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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Aimee Liu @aimeeliu.bsky.social · 5h

#Writingcommunity Don't miss #literaryagent Anna Sproul-Latimer’s Inside Scoop on the Changes in #BookPublishing today with a particular focus on fiction and memoir. Anna was willing to discuss real numbers and deals with a candor you rarely find in #bookbusiness! open.substack.com/pub/mfalore/...

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Lit Agent Anna Sproul-Latimer’s Inside Scoop on the Changes in Book Publishing Today

A recording from Aimee Liu's live video series for writers who want to get Well Published!

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 5h

Two hours into #DVpit 2026 and we're already seeing some amazing pitches! For anyone new to the event, here is a summary of the rules. For full guidelines go to dvpit.carrd.co

September 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
DVPit 2026
* #DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors.
* Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Sept 30, 2026 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET.
* Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt)
* A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request
* A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
* A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
* Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches.
go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

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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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/09/2026

Trump is facing fierce criticism over taxpayer-funded TV ads that aired just five weeks before the midterm elections. Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said the commercials are an “abuse of power” that could amount to “an impeachable offense.”

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Trump Government-Funded Political Ads Could Be Grounds for Impeachment, Former WH Ethics Lawyer Says

The White House maintains that the pro-Trump ads paid for by the government are merely “public service announcements.”…

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megyn Kelly caller turns on Trump after lifetime of voting for Republicans A 77-year-old lifelong Republican caller to SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show said she is considering voting a straight Democratic ticket after growing disillusioned with President Donald Trump and the GOP.

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Megyn Kelly caller turns on Trump after lifetime of voting for Republicans

A 77-year-old lifelong Republican caller to SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show said she is considering voting a straight Democratic ticket after growing disillusioned with President Donald Trump and the GOP.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 27/09/2026

The GOP is now scared to death of the very ICE activities that they've supported and enabled for the last 2 years, because it turns out that policy is deeply unpopular and an election is around the corner. Precisely why they need to be decimated in November. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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ICE puts vulnerable Republicans in a bind weeks before midterms

Immigration enforcement in Kansas, Texas, Florida and beyond is forcing battleground Republicans to answer for the fallout.

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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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Homestar Blade Runner 20X6 @checarina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

fuckin THANK you

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

what did I fucking tell you people about this guy. what did I say

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

They even made DoorDash apologize.

DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 18/09/2026

A coalition of civil rights groups and union organizations Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent the deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling locations during November’s midterm elections. By @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social

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Trump administration faces second lawsuit to block ICE agents at polls | Colorado Newsline

A coalition of civil rights groups and union organizations sued the Trump administration to prevent ICE from going to polling locations.

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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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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I almost have one bill sorted! Please repost! For the homies* 🥺 *it’s me. I’m homies 👉👈

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Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Northern California, I’m coming home.

Dark green flyer describing book tour events in Northern California for Tamiko Nimura.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/09/2026

People think politics is all about navigating sophisticated triangulations and legal mechanisms. But the hard part is thinking deeply about what you actually want, figuring out what matters to you, and finding a way to talk about it plainly

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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rather than talking about sports we need Dem candidates to talk about torture in prisons and ICE concentration camps, mass internal displacement, hate crimes, and legislation targeting their basic human and civil rights (eg denying the vote to ppl whose gender doesn’t match their birth certificate)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ben’s work and his #ScholarSunday threads are one of the best things you can find her. I hope his account will be reinstated soon. In the meantime check all this goodies inside, including my own @satevepost.bsky.social column on dress codes.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Details from Snopes: www.snopes.com/fact-check/v...

VoteSafe.org is, indeed, funded by Musk's America PAC, and according to the website's privacy policy, it may collect and share users' personal information. (VoteSafe.org also offers a way for users to opt out of having their personal information shared with third parties.)

As such, we have rated this claim as true.

The VoteSafe.org privacy policy page lists only one third party by name that it shares data with: a "business partner" called Western Creative Group. The company has no online presence; its Wyoming business license lists a law firm as its agent and organizer. The Washington Post reported in 2024 that Musk passed $20 million to "an advertising firm called Western Creative Group" to promote the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump "opposed a federal ban on abortion."

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wonderful nuanced thinking about grief and icons and organizing here as always from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social . Thank you.

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Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tonight at 7PM EST I talk w my dear friend Lisa Factora-Borchers about my memoir! first virtual event! Still time to register. bit.ly/TamikoNimura

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#OTD in 1944, the WRA reports that 30,000 Japanese Americans have indefinitely left the incarceration camps and 400 leave each week. Approximately 60,000 Japanese Americans still remain in the main camps, 18,500 are at Tule Lake, and 5,000 are participating in seasonal work. 🗃 #skystorians

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a right-wing group’s request to force Michigan to place a proposed constitutional amendment requiring proof of citizenship to vote on the November 2026 ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Supreme Court denies right-wing group’s bid to force Michigan proof-of-citizenship measure on November ballot

The denial, issued by Justice Brett Brett Kavanaugh, likely means the measure is dead.

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Shan (help I’m alive) @shan614.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I hope this inspires more advocacy around the country. We made noise, we presented the data, we spoke at city hall, we testified before the PEP. We were heard! It’s not perfect but it’s a big step in the right direction. Thank you for listening @mayor.nyc.gov

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/08/2026

If Clyburn backs it, it’s mainstream. LFG.

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Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Join me and my dear friend Lisa Factora-Borchers for a virtual launch of A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE. 9/9, 7PM EST. bit.ly/TamikoNimura

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Indispensable from @stevevladeck.bsky.social "Even with tonight’s [Supreme Court] stay, section 3 [of the Executive Order on mail-in ballots] remains blocked; the USPS Final Rule remains frozen."

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Cat Staggs @catstaggs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This part... "The GOP is losing and their only hope is to make Dems fight each other."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Public outcry has resulted in Omaha agreeing to remove the “Shock Gloves” from the school system. It’s a win… but other Nebraska districts are still allowing them to be used on kids. Worse, stronger shock devices are used on disabled kids in schools & institutions. They should all be banned.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

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