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Steve "Spike" Spiker

@spikeone.bsky.social
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Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account. Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband. By day, team building & #civictech By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop. Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 8h
If the jackboot fits...
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can you spot SF? From the Oakland hills, bike ride night.
Where's SF sunsetSunset over fog over sf
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Win! CA Court of Appeal rules that the First Amendment protects to republish legally obtained police records even if they had been ordered sealed, affirms anti-SLAPP motion. law.justia.com/cases/califo... We @eff.org represented Jack Poulson who reported on the domestic violence arrest of a tech CEO
law.justia.com
Blackman v. Substack, A173244 (Cal. Ct. App. 2026)
Blackman v. Substack, California Court of Appeals 2026
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy crap
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good mornin’, good people, Haymarket Books is offering discounted tickets to this conversation with Angela Y. Davis. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Sarah Haley, and Ula Y. Taylor about the Combahee River Collective and its legacy for activism today.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Math Teacher’s Duplex Too Depressing To TP theonion.com/math-teachers-duplex-t…
Math Teacher’s Duplex Too Depressing To TP
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have hired dozens of early/mid/late career professionals and never once gave a damn thought about their drink preferences omfg what's wrong with people.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are so many officials who need to face jail time when the fascists are kicked out of power. The damage to our country is so far reaching. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet
National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Biking in the Oakland Hills, like Mars tonight
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...
prospect.org
ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm doing Scouts parent training spending hours learning about child abuse patterns and omfg what are y'all doing.
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of course we want to be regulated, just not in THAT way, or by THOSE rules.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a nice map, so neatly drawn, and well, starkly empty lol. Brilliant.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism
huffpost.com
Mamdani Delivers $131 Million Settlement For DoorDash Drivers
The Mamdani administration said the settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in the city’s history.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barry Blitt
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So the same security firm has now "tested AI models disconnected from the Internet" and somehow accidentally connected them to the Internet leading to real risks for other companies how many times? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Tax documents obtained by Zeteo Friday disprove the president’s repeated claims that he “saved” the revered arts center from financial collapse, and instead illustrate that Trump’s intimate involvement in the building’s affairs last year triggered the beginning of its rapid decline.“ #ETTD
newrepublic.com
New Filings Wreck Trump’s Biggest Claim About Kennedy Center Takeover
Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted the performing arts organization was on the brink of financial collapse.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is not just me then you're saying? It's also most of us? Cool, but also terrible for a nation.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit seeking to compel Vermont to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and our clients. DOJ is now 0-24. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/vermon...
democracydocket.com
🚨 United States of America v. Hanzas
Learn more here.
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On a local town planning call about realigning our main thoroughfare to be safer for everyone, so excited. Way to go Town of Moraga!
A proposed road design cross section that includes safe biking and pedestrian designs!
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Love to see bold plans that would create a better, safer community in Marin.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For those that don't know...Flock allows police to search anyone who has passed by the cameras wherever they are - regardless of if they are suspected of a crime or if there has been a search warrant procured Warrantless search is unconstitutional And creates the incentive for fishing expeditions
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
This isn’t a “sale”. Israel purchases these weapons with a fund created with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Biden/Harris blocked these 2000-pound bombs from going to Israel. Congress can block this “sale.” VOTE. www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...
nbcwashington.com
Trump administration plans to send powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8B weapons sale
The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
nytimes.com
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Everything in this piece is utter evil. The financing, the deal, the likely use of these weapons. Evil. And this is who we are as a nation, till we decide otherwise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US set to deliver 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of vast arms deal
Powerful bombs prompted such concern about mass deaths in Gaza that Biden officials paused delivery two years ago
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Next, the OIG says that people held in segregation were locked in tiny individual metal cages inside a building, held with no TV, no reading materials, no law library, no recreation, and no access to phones to call their lawyers. All of this wildly violated ICE standards.
Figures 8 and 9. Metal Housing Enclosures Inside the SMU (left) and Inside Metal
Housing Enclosure (right); observed January 21, 2026

