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Annie McDonough @anniemcdonough.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Andrew Cuomo's "Zohran's Law" would 1) require new rent-stabilized tenants to be rent burdened to live in those units and 2) not apply to Zohran Mamdani. More w/ @rebeccaclewis.bsky.social here www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

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‘Zohran’s Law,’ Cuomo’s very political housing proposal, would not apply to Zohran

The rule pitched by Cuomo’s campaign would means test incoming tenants in rent-stabilized units.

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 07/08/2025

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

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Steve Kass @stevekass.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

@grok What does MechaHitler mean, and is it related to any Nazi salutes?

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 25/06/2025

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

In this News Brief, "Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza" we are joined by Ash Bohrer and Ben Teller of @jvp-chicago.bsky.social to discuss the US and Israeli-imposed starvation in Gaza and why they're hunger striking to draw attention to it.

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News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza

In this News Brief, we are joined by Ashley Bohrer and Ben Teller of Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago to discuss media indifference to the US and Israel-imposed starvation of Palestinians, how sectarian

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/06/2025

Love a profile of an interesting human who did amazing things and should be better-remembered!

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Finding Peter Putnam

The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 16/06/2025

Here are my top 10 protest dogs! youtu.be/lgOtg-BeV6E

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Top 10 Protest Dogs

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/06/2025

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

In this News Brief, "NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign his Own Ethnic Cleansing," we we break down an object lesson in racist US-Israeli national security state toadyism, double standards, and runaway condescension.

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NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign his Own Ethnic Cleansing

In this News Brief, we break down an object lesson in racist US-Israeli national security state toadyism.

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Cara Pelletier @scaradactyl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

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Clearwater @clearwaterbirb.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

For those not in the know, adding &udm=14 to the end of your Google search url will get rid of all the tacked-on AI bullshit *completely*. You can even modify your search engine settings in your browser so the extra URL argument is automatically added by default. udm14.com

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Rep. Jared Huffman @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Dear Speaker Johnson, Please don't make stuff up. The prayer that you read in the House Chamber today was not written by Thomas Jefferson and your claim that he recited it "every day" is false. Please use credible sources, not your discredited pal David Barton. See monticello.org/research-edu...

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National Prayer for Peace (Spurious Quotations)

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Rich @rgkelley5.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Just leaving this here how-i-experience-web-today.com

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 10/12/2024

a grim case study in how the A.I. rush is not only going to exploit our history but attempt to bury it altogether, from @tomscocca.bsky.social: www.indignity.net/the-washingt...

Five different stories, total. That's what you get if you ask the Washington Post's website to show you the Washington Post's ongoing coverage of the person who's been named to run the United States military. Or that's what I got the one time. When I did it again, I got four stories—the same three up top, but only the October 12 story below.

Here is the all-conquering generative AI revolution. Where there used to be a specific useful tool, there's now a generically useless thing that vaguely and incompetently mimics the general shape of the old tool. Everything you do on a computer is getting AI interventions grafted into the interface, to prevent you from accomplishing whatever it was you used to be able to accomplish. It's like the mass decision by carmarkers to put as many controls as possible onto touchscreens, so drivers have to constantly take their eyes off the road to see where their finger is going on the flat glass. But at least the screens were cheaper than the physical knobs and buttons they eliminated. The purpose of the AI is to make things more expensive—namely, the valuations of the AI companies.

No one who cared about the purpose of the Washington Post or the purpose of the Washington Post archive would have ever allowed the Ask The Post AI to be deployed. But the world has allowed the management of knowledge to be taken over by ignoramuses, and now the ignoramuses have built ignoramus machines in their own image, manufacturing non-knowledge on a scale previously unimaginable.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

3. Here's a page you should bookmark: It's the directory of nonprofit newsrooms that belong to the Institute for Nonprofit News. You can look for locality covered, including national newsrooms. It's so rich: explore! Find your niche! findyournews.org/explore/

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is vile news but even in announcing it the tactical error is evident. Pinning opposition to allegations instead of Hegseth’s own declarations of actual war against US in his books invited grifters like what Fetterman has become to thread this awful needle.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 11/12/2024

1/ Jon makes the mistake of believing that the First Amendment issues with KOSA have been resolved, leaving no principled reason for opposing it. But that's just not true. KOSA remains a free speech nightmare, and presuming anyone opposing it must have a financial incentive is deeply disingenuous.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

LOL the Washington Post replaced its archive search tool with an AI that tries to summarize the archive ahead of delivering any actual stories, and which only ranks its findings by "relevance," with no option to rank them by date

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#HR9495 will be voted on again tmrw, 11/21—The bill would hand the incoming President a tool to crush free speech & expression & dismantle advocacy groups & other nonprofits. It *will* be used to target & punish political opponents. Tell yr Reps to vote NO on #HR9495 action.aclu.org/send-message...

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Congress: Protect The Right to Dissent

Congress is considering a bill that threatens free speech under the guise of national security - and we can’t let it pass. Take action against this harmful reaction to pro-Palestinian protests.

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