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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How @partnersforjustice.bsky.social’s Client Advocates Are Helping Overworked Public Defenders www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/h... What a great model; I guess let’s all hope Mackenzie Scott endows them? And applies this framework to so many other funding-starved public programs ? Cc @sonaar.bsky.social

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Can a ‘Teach for America’ Model Save Public Defense?

Public defenders are overworked and underpaid. A growing corps of client advocates is helping defendants in communities across the U.S.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Raid. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a tabby cat standing on its hind legs to investigate an open fridge, but looking over at the camera. Handwritten text on the edge reads “The raid”.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds Emissions of planet-heating methane & CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🫠 @sonaar.bsky.social

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Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“The idea seemed to be: How can we do this as cheaply and brutally as possible?” INSIDE ICE’S LARGEST DETENTION CENTER On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.

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Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center — The New Yorker

On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“The state of dysfunction of the detention centers is alarming,” said Shepard. “They are being used as a deterrent and also as a punishment for immigrants” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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A year after ICE raids terrorized Los Angeles, a rattled city counts its scars: ‘The arrests never really stopped’

Thousand of arrests last summer led to mass protests and some deaths – across the city, communities still bear the scars

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

God they’re having so much fun. I wanna be there!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/06/2026

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/06/2026

Our whole city is cheering for the Knicks tonight. So it’s only right that we bring the Knicks to the whole city. Tonight, Game 5 will be streaming on 130 LinkNYC kiosks. Let’s go Knicks.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Data Centers SAY THEY’RE Trying to Fix Water Use Problems www.wired.com/story/data-c... Folks know their water & power bills & their communities’ resources—so literally everyone agrees on “No data or detention centers”. & tech cos keep lying about harm/impact—who’d believe them? @sonaar.bsky.social

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Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems

Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Simply the most inspiring and kind thing I’ve seen from any candidate in this race. Vote by June 2nd.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Spurs vs Knicks! Let's GO! #NBAFinals #KnicksSky

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It's surreal watching this game knowing my Knicks will be playing one of these teams for the NBA Championship.... I haven't felt like this since.... #KnicksSky

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So proud of everyone mobilizing to defeat a proposed #datacenter in #Coachella and protecting this valley's precious #water resources. Tune in now: www.coachella.org/city-governm...

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Palmer drought index. Worst ever. Worse than the dust bowl. Fire season is coming.

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 27/04/2026

Last night @carnage4life.bsky.social accused me of helping perpetuate negative myths about AI. I hate when people perpetuate negative myths about AI, so this thread will be about the very many real harms committed using AI by Dare's employer Meta. 1/

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Can't believe it's almost been a year since we lost @jillsobule.bsky.social - grateful for this tribute @ted.com #TED2026

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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Just nominated for an Emmy, we are so proud of our friends at Pale Blue Dot Films (paleblue.film) and grateful that there are still people with the talent and the courage to find the facts and tell the truth. MUST SEE and SHARE: ⬇️

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Brian Doherty, 57, Dies; Chronicled Libertarians & Other Outsiders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u... yes, our shared bond was our addiction to endless sentences:) Brian was a libertarian by day so he could be an artist at night—I wish they captured that but he’d be chuffed ascend to the NYT obits.😭

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Brian Doherty, 57, Dies; Chronicled Libertarians and Other Outsiders

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2026

Oh look I was right. Oh well, just $1 billion that never gets wired to anybody after an endless media hype cycle about the death of hollywood. Pobody's Nerfect! I'm sure everybody who wrote scary stories about Sora 2 destroying Hollywood will apologize www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

A source familiar with the matter tells The Hollywood Reporter that Disney is also exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI last year, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 22/02/2026

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy.
Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.

On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Only Bad Bunny could remind me what it felt like to proud to be a part of America. #SuperBunny

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

#POWERFAILURE 🌊 #BADBUNNY 🤩 #AMERICANS ✊🏽 🇦🇬🇦🇷🇧🇸🇧🇧🇧🇿🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇲🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇩🇬🇹🇬🇾🇭🇹🇭🇳🇯🇲🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇸🇷🇹🇹🇺🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪🇦🇼🇧🇶🇫🇷🇨🇼🇬🇱🇲🇶🇧🇱🇵🇲🇸🇽🇦🇮🇧🇲🇻🇬🇰🇾🇫🇰🇲🇸🗺️🇵🇷🇬🇸🇹🇨🇻🇮

Bad Bunny's superbowl peformance: he stands waving a Puerto Rican flag in a sugarcane field in the middle of Levi's Stadium - dancers above him work on power lines, still struggling to restore power 8 years after Hurricane Maria.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Priscilla Johnson, who was Microsoft’s director of water strategy from 2017 until 2020 and has consulted for the company since then, siad when she presented ideas for more efficient water use, her manager "basically said, ‘How am I going to justify a more expensive data center?’”

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Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision flip.it/M_sA0a cc @sonaar.bsky.social

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America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision

“The U.S. taxpayers have a right to this data.”

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Vintage comic cell of a man in bed saying “Gosh… I wish the dictators would get what they deserve!”

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who has shared this. The hearing is over for today. DHS has filed a motion to pretermit (end Guan's asylum application in the US) and have him sent to Uganda - where he'd be at risk of being sent to China. The hearing to decide that will be held 12 January.

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps

Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A short summary and interview with me discussing the growing trend of water-related violence worldwide, based on the new data just released by the @pacificinstitute.bsky.social. www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/12/wate...

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Water Conflicts Surge Globally: A Conversation on Rising Threats

Events over this past year have made water’s role in global conflicts increasingly salient. India threatened to restrict water flows to Pakistan in response to cross-border terrorism. [...]

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