Underneath are two photos. One shows a row of small cage-like cells lined up against the wall of a tent. The other shows that inside the cage is a single mat laying just off the floor, with one end propped up somewhat to mimic a pillow.FFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Key Finding 2: FSSF Did not Comply with SMU Standards11
Access to Recreation
We found that only detainees in protective custody12 who did not present a security risk had
access to recreation time in the general recreation area for 5 hours per week. Lack of access to
recreation may negatively affect physical and mental health. Relevant standards state that
detainees in the SMU should have access to at least 1 hour of recreation per day, 5 days per
week.13 The other detainees in the SMU were confined to their metal enclosures and only left for
escorted bathroom use, legal appointments, or other nonroutine events such as medical
appointments. We observed that there were no TVs or playing cards available, and reading
materials were limited to religious texts, further restricting detainees’ ability to meaningfully
occupy their time. One detainee in administrative segregation reported being held for 8 days in
the SMU without any opportunity for recreation. The NDS states that denial of recreation
privileges for more than 7 days is expected to occur rarely, only in extreme circumstances, and
requires the concurrence of the facility administrator and a health care professional. When we
asked about the lack of recreation time for all detainees in the SMU, facility leadership showed
the OIG team a dedicated recreation area that they stated had been set aside for segregated
detainees. However, at the time of our inspection, facility staff said the area was not yet ready
for use.Inset: Special Management Units The SMU is separate from the eight housing pods. It is a windowless soft-sided structure containing 16 individual cells surrounded by metal mesh that each house one detainee and measure 8 feet by 7 feet and are 8 feet tall in size (See Figures 8, 9, and 10). The SMU also contains a shared bathroom and shower area.

Access to Legal Materials and Telephones During our inspection, SMU detainees did not have access to a law library or legal materials within the unit. The lack of access could have prevented detainees from contacting legal representation or arranging appointments. Detainees in the SMU should be provided access to law libraries, legal materials, and telephone calls unless specific, documented security restrictions apply. 14 FSSF leadership confirmed this limitation to legal materials, stating detainees could request escorts for scheduled legal appointments, but detainees could not access or retain legal materials otherwise. One detainee reported he did not have access to a telephone to speak with his attorney or ICE case officer during his 8 days in the SMU. FSSF had installed SMU telephones shortly before our inspection, but they were inoperable at the time of the inspection. The OIG inspection team confirmed this by locating one of the telephones and determining it did not work.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The DHS OIG finds that Florida's Alligator Alcatraz failed to meet SIX different categories of detention standards: - Medical Care - Food Service - Personal Hygiene - Recreation - Environmental Health and Safety - Special Management Units Report here. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
We found the facility complied with Intake and Use-of-Force standards but did not comply with
standards related to:
• Environmental Health and Safety
• Special Management Units (SMU)
• Medical Care
• Food Service
• Personal Hygiene
• Recreation
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Posting tips for women on how not to get murdered according to Dateline NBC. Will update with more tips 1. Don’t go on a boat with a man 2. Don’t go on a hike with a man 3. Don’t go near a hot tub or bath tub with a man.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Missouri’s Supreme Court held the state’s top election official in contempt Thursday for defying its order not to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Missouri’s top election official held in contempt for defying court’s gerrymander order
The development was the latest embarrassment for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), after being thwarted in his attempt to force the gerrymander on Missourians.
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'll take "Things some men believe" for $400 Alex.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Diablo is just a magic place to ride in the evening, and this route keeps you on the east side of most rugged which keeps you shaded which is just dope.
Mountain bike on a trailAcorn woodpecker tree storeBaby cowRocks
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
DOJ spent 13 months going after five kids who wanted to play sports. It put $44 billion in federal education money on the table to do it. A judge just threw the whole thing out. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-pol...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Absolutely yes.
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.
The IT Crowd cast
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
if only there had been clues
Republicans convention delegates holding “mass deportation now!” signs
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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I find Claude really valuable for my work, but I also see crap like this and have many doubts about AI. For reference, today is Tuesday. Thanks Google.
Google ai search response getting basic facts wrong cus it doesn't know the day is Tuesday right now.
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