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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social: “The culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected in elite institutions across the United States and including Cornell University”

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 11/09/2026

actually no I don’t want an alliance with people who reject my most fundamental principles. that sounds like an alliance that would not serve those principles very well

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So dang excited for this!!!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It really annoys me when people defending car dependency try to minimize the importance of mobility for children. Kids both want and deserve the freedom to move around their communities and they should be able to do so safely.

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

WHAT’S NEXT FOR WARD 3. Bittersweet today to send this letter announcing that I’ll be resigning from the City Council at the end of the year in order to take up my new role as State Representative.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ohhhh I forgot about that whole side plot with her, that’ll be fun then from everything I’ve heard about her.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Presuming Mbah also resigns (which I presume and hope he will with his election to State Rep), that makes 3 council seats open in Somerville at the end of the year. Can’t imagine that has too much precedent. Thanks to all three councilors for their service as someone who watches from afar.

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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you, and solidarity forever.

I congratulate Representative Marjorie Decker on winning the election for State Rep in Cambridge. I am profoundly grateful to every voter and volunteer who made our campaign possible.

Although we did not win this election, we built something real. Together, we knocked 54,054 doors. 653 people volunteered. We took on the political establishment and built a movement that could not be ignored. Thousands of neighbors joined conversations about getting ICE out of Mass., getting money out of politics, and delivering a State House that works for everyone. Those relationships and the power people discovered in acting together will endure. We look forward to working with Representative Decker and our community in advancing the commitments made during this election.

This campaign may be ending, but our movement's fight for democracy and transparency continues. Thank you, Cambridge. I love you all, and I look forward to continuing to organize alongside all of you. Solidarity forever!

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

THANK YOU, SOMERVILLE! I am profoundly honored to have earned your support to serve as State Representative in the 27th Middlesex District. Together, we will work for affordable housing, safe streets, great public schools, a fair economy, and a government that is transparent and earns your trust.

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Mike Connolly @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you to the Cambridge and Somerville voters of the 26th Middlesex District for sending me back to the State House with a resounding victory. We earned 76% of the vote in a race with a hard-working challenger. 🙏💗🎉

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.

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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

100% of the senate candidates who have visited Gracie's Ice Cream have knocked off younger moderate challengers while yelling about trans rights. You love to see it. (Markey's visited during two campaigns now.)

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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We can’t do this without you. Make sure you vote today, tell 3 of your friends, and come join us. Polls close at 8pm. Find your nearest polling site at: wheredoivotema.com Together, we can build a Massachusetts for everyone.

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Jonathan Paz @pazforthepeople.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Vote TODAY for Medicare for All, universal childcare, and abolishing ICE. Vote Jonathan Paz for Congress!

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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our volunteer canvassers and neighbors have seen these flyers around Cambridge today. We have no idea who put these up, but we want to be clear that these did not come from our campaign or from anybody supporting us.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Least to say there’s many ways this was inevitable under any system and needs urgent addressing before 2028 if we want more progressives in MA’s delegation. I don’t think there’s the most to be done tbh, it’s just that what there is will be crucial, but we shall see anyways.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Like one thing I tried to pester every candidate I met on was that there should be cross-endorsing and similar abound in these races. Instead all we got was the weird Poulos-Lancaster one right before she dropped out.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As someone working on a different campaign (Paz for MA-05) that’s similarly struggling and also dealing with a likely vote-split (bc Samman has never been a good candidate for this, for all the critiques of Paz)., it’s been a similar thing. There’s simply no strategy.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That’d be true if Nguyen was actually progressive at all. Even before, she was a known quantity as a status-quo lib in the State House. What would’ve fixed this would’ve been coordination from the Boston-area left around congressional races, as opposed to the mess we’re in now in its absence.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Even if I do have ideological gripes sometimes, I’m still so grateful I got to be there for this. Shoutout to @edufreedomproj.bsky.social for all the work they did to make it so myself and other students got to be behind the speakers!

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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

More housing is possible, and we need to show the whole state how. Please, please vote by September 1st!

