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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...

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Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trade publishing is collapsing right along with these corporate empire states. Don’t be fooled by the industry’s propaganda. Put all your books in their bins at your own peril.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Y'all, beloved community, that I care for as you care for me in true understanding we share of loving mutuality so we all survive, at this time I badly need mutual aid. This ain't no scam. I'm not secretly rich. I'm on medicaid. I'm recovering from the serious trauma of getting committed by cops.

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Support Chantal!

Hello friends! It's me, the author of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS and the novella FES IS A MIRROR and poetry and essay that touches your heart. You might know me from Bluesky where I constan...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do not make the mistake of determining a person’s value/valor on how many “books” they’ve manufactured; how many “followers” they’ve amassed; the profile of plantations for whom they prophet|profit.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧵 Today, we're going to delve into the remarkable story of James Forten—a Revolutionary War veteran and former P.O.W. He became one of the most influential Black abolitionists in early American history. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My number one rule about culture writing is that craft cannot compensate for contempt. If you hate the people, you cannot write about their culture. Apropos of nothing.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Many activists & organizers use the Signal app instead of regular SMS texting for increased privacy 🧵 Swipe for practical steps to: • limit records • lock your device • protect your identity • verify contacts • avoid scams Save & share with people who use #Signal! #DigiSec #SecurityCulture #OpSec

REMEMBER Signal is safer, not safe scroll for safety tips

COMMUNICATE SAFELY Signal is not permission to say anything. Keep communications in large or not-fully-vetted Signal chats to a bare minimum. Don’t write anything you wouldn’t want authorities to read, or to be read aloud in court. If someone’s phone is taken or accessed, your messages to them may be visible. Anything can be screenshotted! Whether readable for one day or one minute, it can still be screenshotted.

VERIFY PEOPLE & DEVICES Double-check that you are talking to the person you think you are through a trusted second channel, such as an in-person conversation, video call, or a question only the two of you know the answer to. Use Signal’s safety-number verification. Compare the safety numbers or scan the QR code in person when possible; if they do not match, stop using that channel until you can verify the person. Remove people from chats if they—or any of their devices—become compromised, lost, seized, or accessed by someone else.

MANAGE DATA Set disappearing messages for every chat you create or join to 1 week, 1 day, or shorter. Set a default disappearing-message timer for all new chats: Signal Settings → Privacy → Default timer for new chats. Delete Signal on your phone before traveling internationally. Delete Signal Desktop when you no longer need it, especially before giving away, sharing, repairing, or disposing of a computer. Be careful what you store in chat group descriptions—files, links, photos stored there are visible to everyone with a link to the chat.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Relatedly: “As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director.”

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In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | The Harvard Crimson

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I assume what AP means is: "Lies about noncitizen voting are being used by Trump to attack elections his party is set to lose and to set up an authoritarian effort to overturn the results" If so, they should just say that.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Inviting people to (re)visit my 2023 interview with Professor George Yancy. talilalewis.com/blog (second piece on the blog) Focus on: Humanity, eugenics, anti-Blackness/Indigeneity, dishumanization, enfreakment, settler colonialism. English text+audio (voiced by me).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 23/08/2026

"race realist", "human biodiversity", and even "race science" are euphemisms. We need not accept them.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

if capitalism breeds innovation why do so many companies fight to become exactly the same as their competitors?

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As an attorney who has worked for 20 yrs to free countless wrongfully arrested & convicted people in the united states I am horrified & enraged by flock & it’s “use” by policing+state-corporate systems. This’ll lead to *many* deaths & wrongful accusations+arrests+convictions. This is technofascism.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

At this point, I won’t be accepting apologies. My reparations are the end of alla yalls plantations.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

FTR they’ve been astroturfing me fr hundreds of accts across SM for the entire year—they’ve human+nonhuman bots/ops. most accts claim oppressed IDs & leftism politics to some degree or other, w/ the “black” ones writing how she/they write Us in this “book” slip jus a draggin’ in violent caucasity.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, rather those who are inflicting it upon me.” -Frederick Douglass

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“Slavery has been called a great many names, and it will call itself by yet another name; and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form this old monster will assume, in what new skin this old snake will come forth next.” - Frederick Douglass

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In written &/or spoken English/Spanish, please use my full name, Talila. Thank you. addtl notes: -citations: Talila A. Lewis (add "TL" at the end if/as needed to clarify). -sign: use given+accepted sign name fr that land aft spelling name full -sound: tuh-LEE-luh, English; Da/Ta-LEE-lah, Español

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

deaf/signing communities: 1. what signs are folks using for misinformation, disinformation, propoganda, etc? 2. deaf/hearing interpreters and captioner skilled/experienced in moving info on these topics in english/spanish/asl? thanks!

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Supremacism/eugenics comes before the fall.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

“Ableism evaluates people on their divergence (whether actual or perceived) from constructed ideas of normality, intelligence, excellence, and productivity… [T]hese constructions are necessarily rooted…in anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, misogyny, eugenics, colonialism, and capitalism.”

