Reposted by Sarah GoldbergTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer. 563795
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergDavid Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice. 0167
Sarah Goldberg @soglcsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The guys planning our AI future do not understand human psychology or behavior. 010
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful 7102184
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergHeather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>nytimes.comRahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 PlayThe longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028. 28981199
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 25/09/2026it's quite remarkable how a failed war in iran has pushed: -american mortgage rates up -bond rates up -consumer price index up -gas prices up -stress levels up -the president's net worth up. 321953
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergNina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“A traveling bookmobile displaying copies of the Jeffrey Epstein files stopped in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood Wednesday as part of a national campaign to educate the public on the 3.5 million declassified federal documents” Hadn’t heard about this until now Gift 🔗chicagotribune.comDonald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile stops in ChicagoA traveling bookmobile displaying the Jeffrey Epstein files stopped in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood Wednesday as part of a national campaign to educate the public on the 3.5 million declassifi... 03912
Sarah Goldberg @soglcsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...nytimes.com8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says (Gift Article)The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea. 000
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergMax Read @maxread.info · 22/09/2026really liked this @himself.bsky.social piece. discursive inversion going on right now where, within ai circles, especially on x, "believing in the imminent machine god" is considered the grounded/serious position while "being skeptical of imminence of machine god" is the laughable freak positionprogrammablemutter.comMachine god metaphors eat your brainThere are other ways of thinking about AI 1447
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second. 7712104
Reposted by Sarah Goldbergblood @thuleanperspective.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Me saving something in my drafts: this will come in handy later! Me looking through my drafts later: damn I should have gone to the hospital 251059
Sarah Goldberg @soglcsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“the wealth rapture” a fantastic phrase for our times from Naomi Klein. 140
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As a person who has had a nervous breakdown, I feel moderately qualified to say that we are having a societal nervous breakdown 271378122
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Trump has made 28,700 stock/securities trades since returning to office - more than all of congress combined. Note that he is pushing for a stock-trading ban for lawmakers that wouod exclude him www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comTrump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of CongressDonald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt 16355149
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergNick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This guy is an energy pricing expert. Currently chief energy advisor at Gulf, long time contributor to various NPR shows. Incredibly distressing. 602108420
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Individual trans people NEVER have to shut up and accept disrespect. Never. The people who need to shut up and stop disrespecting trans people are the POWERFUL and these include fucking elected officials. GET IT STRAIGHT IN YOUR MINDS. 51766417
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergMike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/09/2026It's amazing how much the WH freaks out when this particular WH employee is mentioned anywhere. 221207205
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 13/09/2026He and AOC clearly hired the worst consultants in all the land in the last month 151273179
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I haven't been able to shake the feeling over the past 6 months that we are at the precipice of something truly catastrophic. It started for me in earnest with the War on Iran. 2432717
Sarah Goldberg @soglcsw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The dueling Anton Jager interviews are such a gift for those of us who hate Ezra and love TrueAnon 000
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...hamiltonnolan.comYou Have to Call Bigots What They AreStop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate. 7686204
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 10/09/2026www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...newyorker.comGeorge W. Bush’s Code of SilenceHe lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump? 2162
Sarah Goldberg @soglcsw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Gift link for Natalie Harp's gifts: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...nytimes.comTrump Doled Out $45,000 Cash Gifts to Natalie Harp and Other Aides Last Year (Gift Article)The money, listed as “cash gift for the holidays,” was detailed in financial disclosure forms released by the administration. 010
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/09/2026Hey reporters, before publishing your latest "I built AI and now I think it's going to destroy the world" piece, ask the person what equity position they retain in the AI company. Thanke. 337162
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible 203089717
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Even in the annals of the second Trump era, the Haitian TPS deportations may be the most morally reprehensible and indefensible act.nytimes.comHaitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and StrandedHundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go. 212343
Reposted by Sarah Goldbergsirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I WANT THIS TO BE THE NEW MORAL PANIC 0253
