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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Dept. of Justice policy of collecting unredacted voter rolls, checking them against federal citizenship databases, and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible. www.democracydocket.com/cases/doj-na...

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🚨 Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice

Learn more.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stares in endlessly flaring refineries with no consequences

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chevron donated $150,000 to the Bay Area Council, which led a campaign against electrification rules requiring homeowners to replace gas water heaters with electric heat pumps. The Council hired a software company to send thousands of opposition emails, some without the consent of the signers.

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Chevron Gave $150K to Bay Area Group Accused of Using AI to Fight Heat Pump Rule

The group claimed victory after regulators recommended delaying landmark rules that would eventually phase out gas water heaters in 2.8 million homes.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A few years back I was in a call with an agency tech lead who proudly declared they had recently implemented systems to stop people scraping their data. We had pulled it all the day before... #crickets

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Many, many people are surprised to learn" this principally because it isn't true. Montesquieu is cited more times (11) in more essays (4) than Plutarch (3, 3). Heck, the Abbé de Mably is cited as often as Plutarch. And what do citations even tell us? Locke isn't cited at all...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a hell of a welcome back to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group as it returns to its homeport of San Diego tomorrow after a record 10 month deployment!

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If the task is to Write something, the goal indeed is to do the writing and thinking and produce a paper as a result. If the job is simply to "have a thing we can use" it's a very different ask. People must do the learning to know what good writing and thinking looks like, or we're just bots.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think it works, I'm just too literal, sorry!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or hear me out, we could stop committing war crimes and start saving money and make less enemies.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sorry to hear you're learning about this.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No idea who this is, but bravo for saying what most of us feel.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026

The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Man I read this article in like 1993 interviewing the guy who ran the Indonesian firing squads, it made me so sick and haunts me still. Better, well, only maybe. Still making humans murder another in cold blood, that produces some messed up human beings.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What's interesting too is the IS uses a different rating system than say Australia or Japan, our #s look lower but aren't actually, confused me for years. Don't waste your money unless you have a high performance engine.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everyone has a lobby group now, especially the whales

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AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 01/10/2026

We’ve secured a $272.5 million settlement with Lyft that will put at least $237 million back in the pockets of thousands of misclassified Lyft drivers. This is the largest worker misclassification settlement in California history.

$272.5 million settlement with Lyft resolving claims that Lyft misclassified its drivers

$237 going to eligible drivers

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This tragedy occurred at a location that has long been planned for traffic calming. Oakland DOT’s Lakeside/Lake Merritt Blvd project was to start construction around the same time as 14th St. But the fire dep’t took issue w the roadway clearance & forced a redesign, resulting in a 2 year delay.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First one looks like a pastel painting

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our local gov agency is using USWDS for our childcare finder app build, it's wonderful.

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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can you spot SF? From the Oakland hills, bike ride night.

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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

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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

In Alameda county it was low income communities of color fighting hard for new taxes to fund more subsidized childcare plus a min wage floor for workers. The idea these are things only affluent suburban folks care about is a joke.

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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…

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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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Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I once drank pink colored kombucha from a fancy glass on a call and HR asked if I was drinking on the job, oops.

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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.

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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

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...

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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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