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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h
Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.
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Nick Offerman @nickofferman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please get off your ass and vote. Indifference is what the billionaires hope you’ll display. If you want to weigh in as a citizen, show some gumption. It’s not a perfect system, it never will be, but that doesn’t let you off the hook from trying your best. Please and thank you.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No matter how bad you think AI is, it’s worse. This technology is not fit for purpose, and the nature of LLMs means it likely never will be.
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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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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵
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Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates - West @ppaawest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friends don’t let friends vote for I-638 or any of the harmful initiatives on our ballots— spread the word by sharing, commenting, and volunteering with our voter outreach team! Learn more about I-638 at plannedp.info/wa-vote-no #Washington #WAelect
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good 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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If anyone should know what happens when companies are left to do the right thing on their own, it's Rick Scott, whose healthcare company paid nearly $2 billion in lawsuits related to fraud that occurred while he was CEO
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Usurping Congress’ power of the purse blatantly violates not only the US Constitution and the American Revolution’s “no taxation without representation,” but the Glorious Revolution as well. The very idea of a legislature and public funds. They’re taking us back to pre-United States. Good thread:
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this week
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New York Republicans scold Trump for CDC cuts that affect 9/11 responders
Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/09/2026
In late 2017, the New York Times was blasted for its sympathetic profile of a relatively obscure neo-Nazi that described him as "polite" with "Midwestern manners" the article said "would please anyone's mother." I'm noticing the UK media now normalizing white supremacists like US media did in 2017.
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The New York Times is getting slammed for its 'sympathetic' profile of a suburban neo-Nazi
The New York Times faced backlash over the weekend after publishing what critics said was an overly sympathetic portrait of a neo-Nazi from Ohio.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Until noon today. (Thank you, Beth.)
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
IMHO, this is because actual practices of blame and responsibility attribution have very little to do with what the agent actually caused. This is especially true in radically unequal societies
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bezos' WaPo has an editorial today saying data center concerns are overblown and we should celebrate all of the benefits they bring to communities. To avoid providing the outlet more clicks, I'm not providing a link but instead pasting here its deceptions about water impacts.
Washington Post editorial claiming water concerns about data centers are overblown.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/08/2026
Elon Musk should never be able to show his face in public again without getting asked about this.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Remember, America… Benjamin Franklin gave you the key rule to having a free country, back in 1787. "A Republic, if you can keep it.” South Korea got the message.
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sortedandlost.bsky.social @sortedandlost.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Tacoma's is huge and super awesome - 2 days, 2 neighborhoods and over a couple hundred bands participating: www.tacomaporchfest.org
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Tacoma Porchfest
Tacoma Porchfest is a free, walkable music festival that takes place on porches in Tacoma, Washington.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Rudy Giuliani is why a lot of people died during and after 9/11. Has anyone said he shouldn't show up? How about George W. who cut anti-terrorism measures that might've prevented it? Why does racist fantasy harm matter more than real harm; the answer is racism, including in amplifying these voices.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So NYT reports that Third Way will spend $15-million to discredit democratic socialism ahead of the presidential elections. “Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.” Except...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Today is the start of the "quiet period" before the midterm election, a longstanding legal protection for eligible voters. Forty-four states, plus Washington, D.C., are banned from doing mass purges of voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act
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A federal law bans late voter roll purges. Republicans are pushing to reinterpret it
There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Don’t be chickenshit. nl.nytimes.com/f/a/tB6640Jg...
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FIFA scraps World Cup private investment plans as Infantino fights for his future
Gianni Infantino's plans to sell stakes in the World Cup and other FIFA tournaments were met with strong backlash.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/07/2026
As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here's the teaser trailer for CBS's upcoming tv series "Cupertino" As you watch it, keep in mind the actual demographics of the City of Cupertino: -Asian 70.8% -White 20.4% -Hispanic 4.4% -Black 0.5% www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWy...
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Cupertino: Official Teaser Trailer | CBS
YouTube video by CBS
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Trump kicked millions off health insurance while failing to check inflation & hiking gas prices so uninsured forego care or end up in ERs racking up unpaid bills & hospital profits fall & they raise rates on the insured & insurers hike premiums - a hell spiral. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...
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After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients
More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’ve treated thousands of COVID patients who needed to be hospitalized but I’ve never seen a single person who needed to be hospitalized for a complication from a COVID vaccine. Cause these people are always lying.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party.

The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Look closely. Do you see it? This is not the same man.
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't think you necessarily need violence to topple an authoritarian regime especially one that is not fully established what you need is a populace that is continuously engaged in acts of civil disobedience that makes it impossible for them to function
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/07/2026
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 12/07/2026
Back-to-back World Cup games held at 40 and 50-year-old stadiums, one of which was privately built. Remember that the next time a politician tells you they need a new taxpayer-funded stadium to attract world-class mega-events. It's bullshit.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026
We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/07/2026
California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System For over 19 months, cops across the Golden State continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.
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California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System
For over 19 months, cops across the state continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.
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