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Disability Justice Is an Essential Part of Abolishing Police and Prisons

Ableism forms and informs violence, oppression, and incarceration, yet it continues to be ignored by social justice movements

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A judge in Seattle has barred Kalshi from most operations in Washington State, the latest legal blow to prediction markets as states enforce existing gambling laws.

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Kalshi Ordered to Cease Most Operations in Washington State

In a preliminary injunction, a state judge barred the prediction market from allowing residents to place bets on the bulk of its offerings.

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Library Juice Connections @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Zinesters as Librarians, Librarians as Zinesters ow.ly/HkhC50ZyFVl How does being a librarian influence our zine practices? How does being a zinester influence our library practice? Join Dez Alaniz, Violet Fox 🦊 and Dawn (Rogers) Stahura as we talk about it!

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sergey Brin is worth about $284 billion. After the proposed ONE-TIME 5% wealth tax, he would have roughly $270 billion. If, after that tragic loss, he spent $1 million every single day and never earned another cent, he would run out of money in the year 2766. Billionaires are an obscenity.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax

Brin has been pouring money into Building a Better California, a group that's backing two measures that could nullify a proposed billionaire tax.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

There are so many incredible Black scholars in academia who have produced theoretically powerful, methodologically rigorous work & yet publications are desperate to give attention to one who has decided to leverage his grievance agenda into a career. Please learn from Black scholars doing the work

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/08/2026

I think tech industry grifters either consciously or through reward signals learn exactly what journalists are the most susceptible to in terms of uncritical coverage or boosting of scams, so you end up with hokey stuff like 'robot looks like person' or 'chatbot is alive and sinister'

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m glad that there’s been more coverage of this, but I must also point out that we - the actual Lebanese - have been saying that Israel’s goal is to make south Lebanon unliveable for nearly 2 years. I said this myself multiple times. We are simply not believed *because* we are Lebanese.

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Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A piece I’m really proud of I wrote for The Emancipator in June 2024 about Boston’s Freedom Schools movement between 1963-64 is no longer available on The Emancipator’s website so I saved it from the Shadow Realm, updated it a bit and posted it on Medium instead: dartadams.medium.com/the-beautifu...

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The Beautiful Vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools (1963–64)

Before busing, Boston’s civil rights leaders, community activists, neighborhood advocates and clergy collectively devised a solution for…

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I do want to go on the record, however informal, that I’ve never been comfortable w non-Black people using the word “crip.” I don’t even use it. Before Jon Henner passed (may he rest), he invited me into conversation about this. I am so grateful to him for that. I pray others interrogate this. . .

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Listening to a voice note from a friend in the south of Lebanon. Israeli drone incredibly loud overhead. Listening to another voice note from a friend in Beirut. Israeli drone incredibly loud overhead. 24/7 Psychological terror.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Stop the economic arguments for ending anti-Black/Indigenous/human eugenicist fascist policies. Doesn’t matter if Haitians or others are “aiding the economy,” etc. Ending TPS is vile and inhumane. Rounding up human beings, separating families, trafficking ppl around the globe is vile and inhumane.

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 10/01/2026

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

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Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org

There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026

They ran out of weapons, didn't realize how low they were, thought it was already solved, & now that they realize it isn't, they're all Gotta Go Fast on production with a reduced workforce & fewer safety checks? I'm sure that won't AT ALL lead to catastrophic equipment failures and own-side deaths 👍🏾

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 10/08/2026

Today, the most stagnant fund I host is: • Hamza: chuffed.org/project/1644... • Last help: August 6 • Average days a week with support: 1 • Hamza is a young survivor who needs support with medical care, as genocide has taken a steep toll. Making it weekly/monthly.

A graphic decorated with pieces of paper stuck to cardboard. The title reads “help joirnalist Hamza recover from the unimaginable” written on a marker-drawn callout on paper. The text, on another piece of paper, says “Surviving genocide takes a toll on one's body, mind, and soul, and support doesn't end just because someone has left Gaza. Help Hamza recover while he studies for his Master's.” Below says bit.ly/help4hamza with a marker arrow pointing at it. There are blank ink illustrated birds drawn on paper cutouts, flying around the text.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Everyone give a massive thanks to the dozens of prominent artists that have sgiend our pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance. It's already working! We need to move fast to leverage this victory to put pressure on the remaining bars doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...

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Storied LGBTQ venues Badlands and Toad Hall pause their use of AI facial recognition technology after a boycott threat from privacy advocates and members of rock band Rage Against the Machine.

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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A Black/Indigenous woman/gender free person (who men decide is a woman) can devote *entire* lifetimes to principled struggle, scholarship, study, movement work; & men will come right along & casually+repeatedly thingify her—even at her very own celebration of life.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trump has admitted the model for his mass deportation campaign is a vile, racist U.S. policy from the 1950s: Operation Wetback. here's a deep look into its history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNr2...

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CHILLING origins of Trump’s immigration agenda: ‘History REPEATING itself’

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Whatever masculinity is, I promise you that it wrote this sentence: “They would rather be elsewhere, plunged into music or a novel or maybe a noisy pavement phone call, which will remain, sadly for the accidental eavesdropper, a slightly odd one-way exchange only.”

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