt AuthorsNewly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik... 4335122
Reposted by SFMuseMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Did Bonta get ANYTHING from Ellison? Because the 30-films-a-year deal that is being reported has been promised for months, and the "editorial board" overseeing CBS and CNN means nothing without teeth. To me it sounds like Ellison threatened to move Paramount out of CA, and Bonta and Newsom folded. 1844899
Reposted by SFMuseWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nothing good results from this disastrous Paramount-WB merger. Nothing. So many people will be hurt. Why? So billionaires can make more money, gain more control, and suppress art and speech they don't like. 30892245
Reposted by SFMuseKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:deadline.comDone! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. DiscoveryParamount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD. 16835741393
Reposted by SFMuseGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/09/2026If you’re in California, call @robbonta.bsky.social and yell at him. 916-445-9555 4318198
Reposted by SFMuseCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 20/09/2026I think we need to start examining what Trump does with this context in mind: he intends to be a dictator for the rest of his life, and he’s taking steps to make it happen right now. 0284
Reposted by SFMuseWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about 1193081906
Reposted by SFMuseCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026When someone claims that a mistake just happens in the system, and it's always the same kind of mistake, and it always benefits the person who set up the system... It's not a mistake. It's happening on purpose. 21410255
SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Everyone needs to read this heartfelt discussion of what AI and chatbots are doing to us. A call to come back to our own humanity with all its difficulties. 0154
Reposted by SFMuseKatie Campbell, KUOW @katiecampbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I just got a robocall using my own voice. Oh, and we're up to 30+ authors who have received scam emails from my impersonator(s). But yeah, I'm sure it's fine if you just use a little AI. 14117
Reposted by SFMuseWOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course. 181270440
Reposted by SFMusejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026new vid up at the youtube channel youtu.be/aNU0g0UExuUyoutu.beWhat Mike Johnson might do to subvert the election — and how you can stop himYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 36772159
Reposted by SFMuseSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation. I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide…” — Aaron Rowetheguardian.comAll supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with MacklemoreFour openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments 101143238
Reposted by SFMuseMidwest transplant in CA @nosliwsuz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sarah Kendzior is an exceptional writer and this piece gets to the point of what is happening, and it should disturb us all. I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...sarahkendzior.substack.comI Wandered Lonely in The CloudHow AI is destroying the life of the mind. 03619
Reposted by SFMuseSam Harper @sharper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And this has nothing to do with the AI industry propaganda about the technology being an "existential threat". The threat is the climate crisis, the authoritarianism, the mass surveillance, the tech fascism. The real threat is not the tech, but the billionaires. 05614
SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Great piece with the right understanding of how to frame a story as expanding a definition of us. Throwing trans people under the bus does the opposite. (My words not his!) 001
Reposted by SFMuseashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million 7886239
Reposted by SFMuseonion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports 7375802173
Reposted by SFMuseGil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/09/2026“The Nerd Reich” was the #1 bestseller at @bookshop.org for August. “See why people are talking about this one!” Lots more to come, folks! Thank you to all who bought and/or boosted the book. The word-of-mouth is working. Buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 22459106
Reposted by SFMuseKeith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Trump's lies have finally clashed with Trump's ego and delusions He now claims he was near the towers on 9/11 at the exact time he was on the phone from his office near Central Park, having called in to a local newscast to boast he now owned the 2nd tallest building in NYC🤦🏼♂️ 2633797