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Tom Richardson

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The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe … —James Baldwin www.saatchiart.com/tomrichardson That’s the bike I road around on during the filming of the freeway sequence of The Matrix Reloaded

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please share with any Washington dem consultant you happen to know.
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Old number nine twenty nine.
An old railroad engine - I guess - it’s parked on a side track at the San Francisco Caltrain station. I always wonder what the story is. It’s exceptionally not streamlined with small windows for the crew.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️JUST NOW: MASS UN WALKOUT ON NETANYAHU
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
Big AI’s whole schtick now is convincing themselves that they and their friends are the most important people on earth working on the most important project in the history of mankind, and that means you can’t have any boundaries if you want to work with them
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reposting this Tom Forcade story because MS Now just did a segment on it, in relation to the current attempted free-press ban...
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Andrew A. Gill @andrewagill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ
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Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The highway to Disney World from the airport has a photo of Trump looking sort of “meh” and the slogan “why does your vacation cost more this year?”
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"all kids should get to play sports ❤️" <--campaign message for y'all if you need one
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 17/09/2026
Big Tech cannot regulate themselves. Working people should not have to live in fear for our jobs and lives because of AI. We need a voice at the table to decide how AI is used and guardrails to protect our jobs and rights, so we have a secure future that works for all of us.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/09/2026
You know what other dystopian abyss we really need to stare more resolutely into right now? We are not doing anywhere near enough to protect civilians from drones.
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I had a feeling this is what’s going on.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
A lot of people really have no idea what's coming with the energy crisis in the coming months. A lot of the crisis from the start of the war were postponed but those tricks can no longer work. We're about to see the worst energy crisis in 50 years.
Screenshot of an X post by The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) reporting breaking news about Saudi oil exports.
The post reads:
"BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has informed its European customers that late-September crude oil cargoes will be cancelled, due to the East-West pipeline being shut after last week's attacks and Yemen's Houthis taking over the entire Red Sea coast, per three sources to Reuters.
Yanbu had five to seven days of crude stocks left for export when the East-West line went down, per industry sources on Saturday, and cancelling late-September cargoes means Riyadh does not expect the line back before they run out. Europe has been taking Saudi crude through Yanbu because Hormuz has been closed since spring. On top of the pipeline, the Houthis appear to have struck the YASREF refinery at that same port this morning."
The post is dated 10:20 AM · Sep 15, 2026, with 155.9K views.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The tl;dr from the The Global State of Democracy 2026 is that the quality of democracy in the U.S. is at or near record lows (based on a dataset that covers 1975-2025) — and that decline is having seriously destabilizing effects on democracy around the world. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Trump II Sends Democracy Worldwide Into a Tailspin
What the World Is Saying About Us Sometimes it helps to hear...
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She’s an Emmy winner!!!
@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
what if the rogue ai agent instigates a communist revolution
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DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bob Mackie knew how to make women look and feel beautiful. He leaves an unparalleled legacy of extraordinary fashion.
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Jane Burns @janeburns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“I saw it in the window and I couldn’t resist it.” RIP Bob Mackie
A photo of Carol Burnett wearing the Scarlett O’Hara curtain dress
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MICROSOFT: "..We drafted this Code of Conduct in consultation with a wide range of people and groups, including experts in AI, law, ethics, philosophy, linguistics, and public policy .. .. We are now publishing this draft version to solicit wider feedback .." microsoft.ai/code-of-cond...
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Humanist AI Code of Conduct | Microsoft AI
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don Jr. is compromised by the Russian government—something you could have guessed, but is now fully confirmed by this ProPublica investigation about an oligarch who helped pay for his wedding.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I get 350 Silicon Valley Points, I passed someone in his CyberTruck with his feet on the dashboard and no hands in the wheel, then we both passed. A multi car collision with vehicles on both sides of 280.
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Never forget
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/09/2026
Wow, how did they make $40 billion dollars worth of software in a few weeks? That’s amazing.
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Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 is a great day to reread my viral Seinfeld spec and to remember I’m one of the most talented TV writers available to write for your show. I have $225k in student loans and my family is about to pay OOP for my dad’s post-stroke rehab, so you’d better believe I’m gonna give you my best!
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Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11
Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stop stop stop treating this $5k check thing like it’s real. It’s just…not.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026
i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
everyone should watch this. nothing that works this way is conscious.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026
this is an…unbelievable paragraph. yeah, what could be the difference between the court overturning a duly-passed and signed law and the court overturning an executive memo that violates the law?
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My goal for the year is to not understand the precise devotion of “agentic swarms” for at least 4 more months
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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today, we honor the hard-fought victories of the labor movement & celebrate the power & solidarity of working people! #LaborDay2026
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m from Philly because hoagies, duh.
Map of the USA from the NYTimes showing that I’m from Philadelphia because of speech patterns, but maybe also Newark/Patterson NJ, or maybe Yonkers
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Judge sides with The Stanford Daily, rules federal government violated constitution
In a sweeping ruling with national implications, a federal judge sided with The Stanford Daily and ruled on Friday that the federal government violated the U.S. Constitution when it targeted student j...
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was once almost arrested for writing graffiti on an abandoned brewery in the rain in SF for an episode of Nash Bridges, a neighbor called the police, you think I want to try to paint this wall in the rain, I said, they pay me for this, here talk to my boss, handed him my cell phone.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
seriously, the public has no sense of the scale of the budget. just straight up tell people that they cut health care to pay for the arch
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Sam Forstag @samforstag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW AD OUT ACROSS MONTANA: While Aaron Flint spent the last decade spewing anger and hate from his air conditioned recording studio, we’ve been here on the ground, working more and getting less.
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The NYTimes wants me to think about what the woman who tweets for Donald Trump says Donald Trump thinks about what Abdul El-Sayed thinks about Hassan Piker
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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank heavens, there is something good about AI, very expensive houses are more expensive and Atherton is once again the zip code with the highest median home price in America.
Real estate mailer says:”deleon INSIGHT
SILICON VALLEY REAL ESTATE

SILICON VALLEY AND THE AI BOOM
How the region's new wealth is sending home values soaring“
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