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ugh: A new Massachusetts poll has a 51-32 lead for a ballot initiative to adopt the top-two “primary” system. This system has been a wreck in California. The majority party frequently risks getting shut out of general elections, so party organizations often pick favorites in primaries to avoid that

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All but two Mass. ballot questions likely to pass in November, poll finds

Nine statewide ballot questions will face all Massachusetts voters this November, and a new poll finds that all but two are likely to pass.

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

👁️👁️ How we’ve kept #Flock cameras out of Somerville

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Jonathan Paz @pazforthepeople.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mahmoud Khalil came to Katherine Clark for help - she told him to go speak with genocide supporters. It's unacceptable and morally bankrupt for our country's most powerful leaders to ask their most persecuted constituents to prove their own humanity. #AIPACCLARK

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Gus would like to remind you that early voting in the Massachusetts primary starts today and to vote for Ed Markey

A yellow lab in front of a town hall with bunting

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Love a transit-oriented yard sign!! 🚇👏🏽 @burhanazeem.bsky.social

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Courage For Democracy @couragefordemocracy.com · 13/08/2026

Son of an immigrant. First in his family to graduate college. Teacher. Union rep. One of the youngest city councilors in his town's history. Now Jonathan Paz is taking the fight to Washington. 🔥 @pazforthepeople.bsky.social

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Jonathan Paz @pazforthepeople.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ALL HANDS ON DECK THIS Saturday 🔥 We're aiming to have our BIGGEST canvass yet this Saturday at 2pm in Cambridge. If you can only do morning, please join our team in Malden at 10am. If you are new, we will get you ready!! We are less than 2 weeks before Election Day. Let's finish this strong 💪🏽

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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

@claireforny.bsky.social is right: We need to elect union organizers to office because we need our government to work for everybody – not big donors, bosses, and special interests.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Also if you don’t know the Hingham Center tunnel, as you might expect it’s because of the most insane NIMBYism (and doesn’t even really fix grade crossing issues!)

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Theres also the Southwest Corridor in Boston, which turns into a tunnel at points, and the tunnel under Hingham Center. At least around Boston it’s because the trains came around when most of the towns they serve hardly existed.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A few memorials before we go, but after 9 hours it is finally done!

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Now they quickly go through some late file personnel orders and the consent agenda. Not even many announcements except for staff birthdays.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So everything is now tabled to the meeting on the 24th, except 1192, which is a small request for info on affordable housing approvals. It moves to a quick vote, which is a unanimous approval.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Now they're clarifying how this works next week since next week is ostensibly just for accepting the mayor's report back on the budget.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Unsurprisingly Mejia is the lone vote against tabling.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Now Murphy and Flynn are clarifying what is being tabled since Durkan was a bit quick for them. Seems that they'll go for everything except one motion, order, and resolution. Mejia rails against this saying the council is trying to get out of doing their job.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Time for the final vote! And it passes 12-1, only Mejia voting against. Well that does it I suppose for the interesting stuff. And now they have more and everyone wants to go.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Now for Murphy, she's still in support, has a question on why the Age Strong grant amendment is only for West Roxbury. Weber says it was one that was cut and that it's restored.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

has been unprofessional. He says that residents have lost faith in the council.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Flynn now blames this on past overspending and a "lack of fiscal responsibiity." He says that there was little to be done for those protesting, and describes the City Council as a last resort and detached from the broader public. He also calls out the Weber ethics allegations, and says the council

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Now for Flynn, he circles back to the BPS budget and paraprofessionals, and expresses a need for supporting BPS employees. He again admonishes the council on accepting the BPS budget. He extends this into a need to support food access and childcare especially. He's now saying they've lost their way.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Worell is up, notes this is more than FY26, and critiques the lack of ability to invest. He thanks advocates and encourages the council to use all the tools at their disposal.

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Simone A. @siguida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Now Durkan is up, and notes the amount of amendments, and thanks those who've worked on it. She notes housing and population growth as a primary constraint on the budget and affordability. She's also in support of the amendment package.

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