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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/08/2026

sure hope there are some smart people studying that one version of chatGPT that was apparently just tremendously good at making people insane

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ni @meilikhios.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the internet operates for us the way heaven and hell operated for Christians of old: it is a place entered daily—or hourly—by our imagination and desire, a place that we make real by behaving as if it were real, transformatively reprogramming how we think and act. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews

They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/07/2026

ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Technology “extends our capacities and faculties as human beings, and in that extension, there is a simultaneous amputation, a something-lost that is often only visible or admissible in hindsight,” @smathewss.bsky.social writes. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/07/2026

“The global average TikTok user watches over 100,000 videos annually, and the average American spends 50 hours a week on screens, 16 of those on social media platforms. An American born in 2025 is projected to spend 21 years of their lifetime looking at screens.” Grim stats. This needs to change.

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Samantha Paige Rosen @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

NYC! Join me at Books Are Magic (Montague St.) next Thurs 7/30 at 7pm for a convo about the BESTSELLING LIVING, TOGETHER & all things community building! Delighted to be talking with contributors Alex Alberto, @smathewss.bsky.social, & moderator Mia Arias Tsang! www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-s...

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In-Store: Samantha Paige Rosen presents Living, Together

Join us for a celebration of this new anthology, with a discussion featuring Alex Alberto, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Mia Arias Tsang!

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Talia Reiss @taliareiss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I rarely enjoy a get-off-the-damn-phone piece, but this essay, funny and big-hearted, is a new favorite. @nplusonemag.com (I feel the irony of posting this on social media) www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

i went to school at Madison. this happened on my friend’s block 💔

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

THIS. Median voter theorists claim people are making "rational" choices arraying themselves on some clear left-right spectrum and picking the candidate(s) closest to them. In reality, we're primates seeking BELONGING - something MAGA offers (to the chosen) & left has neglected for long time.

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 20/07/2026

"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Getting Off With the Luddites

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Good time to re-up this piece from last year about how it is entirely legally possible and I think necessary for local prosecutors to investigate, charge, and convict federal agents who violate state laws, and no insistence on supposed immunity changes that

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Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible

To a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I've, somewhat ironically, screenshotted so many parts of this piece by Sarah Thankam Mathews and love it so much. "My screenshots allow me to try certain acts of reconstitution; they renew my knowledge of who and what I love."

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I watched the press conference and read the indictment on the Minneapolis 15. Seems pretty clearly intended to criminalize opposition to ICE/CBP and further demonize antifa. More thoughts below. 1/x

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New newsletter: Generative AI is becoming the new crypto and multi-level marketing scam, promising non-techies that they can vibe-code their way to prosperity, without being candid about the costs and risks. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...

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Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment

How predatory vibe coding startups are selling false hope to young people

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our summer issue is available online and in print now. Inside: journal entries from Annie Ernaux, new fiction by Nell Freudenberger, an installment of Objects of Desire by Sarah Thankam Mathews, poems by Patricia Lockwood and Brenda Shaughnessy, and more.

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Summer 2026

Join a conversation 200 years in the making. We believe in the power of connecting great minds across disciplines, backgrounds, and generations.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The people putting their lives on the line to stand in solidarity with those trapped inside ICE concentration camps are fighting for everyone's freedom.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/05/2026

This story has the AI industry kind of scared! Boosters usually reach a cope consensus on this stuff within a few hours but nobody has a response to this other than to suggest Uber is bad at AI or something. The back channel conversations I’m hearing are suggesting Uber is far from alone here.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A “former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public stmt, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, & many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation.” 1/

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

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Trans Continental Pipeline

Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

If you are outraged about what Kansas is doing to trans people— criminalizing their very right to exist, seizing drivers licenses overnight and saying if they drive thereafter it’s a crime, which puts them into the PIC under their gender assigned at birth where rape is routine—I BEG YOU

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

With alt text of the text:

Revolutionary Letter
one thing i've learned / come to a provisional conclusion about: when it comes to fighting, there are people who will help you fight & there are people who will not & there are people who will stand in the way. find the people who will help / be loud & clear so they know where you are— focus on them, be encouraged by them, encourage them, work with them. don't worry about the people who won't help. they will be of no help even if they are on your side. waste as little energy as possible fighting people who stand in the way, which is to say don't talk don't argue, just get them out of the way of the fight you came for.
tl;dr: you don't need or want
the people who you know
aren't "with you" to be
with you. really, you don't

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately.

Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

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Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
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FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Every time I see someone like Abbott choose self-inflicted decline, I think of this quote from Pedro Sanchez: "Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country. It’s as simple as that." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

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Pedro Sánchez unveils plans to help migrants settle in Spain

Prime minister champions migration in stance at odds with European neighbours

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

living like my arranged-married uncles in the 90s Gulf ass except for the tracking sleep and running far they did not do that shit

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/01/2026

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

again sheer naked ambition should be sending more Dems in the AOC / Crockett / Sanders / Frost etc direction

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The online-ification of politics is producing enormous tension here. Elected officials have become accustomed to tweeting or holding a press conference and having words accepted as reality, and in this instance people are noticing that the actual reality on the ground does not match it at all.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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#TeslaTakedown LA @teslatakedownla.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Never left. Can’t leave. His wealth is entwined, inversely, with the fate of American democracy.

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Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Can we say the truth.

2003: Democrats fund ICE

2004: Democrats fund ICE
2005: Democrats fund ICE
2006: Democrats fund ICE
2007: Democrats fund ICE
2008: Democrats fund ICE
2009: Democrats fund ICE
2010: Democrats fund ICE.
2011: Democrats fund ICE
2012: Democrats fund ICE
2013: Democrats fund ICE
2014: Democrats fund ICE
2015: Democrats fund ICE
2016: Democrats fund ICE
2017: Democrats denounce ICE
2018: Democrats denounce ICE
2019: Democrats denounce ICE
2020:Democrats denounce ICE
2021: Democrats fund ICE aqain
2022: Democrats break fundina record
2023: Democrats break funding record
2024: Democrats break funding record
2025: Democrats denounce ICE

for ICE.
for ICE.
for ICE.

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