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026There's a lot to say about all this, but I just keep coming back to how *embarrassing* it is that we've let this crass, tasteless moron reach this position & do all of this stuff. It's a damning indictment of the whole culture & the whole political system. So goddamn embarrassing.nymag.comInside Trump’s Ballroom ObsessionThe president’s bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion. 2840669
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergJeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Every single character in "Breaking Bad." Every single one of them was a complete asshole. Team Skyler v. Team Walter? Fuck both of them and everyone else forever. Hated them and hated the show. Could tell it was good tv, but even watching them added to my stress levels. See also: Succession 7783
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 02/09/2026Would you look at that A relationship with Jeffery Epstein dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.comDuke professor Dan Ariely had longstanding friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, newly released files showAriely is named in 636 of the some 3 million newly released files. He was a prominent professor at Duke over the course of his correspondence with Epstein. 26314
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm not sure people fully understand how influential this guy's work has been OUTSIDE the academy. It was a big part of the behavioral synthesis that resuscitated economism after 2008. 912838
Sarah Goldberg @soglcsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The arrival date is less important than scanning the package regularly along the way. I want to follow my new bath towels’ journey to me in detail. 000
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergRay Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing newrepublic.com/post/214946/...newrepublic.comYou’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is SkyrocketingHere’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August. 20545961954
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026What Black people think does not matter to them, how Black people have used the term and how we understand it does not matter to them. They don’t have any use for the opinions of Black people because they don’t think Black people’s thoughts hold any value. 331881458
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o... 1154701519
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026More of your wealth than ever goes to them, less of it than ever goes to you. It's a class war. But only one side is waging itft.comUS corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wiltPre-tax earnings hit highest share of national income since aftermath of second world war 11526198
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Majority Black Gary, Indiana lost electricity for 2 weeks. @sarahlazare.bsky.social visited the city, finding buildings reeking of rotten food, elderly residents trapped in their homes, & mass chaos. This is what happens when climate disaster meets institutional neglect: prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...prospect.orgGary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American ProspectThis community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster. 11700258
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐 768158335905
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergAll In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“This isn’t a problem that started with the storm. We are a predominately Black city that tends to get ignored,” says Grammy award-winning rapper Freddie Gibbs as his hometown of Gary, Indiana remains without power after two weeks.youtube.com‘IGNORED’: Rapper Freddie Gibbs SPEAKS OUT on Gary, Indiana’s power crisis YouTube video by MS NOW 12543171729
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026my wife gave me conditions for consent and I said nah 515515
Sarah Goldberg @soglcsw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I thank the world for Jamelle Bouie at least once a week. What a gift in this horrific media landscape. 130
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026And then establishment dems and pundits have the NERVE to act confused as to why democratic socialist candidates are doing so well in primaries and elections lately. 14722133
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergMara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Truth and Reconciliation 2028 811624
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSiddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."nytimes.comDesperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without PowerFloods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week. 16772417
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergJoe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026If Obama, Biden or even George W. Bush had waited this long to go to Indiana, or lift a finger, to help, it would be a major story on every network newscast, every night, until the president Did Something. I'm glad outlets such as NYT are covering, but the silence from network TV is deafening 22934301
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSnow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Gary is majority Black, a declining old steel town, and tucked in the northwest corner of the red state Indiana even though it's part of the Chicagoland area. It's a perfect storm of conditions for this blackout crisis to be completely ignored and even exacerbated by its own state government. 07427
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026Gary, Indiana is 76% Black. 451668882
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“Jeremy Spurrier, 51, drives to Illinois to get ice to chill his insulin. "If I run out of ice, that’s several hundred dollars of insulin just ruined,” he said.”abcnews.comTens of thousands in Indiana are still without power a week after deadly stormsTens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana remain without power, more than a week after deadly storms leveled trees and knocked down power lines across the region 9309136
Reposted by Sarah GoldbergKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/08/2026Gary Indiana hasn't had power for almost two weeksthegrio.com‘I can’t take it’: Thousands of Gary residents go over a week without power after deadly stormsResidents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages. 441632783