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In LA 🌴writer/editor 🧿 شقایق 🖤 fueled by breakfast burritos 🌯 potter #shayclay 🏺tahdig enthusiast and culinary dabbler 🥘 opinions here are mine and usually mine alone

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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But if it were a Californian, they could also roll out Medicare For All from here and then extend it everywhere.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But this is where his views on trans people ace him out because I want that community restored and respected after Trump’s awful buffoonery.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish we were as excited about talking about cabinet nominees as we are the presidency because I don’t see Gavin as Californian president but as the Health Secretary who reverses all the insanity around safe food in the FDA from the state where the majority of the country’s ag is based.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Jared Kushner is complaining about fake news that's allegedly been written about him. Rest assured, this piece is 100% factual.
motherjones.com
How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.
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2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff says
One deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is what happens when you bomb the country you're negotiating with twice — in the middle of negotiations. They demand concessions up front.
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UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war
Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to end war because they ‘were asking for everything up front’
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reporter: Are you worried about AI going rogue? Trump: No (waxes about how AI is the next industrial revolution and good yada yada) (THE FOLLOW UP NEEDS TO BE) Reporter: Are you saying that to protect your personal investments in AI?
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who’s gonna break the story that the bot army behind the popularity of choosin texas accidentally went too far and now humans are literally wondering who likes it because no one seems to…
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Discussion well worth listening to. These two have been totally in the trenches and details of health care reform for at least a decade. As AES points out adding kids would be an existential and material relief to families and cost little. Most kids are incredibly healthy and a few are vey sick.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dreamy
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
✨inspo received, thank you and congrats!!
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So you’re telling me there are enough Ed Sheeran fans to have concerts at stadiums, plural??
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Watch the congressional testimony of Renee Good’s mother and tell me: is there any president in history who would not have resigned on that alone? Not to mention tanking the economy with tariffs and war, killing the world’s poorest with destructive USAID cuts, and backing constant slaughter
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“GET THEM” — the plates chosen by some guy driving a dumb ugly car made by a Nazi trillionaire Any guesses who “them” is?
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There might be some baby in that bathwater, careful before you chuck it
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spent $78 on one (1) bag of groceries today, standard brown paper bag, no meat, no oil or big-ticket items—just bread, milk, cheese, eggs, produce, pasta. Went through the store with a hand basket to prevent buying too much, just got essentials. Still, I was carrying more stuff than other shoppers
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I need AI blowhards to really sit with this one
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Princess Leia: You're My Only Hope
ALT: Princess Leia: You're My Only Hope
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lol this is terrible sourcing, you can’t run this without using the words “claimed without showing evidence”
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the words of Missy, put that thing down flip it and reverse it. The left has only ever reacted to the rampant and murderous racism of the right, period
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This Is Incredible
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...
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Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it PTSD if it’s ongoing and relentless? Can we call it ORTSD
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spoiler: the other 29 percent are speed addicts, ultramarathoners with a pain kink, petty tyrants, children with good parents and billionaires.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the victims of AI-assisted American warmaking and their absence from the “AI safety” discourse. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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Cerise Castle @cerisecastle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The LA Co. Board of Supervisors delayed voting on a motion that would force the Sheriff's Dept to name deputy gangs within its ranks on Tuesday. The move came in front of about 30 uniformed personnel who filled the meeting's gallery. www.patreon.com/lasdgangs/po...
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Survivor’s Hopes Dashed As Deputy Gang Transparency Vote Postponed | LA Sheriff Gangs
LA County Supervisors move to hold vote on forcing Sheriff’s Dept to ID insider gangs Nearly fifty people in matching orange T-shirts lined
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a feature not a bug. She is tanking democracy by destroying the fourth estate and being celebrated by her fellow fascists. The whole show going off air probably gets her a bonus.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is essentially how he wants to run the country and the world: make it entirely his or put an end to it. And of course making anything his also always means putting an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Closes Its Doors Despite a Judge’s Order
The announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whether it’s universities trying to hire more women and Black people or Kash Patel trying to hire more people who have engaged in bestiality, both sides have taken controversial approaches to increasing diversity.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At this point the climate change conversation needs to shift from “here is proof and data that the earth is warming and how it’s tied to man-made pollution, so please do the right thing” to “why are you trying to kill people and the planet they are on?”
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s reigning” — queen mother judge judy, probably
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mcc @dryad.technology · 12/09/2026
This is my opinions on calls to "pause" research on "superintelligence"
I sincerely believe this is a hoax where companies with fake, non-functioning "AI" but a lot of market power want to create limits on AI research as a market barrier to entry, so they don't have to deal with competitors
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Anthropic ate OpenAI/Copilot's lunch so quickly. Anthropic must be terrified the same thing is going to happen to them from some other (probably Chinese) startup. By lying about "superintelligence" and "self-improvement" they can rope useful idiots into passing legislation that protects them
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This tracks. Also that wall dropped a bomb on an elementary school.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What if the thing that happened is they figured out their over-promised and over-valued plagiarism machines aren’t actually smart after the AI did a few war crimes and gave every idiot poofy 80s bangs
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All else aside, these people telling others that the work they’ve done for years, work about which they clearly know absolutely nothing, can be “augmented” by their little plagiarism machines, is so arrogant I can barely stand it.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“In today’s world, Trump understands there are no consequences for threatening – or carrying out – a genocide” — my latest for @theguardian.com
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Trump’s repeated threats to ‘wipe out’ Iran are normalizing mass violence | Mohamad Bazzi
The president’s latest warning barely registered, written off as typical behavior. But the threats have real-world consequences
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New poem dropped losangelesreview.org/sixty-four-d...
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Sixty Four Days by Shaya Tayefe Mohajer - The Los Angeles Review
May 2, 2026, Los AngelesWhen my grandmother died in Iran years ago, I found out about it from an Instagram post. My cousin Salar's wife, who I've never met, had posted a black screen with white text i...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.
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